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1 | What IS your belief? | Col 2:16 | djconklin | 25363 | ||
If they really, really believe that they are following Scripture then why do they refer you to the mere ramblings and speculations of man? What I have found from studying the grammatical and linguistic features of Col.2:16-17 is that it is not talking about the seventh-day Sabbath. It does not say anything about the keeping of Sunday. That practice crept into the church over a long period of time. |
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2 | What IS your belief? | Col 2:16 | Radioman | 25369 | ||
I'm afraid I do not understand. How is it that the findings of others are the mere ramblings and speculations of man, but your findings are not the mere ramblings and speculation of man? Are you not a man? Do you have a direct line to God that no one else has? As to the question, "I still don't know whether you are saying that we should repent and dump Sunday assembly, or it's technically wrong but morally OK, or what?" -- you still have not given a direct answer, have you? Are you trying to hide something or what? I assume you will add my question to the list of those you refuse to answer. |
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3 | What IS your belief? | Col 2:16 | djconklin | 25371 | ||
Shepard's thesis's were speculations and thus are the product of man. Mine is a grammatical and linguistic analysis of the evidence; that is, I looked to see what the Greek words that Paul wrote meant. --- ""I still don't know whether you are saying that we should repent and dump Sunday assembly, or it's technically wrong but morally OK, or what?"" My study was of limited scope (it isn't even a complete exegetical analysis fo the verse). To go beyond the evidence is called eisegesis. There are others here who are far more capable and willing to do that. Since I have been trained as a pastor I can't go beyond what the text says. If you want a myth talk to the myth-makers; I'll give you cold hard facts. All I can tellyou so far is that if someone uses Col. 2:16-17 and tells you that it says Paul says we should keep the Sabbath then I can say that they a) haven't read the text clearly and b) Paul isn't even talking about the seventh-day Sabbath at all--tangentally, but still based on what Paul does say in Col. 2:16, we can say that since he didn't tell the believers not to keep the feast days and new moons and ceremonial sabbaths and he refers to them in the present tense some 30 years after the cross doesn't that imply that we should be keeping them today? And if that's true for them then what does that say about the seventh-day Sabbath? And then, where does that leave Sunday-keeping? One should always bear in mind that a sin is not sin if you don't know that it is a sin. And God knows exactly what you know and why you know it. He also knows why you don't know some things and what you could have known if you had taken the effort to know. Kapeesh? |
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4 | What IS your belief? | Col 2:16 | Radioman | 25375 | ||
You write: "And God knows exactly what you know and why you know it. He also knows why you don't know some things and what you could have known if you had taken the effort to know. Kapeesh?" Spare me the sermon. I was asking for clarification, not your judgment of me. What I kapeesh is that your last paragraph was a putdown of me. God knows what I could have known if I had taken the effort to know. Cute. Very cute. You spent two years studying two verses, but your study was of limited scope? No, I don't want a myth. How did you interpet from what I said that I wanted a myth? All I understand from your third paragraph is that you're a pastor -- one who studies at the rate of one verse per year - a pastor who doesn't interpret the Bible. Whatever. Enjoy the myth of your own superior knowledge or piety or both. |
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5 | What IS your belief? | Col 2:16 | djconklin | 25407 | ||
I wasn't judging you. It takes along time to even find all of the relevant data. In fact, in the past two weeks others have pointed me to about another dozen sources. I didn't say that _you_ wanted a myth. Nor, did I say that I only study one verse per year or that I don't interpret the Bible. I have never said (much less even thought) that my knowledge was siuperior to others--that's why my bibliography on Col. 2:16-17 is over 180 sources long vs. just having it listing me as the fount of all wisdom and sarcasm. |
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