Matthew 5:3 Blessed [are] the poor in spirit: for theirs is

[Amused_despair]

The resemblance is uncanny.

b23hqb, you have failed these forums.

 

[Chuckt]

b23hqb, you have failed these forums.

I think I'll add you to my ignore list for a while to let you know I won't be reading your messages for a while.

 

[littlelady]

I think I'll add you to my ignore list for a while to let you know I won't be reading your messages for a while.

A coward uses the ignore feature. Face it head on, or you will be proven as weak. As always, just my opinion.

This is just an anon forum, but, obviously, members post what they think. You are not doing so well. People don't like being dictated to. There is always room for learning until the day we die, and meet whatever fate is awaiting us. It is not a one way street.

One more thing: It doesn't seem that you live by what you so strongly preach on this forum. Again, just my opinion.

 

[Radiant1]

Matthew 5:3 Blessed [are] the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

The Lord Jesus calls those blessed, who are poor in spirit. He means the humble, and lowly-minded, and self-abased. He means those who are deeply convinced of their own sinfulness in God’s sight. These are they who are not “wise in their own eyes and holy in their own sight.” They are not “rich and increased with goods.” They do not fancy they need nothing. They regard themselves as “wretched, and miserable and poor, and blind, and naked.” Blessed are all such! Humility is the very first letter in the alphabet of Christianity. We must begin low, if we would build high.

The Lord Jesus calls those blessed, who mourn. He means those who sorrow for sin, and grieve daily over their own short-comings. These are they who trouble themselves more about sin than about anything on earth. The remembrance of it is grievous to them. The burden of it is intolerable. Blessed are all such! “The sacrifices of God are a broken and contrite spirit.” One day they shall weep no more. “They shall be comforted.”

p.32-33, Expository Thoughts on the Gospels, Volume One, Matthew Mark, J.C. Ryle

That is because you don't understand and could use a class on Bible appreciation. Any good expositor is going to draw out the meaning using a thesaurus.

Poor in spirit means "spiritually bankrupt". It contradicts the Catholic idea of merit.

Are you saying Jesus meant, "Blessed are the spiritually bankrupt for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven"???

Oh, and poor in spirit has nothing to do with the Catholic doctrine of merit. I understand that you feel the need to criticize Catholicism because your own beliefs seem to hinge on it, but what you are saying just isn't true.

I think the user is a sock. The user only posts criticisms. Show me a post that the user did on his or her own that was their own work. Instead we get responses that are criticism because that is all the user does.
Compare that behavior to small person's syndrome.

Why don't you actually post something original? Instead you are just going after people on the board which means you have only one purpose and it isn't for enlightening people.

I don't know about anyone else, but I see a whole lot of irony in the comments above coming from you. http://www.blbclassic.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G5273&t=KJV

 

[PsyOps]

Chuck all you do is post quotes and then proclaim your interpretation as the Truth. You choose to speak for God, I choose to let God speak for God. Oh, and I am not Onel, you may owe him an apology, sad one, not that you can obviously discern the difference in two people you are so blinded by your ignorance and yet so sure of what you think is knowledge.

I have to take exception to this. What else are Christians supposed to do; shut up about God? God has chosen to be silent and rely on His messengers to get the message out. If you’re going to disagree with Chuck, you should provide what you have to support your disagreement, rather than simply casting ad hominem attacks at him.

 

[Amused_despair]

I have to take exception to this. What else are Christians supposed to do; shut up about God? God has chosen to be silent and rely on His messengers to get the message out. If you’re going to disagree with Chuck, you should provide what you have to support your disagreement, rather than simply casting ad hominem attacks at him.

My support is the Bible. I guess you are ok with him declaring his "interpretations" to be the Truth?

 

[PsyOps]

My support is the Bible. I guess you are ok with him declaring his "interpretations" to be the Truth?

But, in the case of the post I replied to, you chose not to use the bible. You just simply attacked him.

If I have nothing to counter it, why wouldn't I at least accept that he did his homework on it and may just know more about it than me. There have been numerous times I've countered Chuck with bible verses, and other times where I just stayed quiet because I didn't have a retort.

I think it's pretty obvious interpretations of the bible are subjective and 8 people can come out with 8 different interpretations of any given passage. And each 8 believe they are speaking for what they believe God meant... including you. Isn't that a fair thing to say?

 

[Amused_despair]

But, in the case of the post I replied to, you chose not to use the bible. You just simply attacked him.

If I have nothing to counter it, why wouldn't I at least accept that he did his homework on it and may just know more about it than me. There have been numerous times I've countered Chuck with bible verses, and other times where I just stayed quiet because I didn't have a retort.

I think it's pretty obvious interpretations of the bible are subjective and 8 people can come out with 8 different interpretations of any given passage. And each 8 believe they are speaking for what they believe God meant... including you. Isn't that a fair thing to say?

I did reply to you when you asked what I thought was added, all the way back on page one of this thread. Isn't it a fair thing to say that I did answer your question?