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#Post#: 6577--------------------------------------------------
Salvation by Onion
DIR By: guest55
Date: June 23, 2019, 10:47 am
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"The Parable of the Onion" in Dostoyevsky's, "The Brothers
Karamazov." Is a perfect example of what legalism does to a
person. I know very well because I was once there. It turns your
eyes away from Jesus and to yourself, it destroys your peace and
ruins your eternal security. The story goes something like this.
Once upon a time there was an old legalist woman who had died
and found herself in hell. She complained to Satan that her
assignment to the netherworld was a mistake.
Satan told her, "You've been a greedy, selfish woman all your
life. Surely, this is where you belong."
No said the woman I kept all of the commandments and told
everyone off that didn't do as I said.
Yea, said the devil, but to whom did you do good deeds of
kindness?
The legalist puzzled over this for a long time and after several
minutes she exclaimed, "Aha! I did a good deed once! I gave an
onion to a beggar."
Satan replied, "Oh, yes. That is right. You pulled an onion out
of the ground when you were caring for your garden and threw it
at the old man (bulb, stalk, and all)and said, "get lost you old
drunk!"
At that very moment, God's hand descended into hell, holding the
onion out for the legalist to grasp. Holding onto the onion with
both hands, the woman found herself miraculously being pulled up
and out of hell.
As she rose, to the woman's horror, dozens of people began to
grasp at her legs and ankles, and as they were pulled up along
with her, yet more people grasped onto the lower-most people's
own legs and ankles, until it seemed that the bowels of hell
clung like an endless chain from a single woman's body and the
onion to which she clung.
Though there was great weight tethered to the onion, the
connection remained secure and God's hand continued to lift
everyone up out of hell. Remarkably, the onion held; it did not
fray.
More and more people who had previously been doomed for eternity
found themselves slowly, miraculously, being raised from hell by
way of the woman's firm grasp on the onion. There were soon
thousands, and after several minutes millions of people hanging
from the onion.
Yet the onion held fast.
Halfway to heaven, which is a long distance up from hell, the
woman looked down at the vast human chain following her.
She was angry and resentful that these people -- who had never
kept the commandments like she did -- should be so easily
redeemed by virtue of simply clinging to her spindly old legs.
She was also afraid, and so exclaimed in a great shout, "If all
of you sinners grab on to me like this, the onion will surely
break and I will not get to heaven!"
So, resolving not to allow anyone to harm her chances for
redemption, the woman began to kick and smash the people hanging
from her legs and ankles and toes. One by one as she struck them
they fell, with each loss of a handhold causing tens of
thousands of people to plunge back into hell.
But with each kick -- though the physical load grew lighter --
the onion began to fray. And as the onion frayed, the woman, in
her anger and haste, began to kick more ferociously still,
thinking that it was the weight of hell's denizens -- and not
her anger and selfishness -- that tore at the onion.
She kicked until but one person remained clinging to her left
big toe, with yet another endless chain of people dangling from
him. Millions of people hung from that precious, single toe.
Still, the onion held though it was severely frayed. But the
woman couldn't bear the risk of losing her only chance to join
God in heaven, so she kicked at the last remaining person; and
as the person lost his grip, the onion snapped, and the selfish
old legalist-- fell from a great height, having made it almost
all the way to heaven -- fell back into hell.
That was me and where I was headed until God reached His hand
into hell and grasped mine and pulled me out. Now It will be a
joy and a privileged to have as many as God wills clinging to my
legs as we rise higher and higher.
#Post#: 15831--------------------------------------------------
Re: Salvation by Onion
DIR By: patrick jane
Date: August 4, 2020, 1:33 pm
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red onion
#Post#: 17798--------------------------------------------------
Re: Salvation by Onion
DIR By: patrick jane
Date: September 21, 2020, 3:50 pm
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> red onion
>
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Onyoan
#Post#: 18702--------------------------------------------------
Re: Salvation by Onion
DIR By: patrick jane
Date: October 11, 2020, 10:09 am
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--- Quote from: patrick jane link ---
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> [quote author=patrick jane link=topic=557.msg15831#msg15831
date=1596565992]
> red onion
>
--- End Quote ---
Onyoan
[/quote] ;D
#Post#: 18873--------------------------------------------------
Re: Salvation by Onion
DIR By: patrick jane
Date: October 14, 2020, 4:05 pm
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--- Quote from: patrick jane link ---
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> [quote author=patrick jane link=topic=557.msg17798#msg17798
date=1600721434]
> [quote author=patrick jane link=topic=557.msg15831#msg15831
date=1596565992]
> red onion
>
--- End Quote ---
Onyoan
[/quote] ;D
[/quote]GA?
#Post#: 18978--------------------------------------------------
Re: Salvation by Onion
DIR By: patrick jane
Date: October 16, 2020, 8:53 am
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--- Quote from: patrick jane link ---
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> [quote author=patrick jane link=topic=557.msg18702#msg18702
date=1602428989]
> [quote author=patrick jane link=topic=557.msg17798#msg17798
date=1600721434]
> [quote author=patrick jane link=topic=557.msg15831#msg15831
date=1596565992]
> red onion
>
--- End Quote ---
Onyoan
[/quote] ;D
[/quote]GA?
[/quote]potato?
#Post#: 19059--------------------------------------------------
Re: Salvation by Onion
DIR By: guest73
Date: October 18, 2020, 8:52 am
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--- Quote from: patrick jane link ---
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> [quote author=patrick jane link=topic=557.msg18873#msg18873
date=1602709546]
> [quote author=patrick jane link=topic=557.msg18702#msg18702
date=1602428989]
> [quote author=patrick jane link=topic=557.msg17798#msg17798
date=1600721434]
> [quote author=patrick jane link=topic=557.msg15831#msg15831
date=1596565992]
> red onion
>
--- End Quote ---
Onyoan
[/quote] ;D
[/quote]GA?
[/quote]potato?
[/quote]Corn?
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