Posted by laramiebob on 4/29/2024 9:32:00 AM (view original):
Because some peeps think THEY KNOW BETTER. Their God HAS to be the right one to worship. Cause that's what they were programmed to believe.
Propaganda comes in many forms. Religious superiority (I'm walking with and YOU are NOT, you're gonna rot in hell) has the majority of believers walking on the wrong path. They pat each other on the back for their apparent brotherhood, without even a basic understanding of the TRUTH.
God is Love.
Folks stoking hate are definitively NOT walking in TRUTH!
My people suffer from ignorance. I think Paul wrote that!
Hi laramiebob.
Referring to your last line in your post above, concerning Pauls use of the word
ignorance. The Strongs exhaustive concordance has it being used only once by Paul in the New Testament. It is used in Acts twice, an epistle of Luke and it is used by the Apostle Peter twice in his first epistle but Paul only uses it once.
Being the New Testament we are using GREEK and translating it into English.
Peter used two different Greek words for ignorance. The second usage In I Pet. 2:15 is the Greek word
agnosia (used as a negative particle) as opposed to the root word
gnosis (the state of) both words referring to knowledge as either the act of knowing or the implication of knowledge, science. So being used as a negative or opposite we take
agnosia to mean (the state of) ignorance or having not the knowledge.
All the other usages of the word ignorance in the New Testament use the Greek word agnoeo. Again used as a negative particle to mean the opposite of knowledge, not to know (through lack of information or intelligence) by implication to
ignore (through disinclination):- (be) ignorant, ignorantly, not known.
Agnoeo is used only once by Paul in Ephesians 4:18 "life of God through the ignorance that is in them," and is obviously referring to non-believers.
I don't know who made the statement you are referring to but it certainly wasn't Paul. "My people" sounds like something God might have said in the Old Testament. That would be Hebrew. There is NO passage in the Bible using the word suffer in conjunction with my people and ignorance.
I hope this helps.
4/29/2024 12:03 PM (edited)