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Believer Posted 19 years ago
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00 I was reading a book named 'The Purpose Driven Life' by Rick Warren and in the Day 4 reading, under the heading of 'Made to Last Forever', it started like this: 02 br
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00 This life is not all there is. 02 br
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00 Life on earth is just 01 u 00 the 02 u 00 dress rehearsal before 01 u 00 the 02 u 00 real production. You will spend far more time on the other side fo death -- in eternity -- than you will here. Earth is 01 u 00 the 02 u 00 staging area, 01 u 00 the 02 u 00 preschool, 01 u 00 the 02 u 00 tryout for your life in eternity. It is 01 u 00 the 02 u 00 practice workout before 01 u 00 the 02 u 00 actual game; 01 u 00 the 02 u 00 warm-up lap before 01 u 00 the 02 u 00 race begins. 02 br
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00 I think the reason why 'thes' are there is because Mr. Warren is making his points in a general way using nouns with a definite noun 'the' to cover those in a general way, but this explanation of mine doesn't seem to hold the water when the test time comes. Do you have a better explanation or the right explanation as the case might be? 0-
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00 I was reading a book named 'The Purpose Driven Life' by Rick Warren and in the Day 4 reading, under the heading of 'Made to Last Forever', it started like this: 02 br
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00 This life is not all there is. 02 br
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00 Life on earth is just 01 u 00 the 02 u 00 dress rehearsal before 01 u 00 the 02 u 00 real production. You will spend far more time on the other side fo death -- in eternity -- than you will here. Earth is 01 u 00 the 02 u 00 staging area, 01 u 00 the 02 u 00 preschool, 01 u 00 the 02 u 00 tryout for your life in eternity. It is 01 u 00 the 02 u 00 practice workout before 01 u 00 the 02 u 00 actual game; 01 u 00 the 02 u 00 warm-up lap before 01 u 00 the 02 u 00 race begins. 02 br
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00 I think the reason why 'thes' are there is because Mr. Warren is making his points in a general way using nouns with a definite noun 'the' to cover those in a general way, but this explanation of mine doesn't seem to hold the water when the test time comes. Do you have a better explanation or the right explanation as the case might be? 0-
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12 br 12 br 10 Life on earth is just 11 u 10 the 12 u 10 dress rehearsal before 11 u 10 the 12 u 10 real production. You will spend far more time on the other side fo death -- in eternity -- than you will here. Earth is 11 u 10 the 12 u 10 staging area, 11 u 10 the 12 u 10 preschool, 11 u 10 the 12 u 10 tryout for your life in eternity.
- 12 br 12 br 10 Life on earth is just 11 u 10 the 12 u 10 dress rehearsal before 11 u 10 the 12 u 10 real production.
- You will spend far more time on the other side fo death -- in eternity -- than you will here.
- Earth is 11 u 10 the 12 u 10 staging area, 11 u 10 the 12 u 10 preschool, 11 u 10 the 12 u 10 tryout for your life in eternity.
- 12 br 12 br 10 I think the reason why 'thes' are there is because Mr.
- Warren is making his points in a general way using nouns with a definite noun 'the' to cover those in a general way, but this explanation of mine doesn't seem to hold the water when the test time comes.
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01 cite 10 Believer 12 cite 10 Hi, 12 br
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10 I was reading a book named 'The Purpose Driven Life' by Rick Warren and in the Day 4 reading, under the heading of 'Made to Last Forever', it started like this: 12 br
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10 This life is not all there is. 12 br
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10 Life on earth is just 1
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0 He is being specific. This is a Christian book. He really does believe that this life is merely the less important stage before the really important after-life. 0-
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Thank you, Philip.
Where do you think 'a specific sense' is originated from?
As vague as it seems as to me, what Nona said "He really does believe that this life is merely the less important stage before the really important after-life."??
The mere fact that he believes in that is enough to warrant the use of 'thes' in all those place?
Where do you think 'a specific sense' is originated from?
As vague as it seems as to me, what Nona said "He really does believe that this life is merely the less important stage before the really important after-life."??
The mere fact that he believes in that is enough to warrant the use of 'thes' in all those place?
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BelieverThank you, Philip.
Where do you think 'a specific sense' is originated from?
As vague as it seems as to me, what Nona said "He really does believe that this life is merely the less important stage before the really important after-life."??
The mere fact that he believes in that is enough to warrant the use of 'thes' in all those place?
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Thank you, Philip and Nona.
Basically I don't have much disagreement with his point of assertion. I am curious why he used the articles as he did when normally an article 'a' would be good for all those places underlined.
Then I thought he might be doing it (I mean 'putting the article 'thes' in all the places underlined) 1)because he is doing the sort of defining (similar to def
Basically I don't have much disagreement with his point of assertion. I am curious why he used the articles as he did when normally an article 'a' would be good for all those places underlined.
Then I thought he might be doing it (I mean 'putting the article 'thes' in all the places underlined) 1)because he is doing the sort of defining (similar to def
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If he'd used 'a' then he would be saying that there are other lives, other earths, other staging areas etc. This is not what he believes. As far as he (and probably most other people) is concerned, this is the one and only.
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