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Re: Knocking: -
08-26-2009, 03:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Dr. Warren Wierdsbe
David,
Thank you for that passage and commentary. Isn't it just a beautiful commentary on the love Adam had for his helpmate (literally "a help meet (fit) for him"? What a sacrifice that Adam, knowing full well the consequences of eating, gave so much more than his life for Eve. And thus it has been for nigh on 6,000 years, man taking a wife and sacrificing so much to care for her and protect her from the world and herself.
Beautiful.
In Christ,
Warren
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Pastor Wierdsbe,
You can't know how much your softer side just melts me inside. I won't gush here in public, but just know that we have something to "discuss" when you come home! Perhaps you could stop by at lunchtime?
MT
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Re: Knocking: -
08-26-2009, 03:42 PM
Isabella,
Welcome to God's Favorite Forum™. We hope you are Saved®, but if you aren't yet, the love of a good man can certainly bring that about for you.
We have been made so welcome here, with the exception of a couple of old sillies, that it's already home.
Mary Therese
Isabella,
Don't let yourself be put off when you have questions. For instance, I didn't know that the earth was only 6,000 years old when I met Warren. I wasn't really disposed to believe him until I got Saved® and Warren pointed me to Answers in Genesis. Check out the information here.
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Re: Knocking: -
08-26-2009, 03:56 PM
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Originally Posted by The Sisters Wierdsbe
Isabella,
Welcome to God's Favorite Forum™. We hope you are Saved®, but if you aren't yet, the love of a good man can certainly bring that about for you.
We have been made so welcome here, with the exception of a couple of old sillies, that it's already home.
Mary Therese
Isabella,
Don't let yourself be put off when you have questions. For instance, I didn't know that the earth was only 6,000 years old when I met Warren. I wasn't really disposed to believe him until I got Saved® and Warren pointed me to Answers in Genesis. Check out the information here.
Mary Claire
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Thank you sisters! You're both very beautiful, and you've obviously made your husband very happy. We'll have to talk about all things past sometime soon, and include Mr. W. in the discussion,yes??
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Re: Knocking: -
08-26-2009, 04:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Isabella Abbey
Thank you sisters! You're both very beautiful, and you've obviously made your husband very happy. We'll have to talk about all things past sometime soon, and include Mr. W. in the discussion,yes??
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Isabella,
Well of course we will! We both agree that you would be welcome in our home any time for as long as you'd like to stay! We don't dwell on the past too much unless Pastor Wierdsbe asks us to as a special favor...
but we would very much like to have that kind of a "roundtable"!
BTW, MT asked me to mention again that we would be interested in a good pasta recipe you might have (you could PM us to surprise himself...)
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08-26-2009, 05:05 PM
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Originally Posted by The Sisters Wierdsbe
Isabella,
Well of course we will! We both agree that you would be welcome in our home any time for as long as you'd like to stay! We don't dwell on the past too much unless Pastor Wierdsbe asks us to as a special favor...
but we would very much like to have that kind of a "roundtable"!
BTW, MT asked me to mention again that we would be interested in a good pasta recipe you might have (you could PM us to surprise himself...)
Mary Claire
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Well, my favorite, which I put together at least a couple times a week, is very simple and bears a great resemblance to what Mr. W. mentioned earlier. So olive oil and garlic into the pan with some greek olives; some halved grape tomatoes or a splendid ripe beefsteak, cut up coarsely; after that has a chance to spend a little time together in the pan, then some baby spinach and a handful of torn fresh basil wilted down on top. Put that over either some linguini or some spiral pasta with lots of shredded parmesan and a glass of white zinfandel, and the only thing that can make the night better is chocolate cake. And a shoulder rub.
My friend introduced me to her lasagna recipe recently; she halves her ricotta with cottage cheese, and puts thick slabs of sliced tomato in top of her sauce. It was heaven.
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Re: Knocking: -
08-27-2009, 01:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Isabella Abbey
My friend introduced me to her lasagna recipe recently; she halves her ricotta with cottage cheese, and puts thick slabs of sliced tomato in top of her sauce. It was heaven.
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Do you have any photos of you and your...friend, enjoying her halves of ricotta?
Here is a partial list from just a few scripture verses:
Hypocrites (Matthew 24:51), The Unforgiving (Mark 11:26), Homosexuals (Romans 1:26, 27), Fornicators (Romans 1:29), The Wicked (Romans 1:29), The Covetous (Romans 1:29), The Malicious (Romans 1:29), The Envious (Romans 1:29), Murderers (Romans 1:29), The Deceitful (Romans 1:29), Backbiters (Romans 1:30), Haters of God (Romans 1:30), The Despiteful (Romans 1:30), The Proud (Romans 1:30), Boasters (Romans 1:30), Inventors of evil (Romans 1:30), Disobedient to parents (Romans 1:30), Covenant breakers (Romans 1:31), The Unmerciful (Romans 1:31), The Implacable (Romans 1:31), The Unrighteous (1Corinthians 6:9), Idolaters (1Corinthians 6:9), Adulterers (1Corinthians 6:9), The Effeminate (1Corinthians 6:9), Thieves (1Corinthians 6:10), Drunkards (1Corinthians 6:10), Reviler (1Corinthians 6:10), Extortioners (1Corinthians 6:10), The Fearful (Revelation 21:8), The Unbelieving (Revelation 21:8), The Abominable (Revelation 21:8), Whoremongers (Revelation 21:8), Sorcerers (Revelation 21:8), All Liars (Revelation 21:8)
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Re: Knocking: -
08-27-2009, 02:55 PM
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Do you have any photos of you and your...friend, enjoying her halves of ricotta?
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A great question! I'll tell her I need some pictures to document the project, and our enjoyment, and that'll make it so that we do it and I'm tucking into her lasagna again all that much sooner.
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Re: Knocking: -
08-28-2009, 12:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Isabella Abbey
And asking to be let in, at least for a little while.
I'm Isabella (very true), I'm a widow (very true), I've been living virtuously while alone (maybe a bit less true). Raised Lutheran by wonderful kin, married in our church by a wonderful Minister, and I like photography, phenomenology, and pasta.
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Careful with that lest you draw out the crazies in that blasphemous group a spaghetti worshipers.
.....actually I like pasta too Just not the flying kind.....so strange.
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Re: Knocking: -
08-28-2009, 12:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Isabella Abbey
Ah, Pastor. Couldn't things just as easily have gone the other way, gender-wise?
If the chain of events is followed from a "blame-free" perspective, we see that evil was introduced into the lives of humans, that they ignored a sense of consequence, and that they were soundly punished for their indiscretion for all eternity. Temptation, conscience and respect to our collective moral compass are such critical ideas to master in spirituality; doesn't this supersede the more minute details of the story?
Since the Deity expelled both of them from the Garden, doesn't that demonstrate he found them both equally culpable in what went down that day?
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If He punished them both equally, how come I don't bleed from my tallywhacker?
Genesis 3:16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Since God only made childbirth painful after the Fall, presumably He had some system planned for the Garden of Eden whereby squeezing a fully-formed human being out of one's unmentionable ladyparts would've be painless and fun otherwise.
O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it--for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
God being truth, justice, goodness, beauty, power, and life, man is falsehood, iniquity, evil, ugliness, impotence, and death. God being master, man is the slave. Incapable of finding justice, truth, and eternal life by his own effort, he can attain them only through a divine revelation... he who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter, but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
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