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261 | Can the devil tune in to our thoughts? | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 188238 | ||
Hi, Brad -- I've read through this thread this afternoon and conclude that your concerns about it becoming nothing more than conjecture and speculation are clearly justified. ....... The contributors to this thread -- and indeed to this Forum -- sorely need to remind themselves that this is a BIBLE study forum and not an opinion-sharing get together wherein anyone can lay Scripture aside and say whatever pops into his head about any subject that strikes his fancy ...... We all of us need to be reminded that this is a sola scriptura forum, meaning that it attaches no authority whatever to human opinion; but, on the contrary, relies upon the written word of God and that alone. Thus, human experiences, dreams, private revelations, hunches, opinions, conjectures, speculations, feelings, and such like, having nothing to do with the revealed truth of God and no genuine didactic value, are vigorously discouraged on SBF. ..... Let's follow the forum guidelines please. ..... Teaching what the word of God teaches is priceless. Expounding on human opinion is worthless. --Hank | ||||||
262 | By What Right Does God Rule Man? | Ps 2:11 | Hank | 188118 | ||
Hi, panjam - May I extend to you an enthusiastic welcome to SBF and add an "amen" to Steve's (humbled) appreciation for the quality of your initial post to this Forum. It is hoped that you will find this site a place where you can grow in the Lord through study of His word and fellowship with other followers of Christ. If we can help you to get better acquainted with the Forum and its purpose, let us know. A number of the users here have been around quite a while and any of them will be happy to address any questions or concerns you may have. Agape. --Hank | ||||||
263 | By What Right Does God Rule Man? | Ps 2:11 | Hank | 188083 | ||
John, I read the question by this user, could hardly believe my eyes, and must say as one who has been on this Forum almost since it began, that this is one of the most impertinent questions that has ever appeared on the Forum. Your response was pointed all right, but I must confess that I don't blame you for being blunt in your reponse to such an asinine, off-the-wall question as this. --Hank | ||||||
264 | why is mary anointing christ said first | John 11:2 | Hank | 187988 | ||
Rosegirl - I'm with Tim: I don't know anything about Mary and Martha and their friendship with Jesus except what Scripture reveals. ..... I would like to point out something that for years has made a distinct impression on me, and I'll illustrate it in the following way. Several years ago the novels of James A. Michener were quite popular, but if you've ever read Michener you may find, as I have, that he tends to be not a little wordy. Ask Michener the time of day and he is likely to explain in minute detail the history of watchmaking! Ever the avid reader, I read one of his novels, "The Source" I believe it was, and decided to read more Michener. So I picked up another thick book of his called "Texas" and began to wade through it, but I put it down and walked away, having read only about half of it. Why? Too voluminous, too many details. My interest lagged, my concentration flagged, and I found myself nodding off in the presence of so daunting a number of words. I lost sight of the forest by having to read so much detail about the trees! ...... Now, to contrast that kind of writing with the kind we find in God's word. Never have I found myself bogged down by wordiness and struggling to to find the point of a passage. The Bible is written with an economy of words. How can anyone miss the point of Jesus' parables because Jesus got bogged down in detail? He never did that. He was always terse, precise and to the point. ........ All four of the Gospels taken together contain only 82,590 words (in the KJV), yet I don't know of a single "life of Christ" written by an uninspired author that is nearly as brief as all four Gospels of the New Testament put together. ...... So, my point is this: There are no idle words in Scripture, no fillers, no drawn-out background information or detail beyond what the Holy Spirit inspired the human writers to record. Sure, some of us would like to have more detail on this or that, perhaps; but just how necessary is it, really? We have in the 66 books of the Bible, I surely do believe, every word that God wants us to have; every word that is necessary for man to learn of God's plan of redemption; every word that is necessary to teach His followers how to live a life of holiness pleasing to God. In short, "All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work" (2 Timothy 3:16). ...... We know that much more could have been written about the life of Jesus, because John tells us so at the end of his Gospel: "Many other signs Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name (John 20:30,31). No secular writing, however long or short, can make the promise John made! --Hank | ||||||
265 | standards for a preacher/biship | 1 Tim 3:2 | Hank | 187731 | ||
Hi, justme - Yes, I certainly believe you're right in saying that the Lord is in charge and wise in saying that that's where you'll leave it! ...... It is not our mission to pass judgment on the domestic trials and tribulations of Dr. Charles Stanley and the woman he married nearly a half century ago. Nor do we have any business posting to SBF our opinions on this matter, particularly in the absence of all the facts in this case, which, it is safe to assume, none of us has. Of course, those who are without sin are exempt and can hurl as many stones as they wish.... --Hank | ||||||
266 | Are we something before we were somethin | Is 43:7 | Hank | 187611 | ||
Suggest in the strongest possible terms that you research very carefully the teachings and practices of Watchman Nee and Witness Lee before recommending this web site to the readers of Study Bible Forum. There are a number of us on this Forum who object vigorously to this web site being shown and recommended on this Forum. --Hank | ||||||
267 | Numbers 30 Are You Bound To Your First ? | Num 30:1 | Hank | 187586 | ||
Dear Proverb Wife - When a couple of days ago I first read your question to the Forum, I suspected that your high school boyfriend was tied up in cultism. And if the World Wide Church of God founded by Herbert W. Armstrong isn't a cult, then cults don't exist! From the information you've supplied, it looks as though you and your husband have been uncommonly patient and kind in dealing with this interloper, but it's now time to issue him his walking papers. Another way of saying it is, tell him to buzz off. The sanctity of your twenty-year marriage to your husband must be preserved and protected. I wish you well, and my prayers are with both you and your husband. This is a classic case of cultism's way of twisting and warping Scripture in order to try to make it fit their twisted and warped theology. One is wise to pay no heed to anything a cultist teaches. --Hank | ||||||
268 | God grant repentance? | Gal 3:23 | Hank | 187533 | ||
Fine points, excellent and astute, Tim. Thank you very much for bringing them to the attention of our good Forum readers, and a special nod from me for bringing them to mine. Your brother in Christ, --Hank ..... P.S. Not infrequently I have found myself reading along with some notable religious writer, nodding in agreement, and, as time permits, checking out his Bible references and finding, to my dismay much the same thing that you found: that the Bible references just don't quite jive with the writer's points. HH | ||||||
269 | God grant repentance? | Gal 3:23 | Hank | 187483 | ||
Though the seed may not germinate, it does no harm to plant it: "It seems odd that certain men who talk so much of what the Holy Spirit reveals to themselves should think so little of what He has revealed to others." [C. H. Spurgeon] --Hank | ||||||
270 | Who and why..... must be a reason? | Is 43:7 | Hank | 187478 | ||
Well hello, Colin, dear old friend. How delightful to hear from you again. I don't mean to appear obsequious when I say that you have always been one of my favorite people on SBF. Yes, by God's grace, I'm still firing away, Colin, and enjoying life to the fullest. My mind is as agile as it ever was, which is not being boastful, and I have not reached the point of repeating myself. And I don't repeat myself either. My mind is as agile as it ever was. ..... You might try asking Doc whether he recalls having had a friendly encounter with Emmaus on the sola scriptura issue. Doc is a bright cookie and sensible of what he has posted; thus, he may be able to cite chapter and verse for you in the event that he has posted to Emmaus on this subject about which the two have divergent points of view. ..... How delightful it is to hear from you again. I haven't said that to you before, have I? :-) --Hank | ||||||
271 | God grant repentance? | Gal 3:23 | Hank | 187430 | ||
Dear Lookn4 - Unless I completely misread Hopalong's post, I don't think he said that the TEV version is unreliable. What he did say in essence is that he looks on the NASB and ESV as being more literal translations, and so do I. The aim of the TEV translators may indeed be "to provide a faithful translation of the Greek text" as stated in their Preface. And, yes, their aim is the therefore the same as the translators of the NASB and ESV. But the TEV method of achieving this end differs from the methods employed by both the NASB and ESV. The TEV is a so-called thought-for-thought version, a method that relies heavily on paraphrase. The translators propose to tell us, not necessairly what the original writers said, but what they, the translators, think the writers meant by what they said. This not only places an enormous responsibility on the translators to "get it right," but puts the reader in the ignominious position of having the word of God filtered through the minds of the translators. The TEV is by no means the only paraphrased version on the booksellers' shelves. New International Version (and its variants), New Living Translation, and the Message are other examples of paraphrased versions. And there are many more. ....... The New American Standard Bible, King James and New King James Versions, and one of the most recent, the English Standard Version are examples of formal translations, i.e., word-for-word, that seek to be as transparent as possible to the ancient manuscripts. I recommend all the formal translations that I've named here. I do not recommend any of the paraphrases, not even for reading, and certainly not for study. ...... You may have heard the argument, which I deem specious, that a paraphrase is easier to understand than a literal translation. This is simply not true. And even if it were, have we become so mentally lazy that we want everything, including the word of God, spoon fed to us? A nursery rhyme is easier than a Shakespearean sonnet, but do we want to continue to read at the nursery rhyme level all our lives? ..... I'm not preaching to you (not at all, because you note a preference for the NASB in your studies), but I am posting this for the consideration of all our Forum readers, some of whom at various times have expressed a preference for the paraphrases over the literals on the grounds of their being easier to understand. I'm afraid they may have bought the hype of the publishers of these loose translations who, after all, must come up with some excuse for peddling their wares. They will also tell you that it's necessary to put out a new translation every year or two because language is changing. If language were changing as rapidly as they would have us believe, we'd all have to re-learn English about every other year! This is utter baloney. I'm still using the same English I learned when I was two years old -- although I may have added a few words to my vocabularly and polished up my syntax a bit since then -- and that was exactly 70 years ago! Even the venerable Old King James Bible of 1611 is still readable, though admittedly somewhat dated, and the average reader may need a few footnotes to help him with some of the Elizabethan vocabulary and locutions. But its music and poetry, its majesty and charm, have never been equaled. After all these years, it remains "the noblest monument to English prose." ...... By the way, on the topic of repentance, I've thought for some time that to repent (Gr. metanoeo) means to change one's mind, to make an about face. It is not merely sorrow but involves a complete change of attitude regarding God and sin. Biblical repentance does not arise within man himself but is the result of God's mercy in leading man to it. See Acts 5:31, Romans 2:4, and 2 Timothy 2:25. Thus repentance involves the very process of conversion whereby men are regenerated. ..... Grace to you. --Hank | ||||||
272 | should all we be speaking tongues aloud | 1 Cor 14:23 | Hank | 187237 | ||
Hello, Psalm 25 - It's rare to be writing to a chapter of Scripture; I still feel a bit awkward in doing so, but I'll try to adjust to it -- not an easy task for a septuagenarian. :-) ....... I've never been numbered in that company of believers who are popularly known as the charismatics, and the relatively recent emergence of this phenomenon of "tongue speaking (glossolalia) and the fascination and absorption with it that not infrequently accompanies it poses a puzzle to me. Even if this ecstatic babbling were entirely sanctioned by Scripture, which I do not for a moment believe it to be, the promoters and practitioners of glossolalia attach far more importance to it than any Scripture they can cite that even remotely appears to them to validate it. ....... Once someone asked me whether I had ever spoken in tongues, to which, without hesitation, I answered in the affirmative, saying that I had been using at least one tongue, English, as a means of communication since I was a toddler. Later on in my attempts to soak up a little learning, I studied Latin, French and German so that now, after a fashion, I speak in four different tongues. It's singularly unfortunate that the King James Bible and certain other English translations, before and after it, used "tongues" by and large to express the idea of "languages." I've often wondered whether the course of denominational history would have been altered had tongues never been used as a synonym for languages, because there is a certain mystique attached to the word "tongues," something esoteric and supernatural, that has never been assigned to the word "languages." A careful reading of Paul's first Corinthian letter (especially Chapter 14) indicates that there was, in fact, a practice of "speaking in a tongue" (singular), which was indicative of the false gibberish of the counterfeit pagan ecstatic speech. John MacArthur makes a sharp distinction between the singular and plural usages of "tongue" in Paul's discourse in 1 Corinthians 14, calling it foundational to the proper interpretation of the chapter. It is easy to fall into an eisegetical ditch in attempting to interpret the concepts inherent in this difficult and complex subject of tongues. But one is hard pressed to wrap Scripture around the modern practice of glossolalia. Exegetical, orthodox support simply isn't there. --Hank | ||||||
273 | gifts of Healing and Miracles for today. | 1 Cor 12:9 | Hank | 187138 | ||
Hi, M. Royal - You responded to me, whereas your post was clearly intended for Van. --Hank | ||||||
274 | HELP i need to know what verse this is | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 187115 | ||
Depends on who's counting, I suppose. :-) There are other features on SBF that newer users may find useful to explore. Check out Resources in the left column and More Online Resources in the right column. Happy to have you on the Forum. Let us "old hands" know if we can be of help. God bless. --Hank | ||||||
275 | HELP i need to know what verse this is | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 187113 | ||
Cheri - You're absolutely right, and you win first prize: three free posts to Study Bible Forum. :-) Congratulations. --Hank | ||||||
276 | HELP i need to know what verse this is | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 187110 | ||
Dear Sara [and other Forum Users] - Study Bible Forum has an excellent search engine to help you locate Scripture when you remember only a few key words, and it's easy to use. For example, in your search for Matthew 18:20, you could have entered some key words, e.g., "two three gathered" and the search engine would have taken you immediately to Matthew 18:20. The search engine is located on the right side of the home page under "Get Bible Text." Try it. How many times is the word revelation mentioned in the New Testament? --Hank | ||||||
277 | Would Adam and Eve have fallen? | Gen 3:13 | Hank | 187032 | ||
ebrain: CORRECTION to my Post 187024: Beginning on the sixth line from the bottom, the wording should be "I will hold off on speculating about what the Bible doesn't make clear until I master all the things that the Bible does make clear." The original version concluded with "the things that the Bible does not make clear," which didn't make any sense. I trust that the correction makes a least a little sense! --Hank | ||||||
278 | gifts of Healing and Miracles for today. | 1 Cor 12:9 | Hank | 187029 | ||
Dear royalone (Van) - Welcome. Thanks for registering with SBF and for your first contribution. .... Regarding your first post, it has been my experience in more than 50 years as a church goer that apostles and prophets in the contemporary church are scarce, mighty scarce, so scarce in fact that in all these years I've never laid eyes on a single one of either of them. How about you? --Hank | ||||||
279 | Would Adam and Eve have fallen? | Gen 3:13 | Hank | 187024 | ||
ebrain - My words of support, you say? Support? I suppose the irony in my remarks about your speculation got lost in translation. I wrote it inAmerican English and you read it in British English. ...... Sir, what I wrote was not intended to lend encouragement to your musings and free-wheeling verbal meaneerings. On the contrary, it was pure satire. Frankly I was poking fun at your flights of fancy, not praising them. I had rather hoped that my post would dispel your reveries and serve to jar you back on the track of orthodoxy. not egg you on to play more games of "Let's Pretend." ...... I'll pass on the question you posed to me. Though I'm getting on in years, I don't have the distinction of having known Adam personally, so I really have no idea of what image of God Adam gave. ..... I take issue, by the way, with your presentation (in another post) of speculation as having the fine attributes you assign to it. From speculation to theological nonsense is a very short path and a virtually certain one. I've been able to avoid speculation to some extent by making myself a promise that I will hold off on speculating about what the Bible doesn't make clear until I master all tha things that the Bible does not make clear. It works for me. Why don't you try it sometime? --Hank | ||||||
280 | Would Adam and Eve have fallen? | Gen 3:13 | Hank | 186953 | ||
All very interesting, Sir Brain, but on this side of the pond, at the little red school house where I learned to read, they didn't offer Readingbetweenthelines 101. Later on by the time I attended Graduate School (seventh grade), at the age of 27, I took the course, but by then I was too old to adapt very well to new concepts, so I never got the hang of Readingbetweenthelines. All I was ever able to see between the lines was blank space. That, and nothing more. But apparently some folks get pretty good at this between-the-lines reading, especially when it comes to Scripture. I know it puts no stars in my crown to envy, and I should shun it, but sometimes I do envy those sage expositors who apparently can get so much out of what they read between the lines. It must be fascinating reading, and some people make a career of it. But, poor me, here I sit, stuck with the ability merely to read what Scripture says on the lines. I must confess that it excites my imagination when I hear of all this exciting action that goes on between the lines. People who have this marvelous gift of reading between the lines have no idea of how limited we dunderheads are who have to depend on what God says on the lines! But I guess we'll have to make do with the limited abilities we have and thank God for giving us even that much. --Hank | ||||||
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