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June
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| Posted 1/31/2002 4:22 PM (GMT -6) |   |
What's the deal with this story? God just unloads on Ananias and Saphira for lying? do we have any security that God will not just strike us down for the same thing? God obviously dealt with these two in a way that he used to do in the old testament but not in the new testament
help!
June
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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 1/31/2002 4:39 PM (GMT -6) | | June:
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What's the deal with this story? God just unloads on Ananias and Saphira for lying? do we have any security that God will not just strike us down for the same thing? God obviously dealt with these two in a way that he used to do in the old testament but not in the new testament
help!
June
No fair. YOU can furnish more material than that. The text gives more clues. And boy am I tired of hearing someone rant (like "victim"): "do we have any security that God will not just strike us down for the same thing? God obviously dealt with these two in a way that he used to do in the old testament but not in the new testament"
Maybe this is jsut an OT thing held over. Maybe. But you have to deal with what is obvious in the text first, and then be willing to look for the unobvious.
But even more simply, make a list of the facts in evidence, and then slooth really deep. Don't let any assumption go undisturbed.
Hint: go watch a good cop show first.
Second hint: Did they have to sell the land?
Third hint: Try imagining a situation where they could have given half the money AND not got struck down.
What was really going on there.
You are NO WHERE NEAR being ready to bark something about OT and NT.
You are not even to the first commercial in your "Autopsy Mystery Show."
Now...Get that stenno pad out!!!!!!!
(Or I'm going back to "E.R.")
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n/a
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| Posted 1/31/2002 5:50 PM (GMT -6) | | I would like to chalk it up to either a story or an Old Testament presupposition that God was punishing them. I have no proof, this is subjective, good night.
Peace
Paul
Our natural greatness is seen as part of God's image, and that natural greatness has been conferred on us to enable us to achieve our supernatural destiny:to be related to God and to obey him freely.---Diogenes Allen | | Back to Top | | |
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June
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| Posted 1/31/2002 8:01 PM (GMT -6) | |
POW,
yo dude! don't unload on me! guess what? i've got a particular view on this, but my friend(who doesn't have access to this board) asked me if i would post this for her. i've tried to give her my position on it but she's not buying it. so that is the post she asked me to write!
June
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Empiress
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| Posted 1/31/2002 11:00 PM (GMT -6) | | June,
I think you ask great questions!
I personally don't have a satisfactory answer to this question myself. I've heard a lot of theories, and I've not found any to be too helpful personally. What's your take on it?
Pax,
Miss E
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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 2/1/2002 1:18 AM (GMT -6) | | Sorry, June. I didn't plan to unload on anyone. And not you.
I guess not having the coffee pot going last night was a bad idea.
But it DID seem that the post-in-question unloaded, and unfairly, on 3-Persons!
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God just unloads on Ananias and Saphira for lying? do we have any security that God will not just strike us down for the same thing?
THAT was probably what I'd teed off at.
But I stand corrected. You do great posts.
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n/a
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| Posted 2/1/2002 1:49 AM (GMT -6) | | was the coffee "potonwheel?" Tee hee hee.
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June
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| Posted 2/1/2002 4:41 AM (GMT -6) | |
Thanks POW, we're cool
alright Miss E. wanna sort this out together? as i mentioned, i'm doing this for a friend, but it wouldn't hurt me to take another look at the whole situation myself.
June
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might-be-don
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| Posted 2/1/2002 5:07 AM (GMT -6) | | Here's how I view it... God allowed Ananias and Saphira to understand the FULL weight of their sin. I'm sure that kind of exposure would KILL me. Sometimes we forget just how merciful God is when dealing with our day to day "shortcomings" .
peace and love, don
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