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    Communion of the Saints

    God tells me not to worry about the opinions of folk who do not invoke the saints and angels in their prayers.
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    Hi everyone

    I am in Australia too but I was born on the northern side of North American in Canada. Hi. I hope all goes well for you and with you. :)
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    Communion of the Saints

    G40 ἅγιος hágios; fem. hagía, neut. hágion (G39), adj. from hágos (n.f.), any matter of religious awe, expiation, sacrifice. Holy, set apart, sanctified, consecrated, saint. It has a common root, hág-, with hagnós (G53), chaste, pure. Its fundamental idea is separation, consecration, devotion...
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    Hate

    It is confusing how sometimes a word is literal and sometimes it is not and how whole systems of dogma can hang off taking a word literally and then we have things like "hate" being interpreted away altogether with "Jesus would never ask anyone to hate" when in this passage Jesus clearly does...
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    Communion of the Saints

    I believe that I will not be participating much any more.
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    Hate

    But it does say "hate". That is not a mistaken translation. The words in Greek are: εἴ τις ἔρχεται πρός με καὶ οὐ μισεῖ τὸν πατέρα ἑαυτοῦ καὶ τὴν μητέρα καὶ τὴν γυναῖκα καὶ τὰ τέκνα καὶ τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς καὶ τὰς ἀδελφάς, ἔτι τε καὶ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ψυχὴν, οὐ δύναται μοι...
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    Not of the world

    How much of you is "not of the world"? What does it mean to be "not of the world"? It looks kind of mysterious.
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    Love

    I agree that God's love for us is unfathomably deep and incomprehensibly great. It is our love for God that is in question in the passage. The call is to love God with all one's heart, mind, soul, and strength. All of it. So I wonder if anybody does that. I agree, some do love very deeply and...
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    Hate

    I see your line of thought and agree with it but what the Lord said isn't "you might need to follow me even if that means your family will feel abandoned and hated and you may yourself feel hated because following me involves so much self denial". HIs words do not take that form he is reported...
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    Hate

    I disapprove of coca cola but I do not hate it; are you confident that hate is the same thing as disapproval?
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    Love

    Do you know anybody who does it any time?
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    Love

    Did you understand the question in the original post? Is it reasonable to ask that Christians do these two things?
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    Not of the world

    The Lord offered a prayer for his disciples which contains these words and I wondered how they apply to Christians today John 17:14-20 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them. For they are not of the world, just as I, too, am not of the world. 15 I am not praying that you...
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    Hate

    Sometimes the Lord said some strange things that require serious thought. One such saying is this: Luke 14:25-33 Now great crowds traveled with him. And turning around, he said to them: 26 "If anyone comes to me, and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers...
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    Love

    There's something that the Lord said that deserves some attention; most Christians think that everything that Jesus said deserves attention but some things have more impact than others and some make a stronger call on how Christians ought to live than others. So here is the quote Matthew...
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    Communion of the Saints

    atpollard and MennoSota may believe whatever they like. That is their privilege. God bless.
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    Communion of the Saints

    The topic is Communion of the saints and the prayers of the saints are offered to God by the angels and by the 24 elders as part of their worship of God. The correlation is obvious; the saints pray and those in heaven offer the saints' prayers to God. Those in heaven include the 24 elders, the...
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    Communion of the Saints

    Correlation between what and what else?
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    Communion of the Saints

    I offer not theory about who the 24 elders are except that they are not God nor Jesus. Prayers are in their bowls held in their hands and offered to God. Make of it what you will. The passage is still there after any and every explanation is turned to it to make it mean whatever the explainer wants.
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    Communion of the Saints

    No one compels you to pray to anybody, not even to God.
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