Faith writes:
Ever looked in a dictionary? Words customarily have many shades of meaning. It's not a conspiracy of fundamentalists.
it's when words are allocated different, often contradictory meanings, outside any dictionary, that I get really confused.
So, for example, one minute 'tempting God' means "not to put ourselves in danger counting on God to get us out of the jam " (i.e. having faith in him)
The next minute (when the first definition doesn't fit the bill any longer) 'tempting God' means "complaining rather than having faith in Him".
One minute, 'good' and 'loving' means sacrificing his only begotten Son to save us. The next minute it means massacring scores of babies and women who are in the way of His chosen people.
I could go on for a while here but this is getting OT and I'm getting more perplexed.
"In life, you have to face that some days you'll be the pigeon and some days you'll be the statue."