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101 | Using Job 34:32 to understand 35:3? | Job 34:32 | Ray | 151464 | ||
The 1977 NASB copyright for Job 34:32 reads, "Teach Thou me what I do not see; If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more?" With the l995 copyright using "You" instead of "Thou" it would be awkward to render it, "Teach You me what I do not see." I believe that the new copyright did well in changing the verse to read like the Amplified and the NKJ. I have learned sometime through the years to compare this verse with John 7:17. John 7:17, "If any man is willing to do (His) will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of **God, or whether I speak from Myself. 18 He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory;..." Job 34:31, "For has anyone said to (God), 'I have borne chastisement; I will not offend anymore; 32 Teach me what I do not see; If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'? 33 "Shall **He recompense on your terms, because you have rejected it? For you must choose, and not I; Therefore declare what you know." The parentheses and ** are mine for comparisons. 1) Does a comparison of these verses help you in deciding the reading for Job 35:3? "For you say, 'What advantage will it be to You? [Marginal note, Or, you] What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?" Should it be You or you for Job 35:3? From the heart, Ray |
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102 | Walking in the light of the Lord. | Eph 5:8 | Ray | 151457 | ||
Hi WOS, I loved your parenthesis (Unless you are prone to being particular about pronunciation). Don't worry, if I listen to the Bible on tape I would not worry about pronunciation. I can give you something else about me to worry about if you'd like. I count the pronouns. You may have noted my posts on the prayers in the Scriptures and how I have found that many have nouns and pronouns of Deity that have a total that is divisible by three. I have expressed the feeling that that underscores the triunity of God. I have written that I found the first chapter of Genesis to have words of Deity that are divisible by three. In fact, I have the book of Genesis in my personal copy penciled in with choices which lead to a division of three; just as an example. I haven't been anxious to encourage anyone to do what I have done because it is time consuming and can become obsessive. :)) Just ask my wife and my psychologists and marriage counsellors. I can say all this because my time on the forum may be short in many possible ways. I have been warned about speaking about the "holy spirit" as being divisive. So now I can speak more about my "counting" and not worry about capitalization for a while. You can put everything in lower case or upper case, but let me "count" the words that I choose. A comparison of Ephesians 5:8, "...but now you are light in the **Lord; walk as children of light..." can be made with Genesis as an example. Genesis 5:22, "Then Enoch walked with (God)...24 And Enoch walked with **God; and he was not, for God took him." Genesis 6:8, "But Noah found favor in the eyes of the (Lord)...9...Noah walked with **God Genesis 17:1, "Now when Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God/ Almighty; Walk before Me, and be blameless [Lit., complete, perfect; or, having integrity]. 2 And (I) will establish [Lit., give] **My covenant..." Genesis 48:15, NKJ, "And he blessed Joseph, and said, "God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, The (God) who has fed me all my life long to this day, 16 The **Angel who has redeemed me from all evil, Bless the lads;..." This last reference is another prayer in the Scriptures that is divisible by three in my mind. The ** and parentheses are mine and are for comparison. (The parentheses have numerical significance to me.) I hope this gives you enough to worry about in your concern for me. :)) From the heart, Ray |
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103 | Walking in the light of the Lord. | Eph 5:8 | Ray | 151435 | ||
The 1977 copyright of the NASB for Ephesians 5:8 had lower case renderings for the word "light". The 1995 copyright as you can see above has the word "Light" capitalized for both occurances. Personally, I feel that we should see in our capitalization choices the difference between the Light of the world, (the Son of God) and us as sons of God and as lights in the world. I see Ephesians 5:8, NASB,1977, as a companion verse for Isaiah 2:5. We are to walk as light in the Lord. Ephesians 5:7, NASB, 1977, "Therefore do not be partakers with them; 8 for you were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth), 10 trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord." Isaiah 2:5, "Come, house of Jacob, and let us walk in the light of the Lord." Isaiah 60:1, "Arise, shine; for your light has come, And the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. 2 For behold, darkness will cover the earth, And deep darkness the peoples; But the Lord will rise upon you, And His glory will appear upon you. 3 And nations will come to your light, And kings to the brightness of your rising." John 9:5, "While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world." 1 John 1:5, 1995, NASB, "This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all." From the heart, Ray |
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104 | The fear of the Lord is his treasure? | Is 33:6 | Ray | 151430 | ||
Hi Mark, Do you think of this verse as a treasure? Which translation do you think is second guessing? When you speak of "letting the Holy Spirit move in me" what verse are you thinking of? From the heart, Ray |
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105 | The fear of the Lord is his treasure? | Is 33:6 | Ray | 151414 | ||
Hi Mark, Thank you for your interest. I am not knowledgeable in Hebrew nor Greek to any great degree. I do not have access to textual evidence nor knowledge of all the manuscript choices. I do believe that the translators need to be more consistent in their inclusion of pronouns from book to book or in Paul's letter to letter. For instance, in the NKJ 1 Timothy 6:16 reads, "...to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen." The same Greek pronoun reads "To Him be glory forever and ever. Amen!" in the NKJ for 2 Timothy 4:18. I believe that they can be more consistent in their translating. The NASB has "To Him be the glory" in both cases of 1 and 2 Timothy. I personally have chosen "to whom be the glory" for both cases. :) So I would hope that the translators would conform to a more consistent pattern of pronoun usage. 1) Now there are also recurring "patterns" that I have noted in my particular study method. These will influence some of my choices. For instance whether to capitalize "Light" in 1 Timothy 6:16. Or whether to seek a consistent usage in the Scriptures of "who alone" or "the only One" who possesses immortality. I hope this helps you understand where I am coming from. From the heart, Ray |
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106 | Faith vs Sin | Rom 14:23 | Ray | 151408 | ||
Hi cklamhk, I can give you some Scriptures that I have connected to this verse. Consider John 1:13, Colossians 3:24, 1 John 3:24, and 1 Peter 4:17-19. If you want any further comments on those verses, let me know. From the heart, Ray |
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107 | The fear of the Lord is his treasure? | Is 33:6 | Ray | 151407 | ||
In regard to the Lord lifting Himself up, there are two other places where the context and the translation will allow His being lifted up. 1) Isaiah 33:3, NASB, 1995, "At the sound of the tumult peoples flee; At the lifting up of Yourself nations disperse." Isaiah 33:3, NKJ, "At the noise of the tumult the people shall flee; When You lift Yourself up, the nations shall be scattered." I personally would go with the extra pronoun of the NKJ. 2) Isaiah 33:2, NASB, 1977, "O Lord, be gracious to us; we have waited for Thee. Be Thou their [Some versions read our] strength every morning, Our salvation also in the time of distress." Isaiah 33:2, NKJ, and 1995 NASB, "Be their strength every morning, Our salvation also..." I would go with the extra pronoun of the 1977 NASB with perhaps a modern rendering of the 'You' such as, "May You be their [our] strength every morning, Our salvation also in the time of distress." This is all related to the "who or what is the stability of our times?" Any comments or observations? From the heart, Ray |
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108 | The fear of the Lord is his treasure? | Is 33:6 | Ray | 151387 | ||
Hi fborn, I know that you don't always put your posts in ALL CAPS; so I don't know if you are shouting at me or not. :) One of the Scriptures that is alluded to in your post is John 5:18, "For this cause therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God." We should not think that we can be equal with God. Jesus was God's Son; we are only adopted sons. Personally, I go with the NASB for Isaiah 33:6. Yet, I go with the NKJ for Isaiah 33:10, "Now I will rise," says the Lord; "Now I will be exalted, Now I will lift Myself up." From the heart, Ray |
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109 | Will You Accept This Challenge? | Bible general Archive 2 | Ray | 151379 | ||
If anyone is interested or not, here is my interpretation of Matthew 11:10 and 11. Matthew 11:10, For this is He of whom it is written: "Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, Who will prepare Your way before You." From the heart, Ray |
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110 | And can we accept this challenge? | Bible general Archive 2 | Ray | 151376 | ||
Hi Hank, I take it you saw no similarity of words or spiritual thoughts in my comparisons. From the heart, Ray |
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111 | And can we accept this challenge? | Bible general Archive 2 | Ray | 151366 | ||
Hi Kalos, It has been years since I responded to the post that mentioned what you are writing about. I believe that I thought the person writing it was not following his convictions and was non-courageous in not capitalizing. From the heart, Ray |
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112 | And can we accept this challenge? | Bible general Archive 2 | Ray | 151365 | ||
Hi Mommapbs, I don't know if I will answer your questions per se, but I offer these further thoughts by way of Scripture comparisons. 1) I believe that God should be glorified. Romans 15:7, "to the glory of God" 1 Peter 4:11, "...so that in all things God may be glorified." Romans 15:9, "... to glorify God/." 1 Peter 4:13, "revelation of His/ glory." Romans 15:11, "Praise the **Lord... praise *Him." 1 Peter 4:14, NKJ, "If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of (God) rests upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part **He is glorified... but let him glorify *God..." 2) I believe that we are fellow workers and should walk in (Him). Colossians 4:2, "Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving; praying at the same time for us as well, that God may open up to us a door for the word, so that we may speak forth the mystery of (Christ) for which I have also been imprisoned; in order that I may make it clear in the way I ought to speak." I believe that we should "Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you may continually fulfill it." Colossians 4:17. 3) Fellow workers: Colossians 4:11, "fellow workers for the kingdom of **God." Romans 16:9, "our fellow workers in **Christ..." Romans 8:17, "fellow heirs with **Christ..." Ephesians 3:9, "and to make all know what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in **God who created all things; 10 in order that the manifold wisdom of *God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places." That is how I see verse 9; manuscripts differ in number of nouns. Romans 1:25, "For they exchanged the truth of **God for a lie, and worshiped the creature rather than the *Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen." Ephesians 3:2, "if indeed you have heard of the stewardship of **God's grace which was given to me for you; 3 that by revelation there was made known to me the mystery, as I wrote before in brief. 4 And by referring to this, when you read you can understand my insight into the mystery of *Christ,..." John 3:11, NKJ, "Most assuredly, I say to you, **We speak what *We know and testify what We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness. 12 If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?" The **,*, ( ), and slash are mine for comparisons. From the heart, Ray |
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113 | And can we accept this challenge? | Bible general Archive 2 | Ray | 151334 | ||
Hi Mommapbs, I appreciated your post here. I have had a good time this morning in God's word, I feel, because of your Scripture references of Romans,1 Peter and Colossians. Colossians 1:22, "yet He has now reconciled you in *His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before (Him) holy and blameless and beyond reproach-- 1 Peter 2:1, "Therefore, putting aside all malice and all guile and hyposcrisy and envy and all slander, 2 like newborn babes, long for the pure milk of the word, that by it you may grow in respect to salvation, 3 if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord. 4 And coming to *Him as to a living stone, rejected by men, but choice and precious in the sight of (God), 5 you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood,..." Romans 10:12, "for 'Whoever will call upon the name of the Lord will be saved,' 14 How then shall they call upon *Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in (Him) whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?" Colossians 1:28, "And we proclaim *Him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, that we may present every man complete in (Christ)." The parentheses and stars are mine for comparison and the verses are as I see them. From the heart, Ray |
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114 | THE TRUTH OF THE 4TH BEAST | Dan 2:1 | Ray | 151305 | ||
Hi fborn, I don't see that you are unlearned at all. I do however see in this age of computers and personal emails a disregard of capitalization rules; I see a use of ALL CAPS as in your recent post to me; I see a use of all lower case as though the computer being used did not have a shift key on it. I will be writing to you in answer to your recent post with the idea of looking at what are the Son(s) of God. I would say that there is only one Son of God, even the Man, Jesus Christ. We as believers are only adopted sons of God. From the heart, Ray |
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115 | Number Significance | Bible general Archive 2 | Ray | 151206 | ||
Hi CBA, Please excuse the rudeness shown here. Many on the forum are tired of talking about numerics. Somewhere in the archives is a list of numberics but I did not find it for you because of lack of time. However, Morant61 has posts about numerics which show his views on the topic. The one I found is #18729. From the heart, Ray |
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116 | The fear of the Lord is his treasure? | Is 33:6 | Ray | 151167 | ||
Isaiah 33:5, NKJ, "The Lord is exalted, for He dwells on high; He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness. 6 Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times, And the strength of salvation; The fear of the Lord is His treasure." Compare the NKJ with the NASB and Amplified. Is the fear of the Lord His treasure? NKJ. Is the fear of the Lord his treasure? NASB Is the fear of the Lord your treasure and His? Amplified. Who or what is the stability of your times? From the heart, Ray |
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117 | Psalms 22 -awsome and confusing..... | 2 Sam 23:2 | Ray | 151152 | ||
Hi Seedling, Aixen7z4 has written a good post to you. I might add that it would be of interest to you to compare the NKJ and the NASB for Psalm 22. I personally go with the NASB there. For 2 Samuel 23:2 I go with the NKJ and the "Rock" of Israel. "The Spirit of the Lord spoke by me" verse 2 says and "The Rock of Israel spoke to me" verse 3 says. From the heart, Ray |
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118 | And can we accept this challenge? | Bible general Archive 2 | Ray | 151148 | ||
Hi Kalos, I suppose that I can go through the verses of being "filled with [the]holy spirit" and clarify what I am saying. 1) The Lockman Foundation and their latest copyright has many changes in capitalization; most notably the word "Light". 2) I do not side with the Jehovah's Witnesses on their false doctrine of not recognizing the Holy Spirit as a Person. As you should know from recent posts to you, I do however agree with their lower case holy spirit when the verses talk about being filled. 3) My personal copy of the Scriptures, (for most of the books), has the total number of nouns and pronouns of words of Deity being divisible by three. I believe that that is indicative of a triune God. Of course the Jehovah's Wtiness does not believe in the triune God, but I definately do. From the heart, Ray |
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119 | And can we accept this challenge? | Bible general Archive 2 | Ray | 151136 | ||
Hi Aixen7z4, You have told us that you are a counsellor, I believe. It has been a long time since I studied Psychology and received my college degree in Sociology, but you are developing a new style or method. You talk to others about your challenging patient and hope that he hears about it and learns from it all. I know that Psychologists don't want to just blurt out to their patients all the things that he sees wrong with them. He has to be patient and take the time consuming efforts to allow the person to discover for himself what is needed. Your method as shown here is questionable at the least; even if it were in a spirit of gentleness. If you want to correct my trespass or fault or falling away then put forth the effort and find the Scriptures to refute it. In this case, being filled with holy spirit. I challenge all of us to find the Scriptures that are worded in such a way that a Person is undoubtedly spoken of when they speak of being filled with the *holy *spirit. I would also say that if you are not interested in capitalization, then you should go to a site other than one sponsored by the Lockman Foundation which has been courageous and bold and thoughtful in determining and trying to determine the correct capitalization of Deity. They have been courageously interpreting the Scriptures so that we know simply by their capitalization that they believe in the deity of Christ. 1) Filled with the (h)Holy (s)Spirit: How does one know that this is the Person? Luke 1:15, Luke 1:41, Luke 1:67, Luke 4:1, Acts 2:4, Acts 4:8, Acts 4:31, Acts 9:17, Acts 13:9. From the heart, Ray |
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120 | Word of Christ? | Rom 10:17 | Ray | 151108 | ||
Hi Mommapbs, If you are wondering whether the "word" of Christ should be capitalized because it is speaking of Christ, I would say "No." We hear the message of the gospel, and all the things of God are upheld by the word of His power; Hebrews 1:3 that you referenced. Matthew 7:24 and Colossians 3:16 that you referenced are also speaking of the word(s) of Christ. By keeping them in the lower case we in no way take away the spiritual power in the message. But the spirit blows where it wishes and the message comes from above. John 3:8. 1 Peter 4:6 gives us the idea that the gospel message should be presented to us as people of flesh but received by us so that we live in the spirit. In my past studies I have had penciled in a capital Spirit to be consistent with verses like Romans 8:9 which speaks of the Spirit of God dwelling in us. However, I have come to recognize that the spirit and the Spirit can be interpreted in the same verse. For instance, my interpretation for Romans 8:9 is, "However, you are not in the flesh but in the spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him." Again, that is how I pesonally see it. Similarly, look at 1 Corinthians 6:17, "But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit [with Him]." Or, as the NKJ says "For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's." 1) The message of the Scriptures is certainly that Jesus is God. However, Jesus came to glorify His Father. Jesus is glorified in His words, which is the word of God, but also are those of the Son and the Holy Spirit. 2) Jesus is found not only in the words, but we must confess that the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. 3) Here is my interpretation of 1 Corinthians 2:12 which I think is applicable in thinking of these things. For what is worth: "Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the *spirit which is from God, that we might know the things freely given to us by God, which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words." Again, that is the way I see it. So, "What then is the word of Christ?" It is the spirit of Christ; it is the mind of Christ, it is the words of Christ. Be aware that the ALL CAPS in the NASB for 1 Corinthians 2:16 shows that it is an Old Testament quote and that the "he will instruct" is in lower case. We, even as spiritual people, do not know the mind of the Lord that we should instruct Him, but we have the mind of Christ. We have the words of Christ. From the heart, Ray |
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