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NASB | Hebrews 11:40 because God had provided something better for us, so that apart from us they would not be made perfect. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Hebrews 11:40 because God had us in mind and had something better for us, so that they [these men and women of authentic faith] would not be made perfect [that is, completed in Him] apart from us. |
Subject: Superior Hope |
Bible Note: Even Jesus called 12 and 10 men is the minimum for a the Jewish congregation. I never recall two people being described as congregating or being decribed as congregation. This all sounds like an authority issue to me. I gather you wish to be the authority, at least as far as yourself is concerned. Personally, that inclination has always led me into trouble. As I recall Jesus did establish a hierarchy in his Church. I have never trusted a man in authority who did not recognize and obey the authority above him. I trust even less a man who does not want to recognize any authority over him. In the civil community the prisons are full of such. I have visited friends there. And those who haven't found there way there yet create mischief and trouble in the community until they do. There are spiritual analogies to be drawn from this. But I see no promising future to your line of reasoning. For me. It does not pass the test of common sense. Kind of like the "victimless crime" argument, which is an oxymoron. Emmaus |