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361 | Abstaining from things strangled, blood? | Acts 15:20 | Hank | 192207 | ||
Dear Cheri - If Doc is yelling, you can be assured of two things: (1) He yells gently and, (2) he usually knows what he's yelling about. :-) --Hank | ||||||
362 | Abstaining from things strangled, blood? | Acts 15:20 | Hank | 192192 | ||
This thread is impressive. Besides being a friendly exchange among all participants, it offers worthwhile insignts, fine questions followed by equally fine responses. I said to myself as I read through this thread, "Now this is how the Forum ought to be!" Blessings to all of you who have had a hand in building this truly worthwhile thread. --Hank | ||||||
363 | Would his heart not be humbled? | Romans | Hank | 192113 | ||
Val - While your active participation on SBF is welcomed, I beg your indulgence to read, study, and peradventure take to heart these comments from one of the "pioneers" of Study Bible Forum. Please take the time to refresh your thinking about what this Forum is all about as outlined in the material the Lockman Foundation has placed at the side-bar link under "About the Forum." ..... SBF is not a place for discussing theories or philosophies, but neither is it a place for posting a series of random verses to every question, without particular regard to whether they actually fit the question. We all of us have access to Bibles and can read random verses on our own! ..... I have no reason to believe that your intentions are anything less than honorable, but stringing verses together is NOT Bible study. Read how some of the experienced contributors to this Forum answer questions and you will see that they certainly do refer to Scripture heavily, but that they also attempt to answer questions and teach by exposition and exegesis of the Scripture. ..... Pick up a good study Bible such as John MacArthur's or Charles Ryrie's and see how these gifted men comment on the biblical text. ..... I noticed one new user's comment in regard to your posts. He was puzzled by your listing of a series of verses without any comment, exegesis, or exposiion of any kind as your way of "answering" questions. ..... So, if you will, please, please read and study the guidelines until you have a satisfactory grasp of what the purpose of this Forum is. May your future posts reflect this more complete understanding. --Hank | ||||||
364 | Vain Babbling | 2 Tim 2:16 | Hank | 192008 | ||
Parable, There's no accounting for taste, but I'd sooner see a quote by Calvin than Hobbes. :-) --Hank | ||||||
365 | who are the 144000 | Revelation | Hank | 192007 | ||
Ah, please, Doc, couldn't you give us at least the first 144 names? :-) Abbreviate if you must; e.g., Beauregard Peoples could be listed as Bo Beep, etc. --Hank | ||||||
366 | Vain Babbling | 2 Tim 2:16 | Hank | 192006 | ||
In Frost's poem, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" (not one of his best, by the way) from which you quote a line that appears in the fourth stanza, viz. "And miles to go before I sleep," there is a line that precedes it which says, "But I have promises to keep." Don't we all of us, those who use and contribute to Study Bible Forum, have promises to keep? We have promises to keep, and those promises consist of taking seriously the guidelines that the Lockman Foundation has laid down for each of us as we post to this Forum, and to which each of us agrees every single time he enters a post. If we will make it our business to keep those guidelines uppermost in mind and refresh our minds from time to time of the aims and purposes of SBf, we will incur far less unfavorable feedback from our peers. On the positive side, just perhaps we can be a pinch of salt and a glimmer of light to some soul who needs help and guidance. This is a sola scriptura Forum. It is wise to keep that in mind also. --Hank | ||||||
367 | Vain Babbling | 2 Tim 2:16 | Hank | 191998 | ||
Hmmm...What's the author of "Leviathan" doing on Study Bible Forum? --Hank | ||||||
368 | Stumpped by my son | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 191844 | ||
Sir, "abundant references to scripture" are found in the works of many writers whose theology is far from orthodox, among whom are Mary Baker Eddy, Joseph Smith, Charles Taze Russell, Ellen G. White, E. W. Kenyon, Kenneth Hagin and Kenneth Copeland. Let's have no more promotion of Boyd's highly controversial ideas and writings on SBF, if you please. --Hank | ||||||
369 | Sabbath, Sunday or Saturday? | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 191684 | ||
Dear GRACE-07 - Your question about the Sabbath is easily among the top 10 of most-frequently-asked questions on Study Bible Forum. Therefore, the Forum's archives have many entries on this subject which you can assess by using Search and typing in a key word, such as Sabbath. Additionally, there is a good, scripturally documented article on the subject at http://www.gotquestions.org/Saturday-Sunday.html .... Thanks for your question and welcome to SBF. --Hank | ||||||
370 | What about this teaching? | Eccl 3:21 | Hank | 191610 | ||
Amen, Fellowlaborer. Amen! The question you responded to was out of line, but your response was right on target! Thank you and God bless. --Hank | ||||||
371 | where do animals go when they expire? | Eccl 3:21 | Hank | 191598 | ||
Rabban - Are you saying essentially that each generation of individual Christians are to throw out the corpus of centuries-old teachings, confessions, and creeds (what we call orthodoxy, for want of a better name) and each in his own way proceed to re-invent the theological wheel? If not, what are you driving at? ...... By the way, now that you have amassed more than 50 posts on SBF, thus creating a certain interest in your ideas, would you mind going to the user profile page and tell us something about yourself, your core beliefs, your denominational connection, etc.? It always helps others on the Forum to understand where you stand and where you're going by learning where you're coming from. --Hank | ||||||
372 | where do animals go when they expire? | Eccl 3:21 | Hank | 191552 | ||
Justme - What we do on the Arkansas side of the Ozarks is give our pet turtles a simple interment in a tortoise-shell casket, laying them to rest in our pet seminary. We don't hardly ever eat turtles. Fried possums is a heap better. --Hank | ||||||
373 | where do animals go when they expire? | Eccl 3:21 | Hank | 191547 | ||
Dear Rabban - It makes me sad to hear you are having difficulty finding the Book of Tada in your Bible. Perhaps I can help. In some editions, the Book of Tada comes between II Maccabees and I Bumblebees, while in others you will probably find it between the Gospel of Maps and the Epistle to the Concordances. No doubt about it, it's hard to find. But keep looking! Down here in the Ozarks, folks still use that old-fashioned Bible that has only 66 books. Imagine that! We ain't very modern, I reckon. --Hank | ||||||
374 | silent prayer | Matt 6:5 | Hank | 191541 | ||
Mike - Some of my colleagues already have answered your question correctly, to wit, that there is nothing in Scripture which teaches that prayer must be vocalized. Some years ago I adopted a practice which has served me exceedingly well and which I would like to commend to you without reservation. Whenever "someone" tells me something, especially something about what he thinks the Bible teaches, I am not the least bit shy about asking this "someone" to prove it. False teachers are flying around like an army of rapacious bats emerging en masse from their cave on a starless night, and one can hardly be too careful these days. The Bible says, "Test all things; hold fast what is good" (1 Thess. 5:21, NKJV). ...... Years ago "someone" (probably the same one who told you about prayer) told me that if I handled frogs, I'd get warts. Well, I was extremely fond of frogs back in those days -- I bear them no ill will even now! -- and I paid no attention to my ill-advised advisor, but handled frogs to my heart's content. And I'm happy to report that to this very day I don't have a single wart. :-) ...... It's mighty important, friend, to be careful from whom one takes his marching orders. In all matters of faith and practice, you'll never go wrong to take them from God's word, the Bible, and from it alone. --Hank | ||||||
375 | Bible lesson for nosy neighbor | Prov 15:1 | Hank | 191511 | ||
Dear Wildcat - With a user name like that, are you describing yourself or your neighbor? :-) .... You ask whether anyone has suggestions about your relationship with you neighbor. Yes, I have. I'd scrap the idea of posting any message in your window intended for your neighbor. What you're likely going to do with that is antagonize her all the more. Do you attend church? If you do, invite your neighbor to go with you. Ask her over to your house for coffee and a neighborly chat. ...... Here are some Scriptures, not to post in your window for the benefit of your neighbor but to post in your heart for your benefit in getting along with this neighbor. Jesus said, "This is My commandment, that you love one another just as I have loved you" (John 15:12). ..... "You shall love your neighbor as yourself" (Matthew 19:9). ..... Read and meditate on 1 Corinthians 13, the famous "love chapter" of the Bible. Please try this approach instead of avoidance of your neighbor and posting messages in your window intended for her. She lives next door. Talk with her in person. Don't use sign language! If you are a Christian, pray for this woman. And pray for yourself, that God will help you to love your neighbor and minister to her. --Hank | ||||||
376 | forgiveness | Matt 18:1 | Hank | 191364 | ||
Parable - Ah, but the Bible does define divine forgiveness! See Jer. 31:34; Heb. 8:12; Heb. 10:17. --Hank | ||||||
377 | forgiveness | Matt 18:1 | Hank | 191363 | ||
Cheri, even though the hour is late and I came within a hair of closing my computerized toy box for the night, I saw your post addressed to me, read it, and decided to respond briefly, which for me could run into several pages. :-) ...... Cheri, you made an important point when you raised the crucial issue of the tension that we all of us experience, in varying degrees perhaps, depending upon where along the road we happen to be in our walk with Christ, between knowiedge of the word of God and application of that knowledge to our lives. And I don't for a moment believe, or claim as my achievement, that anyone this side of glory ever does, or can, reach a flawless homeostatis between knowledge and application; or, one could say, between knowing what to do and doing it. ...... But we cannot apply God's word to our lives unless we know what it is, can we? So the point I wish to make is that the first step, the sine qua non, in doing what God wants us to do is to apply ourselves first, and diligently, to learning, to which there is no royal road. It comes no other way except by study. Some Scripture references along these lines are as follows: 2 Timothy 2:15; 2 Timothy 3:16; Hebrews 4:12; James 1:25; 1 Peter 2:2; Deut. 11:18-21; Ps. 1:2; Ps. 119:11. There is more, much more, that could be said about the importance of studying God's word. Perhaps I'll say more about it anon. For now, Cheri, I do hope that this little dissertation will help you in some small way. --Hank | ||||||
378 | forgiveness | Matt 18:1 | Hank | 191359 | ||
Steve, a tip of the hat to you on your post which is generously laced with Scripture references, a beacon of light in this thread which is dominated by opinion without Scripture. And opinion on theological matters bereft of scriptural reference or support is like a ship without a rudder. On a Forum such as this whose raison d'etre is to study God's word, it would be a most encouraging sign to see more of "Thus saith the Lord" and less of "Thus opineth I." How easily we all of us can get caught in the trap of our own cherished opinion and stumble along the way, losing sight of the eternal truth that it is God's word (not ours) that is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path (Cf. Ps. 119:105). --Hank | ||||||
379 | forgiveness | Matt 18:1 | Hank | 191338 | ||
Dear Parable - Having read your post on forgiveness, two things come to mind. First, in keeping with the aims of SBF, it would be nice to see your views documented by Scripture references. And second, with one of your assertions in particular I have a real problem and need your help. You state, "To forgive is to surrender your right to see justice done." I simply can't agree with this premise, but let me assure you that I'm more than willing to recant if you can provide solid biblical evidence that that is what Christians are commanded to do. That followers of Christ are taught to forgive is not open to debate and is not the consideration here. But that Christians are to have nothing to do with bringing a criminal to justice? Are Christians duty bound to look the other way while a murderer, robber, rapist or terrrorist goes free and unpunished for his heinous crimes? That's the message I get from your post, and to substantiate it, friend, you will need to show wherein the Bible teaches Christians to behave in this manner. --Hank | ||||||
380 | Situations in Joseph's life? | Gen 37:28 | Hank | 191307 | ||
Restate - You are evidently combing the archives in search of posts about Joseph, because you responded to a post more than two years old and to a user who long since has been inactive on SBF. It's puzzling too why you chose to copy a long segment from this ex-user's largely unintelligible user profile. How is this going to benefit, instruct or edify current readers of this Forum? How many times must you be admonished to use the Forum for the purposes for which it was designed? Please don't abuse it. --Hank | ||||||
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