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   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   noname wrote:   
   > Tang wrote:   
   >   
   >> Just for curiosity, your quote: "The truth shall be   
   >> hidden lest any be saved" is not easily found in the   
   >> Book.   
      
   I was not easily able to find the, "quote" either.   
      
   Sometimes what sounds as if it might be in the Book,   
   isn't actually found exactly in its pages.   
      
   One might need to read between the lines, as it were.   
      
   >> Luke 12:2 and 8:17 seem contrary to it. In   
   >> Buddhism, the Buddha says something contrary to it.   
   >   
   >"The truth is hidden [from some] lest any [of them] be saved", that's a   
   >pretty basic definition of esoteric/exoteric communication, is it not?   
   >It's the kind of thing Jesus would tell his disciples about the way he's   
   >talking about stuff when the scribes/pharisees are listening, isn't it?   
      
   Matthew 13 might explain something   
   perhaps referring back to Isaiah 6.   
      
   Christians look at the OT and go cherry picking.   
   A mechanic uses a cherry picker too.   
      
   - engines, of truth, vary   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)