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Originally Posted by Jeb Stuart Thurmond
people thinking the endtimes would come in their lifetimes, rather than ours, which the Bible is clear about: Mt.16:28, Mt.23:36, Mt.24:34, Mt.26:64, Mk.9:1, Mk.13:30, Lk.9:27, Lk.21:32, Phil.4:5, Heb.1:2, Rev.22:20.
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I shake my head sometimes, when I see some of those "interpretations" of The New Testament made by people who obviously didn't understand what they were reading because their claims were wrong. It's similar with some of the new-age denominations who go on about being spiritual but if you ask them what "spiritual" means, they can't tell you.
There are many words in The Bible meaning different things such as soul, mind, nous, spirit, flesh, body, breath, heart and so on. Listening to the street preachers it's clear they confuse those different words as though
- they'd made up some new stuff for themselves
- then ascribed words from The Bible
- then pretended The Bible was talking about the new stuff they'd just made up
- which it couldn't be because they just made it up last week
- or 200 years ago (which amounts to the same thing)
and throughout recent centuries what a load of garbage they've dreamed up! They didn't know what the words meant at all. Many advocates are out there, on the streets preaching nonsense; some of them are communists, a particularly doctrinaire clique. They do not accept there is a soul (or spirit, but they are two different things referred to in The Bible using two different words) therefore Christians were never communists.
It's funny though how although they quote Marx and Lenin like it's going out of fashion [spoiler alert: IT IS] they squabble so vehemently among themselves.
James 4:1-2 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
Christians are not like that, being in agreement on all things as taught by God. If anyone makes up something contradicting what God has already revealed it goes without saying they have a contrary source of inspiration and are therefore not Christians. They're easy to identify:
I Corinthians 11:18-19 When ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it. For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
Those people may very well be communists.