Re: Charlie Wilson's War

On Tue, 27 May 2008 00:05:46 GMT, David Johnston <david@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Mon, 26 May 2008 15:28:40 -0500, Howard Duck <hbduck@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


Damnation is a matter between God and the
individual. Christians are taught by the Gospel to love and to do no
harm to anyone.

Or not as their temperament inclines.

Just read the scriptures plainly without embellishment or trying to
make it say something it doesn't say.

The Old Testament is still part of the scriptures. The Bible says
whatever you want it to say with no need for embellishment.

No, the Bible does not say whatever you want it to say, and the OT is
replaced by the NT. All things must be done in proper order. Please
read carefully the following:

Hebrews 8:6-13
But now hath he [Jesus Christ] obtained a more excellent ministry, by
how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was
established upon better promises.
For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place
have been sought for the second.
For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith
the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and
with the house of Judah: [which also includes the Church at large]
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the
day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of
Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them
not, saith the Lord.
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind,
and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they
shall be to me a people:
And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his
brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least
to the greatest.
For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and
their iniquities will I remember no more.
In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that
which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

Hebrews 13:20-21 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the
dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the
blood of the everlasting covenant,
Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you
that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom
be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

II Corinthians 3:11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much
more that which remaineth is glorious. [The old covenant was done away
and replaced by the new covenant.]

Hebrews 12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which
no man shall see the Lord:
--
Howard
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