"NO LONGER
DO I CALL YOU SERVANTS;
...BUT I HAVE CALLED YOU FRIENDS."
Aquinas stated that based on John 15:15 (in the Farewell discourse) in which Jesus said: "No longer do I call you servants; ...but I have called you friends". Those who are followers of Christ and partake in the Sacrament of the Eucharist become his friends, as those gathered at the table of the Last Supper. For Aquinas, at the Last Supper Christ made the promise to be present in the Sacrament of the Eucharist, and to be with those who partake in it, as he was with his disciples at the Last Supper.
John Calvin believed only in the two sacraments of Baptism and the "Lord's Supper" (i.e., Eucharist). Thus, his analysis of the Gospel accounts of the Last Supper were an important part of his entire theology. Calvin related the Synoptic Gospel accounts of the Last Supper with the Bread of Life Discourse in John 6:35 that states: "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry."
Calvin also believed that the acts of Jesus at the Last Supper should be followed as an example, stating that just as Jesus gave thanks to the Father before breaking the bread,[1 Cor. 11:24] those who go to the "Lord's Table" to receive the sacrament of the Eucharist must give thanks for the "boundless love of God" and celebrate the sacrament with both joy and thanksgiving.
in you
and
given you
talents and abilities that
equip you
to do certain things.
You're part
of his plan and purpose"
~(Joyce Meyer)~
"HOW CAN THIS BE;
DON'T(?)KNOW(?)MAN
~(Simply Jim: One Pearl, Total Pig, Anti-Christ.)~
And Jesus said,
"Easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a wealthy man
to
enter into the kingdom of heaven."
Then I,
Simply Jim: One Pearl, Total Pig, Anti-Christ"
says,
"What about this wealthy woman Joyce Meyers?
She's not only wealthy, she and her family rolling in it...?
"Is this how
one
gets a camel through the eye of a needle...?"
"You just...ROLL... it through?"
People! People! People!
Jesus did not,
"die for our sins so we my live eternally,"
the message to be learned from his life story.
He died trying to show and explain,
best he knew how using the language and understandings of his own people living during his lifetime,
teaching by example
his understanding as to what God would expect in return from mankind made in his image.
teaching by example
his understanding as to what God would expect in return from mankind made in his image.
And what a talented, charming, thou artful dodger
this man,
JESUS OF NAZARETH,
turned out to be...
lifes story becoming... ONE...larger than life itself.
"THOSE WITH A SURPLUS
ARE
BETTER ABLE CONTROLLING THEIR CIRCUMSTANCES.
THOSE WITHOUT ARE CONTROLLED BY THEM.
ONE IS NOT ALWAYS
ABLE
EXERCISING GOOD JUDGEMENT."
"DO NOT CONCLUDE UNTIL UNDERSTANDING.
ONCE UNDERSTANDING,
DO NOT JUDGE."
"A TRULY VIRTUOUS MAN WOULD COME TO THE AID OF A DISTANT STRANGER EQUALLY
AS HE WOULD A CLOSE FRIEND.
THEN AGAIN,
A TRULY VIRTUOUS MAN WOULD HAVE NO FRIENDS."
Now try rolling these three quotes combining them into one; adding a sense of time.
If all sins are explicable, then what is sin?
Where does,
"we're all sinners," stop being, "we're all sinners,"
and
becoming their right throwing the rest in jail?
Well Jesus could not have been loiterer he was, one preaching unsantioned sermons, without some kind of surplus enabling him and his diciples paying for food, clothing, and shelter;
or
being the kind of person we describe today as having the halo effect. Now what would be the difference between someone living today with the halo effect on others as apposed to someone living during the life and times of Jesus Christ?
THE OLD WAYS CAN GIVE IT."
I'm convinced, the "Eternal Father" Jesus is referring to is his parental father Joseph. The "Holy Ghost" to be his biological mother Mary. All one has to do is turn the virginal birth into a story of a young and innocent girl living a life extremely sheltered and naive, being that of a planned pregnancy by loving parents from the the very start, her family able living with a surplus.
Now...picture one day...although having done everything right by the book... their lives gets shattered by an unexpected teenage pregnancy; Mary having been turned into one big cum dump by a group of Roman soldiers?
Did Mary understand what just happened to her or not?
And this is where my belief,
the "ETERNAL FATHER" maybe Joseph.
Try imagine having a mother having to raise you under those circumstances; most women of their time not even a choice, either, of choosing their husbands most time. Then losing this father figure at the age of twelve.
The Joseph I imagine, a man to be quite older than Mary, willingly only from the kindness of his heart, taking on the responsibitly caring for a traumatized, as well as psychologically damaged, child who's baby will be born less than 9 months to those eyes familiar with her family. Can you not see that vicious mob mentally by those without the surplus of her family. Mary, shell shocked, having suddenly been taken away from all things loved and familiar.
Their story told this way, although just a conjecture without all the facts we will never know, makes more sense to me the lessons needing to be learned, without needing to bring GOD into this story, still the same both the time of Jesus and ours today.
This Joyce Meyers crap are nothing but justifications to be immorally wealthy by the likes of her; having turned Jesus life story into nothing but a cheap "DOPE ON A ROPE" by all those having "itching ears."
If God belongs anywhere in this story,
it would have been Mary's dope trying to understand her
pregnancy;
with(?)out
the
memory of that horrible, horrible day.
Hosea 6-9
New International Version (NIV)
Israel Unrepentant
6 “Come, let us return to the Lord.
He has torn us to pieces
but he will heal us;
he has injured us
but he will bind up our wounds.
2 After two days he will revive us;
on the third day he will restore us,
that we may live in his presence.
3 Let us acknowledge the Lord;
let us press on to acknowledge him.
As surely as the sun rises,
he will appear;
he will come to us like the winter rains,
like the spring rains that water the earth.”
4 “What can I do with you, Ephraim?
What can I do with you, Judah?
Your love is like the morning mist,
like the early dew that disappears.
5 Therefore I cut you in pieces with my prophets,
I killed you with the words of my mouth—
then my judgments go forth like the sun
6For I desire mercy, not sacrifice,
and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.
7 As at Adam, they have broken the covenant;
they were unfaithful to me there.
8Gilead is a city of evildoers,
stained with footprints of blood.
9 as marauders lie in ambush for a victim,
so do bands of priests;
they murder on the road to Shechem,
carrying out their wicked schemes.
10 I have seen a horrible thing in Israel:
There Ephraim is given to prostitution,
Israel is defiled.
There Ephraim is given to prostitution,
Israel is defiled.
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