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161 | What about Christians swearing? | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 97041 | ||
Darcy - I quite agree with you. The language of the gutter ought not to be the language of the Christian. It is entirely possible to use demeaning and offensive speech that, while it may fall short of profanity, is nevertheless unbecoming to a child of God. Our Lord said, "But I say unto you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment." And the third chapter of James warns about the untamable tongue. --Hank | ||||||
162 | What about Christians swearing? | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 97042 | ||
Darcy - I quite agree with you. The language of the gutter ought not to be the language of the Christian. It is entirely possible to use demeaning and offensive speech that, while it may fall short of profanity, is nevertheless unbecoming to a child of God. Our Lord said, "But I say unto you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment." And the third chapter of James warns about the untamable tongue. --Hank | ||||||
163 | What about Christians swearing? | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 97046 | ||
Darcy - Jesus wasn't giving a lesson in grammar when He spoke of "every idle word" in Matthew 12:36. The context makes it clear that He was speaking of infractions against God's holiness. ..... We must not confuse Jesus' meaning with the usage of vulgar language in the sense of its original definition, which is simply the language of the common people. "Vulgar" comes from a Latin root word meaning "mob, common people, or group." ...... As for the usage of "ain't": While it is more common in less educated speech, at all levels of education it is used deliberately to catch attention or for emphasis, both in speech and in writing. Although purists still scorn its usage, it is no longer considered slang. And "ain't" has nothing at all to do with Jesus' meaning of "every idle word." --Hank | ||||||
164 | Jesus name of the Father, Son and H/Ghos | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 97187 | ||
cajam - Of course, "experiential" theology proves nothing unless it is solidly founded on Scripture. [See 2 Timothy 3:16]. ..... In whose name were you baptized in the Baptist church as a young adult? As far as I know, Baptists have always baptized in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Assuming you were baptized the same way in the Baptist church you allude to, why was that baptism insufficient for you? Why did you need to be baptised again in the name of Jesus only? Do you deny Matthew 28:19,20? ..... And you say that about a month subsequent to your second water baptism in the name of Jesus only, God filled you with the Holy Ghost. Describe your experience and tell me why the filling of the Holy Spirit came a month or so after your Jesus-only baptism. ..... Scripture teaches that the indwelling of the Holy Spirit occurs simulaneous with regeneration. When were you regenerated -- at some point before your first "Baptist" baptism or at the time of it, or at some later time when you became involved with the Apostolic Pentecostal Church? What in your theological system constitutes spiritual regeneration, or the new birth? I don't want to read vague and evasive answers to these questions based on nothing more than your spiritual "experiences" and opinions. Give us clear and solid biblical references in their proper context that teach what you believe and teach. Lacking positive scriptural support, any experiences you describe and any beliefs you promulgate on the pages of this forum are no more reliable than the run-of-the-mill super-market tabloids. Unless you are now able to defend your faith on solid scriptural doctrine, my advice to you is that you stop posting on this forum until you can. --Hank | ||||||
165 | WHERE WAS ADAM WHEN EVE WAS TRICKED | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 97230 | ||
Mommapbs - Thanks, dear heart, glad you like the answer. I really don't think anything would have turned out to be any fundamentally different had Adam chomped on the "apple" first: it would still be a fallen world. Adam could have blamed the serpent and Eve could have blamed her husband, of course, and that might make my wife happier :-), but it wouldn't have changed the course of human history very much. --Hank | ||||||
166 | Jesus name of the Father, Son and H/Ghos | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 97246 | ||
cajam - Could it be that you and others of your feather don't fully understand the Triunity of God? And could it be that since you don't fully understand the Triune God, you and others of like mind invent a way of viewing the nature of God that you think is easier to understand? ..... Well, I've believed in the scriptural doctrine of the Trinity for more than 50 years, and I don't presume to understand it fully. Nor have I ever met a Trinitarian who does. But we believe it, we accept it on the solid ground of faith because that is what the Bible teaches. The criterion for accepting a doctrine has never been whether we understand it fully but whether it is scriptural. The orthodox Christian doctrine of the Trinity, one God in three Persons, is wholly scriptural and therefore I accept it fully and believe it wholeheartedly. Go thou and do likewise! --Hank | ||||||
167 | Jesus name of the Father, Son and H/Ghos | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 97254 | ||
cajam - Thank you for the information that you are a member of the Apostolic Pentecostal denomination. It helps me, knowing the beliefs of that denomination, the better to understand where you are "coming from" so to speak. ....... Three of the more important doctrines of the Apostolic Pentecostals that I have a problem with are their views on the [1] Trinity, [2] Water Baptism, and [3] Baptism of the Holy Spirit. ...... [1] Trinity. What Apostolic Pentecostals teach is nothing more nor less than modalism. I embrace the "Baptist Faith and Message" of the Southern Baptist Convention. We teach 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. .......[2] Water Baptism. Apostolic Pentecostals teach baptismal regeneration. We teach salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. We teach baptism by immersion in water of the regenerate believer as testimony of the believer's obedience to the command of Christ and a witness to salvation. Water baptism by immersion fulfills the symbolism: pointing back in history to the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. We teach that water baptism neither saves nor contributes to salvation in any way. ....... [3] Baptism of the Holy Spirit -- or Holy Ghost, as Apostolic Pentencostals seem to prefer to call it -- as they define it involves the ecstatic experience of "speaking in tongues" and is a sign of holiness or sanctification. We teach that the baptism of the Holy Spirit is a term used in reference to the coming of the Holy Spirit into the life of every truly regenerate believer at the point of regeneration (1 Cor. 12:13) and is not evidenced by outward signs or ecstatic speech. ..... I cite these three points, or articles, of faith and juxtapose the Apostolic Pentecostal positions on them alongside those of my own communion, not to invite division or debate, but for reference so that readers may know, and knowing, may compare with Scripture which of the two doctrinal positions more nearly reflects Christian orthodoxy. --Hank | ||||||
168 | Informed opinions of the ESV please? | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 97940 | ||
newoldstock - An excellent and thoughtful response on the ESV. I own an inexpensive copy of this Bible and have read a fair sampling of it. What I've seen I've liked and would probably read it more if the page was more inviting. By that I mean, the print is rather too small and cramped for my liking and reading comfort. Have you tried the Holman Christian Standard Bible? Only the NT has been published thus far; the full Bible is scheduled soon I believe. It will be interesting to see how the ESV and HCSB do in competition with each other. Perhaps never again will any translation attain the wide acceptance that the KJV has enjoyed for centuries. These days there are simply too many horses in the race and several of them are good enough to win. Have you (has anyone) heard anything to confirm the chatter that Thomas Nelson may have a new revision of the NKJV in the oven? It's about time, I suppose. It's been two decades since the NKJV made its debut, and it seems no Bible publisher can wait longer than that to cook up a "more accurate, more readable" edition than has ever rolled off the press in the long and distinguished history of Bible translations into the English tongue. It's an exciting time in the Bible translation arena but an exhausting and expensive one for Bible readers. Exhausting just to keep up with what's going on in this busy field. Expensive just to equip oneself with copies of all the latest editions. If I had the money I've spent on Bibles the last decade or so, I have no doubt that I could treat my wife and myself to a fine Mediterranean cruise. :-) --Hank | ||||||
169 | Informed opinions of the ESV please? | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 98062 | ||
The ESV team, chaired by J. I. Packer, used the RSV as a base and, in Packer's words "tightened it up" to produce the ESV. The ESV is not an entirely new translation, since only 8 per cent of it has been changed from the original renderings of the RSV, thus leaving a full 92 per cent of it the language of the RSV. But this is not to take away any merit from the ESV. The RSV was and still is a fine scholarly translation whose chief flaw was, in the eyes of many evangelicals, a tendency to take a liberal interpretative view of certain passages of Scripture, e.g., Isaiah 7:14. The ESV, as did the RSV, follows in the long and respected traditional style of the KJV and its predecessors, so that even in so modern a version as the ESV, admirers of the majestic language of the KJV will feel a certain sense of being at home with the ESV. It's a fine version, perhaps overall the finest of all modern versions. It stands in sharp contrast to the many so-so versions that clamor for our attention and vie for our dollar. --Hank | ||||||
170 | Informed opinions of the ESV please? | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 98173 | ||
newoldstock - My two-cents' worth is that a Bible version should never be a source of division or contention among God's people. And here I use "Bible version" in the sense of its being a legitimate translation of Scripture, not a deliberate perversion of it. The absurd claims of the King James Only-ists should be enough to teach us the unwisdom of being rigidly inflexible in the matter of Bible translations. --Hank | ||||||
171 | Bible Support Gender-Inclusive Language? | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 98481 | ||
Makarios - Wow, that was better stuff than what old Uncle Sipe who lives over the hill from me here in the Ozarks has ever said (He can't write yet). ..... An entry from Hank's Unabashed Dictionary of Misleading Expressions: "Dynamic Equivalence, a catch-all phrase used by certain Bible translators meaning 'what we think the original author meant by what he said' -- or 'what we would like for him to have meant by what he said.' :-) ..... Good post, little brother. --Hank | ||||||
172 | Can Monkeys Write Psalm 23? | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 98488 | ||
shalor - ROFL! That's hilarious. Perhaps the monkeys should not attempt the 23rd Psalm in the King James. No doubt one of the watered-down Dynamic Equivalences would be easier for them! Oh, I rue the depletion of the world's banana supply. My favorite fruit, the banana. But please don't ask me about my ancestors :-) --Hank | ||||||
173 | Endorsing the TNIV, how can this be? | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 99963 | ||
Justme - In physical health, I'm doing just fine -- good report from my cardiologist on my six-month evaluation last week. .... Now I must tell you I'm undergoing a self-evaluation of my usefulness to the Forum and have thoughts of pulling out. I think everyone has a limit on how much in-fighting and bickering he can expose himself to without himself becoming cynical, bitter, and un-Christian in his thoughts and attitudes. I've seen a great deal of frustration, anger, and even animosity on this Forum and it disturbs me. It seems that by and large I've contributed very little to the solution of the Forum's problems and fear that in some ways I may have, in an effort to try to help solve some of the Forum's problems, inadvertently exacerbated them. ..... It is shameful when Christians come to believe so zealously in their own denominational orientation that they mistake it for the gospel of Christ. This is why Lockman put the ban on pushing denominational bias and debating. But even now the arguments go on, harmony does not prevail on the Forum, and I see precious little evidence of brotherly love and compassion being displayed on the pages of this Forum. I'm getting on in years, justme, and the time draws nearer when I can say I have (to a pitiful degree) fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. Forums like this come and go. The fights fought here on petty differences of the faith and the opinions expressed here in the heat of those battles will wither as the grass and fade as the flower. But the word of our Lord will stand forever. It's Him and His word we should lift up on this Forum, not our worthless and puny opinions, not our denominational biases, not trying to win a point in some silly debating contest. .... God bless you, justme. Your kind spirit is refreshing to me. --Hank | ||||||
174 | what type of book is the bible, research | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 100505 | ||
There is, Aixen, a fine little story revelatory of the heart and mind of noted Scottish author Sir Walter Scott as he lay on his bed, his vitality ebbing away as death waited in the wing to claim him. Said the inventor of the historical novel and its greatest practitioner to his son-in-law, John Lockhart, "Read to me from the book." The son-in-law asked, "Sir Walter, from which of your many fine novels shall I read?" Scott replied, "Son, there is only one Book. Read to me from the Bible." --Hank | ||||||
175 | Where do I find Paul's death in Rome? | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 100517 | ||
Aixen - While I expect few Christians would doubt that extra-biblical, i.e., secular, historical sources have some value, virtually none of them would ascribe to any of them the reliability of canonical Scripture. It isn't always easy in reading history, ancient or modern, to separate fact from fancy, specifics from speculation, or truth from tradition. Not all historians are as generous to their readers as Herodotus was in the fifth century B.C. He took care to keep separate what he knew by his own observation from what he merely inferred and from what he had been told. He was candid to acknowledge ignorance and when versions differed he gave both. ..... I can see no harm in reading secular accounts of the death of Paul or of other historical events connected to, but not revealed in, the biblical record so long as one keeps the faithful grain of salt by his book and uses it judiciously as the occasion demands. But to broadly paraphrase 2 Timothy 2:15, he should always make sure he rightly divides the secular from the sacred and never confuses the twain in his own mind nor teach as Scripture what he learned solely from his secular readings. --Hank | ||||||
176 | Where do I find Paul's death in Rome? | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 100527 | ||
Aixen - I like you, I like what you say and how you say it! And to think how far off my first impression was, that you were a star-gazing, theorizing psychologist! Now I truly believe you to be a solid, down-to-earth dedicated child of the King! It's a pleasure and a learning experience to read your scripturally sound posts and I encourage you to keep up the good work. Your brother in Christ, --Hank | ||||||
177 | Do you have to be baptised to be saved | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 100583 | ||
Emmaus - Maybe his deja vu is out of whack. ...... I think you're right -- I seem to have a vague recollection that the subject of regenerational vs. nonregenerational baptism has been on before, at least enough to wear out several hammers on the old anvil! ...... Since it's chic to end every post with a question, preferably one that presupposes an answer, here goes mine: Emmaus, since it is true that the devil carries a pitchfork and wears a red knit suit, why don't you believe he does? An essay of 500 words will suffice. --Hank | ||||||
178 | what type of book is the bible, research | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 100683 | ||
g3ills - The questions you didn't know the answer to are academic, pedantic, donnish. Don't worry if you don't know the answer to but one of them -- or to none of them for that matter. You can easily live a godly life and study God's word from now till the day you go to glory without knowing the answers to these questions and be none the worse for it. ....... I'll illustrate my view of the truly important thing in the Christian's life by telling you a little story. ..... A country church hired a new pastor fresh out of seminary and on the occasion of his first sermon, an old farmer was selected to give his testimony, which preceded the new pastor's sermon. The old farmer faced the congregation and tried to quote the 23rd Psalm from memory, but he got it all mixed up, forgot a few words and mispronounced others. He finally gave up and, in his own words, gave a humble testimony of what the Lord had done in his life. After he sat down, the new pastor came to the pulpit and announced, "Now I want to recite the 23rd Psalm the way it should be recited," and proceeded to give a flawless performance. After the service the retiring pastor whose pulpit the new pastor was assuming, approached him and said, "Young man, that was as splendid a recitation of the 23rd Psalm as I've ever heard in my life. It certainly shows you know the Psalm. But, you see, the old farmer, well, he showed that he knows the Shepherd." --Hank | ||||||
179 | what type of book is the bible, research | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 100688 | ||
Michael Draves - The original question was, "What type of book is the Bible, and how do I go about researching this question out?" ...... I said your questions to this user were academic, pedantic, donnish -- and they are. I never addressed the appropriateness of the questions, Michael. They may be appropriate for a student in seminary, if that's what g3ill is. Perhaps the user would be willing to enlighten both of us. I do trust that you see no real need to defend your questions. People of inquiring minds may find them fascinating. And you don't expect me to follow up that statement by admitting I don't. :-) --Hank | ||||||
180 | what type of book is the bible, research | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 100703 | ||
g3ills - Many people have distinguished themselves in various fields with little or no formal schooling. I've learned far more since I left the halls of academia than I ever learned within them. You are to be commended, sir, for pursuing your study of the Bible. You could certainly do much worse than attend the Kay Arthur Precept Ministries classes. I'm acquainted with her teaching methods and think highly of them. Kay Arthur has to be something special, because she hails from Chattanooga, Tennessee, the place where I was born and grew up in. :-) And I'd pay no attention to the grown people you speak of who think something's wrong with a person your age exerting his effort to learn of Christ. Jesus told us to shake the dust off our feet on people like that and move on. And by all means, if we can help you in any way on this Forum, don't hesitate to let us know. Yours in Christ, --Hank | ||||||
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