Thanks Rita It may well prove to have been just as much "over my head" as it is over yours.
I'm living in the shadow of someone knowledgeable telling me I've got it all wrong.
I thought of asking Nicky but that would be unfair even though she never declines to help.

Thanks for asking if myself and Christine were OK.
Considering her cancer Christine is quite remarkable, and as for me its an age factor.
Many fail to reach 91 (my milestone in three day's time) whereas several pass 100.
I just have to be thankful for each additional day.

Please don't feel obligated to fix the problem on my account.  It's a very minor inconvenience.  Happy birthday, by the way!

Hi to Dave, Helen, Kerry, Rita, Pat, etc (meaning all registered Members)

To those who are interested in the technicalities, the URL for the forum presently is
https://unitedindiversity.createaforum.com/general-discussion/
which ranks it as being 'insecure' and often 'unopenable' to those who personally run the more precautious anti virus programmes.

For our site to be readily openable to all internet searchers it would need to be 'Domain based', which I guess would then alternatively show up as
https://www.unitedindiversity.createaforum.com/general-discussion/
Maybe that is why so many find that they can't access us.
I'm having a go at trying to make the change, but may have to engage my 'techno' to help.
Then, should I 'bite the dust', it will leave you all with a less restrictive forum.

I greatly appreciate having access to regular interaction so please keep posting regularly to justify my endeavours.

Mike.

Once in a while I get a mysterious message about something not returning a handshake -- or something like that.  When I try again, it works fine.  I've never had to try a third time, Mike.  I'm like Rita and don't understand all these things about programming.   

Well,"It's Friday But Sundays a'coming" said the preacher as told by the late Tony Campolo.
I still have that message on a cassette tape AND an original tape player but like many of us, time has not been kind to the quality.

John 4-24  says's "God is spirit (the source of life, yet invisible to mankind) and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth" Amp version.
This verse comes after to me, probably one of the most amazing encounters in scripture, a woman in the everyday tedium of her life going to collect water at it's source, encounters a weary traveller sitting on the well and you know the rest of the story, this no name woman who has seemingly stumbled from one bad relationship to another, and  finds an unknown to her Jesus, He  recognizes her thirst for acceptance.
The hidden cry of many peoples heart today acceptance.
There you go Mike a bit of Friday waffle for you.

Kerry, as God is spirit, I think the Adamic man created in his image and likeness was just that, what that entailed I know not but he was not spirit 'like' God, His maleness was spirit, his soul was his untested fleshy/ female part.
 As God is light so was Adam until the female switched his light off, and as men love darkness more than light , we all live by choices.
As stated , 'my' symplistic rendition.

I tend to think man did not have "physical bodies" like us.  I think they had spiritual bodies like Jesus had after the Resurrection. 

However when they sinned, the Light in their bodies went dark.  They were naked, so to speak, so God clothed them in skin -- not skins as many suppose.  If animals had been killed to clothe them, it would read "skins" but it reads "skin."  Many translations say "skins" but it's singular in the Hebrew.

Why were they formed out of the "dust"?  Same reason that Jesus' original body had to be formed of it.  The difference was that the dust used to make Adam and Eve was not "dead" matter.  Jesus took the fallen dead dust and raised it again. 

Never been a great lover of Zucchini but Helen found this grated cheese sliced Zucchini grilled recipe and we are hooked, plus it gives a nice sleep induced nap feeling 😔😔😔.

I used to bake sliced zucchini mixed with a tomato sauce usually used for spaghetti and grated cheese.  I also made zucchini bread -- but I usually didn't have walnuts, it got made without them.

Thanks Kerry for acknowledging     

You're quite welcome, Dave.  A few lines from a Tennyson poem. The Charge of the Light Brigade, came to mind.

“Forward, the Light Brigade!”
Was there a man dismayed?
Not though the soldier knew
  Someone had blundered.
  Theirs not to make reply,
  Theirs not to reason why,
  Theirs but to do and die.
  Into the valley of Death
  Rode the six hundred.

"Why's" are not real things anyway.  You can't touch them, hear them, taste them, etc.  Why's exist in our imagination. Our minds can start spinning when we start trying to imagine what plans others have for what they do. We can imagine evil where none exists. 

I do relate this to the temptation of Eve.  She could look around the Garden.  It was all good.  Why suspect God didn't want her and Adam to eat of the forbidden fruit because He didn't want them to be like Him?  She was imagining evil in God where none existed. 

Did God have a good motive for putting that tree there and telling them not to eat of it?  I believe He did.  Eve's first mistake then was "imagining" something in the Mind of God which wasn't true.  Then she acted on her suspicion. 

I say God had a good motive for putting that tree there.  Adam was supposed to "cleave" to Eve and hadn't done it yet.  Had the two become one, they would have been able to see the world from each other's perspective.  And being neither male nor female but both, they would have become more like God.  Remember God created them in "His" image, both male and female.  Had they become one as God intended and commanded, it would have been safe for them to eat of the "forbidden" fruit.  Indeed they would have been told to eat of it.

Your friend seems to be like many others in this world who try to figure out things too much.  The question should not be "Why did this happen to me" but rather "What do I want to do with this situation.' 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2JzHvRgyMg

https://youtu.be/-b54uMl-drA?si=IW9IsDbA30d5STBz

I am still finding areas in my life which I need to surrender to God.

^ Hi Dave,

The Carters were before my time too; but my grandparents had some 78 records of them. I never heard them at their house; but when my Grandmother died, one of my sister's inherited the records and we listened to them. 

I think birds can sense things, like you and the dog weren't a threat.  It may not be Eden, but it's a hint, I think, of how peaceful it was in Eden before the animals started to fear humans.   

Genesis 9:2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

Did Jesus return fully to Eden?  Is there a hint about that when we read he was buried in a garden?  That reminds me of a song; and let me give the Gaither version of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRKi8hGgjWs

^ I never heard that song before, Dave.  Thanks.  I hope you like the Carter Family.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE3kW9-tjO8