How's tonight? We're having baked chicken.
Get a room!
SAY NO TO PBPDA (PuritanBoard public display of affection)......
Oh, yeah, how romantic. I said chicken, not lobster thermodor!
What? Crustaceans are more romantic than poultry???
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How's tonight? We're having baked chicken.
Get a room!
SAY NO TO PBPDA (PuritanBoard public display of affection)......
Oh, yeah, how romantic. I said chicken, not lobster thermodor!
Get a room!
SAY NO TO PBPDA (PuritanBoard public display of affection)......
Oh, yeah, how romantic. I said chicken, not lobster thermodor!
What? Crustaceans are more romantic than poultry???
SAY NO TO PBPDA (PuritanBoard public display of affection)......
SAY NO TO PBPDA (PuritanBoard public display of affection)......
Sounds like one of those Phariseical 'laws' to me...
Pbltz.
Theognome
PB raspberries!!!????!!!???.......I can just imagine Calvin doing that..... and foamy spittle dribbling on his beard..
PB raspberries!!!????!!!???.......I can just imagine Calvin doing that..... and foamy spittle dribbling on his beard..
Guess I'm not reading the right threads. Just not seeing people calling other people Pharisees here on PB.
Guess I'm not reading the right threads. Just not seeing people calling other people Pharisees here on PB.
It happens.
Guess I'm not reading the right threads. Just not seeing people calling other people Pharisees here on PB.
It happens.
Well, it's intimated. I can tell when a poster is screaming at me behind their computer. And that means they can probably tell if I'm doing the same thing.
It happens.
Well, it's intimated. I can tell when a poster is screaming at me behind their computer. And that means they can probably tell if I'm doing the same thing.
I can tell when you're doing it, too- and so can the kittens; they get all scared...
Theognome
This is just for Bill so he doesn't have to confuse people with trying to spell bodily noises.
Do you have to clean his monitor often Toni? A little spraying going on there.
I believe that the reformed are most like the pharisees in all the right ways. We hold to a stricter observance of the law than the average church and church goer...I don't run from being called a pharisee anymore than I run from being called a calvinist
I can respect that, Bob. You are right about reformers being strict observers of the law--that is good. We all should be. What I am critical of is calling this or that wrong when it is not clearly spelled out in Scripture.
I am reminded of quotation that was mentioned in church a few weeks ago.
"Love God, and do as you please." (Augustine)
While I am sure Augustine did not mean that we have license to sin, because he was diligent about obedience in his own christian life, I believe he discovered the key to overcoming legalism--loving God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength.
The law is our teacher to tell us what God wants. We learn it, we use it to check our behavior in those moments when we are unsure what to do. However, our focus is to be on loving God and loving our neighbor. When the Lord becomes our focus, we do end up doing the right thing almost without thought, and the questionable things become undesirable.
It is true that while some use obeying the law as a way to prove their righteousness (before God, and/or others), some have such sensitive hearts that they get nit-picky about the law out of fear that God will not be pleased with them anymore, or that He will cast them aside. I don't know for sure if this is wrong, but I question that motive in my own heart.
Fear of the Lord is different than being afraid of God, and I think that often we can step over the line from fear of the Lord to being afraid. That is when we have to go back again to the cross and remind ourselves that we are children of God, not orphans.
Looking unto Jesus, the Author and Perfector of our faith.
Exactly. After all, the Decalogue is a list....
and, more to the point, Q&A 99 through 148 of the WLC contain a huge "list" that is man-made, not divine as the Decalogue is. The Westminster divines had no problem with setting apart certain things as ways of violating God's Law - things that are not in many cases directly spelled out in Scripture. They took the time, as we ought, to consider carefully things we do and give warning through their teaching about things we do that we often carelessly do, thinking we are without sin in the matter (when we very well may be).
I agree, though almost every item listed in the LC has an accompanying proof text. My point is that lists of Do's and Don'ts are not inherently bad - in fact they are very good when based on sound Scriptural principle.