symbols, you are sanitising disobedience. it should not be a constant struggle against sin for those who pursue salvation. if a christian is struggling with a particular point of disobedience, he is disobedient, there is no mincing of words.
this is where all christians, maybe except newfarer, miss the point. If a christian is struggling with a particular sin he is trying to will and to obey on his own hence they are making of non effect philipians 2:13. abraham believed god and the
result of his belief was he did
keep commandments & laws. faith of jesus
results in
obedience.
As you can see, christians are afraid of thinking as black berry aptly puts it 'there somethings i dont want to think hard about'. Lets take something as innocuous as the law 'honor thy father and mother that thy days may be long upon the land which the lord thy god giveth thee'.
you will be surprised how all christians disobey that simple command. can I show you how? I wont go to why they disobey it.
tycho, i have not given up. i will go to chapter 4 and 5 and then 6.
deadpoet, what do you mean "Misinterpreting the Bible is not much worse than correctly interpreting the Bible"? its easy to misinterpret it but hard to interpret it correctly. join me in reading it even if only for the challenge of understanding it.
Light Bearer