Penelope wrote:Dear Bishop,
I am not a girl! I will be 74 this year. I have always been a seeker for truth however.
I have always found enough evidence for a deeper side to us humans to keep me interested. As I have reached old age, I have found joy.
Well, I maybe deluded!
Jesus never said Man is the light of the World. He said, ‘I am the light of the World’. ‘The kingdom of heaven is within you’. I will live in you if you live in me.’ Well, reputedly.
Just as I feel Joy when I listen to Mozart, and I don’t know why. I feel joy when you said, ‘Your Jesus ‘ in your last post. I don’t know why. It must look like delusional to you. It feels like a light in a dark place to me.
Anyway, bless you for calling me a girl! That will cheer me up for a week, especially when I tell my husband of 54 years. Will look at the links you sent btw. Thanks.
I was going by your avatar name, old man.
If as you say, Jesus said, ‘I am the light of the World’. ‘The kingdom of heaven is within you’. I will live in you if you live in me.’
And my quote said you are a brethren to Jesus, and have taken on the Christ mind, then do you not become the light of the world?
You do the way I read scriptures as we become his full brethren and the light of the world.
Matthew 6:22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
John 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Does that not logically make man the light of the word?
But if that logic goes over your head, try this below that shows I did not lie to you.
Matthew 5:14-16 King James Version (KJV)
14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Just kidding about the old man thing. I likely have less hair than you and I earned my silver starting a long time ago.
Regards
DL