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1 | Adam and Eve Perfect or Flawed | 1 Tim 2:11 | Hank | 208245 | ||
Immanuelsown: Looking over the battery of questions you've posed to Humbled, I don't see how they can be answered without delving into speculation. Do you? I lay no claim whatever to any expertise on matters involving High Theology or anything of the kind, so I'm fairly well limited when it comes to trying to connect the dots. And that is good! It forces me to attempt to speak only where the Bible speaks and to keep my mouth shut where the Bible is silent. I have enough trouble learning and digesting what the Bible clearly reveals, and so it leaves me no time to speculate and ruminate on the those things which our loving and all-wise Father chose not to elaborate. God's eternal and unchanging word will be around long after I'm gone. Few indeed are they who care about my opinions now and fewer still will remember them after I've gone. So my candid view about questions such as you've asked is this: If God did not choose to reveal these details, is it our business to worry very much about them? I really don't believe that God expects us to fill in the blanks ourselves nor needs man to take over where He left off, do you? I'd feel more comfortable about this thread if it were dropped here and now, without further ado. ..... Just how important is it to know about things such as Eve's "motivation" and how much time elapsed between the time God commanded Adam and Eve not to eat the forbidden fruit and the time Eve was tempted? The narrative of Adam and Eve has endured and imparted the message it was intented to impart for centuries as it is, without being gussied up with all these minute frills and details. Let's be content to learn from it all that it clearly reveals without tarnishing the sacred record by adding our worthless speculation and groundless guesses. --Hank | ||||||
2 | Adam and Eve Perfect or Flawed | 1 Tim 2:11 | stjohn | 208251 | ||
Amen, and amen brother Hank! Sir, would you mind very much, if I quoted you on this? There are a few dear brothers and sisters that I know out here, that could use a good dose of this kind of good old common sense, which is, as you know, not so common.... A side note; on "being remembered after we're gone". Upon retiring as a long time school administrator, and lofty position of 'District Director of Schools' while he was thinking and reflecting that, he would be well missed: This friend of mine, was told by his wise old father in law, --"If you put your elbow in a bucket of water, then quickly, pull it out...... the time it takes to fill the hole in the water, that was left by the absence of your elbow, will be about how long it will take to fill your shoe's in your position in school administration."-- :-) God bless you, dear brother Hank! John |
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3 | Adam and Eve Perfect or Flawed | 1 Tim 2:11 | Hank | 208267 | ||
Dear John :: It surprises me that anthing I've said on these pages over the years would be considered quotable. But to your question of whether I'd mind your quoting my words to others, the answer is no, sir, I have no objection. Grace to you, John. --Hank | ||||||
4 | Adam and Eve Perfect or Flawed | 1 Tim 2:11 | DocTrinsograce | 208268 | ||
"...anything I've said on these pages over the years would be considered quotable." --Hank (2008) How about partial quotations without the context? :-) |
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5 | Adam and Eve Perfect or Flawed | 1 Tim 2:11 | stjohn | 208270 | ||
Don't worry Doc, anything I say is usually without context and pretty garbled anyway! Brother Hank has nothing to worry about as far as it being attributed to him, everyone will assume I'm just blabbing my usual drivel.... :-) | ||||||