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Twist family Bible study: the Gospel of Mark
Shakesthecoffecan:
--- Quote from: injest on December 03, 2007, 12:30:53 am ---may I go back to something we mentioned in Chapter 1??
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Please do.
Wayne:
--- Quote from: injest on December 03, 2007, 12:30:53 am ---may I go back to something we mentioned in Chapter 1??
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Please, you bet! Nothing formal here - we'll make it cumulative! ;D
injest:
we were talking about Jesus saying the Kingdom was at hand....
in Matthew 5:17 he says "Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets. I have come not to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, til the heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the law until all is accomplished."
what do you think this means?
I hear so many people talking about rituals...that we have to continue to obey the laws of the old testament but not the 'cultural' ones...like eating shellfish...which to me seems like they are just cherry picking what they want to oppress people..
Shakesthecoffecan:
The "all is accomplished" part is what I wonder about. Wonder what that means?
Wayne:
--- Quote from: Shakestheground on December 03, 2007, 12:29:00 am ---So there was an organization of the followers of John. I wonder how that organizaton played into the followers of Jesus and the early church?
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Here ya go - Mandaeism ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandaeism
"Mandaeans consider John the Baptist to be God's most honorable messenger.They describe Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad as false Prophets."
Until the Iraq war there were about 70,000 Mandaeans in Iraq. Now there are about five thousand ...
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