Daily Bible study with Juice...Ezekiel 4:12
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Prepare and eat this food as you would barley cakes. While all the people are watching, bake it over a fire using dried human dung as fuel and then eat the bread."
What life application does this teach ?
What life application does this teach ?
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"Ezekiel: 4. 13. The Lord said, "In this way the people of Israel will eat defiled food among the nations where I will drive them." 14. Then I said, "Not so, Sovereign Lord! I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have never eaten anything found dead or torn by wild animals. No impure meat has ever entered my mouth." 15. "Very well," he said, "I will let you bake your bread over cow dung instead of human excrement." 16. He then said to me: "Son of man, I am about to cut off the food supply in Jerusalem. The people will eat rationed food in anxiety and drink rationed water in despair."
The whole of Ez 4 is how God tells Ezekiel how he is to make prophesy to Jerusalem, which has once again run off the rails, in a way that is to demonstrate the impure food (among a lot of other bad shit..) that they will end up coming as punishment for their sins.
Actually, cooking food over dung fires is still used a lot in societies where other fuels like wood and coal are either non-existent or depleted. So this passage is telling them that in their exile, they will be very, very poor.
Shit.... for fuel? Who knew?
It's always made me wonder about you if your a pastor or a deacon of some sort
I'm neither but have felt called for the longest time...I would never do well in the pastoral ministry but I do try my best to at least do the work of an evangelist from time to time
Please don't take this as trolling or joking...actually being serious and open right now
The central part of what I have learned is that we are all sinners, but no soul is truly beyond redemption if they want it. I suggest getting hold of the lectionary for your church, which is an Old Testament reading, a Gospel reading, and an Epistle reading for each Sunday of the year. It will get you through the entire Bible in three years. Our church, and many others, preach from the Lectionary vitually every Sunday.
The main thing when studying the Bible is not to take every word literally - you have to understand the historical context to fully understand what it has to say to you. Example: "It is harder for a rich man to enter Heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle." Seems impossible! However, The Eye of the Needle was a gate in Jerusalem's wall that was very small and so low that a camel had to bend down and "duck walk" through it. That puts a whole different spin on that verse. Get an up to date translation like the New Revised Standard Version or the New International Version, our better yet, both. The King James version, though good in its time, is a literal translation (that is, word for word with no view to idioms) that also suffers from archaic language. The recommended translations are "functional" - in other words, they attempt to capture the real meaning of the original Aramaic and Greek, aided by more recently discovered resources like the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Being involved with strippers, even in a nonextras mode is a very slippery slope for me. I hope never to fall down that slope, and someday, I may have to walk away. That said, I have met a number of dancers who are faithful Christians, including my ATF.
Please feel free to PM me if you ever have questions. I'm pretty sure there aren't a lot of us on this board who want to get involved with long-winded theological debates :-)
Pm me any time about our blessed faith brother
In the first month you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day. 19 For seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses. And anyone, whether foreigner or native-born, who eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off from the community of Israel. 20 Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live, you must eat unleavened bread. --Exodus 12:18-20
Juice the Renissance man... who knew?
Jesus loved sinners. We all fit right in.
A lot (to me) of the Old Testament causes me to self reflect in the same way. "What message is God saying here to me?" There are a lot of rituals and sins listed in the Old Testament and some of it is *hard* to figure out forest for the tree, what is God's message to me here?
I think He is attempting to explain sins and cause us to reflect that even if we manage to follow all of the guidance and avoid each and every sin (which would be almost impossible, since in the OT there is a lot to take in) that we would still fall short (since we're all sinners) even if we let the perfect life, didn't sin, and live entirely in his grace.
I think that takes us to the NT which is good because Jesus died for all of our sins. And as long as we have faith and believe in Him, that's all it takes. But I think the different reform churches may all have slightly different takes.
Informative posts ATACdawg! :)
Is belief just intellectual acceptance? I don't think so. I think it's more like the faith that the soldier in the foxhole next to yours when you are under attack will do whatever he must to defend you, and that you will do the same for him (or her!).
God is not a golden faucet spewing out blessings upon all who say they believe. A lot of witnesses for God's love (Paul, Bonhoeffer and Eric Liddell for instance) were certainly not blessed in the human sense. We are here to serve God, not God to serve us. There has to be genuine repentance, not just the mouthing of words. Grace is not a license to keep sinning, but rather an opportunity to become better people.
Grace is given, not earned, I believe. The mystery of faith is somewhat also...why are some blessed and others seem not to be blessed even if they have repented and asked for forgiveness?
And the even bigger mystery is.. WTF am I even reading and commenting on this in a strip club forum? lol!
I remember growing up and listening to Grandma talk about this with the other women in the neighborhood (of different faiths) about what how one approaches salvation or what God expects or requires of us (or hopes for us, since we have free will).
I see various parts of scripture that all support the different point of view. The debates were always spirited. And always over tea.
I actually believe that the very act of beliefs in God is a Work....I believe that God gives faith at different measure to each person...some even 0 lol...for whatever reason ??? Just some my beliefs after reading the Bible over and over again for the past 20 years from various translations and commentaries
even the Bible thumpers.
I realize several posters and readers reading this don't believe hell exists nor that anything posted here is necessarily true.
Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company!
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One man's hell is another man's heaven LMFAO
http://www.foodforlife.com/about_us/ezek…
"Take also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils and millet, and spelt and put them in one vessel…"
Now, more than 2000 years later, the recipe is described this way:
Source of Complete Protein - Rated 84.3% as efficient as the highest source of protein (comparable to that of milk or eggs)
Contains 18 Amino Acids - Including all 9 essential amino acids
etc
Now available in the freezer aisle of finer supermarkets!
Some people will be disgusted that the hot 18 year old stripper they were fucking as a dream stripper was some old ugly dude in reality who wanted to experience life as a hot girl for a while.
Dude I love your sci fi mind