Re: You love TEXT????????????????????????????????
you bring up a good point. pilate asked jesus "what is truth?" it was right in front of him.
the letters arent the truth, the words arent the truth, the book isnt the truth... the truth is living. the truth changes. thats why the lord doesnt give us truth, he gives us the love of the truth.
the scriptures i have have been very helpful to that end. but just like jesus, no, it is not god. and the word "love" in english has a jillion meanings. and no, im not going to be dinged by my creator for not being more accurate in my words or using the wrong syllables when i reference him or his son.
Matthew 12:34
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. 35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
Matthew 15:18-20 Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: 20 these are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
Psalm 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Psalm 73:1
[ Psalm 73 ] [ A Psalm of Asaph. ] Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
James 4:8
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.