XPost: alt.bible, alt.messianic, alt.religion.christian   
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   From: tiller@soil.org.9   
      
   > Let no corrupt word go forth out of your mouth,   
   > but what is good to the necessary building up,   
   > that it may give grace to the hearers; and do not   
   > make the Holy Spirit of God sorrowful, in which   
   > you were sealed to [the] day of redemption.   
      
   > Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor,   
   > and slander, be put away from you, with all malice,   
   > and become kind to one another, tender-hearted,   
   > forgiving one another,   
   > according as God also forgave you in Christ.   
      
      
      
   people project an image of themself onto the God of the bible   
   and when it mirrors back at them and they don't like it,   
   it's trying to tell them something about them self.   
      
   and then, YHWH does the same thing in reverse;   
      
   ==   
   With the kind You will appear as kind;   
   With a blameless man You will appear as blameless;   
   With the pure You will appear as pure;   
      
   And with the distorted You will appear as tortuous.   
   ==   
                                     [Psalm 18:25-26]   
      
   and then there's this other guy;   
   ==   
   Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves.   
   Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not   
   do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror   
   and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately   
   forgets what he looks like.     [James 1:22-24]   
   ==   
      
      
   For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror;   
   then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part;   
   then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)