8973	Forums / Main Forum / I Love You?	on: June 07, 2006, 09:31:27 PM
I think Jen has a point. There is a difference between being close to someone on the internet and being close to someone in real life. Even men and women  who meet on the internet for building a relationship get to a point where they want to up the closeness and so they schedule a planned meeting. I was thinking about how this would apply about just reading the scripture and where the mystery is say in who the apostle Paul is as in comparison to being in his presence and developing a relationship with him. So maybe it really isnt about the apostle Paul and that necessity of fulfillment by communicating in person. Could the fact that we do not know the author of Hebrews be a statement about focusing on Christ and not the author? So really the encouragement is in knowing that they were only men yet persevered to the end. Then there is the hope of one day meeting some of the great saints in heaven. Granted we will be fully human growing in knowledge as Christ throughout eternity. So there still will be that human element in in glory with this satisfaction. Yet we have our world, our local churches, the people we rub shoulders with every week and sometimes more often. Then there is the giving of oneself in all of this satisfaction in flesh and blood relationships.  Yea, maybe the net fulfills certain itches such as writing something from the heart and then feeling good about that , yet the net only scratches certain itches. Oh well i am tired and am sick.