1974 Time magazine cover story on “How True is the Bible?”
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i guess, sort of? Not even sure where i picked the phrase up, tbh; more of a Jewish thing, i guess? Although they do it with literal food
1Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.
2I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready,
3for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man?
4For when one of you says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere men?
5What then is Apollos?
11We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain, because you are dull of hearing.
12Although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to reteach you the basic principles of God’s word.c You need milk, not solid food!
13For everyone who lives on milk is still an infant, inexperienced in the message of righteousness.
14But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained their senses to distinguish good from evil.
bearing in mind that both of those are Paul, so you prolly want to apply the warning about Paul. Not sure where the Jewish custom came from, tbh. OT the only ref i know of is seething a kid in its mother’s milk.
but plant a seed is i guess like the opposite of arguing a point? Its there below Apollos in the Cor ref, prolly a couple other spots. Of course we are already fam with the best way of making someone think it was their own idea, right. Paul goes a step further, as you kind of start to pick up at absent from the body, more or less his masterpiece, misQuoted the world over lol, but also apparent in v14 up there, where he manages to make eating the fruit of the tree sound like a compliment
ppl, believers, are usually shocked to learn that there really arent any indisputable facts in the Bible; pretty much every statement has a counter-statement somewhere else, No son of man may die for another’s sins, Christ died for our sins, etc
thats maybe closer to pearls before swine? guess they are related though
AgnosticBoy
Open-minded Skeptic
Honestly, I've never taken the time to do a word study on all of the different names for God in the Bible. You'd think someone who was a Christian for the first 19 years of their life would've gotten around to that but I didn't.
I'll start another topic and make a list and see what the original word and meaning is for each one.
sounds good, i guess youll notice a big variance in the Hebrew or Greek v the interpretation, which is almost always just “God.”
AgnosticBoy
Open-minded Skeptic
Hmmm, the Greek gods are nodding their head given all of their drama, like Zeus having multiple wives, lol.Maybe it's the idea that we’re capable of great deeds, but also petty deeds. That we can soar, but we’re flawed?
Yes, if we merely lower the threshold of what counts as a contradiction down to medium . . .
Maybe we can call it a difference in emphasis