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A non-answer then?
Ok, I can see that you are not one to engage further in conversation as the conversation is completely one-sided. Perhaps one day, we will be able to actually talk.
Folks, an incredible amount of posts have been deleted. PLEASE ONLY ADDRESS THE OP!!! Any further off topic conversations will be infracted. Thread needs to resume being on topic!
To me, that passage means Christ in each of us sees other people as who they really are (Christ in them). I want to learn to see that way, too. Do you think it's possible to ever get to the point where we don't condemn the surface level stuff (the "flesh", if you prefer) in others (and in self) that's not in harmony with who we all really are? I want to believe that it is.
"Turn the other cheek."
I've heard an interesting take on that passage that goes along with not judging "the flesh", I think. It's a figure of speech for looking away from the things others do or say to us that are not in keeping with who they are at their core (Christ in them). In another words, try not to give those things any focused attention, because Christ in us does not.
The thing is that in the moment that a person does/says something hurtful to us, trying to turn away is going to be difficult if not impossible. But, if during times that we are not interacting with that person, we can spend time practicing seeing them as God does, gradually, it can change our perspective, and perhaps less of those hurtful moments will even occur. That's the hope, at any rate.
I've heard an interesting take on that passage that goes along with not judging "the flesh", I think. It's a figure of speech for looking away from the things others do or say to us that are not in keeping with who they are at their core (Christ in them). In another words, try not to give those things any focused attention, because Christ in us does not.
The thing is that in the moment that a person does/says something hurtful to us, trying to turn away is going to be difficult if not impossible. But, if during times that we are not interacting with that person, we can spend time practicing seeing them as God does, gradually, it can change our perspective, and perhaps less of those hurtful moments will even occur. That's the hope, at any rate.
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; THEN he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, Job 33
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; THEN he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, Job 33
Cryptic and speaking in bible code. You all have been hanging out with pinacled too much.
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