http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quf/ Quaker Universalist Fellowship Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:06:37 GMT Pashta MaryMoon http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quf/message/907 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quf/message/907 At 12:45 AM 2009-11-02, you wrote: P- Just quick thought, Friends. I think that we get into trouble whenever we 'either-or' things -- in this case, literal or Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:22:16 GMT zaidagal@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quf/message/906 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quf/message/906 Hi James: I agree Karen Armstrong is fabulous, and I understand your points about her (perhaps) faulty interpretation of "literalism". What I am getting from Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:27:16 GMT James Riemermann http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quf/message/905 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quf/message/905 What strikes me about both of these assumptions about the transition from an oral to a written Bible, is that they are assumptions. No one can know what Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:05:04 GMT Peter Trethewey http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quf/message/904 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quf/message/904 Another explanation is that memory of ancient verbally transmitted wisdom was fading and it was felt by some necessary to prevent this wisdom being lost by Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:31:18 GMT zaidagal@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quf/message/903 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quf/message/903 I have been reading Karen Armstrong's book "The Bible" and learning a great deal. She is just fab! What struck me in the first chapter was the focus on story Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:10:26 GMT zaidagal@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quf/message/902 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quf/message/902 Hi David - Thanks for the very interesting history! I would like to learn a great deal more about the culture of those very early times, when Jesus walked the Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:33:25 GMT zaidagal@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quf/message/901 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quf/message/901 Hello and thanks for your thoughts regarding my question on unforgivable sins and the holy spirit. I completely understand your points about it being a topic Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:37:55 GMT David Greenfield http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quf/message/900 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quf/message/900 Hi: Firstly, from my perspective, there is no such thing as an unforgivable sin. I believe that all things are possible, and all sins forgivable, by God. The Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:24:42 GMT Timothy Travis http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quf/message/899 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quf/message/899 One Quaker's take (mine) is that the idea of an "unpardonable sin" is, as you put it, a "notion." Traditionally, to Friends a notion something about which Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:54:58 GMT zaidagal@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quf/message/898 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quf/message/898 Hi everyone - My Bible study group was discussing the whole notion of "unforgivable sin" and "sins against the holy spirit" and having a good old debate about Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:01:36 GMT zaidagal@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quf/message/897 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quf/message/897 Demi - Thank you for your very interesting thoughts. Im very interested in existentialism as well, mostly in the idea of deciding to be a christian being a Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:42:19 GMT George Amoss http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quf/message/896 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quf/message/896 Thanks, Demi. George Fox would quote Paul: "Our rejoicing is the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:17:31 GMT Demi Miller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quf/message/895 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quf/message/895 Dear Tamara & George, One of my paths that led me to Quakerism was studying philosophy as an undergraduate - where I was very strongly influenced by the Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:36:20 GMT zaidagal@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quf/message/894 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quf/message/894 Thank you George - this is very interesting. The quaker way of linking justification and sancitifcation - becoming just now in heart, mind and deed- almost Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:52:07 GMT George Amoss http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quf/message/893 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quf/message/893 The word I translated as "just" is _dikaios_; it is usually translated as "just" in other translations, too, such as the King James Version (KJV). Very