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181 | The Best | Is 25:6 | Hank | 201589 | ||
Good quote from Charles H. Spurgeon, Doc. I wonder...how might the herd of WOF televangelists update what Spurgeon wrote? Do you suppose it would read something like this: ....."We preach a cotton-candy prosperity gospel. The best living is in luxury. High on the hog, you know. The best man is the one with the most money. The best style is first class -- living in a mansion, driving luxury cars, flying private jet airplanes. The more people we can con into sending us their seed-faith money, the more wealth we can produce. After all, God owes us health, fortune and fame, so what are we waiting for? Just name it and claim it. But first you'll need to send me your seed-faith money to show you're serious about this." ..... --Hank | ||||||
182 | Jesus descend into hell | 1 Peter | Hank | 201588 | ||
Brad, while it can be said that there are some points of debate on the subject of hell, it can also be said that there is much ignorance and misunderstanding of it. Please permit my use of a personal example as an illustration. For many years I was a Presbyterian. During all those years I sat with my fellow worshipers in the pew and every Lord's day we "said what we believed" by repeating the Apostles' Creed. I was either a slow learner or a lazy one, because even though I said the words "He descended into hell" in unison with the other worshipers every Sunday, I didn't understand what I was saying. And neither did most of the other worshipers in the congregation, as I found out later. ...... It's truly amazing how one can repeat words that he has been taught and have virtually no more idea of what he is saying than a parrot does. ...... I sat in on a Bible study class one day and at the end of it the leader said to the students, "Let's close by SAYING the Lord's Prayer." So everyone joined in and in a sing-song monotone that would put the most dedicated insomniac to sleep, they SAID the Lord's Prayer. ..... So, if there is a point to this post, it would be this: That merely SAYING what we believe or SAYING a prayer without understanding and fervor is pretty drab business. Even a parrot can do that. --Hank | ||||||
183 | Jesus descend into hell | 1 Peter | Hank | 201573 | ||
Hi, Brad :: There can be little doubt that the influence of the Apostles' Creed is at least partially responsible for the widespread and unquestioned acceptance of the teaching that Jesus went to hell between His death and resurrection. Even the clause itself, "He descended into hell" comes straight from the Creed. Some false teachers assert that Jesus suffered in hell after His death on the Cross because His death on the Cross was insufficient for atonement. This is a completely false doctrine that finds no support whatever in Scripture. There is what for me was a helpful article on this subject at the following URL. I've cited it already on this thread, but it would do no harm to list it again, so here it is: http://www.gotquestions.org/did-Jesus-go-to-hell.html ..... This article takes pains to point out that much of the confusion lies in how the Hebrew and Greek words for Sheol and Hades respectively are translated into English in a number of versions. Anyway, I found the article helpful and hope you will too. It's good to have you on SBF, Brad. --Hank | ||||||
184 | Jesus descend into hell | 1 Peter | Hank | 201572 | ||
Another article that addresses the question of whether Jesus descended into hell between His death and resurrection may be found at http://www.gotquestions.org/did-Jesus-go-to-hell.html --Hank | ||||||
185 | Does God use guilt in our lives? | John 16:8 | Hank | 201547 | ||
Dear deakduck2 :: David's prayer which constitutes Psalm 51 is ample evidence that the answer to your question is a definite yes. ..... Not only do I bid you welcome to SBF but observe that your user name is quite imaginative. There just has to be a story behind a name like that. :-) --Hank | ||||||
186 | easter egg hunt in sanctuary | Col 3:1 | Hank | 201512 | ||
No, windsongchloe, I do not believe it is wrong for you to be upset by your church's allowing its sanctuary to be turned into a hiding place for Easter eggs! That would upset me too, big time. ...... How does hiding Easter eggs in God's house glorify Him? What does hiding eggs have to do with worshiping the resurrected Christ? When these kids grow up, are they going to remember the sanctuary as the place where people worshipped God -- or where they had fun searching for Easter eggs? Those seem fair enough questions to ask, and they should be asked of your pastor and the church's leadership. ...... Do they not know that the very word "Easter" comes from the name of a pagan goddess of spring, that bunnies and eggs are also associated with pagan rites, and that modern Easter is nothing on earth but a crassly commerical claptrap designed to sell chocolate bunnies, egg-filled baskets and frilly clothing? ...... Many churches, including the church that my wife and I are members of, do not use the word Easter at all, but instead call the day Resurrrection Sunday. And we do not sponsor Easter-egg hunts! --Hank | ||||||
187 | Help, parents need encouragement! | 2 Tim 3:16 | Hank | 201451 | ||
Colin -- It's good to learn that you have remained at least a reader of SBF. We "old timers" as you dub the regular and long-time users of Study Bible Forum do our best to keep the Forum on track and in accord with the guidelines laid down by the Lockman Foundation. We envisage SBF as being a Q and A of Bible questions and Bible answers and believe that that is the proper scope and interpretation of the terms of usage you will find in the guidelines published on this website. Moreover, as the Lockman Foundation subscribes to the doctrine of sola scriptura, in like manner so do we. And sola scripturaclearly encompasses the idea of the sufficiency of Scripture. It is regrettable that you view as "lousy" treatment the sincere efforts of many of the respondents on this thread to defend "sola scriptura" and keep the Forum focused on the primary purposes for which it was designed and which remain to this day its chief raison d'etre. I fail to see in any of the responses evidence that the questioner was treated unkindly or insultingly. Every good wish and God's grace to you, friend. --Hank | ||||||
188 | Help, parents need encouragement! | 2 Tim 3:16 | Hank | 201426 | ||
Hello, justme :: Thank you for your response and for the spirit in which it was given. As most of us long-time regular users of SBF know very well, it is easy enough to misunderstand as well as to be misunderstood. A Forum is not the same thing as a back-and-forth exchange of ideas and information in person. We try to smile with the use of the symbol :-) and stress our arguments with a !Beyond that we must rely solely on the written word. And it is a fact that we all of us sometimes fail to express in words exactly what is on our minds and in our hearts. To quote a famous line from the movie "Cool Hand Luke" -- "What we have here is a failure to communicate." ..... When you posted your question and followed it up by insisting on a recommendation by Forum members of a book or books by living authors that had to do with your question, I believe this set off a signal to some of your correspondents to defend the Forum's strongly held position of sola scriptura. That is to say that the normative procedure on SBF is to ask Bible questions and give Bible answers without giving precedence to secular works. Another way of putting the matter is this: While references to and quotations from certain secular works, such as orthodox commentaries, sermons, etc. are not prohibited on SBF and are generally recognized as having value to the extent that they may illuminate difficult portions of Scripture, they are in no wise to be thought of or used as an alternative to or substitute for Scripture. ...... Justme, it is my considered opinion that respondents on this thread such as Doc, Humbled, WOS and I were acting in good faith to defend sola scriptura because it appeared, at least to me, that secular works were being sought as the primary source of information with Scripture being used as a supplement or even an option. I believe that certain secular works, if selected with wisdom and discretion, can in some measure and to a limited degree help to EXPLAIN difficult portions of Scripture. That is the stated purpose of most study Bible, for example. I do not believe that any secular work ever SUPPLEMENTS Scripture. ...... Sir, I do not believe your intentions were to dishonor the word of God! Your post to which this is a response says as much, and I am perfectly willing to take you at your word. ...... So the mild brouhaha that has occurred on this thread was more than likely a matter of misunderstanding -- ours of your intent and you of ours. Let's let it pass and use it as a growing and learning experience. Let's not quibble about it any longer and let's not bear ill will one toward another. Rather let's continue to love one another and in all things strive to bring glory to our blessed Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Grace to you, justme. --Hank | ||||||
189 | Is there info @ dinos? Kidz ask. | Job 40:15 | Hank | 201404 | ||
Hi, Angela :: Another welcome to Study Bible Forum. As a graduate of Liberty Univeristy, you will doubtlessly find that the principles promulgated by SBF under the aegis of the Lockman Foundation are not unlike those for which your alma mater has long stood. ..... About the dinosaur question, Angela, you might find it helpful to browse through the many articles on creation at icr.org ..... All the articles in this website are written by conservative Christians who are also graduate scientists. No junk promoting evolution will be found here. On the contrary, much will be found to refute the godless theory. You will need to adapt the material before presenting it to young minds as most of it is written on a college level. ..... One suggestion for you. Perhaps it would be good to weave into your presentation to the little ones the whole Genesis story of God's marvelous and mighty creation rather than center on dinosaurs. I'm a father and grand-father and know full well the utter fascination kids have for these creatures, but in my opinion kids need most of all to get the big picture of creation instead of concentrating on the fascinating dinosaurs. --Hank | ||||||
190 | Help, parents need encouragement! | 2 Tim 3:16 | Hank | 201379 | ||
A resounding amen to your post, WOS! The Bible, the living word of the living God, is the only truly seminal source of truth, the only sure counsel for the problems that beset mankind, the only abiding and eternal lamp to his feet and light to his path (cf. Psalm 119:105). ...... I grew up in a time when in American publishing history there was a genuine plethora of so-called how-to publications, also known as self-help books. You could buy books that would tell you "how to" do virtually anything. How to win friends, get a job, become a millionaire, lose weight, become a glamorous movie star, think positively, understand Einstein's theory of relativity -- the list was practically endless. Yet those books that were on everybody's best-seller lists in the middle of last century largely have faded into oblivion. Most of them are out of print and few among the younger generation have ever heard of them, much less read them. So if we should hasten to recommend a current book that claims to reveal an easy way to solve tough human problems, such as delicate human relationships, we should be especially careful, being mindful that that book will more than likely turn out to be no easy fix at all. And it will just as likely prove to be as superficial and as ephemeral as the once highly acclaimed self-help books of yesteryear. ...... Somewhere on this thread a user was somewhat critical of other users who had unequivocally cited the Bible above all other books as the supreme source book to study in an effort to find the answer -- God's answer -- to the question that generated the thread. But, seeing no fault in citing God's word as being all-sufficient, I can't in any manner or on any point agree with that critic. We either believe in and accept in toto Hebrews 4:12, or else we reject it. There is no middle ground, no room for bargaining. ...... Sir Walter Scott, the great Scottish novelist, on his deathbed asked his son-in-law, John Lockhart, to read to him. Looking over the long shelf of books that Sir Walter had written, Lockhart asked, "What book shall I read?" The dying novelist replied, "Why do you ask that question? There is but one book, the Bible. Bring me the Bible. Read to me from that book." ..... When we need counsel, when we need answers to our most pressing questions, when we need nourishment for our souls and strength to carry on, we should not need to seek in vain to find solace in some book that frail man has written. We should seek solace where it can be found, in God's word. ...... "There is but one book, the Bible. Bring me the Bible. Read to me from that book." ....... "All Scripture is breathed out by God and is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work" (2 Timothy 3:16,17, ESV) --Hank | ||||||
191 | i would like to go into the study bible | Bible general Archive 4 | Hank | 201254 | ||
Hello, Michael :: This is something I've been meaning to do for a long time. You are now in your fifth year as a registrant of and contributor to Study Bible Forum, but we have not the pleasure of reading your personal profile because none exists! Now it is far from my intent to obtrude upon your privacy by asking your to reveal any personal information that you'd prefer to keep private, but nearly all of us veterans of SBF have entered certain items of information about ourselves that are designed to help our peers know us a little better. If you have not already done so, a visit to the personal profile page of some of the regular users will give you some idea of the kinds of data that other users have chosen to include in their profiles. It's good to have you as a regular on SBF, Michael. Won't you consider adding a personal profile? It would help us to get to know you a little bit better. Very cordially, --Hank. | ||||||
192 | could raised from the dead be spiritual | Bible general Archive 4 | Hank | 201253 | ||
holyours :: Warm wishes and welcome from a native of Tennessee who is now your nearby neighbor in the Arkansas Ozarks! Thanks for submitting your question to SBF. We hope to be able to help and suggest it might be advantageous if you tied it to specific passages of Scripture that you perhaps have in mind. Could you do that for us, please? --Hank | ||||||
193 | how many verses in the whole bible | Bible general Archive 4 | Hank | 201075 | ||
John, better to count kinda slow than not at all I suppose. Most of my neighbors here in the Ozarks can't count past 10 without taking their shoes off. But the good news is that most of them don't wear shoes anyhow. :-) --Hank | ||||||
194 | how many verses in the whole bible | Bible general Archive 4 | Hank | 201072 | ||
Well, Azure, let me see. I began counting verses when I was about 14 and finished just before turning 70! Now please be merciful and don't ask me to make a recount! :-) --Hank | ||||||
195 | how many verses in the whole bible | Bible general Archive 4 | Hank | 201070 | ||
cjg :: There are 31,101 verses in the King James Bible. --Hank | ||||||
196 | Example of the definition of insanity | Judg 8:23 | Hank | 201009 | ||
phand :: Distinctly I remember reading many years ago as a very young Christian of the foolishness of God's people in Old Testament times: how they turned from worship of God to idols, how they yearned to be like the pagan nations around them, and of how rapidly they forgot what God had done for them. And I marveled at how anyone could be so dim-witted and short-sighted as those people were in ancient times. We've certainly come a long way since then, I reasoned, and no one today worships golden calves and all that sort of thing today. We're much too civilized, too educated, too smart, too sophisticated to do dumb things like that. Looking backward upon my early years, I now realize how very naive I was. Man sins as grievously today as he did then. He hasn't invented any new sins. With modern technology he has learned how to sin in new "space-age" ways perhaps, but sin is still sin, isn't it? We have our own versions of the golden calf, and idolatry is idolatry whether its object is a golden calf or lusting after fame or power or money -- anything whatever that man allows to come between him and God. The world still lures us and we want to be part of the action. And how easily we forget -- or don't care -- what Jesus did for us on the cross. ..... To think that man is becoming better and better, to believe that he is somehow on an evolutionary path that eventually will take him to perfection is nothing short of self-deception. As you say, "Sinful nature is sinful nature." And as the Scripture says, "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23). And it says also that there is salvation in no other but Jesus Christ, for there is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved (see Acts 4:10-12). .... By the way, welcome to Study Bible Forum. It's good to have you with us! --Hank | ||||||
197 | What is verse about crying, will changed | 1 Cor 15:51 | Hank | 200975 | ||
Wendi, you may be thinking of 1 Corinthians 15:51: "Behold, I show you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed." I once heard a pastor say in jest that this verse is a good description of what goes on with the little ones in the church nursery. :-) --Hank | ||||||
198 | What does "Edens Dawn Light Mean?" | Heb 2:9 | Hank | 200956 | ||
Brother Steve :: Everything you said about "The Message" is perfectly true. The publisher's blurb about this free and loose paraphrase being an accurate communication of the original languages is pure hogwash. And if Peterson sensed that his congregants became so "bored with the biblical text" that he felt constrained to write them a Bible that is roughly on the same linguistic level as a nursery rhyme, one wonders at the median age of his congregation. Surely it must not be more four years old. ...... How, I ask, how could any regenerate believer in the Lord grow bored by His precious word? The answer to this kind of boredom is to be found deep in the human heart, not in any re-written "message." How many times have I read Psalm 23 in the King James Bible? The number is legion, but never, never, never have I become bored with it! How many times did the old divines read Scripture over and over and yet over again? George Muller read the Bible through some 200 times. Many of them committed huge portions of God's word to memory. Were these men of God bored with God's word? There is no evidence that they were. On the contrary, George Muller described himself as a "happy, happy man." ...... So what's behind all this dumbing down of Scripture? Is it a hew and cry from the reading public, or is it something else? Something else like money for example. Most publishers of Bibles and religious books are in the business to make a profit (The Lockman Foundation, sponsers of this Forum, is a notable exception). --Hank | ||||||
199 | What does "Edens Dawn Light Mean?" | Heb 2:9 | Hank | 200933 | ||
"The Message" is not a bona fide translation of Scripture. It is, at best, a very loose -- and in spots, a very wild -- paraphrase. I wouldn't think of ever using it for Bible study; I wouldn't even recommend it merely for reading. Can it, or any other paraphrases that take such liberties with the Hebrew and Greek texts, be called the word of God? I say no, absolutely not. They are not transparencies of the ancient texts. The reader is not getting in English a true translation of the ancient tongues. Instead, he is getting a paraphrastic substitute that has been filtered through the minds of men to give the reader not what God said, but what the people who make a living compiling paraphrased versions think He may have meant. ..... As an afterword, it is my conviction that loosely paraphrased renditions of Holy Writ deserve no space on the bookshelves of serious Bible students. Neither do they merit usage on Study Bible Forum unless it is purely didactic in order to point out how absurd and off-the-mark some of them are. ...... There are ample excellent translations available in English, e.g., KJV, NKJV, NASB, ESV (English Standard Version) and HCSB (Holman Christian Standard Bible). So why would anyone want to waste his money and time on loosey-goosey paraphrases when for the same money and in the same amount of time he can own and read a faithful translation? --Hank | ||||||
200 | Who decides which marriages God honors? | Ephesians | Hank | 200786 | ||
Dear Mainey : As over the years on this forum I've surveyed the great number of personal problems that have been presented on these pages, many of them break my heart and all of them make me want to reach out and help. But, alas, a vehicle such as this forum is not suited for personal counselling, even if I were a professional couselor of some sort, which I am not. So when we urge inquirers to seek counsel from their pastors or other qualified persons, we are not giving them a quick brush off to get rid of them! I don't believe any of our regular users of SBF would ever do that. ...... Mainey, may I please urge you (and your wife, if she is willing) to seek personal counsel within your community? Problems of this sort don't usually solve themselves but often have a way of hanging on. They need to be worked out and not left alone to grow and fester. ..... You asked what would Jesus do? Well, sir, I don't know. I happen not to like the WWJD questions, because they are more likely to lead us into speculation than to provide solid guidance from the word of God. For example, you ask what would Jesus do if He were in your situation. Well, to begin with, Jesus never married. So how can anyone answer that question without engaging in some highly speculative and purely abstract guesses? The better question, it seems to me, would be, "What did Jesus teach?" and, by extension, What does the entire word of God teach? -- for there is no contradiction between the the two. ...... God's grace to you, sir, and it is my prayer that you and your wife will find solution to your problem. --Hank | ||||||
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