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401 | NRSV vs. NASB | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 10559 | ||
Dear Prayon: This will be but a sketchy, non-technical summary of the major differences between the two Bible versions, the NASB and NRSV. Both are considered scholarly and reliable translations and use, for the most part at least, what is called the Critical Text rather than the Textus Receptus. The NASB follows a more literal word-for-word translation philosophy than the NRSV does. One of the characteristics of the NRSV is its use of "gender-neutral" personal pronouns in the texts in which the translators felt that, for example, "he" meant "he or she." This practice often made it necessary to re-cast the sentence, to pluralize singluar pronouns, or to provide some rather awkward substitutions, as in the construction "all men are" becomes "all mortals are."........ Various ratings have been given to translations based on their degree of literalness. I saw one that placed, on a scale from 1 to 10 with 10 being the most literal, the NASB at around 9 and the NRSV at about 6. The Message weighed in at 1 or 2........ The NRSV and its predecessor, the RSV, have traditionally been less favored by conservative Christians than the NASB...... Before I switched to the NASB as my Bible of choice for serious study, I used the RSV. I've never cared much for the NRSV. --Hank | ||||||
402 | Question on spiritual covering? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 10809 | ||
Shannon, maybe someone else can come up with a specific Scripture on this; I can't. But, I think if I were in your shoes, I'd turn the table on your new member and ask her to prove her point. A second idea, why not talk to your pastor and ask his blessing on your ministry to the women's group? --Hank | ||||||
403 | Are you saved? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 11380 | ||
Dear TOFT: While your offer to provide counsel via email would seem most generous, I must agree with my colleagues that the purpose of the study Bible forum is to exchange questions and answers on God's word for the viewing and, one would hope, edification of anyone who visits this web site. Many of us have indeed developed friends on this forum with whom we regularly exchange private emails, but this is a by-product, not the purpose, of the forum. --Hank | ||||||
404 | Acts of God | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 11563 | ||
Glory777, as one who spent 40 years in the insurance industry, I'm quite familiar with the term "acts of God" that is used in the indemnity section of many insurance policies. The term is a legal, not a theological, one, and generally refers to unforseeable and unpreventable losses that are not man-made, such as wind damage for example. From a theological perspective, we who believe in the God of the Bible also believe that He is sovereign over all things. To what extent He may intervene in specific natural disasters, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, etc. I'm not prepared to say, and I'm not sure the Bible reveals this specific information to us. But I'm surely open to instruction if someone else is able to shed more light on this subject than is mine to shed. --Hank | ||||||
405 | The New Jerusalem Bible? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 11595 | ||
Once I owned a copy of the New Jerusalem Bible, didn't like it very much and got rid of it. It has somewhat of a Catholic bias and is less literal than the NASB, using an equivalence translation approach similar to the NIV. --Hank | ||||||
406 | Liberty Savard? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 13247 | ||
Nolan, I know nothing about Liberty Savard and don't pretend to. But I'd use caution about taking the advice of anyone who says use caution when they admittedly know nothing about Liberty Savard either. --Hank | ||||||
407 | how do I read the Bible | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 14572 | ||
NayNay, the answers that Devan and Steve have posted are both excellent, and you would not go astray in using their suggestions. There is one caveat, however, that I feel you should be aware of. In using this forum's resources, be cautious. It contains some postings on certain issues that are not orthodox. In case orthodox as I use it here is not a familiar term to you, it means that some viewpoints given on this forum do not square with generally-accepted views held by the majority of Christian believers. So be careful and if you read something that doesn't seem to be saying what the Bible teaches, ask for help, either from a trusted Christian friend, relative or pastor. An excellent study Bible, by the way, is the NASB Study Bible published by Zondervan. --Hank | ||||||
408 | Who created god? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 14693 | ||
Let's suppose for a moment that some star-gazer in the mountains of Tibet came up with an answer to who created God, and he says that Blob-Blob created God. We would then have to ask, "Then who created Blob-Blob?" And he says, "Well, Bo-Nang created Blob-Blob." And on we go in a never-ending string of questions that can have no final answer..... Thus the question, "Who created God?" is hopeless and self-defeating from the very beginning. The Bible never questions the existence of God and affirms from cover to cover that God is from everlasting to everlasting. I'm not prepared to say that occasional excursions into the realm of imagination about the nature of God constitute idolatry (Children do it all the time and rare is the parent whose child has not asked, "Who made God?" or "Where did God come from?" and the like). I am convinced, however, that any human attempt to define God outside of the book in which God reveals as much of himself as he chose to is an exercise in futility. In my day I've read a considerable amount of philosophy. In none of it have I learned as much about God as the Bible reveals about him...... We are created, and we find it beyond our natural ability really to conceive of and fully understand anything that is not created. We are in a time prison, and we find it equally difficult to grasp the concept of timelessness. We speak of eternal life, but how fully do we really understand the idea of eternity? It has always been a little easier for me to think of eternity as never having an end than to think of it as never having a beginning either -- as with God never having a beginning, as having always existed from everlastig to everlasting. That's more than my finite mind can handle. I can't fully understand it. But I can, and do, fully believe that God is God, eternal, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father. He is sovereign, the Creator and not the created. --Hank | ||||||
409 | why did God not kill Cain? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 15816 | ||
God's Angel: We might pose the same question about King David, for example. Why didn't God kill him after he committed adultery and then murdered the husband of his partner in his sordid affair? Why didn't God bump off Hitler before Hitler murdered millions of Jews (God's chosen people, remember?). Dear Angel, in these matters and in all other matters which the Sovereign Lord has not made us privy to in His eternal word, we ask Why? only in pain of knowing in our heart of hearts that we shall never know this side of heaven, and perhaps not even then. --Hank | ||||||
410 | the tragedies that happen 9/11/01, | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 16979 | ||
Whether the events of terror that were inflicted on the United States last week have any specific biblical reference is a matter that will likely continue to be discussed for days to come. The Christian world view is that God is sovereign and He is in charge of all His creation. We know that Jesus never promised a rose garden in these latter days. On the contrary He spoke of "wars and rumors of wars." The Christian's hope is in Christ, not in the world. We can hope and certainly pray that this tragedy will wake up America and the rest of the world to the realization of how vulnerable and mortal we really are and point us to our need for God in our lives. Evangelist Billy Graham said in his sermon delivered in Washington at the special service held shortly after the terrorist attacks, "This nation needs to turn to God." These events, though tragic beyond belief, do not mean that God is any less in power, any less loving, or any less mindful of the needs of His people. --Hank | ||||||
411 | how would you characterize davids mental | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 17567 | ||
Cher, since no one else yet has attempted to grapple with your question, I'll rush in where my angelic forum friends may have feared to tread :-). Their reluctance may have been occasioned, as is mine, by your use of the term "mental acuity" in regard to the characteristics of David. If by "mental acuity" you mean to inquire about King David's natural intellectual equipment -- his I.Q. if you will -- then I think it would be a fair assumption to say that, in view of what the Bible reveals about him, one could guess that he was rather a bright fellow, albeit perhaps not so bright as his son, Solomon. But the Bible does not seem to place nearly so much importance on "mental acuity" as it does on spiritual discernment, i.e., matters of the heart, of character, of obedience to God. Neither King David nor, later, his son, King Solomon, for all their natural gifts and wisdom, were immune to falling prey to the same lusts of the flesh that are common to all mankind. It was true in their day, and is true still, that no amount of "mental acuity" can save us from sin or deliver us from our sin nature. Only the redemptive act of Christ's shedding of his blood on the cross can do that. So who, in the perspective of God's order of priorities, has the most prized "mental acuity": the "brilliant" Ph.D. professor, cloistered in the ivy halls of academia, who scoffs at the very idea of God -- or the lowly, unlettered laborer who knows Christ and has committed his life to Him? It is our willingness to submit our lives to Christ and to follow Him that defines the only real "mental acuity" that, in the great scheme of things, is worth a row of pins. --Hank | ||||||
412 | Possible Lockman Forum Improvement #1? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 18014 | ||
Dear Sir Pent: Probably not a really workable solution, but thanks for trying. For practical reasons already enumerated, the status quo may prevail for a while yet. Let's look on the bright side, though. If a post is a good one -- they DO exist :-) -- it wouldn't hurt to have it duplicated in case we don't get it all the first time. If we THINK it is a bad post -- oh, they exist too -- a duplicate reading will either convince us that now we KNOW it's bad, or possibly lead us to change our minds about it. As my great-grandfather Papa George used to say, "If you're dealt a lemon, it's better to make a lemonade with it than to turn sour about it." --Hank | ||||||
413 | Why NASB over KJV? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 18523 | ||
How does one answer the arguments for KJV only? My answer, while subjective perhaps, is frankly that I don't feel compelled to answer them at all. When a position is based on such an ungrounded and biased argument as they advance, it's quite useless to engage them in debate. I simply go my way and let them go theirs. --Hank | ||||||
414 | Does God hear all of our prayers? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 19875 | ||
In the sense that God is all-knowing, the answer would have to be "yes" -- he hears them. In the sense that God always answers prayer in the manner we wish, the answer is "no". But prayers are denied (in a sense, they are not heard) to, for example, those who ask amiss (James 4:3); who regard iniquity in their heart (Ps.66:18); who live in sin (John 9:31); who are idolators (Ezek.8:15-18); who are hypocrites (Job 27:8-9). It becomes apparent that the prerequisite to an effective prayer life is maintaining a right relationship with God. Even so, when God hears our prayers, His answer may be something quite different from what we pray for or expect. One of the singular blessings of my prayers is that some of them were't answered in the affirmative. Looking backward I have been able to see why they weren't. God knows more about what is good for Hank than Hank ever did or ever will! --Hank | ||||||
415 | how many books in bible? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 20013 | ||
Mah, I've never felt really comfortable in calling the Bible either an ancient book or a contemporary one. I view it as the word of God and thus eternal. Things eternal can be fixed into no time frame -- not ancient, not modern, not contemporary. Eternal is eternal and to what can we whose life is like the brief flicker of a candle compare it? --Hank | ||||||
416 | spritually empty and love God in min. | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 20705 | ||
Yogi, I'm not sure whether this is meant to be a question and, if it is, what it is. --Hank | ||||||
417 | How do you know you are spiritual dying? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 20707 | ||
Yogi, I wonder whether there is any such reality as "spiritual dying." If one knows Christ, the Bible tells us he has become a new creation and hence is spiritually alive in Him. One who does not know Christ is spiritually dead. The Bible, insofar as I know, does not recognize gradations as would be inherent in the term "spirtual dying." --Hank | ||||||
418 | Should we pray for world peace? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 20712 | ||
Kiss, in all our prayers, it is our burden to acknowledge and be in submission to the sovereignty of the Almighty God, thus ending our every petition with "Thy will be done." Jesus certainly did speak of "wars and rumors of wars" but that does not preclude our being justified to pray that God's "will be done on earth as it is in heaven." There will never be perfect peace on earth so long as sin remains. But we can pray for the peace of God to indwell in our hearts and in His church to keep us from the evil one (John 17:15) and for "the peace of Jerusalem." (Psalm 122:6) --Hank | ||||||
419 | Location of original bible text | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 20811 | ||
There are not, to anyone's knowledge, any original manuscripts (called autographs) of any books of the Bible extant in the world. What we have are copies, and copies of copies, that exist in a number of locations. --Hank | ||||||
420 | 12 tribes of israel - significance | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 20814 | ||
The twelve tribes of Israel were the descendents of Jacob's twelve sons. See Genesis 49. --Hank | ||||||
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