and yes...I have read the Bible...I even studied it in college and considered minor or majoring in theology...
I believe that the Bible was inspired by the Word of God and translated by man. Man is fallable (sorry about the spelling.) The different translations of the Bible (even from different languages) obviously lends itself to easy misinterpretation.
I believe that God wants certain things for us. Our free will, our greatest gift, gets in our own darn way sometimes. Because of this, our path sometimes changes. God's plan for us doesn't but because we are on a different path, God adjusts the route we must take.
I believe that God's greatest commandment is to love one another as He has loved us. However we feel compelled to show that love will come to us from God.
Your belief is that God is instructing you to stand forever I do not claim to know what God is telling you
I only ask that you not become so enamoured of your own voice and your own interpretation that you forget to listen to God (not even REMOTELY suggesting that YOU are...I am simply stating that while you have been called to stand, many other are not given that same message by the same God)
I guess, I am just offering another way to look at things.
