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Topic: So the Bible Is the Story of the Battle between Evil & "Single?"  (Read 490 times)

mythociate

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Lord Jesus lays it out like this:
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22B if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. 23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness.

That's what He says in the KJV. Looking at BibleGateway's concordance on 6:23 (sad that BG only has concordances on one-verse-at-a-time, yeah?), I get the feeling that an 'evil' eye is one that is set in seeing only one thing as good---everything else being evil.

The verse before that uses 'single' from the notion of 'one, complete, whole, healthy.' Remember, Eve was made from a part that was taken out of Adam---making him "un-whole" without her, which is the way I understand most successful marriages work (each party considering the other party its 'better half').

So the 'worthy' married-couple is "single together"---two parts of a machine that does not exist unless both of them are there (like a lamp & a lightbulb).
------------------------------------------------------------------------------That's what a Pharisee might say today. You now have the chance to respond as my mentor Jesus-of-Joseph would, and I pray that you will!

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