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421 | Women vs wearing pants /trousers | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 175077 | ||
Doc, it is my pleasure and privilege to agree with you: I also believe the Deuteronomic passage speaks of what we call 'cross dressing.' And that is largely determined by the conventions of a given society. For example, being a denizen of the Ozark mountains and not a Scottish Highlander, I would look hideous and feel worse wearing kilts. I would be utterly out of syle wearing those colorful skirts here. I have no doubt that it would be looked upon as cross dressing. And I'm very sure my mountain brothers would come after me with sticks and stones. ...... By the way, I don't play the bagpipes either, but that's another story. --Hank | ||||||
422 | Is the Gap Theory Biblical? | Gen 1:2 | Hank | 174975 | ||
kalos, dear friend, it's always a keen pleasure (1) to read your informative and appropriate -- and always soundly scripturally based posts; and (2) to see displayed on SBF a portion of the fruits of the tireless efforts of the folks at the Institute for Creation Research (ICR). Some time ago I had the pleasure of meeting the President of ICR, Dr. John Morris and his wife, Dalta. John is the son of the late Henry Morris, Ph.D., founder of ICR, who wrote the piece you quoted in your post. ..... For our Forum friends who may have a special interest in biblical creationism vs. Darwinian evolution, I fully recommend their website, which is icr.org. One of the many legacies Dr. Henry Morris left behind when God called him to glory a couple of months ago is "The Defender's Study Bible" which I own, enjoy, and recommend to any serious student of God's word. His annotations are excellent throughout, but especially outstanding on the Book of Genesis..... I think most readers of the Forum are thoughtful and careful about what sort of things they fill their minds with and would like to know something about the editor of a study Bible before they invest their time and money in his work. So herewith a brief statement by Dr. Morris himself, taken from the Introduction to "The Defender's Study Bible": "A literalistic approach has been taken, not only in Genesis but throughout the whole Bible. It would seem that, if the Bible is really God's word, intended as His authoritative revelation to all men, we ought to assume He means exactly what He says. If figures of speech or symbols or metaphors are used, they are for the purpose of helping us understand, not confusing us, so they will be explained in the Biblical context itself, not requiring the professional help of specially illumined priests or prophets." ..... In another section of the Introduction, Dr. Morris tells us frankly 'where he's coming from': "Baptist in ecclesiology, pre-millennial in eschatology, non-charismatic in pneumatology and moderately Calvinistic in soteriology." ...... He goes on to say that he has tried to be irenic in his notes, rather than argumentative, in dealing with controversial matters. From what I've seen of his notes in this study Bible and his vast volume of other writing, and from his godly life, Dr. Henry Morris succeeded ever so well. I commend his study Bible and his other works to the readers of SBF. --Hank | ||||||
423 | Do we have to have only one pastor, one | Acts 2:42 | Hank | 174936 | ||
Dear Bereaniam - Many have found themselves in circumstances not unlike yours. I am one of them, having been a member of a church for a great number of years that slowly drifted off into apostasy. A decade ago my wife and I, after much prayer, felt led to quit this church and go to another. And never in our Christian experience have we been so richly blessed as a result of the move. ...... There are no easy answers, but I believe there is one sure answer: prayer. Pray today, pray tomorrow, and keep on praying for God's infallible guidance! Churches left and right are falling away. Cults are springing up like mushrooms, the infamous and heretical Word-of-Faith movement is injecting its venom into many congregations and their leadership, and secular humanism in a myriad of forms is manifesting itself more and more vigorously. The task of finding a church that truly believes the Bible and preaches the gospel of Jesus Christ is becoming increasingly difficult, but by no means impossible. God is sovereign! ....... Not knowing all the details that surround your situation, it would be both fatuous and presumptuous -- and utterly useless -- to attempt to suggest any specific remedy, save this one: "Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: So shalt thou find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths." (Proverbs 3:3-6). ..... And don't forget to pray! --Hank | ||||||
424 | can a woman be pastor of a church | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 174929 | ||
Well, Justme, not meaning to brag on Arkansas weather but, being powerless not to, I'll have to note that we've got Missouri beat, as usual of course. :-) Without revealing the actual temperature, which us folks who live in the Arkansas side of the Ozarks like to keep to ourselves, I'll just say that it's so blooming hot here that yesterday I saw a dog chasing a cat, and both of them were walking. All the best to you and your daughter. --Hank | ||||||
425 | Guidance with couples bible study.. | 1 Pet 3:1 | Hank | 174915 | ||
Hi, Brother Mark - You wrote "Mike Murdock...wants your money." .... I must say 'amen' to that! And it is hoped that readers of this Forum with look before they leap, meaning that they will search the Scriptures before they jump up from their easy chairs and write Mike Murdock a check. And not only Murdock, but a host of these low-life media vampires who ask you to 'name it and claim it,' accompanied by grandiose promises of health and wealth if only their victims will send them some dough. A great deal of the things that are being pumped into your home via TV, radio, and the Internet are nothing but a pack of lies thinly disguised as the gospel of Christ. It is a national scandal, and the only sure way it can be stopped is for people to stop sending these religious mobsters their money. Then perhaps these pontificating parasites would be forced to go out and get a real job and earn an honest living for a change. --Hank | ||||||
426 | can a woman be pastor of a church | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 174859 | ||
"I do support women in ministry." ..Justme. .... What kind of ministry, dear sir? Pastor, teacher, missionary, what? Your statement rather surprised me. Shocked me might be the better description! ..... Fear not. I come not to debate the issue but merely to ask for clarification. --Hank | ||||||
427 | study | Titus | Hank | 174718 | ||
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428 | Genesi 3rd chp. Satan tempt Eve | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 174664 | ||
wisdom 111 - Upon first reading your response to srbaegon's (Steve's) Post 174537, I decided to let it slide. But having read your post again this evening, along with your subsequent remarks, I felt constrained to come forth and vocalize my concerns about your Forum decorum. The warning you issued to Steve, viz., "Be careful in giving an answer, it may come back to haunt you in the future," could have pertained to nothing Steve himself said in his post, inasmuch as all he did was to list two groups of Scripture references pertinent to the question. Are we on Study Bible Forum to infer that we should beware of answering a question by the use of Scripture, lest it somehow have a boomerang effect and "come back to haunt" us? ..... To be quite candid with you, Mr. or Ms. Wisdom, your remarks to Steve make no sense to me and, judging from Steve's response, I'd venture to say they make no sense to him either. I'm not going to ask you again why you said what you said or what you may have meant by it. Steve has already asked you a similar question which you did not answer with anything that helped in the least to clear the matter up -- so I infer that you have no idea why you responded to Steve in such a rude and uncharitable manner, not to mention one that had no basis at all. To ask you again would not be unlike sawing sawdust and I doubt that it would serve any good purpose. ...... So in lieu of rehashing hash, my message to you is this. From now on please see to it that you think through your responses and weigh their potential impact ever so carefully before you commend them to this Forum. Much time spent in the preparation of a post is time well spent, please believe me, and will likely be profitable to you and spare you a heap of trouble. In a word, don't post until you are duly prepared to post; don't say anything unless you are sure of what you are saying. With that, I truly wish you well and will be looking to you in future for posts of a quality that truly represent your very best efforts. --Hank | ||||||
429 | God's eternal purpose | Deut 32:4 | Hank | 174635 | ||
Hi, Mark -- Might we also legitimately ask, "Was Adam's sin of disobedience pleasing to God, since, as one reasonably could infer from some theological systems, it was in accord with God's eternal purpose? Or should we be content to resign ourselves to the incontrovertible reality that there are divine mysteries which remain mysteries, which take the finite mind of man swiftly to the end of its tether? Is it stretching the point to say that some of God's mysteries -- we don't know just what all the mysteries are, or how many there may be -- are not revealed to man this side of eternity? And, for all we know, they may ever remain myseries to us, even beyond the grave. In short, is it reasonable to conclude that man tends to speculate far beyond what is clearly revealed in Scripture? At what point does one cross over the line from searching with humble heart that which is clearly revealed in God's word to presuming to understand that which is not? Something ELSE to think about, no? Blessings. --Hank | ||||||
430 | 'Prophecy from the LORD' | Jer 23:34 | Hank | 174143 | ||
Doc, it's fairly safe to conclude that each generation insists on trying its own hand at re-inventing the wheel. Perhaps a perfect circle (perfect is superfluous) just isn't perfect enough (enough is, of course, superfluous in this construction). And if one is compiling a list of superfluities, he may as well add Scripture to the heap of unnecessaries, for all that it is prized by the modern apostate church. Alas! Shame! What fools we mortals be! --Hank | ||||||
431 | 'Prophecy from the LORD' | Jer 23:34 | Hank | 174135 | ||
Kalos, the more things seem to change, the more they really stay the same! A NEW word from the Lord, a NEW prophecy? A NEW revelation? Nonsense! He deceives himself and others who believes and teaches such a thing. The word of the Lord is not a box of soap or cereal, not a car or TV set where every year sees a new breakthrough, a new style, a new additive or a new flavor -- and the church should stop treating it as if it were. "For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven" (Psalm 119:89). The literal meaning of the passage is that God's word stands firm. ..... What a heresy to seek a new prophecy, a new and special revelation, or guidance from a dream or some other extra-biblical experience! It is a slap in the face of our sovereign God to seek something ever new, ever sensational, and largely ignore His inerrant and plenary revelation of Himself to man, the Scriptures. Be there some for whom 2 Timothy 3:16,17 has no meaning? I fear so. --Hank | ||||||
432 | Holy Living | 1 Thess 4:7 | Hank | 174098 | ||
Eklektos: Is it some form of spiritual myopia that has come over me, or do I detect a trace of mordancy in your response to Doc? ...... How can an explanation of the aims and purposes of Study Bible Forum, such as what Doc gave you, be linked with Christ's problem with the Pharisees? There again, my myopia must be acting up. I don't get it. I don't understand why anyone would want to snap at the hand that was trying to guide and help him. ........ May I kindly suggest, yea, urge you, to assign yourself the lowly task of carefully reading Lockman's exposition of the purpose and design of SBF along with the guidelines the Foundation has laid down. Considerable thought and effort have gone into these directives, and they are not to be taken lightly. It is academic whether Doc spoke for all Forum registrants. He did, however, give you an accurate account of the Forum's raison d'etre, as well as some tips for proper use of the Forum, all of which are fully in accord with the Forum's published guidelines that appear in various side bars under "Resources" at the left of the home page screen. ..... It behooves all of us to pay earnest heed to these guidelines. Knowing and playing by the rules makes the game a heap more fun and tends to keep the referee off one's back. I do hope you take these suggestions in the spirit in which they are given, which is merely to remind us all and keep us reminded of what kind of a Forum this is and of how we are supposed to behave as registrants. ...... A parting word on what the Forum IS NOT. It IS NOT a medium for exchanging anecdotes of perceived special or private revelation, dream sequences, glossolalia experiences, testimonials of being 'slain in the spirit' or any other extra-biblical experiences, doctrines, hunches, convictions, etc. We meet on these pages to study Scripture together, not to bloviate about our special insights and spiritual gifts, or to convert others to our opinions and pet doctrines, or to speak harshly and disparagingly to or about those whose religious convictions may not always mirror our own. "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone." --Hank | ||||||
433 | ... | 1 Cor 12:13 | Hank | 174031 | ||
Dear 777: Without entering the heart of this discourse, for I am not so inclined at this time, please permit me to second Brother Tim's injunction against using such a free and loose paraphrase as "The Message" for serious study. While a paraphrase such as this may, arguably, suffice for "casual" reading of Scripture -- but I have serious misgivings about reading Scripture in a casual manner -- it is not sufficiently transparent of the biblical manuscripts to be very useful for serious Bible study. So much human interpretation and opinion goes into a paraphrase that we really are not getting an accurate representation of what God said but what man thinks God meant. May I recommend a trio of far more literally accurate versions of Scripture in modern English? They are New American Standard Bible (NASB), New King James Version (NKJV) and English Standard Version (ESV). Among the three, the NASB is probably most literally accurate, but all of them are generally considered accurate and trustworthy renditions of Scripture and quite suitable for serious Bible study. I don't mean to play the pedant on translation choices, but it is hoped that you will give consideration to switching to a more literally accurate version for your studies. God bless. --Hank | ||||||
434 | Jesus' Instruction to Nicodemus | John 3:14 | Hank | 173977 | ||
Dear Mark: Thank you for your voluntary withdrawal from a disussion that was potentially both divisive and interminable. Small things have a way of becoming big things on this Forum, and tiny sparks have the capability of igniting an inferno! Thanks, Mark. I'm not surprised by your ready willingness to pull out in an effort to avert ill-will being spread across the pages of this Forum. Your fine attitude encourages me and sets a good example for everyone who uses this Forum. Let's pray that we all of us have the grace and good sense to follow the example you have set forth. --Hank | ||||||
435 | Jesus' Instruction to Nicodemus | John 3:14 | Hank | 173976 | ||
Thanks to you, eklektos, for your decision to pull out of the arena of endless debate, which neither honors our Lord nor fosters unity and peace among His followers. On the contrary, it tends to foster divisiveness, ill-will and dissension to this Forum, all of which are a violation of the Forum's guidelines set down by the Lockman Foundation, which owns the web site that we are privileged to use. Additionally, each and every user agrees to the following statement each and every time he submits a posting: "This post is not submitted as an effort to foster divisiveness, ill-will, dissension or other disruptions to this forum." Thanks again for your gracious willingness to withdraw from the debate and comply with Forum guidelines. --Hank | ||||||
436 | SPURGEON ON CALVINISM | John 3:16 | Hank | 173950 | ||
"I believe, most firmly, in the doctrines commonly called Calvinism, and I hold them to be very fraught with comfort to God's people; but if any man shall say that the preaching of these is the whole of the preaching of the gospel, I am at issue with him. Brethren, you may preach those doctrines as long as you like, and yet fail to preach the gospel; and I will go further, and affirm that some who have even denied those truths, to our great grief, have nevertheless been gospel preachers for all that, and God has saved souls by their ministry ... Preach Christ, young man, if you want to win souls. Preach all the doctrines, too, for the building up of believers, but still the main business is to preach Jesus who came into the world to seek and to save that which was lost. This simple truth, that 'Jesus Christ has come to seek and save that which was lost' and that 'whosoever believeth in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life' must be your jewel, your treasure, your life." - from Sermon #786, 'The Great Mystery of Godliness' by Charles Spurgeon. --Hank | ||||||
437 | SPURGEON ON HYPER-CALVINISM | John 3:16 | Hank | 173949 | ||
"I do not hesitate to say, that Phariseeism is mixed with Hyper-Calvinism more than with any other sect in the world." - Charles Spurgeon, New Park Street Pulpit, Year 1860, #336 - Struggles of Conscience. --Hank | ||||||
438 | Jesus' Instruction to Nicodemus | John 3:14 | Hank | 173947 | ||
You, Doc, have an uncanny way of saying that your correspondents said something that they, in fact, did not say :-) You are saying that I shouldn't come down so hard on the Arminians for asking "those kinds of questions" -- whatever that may mean. Of course, to deny that I came down hard, or soft, or any other way on the Arminians would only trigger more pointless talk, so I opt to take the nearest exit, fold up my tent, and silently steal away. Such foolish argument doesn't set well with this old Ozark mountaineer. We're kinda partial to saying what we mean and meaning what we say. --Hank | ||||||
439 | Jesus' Instruction to Nicodemus | John 3:14 | Hank | 173944 | ||
So, it's deja vu time again. Calvinist A. W. Pink has been called on center stage once more, saying the same things he said back during the infamous Calvinism/Arminianism debates that strapped this Forum for weeks on end a couple of years ago. This question of what "world" meant in John 3:16 was debated and debated and debated, as was whether the Bible writers meant "all" when they wrote "all" or whether they meant something quite different. And what did it accomplish? Did one side convince the other of anything? Were minds changed, hearts lifted, or sinners touched by these protracted debates? No, not to anyone's knowledge they were not. So what were the fruits of the skirmishes? Divisiveness among believers and schism in the Forum, the fallout from which cost this Forum a number of excellent users who left it in those days and have never returned. Dear Forum readers, this condition simply must not be allowed to continue unchecked this go around. Debates and pushing doctrinal biases is forbidden on this Forum and offenders will be brought to the attention of the Forum owner, the Lockman Foundation. One sometimes wonders just why some of the plain and forthright statements of Scripture, such as the beloved John 3:16, must be parsed so severely. Could it be because these clear statements must be parsed and tailored to fit a certain theological system, without which parsing and tailoring the Scriptures themselves would repudiate the system? --Hank | ||||||
440 | Wheels? Why are these important? Meaning | Ezek 1:15 | Hank | 173941 | ||
MJH: I incline to agree with you. --Hank | ||||||
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