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1 | First resurrection happens twice | Rev 20:5 | Searcher56 | 239271 | ||
Good Lord's day to you Ed O, On your final comment ... "Now we can play around much with the meaning of words but I hardly believe that God wanted us to become Greek scholars. Sometimes it's better for us to be less intellectual and rely on common sense wouldn't you think so?" I am not a Greek (or Hebrew) scholar, but I do look up the English words in the original ... even if all the translations agree ... if I want to learn more. Both times the word in this verse, the Greek is tereo which is translated in the KJV : keep (57x), reserve (8x), observe (4x), watch (2x), preserve (2x), keeper (1x), hold fast (1x). Moreover ... just in this verse I read "you have kept the word" and "will keep you from" ... so even with that it is hard for me to think we will be taken out of the tribulation. On "rely on common sense" ... what is your basis? Even if you have studied the three views, it could be clouded by what someone else has said. My theology has changed in several areas ... sometimes when I hear something new or when I am meditating on the Word and I have a "wait a minute" prompting. Either way I investigate Scripture. When He comes relative to the tribulation is a minor point and should not divide us. The major point is that He is coming ... quickly ... in the next century or so. S |
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2 | First resurrection happens twice | Rev 20:5 | Ed O. | 239280 | ||
Hi Beja, your question states,"On 'rely on common sense' ... what is your basis? Even if you have studied the three views, it could be clouded by what someone else has said.'" Yes, you are right. but my basis for using common sense is, we all should read the Bible by using common sense by reading what's there. for example: Rev 8:11 states that many men died of wormwood water, my common sense tells me that must include woman too rather than researching the word "men". When we come across a Scripture that its meaning isn't very clear my common sense tells me to rely on other Scriptures that clarifies it for me more so rather than trying to figure out what's the meaning of one word of the verse. Here's another example: Zech 14:5 states when Christ returns all the holy ones will return with Him. My common sense tells me that the holy ones would have had to be resurrected in order to be able to return.---Having said that, there were many times that I had to research a single word when all other means had failed. Ed O. |
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3 | First resurrection happens twice | Rev 20:5 | Beja | 239283 | ||
Ed.O. That was Searcher who said that. In Christ, Beja |
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