2Pe 1:16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
2007-04-18 16:10:57 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"......In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established."---2 Cor. 13:1
2007-04-18 16:19:54 · answer #1 · answered by beano™ 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
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2007-04-18 23:17:03 · answer #2 · answered by For_Gondor! 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The bible is full of fables, but I wouldn't call any of them cunningly devised.
Are these the witnesses your talking about, God's witnesses:
Revelation
11:3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
11:4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
11:5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
11:6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
11:7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
Like I said, no cunningly devised fables here.
2007-04-18 23:26:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Why do you keep quoting Paul? Why not quote Jesus? Do you have such little trust in Jesus that you quote a person who claimed to have seen a hologram of Jesus? Don't you remember Jesus saying for us not to listen to anyone who speaks of themselves. -
Who witnessed Paul's visit from Jesus' hologram?
Back to others who speak about themselves: When your preacher preaches his next sermon, listen closely to how many times he talks about himself, and how he overcame Satan, or how he learned so much in Seminary, or How he and his family are so wonderful. Did you not get the message from Jesus about false prophets?
Paul conemned homosexuality; Jesus did not.
Paul belittled women; Jesus did not
Paul said, "by grace you are saved" : Jesus not only didn't say it , he spent his whole life to teach us how to conduct our lives in order to reach the kinddom of Heaven. Have you never read the book of James; Jesus' step brother.
You said "Lord Jesus" - Did you miss Jesus' advice about not saying "Lord Lord"?
Why would Paul even think of "cunningly devised fables"?
And, why would paul even say that it was un-natural for a man to have long hair. Had he never seen Jesus?
And why would the Church Empires put Paul's personal letters in the Bible and call them the word of God?
2007-04-18 23:35:16 · answer #4 · answered by Dawn M 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Thats not a question, you've just come to preach. An yet you've done a poor job of both. You can change someone's life with some odd sentence? Or convince the masses to 'believe' over something barely intelligable? Have you so weak a purpose you could not make more of an effort to at least be understood? Its as sad an attempt at recruitment or 'saving' as I've ever seen...
2007-04-18 23:17:41 · answer #5 · answered by Moonman298_0 2 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Well, he says he was an eyewitness....how many millions of people were at Woodstock? Or were present at Dealy Plaza when JFK was shot? People always want to be where the action is. Who's to say Peter or any of the diciples were even there and didn't just claim to be?
Millions of people have claimed to see Elvis....does that mean he is still alive?
2007-04-18 23:16:37 · answer #6 · answered by Jensenfan 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
cunningly devised fables many are following
2007-04-18 23:18:48 · answer #7 · answered by Michelle 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
If Christ appeared tomorrow to 1/2 of the world, the other 1/2 would claim it never happened. They would ignorantly call for more reliable witnesses before they would believe.
2007-04-18 23:17:59 · answer #8 · answered by lightperson 7 · 2⤊ 4⤋
I have never read in the bible--at any time--that I have to defend God's exists.
But I have read that you will be held accountble for what you think, say and do or the lack of it.
2007-04-18 23:39:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Of course, this is out of the Bible.
That's like claiming that Peter Pan existed because Wendy Moira Angela Darling is a witness.
2007-04-18 23:14:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 4⤋