Originally posted by Cow Poke
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Probably pointless, but maybe this will sink in:
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/bite+head+off
bite someone's head off
Fig. to speak sharply and with great anger to someone. (Fixed order.) Don't bite my head off! Bepatient. I'm very sorry I lost my tempter. I didn't mean to bite your head off.
Besides look at it this way:
If I am wrong, those who believe me will end up wasting their time, because they would have been already saved by belief, and any extra works would land them rewards.
If you are wrong, those who listen to you will end up hearing the words, “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven”. If they feel belief is enough and works are not necessary for salvation, some may choose to settle for salvation, since being in Heaven is the end of unhappiness. Or they may think works are the works Jesus did, and wait for it to be handed to them on a plate:
John 10:38
But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father."
I really don’t know what alternatives you have in mind since you don’t accept any coherent interpretations of the text, settling for paradoxes in its place. Every time a listener points out a hole in the reasoning, the teacher pleads “paradox” or utilises filibuster and drowns him with “christianese”, arcane terminology, jargon, nothing that a person who has not grown up in the church can understand, or even then, pretends to understand.
I am filled with joy at the understanding I arrived at after reading stuff by Arminian, Tercel, Jaltus et al. I’m bitter that the misreading of Scripture by those in the pulpit. As they say, “A mist in the pulpit is a fog in the pews”.
Good place to state what true interpretation is:
http://www.relevantmagazine.com/god/...cripture-wronghttp://www.relevantmagazine.com/god/...xYGWurs6lww.99
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