deleeme
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since 10-09-1999
Posts 1747
NEW ENGLAND, USA
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2 posted 09-12-2009 06:43 AM
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I have read both your poem and the background of your spiritual life and trials which lead up to it's writing. You pose some very interesting questions and yet you come to unnessary conclusions.
1. "There is nothing new under the sun" as stated repeatedly in the Book of Ecclesiates is not at all rlated to the context of Enoch's experience--but to basic human activities in this life.
2. That "God is no respector of persons" as Peter realized through the vision given him, is not at all an open door for God to exclude death whenever He chooses,and thus allowing for many Enochs--for if forced into that context--then God would be a respector of persons, if He did not exclude all from death. Check the context please--(found in Acts 10:1-35)for again is not about any particular thing that He has done for one He will do for another, but of God's love for all, providing through Jesus the opportunity of salvation and redemption for all.
You should be careful to so loosely handle isolated verses of Scripture and to apply them in ways never intended. Peter warned that twisting and distorting the Scriptures comes with very serious consequences,[2 Peter 3:16].
As for Enoch, we are blessed to have from the Christian perspective more revealed to us concerning him than that afforded in the original Genesis text, in Hebrews 11:5-6. And there it shows us the intent and lessons which his mention in the Bible are to teach and encourage us. Not that we might be mysteriously whisked away if we live a good enough life attuned to God, for Scripture, even in this same book affirms that we all have an inescapable appointment with death and judgment (Hebrews 9:27-28).
The purposed of Enoch's breif but important account is to encourage us to live by faith, pleasing God--by belief in Him and trusting firmly in His promises. If you want to know how to do that, we need nmot look to Enoch, but rather to Jesus Christ as our perfect example, as per I Peter2:19-25 and Hebrews 12:1-3.
I share these words with you, not as a rebuke, for I believe you honest seek to do and be right, but to help you focus on those things which will help you along the path of righteousness. I thank the LORD everyday
He has given me something to say
And to share with others,
My Friends, my sisters, my brothers!
To God Be the Glory!
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