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mr.mcclellan. where is it in the bible that said that we would not be able to tell seasons from seasons i have a friend that called me and i told i did not know where to tell her to look i have always been told that it was in the bible so can you please help me out here.thak you and may the lord bless you
Hi Charolette,
I'm glad you asked.
I'm not aware of any place in the Bible that actually says such a thing and I know that book very well. What is probably happening here is a misunderstanding of what it actually says somewhere. This kind of thing tends to happen more often than people understanding correctly what the Bible really says. For example, my mother used to believe that the Bible said that building and living in apartments was a sin because one of the Old Testament prophets condemned wealthy Jews for having "houses upon houses." She thought that it literally meant that they were building multi-story apartments and it was a sin because it put people into too close a proximity to each other and increased their temptation to commit adultery, etc. The truth is that many wealthy Jews were confiscating the homes of people to whom they had loaned money and could not pay off their loans, so that people were being left homeless and destitute.Those wealthy Jews were getting rich off the misfortunes of their kinsmen and relatives. The love of and greed for money makes people do all kinds of terrible things, even to people that they should love the most. Don't misunderstand this and think that it is wrong to be rich though. It is not wrong to be rich. What can be wrong is how you get your riches.
I'll do some searching and see if I can figure out where you and your friend got that idea about not being able to tell the seasons apart. It is obvious that all of us can tell one season from another, except maybe at the equaitor where it is summer all the time. I know that a person can tell the difference between the seasons at the north and south poles though. So, it must be related to some prophecy somewhere that is probably being misunderstood or taken literally when it should be taken figuratively. Many many people often take things to be literal when they should be taken figuratively and then they take things figuratively that are supposed to be taken as literal. They understand the Bible just backwards from the way it should be understood.
Sincerely,
Mr. McClellan
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Mr. McClellan
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I can answer questions concerning Christian doctrine as well as other kinds of questions relating to religion. One important thing, among many, that needs clearing up is the meaning of religion. Religion is any system of belief that tries to explain how people should think and behave so that life is the best it can be. The definition found in the dictionary is seriously in error being based on popular but wrong ideas. Email me at and.the.truth.is@GMX.com for a free PDF 5 page introduction to my just completed book, "And The Truth Is?" It's uniquely different and interactive, designed to show you that you can actually know the way, the truth, and the life Jesus spoke of and what he expected people to do to participate in it as well as what to expect if they did.
Experience
My education puts me second to none in this area and I have had over forty years experience in the area of teaching Christian theology, doctrine, apologetics, hermeneutics, history, and philosophy. Publications: Among the things that I have written is a summary of the entire Bible that is intended to help people put it all together and quickly understand exactly what the writers of the Bible intended for everyone to understand. By reading it and then reading the Bible, the correct understanding should become quite clear and a sincere student will recognize that they have received an invaluable aid to knowing how to correctly interpret the Bible so that they can know, with certainty, that they are understanding it correctly. At the same time, they will be able to recognize the vast number of false doctirnes that are being called Christian doctrines but are only the teachings of men and have no more authority than any oridinary man can give them.
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I belong to no officially recognized organizations. I'm simply a person with a deep and lifelong desire to know the truth, a desire so strong that I have, for more than 50 years, poured myself and a lot of money into finding it and making sure of it. I believe that life is too short and valuable to waste it believing a lot of stuff that isn't true. Everyone can't be right and be in disagreement at the same time and the claims made by the writers of the Bible are simply too serious to guess about.
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It's quite obvious that the Bible is not easy to comprehend thus all the divided opinions about what it teaches. I am finalizing a short treatise on the Bible that I believe will help a lot of people who seriously want to get a clear understanding of what the Bible actually has to say to everyone, a treatise that should take the mystery out of it and show that it really makes sense. People deserve help in recognizing the truth about what the Bible says because there is so much false teaching about it that is actually leading people away from God instead of to God. It should be ready to send out by the end of this year, 2011 or before.
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I have two degrees in education, including religious belief systems. I also have many years of experience and many thousands of hours of study and research on which I've based my new book, "The Bible Actually Makes Sense."
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All of my awards and honors are in the form of compliments from people who've read or listened to my attempts to help them understand what the Bible is about and how to comply with what it actually says. So many have said, in one way or another, that I helped them more than anyone they had ever met. It's comforting to know that my efforts to be of value to others is appreciated.
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