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361 | baptism when and who | Acts 2:38 | Hank | 178513 | ||
Cashly - While we appeciate your efforts, may we gently suggest that in future you gear your responses to the question or issue being addressed? The questioner is confused by your answer and so am I. --Hank | ||||||
362 | Spare the rod, spoil the child | Prov 13:24 | Hank | 178416 | ||
MJH - Back in English Lit 101 we learned about genre. That was years ago (Elvis was still in high school), but I still know what genre means. And frankly I've always been a trifle timid about trying to sort out Scripture based on genre, especially since that day many moons past when I committed to memory that familiar passage the old apostle wrote in his second letter to his young friend. "ALL Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work" (2 Timothy 3:16,17 NIV). ..... Being a student (of sorts) of things literary, I know there are some rather long-established guidelines for approaching various kinds of writing; that, for example, the poetry of Milton differs measurably from the prose of Dickens, and the Psalms from Luke's Gospel, and thus they demand different things of the reader. So therefore the reader ought to be aware of the kind of writing -- the genre, if you will -- that he attends himself to. But since Scripture says of itself that it is all inspired of God, I can't see making too much ado over genre, certainly not to the point of saying that this genre or that genre should be given greater or lesser weight, or that God used some genres for His commands but not others. ...... In my user profile I say that my favorite verses of Scripture are Genesis 1:1, Revelation 22:21 and every verse in between, because all are God-breathed and profitable. Not by any means are all of God's commandments tucked neatly into Exodus 20. :-) We find them at various places in Scripture. Even Proverbs. --Hank | ||||||
363 | verse explains nonChrist knowing savior | 2 Cor 5:15 | Hank | 178338 | ||
Paul - [Judas] "having played so vital role in our redemption" ..... What a revelation this is! How interesing to ponder that Jesus' finished work on the cross was made possible by the son of perdition himself! Hurrah for Judas! What a heroic stunt he pulled off by his betrayal of the Son of God. Should the words of the hymn be changed to "What a friend we have in Judas"? --Hank | ||||||
364 | verse explains nonChrist knowing savior | 2 Cor 5:15 | Hank | 178215 | ||
jaydnson - You wrote, "I read that God does not hold you accountable of salvation thru Christ if you don't know these laws or teachings...And if you live a decent life (not knowing Christ) you can still enter the kingdom." ..... Since this is, after all, a study Bible forum, please tell the forum on what verse(s) of what chapter(s) of what book(s) of the Bible you base your statements. ..... Surely they can't be based on Acts 4:12 which says, "And there is salvation in no one else [but Christ], for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved." .... Nor on the words of Christ in John 14:6, "Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.'" ..... And not on Ephesians 2:8,9, "For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast." And, again, you could not have based your conclusions on John 3:18, "He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." ..... --Hank | ||||||
365 | tongues? | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 178178 | ||
Lilliesofthefield - One of the favorite expressions my mother was fond of using was this: "Let's not run this into the ground." It was her way of saying as a native of Alabama what the Lockman Foundation says to users of SBF: "Please limit to the best of your ability, the known denominational biases that produce potential strife and undue conflict. Please avoid interjecting obvious denominational biases, especially when urged by peers to cease. Otherwise, it becomes a battle of wills, and only tears down morale and causes division. If we are notified this situation is occurring, we will review it and act as necessary." ...... I've carefully reviewed your 21 posts to date, and all but about three of them are about speaking in tongues. You have been asked by your peers to cease, they having informed you that this subject has already been, in my mother's words, "run into the ground." ...... Yet, you persist to post on this divisive issue, leaving us no further remedy but to appeal to the owners of the Forum for relief from the situation your refusal to comply has put the Forum in. Should you therefore continue to resist the pleas of your fellow Forum users, the matter will be brought before Lockman and you may find yourself at risk of losing your privilege to post to SFB. We don't seek more dialogue with you on this subject, but we do respectfully ask a final time that you post on other subject or stop posting altogether. --Hank | ||||||
366 | WHAT IS CAIN WIFE NAME? | Genesis | Hank | 177771 | ||
Thanks for clearing that up, John :-). Now that we've salted that away about Nadine (Na for short), tell me, wasn't Saline the name of Noah's wife? She did quite a bit of saline on the briny as a passenger of the ark. --Hank | ||||||
367 | Can angels sing? | Job 38:7 | Hank | 177742 | ||
Azure - The Lockman Foundation has generously provided access to the complete Bible in NASB and Amplified right on this web-site. Moreover, by clicking on the links provided with each verse one can do a very helpful word study as well as make a search of where else the word being studied appears in the Bible. I'd urge all Forum participants and readers to use this valuable feature regularly. For example, does the Greek New Testament use more than one word that is translated love in most English versions? The answer to this and many other questions can be found by using this resource. --Hank ..... P.S. But you still won't be able to learn the name of Cain's wife! :-) | ||||||
368 | Is it disrespectful to not use a title | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 177738 | ||
No, I don't believe so. He is my friend as well as my pastor. In private conversations he calls me Hank and I call him Dale. He has earned my respect for him as my pastor and I let him know it. I don't see that my calling him Dale diminishes this respect in any way. Moreover, I'm nearly twenty years older than he is, so I don't feel the least awkward in calling him Dale. Calling him by any exalted title would not enchance my respect for this man of God, and calling him by his first name does not diminish it. We don't put much stock in titles in my neck of the woods. There is a saying here in the Ozarks that we don't particularly care what you call us as long as you call us when supper's ready. :-) --Hank | ||||||
369 | WHAT IS CAIN WIFE NAME? | Genesis | Hank | 177728 | ||
Glory51 - Occasionally someone will answer his own question on the Forum, as you have done, and the answer will often be bizarre, as yours is. Not only are you years off the mark chronologically by answering that Tubal was Cain's wife, but you are mixed up on the gender. Tubal was never anybody's wife. He was the son of Japheth, who was the son of Noah. Japheth was not born until after Noah's Flood. (See Genesis 10:1,2). --Hank | ||||||
370 | Can angels sing? | Job 38:7 | Hank | 177724 | ||
Yes, Azure, I believe it is a translation problem, the problem being a paraphrased version (NIV) versus a literal, word-for-word translation (e.g., NASB). The Greek word (ego, Strong 3004) means to say, relate, tell, speak, etc. but no where is it defined as meaning "to sing." So we obviously are getting in the NIV rendition that which is common to paraphrases, a translator's commentary on what he thought the passage meant instead of a translation of what the passage actually said. Thus I would view with great caution using this sole verse, and from a paraphased version at that, to support the position that angels sing. They indeed may. But Revelation 5:12 from the NIV falls short of proving it. The more literal translations, KJV, NKJV, NASB, ESV, and Holman CSB are of one accord in that they translate the verb "say," not "sing". ..... It is interesting to note that in Rev. 5:9, John, speaking of the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders, says that they "SANG a new song SAYING"... Here for SANG we have an entirely different Greek word (ado, Strong 103) which means "to sing" and in the very same verse the word translated "saying" is the same Greek word (ego, Strong 3004) meaning "to say" which NIV in vs. 12 renders "to sing." Thus it becomes quite clear from an examination of these two Greek words that the NIV translators availed themselves of the liberties afforded by paraphrasing a passage instead of translating it. It boils down to this: Do we want to know what the text actually says or had we rather have translators tell us what they think it means? ..... One may ask, "Is it really of vital importance to know whether angels sing?" Certainly one's salvation doesn't hinge on this question, so it is reasonable to say that there are larger issues affecting man's relationship with God than whether angels sing. But let's expand the question and ask, "Is it important to know what the word of God actually says, or is it o.k. to take a paraphrased version and be satisfied with that?" Is it good enough to have the eternal word of God filtered through the minds of so-called translators who really render a paraphrased version instead of translating as literally as possible what the text actually says? .... From the Foreward to the NASB: "The New American Standard has been produced with the conviction that the WORDS (emphasis added) of Scripture as originally penned in the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek were inspired by God." ..... From the Preface to the NIV, "They (the translators) have striven for MORE THAN A WORD-FOR-WORD translation...fidelity to the THOUGHT of the biblical writers (emphases added). So therein lies the critical difference between formal word-for-word translations and paraphrased "dynamic equivalence" thought-for-thought versions. The former seeks to render into English, or other receptor languages, as accurately as possible the actual words of the biblical text. The latter renders into English what the translators think the writer thought and what they think the writer meant by what he said. ..... So, did the angels "sing" in Rev. 5:12, as the NIV says, or did they "say" as the Greek text indicates and the literal versions translate? Are the translators of the NIV in this instance giving us what the apostle John actually wrote, or are they merely giving us their opinion of what he meant? Furthermore, does a translator's opinion afford sufficient grounds on which to base a doctrine that angels sing? In the absence of other corroborating Scripture, I'd have to say no. .... The Bible is full of references to the WORD of the Lord. "Moses told Aaron all the WORDS of the Lord...(cf Exodus 4:28). Paul told Timothy to preach the WORD (cf. 2 Timothy 4:2). "Thy WORD is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path (Psalm 119:105). "Thy WORD have I hidden in mine heart that I might not sin against Thee (Psalm 119:11). With such strong emphasis as the Bible places on the word of the Lord, why should we be willing to settle for a paraphrased substitute? Is the word of the Lord sufficient, or does it need to be gussied up by the insertion of translators' ideas and opinions? There are many commentaries on Scripture, some of them quite good, but even the best of them should never become a part of the biblical text. --Hank | ||||||
371 | Joshua | Josh 24:19 | Hank | 177665 | ||
Kalos - Last week-end on TV I heard a local preacher (who is noted for his pithy and frequently humorous aphorisms) say, "How can you expect God to give you a stick of dynamite when you aren't even using the little firecracker He's already given you?" ..... In the same televised sermon he told of someone who came to him full of excuses for not being able to put anything in the offering plate. This person told the pastor, "If I had a hundred thousand dollars, sure I could put ten thousand in the offering plate. But I don't have that kind of money." ..... "Well," the pastor asked, "do you have a dollar?" The response was yes. "Then give God a dime of it and keep 90 cents for yourself." --Hank | ||||||
372 | Rapture beforeTribulation?? | Matt 24:31 | Hank | 177640 | ||
Job Patience - Biblical prophecies don't "almost happen"! They happen. They happen precisely when God wills for them to happen. Your prophecy is that "Bush's plan to invade Irag and Jordan in the next few weeks will bring this (the abomination of desolation) about." How long have you been a prophet and who appointed you? ..... Confine your remarks on biblical prophecy, if you will, to biblical prophecy. In order words, stick to the biblical text. This is not a forum where wild guesses are encouraged or condoned. We don't hold daily seances or gaze into crystal balls here either. --Hank | ||||||
373 | The GAP theory could be true. | Genesis | Hank | 177588 | ||
CDBJ - Well, brother, you got company! I know how it is to get clawed up by my own cat too. Years ago I had this cat that was bad about clawing me. But I discovered that he loved to have his hair combed. This soothed him and he stopped clawing me. Of course, I had to buy a special instrument to do the job. It's called a catacomb. --Hank | ||||||
374 | Can angels sing? | Job 38:7 | Hank | 177587 | ||
Kalos - Not a few of the concepts many people have of angels come not from Scripture but from secular sources -- from art, from Christmas carols ("Hark, the Herald Angels Sing"), from tales and folklore. I don't recall ever having seen a painting of a male angel. They are all depicted as being beautiful young women with wings and halos. I had a college professor who frequently used the simile, "He writes like an angel." Yet I don't find much in Scripture about angelic authors, and to my knowledge there are no books extant that were written by angels. ...... A few years ago in December of that year I took a train trip through the Cascades. It was a strikingly beautiful landscape of pine forest with lofty mountains rising out of the horizon in the distance. Snow fell softly on the pine trees creating a majestic winter wonderland. I have seen few things more beautiful in my life. So, then if angels are supposed to sing and play celestial harps, why can't it snow in heaven? A choir of angels singing Christmas carols while snow gently caresses the pines outside the heavenly cathedral -- what a splendid scene to imagine. And indeed angels may sing in heaven and snow may fall in heaven, but the sober fact is that this is nothing more than wishful thinking. It is not revealed in Scripture. And I've never been any good at all in reading between the lines. Or known anyone who was. --Hank | ||||||
375 | The GAP theory could be true. | Genesis | Hank | 177584 | ||
John, have you tried www.icr.org? This site has an enormous amount of information on creation (including the so-called Gap Theory), Noah's flood, and other related topics. Having just read your bio in the user profile slot, I believe you will find this icr.org of interest. ...... Sorry to disappoint, but I happen to oe an old geezer on this site who decided many years ago that my study of Scripture ought to begin by reading the lines themselves and trying to understand what God actually said. Then, I reasoned as a young man, when I mastered the lines, I'd devote some time to reading all that fascinating stuff between the lines in order to try to figure out what God didn't say. But alas! Here I am past 70 and I'm still working on the lines themselves. I think I'd better wait a while longer before taking up the task of reading between the lines, even though I'm curious about what's between those lines. I may just wait and ask God in person. --Hank | ||||||
376 | Christ centered faith ? | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 177566 | ||
SNB3 - You do more harm to yourself than anyone else by your blatant dishonesty, lies and deception. You have been twice removed for cause from participation as an interactive member of this Study Bible Forum, yet you continue to register under different names. This is dishonest. ...... You affirm with every post that it is biblically based, is not intended as a personal attack on the authority of the Bible or an effort to foster divisiveness, ill-will, dissentions or other disruptions to this Forum. You are therefore lying to this Forum each time you post your unwanted garbage to it. ...... Moreover, you engage in deception by posting untrue and unsubstantiated opinion adverse to Christianity and urging the users of this Forum to renounce their beliefs and follow yours. ...... It is obvious that you are not a Christian believer, but have you no sense of decency about you? Have you no respect for anyone else? Have you, in fact, no self-respect? Why don't you at least act like a decent human being, stop spamming this Forum, and be on your way? If peddling your anti-Christian views is something you are bent on doing, please peddle in on a web-site that deals in such trash. We don't condone it here. --Hank | ||||||
377 | educational qualifications | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 177453 | ||
Searcher - You asked "how important is the educational background" (of Bible translators)? This was in response to a question about NASB translatiors. My answer is that it is significantly important. Wouldn't you feel a little antsy about placing your confidence in the integrity of a Bible translation that had been made by a group who held correspondence-school diplomas from Ajax School of Auto Mechanics or from Kabul University in Afghanistan? I certainly would. It is important to know not only the background and educational qualifications of the translators but their convictions on a number of other vital issues as well. Things like their translation philosophy and whether they consider Scripture the infallible word of God. The quality and integrity of the translation surely reflects the quality and integrity of the translators. --Hank | ||||||
378 | Homosexual are picked on in the church? | Lev 20:13 | Hank | 177373 | ||
journey_me - I am sorry that you viewed my tough questions to you with antipathy and my comments as ad hominem slurs toward you. My objective in the post that you obviously found offensive was to support and defend the Forum's requirement of all posters who make sweeping statements on religious matters that they back up their theories/opinions/hunches with appropriate references to Scripture: book, chapter, and verse. ..... Young man, you are talking mighty sassy to me. I'm well over twice your age and was a follower of Christ 25 years or so before you were born. I didn't fall off a turnip truck last week and suddenly show up on Study Bible Forum. I've been consistently active on this Forum for more than five years and have learned a thing or two I believe. So why don't you just cool off and calm down and answer the questions I asked you in the post that you now find so out of line. It is not out of line. It is exceedingly proper to ask a fellow user to back up what he says with Scripture. Your question started this thread, and by the way you worded your question, it certainly gave me (and others) the distinct impression that you were more critical of the church's stand against the "gay" lifestyle than the lifestyle itself. So what has ensued is a long, often combative, thread on a subject on which the Bible leaves absolutly no wiggle room: The Bible condemns the practice. Period. A topic like this on which the Bible is resolute and crystal clear is not even debatable, and yet here we are, debating and quibbling, and filling Forum pages endlessly on the subject. (This is by no means the first time this subject has come before the Forum or the first time it has been debated). But no matter how many times human beings debate an issue on which God has clearly and plainly spoken, it is futile to presume that God is going to change His mind. ..... You have said a number of things in your bitter post to me that simply aren't true. But one in particular disturbs me greatly. You said to me, "Tell me what God would do, you seem to have His authority." How can you say such a thing, for it is a terrible thing to say to anyone, much less to a Christian such as myself whom you have never seen and about whom you know next to nothing. I forgive you your trespass and urge to you pray that God will forgive you. --Hank | ||||||
379 | Homosexual are picked on in the church? | Lev 20:13 | Hank | 177354 | ||
journey_me: Where in Scripture does it say that God has "a time line for each person?" I surely do not see any scriptural support for your soteriological/sanctification argument that seems to be saying that the born-again believer needs time for the flesh to "catch up." ...... How then should we think about a situation involving a robber who said he was saved on Sunday and held up a bank on Monday? Is anything wrong with this picture? Did the robber simply need more time for his flesh to catch up with the regeneration of his spirit? Is this what Scripture teaches? If you choose to reply to this post, please back up your opinions with Scripture. Otherwise, we may as well rename this web site to "Non-Biblical Opinion Forum." ..... One final question. Why, in view of how forcefully Scripture condemns homosexuality, are you arguing from the other side of the fence? If you are trying to convince the rest of us that there is any such reality as an unpenitent PRACTICING homosexual Christian, you're barking up the wrong tree and may as well change the subject or move on. We on Study Bible Forum do not dispense solace to anyone who champions opinions that are not firmly grounded in God's word. --Hank | ||||||
380 | Homosexual are picked on in the church? | James 2:1 | Hank | 177321 | ||
A superb, well-reasoned and scripturally sound post, Brad. Good work! --Hank | ||||||
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