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2061 | can I chat with other christians | 2 Tim 2:15 | Hank | 115066 | ||
Please click "About the Forum" listed under "Resources" on the left margin of StudyBibleForum home page. This is not a "chat room." --Hank | ||||||
2062 | 5 ways Joseph was like Jesus | 2 Tim 2:15 | Hank | 149976 | ||
Hellboy666: Along with BradK, I'm also curious about your choice of such a hideous user name to identify you on a Bible study Forum. Have you read Revelation 13:11-18? ..... If your user name describes who you are, may God have mercy on you. If it doesn't -- and I hope this is so -- why not e-mail studybibleforum@lockman.org and ask them to change your user name? --Hank | ||||||
2063 | Being a Student | 2 Tim 2:15 | Hank | 155153 | ||
Chumley: Proverbs 12:27 and 15:19 might give you something to think about. And don't forget to read about the good work habits of the little ant in Proverbs 6:6-11. ..... I believe what the Lord is teaching us in these passages is to be up and doing our daily duties instead of being a lazy sluggard! Right now, as a student in school, your job is to hit the books. The work habits you form in your early years, good or bad, will likely follow you the rest of your life. And be sure to read and inculcate in your life right now the wisdom of the message contained in Ecclesiastes 12:1. --Hank | ||||||
2064 | Explain study bible | 2 Tim 2:15 | Hank | 156743 | ||
William, study Bibles have annotations (notes) on the biblical text, usually at the bottom of the same page where the text being referenced appears. To my knowledge, no study Bible exists for the Amplified, but it is of itself a study Bible of sorts. --Hank | ||||||
2065 | where can I find step out in faith | 2 Tim 2:15 | Hank | 157561 | ||
mobubree, Paul in 2 Corinthians 5:7 says, "we walk by faith, not by sight." This is not very far removed from the idea of "stepping out in faith." In Romans 4:12 he speaks of those "who also follow in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham." The apostle John, in his third letter, said, "I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth" (3 John 4). The idea of walking (or "stepping out," if you will) in the faith is expressed many times in Scripture. --Hank | ||||||
2066 | agreed? | 2 Tim 2:15 | Hank | 160173 | ||
Jimmy, how could any serious Bible student not disagree? What you have posted is not an interpretation of Scripture; it is a gross adulteration of Scripture. Neither you nor I nor an angel from heaven has any authority to add to or take from the word of God! The Bible is very clear on this point and exacts severe judgment upon those who attempt it. "But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than that which we have preached to you, let him be accursed" (Galatians 1:8). ..... "For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book" (Revelation 22:18,19). ...... So, let's have no more of this nonsense on Study Bible Forum. --Hank | ||||||
2067 | 30 minute fun bible study for couples | 2 Tim 2:15 | Hank | 168205 | ||
Doug, if the "one-night 30-minute fun Bible study" that you are seeking were truly unique, it would mean that no one has ever done it before! And that's unlikely. If you'd be willing to settle for something that is rare this days, but not unique, why not form a circle of the four couples, supply each person with a Bible in a translation common to all, and beginning with Luke's Gospel have each person in turn read aloud a verse, and so proceed around the circle until the allotted 30 minutes are up. I can't guarantee that your guests will break up with roaring laughter, but some of them just might discover that plain old Bible reading is fun in the loftiest possible sense of the word. ..... I'm not unaware that there are some Bible "fun games" such as "Bible Trivia" but I do not recommend using God's precious word as a backdrop for silly parlor games. Hence, I am not particularly fond of the term "fun Bible study." 2 Timothy 3:16 lists four distinct ways in which the Bible is profitable, but "having fun" with it is not one of them! Thanks for your question, Doug. --Hank | ||||||
2068 | question about relationship | 2 Tim 2:15 | Hank | 169382 | ||
sac, you ask what to do? Why ask? It should be clear to you, my friend, that a single man doesn't make dates with a married woman! Nip this thing in the bud, tell your ex-girlfriend to stop calling you, and possibly suggest she seek qualified counsel. To continue is to play with fire, and you may be the one who gets burned. Read Exodus 20:17. --Hank | ||||||
2069 | name and claim.. is it Biblical? | 2 Tim 2:15 | Hank | 178237 | ||
hesees - Context! Context! Context! The Bible is to be studied as a unified and progressive revelation of God to mankind. Thus context is vitally important. The "golden rule" to follow in the study of God's word was laid down by the apostle Paul to young Timothy in 2 Timothy 2:15: "Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth." ..... This approach to the word of truth is no less applicable to followers of Christ today than it was to Timothy some two thousand years ago. ..... Plucking a verse here and there at random without regard to context is a risky business. Cults and false teachers frequently fall prey to this error and thereby lead countless numbers of people astray. --Hank | ||||||
2070 | Jesus ordained twelve | 2 Tim 2:15 | Hank | 182517 | ||
Dear Sir or Madam Box - "Jesus ordained twelve" is a nice 'question' and goes well with one of my favorites, which is "Peter denied thrice." --Hank | ||||||
2071 | bible questions | 2 Tim 2:15 | Hank | 183063 | ||
sheeja - Please break your questions down, asking only one at a time. If these are "homework" questions, as they have every appearance of being, it is strongly recommended that you do your best to research and answer them yourself. Read 2 Timothy 2:15. ..... Welcome to SBF. We are here to study God's word together but not to offer a panacea or a substitute for what one should dig out for himself. We hope you understand our mission and purpose and why we take this position. If you need help learning how to research Scripture, some of us will be happy to pass along a few tips. --Hank | ||||||
2072 | can i lable myself an apostle | 2 Tim 2:15 | Hank | 187194 | ||
Hi, jdv - Sure, you can label yourself an apostle if you like -- or even a space cadet -- and so can I, but that doesn't make us apostles or space cadets, does it? ..... Teachings of the Restoration movement have no firm basis in Scripture. To read what restorationism teaches and see its errors exposed by the truth of Scripture, go to: http://www.gotquestions.org/Restoration.movement.html ..... I believe this scripturally sound link will prove enlightening to you and perhaps to some of the other readers of the Forum as well. --Hank | ||||||
2073 | can i lable myself an apostle | 2 Tim 2:15 | Hank | 187196 | ||
jdv - CORRECTION of URL. In my previous post, I missed the correct URL by a dash (-)! The correct link is: http://www.gotquestions.org/Restoration-movement.html .... Sorry for the typo. --Hank | ||||||
2074 | hate crime? | 2 Tim 2:15 | Hank | 189351 | ||
God's Elect - You say that the world is an evil place and this is so. ..... You ask what is coming to this country. What is coming to this country, the United States, or any other country on earth, my friend, is known only to God. Those of us who believe in God and His absolute sovereignty have no reason to fear the evil one, for "we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose" (Romans 8:28,KJV). ..... This is not ostrich-in-the-sand escapism nor is it Pollyanish or Micawberesque wishful thinking. It is the immutable promise of God to His called in Christ. ..... It is possible, perhaps even reasonable, to suppose that Christians may in time be arrested and severely persecuted in this country for standing up for their faith in Christ and His word. Persecution is not an unknown entity. Disciples of Christ were persecuted in the days of the young Church, and persecution continues still in various parts of the world. But "what shall separate us from the love of Christ?" Paul asks in Romans 8:35. "Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?" ...... "For I am persuaded," Paul wrote in Romans 8:38,29, "that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor pincipalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord." ...... Brother, I've lived on this earth for more than three score and ten years and have in that time seen many changes, and changes continue still at an accelerated pace. And out of my 58 years as a Christian I have learned to trust only Him who loved me ere I knew Him and shed His precious blood on the cross so that I might have life eternal. We all of us who know Him have victory in Him. We don't have any reason to fret or lay waste our lives in fear, shaking in our boots like craven cowards, worrying about what might happen to us, or to this country, or to any other country, in the future. We Christians not infrequently tend act as though the burden of the world were upon our shoulders. It is not. God is in control. He runs His universe. We don't. And we'll never succeed in robbing God of his sovereignty! ....... The Preacher of Ecclestiastes, having explored all the avenues available to him in search of pleasure and wisdom, happiness and contentment, ended his book with these centuries-old words, "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man" (Ecclesiastes 12:13). And it still is. ...... To sum up your question: Scripture does not tell us precisely what is coming to this country. But it does tell us something that I deem infinitely more important. It teaches us to trust in the Lord. And it teaches us how to live to His glory in spite of any adversity that may come upon us. Soli Deo Gloria! --Hank | ||||||
2075 | The entire spiritual meaning of Agabov | 2 Tim 2:15 | Hank | 193078 | ||
bjenkin - Two comments: (1) Questions posed on Study Bible Forum are to be responded to on Study Bible Forum and not by private e-mail, if you please. (2) Your question is not clear. Assuming the word (Greek? Hebrew?) you submitted means locust, then it problably means locust. period. It is almost always wrong to presume that words in the Bible mean something esoteric beyond their plain and usual meaning. If a passage is written to be interpreted as symbolic or allegorical, the context will make it clear. Otherwise, it is bad business to spiritualize Scripture in an attempt to force Scripture to say what it does not say. When the Bible speaks of locusts it is speaking of locusts, not elephants or salvation or anything else. --Hank | ||||||
2076 | How do I obtain what I'm asking for? | 2 Tim 2:15 | Hank | 199979 | ||
David :: In Matthew 6:9-13 our Lord gave to us who are His disciples some very precious insights to aid us in our prayer life. Commonly called the "Lord's Prayer" it is more accurate to think of it as a pattern for prayer that Jesus gave His followers. It is brief but it deserves intensive study and reflection, for Jesus put much in few words. In this short response to your question, I'd like to touch upon only four words that appear near the beginning of the prayer. The words are "Thy will be done." They tell us that the major purpose of prayer is to get exactly the very things we want, such as health, happiness and gobs of money, that all we need do is to "name it and claim it." Right? ...... No! Not in a million years! ...... But what it does tell us immediately is that prayer has one major purpose, and that is to seek out and find the will of God. Jesus did not teach His disciples in this brief passage that prayer is a wrestling match with God whereby we attempt to pin God down and bend His will to ours. Nor is prayer an exercise in which we bargain with God by trying to talk Him into doing something we want done in reward for "being good." Knowing God's will comes from knowing God's word and praying in the Holy Spirit of God as He leads, interceding for us in our prayers, for in our weaknesses we do not know what we should pray for as we ought. (See Romans 8:26). --Hank | ||||||
2077 | Oxford Study vs Oxford Annotated Bibles | 2 Tim 2:15 | Hank | 204244 | ||
Dear Elaine :: You asked whether you should get the Oxford Study Bible (RSV) or the New Oxford Annotated Bible (NSRV), or both. How about neither? ..... There are better and more conservative study Bibles and truer translations available than either of these. Here are some recommendations for your consideration. ..... The MacArthur Study Bible, available in either the NASB or NKJV ..... The Reformation Study Bible, in the English Standard Version (ESV), edited by R. C. Sproul .... The King James Study Bible, published by Nelson ..... Ryrie Study Bible, in the King James or the New American Standard (NASB) ..... The Believer's Study Bible, edited by W. A. Criswell, (NKJV), published by Thomas Nelson. ....... I recommend any of these Study Bibles over either of the Oxfords and the Harper-Collins; and any of the translations over the RSV and NRSV. --Hank | ||||||
2078 | Is NASB better than other translations? | 2 Tim 2:15 | Hank | 211998 | ||
svickers2 ... You ask why the New American Standard Bible should be preferred over the King James Verson or other translations. That's a good question. Let's see what kind of answer we can come up with. ....... First, let's consider the KJV and the NASB, and let me spare no admiration for the masterpiece of them all, the King James Bible. The KJV has been called "the noblest monument to Englsh prose" and rightly so, for perhaps no English translation of the Scriptures before or since 1611 has captured the poetry and music of the language quite as majestically as has the King James Bible. The KJV is a venerable translation and honored by time: it's been around some 400 years. but therein lies a problem. The English language has changed dramatically since 1611, the year the first edition of the King James Bible was published. A great deal of the vocabulary and syntax that the KJV translators used sounds strange to the modern ear and is difficult reading for many modern readers. Some words have changed their meaning and a few of them actually mean the opposite of what they meant to readers of the Jacobean English in 1611. So point one in favor of the NASB is that the language is contemporary and thus more readily understood. being rendered in the standard English of our time. ........ During the last 400 years since the KJV was translated, there have been significant discoveries in archaelogy, ancient cultures and languages. as well as discoveries of a large number of biblical manuscripts that were not extant when the KJV was translated. This is point two in favor of the NASB. To conclude: the NASB should be preferred over the KJV if one desires to read and study an excellent, reliable translation in modern English that a number of scholars have called the most literally accurate translation in English. ...... The "other translations" available today may be sorted into two general groups, the formal word-for-word group and the paraphrase group. Among the former are. for example, the English Standard Version (ESV) and the New King James Version (NKJV) The ESV is essentially a revision of the Revised Standard Version and the NKJV is, of course, an attempt to modernize the KJV. ....... The fancy term "dynamic equivalance" was invented some years ago and used instead of the word "paraphrase" to describe the translation philosophy followed by the New International Version and other versions. But the result is the same: they are paraphrased versions rather than formal word-for-word tranlations. Among the paraphrased versions, the New International Version (NIV) and the New Living Translation (NLT) are well known and championed by those who like the "natural" style of these versions and are not averse to a paraphristic treatment of the sacred text........ As long-time readers of this Forum know, I am not at all fond of paraphrasing the Scriptures, preferring to read and study a translation that is as transparent of the ancient manuscripts as is possible consistenct with the conventions of the receptor language. Paraphrasing has its troubles, not the least of which is that it places upon the translator the enormous burden of having to tell his readers not what the Lord said in His book, but what He meant by what He said. I much prefer to read for myself what the Lord actually said and pray for illumination by the Holy Spirit instead of relying on a translator for it. ....... Summary: There are many versions on the market. One could argue that there are too many. A few are very good; many are not so good. I don't subscribe to the dictum I've heard so many times, that the best version is the one you like. That's like saying that the best food for your body is chocolate candy because you like it so well! Steer clear of versions written by cults and those written in English dialect. Sample various versions. Read what respected conservative scholars and pastors say about them. I like to read thoughtful criticisms as well as endorsements. And keep several different translations handy. Occasionally when I'm stumped by a difficult locution in one translation, I find that another translation frequently helps to clear things up. For what it's worth, my "main four" Bible translations are, listed alphabetically, ESV, KJV, NASB, NKJV. --Hank | ||||||
2079 | power of godliness denying power thereof | 2 Tim 3:5 | Hank | 25987 | ||
GEORGIEE, the Scripture is from 2 Timothy 3:5 and reads as follows: "holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; avoid such men as these." Paul was describing for young Timothy the conditions of apostasy to expect "in the last days" -- i.e., the period between the writing of this letter and the Lord's return (v.1), and lists (v.2-4) a number of things that characterize these difficult times. "Holding to a form of godliness" means having an outer appearance or semblance of godliness without any real spiritual depth or dynamic. A good idiom for it is giving lip service. The Pharisees were especially good at this and Jesus rebuked them severely for it. --Hank | ||||||
2080 | Why is "is" in 2 Tim 3:16 in | 2 Tim 3:16 | Hank | 3058 | ||
Bud, your question is decidedly not a nit-picking one and involves issues far wider than a simple parsing of what "is" is. If the true sense of Paul's meaning were to be construed that "all Scripture inspired by God is profitable..." it would change the dynamic materially with far-reaching consequences. We would find ourselves in the unhappy position of then seeking to determine which parts of Scripture are inspired by God and which are not. By what yardstick are we to measure that? The obvious answer is that we have no such yardstick. I shudder to think what total confusion would ensue if this line of interpretation prevailed. One alternate reading of this passage that has been proffered reads, "All Scripture, because it is God-breathed, is profitable..." I cannot shed any light on the italicized "is" in the earlier edition of the Amplified. Perhaps the translators erred and corrected it in subsequent editions. The Bible is a large and enormously complex book, and translators, after all, have feet of clay along with the rest of us. A boo-boo here and there is virtually inevitable, especially in a first edition of a new translation. Look at how many revisions the revered King James Version has undergone in its long history. As you have noted, the NASB uses the "is" without italics, footnotes or other embellishment. I believe, the NASB translators' fidelity to the ancient texts being what it is, we have both the words and the meaning of the original text. Hank. | ||||||
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