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141 | cronology of names in bible | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 95584 | ||
EdB - That idea about Bubba 1, Bubba 2, Bubba 3 is hilarious. I'm frequently called upon to read aloud from the Bible in study groups and almost invariably it's a passage that contains so many unpronounceable names that they shove it off on me. Next time, I'm going with the Bubba routine. .... But, on the other hand, last night you and I mastered anthropomorphism, so these Bible names should be a snap :-) -Hankenstein Hauptbahnhof. | ||||||
142 | cronology of names in bible | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 95630 | ||
Good morning, Darcy -- Years ago I had a thin little volume called "The Humor of Christ." In no way sacreligious or scurrilous, it pointed out certain incidents in Christ's discourses in which the author saw in our Lord a genuine sense of wholesome humor. I have no idea what happened to that fine little volume and wish I did, because I'd like to read it again. Your reference to the young Jewish mother who named her child Mahershalalhashbaz while she was in labor pains brought to mind for some reason the little volume on Christ's sense of humor. The mother must have had a certain sense of humor to name her child Mahershalalhashbaz -- that, or her labor pains were particularly severe. In either case, a sense of humor would have helped the child go through life bearing the name Mahershalalhashbaz. By the time guests at his home were able to pronounce his name in full it would have been time for them to leave. --Hank | ||||||
143 | FEAR OF THE LORD MEANING | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 95655 | ||
Emmaus -- Extremely well put! -- one of the best and most succinct explanations of the meaning of 'fear of the Lord' I've ever seen. It has the masterful stroke of the use of economy of words that rivals many passages in the King James Bible. Are you sure you didn't have something to do with translating the KJV? How old are you anyway, Emmaus? :-) --Hank | ||||||
144 | FEAR OF THE LORD MEANING | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 95736 | ||
Emmaus - How clumsy of me. I should have known you'd favor Dewey Raims over King Jimmy. --Hank | ||||||
145 | The Problem with WoF in a nutshell | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 96542 | ||
apostoloB - You ask, "Does a Christian have miraculous power or not? Jesus seemed to think so." ..... No, Jesus did not "seem" to think so. He laid it down clearly in John 15:5 that His followers have no intrinsic miraculous power whatever: "I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: FOR WITHOUT ME YE CAN DO NOTHING." --Hank | ||||||
146 | The Problem with WoF in a nutshell | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 96550 | ||
apostoloB - You cite Mark 16:18. By the way, how often do you handle snakes? ..... You advise forum readers to pack up their intellect, education, and reason and go have a real relationship with God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit. Now, really, Apostolo, where did that come from? Tell me honestly, does God command we abandon the gifts of sense and reason with which He has endowed us and become raving illiterate lunatics in order to have a right relationship with Him? That is not only an unscriptural notion, it is utterly ridiculous. Have you ever read what Proverbs has to say about wisdom, or what Isaiah 1:18 says about reason? --Hank | ||||||
147 | Re-inventing the Wheel | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 96621 | ||
Apparently for the majority of users of this forum, the archives are worthless. Instead of doing a topical search, they insist on reinventing the wheel daily. For example, the person bearing the user screen name "humpy" has been urged to avail himself of the archives instead of launching into a series of posts involving the ages-old debate on Calvinism vs. Arminianism. True enough, he was not an active user during the Calvinism/Arminianism Wars that were waged for so long a time on this forum, but he has been apprised of their existence and invited to use Search in order to acquaint himself of what has already been said on this matter. His views on the Calvinism perspective have been aired many times over and thus far he has said nothing new, and it is most unlikely that he will ever be able to add anything new. All that such efforts will accomplish is to drive the stake deeper, wherein Calvinists become more rigidly Calvinistic and Arminians more Arminian, and during the process reek havoc on the forum that leads to divisiveness and bitter invectives being thrown at one another. On the current thread concerning who Christ died for, I have already been accused of not believing the Bible simply because I happen to believe that "world" in John 3:16 means "world" and not "the elect." ...... As Tim Moran has wisely and correctly observed, the two camps have very slim chance, if any, to come to agreement, because they don't even speak the same language. Commonly understood words such as all, everyone, whoever, and world mean one thing to Calvinists and something fundamentally different to everyone else. ..... What is it about a soteriological system that leads its adherents to spend countless hours trying to explain away what 'all' means or what 'world' means? Why is it necessary for them to invent a whole new vocabulary, a different set of meanings of common words, in order to give their doctrine a ring of truth? Is this the proper way to teach a lost and dying world the saving message of the gospel of Christ? ..... I do not make this post with any intent to re-ignite the flames of bitter debate. Quite to the contrary, it is being submitted in the hope and expectation that the smoldering ashes of the long and bitter debates on Calvinism/Arminianism will be allowed to cool and fade away. They were anti-productive of peace and good-will when they were in the vanguard on this forum months ago, and there is no reason to believe that the resumption of these debates will serve this forum any better now. ..... And there is any number of long-time users of this forum who are resolved to see to it that this fiasco does not happen again. --Hank | ||||||
148 | Re-inventing the Wheel | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 96631 | ||
Yes, Darcy, after more than two years on this forum, I do get the deja vu feeling rather frequently. It's like watching sawdust being sawed. I see the same tired old arguments posted over and over, followed by the same rebuttals. Perhaps a short-cut could be employed. For instance, the question could simply say: "See Post ID #00001"; the answer could say, "See Post ID "#00002; and any ensuing notes could say, "See Post ID #00003". This would certainly speed things up, cut down on verbiage, and be just as enlightening to read and far more pleasant --Hank | ||||||
149 | Re-inventing the Wheel | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 96634 | ||
Colin - If all follow-up responses to my notes were as poignantly appropriate as yours, brother, I should be inspired to attempt to post at least a thousand notes every day! Thank you for your very fitting redaction of Paul's preamble to his first letter to the Corinthians. --Hank | ||||||
150 | Re-inventing the Wheel | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 96645 | ||
Well, Colin, I could re-post the last thousand of my posts. Repetition is not foreign to this forum. But it gets monotonous to repeat oneself. It gets monotonous to repeat oneself. It gets monotonous to... --Hank | ||||||
151 | Re-inventing the Wheel | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 96655 | ||
Could be, Pastor Glenn, could be. But I don't understand it. I went last week for my annual mental exam and the doctor couldn't find a thing! :-) --Hankus Robotus | ||||||
152 | Women Preachers? Yes or No? | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 96694 | ||
Cajam - When you use the term "being filled with the Holy Ghost," please tell me exactly what you mean by it, if you will. The term seems to mean one thing to certain folks and another thing to others. --Hank | ||||||
153 | Women Preachers? Yes or No? | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 96848 | ||
cajam - Here is yet another pearl to add to your string of scriptural aphorisms: "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth." (2 Tim. 2:15 ESV) --Hank | ||||||
154 | Women Preachers? Yes or No? | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 96850 | ||
cajam - In re: speaking "under the inspiration of God " ..... "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work." (2 Timothy 3:16,17 NKJV). So how else do you presume to speak "under the inspiration of God" except by preaching and teaching the inspired word of God? --Hank | ||||||
155 | Pets in heaven after death. | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 96954 | ||
mouse - Footnote to Revelation 22:15. "Dogs" in this verse refers not to canines but to depraved and despicable human beings. Study the context of the verse. See also Is. 56:10 and Deut.23:18. --Hank | ||||||
156 | Jesus name of the Father, Son and H/Ghos | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 96955 | ||
Darcy - In my life I've seen enough examples to convince me that large numbers of believers hold the religious beliefs that they do and join themselves with the communion that they do for no other reason than family tradition. ..... A former pastor of mine often told the story of a young wife who, when preparing a roast for the oven, took a butcher knife and cut away a small portion of one end of the roast and discarded it. Upon being asked by her husband why she did such a thing, she responded, "Because that's what my mother always did." The young husband was curious and so he approached his bride's mother with the question, "Why do you chop off an end of a roast before cooking it?" The mother-in-law said, "Because that's what MY mother always did." Finally, the young man put the same question to the grand-mother and she said, "I chopped off the end because the roast would not otherwise fit into my baking pan." ..... Robert Frost in his poem "Mending Wall" has something to say about blindly following tradition. ..... The necessity is incumbent upon all believers to be Bereans always and to test what they are taught and asked to believe against the truth of Scripture, without regard to family or church tradition. --Hank | ||||||
157 | Jesus name of the Father, Son and H/Ghos | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 96960 | ||
cajam - It doesn't really matter where heresy is found or how many generations have been deceived by it. Heresy is heresy, don't you agree? --Hank | ||||||
158 | Jesus name of the Father, Son and H/Ghos | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 97006 | ||
cajam - What would you say to the suggestion that you stop playing games and tell us what you really believe and to what denomination you belong? --Hank | ||||||
159 | What about Christians swearing? | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 97034 | ||
Hello, Darcy - The English word "piss" is considered a vulgarism today, but it is not now nor has it even been profanity. It was not considered even a vulgarism in Elizabethan English, the language of the King James Bible. Vulgarism and profanity are not synonyms. Vulgarism is coarse or indecent language. Profanity is the treatment of something sacred with abuse, irreverence or contempt. --Hank | ||||||
160 | What about Christians swearing? | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 97040 | ||
Darcy - I quite agree with you. The language of the gutter ought not to be the language of the Christian. It is entirely possible to use demeaning and offensive speech that, while it may fall short of profanity, is nevertheless unbecoming to a child of God. Our Lord said, "But I say unto you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment." And the third chapter of James warns about the untamable tongue. --Hank | ||||||
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