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281 | Where does a person go when they die? | 2 Cor 5:8 | flinkywood | 118741 | ||
Emmaus, Good. It seems that, like the Ethiopian eunuch and the "righteous" of Matthew 25:11:40, whoever respnds to conscience through grace will respond to the Gospel once they hear it. Colin |
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282 | Where does a person go when they die? | 2 Cor 5:8 | flinkywood | 118702 | ||
Hank, I've learned a lot through Emmaus. He's one of several who really hold down the fort. Colin |
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283 | Where does a person go when they die? | 2 Cor 5:8 | flinkywood | 118700 | ||
Emmaus, that sums it up for both of us, then. Could you take a shot at this: "What becomes of those who never hear of Christ or the Gospel, yet strive to live by the Law God has written on their hearts." I had a stab at it the other day (#118430) and would sure appreciate your input. Colin |
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284 | Where does a person go when they die? | 2 Cor 5:8 | flinkywood | 118694 | ||
Emmaus, you post consistently excellent answers and notes on this forum, but I rarely see response to your careful work. Do you sometimes feel ignored in here? Colin |
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285 | textual evidence | Mark 9:49 | flinkywood | 118635 | ||
Because this is a so-called “difficult passage”, this may be a so-called “scribal gloss”. In the days before the photocopier (pre-1950’s), and printing press (1450), scribes (hume beans who copied by hand) made occasional mistakes and would often put corrections in the page margins. Difficulty arose when the margin was also used for explanatory notes or comments (glosses) on the text. You can imagine how a subsequent scribe, charged with re-copying such a glossed text, and thinking it part of the text, might be disinclined to risk omitting it. Mark 9:49 is one in a number of longer “textual variants” that may have germinated in this manner. The example, “...and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt”, seems to expand or explain the meaning of “For every one shall be salted with fire,” and may indeed be such a gloss in light of its cross-reference: “And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt. (Lev 2:13) Here’s a textual note on this passage from “The Jewish New Testament Commentary”: "Salt is used to season (Co 4:5-6) and as a preservative, producing permanence (Matthew 5:13-14). 'It is forbidden to offer any sacrifice without salt' (Rambam, The Commandments, Negative Commandment number 99; see Lev. 2:13); hence it is appropriate for talmidim, who are to offer themselves as living sacrifices (Romans 12:1-2), to be salted with fire. Observant Jews sprinkle salt on bread before reciting the b’rakhah over it (Mt. 14:9); this follows from the rabbinic equating of the home dining table with the temple altar (7:2-4). See Luke 14:34-35." The KJV, LITV, MKJV, NKJV and other translations based on the Textus Receptus (TR) include the second part of Mark 9:49. Colin |
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286 | if Jesus died on Friday and rose Sunday | John | flinkywood | 118517 | ||
Searcher, I had never considered this timetable. Thanks. Colin |
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287 | Did God create the destiny of the devil | Is 45:7 | flinkywood | 118515 | ||
Kalos, that is a very good read. Colin |
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288 | Can Christian's support Caesar's wars? | 2 Cor 10:3 | flinkywood | 118474 | ||
Student(?), you are apparently not a Christian, and by your tone, a juvenile anti-Christian. What you have posted so far is from crank call kindergarten. Begone. Colin |
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289 | Does the OT apply to us as christians? | Bible general Archive 2 | flinkywood | 118471 | ||
The NT in conflict with the OT? Interesting. Colin |
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290 | Does the OT apply to us as christians? | Bible general Archive 2 | flinkywood | 118470 | ||
Rowdy, you might be confusing the OT with the cermonial laws imposed after the apostasy of the golden calf (circumscision, feast days, animal sacrifice, etc.); otherwise, I can't make sense of your assertion that the OT lacks "authority" over us as Christians. 1) Could you please explain (succinctly) what you mean by "authority"? Nearly one-half of all Paul's OT citations are in Romans, and nearly one-half of these deployed authoritatively in Romans 9-11. 2) Can you imagine Paul agreeing with you about the "authority" of the OT? 3) Have you read the OT completely, by the way? Colin |
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291 | NIV bible | Bible general Archive 2 | flinkywood | 118452 | ||
Hank, Untold agony is the untold story of the KJV only-ists. | ||||||
292 | NIV bible | Bible general Archive 2 | flinkywood | 118436 | ||
Hank, it's late, I'm in a tax quagmire, seeing quadruple, and reading your post for comic relief. Your personal translation evolution is a neat, sweet treatise on the whole kit-and-kaboodle. I like that you like the NASB; I like liking it myself. I'm in it all the time. Trustworthy, you bet; I even like the warty awkwardness of it, the way it bangs resolutely down the pitch, cleats and all, clawing it's way through the Psalms, teeth clenched, snorting and groaning, kicking up the mud and grit, aching for the goalpost. It ain't no sissy translation! Man, I gotta get some shuteye Colin |
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293 | unbelievers "saved" what do you think? | Heb 11:1 | flinkywood | 118430 | ||
Fletch, This is a hard one, for sure. Let me quote 2 heavies then hazard a conclusion: “At First God Deemed It Sufficient to Inscribe the Natural Law, or the Decalogue, Upon the Hearts of Men; But Afterwards He Found It Necessary to Bridle, with the Yoke of the Mosaic Law, the Desires of the Jews, Who Were Abusing Their Liberty; And Even to Add Some Special Commands, Because of the Hardness of Their Hearts.” (Iraneus, Against Heretics, Book 3, Ch 15) Recall that Noah, Enoch and Abraham were before the Decalogue. So those were righteous who trusted God and who did what God by grace had inscribed on the hearts of men. “Nor ought it to disturb us that the apostle described them as doing that which is contained in the law "by nature,"--not by the Spirit of God, not by faith, not by grace. For it is the Spirit of grace that does it, in order to restore in us the image of God, in which we were naturally created. Sin, indeed, is contrary to nature, and it is grace that heals it,--on which account the prayer is offered to God, "Be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against Thee." Therefore it is by nature that men do the things which are contained in the law; for they who do not, fail to do so by reason of their sinful defect. In consequence of this sinfulness, the law of God is erased out of their hearts; and therefore, when, the sin being healed, it is written there, the prescriptions of the law are done "by nature,"--not that by nature grace is denied, but rather by grace nature is repaired. For "by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men; in which all have sinned;" wherefore "there is no difference: they all come short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace." By this grace there is written on the renewed inner man that righteousness which sin had blotted out; and this mercy comes upon the human race through our Lord Jesus Christ. "For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus." (St Augustine, A Treatise On The Spirit And The Letter, Chapter 47) Augustine observes that Paul is talking about gentiles who do the Law by nature, not apart from grace, but by nature that is “ restored” and “healed” by God’s grace, His active agency within their responsive hearts. Jesus taught, “If you would enter into life, keep the commandments.” Matthew 19:16-17). The Commandments stand; break one, you break all (James:10-11); therefore it follows that we must follow Christ because he is both the “end of the Law” (Rom 10:14), the Law itself (John 14.6), and also the one who enables us to do it (John 15.5). It seems to follow, therefore, that if one never hears of Christ or the Law yet by God’s grace he follows what God has written on his heart, then he has a solid shot at righteousness and heaven. Colin |
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294 | Can Christian's support Caesar's wars? | 2 Cor 10:3 | flinkywood | 118416 | ||
Student, Are you a JW? You've dodged the question rudely several times. Colin |
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295 | Do we have to earn grace? | Gal 2:21 | flinkywood | 118381 | ||
EdB, Cheap is good! In tape 1 Hahn briefly summarizes the shaky state of NT scholarship around Romans 9-11 by citing "expert" opinion ranging from Pauls' being "confused", to his being more "emotional" than "rational" to the exatent that his argument simply falls apart in a maze of OT citations, etc. The impression I get is that most modern scholarship has been either clueless or exasperated by this intensely labyrinthine passage in Romans. Hahn says he gained insight into he believes is Paul's underlying argument while reading from the early church fathers. Paul, Hahn discovers, far from being confused or irrational, is a genius of OT scripture, which he "deploys" with strategic and forensic brilliance within this particular passage. These tapes really opned up my mind to the bible. The study is way in-depth and more than worth the loot. I'm listening to it again this week. Colin |
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296 | Who were the Christian Humanitarian ? | Matt 25:31 | flinkywood | 118331 | ||
Duly noted, dude. Colin |
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297 | Who were the Christian Humanitarian ? | Matt 25:31 | flinkywood | 118301 | ||
Steve, that is one hard list. I'm copying it anyway. Colin |
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298 | Do we have to earn grace? | Gal 2:21 | flinkywood | 118287 | ||
Yessir: http://www.catholicfamilycatalog.com/scotthahn.htm Colin |
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299 | Do we have to earn grace? | Gal 2:21 | flinkywood | 118275 | ||
EdB, I double-dug his tape study on Romans 9-11, "All Israel Will Be Saved." Colin |
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300 | Do we have to earn grace? | Gal 2:21 | flinkywood | 118268 | ||
Christian doctrine it is, EdB. Have you heard of the Catholic Theologian, Scott Hahn? Emmaus turned me on to him. Colin |
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