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241 | what does slain in the spirit mean? | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 115536 | ||
kalos: I fear there is painful truth in your assessment, and such a pity too, in spite of the efforts of the Foundation and the few users who have labored long and faithfully to make the Forum measure up at least to minimal standards for accuracy and reliability. The caveat to new and unseasoned Christians and other seekers must remain: Check, check, double check what you read here. Observe and compare the material contained herein with the teaching of Scripture. Sometimes I despair at the seemingly insoluble paradox this Forum presents to me. It is an excellent site to vent one's opinions, although that's far from its purpose. But it is a poor site to learn reliable scriptural exegesis, although that is its purpose. --Hank | ||||||
242 | what does slain in the spirit mean? | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 115560 | ||
Christian7: How nice to hear from you again. Thanks for the nod and the encouragement. --Hank | ||||||
243 | How can I deal with satan showing hiself | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 116450 | ||
igtg: Your intentions may well be good, but this person to whom you responded doesn't need your unqualified guess. As I suggested to this person in my previous post, a consult with a qualified professional is indicated in the event the problem continues. We must be responsible on this Forum and refrain from dispensing advice, making a diagonosis, or prescribing a treatment when we are neither qualified to do so nor fully apprised of the scope of the problem. --Hank | ||||||
244 | people comminting susiced | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 117254 | ||
Hello, Johnny: You ask whether it's possible for a saved person to commit suicide. Yes, it is. Someone near and dear to me, a person who I'm convinced beyond any doubt, was a bona fide regenerated believer, made a very real attempt to take her own life. She did not succeed because of swift medical intervention that saved her life. She was old and she had dementia. We cannot make a blanket statement that saved persons cannot commit suicide. They can and they do. --Hank | ||||||
245 | satan in the Passion movie | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 117344 | ||
Really? Prove it. --Hank | ||||||
246 | Is Moses in Heaven or Hell | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 117375 | ||
This is pretty standard Watchtower stuff. Do you folks follow Watchtower teachings fairly closely? --Hank | ||||||
247 | What do put in the perfect study bible? | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 117560 | ||
Medchill: "...and version choice can be divisive." Why do you say that? --Hank | ||||||
248 | Bible version can become an idol? | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 117562 | ||
Rowdy: Old Testament not applicable, is that what you say? Well, at least Ted Turner agrees on this, in part at any rate. He is on record as saying the Ten Commandments are outmoded and not applicable to modern society. ..... The Old Testament not applicable? Hmmm...wonder why Jesus and His apostles quoted it so much? ...... The Old Testament not applicable? What do you suppose we should do with it? One thing's for sure, if we tossed it away, it'd sure make Bibles a heap lighter to lug around. .... Now, Rowdy, surely you don't think God has effectively nullified two-thirds of his Word by replacing the Old Testament with the New, do you? --Hank | ||||||
249 | Gods view of David vs. Saul | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 117566 | ||
Would an occasional scriptural reference be asking too much, especially by those of us who still have gaps to fill in our knowledge and command of the written word of God? Since this is a study Bible Forum, I suppose one would not think it altogether out of line to replace ever so often a "Personally, I think" with a "Thus says the Lord." It probably would be appreciated and, who knows, it might even start a trend. --Hank | ||||||
250 | Bible version can become an idol? | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 117605 | ||
Rowdy: You continue to pontificate without troubling yourself with scriptural evidence of what you are saying. In Post # 117588, you make a number of assertions about the Old Testament for none of which do you offer an iota of scriptural proof. In particular, I believe you owe to kalos and me as well as to other readers of this Forum explanation and scriptural reference for the following statements: "...it (the Old Testament) has no authority in our lives. It's a dead body of laws..." Prove it, Rowdy. Show us conclusively that the Old Testament is a dead body of laws that has no authority in our lives. And please don't respond with some defensive tactic, some generality. Speak to the topic specifically, I ask you. Better still, let Scripture speak to the topic. We already know what your opinions are. Give us some biblical facts, please. While we're exploring the idea of the Old Testament being a dead body of laws, why don't we try to fit THAT idea into 2 Timothy 3:16 and Hebrews 4:12. ..... 2 Timothy 3:16 says, "ALL Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness." ..... Hebrews 4:12 says, "For the word of God is living and active (dead laws neither live nor act) and sharper than any two-edged sword...." --Hank | ||||||
251 | What do put in the perfect study bible? | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 117686 | ||
Yes, I understand. Thanks much for responding. --Hank | ||||||
252 | Cup Passed? | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 118175 | ||
CDBJ: It's funny how a nom de plume can be descriptive of the literary production of the author. Take, for example, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who is more popularly known as Mark Twain. The term "mark twain" was in common usage in the golden days of Mississippi River steamboating, and much of Mark Twain's literary output had to do with life on the Mississippi. Yes, pen names can be descriptive all right. I could give other examples in literature, of course, or even examples from this very Forum of how user names sometimes tend to reflect the nature of their posts. But I won't. It might be too Rowdy of me to do so at this time. --Hank | ||||||
253 | Cup Passed? | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 118176 | ||
Colin: What a comfort it must be to you to have your questions "acknowledged" with a promise to "do more homework and get back to you." How delightful it might be and what surcease of consternation to see, just once, some doing of homework by your correspondent in advance of posting. Or is this asking too much? --Hank | ||||||
254 | NIV bible | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 118431 | ||
Mawxsix: If you find parallel editions of the Bible helpful, fine. They may be useful for those who can abide them. I owned a parallel once. As I recall, it had four versions. I ended up giving it away. It drove me nuts. It was like trying to listen to four people tell me their version of the same story all at the same time. My mind works best running on one track at a time, and it's hard enough to keep it on that one track, much less two or four! ..... I started out using the King James exclusively -- not that I've ever been a member of the odd bunch called the KJV Onlyists -- because back then the King James Bible was the only one in town. Later on I switched to the Revised Standard Version and used it for a couple of decades. Then along came the New King James Version. I test drove it, liked it, and adopted it as my version of choice. Most recently, however, I've grown to like and trust the NASB. I have found it to be what it's advertised to be, the most literally accurate translation in the English language. It has its warts and lumps and its occasional odd turns of phrase. It isn't perfect, but no translation is, notwithstanding what the rooters for the KJV may say about it. The perfect translation is yet to be made. Formal, word-for-word translators have a tough go of it to reproduce a transparency of the original manuscripts while at the same time producing standard English that is both clear and readable. The NASB is not as smooth as the NIV, but the NASB translators did not allow themselves in a word-for-word translation the same liberty that the NIV translators allowed themselves in a so-called dynamic equivalency translation. I believe it is not inaccurate to say that the greater the leaning toward paraphrase the greater the opportunity and the temptation to insert into the text interpretation and commentary. Hence, we are in some danger of being told less of what the passage actually says and more of what the translators think it means. One has only to pick up a copy of the "The Living Bible" or "The Message" to get the feel of how loose paraphrasing can add a disturbingly different flavor to the biblical text. --Hank | ||||||
255 | NIV bible | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 118439 | ||
Colin: Regarding your tax quagmire, had Shakespeare penned his memorable injunction, "Beware the Ides of March!" in our time, I'm convinced he would have amended it to read "Beware the Ides of April!" ..... And I like that you like that I like the NASB. I must confess to a slight hubris when in a group study I read from my NASB with felicity while others around me are subjecting themselves to untold agony trying to deciper in their King James an obscure word or locution which has long since passed into desuetude. --Hank | ||||||
256 | Does the OT apply to us as christians? | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 118468 | ||
Rowdy: "The scriptures in Galatians 3 make it very clear that the authority for the OT is no longer applicable to us as Christians, especially when it is in conflict with the NT." ...... Are you suggesting that God contradicts His own word? Wherein does any portion of Scripture conflict with any other portion? Cite any two passages anywhere in Scripture that are in conflict with one another. You use the word "conflict." Let's define "conflict." "Conflict" is a state of disharmony between incompatible or antithetical persons, ideas, or interests; a clash; the quality of being in opposition. ..... Do you view Scripture as being in conflict with itself -- as a house divided against itself? --Hank | ||||||
257 | IM PREACHING ON SUNDAY.................. | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 119233 | ||
EdB: Good advice to SAZ and everyone else too. In his "Autobiography" Ben Franklin said, "I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, 'Without vanity I say...etc.' but that some vain thing immediately followed. Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they may have of it themselves." ..... And speaking of detailing their life of sin to the point it sounds almost as though they were bragging about it brings to mind a little story whose source escapes my recollection. It goes something like this. A young man gave his testimony and dwelled so heavily on his former life of sin, describing it in vivid detail, that it prompted someone in the audience to remark, "Boy, that sure was a good testimony about sin. I can't wait to get out of this church house and have some fun like he did." --Hank | ||||||
258 | IM PREACHING ON SUNDAY.................. | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 119371 | ||
Ed, in line with your post about establishing relationships in connection with witnessing to others -- and I certainly have no problem with that proposition -- there is a fragment of a quote running through my mind, a quote that I heard or read some time ago. It goes roughly like this: "Share the gospel with your friends, family and associates. Use words when necessary." The point of course that the author of the quote was making is that our own lives speak louder than our words. Do you, or does anyone reading this page, happen to know the source of this quote which I have reproduced as accurately as I can recall it? --Hank | ||||||
259 | IM PREACHING ON SUNDAY.................. | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 119440 | ||
Emmaus: The quote does have a Franciscan ring to it. I did a little research this afternoon which confirmed what you said, that St. Francis of Assisi is the likely author. ..... It is for his simple prayer that he is perhaps most remembered. I've always thought it to be one of the most beautiful prayers in the world outside of Scripture. I love it so much that I've decided to share it on this page with anyone who may not be familiar with it: THE PRAYER OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI -- O Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace! ... Where there is hatred, let me sow love ... Where there is injury, pardon; ... Where there is discord, harmony; ... Where there is doubt, faith; ... Where there is despair, hope; ... Where there is darkness, light, and ... Where there is sorrow, joy. ... Oh Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love; for it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life." --Hank | ||||||
260 | can you give some scriptures? | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 119798 | ||
Sir Pent: I'd be interested in learning how a person can survive suicide. --Hank | ||||||
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