Money is not the root of all evil… the love of money is.
Money represents power.
Love your enemy, and bless those who persecute you.
"Then I saw a second beast, coming out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. It exercised all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. And it performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people."
I understand parable fine thanks. Your error is taking literal for parable and parable for literal.
They wanted to make a name for themselves, so they built a tower (hierarchy) reaching unto heaven.
>You think there is a god out there
>Pslam 53:1. You are the fool.
>The fool says in his heart,
“There is no God.”
They are corrupt, and their ways are vile;
there is no one who does good.
Are you accusing me of believing in God or not believing in God?
If it's the latter, when did I say that?
That was me that replied with the scripture. I agree nukes aren't real. If you read the scripture, the beast deceives the world by causing fire to fall from the sky.
Multiple meanings exist.
Some are ever seeing but never perceiving.
Where is my hypocrisy?
>Never claimed you had any. >>24335641
>Beware the yeast of the Pharisee. >>24335610
I'm sorry I took this as you claiming to beware of what I say.
"Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy."
Jesus said hypocrisy.
Many take parable for literal and literal for parable. You error in thinking multiple meanings don't exist.
What does "earth" mean in Genesis?
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth"
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
Scripture literally tells us that evil is created, while the light is formed.
"I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things."
It also literally tells us manKIND was created (Genesis 1).
"So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them."
Scripture also tells us Adam was formed by the LORD God (Genesis 2) and the breath of life breathed into him, he became a living being.
"Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being."
If clay is formed, that clay already existed. It wasn't created.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it."
“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me."
The Way, and the Truth, and the LIFE is inside of us and is one with us who accept, and that LIFE was with God in the beginning, and is God.
Creator vs Created.
"They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised."
What's the first commandment? "Thou shall have no other gods before me".
Are you created? Or is He who is, and was, and is to come the very breath of life inside you?
If you claim to be created… you put another god before him who is in you, the Way, and the Truth, and the LIFE and violate the first commandment… all because you didn't understand the Truth.
In Noahs time, the firmament separates the "waters above" from the "waters below". As it was in the days of Noah so it is at the coming of the Son of Man.
Revelation 17:15 tells us the waters, where the prostitute sits, stand for people, multitudes, nations, and languages.
Above and below.
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
I ask again… please define earth.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.