Giddy
- Giddy, why hasn’t the DOV office replied by 10am!?? 😂, struggling to concentrate.
- Wonderfully supportive exchange with (R)MG and lovely text from (R)AB:
- DOV Office have acknowledged the application - asking me to check that I’d sent everything I was asked to (I have).
- It’s nice to see (R)CP's name again - I’d met her at an online ‘Exploring Ministry’ course - her husband was in boarding. It’s good to think she’s basically i/c.
- Had a call with VL re: Sunday’s service in Bentham.
Genesis 3:1–3 (NIV): 3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” 2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’ "
Mark 2:17 (NIV): 17 On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Commentary suggests that Eve doesn’t accurately recall God’s words:
The serpent’s question omits the positive statement made by God in Gen 2:16. The serpent also distorts the earlier statement by presenting God as saying Adam and Eve could not eat from any tree at all.
3:2 We may eat The woman corrects the serpent’s wording, but she does not do so precisely. Instead of echoing 2:16, where God gave the human couple permission to eat from every tree except one, she generalizes the permission, noting simply that they may eat of the trees in the garden.
- The whole truth and nothing but the truth...The WHOLE truth. Part truths can be dangerous. It’s a lie, Context is missing.
- A quip from Jesus - As LRGM would say, “Like, Duh”. The righteous (whoever they are) do not need Jesus. It’s everyone else...or simply, everyone.
- Mark 2:1–28, NIV, https://ref.ly/Mk2.1-28;niv2011) An incredible concentration of Jesus ‘in action!
