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1 | How many generations betw Exodus-Solomon | Matt 1:17 | Jim Estes | 207194 | ||
Hi bowler, Thank you for your thoughts about the “Great Divines.” I have no objection to the opinions of persons who have spent a considerable amount of their lives in study of scripture. However, having gained such insight into the scriptures, it should not be too difficult to explain how they arrived at their conclusions and what scriptures they base their conclusions on. How did they arrive at the conclusion that the “Rachab” of Matthew 1 is the same person as “Rahab, the harlot” of Joshua, Hebrews 11:31 and James 2:25? How do they reconcile the timeline that makes it impossible for Rahab, the harlot, to be the mother of Boaz? How do they reconcile the blatant violation of God’s commands for which there is reward and no punishment, the difference in names, and that the Israelites were the chosen people and not the Gentiles? How are we to know if the things they say are true? It is our responsibility to “See to it that no one misleads you.” (Matt. 24:4) We cannot abrogate this responsibility to the “Great Divines” or anyone else. Jim |
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2 | How many generations betw Exodus-Solomon | Matt 1:17 | Hank | 207200 | ||
Hi, Jim :: It has been now some 59 years since I became a follower of Christ. How many times have I erred, and in what ways, during all those years? Let me count the times. Let me count the ways, as poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning phrased it in a sonnet of love, a tender ode to her husband, Robert Browning. But I cannot count the times. They have been too frequent and too many. I cannot count the ways. They have been too numerous. ...... I lay no claim to wisdom save that which God has graciously granted me in answer to prayer, but that wisdom has led me to the abiding and fervent conviction that it is foolishness to lean on my incomplete and faulty understanding and to assume that the Holy Spirit has granted me insights superior to the insignts He has granted to others who down through the centuries have sought after His truth and even those regenerate contemporaries who now seek His counsel. Therefore, does it not make a great deal of sense to entertain the notion that some of my conclusions, when they consistently conflict with men of God down through the ages, may be wrong -- and the probabilites are overwhelming that they are -- and that I earnestly need to look more at myself and my understanding than at them and theirs to disover wherein lies the error? Debate on an issue is worthless and bears no good fruit unless one first has thoroughly examined his position and compared it with others who may well be wiser, more enlightened, and better versed on the issue than one's self. --Hank | ||||||