Quote Originally Posted by sayso View Post
What would be your argument, bmd against the possibility of God wanting to reconcile the world He created to Himself, and doing it in His Own Way? And those who accept His way, truth, and life are reconciled to Him.

Of course Paul wrote with Hebrew understanding. It is the Jews to whom salvation was first offered, and then to the gentiles. There is no conflict concerning Jesus' being the only way to God and Paul being Jewish. Jesus is the Messiah. Everyone who is "in" Christ understands that The God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob is the same "I AM" that came to earth and dwelt among men, Jesus.

The only difference here is whether or not one believes (not in) God and believes that the Bible is His word spoken to us. One either believes that or does not. I believe that God allows all men to believe Him or not. It's been going on since the garden of Eden, some believing Him and some not.

God spoke to Adam and Eve, then along came the serpent and said, "did God say....?" and immediately they chose to believe something else other than what God said.


i have no argument, sayso, against your personal election (as well as that of many other fundamentalists) to view poetry on the same platform as established historical fact. In fact, all the world's great religions seem to claim that as a common theme (though clothed in different figures, and varying according to different times, places and circumstances): that Love of which all mundane expressions serve as but dim reflections, and is Personal,insatiable, and without beginning of days or end of years...........


ys,
bmd.