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—speak, perform no labor, and live like the birds and flowers in the field; letting the "little bird" do the worrying; and believing that giving means receiving a hundredfold in return, and so forth.

Likewise, one would have to turn God into a fickle, changeable human being Franck is arguing that a literal reading of God's "regret" or "anger" in the Bible contradicts the divine nature of immutability.. In short, with the letter original: "Buchstaben," referring to the literal text without spiritual insight. of the law, the Pharisees (who were stuffed full of that very letter) struck Christ to death. They did so because he taught and lived against the letter—though not against the true meaning—of the Scripture.

He spoke and acted against the temple, the Law, and circumcision; he broke the Law; he called the Cross and death a blessing; and conversely, he called good fortune a misfortune, which contradicts the literal word of Scripture in Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28 The original text cites Deuteronomy 26, but the context of "blessings and curses" refers to chapter 28.. He acted against the examples of Lot and Abraham. In summary, his entire Gospel, his course of life, and his testament is—