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The real question is, do we need a doctrine to make God understood by our intellect in order to fathom his depths? source

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Re: Simon the sorcerer

Thank goodness that their sense of ritual early on did not compel them to choose circumcision[ouch!! lol] in most cases to 'prove' or testify to the circumcision of the heart that had come about in the removal of the fleshly man into the kingdom of Heaven. Geez, for that matter according to rituals , Paul would have been also putting up requirements by stating in Romans that one must 'confess with their MOUTH' that Jesus raised from the dead in order to be saved.

You know, as I think about it. Things like these are what lead me to be 'ok' with the idea that we COULD see outwardly just what Christ had done in an individual person all those years. It was the outward oriented proclamations that these men made[for whatever reason they had] that made me think that it must be ok with God to look on the outside and judge all sorts of things about man and his mark. It played into the idea that we could do this or that and join this and that in order to be saved. It all ran it's course in my mind and eventually just served to occupy a pocket of confusion for me. For some how I knew salvation had to be better, more. Yet, I was grieved that a perfectly riteous son of God full of His power in me COULD be confused? Even that God would allow it. Especially when those same brothers of ours in the faith testified to the fact that God is and was NOT a God confusion.

Just some thoughts I wanted to express...

Love,

Adam

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