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Originally Posted by OBW
BB,
One last thought. Stop looking so closely at a few words within one verse that is only part of a sentence that is part of a paragraph that is part of an entire discourse on a particular subject. Consider the whole thing. Don't just jump to the local equivalents of "though shalt" or "though shalt not." Too often there really aren't such things even written there. They only appear that way when you rip them from context and demand that they provide a directive.
I'm not saying that there are no commands. But be sure that you are reading them correctly. Finding a few words that could be construed to mean whatever you are thinking about is not the same as a few words that when placed back in context really are saying something different. Not necessarily opposite, but nonetheless different.
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I've been answering your questions directly quoting from God's word and explaining from scripture how I arrived at it. You've just been dishing me your own thoughts. You're free to show me in scripture where I'm wrong, provided it's in context and according to the spirit of how it's stated.
Ephesians 4 tells us to equip the sword of the spirit which is God's word. Hebrews 4 says God's word is like a sword that can cut to the heart. The reason you and others and myself in the past are struggling with confronting God's word in its plain meaning may be because this sword is convicting all of us to repent and let go of what he hold so dearly in this world.