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Originally Posted by Brother Tim
George, first I intended no "cheap shot" with my comments about a marked Bible. It was intended to draw attention to the extent to which this "dividing" can be carried by someone who is extreme with their dispensational views.
I have a different understanding of the phrase "rightly dividing" than you do. I do not see the word "dividing" to mean "separating". Instead, I interpret it to mean "breaking into parts for clearer understanding". I view the phrase as describing the work required to understand to deeper meanings behind each passage of Scripture. In other words, taking small bites and carefully digesting them through Biblical meditation (Psalm 1) and prayer. This definition does not go against the Isaiah 28 verses that you used. I am not attempting to harmonize, if by that you mean blending all parts into one message.
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I did mean exactly that, since that is what happens quite often.
Please re-check my post #203 (same subject), I asked a couple of questions and then I side-tracked you with a second post (#205) which only diluted my first - Bad move on my part.
Here is one of the questions again:
How do you deal with these verses?
Revelation 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Who does the above verse apply to?
Who are they that do His commandments?
Do Christians
need the tree of life, when we have drunk from the water of life? When we already possess eternal life"?
1 John 2:25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.
1 John 5:11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
1 John 5:13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
If we already have "eternal life", then
who needs to eat of the
tree of life?