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301 | What was reason for the virgin birth? | Matt 4:1 | Hank | 184933 | ||
stjohn - The point being considered, as I understand it, is not whether Jesus sinned. Is that right? Are we all of us in agreement that Jesus did not sin? The issue around which this thread appears to revolve is one of the peccability or impeccability of Jesus: COULD Jesus have sinned? Since this topic has been discussed a number of times on the forum, I'd rather refer you to a link on the web that treats of this topic instead of repeating on the forum what essentially has been said before. So please go to http://www.gotquestions.org/could-Jesus-have-sinned.html .... I believe you will find the article instructive, and I have found the web site _gotquestions.org_ reliable, biblically based, and orthodox. You may wish to browse the site for related articles while you are there. ..... It's good to have you on SBF. Please let some of us old-timers know should you have questions about the forum, its mission and guidelines. We are a group from various climes and traditions who share a common love for God, His word, and His sheep. We advocate and try to practice reaching out to others on the forum with a loving, caring and gentle spirit, that is to say, with agape, as ambassadors of Him who died on the cross that we may have eternal life with Him. Every good wish, John. --Hank | ||||||
302 | Still not convinced preterism is false | Matt 16:28 | Hank | 184881 | ||
Coper: With your preterist views I patently disagree, which means that I disagree with virtually everything you have written on this forum, inasmuch as, by and large, you have been on this single track since you registered. Early on, however, you did make one statement with which I've no problem agreeing in light of your subsequent posts, which validate it. You admitted that eschatology had become an obsession with you, and your posts corroborate your admission. But friend Coper, this forum is no place to vent one's spleen of obsessions. The guidelines instituted by our friends at Lockman Foundation are there for the smooth operation of SBF and the benefit of its many readers and active contributors. They simply must be honored, and if they are not, errant registrants will lose their privilege to post to SBF. That's how it is. May we enjoin you to read carefully the terms of use if you have any serious intention of continuing to post to the forum? And as for this practically interminable marathon with the preterist brand of eschatology, it's past time to put it back in the box and let it rest. In plain language, knock it off! --Hank | ||||||
303 | Concept of Heaven and Hell in OT | 1 Cor 10:20 | Hank | 184723 | ||
Lon, your stories are not without human interest, but I must join with BradK and ask you please to review this forum's guidelines and do your best to tailor your posts so that they fall within these parameters. --Hank | ||||||
304 | what is the mark of Christ | Gal 6:17 | Hank | 184439 | ||
acm - We'll need chapter and verse on this one! --Hank | ||||||
305 | Same supper as John 12? | Luke 10:38 | Hank | 184383 | ||
Warm greetings, dear Mommapbs. It's good to see your posts appearing again on SBF. I read your revised User Profile and join with Azure in saying that it touched my heart too. God be with you, dear sister. Psalm 23:6. You are in my prayers. Agape. As ever, Hank. | ||||||
306 | origin of the devil | Ezek 28:13 | Hank | 184202 | ||
Excellent point, brother Chuck! It does seem strange indeed, not to mention unscriptural, to entertain the notion that the omnipotent and sovereign God, creator of all things in heaven and earth, would condescend to inveigle the angels, who themselves are beings created by His mighty power, to help Him with His creation of man. That is a concept that clearly appears foreign to the doctrines of Scripture. To read into the pronoun "Us" in Genesis 1:26 a meaning that includes angels is a groundless interpolation devoid of even a scintilla of evidence on which to base a valid conclusion or draw a sound inference. It is a quantum leap into the error-breeding world of eisegesis. To suggest that Almighty God needed the help of angels in His work of creation or anything else is both patently unscriptural and pejorative. --Hank | ||||||
307 | Jude quotes Enoch? | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 184124 | ||
West - Perhaps my answer does not, as you say, match your question; and hence does not meet your criterion, whatever that may be! Thanks for pointing that out; I've been limping along on this Forum for six years and six thousand posts without being aware heretofore of this foible. It is hoped that your lone question and your response to the answer will not, in retrospect, prove to be the apogee of your career on SBF. --Hank | ||||||
308 | Why is the Catholic bible different? | 2 Tim 3:16 | Hank | 183869 | ||
stjames7 - While following your arguments and comment, it occurred to me that it would be nice to know you a bit better via a user profile, and it is hoped you will consider favoring your peers on the Forum with some background information about yourself, your theological and denominational background, etc. To access the area reserved for posting a user profile, simply click on your user name from any of your posts. Likewise, to view the profiles of other users, click on their user names on any of their posts. --Hank | ||||||
309 | Why is the Catholic bible different? | 2 Tim 3:16 | Hank | 183868 | ||
stjames7 - While following your arguments and comment, it occurred to me that it would be nice to know you a bit better via a user profile, and it is hoped you will consider favoring your peers on the Forum with some background information about yourself, your theological and denominational background, etc. To access the area reserved for posting a user profile, simply click on your user name from any of your posts. Likewise, to view the profiles of other users, click on their user names on any of their posts. --Hank | ||||||
310 | Educational guarantee for life and godli | Prov 22:6 | Hank | 183502 | ||
Speaking of Proverbs, you say, "There are many that are not exactly true in every instance." Name a few and explain why they are not true. --Hank | ||||||
311 | why should we pray and speak in tongues | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 183499 | ||
Dear PDAL - I nearly by-passed your post, but your usage of "by-pass" caught my eye as I passed by and, since it will be a few minutes before dinner is served at my house, I thought I would use the time to greet you and ask a couple of quick questions. First of all there is a colony of Bereans who hang out at this Forum (I among them, by the way) who have a habit of wanting to test everything we read and hear about the Christian faith by what the Bible actually teaches. ...... Now the reason I suppose that the word "by-pass" caught my eye so readily is that I've had a heart by-pass but to the best of my knowledge and belief I've never had a soul by-pass such as you speak of, and am not aware that such a thing is actually taught in Scripture. Perhaps you can tell me where I'd go in the word of God to learn about it. Bear in mind, if you please, that you're dealing with one of those hard-headed sola scriptura kinds of guys who relies on Scripture as the one and only source of his faith and practice. One more item I'd like to mention before I go to dinner. You allude to "people who view and understand scripture from a redemptive view point, which for me is the best way to interpret scripture." What I don't understand is, just what exactly is a "redemptive view point"? And what causes it, whatever it is, to be the best way to interpret scripture? Well, soup's on so I must go. But I'll be looking forward to your response. Every good wish to you. --Hank | ||||||
312 | Will this get posted? | Prov 22:6 | Hank | 183477 | ||
Winningside - If you feel no need to spend any of your time being specific about your beefs about what's wrong with Study Bible Forum, may I beg you please don't waste any more of ours with innuendos and vague generalities, which tend to incite ill will and have no redeeming qualities about them. If you wish to ask or respond to Bible-based questions in an honest effort to learn more about God's word, or perchance to teach others, by all means do so. The table is set; come to the feast. But ranting and raving in vague and fuzzy terms about what's wrong with this Forum is far out of line and frankly will not be tolerated. --Hank | ||||||
313 | Translation | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 183044 | ||
Kalos - A post par excellent! It's time Bible readers came to grips with the question of translations. The church sorely needs to know what God actually said, but does it want to know? Along with its infatuation with the demons of easy believe-ism, Word-Faith nonsense, and every brand of liberalism and humanism under the sun, it is hardly surprising that the church is now willing, even eager, to embrace bogus Bibles, and think nothing of following a small band of so-called translators who dictate to it what they think God may have meant by what He said. Have we become so presumptous to think that God doesn't know how to communicate properly and needs His word filtered through the minds of the dynamic equivalence hot shots and slick paraphrastic stylists? Has the modern mind grown so obtuse and flabby that it has lost its ability to think and needs to surround itself with the linguistic crutches afforded by the plagues of dynamic equivalency and paraphrasing? One shudders to think that some of the worst farces of the Bible ever rendered into English have risen high on the charts of best-sellers. Thank you, John, for posting these sobering comments by Dr. MacArthur, and I urge every reader of this Forum to pay particular attention to them. It's time to wake up and stop supporting this mad rush to dumb down the holy word of God. Every time we pluck down our money for one of these literary disasters posing as God's word, we are indeed aiding and abetting them to continue with their pollution of the Holy Scriptures. --Hank | ||||||
314 | NISB | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 182744 | ||
John, in connection with this business of highlighting the Bible text, I happened to notice the Bible of a lady who sat beside me on the pew one Lord's Day morning. She had opened her Bible to the Gospel of Matthew and was reading from the Sermon on the Mount. I noticed that every word on both of the open pages had received the highlight treatment. This little incident occurred before the formal worship service had begun and, since people were engaging in greetings and small talk, I ventured a comment on my observation of the copious amount of highlighting. "How do you determine what to highlight?" I asked. "Oh, that's easy," she said. "I just highlight the parts that are important. Would you like to take a look at my Bible?" she asked. ..... And it was an experience, too, that's for sure. This dear old soul, this avid highlighing soul, had spared few passages of Scripture from getting the highlighting treatment. And I expect that in due time she will get around to coloring up the few parts she missed. ..... Whatever floats her boat, I suppose .... but it clearly doesn't float mine to have my favorite edition of the Bible garishly decorated in lemon yellow or shocking pink. If I care so little about Scripture not to be reminded of the eternal truth of 2 Timothy 3:16, I honestly doubt that a fist full of assorted crayons is going to help me much anyway. The Holy Bible is not a coloring book. ..... I thought your point about the distractions to current reading occasioned by previous markings was especially significant. --Hank | ||||||
315 | who is the prince? | John 14:30 | Hank | 182659 | ||
Edwin, I bow to the elder statesman in the United Kingdom. I recall that once on the Forum we quibbled a bit, you and I, over some small point of semantics and concluded that the difficulty most likely could be traced to some subtle difference between British English and American English. But now we know that it wasn't anything of the kind, but merely the result of a generation gap! Your generation has its way of saying things and mine, coming considerably later, has its way. But I do resolve to spare no effort to understand my elders, on these shores and abroad, realizing that the time will come, if God choose, when I too shall be counted, as you now are, among the abundantly mature inhabitants of the earth. ..... Two of my favorite writers are Shakespeare and Dickens. Did you know either of them personally? --Hank | ||||||
316 | who is the prince? | John 14:30 | Hank | 182599 | ||
Dear Sunam - From a retired old man who lives in the "suburbs" (i.e., foothills) of the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, U.S.A. to (quoting from your user profile) "a retired old man who lives in the suburbs of Seoul, Korea," greeting and welcome! As Doc -- who, by the way, at his age is merely a child compared to me -- has expressed it, it's an honor and blessing to have you on Study Bible Forum. I still may be the oldest denizen of the Forum unless you (or another registrant) were born before March 4, 1935 :-) At all events, it's good to have you aboard and I'm looking forward to your continued participation here as we meet and study the word of God together. Grace to you. --Hank | ||||||
317 | which is more correct desription ? | Is 53:1 | Hank | 182533 | ||
John, nice of you to respond with your usual fine insights. Yes, I'd recommend to anyone the HCSB over the NIV, NLT and other "easy reading" versions that frequently take liberties with the text that sometimes make my liver quiver. ..... And I do concur with your thinking that the harsh criticisms of the NASB as being flat and wooden are indeed "much ado about nothing." I don't know who started this rumor about the NASB as being wooden and hard to read, but my guess is that he didn't know good style from bad, and they who picked up on his misinformed, unlettered, and unfair evalulation, and in turn spread the rumor further, are as misinformed as he was. The moral is, I suppose, that one is unwise to base his judgment on the judgment of linguistic bumpkins. --Hank | ||||||
318 | The raven (Gen 8:7)... | Gen 8:7 | Hank | 182062 | ||
xina - Bravo! Keep on reading the Bible, and please feel free to share your Bible questions with us on this Forum. That's what it's all about, this Study Bible Forum. And let me suggest to you that you pray this segment from the Psalms each time you sit down to read from the Scriptures: "Open my eyes, that I may behold wonderful things from Your law" (Psalm 119:18). --Hank | ||||||
319 | The raven (Gen 8:7)... | Gen 8:7 | Hank | 182060 | ||
Doc, I suppose one is justified in allowing his imagination to take flight when he reads "The Raven," as Poe certainly did when he wrote the poem, but to draw in the reins when reading the account of the raven and the dove in Genesis 8. Poe's "Raven" was a wild flight of the imagination; the flight of Genesis' raven is a statement of fact. ..... Along these lines, I'm reminded of an incident in the life of Herman Melville that took place some time after the publication of "Moby Dick." A number of literary critics had gone on record as saying that Melville's masterpiece was an allegory, and this classification stuck and has been attached to the book even to this day, in spite of repeated denials by the author himself that he ever had any intent to make the book allegorical. Having read the Genesis account of the creation and of Noah's flood many times over, I see nothing in either that bears the slightest hint that the Author ever had any intent that they should be interpreted allegorically but should be read and understood as statements of fact. Of course, it's handy for evolutionists and other skeptics and liberals to put their own brand of allegorical spin on things scriptural in some pale effort to lend a touch of verisimilitude to their subtle deceptions and outright lies, but it behooves the people of God to take Him at His word. It has long struck me as being particularly illogical and totally out of character that a holy and righteous God, the very epitome of truth itself, would begin His revelation of Himself to mankind in Genesis with a series of absurd allegorical fairy tales. Yet that is exactly what even some churches and liberal theologians teach today and would have you believe. --Hank | ||||||
320 | REMEMBER to pray... | Ps 119:18 | Hank | 181928 | ||
I keep a journal in a little leather notebook. I believe it helps me to clarify and sort out my thoughts, thus enabling me to deal somewhat more expeditiously with the slings and arrows that come my way, and are common to all men. I came across the following entry in my journal and would like to share it with you, my friends of SBF, so here it is: "REMEMBER to pray before and after each Bible-reading session, asking God to illumine my spirit with His Spirit, so that I may be empowered to read the Holy Scriptures with understanding. 'Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law' (Psalm 119:18, KJV). After each reading session, thank God for speaking to me through His written word.' ..... The year is young and some of you may have begun a daily Bible-reading plan that will take you through the Bible by year's end. Consequently, you may find something of value in my journal entry that will assist you in your plan. It is my prayer that this simple journal entry will help you, and that God will bless your days as the new year unfolds. --Hank | ||||||
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