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NASB | Matthew 11:11 "Truly I say to you, among those born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptist! Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 11:11 "I assure you and most solemnly say to you, among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist; yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater [in privilege] than he. |
Subject: God and gods? |
Bible Note: Hi following him, "If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing. Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part; but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love." 1Corinthians 13 (NASB) I agree - we can preach the Love and Care and Light of our Lord in the most convincing way ever possible, but without ACTUALLY loving and and caring and being the light for "the others", they will rightly think they are the victorious, innoncently persecuted and rejoicing servants of God. But on the other hand, our service to them must not become a 'stumbling block' to people whom we are supposed to shepherd; SBF is a public forum, where new or even "becoming" Christians also come to learn - about the Trinitarian, Christian theology and faith, not the teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses about two or more 'gods' and various heavens etc. There is a great danger that new Christians misunderstand the real Christian doctrine if even on a forum like this they get a mixture of different, including non-Christian, ideologies. We are responsible for the 'little ones', and the Lord Himself entrusted us with this task - this is why we do sometimes have to 'pull the plug'. I gave Ralph my e-mail, he can talk to me about this if he wants to. He certainly must be treated and respected as a human person possessing dingity, having been created in the image of God - just as we are. But, just as we do, he also must keep himself to the original purposes and rules of this forum included in the ToU, which he agreed to before joining. There is a careful balance between loving people who fiercely argue with us about the Truth and loving people who depend on our more mature Christian guidance. It is really nice to have people who think like you on this forum. May God bless you, Zsuzsi |