[UntoHim]

Originally Posted by awareness

It may be true for those with a love affair with the Bible ... that their fair flower withers and dies when they lose a root system mingled with fallen men ... where failure can only be expected.

"fallen men"? Where in the world did you ever come up with that idea, Harold? Oh wait, that's right, YOU GOT THAT CONCEPT FROM THE BIBLE! Now Harold, you haven't been cheating on your Humanism girlfriend again by reading the Bible have you? I wouldn't normally encourage such a thing, but in your case...CHEAT AWAY MY FRIEND!

But fair flowers rooted in God don't wither and die ; the God that was clearly before the blessed book ; the book that tells of Abraham, who was rooted to God, and not to any Bible whatsoever. Clearly it's best and wisest for fair flowers to be rooted where fallen men have not been the intermediary.

Of course God was clearly before the Bible, just like you were clearly before you made this post. Kinda makes sense, right? Abraham was rooted to God by the faith he put in the words God spoke to him. Now, as the later day followers of God, we also are to have faith in what he has spoken, which has been recorded for us in the glorious Gospel and the various epistles of the earliest apostles. In the end, the Word of God will be ultimately culminated in the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ "and His Name is called the Word of God" (Rev 19:13). What a great and glorious day that will be!

Ultimately, God is the only real root system for fair flowers.

Now there is something I can say AMEN to!