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  1. The Folk Prophet
    A degree is not knowledge. A degree is status.
  2. The Folk Prophet
    I took it. Whatever. Stupid. Garbage. Who cares what people think on this. Waste of time.
  3. The Folk Prophet
    Certainly not in the common use of it by members. We mean God the Father by it, and nothing else. Whether there's a male and female side to the original word...*shrug*
  4. The Folk Prophet
    I agree with the beginning. Just read the thing straight through. :)
  5. The Folk Prophet
    What SemSnoozer is saying is correct. But it is, I believe, disregarding the importance of individuality -- something that I believe matters...though why or how, I don't know. But (imo) God is God without others, in spite of the fact that, accurately, God could not become God without others. Of course, that's irrelevant, because God will never actually be God without others (specifically a spouse), and so putting it in terms like SemSnooz does is logical. But, yeah...it sounds weird. I guess I'd be more inclined to get on board if any prophet or apostle had ever explicitly taught the same interpretation in the same way. It's a fine interpretation of things. But it is, ultimately, only an interpretation.
  6. The Folk Prophet
    I suppose it depends on what you mean by "a spiritual gift". Without doubt, it comes from revelation through the Holy Spirit, and by pure definition of "gift", yes, it is. Is it an official "Gift of the Spirit", as in the gift of tongues? *shrug*
  7. The Folk Prophet
    Hahaha. Yeah...right.
  8. The Folk Prophet
    That may be true. That doesn't mean it has anything to do with the motivation for "conforming". I could care less whether others frown upon me for not wearing a white shirt. I still wear one every Sunday.
  9. The Folk Prophet
    We are, huh? Even those without homes, cars, clothing, family, health, or any other worldly thing. We're just gonna call anything rich because it suits some odd sense of satisfaction to do so? What's the use of having a word if we ignore its actual meaning?
  10. The Folk Prophet
    I've heard others with similar concerns. I don't get it. What difference does it make if we're carbon copies of each other. Seems like such a mortal, worldly concern. I seriously doubt our current leaders not having beards has anything to do with conformity.
  11. The Folk Prophet
    Maybe more accurately... some are. Based on the growth and needs of the church then, I expect we'll all be getting richer very soon.
  12. The Folk Prophet
    Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord. - 1 Cor 11:11
  13. The Folk Prophet
    Well, to me, that's the beauty of the gospel. Hope in hopelessness. The hope is personal. The world, by prophesy, is doomed. But even so, we can all find peace and joy through Christ. So the hopelessness of the world is a natural opener for the hope in Christ. The hopelessness in the world leads to the natural question -- what can we do about it. The answer, is to come to Christ.
  14. The Folk Prophet
    FunkyTown and anatess -- I'm not disagreeing...just conversing.... Who says it doesn't mean earthly riches? Promise after promise about prospering in the land for obedience. Moreover, the quote at hand says, " there is nothing on the face of the earth that they could ask for, that would not be given to them." On the face of the earth = worldly to my thinking. I mean, clearly, it means eternal and spiritual riches as well. But I'm not so sure it's valid to entirely disregard the literal meaning.
  15. The Folk Prophet
    Priesthood and witchcraft?
  16. The Folk Prophet
    I've known too many rich people to believe this is a universal truth.
  17. The Folk Prophet
    Since when? I accept many, many things that I don't agree with in any regard. Obama as President comes to mind, for one. I think you're the one confusing things. Acceptance does not mean the embracing of. The only difference between tolerance and acceptance is that tolerance, by definition, requires disagreement whereas acceptance does not. Tolerance is, literally, accepting something that you disagree with. With acceptance you may or may not agree. If you do not, it is tolerance. In other words, acceptance is not always tolerance, but tolerance is always acceptance.
  18. The Folk Prophet
    Yes. But in theory, if every choice we made was informed by the Holy Spirit then we would not ever ask for anything unrighteous because that action would be pre-informed by the Spirit as the wrong one. Right?
  19. The Folk Prophet
    See. Perspective's aligned here. I agree.
  20. The Folk Prophet
    I'm only asking questions. My perspective, in this case, probably aligns with yours.
  21. The Folk Prophet
    Of course you accept it. The alternative would be to kill the child, gag them, jump off the plane to your death, or -- perhaps best choice -- put on some noise cancelling headphones so you don't have to listen. You accept it because alternatives are inappropriate, illegal, and/or morally wrong. Turn the question around. If you refuse to tolerate the screaming kid, what does that mean to you. You just sit there and stew. Because that's still tolerating. I tolerate, for example, my HOA fees. If I didn't, I'd move, or refuse to pay them and then be forced to move when evicted. But I sit and stew about them all the time. Stupid HOA!! To tolerate does not mean to like. It means to put up with. To accept, regardless of disagreement.
  22. The Folk Prophet
    Maybe. It strikes me, on the other hand, that you've been pretty quick to consider pretty much every opinion I've ever had as invalid right from the get go. But, to be fair, you added "would recommend", and that's a legitimate viewpoint.
  23. The Folk Prophet
    It seems to me that you don't even know what tolerance actually means. Perhaps you could share your definition so we can communicate clearly without a useless, "Yes it is," "No it isn't," "Uh-huh," "Nuh-uh," dialogue continuing.
  24. The Folk Prophet
    Prove it!!
  25. The Folk Prophet
    Tolerance is a form of acceptance. Very much. Clearly. Blatantly. Yes. It is.