I am just curious, did you do that consciously or unconsciously? Because you are asking me to provide a scripture reference for something I did NOT say. You have twisted what I said. ( /unquote)
( quote) Does a Calf of the stall tread corn with the Ox of the field?( /unquote)
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Your very first post in this thread, was just as recorded. What did you Not say?
It is amazing what happens to people when they touch the scriptures. It's almost like they lose the ability to reason for themselves. They stop thinking for themselves and simply demand scripture references. Do you understand the concept of rhetorical questions? Or the use of parables?
Well your use of the phrase and its interpretation is not a known parable, your expanation put as a " rhetorical question demands clarity to the scriptures or else it is just ones imagination.
If you are serious about trying to understand, then I would implore you to try using just a little common sense. You do know what a carrier pigeon is, right? If not, just watch a season or two of Game of Thrones. Back before we had smartphones and things of modern technology and just, messages used to be carried by pigeons.
Of course I know what a carrier pigeon is, but your interpretation to the message is sealed except for the one it is delivered to, is to say the learst, not in the least identified with the thought in the scripture.
But we don't even need to look at pigeons. Have you ever seen a movie, where someone folds up a letter or script, then seals it with wax and then hands it to a servant to be delivered. The letter is to be delivered unsealed by the servant. The letter is sealed because it is not given to the servant to understand the message. It is only given to the servant to deliver the message. Pretty simple understanding when we stop reason things out.
But understanding maybe correct in the natural, but it doesn't draw from anything spiritual.
For those who would consider themselves servants of the Lord, or bond slaves to their master, then to them the words of the book are sealed. The words of the book are not given to them to understand. The words of the book are a message intended for a son. The words of the book are sealed, and only Christ is worthy to loose the seals thereof.
Well Paul called himself a bond slave to Christ, and he sure understood his Lord. Even to the point he could give his opinion on subjests, that he didn't get from the Lord.
The servants of the Lord have been trying to decipher the words of the book for a long time, using every conceivable scheme imaginable. From their own understanding, they have created a multitude of doctrines and traditions of men. But they have never stopped to consider in their own hearts the role of a messenger. For it is written who is blind as my servant, or as deaf as the messenger I sent?
True, religious men have created doctrines, and traditions of men, for years. Because they don't have the Spirit to understand the spiritual book! Or having the Spirit, they have never learned to hear the Spirit.
1 Corinthians 2: 12 But we received, not the spirit of the [1] world, but the spirit which is from God; that we might know the things that were freely given to us of God.*n9
13 Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit teacheth; [1] combining spiritual things with spiritual words .*n10
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