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No I chose this verse to show you that when you find a contradiction it is with good reason and hinting to you there is much more to those words than to be literally read.
Originally posted by TheBrother
The Lord's prayer IS a parable, no not every single word from Jesus was a parable but much of it was. There were multiple levels of understanding depending on the level of the persons thinking. One level is the natural, the other level which I speak for is this spiritual. For starters, there is a reason why it is written in KJV "In Earth" not "On Earth" in this prayer and other verses like Job 1 verse 7.
No I chose this verse to show you that when you find a contradiction it is with good reason and hinting to you there is much more to those words than to be literally read.
TETLOCK: I think the most important takeaway would be that the experts are, they think they know more than they do. They were systematically overconfident. Some experts were really massively overconfident. And we are able to identify those experts based on some of their characteristics of their belief system and their cognitive style, their thinking style.
DUBNER: OK. So now we’re getting into the nitty-gritty of what makes people predict well or predict poorly. What are the characteristics then of a poor predictor?
TETLOCK: Dogmatism.
DUBNER: It can be summed up that easily?
TETLOCK: I think so. I think an unwillingness to change one’s mind in a reasonably timely way in response to new evidence. A tendency, when asked to explain one’s predictions, to generate only reasons that favor your preferred prediction and not to generate reasons opposed to it.
Originally posted by 3NL1GHT3N3D1
reply to post by colbe
God is loving, He doesn't leave you in the dark not knowing.
Bollocks.
2 Thessalonians 2
11 They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie
Jesus said we are all forgiven, and Paul says the same but also goes on to say if you do not forgive others than you are not forgiven.
Matthew 6:14
For if you forgive others for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions .
Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you (Ephesians 4.32).
The truth is if you embrace and accept Jesus' forgiveness, then your heart will be changed and you will naturally forgive others. You will find a lot about the heart in the OT, your heart is what matters, meaning if you are saved your heart will be one of forgiveness. So no it does not actually mean that if you don't forgive someone that you're not saved.
Not forgiving someone is a sin, but you are already free from that sin if you accept Jesus, but if you accept Jesus and do not forgive someone, then you are already forgiven for that sin, but since you are saved the Lord will change your heart and you ill naturally be aligned to Christ and will forgive others more easily.
The other one about the Law is not a contradiction either. It shows that the Law does not bind us, that we are free from it, that the works required by the Law are already fulfilled by Jesus thus we have zero work to do and we only have to accept Jesus sacrifice. The reason Jesus brought this up and saying the Law is still valid, is because the law was fulfilled by Jesus alone. If there was no law, there would be no foundation or system by which we could be judged and then forgiven.
Mat 5:18 "For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is accomplished.
Rom 7:4 Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.
:5 For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.
:6 But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.
It is like saying x equals freedom, but there would be no freedom if x was not still valid. X being Jesus in my illustration there.
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