Zany

From Kristos Vocabulary Booster

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈzeɪni/
• SAMPA: /'zeIni/

Adjective

zany

1. ludicrously or incongruously comical
2. bizarre, clownish

Synonyms

• wacky

Bob Felts wrote:
> Gary wrote:
>
> > "Bob Felts" wrote in message
> > news:81A09F92-266F-42DF-6869-417E17AE925F@srcbs.org...
> > > Gary wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Bob, please see below.
> > > > "Bob Felts" wrote in message
> > > > news:FD631AC1-A7CB-BABD-DAB3-EBB19006FC1D@srcbs.org...
> > > > > Gary wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > Because man is unable to keep the law perfectly, and hence obtain
> > > > > > eternal life in that way,


Luke 1:6 says that Elizabeth and Zachariah were righteous and blameless
according to the Law. To keep the Law perfectly and to not sin are not
the same thing. Under the Law, if you sinned, you were required to
give a sacrifice and by doing that, you became as Elizabeth and
Zachariah were: blameless and righteous.
But they were not sinless. They had sinned. They were sinners. Z&E
were forgiven sinners. But they still did not meet the requirement to
return to Paradise. They were not as Adam before the Fall. There
is/was only and ever one way to return to Paradise and eat from the
tree of everlasting life, John 3:16. The people that lived prior to
Yeshua's coming to earth had to believe that God would keep His promise
to send the Seed. After Yeshua came, belief in the actual, revealed
Seed, Yeshua haMaschiach, was the Way.
By the way, YHVH never promised everlasting life by keeping the Law.
He said they would live long, safe,healthy, happy, prosperous, lives
here on earth. The Law is a guide for how to live here.
Many of the Laws provide blessings as natural consequences for obeying
them. For example, don't eat roadkill. Don't marry close relatives.
Honor your father and mother. Rest your land every 7 years. YHVH's
Law is very good. Try it.
Ruth

> > > > > > does not mean that man cannot believe
> > > > > > the Gospel and be saved.
> > > > >
> > > > > So why is man unable to keep the law perfectly? Doesn't man have
> > > > > free will?
> > > >
> > > > No man ever chooses to obey all the time.
> > > >
> > >
> > > _Why_?
> >
> > He chooses not to. We like to sin.


And we are brought up in a sinful society. Even our parents are
sinners. Like Eve saying to Adam, here try some it's good, society is
a strong force.
Ruth
> >
>
> I like to eat ice cream, but I choose not to. So you didn't answer the
> question of why we never choose to obey all the time. Why has no man
> (except for Jesus) ever chosen to obey all of the Law all of the time?
>
>
> > > > > Keeping one single law does not mean one keeps the whole Law;
> > > > > however, breaking one single law does mean that the whole Law is
> > > > > broken (Jas 2:10).
> > > >
> > > > But believing ONE THING, is the same as keeping the whole Law. John
> > > > 8:24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if
> > > > ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
> > > >
> > >
> > > You miss the point. Why bother with believing when the same result can
> > > be obtained by keeping the Law?

That is wrong.
Ruth
> >
> > Well, the first time you mess up, and break the law, then
> > you've blown the "law" route.
> >
>
> That isn't what Scripture says. Ezekiel 18:
>
> 27 Again, when the wicked turn away from the wickedness they have
> committed and do what is lawful and right, they shall save their life.
> 28 Because they considered and turned away from all the transgressions
> that they had committed, they shall surely live; they shall not die.
>
>
> > > > > > Acts 15:10 Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the
> > > > > > neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able
> > > > > > to bear? 11 But we believe that through the grace of the Lord
> > > > > > Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.

The question was, did a person need to be circumcised to be saved? The
yoke was adult circumcision, not the Law. Paul says the Law is Holy,
just and good.
Ruth
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Again, this misses the point. If man has free will, why not go the
> > > > > law route? Who needs Jesus?
> > > >
> > > > I do.
> > > >
> > > > For I have broken and break almost all of them.
> > > > The ONLY remedy is Christ.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Why do you break them? Do you not have free will in the matter?
> >
> > I choose to. Selfishness, etc.
>
> So you're saying that you're a victim of your nature? You cannot do
> other than break the law?
>
> > But I don't break all the laws all the time. On occasion, I have chosen to
> > obey.
> >
>
> "On occasion" avoids the issue. What prevents you from doing it all the
> time? All you have to do is what God says in Ezekiel: turn from your
> wickedness and obey the law.
>
> > Thus as Scripture states above, "I am not able to bear the law."

Where do you find such Scripture? 1John 5:3 say the opposite.
Ruth
>
> So you aren't able to do what God commands. The command does not carry
> with it the means. Is that what you want to say?

All can still be righteous and blameless as Z&E were. There is no
animal sacrifices, but Yeshua promised us He would forgive us, so if we
ask for Him to forgive us, we too can be as Z&E. We too can receive the
blessings that come by obeying the Law. Just remember, they do not
bring everlasting life. There is only one way to be saved.
Ruth
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