MosesKnows: do you know it's the fools, hypocrites, vipers, blind guides who all sat in Moses' seat in Mt 23?
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The greater point was not who sat there, but how they behaved there - Jesus clearly told them vs 3: (my paraphrase) follow the rules but don't do like they do - they say do and then don't.
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My dear sweet Gino...\n  It is I again. It did take me a while to answer this question but I had to do an extreme research on this question. Of the three my answer would have to be Donald Shaw and I would explain. It is obvious that the other two are slaves to the bible and are in capable of thinking logically for themselves. Truebeliever, I must admit, has been revolving himself around his one question that has been intelligently put yet instill when you responded, he did avoid answering you and insulted you instead.\n I picked Donald Shaw because his answers had the belief of Christians and the belief of something else I have not yet to understand. He contradicts himself a lot and promotes the hate of God instead of the love. Most of his answers have nothing to do with the question. I come to wonder...who side is he on?
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The account is found at Numbers 20:1-13; Deuteronomy  32:50-52; and enlarged upon at Psalms 106:32, 33.\n\nWhile Israel was encamped at Kadesh, Moses made a serious mistake. Moses not only was in a highly privileged position but also was under weighty responsibility to God as leader and mediator for the nation. Because of a water shortage the people began to argue with Moses, blaming him for leading them out of Egypt into the barren wilderness. Moses had endured much, putting up with their perverseness and insubordination, their constant bickering and complaining, their repeated displays of a lack of faith.  He also had been sharing their hardships, and interceding on their behalf when they sinned, but for one moment, he lost his meekness and mildness of temper.  Exasperated, Moses and Aaron stood before the people as Jehovah commanded.  But instead of calling attention to God as the Provider, they spoke harshly to the people and directed attention to themselves, Moses saying: “Hear, now, you rebels! Is it from this crag that WE shall bring out water for you?” With that, he struck the rock and God caused water to flow.  But God was greatly displeased with the conduct of Moses and Aaron. They had failed of their primary responsibility, namely, to magnify God’s name.
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Perhaps a commentary on our Bibleless culture that no-one's so far mentioned Daniel... Seems an obvious reference - rather like the snake-handlers 'following' Mark 16:18. A sad case of putting God to the test. Now if he'd been thrown in...
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uh did anybody bother reading the story or is this another misquote?\nmoses went up 3 times first to get the tablets of the big 10 (there are 613 in total) on the way down he broke em (why is long story)\n2nd time to obtain forgiveness for the golden calf\n3 time were instructions on building the tabernacle
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Don't be deceived my friend by the DaVinci Deception....\nThe Scripture foretold of deceptions like these....\n\n" Now the Spirit speaks expressly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils, speaking lies in hypocrisy..."(1Tim.4:1)\n\nBut there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who shall privately bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, bring swift destruction upon themselves". (2 Peter 2:1),
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Funny, there was this one guy 2,000 years ago who said love everyone, don't judge, and follow the Golden Rule. It's a shame that "leaders" don't listen to him anymore.
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Welcome to Life, dear Child! Politics and churches seem to go hand in hand too often. ("poli" meaning  many; and "tics" blood sucking parasites. Often interspersed with governmental officials)\nI'm not quite familiar about Jesus and Mt. Sinai...Moses, yes, Jesus and the Beatitudes yes... but the two together? Not certain, my apologies.\nI'd love it if every Christian followed the Sermon on the Mount. The world could be lovely.
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No, those prophets in those verses are all Israelites even the 2 witnessess before the coming of the Lord and William Marrion Branham is not even a Jew. He may be a prophet but certainly he was not used to fulfill those verses.
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now let me think about that for a nano second...yes!\nlets face it, the bible was a collection of STORIES...and if anyone thinks that people get turned into pillars of salt, then they are more stupid than i thought
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You are very right.  When people cut things out of the Bible, they start with Rev  22:18.  ; )  But almost everyone actually just chooses which things to follow, there are VERY few groups that obey everything in the Bible (keeping kosher, not eating shellfish, not allowing men to have long hair, treating their slaves well, etc.).  Really it's all just a buffet.
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Hello brother (see my icon)!\n\nAgree for the most part.  Except for maybe the Dalai Lama.\n\nLaypeople especially.  The more that they seek the truth and comfort in the teachings (that should be dogma) the further they really are from knowing "god" or the source.\n\nKeep the unfaith brother!
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I think you almost need to be a hypocrite to be a christian even though I don't remember it being on those tablets Moses brought down from the mountain. Perhaps it was on the first set that he broke.
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Moses a told to do many thing with his staff. To me the most important was to strike the stone in order to get water from the stone for the people. Trouble is next time he was commanded to speak to the stone but he struck it anyway. It was to be a picture of Christ. First he was struck, then if we asked he would give us living water.. Moses messed it up... Oh well in God's grace He gave the people water anyway... He is such a GOOD GOD!!!   Jim
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yeah, I agree that there are a lot of people who do a lot of stupid things and still call themselves as prophets. Some of them still do God's work, but I personally think that because of these people sometimes we even start doubting people who really do great and miraculous things in the name of the Lord and fail to recognise them as from the Lord. So personally I think we should be very careful when we judge. I personally judge too easily and like left and right, but I think what I wrote above is the right way!
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perhaps not in the way the modern Christians think. however, there were several Prophets of THE PEOPLE who talked to various tribes of THE PEOPLE talking about the same basic concepts JESUS did. such as the PEACE-BRINGER who talked to the Five Civilized Tribes and Hiawatha ( who actually existed ).
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Yes, I do think that they are misleading the flock. I'd say they have to reform, but it is hard to picture that happening well enough to justify the effort. I'd start with using factual history to learn what Yeshua actually stood for, and garbage all the BS thats been invented for political convenience and perpetrated falsely in the name of Jesus. Then we would include all of the apocrypha, excluded gospels, and so forth. Lastly, Christianity really should be gently mixed in with esoteric Judaism. A tall order. I'd start on rewriting the bible if i thought i would have help and readership.\n\nAll in all, the best solution is to just abandon Christianity as a currently evil and unsalvagable exploration of ethnocentrism and pack psychology and fascism. Taoism, Budhism, And Paganism are good enough to pick up the slack, esp if theres an eclectic mix of ideas.