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1 | What does the Bible say about anal sex? | Gen 19:1 | Hank | 214778 | ||
Justme, I thoroughly agree with your position on this. SBF is no place for this question or others that engender discussions of deviant sex. The Bible condemns sexual perversions and deviations, perod. Natural and wholesome sexual activity between one man and one woman in God-instituted holy marriage is the only form of sex that God endorses. --Hank | ||||||
2 | does God still send prophets? | 2 Cor 11:13 | Hank | 214512 | ||
In other words, Cowboy, you're saying that Branham based his message upon his own personal interpretation of current events and laced them into the fabric of what was supposed to be, and what was represented to be, and what should have been, the message of the gospel of Christ in his sermons to his hearers. But what he was preaching was not the gospel of Christ and Branham knew perfectly well that it was not, that it was his personal opinion and that by the force of his commanding and hypnotic personality he was able to sell this bill of false goods to the masses whom he was able to sway. What boggles my mind is how you or anyone else who may be seeking the truth of God's word can have the stomach and audacity to defend such false prophecy as Branham spread in his day and continues to spread today via the legacy of his written and recorded works that are stil extant. May I append here a reminder and a warning to you, sir, that on this Study Bible Forum where sola scriptura is endorsed, the promulgation of false teachings and commendation of false teachers are not permitted. --Hank | ||||||
3 | Rev 21:6 | Rev 21:6 | Hank | 214423 | ||
AMO14 - Dear Forum contributor, please look kindly upon my candor, but I fail to see in your concluding remark, i.e., "The Peshitta is Scripture" a valid summation of the points you have attempted to make in your preamble to it, whatever your preamble may be intended to mean and whatever service it may be intended to render to the readers of Study Bible Forum. On the contrary, I cannot help but view them as a series of quantum leaps into the speculative and esoteric at the very best and your summary statment as a non sequitur par excellence. Being keenly aware of my own pitiful shortcomings in ineptness, and blatant ignorance of, the events surrounding the early years in which the New Testament Canon and its textual bases were being formed and finally established (and for centures accepted by orthodoxy), I submit that I may not be entirely alone in my imperfect understanding of such weighty matters. Among what I've managed to garner from various resources on the subject thus far hag been a proclivity for questioning the credentials of others who may claim a more excellent knowledge than I but who are unable to produce much convicing proof in favor of the merits of their position. There are few places, if indeed any at all, reserved on this Forum for the expostion of any view that is not or cannot be solidly founded upon God's written message to man that appears wholly within within the pages of the Holy Bible, which we identify as being and understand and affirm to be the canocial 66 books of the Bible and no other. Inasmuch as this is a Bible Study Forum and nothing else -- nothing less and nothing more -- we restrict the scope and aim of this Forum to abide within the paramaters embraced by the concept contained in the doctrine of sola scriptura. The remrks are not intended to discourage you but on the contrary to challenge you to enter into the spirit and purpose of this Forum in such a way as to benefit your readers and bring glory to God who alone is worthy of our devotion and praise. --Hank | ||||||
4 | Are we all descendants of Adam and Eve? | Genesis | Hank | 212910 | ||
Dear idrive -- The name of this web site is StudyBibleForum. Its purpose therefore is to study Scripture, and its published Terms of Use are obligatory for all its registrants. Spouting forth pure speculation and conjecture, which is not supported by Scripture, violates the Terms of Use and may constitute grounds for this site's sponsor to revoke user privilege to post to this Forum. Please be observant of and comply with the Terms of Use that govern uers' conduct on SBF. --Hank | ||||||
5 | Can a woman divorce man: Ongoing porn? | Matthew | Hank | 212611 | ||
Possibly, bandaid, since you insist on having facts alone and eschew everything else including suggestions by Christians on the Forum who are merely trying to help, your cause might better be served by forsaking the Forum in lieu of an exhaustive concordance which you can consult in your own home without all the judgments and other nuisances that seem to be bothering you. --Hank | ||||||
6 | salvation for unbelievers? | Rom 1:20 | Hank | 212495 | ||
Dear Val :: Kind, encouraging words, sister in Christ, and thank you for them. Every good wish to you and yours for the new year. May you be a channel of blessing in the lives of others as they see Christ in yours. ...... Thanks, too, for your inquiry about the Forum's beloved and faithful member, Doc. He has been coping with some health issues of late. There are many who, like you, miss his presence and Christ-centered posts on SBF. May we all lift him and his family up to God in prayer. Soli Deo Gloria! Agape. --Hank | ||||||
7 | salvation for unbelievers? | Rom 1:20 | Hank | 212455 | ||
bpeterson -- Before you attempt to "prove" your atheist friend wrong about hell's occupants, shouldn't you attempt first to share with him the stark contrast the Bible draws between faith in God and his groundless atheism? If this chap truly is an atheist, how did he come to believe in the existence of hell while denying the existence of God, creator of all things? For years I've been of the opinion that it is far more effective merely to proclaim the message of the gospel of Christ in all its power and purity than to try to convince others of our way of thinking by "proving" them wrong. Let us not delude ourselves or others by thinking that our words are more convincing or more relevant than the words in that blessed old book, the Bible. It has mighty power such as no man ever has had. "For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart" (Hebrews 4:12, NASB). --Hank | ||||||
8 | Sell what you have-give alms | Bible general Archive 4 | Hank | 212298 | ||
Flyman, my suggestions were chiefly about finding yourself a conservative church with a high view of God's word. Such a church is not likely to delete you! ..... Speaking of which, in my nearly eight years on Study Bible Forum I've observed that those who follow Forum guidelines religiously generally have no problem with their posts being deleted. You said nary a word about the pointers I tried to give you but seemed only concerned about your posts being deleted. Do you think that you are possibly being a mite egocentric in your approach to this Forum? --Hank | ||||||
9 | Sell what you have-give alms | Bible general Archive 4 | Hank | 212273 | ||
Flyman, the plethora of questions your posts have raised added to the minute details you are seeking overwhelm me, so I refrain from writing a word about all those individual trees until we've taken a peek at the whole forest. In your user profile you wrote of desiring God, of seeking a walk with Him, and mentioned that you hope to be guided in some way by your interaction with people of this Forum. Well may you be, but frankly that is not the place I'd pick to begin my search. You mention nothing of church attendance, but a conservative, orthodox local congretation having a conservative, orthodox pastor is the best place to hang your hat right now, I'd say. This Forum has a lofty aim to be sure, but church it isn't. You need to go to God's house, for which there is absolutely no substitute. And may I suggest that you in connection with your Bible stuy. stop inspecting the individual trees so minutely right now, and instead that you look first at the forest, the big picture. You need to fully understand what 2 Timothy 2:15 really means and learn how to do what it says to do. This knowledge comes about slowly and takes a lot of time. ...... Where you are "coming from" I think I know, because many years ago I believe I sounded much like you. You may come off as being argumentative perhaps, but I don't think that is your aim. Just lighten up a little and be paiient. You are not going to understand everything in the Bible....not ever. Friend, I've been a follower of Jesus Christ for almost 60 years and studied the Bible for the same length of time. I'm probably boasting to say that maybe I understand 10 per cent of it by now. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Surrender your will to Him. That's the most important thing in life. --Hank | ||||||
10 | ... | Bible general Archive 4 | Hank | 212155 | ||
Dear Messenger : The revision of the 1901 edition of the American Standard Version had its genesis in the mind of one man, Dewey Lockman, a Baptist layman and wealthy citrus grower of La Habra, California. Being a businessman and not a Bible translator, he made no attempt to revise the ASV himself, but using mainly his own financial resources, which were considerable, Mr. Lockman engaged a team of respected and highly trained Bible scholars and translators and the project was launched from which emerged the New American Standard Bible. ........ So now, sir or madam, may I ask you why some several years later you take upon yourself, so you say, the task of revising the ASV of 1901? Do you somehow feel that the team of professional scholars who spent hour upon hour on the revision of the 1901 ASV in order to produce the NASB botched the job so badly that you decided to come along and fix it? ..... And this seems a fair question to ask you at this point: What insights do you have that you presume the team of translators did not have? And whence came your insights? What qualifies you to be able to revise the ASV and get it right? What's wrong with the NASB anyway? ....... The regular readers of this Forum are not ignorant of the tetragrammaton, YHWH. I question the appropriateness of devoting post after post to the topic you've introduced in view of the fact that much has already been said about it in the archives of this Forum. ...... By the way, you apparently misread a few points given in the Forum guidelines. You don't have to ask a question to create a post and you certainly are not expected to answer your own question. A post may be created by (1) asking a question, (2) answering someone else's question, or (3) writing a note or responding to one. --Hank | ||||||
11 | Sovereign Grace at our Lord's Advent | Luke 2:10 | Hank | 211810 | ||
A timely piece from gifted author Pink. How many times I've read Luke's "Christmas story" I do not know, but never tire of it though. At every reading I find something fresh, something new, something that I'd missed before. The incarnation of the Christ is a major event in the history of the universe, as A. W. Pink points out. Followers of Jesus Christ ought not ever to lose sight of that fact. --Hank | ||||||
12 | Quries about Christmas? | NT general | Hank | 211739 | ||
MJH, thanks for providing the information in your personal profile. You can edit your profile at any time you wish. I've been on the Forum for some eight years and have edited my profile several times. --Hank | ||||||
13 | Quries about Christmas? | NT general | Hank | 211727 | ||
MJH, you've been a registrant of SBF for 4 years and the only thing in your personal profile is your user name, MJH. That's not much to go on. Why not venture to add to it as a Christmas gift to your neighbors at the Forum? --Hank | ||||||
14 | Author's role in acts | Acts 28:28 | Hank | 211524 | ||
Dear Keliy: Your willingness to trace the sources of your post that contained excerpts from various authors is commendable and your inability to locate them is understandable. One handy tool, which Tim Moran explained in a post some time ago, is this: Enclose in quotation marks a phrase or two from a published source and enter the words in a Web search engine. For example, my Google search the following quote yielded consiserable information, viz., "Once upon a midnight dreary" begins the first stanza of the poem, "The Raven," by Edgar Allan Poe. Similar results revealed that "To be or not to be, that is the question" is from William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1. It's a handy tool and frequently makes it possible to detect plagiarism, especially when a passage has been copied verbatim. You might like to test the effectiveness of this tool on your multi-sourced post to see what you can come up with. --Hank | ||||||
15 | Author's role in acts | Acts 28:28 | Hank | 211428 | ||
Thank you, Keliy. For the sake of Forum readers and in deference to your source, please cite the source and refer to your post number in which the quoted passage appears. Plagiarism, as John has pointed out, is serious business and we all of us must be careful to guard aganst it. Plagiarism is literary theft and yet there are people who would not dream of stealing a fine watch from a jewelry store but think nothing of stealing another person's very words and publishing them as though they were their very own. This problem surfaces on the Forum from time to time, so this post is not directed to you only but to all our Forum authors as a reminder to avoid plagiarism like the plague. Grace to you, keliy, and may you and your family find much to be thankful to our blessed God fpr this special season of the year. In Him, Hank. | ||||||
16 | I just started reading the Bible and.... | OT general | Hank | 211320 | ||
Pete, I beg to argue the case: I did not issue any dictum to you or anyone else that you must read the Bible 50 times in order to undertand God's message of salvation! I merely alluded to the practice followed by a Bible commentator, whose name was G. Campbell Morgan by the way, who is on record as saying that he read a book of Scripture at least 50 times before picking up his pen to comment on it. ...... In this brief response, Pete, I will not attempt to address individually the myriad of questions you throw my way but will offer a succinct comment to the final comment of your post. You say there must be a simple way There is, Pete, but first you must disembarrass your soul of the notion that you have a powerful mind, for such is your claim in your post. Pete, how can you, how dare you or I or any other man with feet of clay and eyes that see so dimly claim to have a powerful mind with which to approach the eternal word of the trancendent and mighty God? I quoted it in my former post to you and I'll quote it again in case it was overlooked: Illumination is the ministry of the Holy Spirit by which He enables Christians to understand the truths of God revealed by Scripture. See Psalm 119:18. ...... But you have not indicated whether you are a regenerate believer, but I do pray that you are, Pete. ..... There was a time when I was like Saul of Tarsus, fighting against the goads, challenging the word of God and even God Himself, trying to figure everything out for myself (I also thought I was very intelligent back in those days). By the grace of God I came to realize that I couldn't go it alone, that I was not nearly the mental cracker jack that I thought I was, that I was in fact nothing but a wretched sinner in dire need of a Savior, and that the only way out of my abyss was, as the phrase goes, to "let go and let God" have His way in my life, to surrendor my stubbord will to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. God says in His word, "Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth" (Psalm 46:10). ...... Oh, by the way, G. Campbell Morgan didn't stop after his reading through the Bible 50 times. He topped 100 times before the Lord called him home. --Hank | ||||||
17 | I just started reading the Bible and.... | OT general | Hank | 211307 | ||
Pete, let's look at a few facts. Scripture is its own best interpreter, but you have only begun to scratch the surface of Scripture. A wise man examines the whole thoroughly before attempting to dissect its parts. When as a young college freshman I decided to take my major in English, I soon discovered that I did not become an expert on Shakespeare by reading through a couple of his plays, and that I was not by any means qualified to become a Shakespearean critic. A Bible commentator several years ago stated that under no circumstances would he write a word of commentary on any Bible book until he had carefully and prayerfully read the book through at least 50 times. .... You have read parts of Deuteronomy, the book of Matthew and now are in Mark. You will have questions, of course you will. Every serious reader of any difficult literary work, whether it is the Bible, Shakespeare or John Milton, will have questions. Write them down and save them for later. Continue with your reading, use a non-technical commentary or study Bible (suggest MacArthur's) if you get bogged down, but continue to read. Compare Scripture with Scripture, do some cross referencing, try to get an overall picture of all of Scripture first before you do anything else. This should be the time for looking at the whole forest, not the time for examining each tree minutely. Furthermore, your battery of questions sounds to me as though you are trying to understand the eternal words of God on your own without divine illumination. It will never happen. This is contrary to what the Scriptures teach: "Open thou mine eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of Thy law" (Psalm 119:18). If you are a regenerate believer in Jesus Christ, and I pray that you are, then pray for illumination. It is the ministry of the Holy Spirit by which He empowers Christians with understanding of the truths of God revealed in Scripture. And a parting word to you, Pete, from Proverbs 3:5,6: "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths." --Hank | ||||||
18 | Kill your brother and drink strong drink | James 2:10 | Hank | 211085 | ||
Pete: Where does Scripture teach that drug-induced euphoria (alcohol is a drug and a powerful one at that) "allows me to feel the goodness of God's blessings"? Are Christians therefore who choose not to imbibe depriving themselves of these blessings? Is alcohol a vital crutch without which the followers of Christ are missing out on the full joys of their salvation? Please think about these questions, Pete. I don't want your answers to them for they would only serve to foster further debate and that's not what this Forum is about. ....... The Christian walks by faith, not by sight; he walks by the truth of God's word and is governed by that truth, not by his feelings. If one needs to get a "buzz" on in order to marvel at the mighty works of God and His love in giving His one and only Son to save those who believe in Him from eternally perishing, it's time for him to go back to the Bible and discover its real message to fallen man. That message is not to get a euphoric"buzz" on in order to behold the majesty of God and His creation. Please, no more of this circular chatter Pete. It entirely misses the point of God's word, it edifies no one, and it does not align itself with the aims and mission of Study Bible Forum. So please, I implore you, no more of this. Read the Terms of Use laid down for the benefit and direction of registrants to this Forum and comply with them. --Hank | ||||||
19 | interputer the main thought | Bible general Archive 4 | Hank | 210992 | ||
Dear Cheri: There are as you say 66 books in the Bible, but not all of them have a Chapter 3. Six of them have fewer than three chapters, viz. Obadiah, Haggai, Philemon, 2 John, 3 John, and Jude. Thus, in only 60 books is there a Chapter 3. This narrows the field of inquiry, but not by much. :-) --Hank | ||||||
20 | Am I ignorant | 1 Cor 12:1 | Hank | 210991 | ||
Dear Brad Myers: I use your first and last name in order to avoid confusion, since we have at least one other Brad on SBF, Brad K. ...... Brad the passage from Peter's pentecostal sermon in Acts 2 which you cited to support your position on continuationism really doesn't. In his famous sermon at Pentecost Peter quoted from the prophet Joel, and it shows that while the events at Pentecost were indeed a pre-fulfillment, a foretaste of what will happen in the millenial kingdom, they will not be completely fulfilled until the millenial kingdom and the final judgment. Thus the passage in Acts 2 makes no case for continuationism as it is conceived of and taught in our time. --Hank | ||||||
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