If Paul was around today, and wrote an epistle, I don’t think he’d be using a book publisher or magazine. (The Paul in the bible lots of people don’t read)
This makes sense doesn’t it? It makes me think of our words in our emails and on our blogs. Thanks to Ian’s Messy Desk for this one.

From: paul0426@tarsus.com (Paul, A Servant Of Jesus Christ)
To: allusers@rome.org
CC: s_peter@jol.com (Judea Online)
Attachments: none
Subject: general teaching (Also posted to Usenet newsgroup alt.religion.heresy)

Even using my off-line mail reader (Papyrus 6.2), the on-line and disk space charges on my local dial-up Internet provider are outlandish, so I’ll have to keep this short.

IMHO, the wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness of men. }:>

U, therefore, have no excuse to pass judgment. God will judge all. BTW, Jews have no right to boast simply because of our ancestry.

Circumcision is meaningful only if it is inward.

Similarly, IBM owners have no right to boast simply because of the customer support they receive. In Him we are neither IBM nor Gateway, Tandy nor Compaq. None of us is righteous.

As King David wrote:

KD> There is no one righteous, not even one;
KD> There is no one who understands, no one who seeks
KD> God, no one who has not illegally copied his
KD> favorite game program for a friend.

But Abraham believed God, and so God credited it to him as virtual righteousness.

But does this mean we should sin all we want? No way! We must live through the spirit. The law kills O-|-


3 Responses to “Communicating”

  1. 1 osray 

    This is so beautiful, guess I will have to check out that messy desk… Thanks Bene

  2. 2 Bene Diction 

    Ian is a veritable reference library with a kind, kind heart and equally wicked wit. I think you’ll enjoy his blog very much.:^)

  3. 3 Ian McKenzie 

    Thanks for those kind, kind words.

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