13/02/2013 Put simply, it’s not right that a couple who love each other and want to formalise a commitment to each Heavens other should be denied the right to marry. Earth Earth 1 2 Heavens Heavens Waters above Day Night Sky Waters Waters below Land Land 3 3 Heavens Heavens Waters above Waters above Sky Sky Land Land Waters below Waters below 1
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13/02/2013 God Almighty first Man now realises planted a Garden; that he’s an and, indeed, it is the accident, that he is purest of human a completely futile pleasures; it is the being, and that he greatest refreshment has to play out the to the spirits of man. game without reason. A land where bread will not be Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for scarce and you will lack nothing; a men, since you know that you will receive land where the rocks are iron and an inheritance from the Lord as a you can dig copper out of the hills. reward. It is the Lord Christ you are Deuteronomy 8:9 serving. Colossians 3:23-24 5
13/02/2013 ‘To say to us poor ignorant ‘…the first victim of children words which we could God’s whimsical not understand, and then punish us because we did not do as we tyranny.’ were told – ah how can that be justified?’ The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one • God’s generosity who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. • One Rule Romans 8:18-21 • What the tree is for 6
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