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421 | The APOCALYPSE CODE. | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 189904 | ||
InGodITrust - Ad hominem attacks are forbidden on Bible Study Forum. Cease this kind of activity at once unless you are looking to be removed from this Forum! | ||||||
422 | Imortant Question of Life Situation 3 | Matt 4:10 | Hank | 189858 | ||
Gothic and emo, both forms of hardcore punk, have been associated with suicide, satanism and other evils which followers of Christ should steer completely clear of. "The one who says he abides in Him (Christ) ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked. Do not love the world nor the things of the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him" (1 John 2:6,15). --Hank | ||||||
423 | Is it a sin to like people unwillingly? | Gen 19:1 | Hank | 189803 | ||
AbuYohan - Thanks for joining the Forum. Please write in standard English however, because shorthand and excessive abbreviations are distracting for most people and make your posts difficult to follow. Tank u 4 ur co-op. --Hank | ||||||
424 | Why the NKJV over the NASB ? | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 189786 | ||
Hi, justme - Comparative sales rankings of the Bible versions tend to shift from time to time and also tend to vary depending on who's doing the ratings. I wandered around the web and found that the NIV still leads the pack. Coming in second, however, was the NKJV, which has apparently edged out the KJV fairly recently, moving the venerable old KJV to third. Coming in fourth was the New Living Translation, then the Holman Christian Standard Bible, and, in sixth place, the NASB Update. Rounding out the top ten, in seventh place was The Message (thumbs down!), followed by New Century Version, English Standard Version and New International Reader's Version. ...... What a change since I was a youth. Back then, the "Top Ten" positions were all held by the King James Bible.:-) It was essentially the only game in town then. ...... Among the current Top Ten, five of them are essentially literal translations and five are paraphrased versions. ...... One possible answer to your question about the surge in sales of the NKJV involves money -- money poured into advertising. Thomas Nelson, publishers of the NKJV, has spent a lot of money on sales promotion, just as Zondervan has on the NIV. ...... I would like to say a few words again on a subject about which I've written several times on this Forum. The NASB has been the object of what I consider unfair and inaccurate criticism concerning its style. It has been called "wooden," a term which a few critics of the NASB have used but don't bother to define what they mean by it. I doubt some of them know what they mean. They're just aping what some other critic said, and he probably didn't know what he was talking about either. But basically, as far as I'm able to put together what a few critics have said about the NASB, they seem to agree that while it's a trustworthy translation that's faithful to the ancient texts, it suffers because in its attempt to be literal it lacks natural English flow and syle. The pre-1995 update rendition was a bit "woody" in spots, I'll admit: some of its locutions were a trifle clumsy, awkward and stilted. But in the Update the team of translators and stylists did a creditable job of making the rough places smooth. It's a fine line to tread between stylistic excellence and translation excellence. The NASB philosophy always has been accuracy first, style second. By contrast, the parihrastic philosophy puts style first. I can't agree with the "wooden" critics, especially since most of them, I'm convinced, don't know good style from bad anyway. I recommend NASB Update without the slightest hesitation. It's possibly the best and most faithful Bible translation we have in modern English today. --Hank | ||||||
425 | Why the NKJV over the NASB ? | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 189782 | ||
InGodITrust - Possibly such a large segment of the modern church and its congregants prefer a watered-down paraphrased version of God's word for the same reason they rally around shallow, fluffy, "feel good" theology and the charlatans who promote it. How far the church has fallen from the sound preaching of Charles Haddon Spurgeon and Jonathan Edwards to the 'name-it-and-claim-it' nonsense exemplified by the TV con artists who want to bilk you out of your money by tricking you into sending them "seed faith." What a pity, what a farce! ..... If you want to see a stark contrast -- and I do mean stark -- between the kind of preaching/teaching people were exposed to in Colonial America and in the religious thought of today, compare Jonathan Edwards' "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" with Joel Osteen's powder puff, "Your Best Life Now." --Hank | ||||||
426 | The APOCALYPSE CODE. | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 189780 | ||
Your apology to kalos saved me from the unpleasant task of reading you the riot act, which I would have too, because your response to my dear brother kalos was both inaccurate and out of line, not to mention hasty and acerbic. John (kalos) is one of the "pioneers" of SBF and has served it admirably for years. He deserved no such treatment from you or anyone else. ..... You make some fine posts and we're happy to have you aboard, believe me. But most of us from time to time are guilty of posting first and thinking later, and need a reminder now and then to guard our words carefully and to make every effort to be as accurate in what we say as we possibly can. God's blessings to you. --Hank | ||||||
427 | Womens Hair in the OT | Song 4:1 | Hank | 189779 | ||
morleyde - Why not use the "Get Bible Text" search engine on the right margin of this page, type in the word hair, and see whether you find what you're looking for? I did and came up with a few verses having to do specifically with women's hair. ..... You might also want to consult a Bible dictionary. I found entries on hair in both Holman's and Harper's. ..... A lovely paean to his bride's exquisite beauty, which included her hair, is found in these words of Solomon: "How beautiful you are, my darling, how beautiful you are! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil; your hair is like a flock of goats that have descended from Mount Gilead." (Song of Solomon 4:1). The imagery here is of hair that is long and flowing, like a flock of goats that blend together in symmetry as they descend from a mountainside. --Hank | ||||||
428 | Help for Christian Wife of Alchoholic | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 189735 | ||
Eileen - In addition to guidance and counsel from one's pastor or a Christian counselor, there are other local resources and organizations available to help families deal with alcoholics within their own family group. Many communites have chapters of Al-anon, an offshot of AA, whose purpose is to address the needs and concerns of family members of an alcoholic. The Bible never teaches that a spouse must submit to violence or abuse. But please insist that this Christian wife that you allude to in your question seek qualified help in her community. I can only imagine what she is going through in her struggles with an alcoholic husband. Unaddressed the problem will remain, and untreated the alcoholism will almost certainly grow worse. This Christian wife and her husband need help! --Hank | ||||||
429 | How old was Matthew when he died? | Amos 1:1 | Hank | 189727 | ||
Tasia - Wow, what a speedy researcher you are! You asked a question at 3:30 and answered your own question at 3:32. The only problem is, are you right? Can you prove by Scripture that death came to Matthew the apostle when he was 60 years old? Nothing specific is required. Just book, chapter and verse will suffice! --Hank | ||||||
430 | explain born 1105bc and died 1015bc | Matthew | Hank | 189691 | ||
elohim7 - Without getting into all the technical business involving the world's calendars, past and present, let's try to simply things by saying that the Advent of Christ is the zero year point between B.C. and A.D. That's not precisely accurate, but it will do for our purposes. There was no designation of B.C. before Christ was born. Various ancient civilizations reckoned time by using different reference points in their history. ...... But back to the explanation of why B.C. dates count down and A.D. dates count up. Using the birth of Christ as a reckoning point between what we call B.C. and A.D., if a person happened to be 30 years old at the time Christ was born (let's call it A.D. 0), then he was born 30 years before Christ or 30 B.C. If he got married when he was 20 years old, he was married in 10 B.C. -- not 50 B.C. And if he died at age 60, that would mean he died in 30 A.D., not 60 A.D. A.D. is the abbreviation for Anno Domini, meaning "in the year of our Lord. B. C. simply means "before Christ." So both designations are ways of reckoning time, with the reference point being the date of Jesus' birth. Most biblical scholars have long believed that Jesus actually may have been born in 3 or 4 B.C., but no one knows His exact date of birth. But I promised not to get into the technicalities of calendars and such, so I'll leave it as is in hopes that it helps more than confuses. --Hank | ||||||
431 | Am I still Married "in God's eyes"? | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 189673 | ||
ChristianMom123 - Your post ends with the question, "What should I do?" ..... Even though there is little doubt that a number of registrants and readers of his Forum emphathize with your situation and would like to help, the reality is that there are only three things that members of this Forum can do for you. The first is to pray for you and your family. The second is to urge you to seek counsel from your pastor or other qualifed Christian counselor. The third is to attempt to diagnose your situation on this web site and give you a lot of confusing and conflicting advice, without having ever met you or your estranged husband, and knowing absolutely nothing about your situation except the meager sketch you gave in your question. ....... I BELIEVE that your post will indeed evoke the prayers of many Christian readers of these pages. I RECOMMEND that you seek personal counsel in your church or community. And I strong URGE you not to seek resolution of your complex problem on this or any other web site. ...... We are a Forum dedicated to the study of the Bible, but we are not set up to give specific, personal, one-on-one counsel. On any public forum you are likely to get all kinds of advice, some of it -- maybe most of it -- bad. And bad advice is worse than no advice at all! .... So, please, seek help from qualified folks in your community. Don't let this thing drag on. For your sake, the man's sake, and above all, your children's sake, seek local help. And I'll be praying for you and feel sure others on the Forum will too. God be with you. --Hank | ||||||
432 | questions for habakkuk chapter3:1-19 | Hab 3:1 | Hank | 189651 | ||
aim - Thanks for your post. May I suggest that you read this lovely prayer (psalm) of the prophet Habakkuk, saturate your mind and spirit with it, and reflect upon its message, meaning and purpose. Preparatory to your study of Chapter 3, however, it would no doubt be helpful to read the chapters that precede it. Then, based on your prayerful study, prepare your questions, but be careful that they are the kinds of questions that can be answered from the text -- either within the context of Chapter 3 or the expanded context of Habakkuk's little book, or elsewhere in Scripture. I wouldn't recommend questions that call for wild guesses, pure opinion or speculation. The more profound your understanding of the chapter is, the better your questions will tend to be. --Hank | ||||||
433 | Why was Judah the chosen tribe? | Gen 49:10 | Hank | 189633 | ||
Hi, Doc - You ask, "Where in Scripture do we find God's choosing of any individual based on merit?" The Book of Hezekiah, perhaps; or maybe 2 Barnacles? :-) ....... Thanks be to God that He does not choose us, not any of us, on the basis of our merit! --Hank | ||||||
434 | Updated version changes list | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 189593 | ||
chimney - I know of no such list. You might try contacting the translators/publishers at nasb@lockman.org. Or, if you were willing to invest considerable time and effort, you could make a line-by-line visual comparison between the old and the new renditions. --Hank | ||||||
435 | How many Jesus do we have in the Bible? | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 189591 | ||
Duplicate question. | ||||||
436 | when a I saved and when baptised | Rom 10:9 | Hank | 189533 | ||
Aspiring Overseer - You posted, "Christian baptism is unquestionably a commandment of God." Yes, Scripture teaches that, and I nodded my head in agreement as I read this segment of your post. ..... But you continued with, "and must be obeyed for salvation." Well, AO, my vertical nod of assent rapidly changed to a horizontal shake of the head in disagreement. "Thou shalt not steal" is a commandment of God also. But if I obey that commandment by refraining from stealing, will that save me? Friend, I don't hold to baptismal regeneration because Scripture teaches salvation by grace alone by faith alone in Christ alone. The Scriptures you cited, ostensibly to prove the validity of baptismal regeneration, fail to say what you appear to imply that they say. The hour is late and I intend to labor the point no more, especially not at this hour to to stage a full remonstrance to your argument on behalf of baptismal regeneration, but to close this post with a summary statement, as follows: The Bible teaches that salvation is by God's grace alone, effected on the sole basis of the redemption of Jesus Christ. It is on the merit of His shed blood, His finished work on the cross, and not on the basis of human merit or works. Cf. John 1:12; Ephesdians 1:4-7; 2:8-10; 1 Peter 1:18,19. ...... I make this post in keen awareness of this subject having been treated of many times before on SBF, but with no intent at all to commence a debate on it, which always has a tendency to become heated, divisive, and ends up being counter-productive, benefitting no one. Thus, let those who wish to read more on the subject utilize the Search engine, and let's the rest of us move on to other topics. Thanks, AO, for revisiting SBF again after some time of absence. Blessings to you. --Hank | ||||||
437 | Trinity? | Matt 28:19 | Hank | 189452 | ||
Dear Jesusman - How nice to have you back after an absence of more than a year. Don't stay away so long, please. We miss you! ..... Nice post, too. The idea you offered of God needing a psychiatrist if the doctrine of His triunity is bogus -- which, we agree, it isn't -- is a humorous and imaginative way to illustrate the sine qua non of the doctrine of the Trinity. And indeed, as you are careful to point out, there really are no other doctrines but the triunity of God that square with Scripture. Thanks for your post and, again, welcome back. --Hank | ||||||
438 | Trinity? | Matt 28:19 | Hank | 189436 | ||
UncleCnn: Thanks for your question on the Triunity (Trinity). What follows is a succinct glossary entry on the Trionity taken from "The Believer's Study Bible," Thomas Nelson, Publishers: "Triunity (Trinity). The distinctive and essential Christian doctrine that there is one God in three Persons. The Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God. There is a distinction between the Persons so that the Father is not the Son, the Father is not the Spirit, and the Son is not the Spirit. Each is a Person. The Holy Spirit is not to be envisioned as a mere force or influence." ...... In Matthew 3:16,17, the Trinity is clearly evident at the baptism of Jesus. --Hank | ||||||
439 | Why do we honor God? | Psalm | Hank | 189376 | ||
Dear Allison (luvsoccer) - The naked truth is that the world does not honor God. The world hates the Son of God (John 7:7) who alone is the sole means of salvation (Acts 4:12). ...... I don't know how to answer your second question, "What has He (God) done to make us so keen to know him?" without quoting the entire Bible verbatim in this post! But that's a physical impossibility, isn't it? So let's just begin right where the Bible begins and consider the first statement that the word of God makes. I like to think of it as the introduction of the Mighty God to His creation, the very first revelation God makes of Himself to mankind: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1). This revelation alone is reason aplenty to be keen to know Him, isn't it. And that majestic verse that Azure gave you, John 3:16! O, what an impelling reason it gives for us mortals to know our God, our Creator, our Loving Savior! He who loved us in such an incomparable way that He was willing to give His one and only Son, Messiah, the Christ, the Savior, so that we would not perish in our sins but have eternal life with Him. Read the Bible, dear questioner. Read, mark, learn and inwardly digest all the mighty acts of God, and see how many reasons you can find why you should be keen to know Him! May your search be fruitful and your soul blessed. --Hank | ||||||
440 | reason for update? | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 189367 | ||
greatscott - Who but the Lockman Foundation, translator and publisher of the NASB 1995 Update, is better equipped to answer your question? Please go to http://www.lockman.org/nasb/ ...... You are aware that the Foundation sponsors this Study Bible Forum, I presume. --Hank | ||||||
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