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Originally Posted by Paul Vusik
Ohio,
I just want to make something clear, and please understand me, I have NOTHING personal or in any shape or form trying to discredit you.
I didn’t go out of the way, or missed the “irony”. The point of this thread is exactly that, to point out that irony that is presented and refute it! I have no issues regarding admitting my mistake or failure, to clearly state my position based on the written Word of God.
As I have said here on the forum before, when someone takes things out of context, adds their spin to everything to prove a point that they are trying to achieve in the end, that’s when that irony has to be called out and questioned. In my personal opinion, if you want to compare Jesus to the tree of life for yourself (since there are similarities), I can live with that, HOWEVER, when you take the next step and forget that you started with Jesus, and you restart with the tree of life and build a castle on it, I will refute it and make issue with it.
I have read quite a bit on this subject, and the pandora box that opens when you go there is very much up to anyone’s imagination. Here is the example: If the Jesus was present in the garden of eden as the “tree”, does that mean that at one time you or I could have also been a tree? Or could be in the future? That’s the kind of stupidity that people build whole slew of religions on, because it’s the irony that got them to take the first step into the pandora box of human imagination, rather than sticking with what’s written and be ok with it.
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This is way too extreme. Here I am not supporting any ministry but the word of God. Jesus Himself said “I am the vine.” But you see this as dangerous in some strange way saying, “does that mean that at one time you or I could have also been a tree?”
Huh? Jesus also said, “I am the door of the sheep.” Does this also “mean that at one time you or I could have also been a door?” These are metaphors. The Bible often speaks in metaphors. Jesus spoke this way, as did the apostles.
Hate to argue this point, but you are “crying wolf” about cuddly lap dogs. And that’s a metaphor too.