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4301 | Number of the deceived | Rev 20:1 | Hank | 103033 | ||
Michael Draves - The other Michael, Michael Servant, with his lone post of more than a year ago, wasn't among the most prolific posters of the Forum, that's for sure. We get several One-Post Wonders who drop by from time to time. Then there are those Many-Post Blunders -- Hank for instance :-) | ||||||
4302 | "beheading" in modern times? | Rev 20:4 | Hank | 124783 | ||
Pastor Glenn: Good Scripture references! To your list of things about which (some) churches need to repent, I would add the following: tolerance of abortion; the absence of full and unqualified acceptance of God's word as totally binding, authoritative and inerrent; and the de facto denial of the absolute sovereignty of Almighty God. --Hank | ||||||
4303 | "beheading" in modern times? | Rev 20:4 | Hank | 124793 | ||
And thanks to you also, SignmanBob, for the courage to speak out for the faith. Your words are true, that survival is building one's faith on the firm foundation of Jesus. ..... "My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and rightousness. I dare not trust the sweetest frame but wholly lean on Jesus' name. /// When darkness veils His lovely face, I rest in His unchanging grace; in every high and stormy gale, my anchor holds within the veil. /// His oath, His covenant, His blood support me in the whelming flood; when all around my soul gives way, He then is all my hope and stay. /// When He shall come with trumpet sound, oh may I then in Him be found; dressed in His righteousness alone, faultless to stand before the throne. /// On Christ, the solid Rock I stand; all other ground is sinking sand, all other ground is sinking sand. Amen." ..... Readers will recognize these words as the words to the lovely old hyman, "My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less," written by Edward Mote in 1834. The words are as relevant in our time, and as comforting, as they were when they were written more than a century and a half ago. --Hank | ||||||
4304 | "beheading" in modern times? | Rev 20:4 | Hank | 124873 | ||
EdB, while it is certainly true that God has blessed and shielded the United States of America since its founding, one wonders how much longer He will surround us with His protective hedge. One must wonder how long it will be before He responds with His awesome power and wrath to the unceasing efforts being waged to kick Him totally and permanently out of the American conscience and culture Obviously we have forgotten (or never learned) that "except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it; except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain" (Ps. 127:1). And what will it take to arouse this nation from its lethargy and apathy, its love of luxury and false sense of security? One wonders long it will take and how bad things must become before this nation, the stiff-necked people it has become, is willing to believe, take to heart, and act upon these words of God: "If my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land" (2 Chron. 7:14). --Hank | ||||||
4305 | Why did God send phophets | Rev 20:5 | Hank | 46318 | ||
Oh, I agree, I think indeed that God's fervent wish is that we be prepared. We prepare ourselves when we obey Him and trust in His grace through faith in His Son to save us. We prepare ourselves by becoming heralds of the good news of Christ Jesus to our fellowman. We prepare ourselves by living obedient and righteous lives to the glory of God . But I equally agree, in concord with charis, that spending an inordinate amount of time trying to unravel all the mysteries of the end times is not the proper way to prepare ourselves nor to serve God during these fleeting moments that we have on earth. --Hank | ||||||
4306 | Hell/Lake of Fire | Rev 20:14 | Hank | 171793 | ||
Hi Tim: Of course the suspected "borrowing" of someone else's work could turn out to be pure "coincidence," wherein two minds just happened to produce two identical pieces of creative work, as illustrated by this story my favorite English professor told me long ago. This professor, as part of a course in creative writing that he was teaching, assigned each member of the class to compose an original poem and read it to the class at the next session. On the appointed day, a young lady stepped up and read her poem to the class. The professor immediately recognized the poem as being a published work of celebrated poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. After class he summoned the young lady to his office and from his library picked a volume of poetry, turned to the poem and read it aloud to the young lady -- the very poem she had just read in class claiming that it was her own original composition. "What have you to say to that, young lady?" asked the professor. The young student squirmed in her seat and asked coyly, "Can I help it if Edna St. Vincent Millay and I happened to think up the same poem?" This incident, according to my professor who, until his death a few years ago, remained one of my closest friends, is true. It happened in his class. --Hank | ||||||
4307 | reassurance of lambs book of life | Rev 20:15 | Hank | 118688 | ||
Henry and Emmy: Mind if I horn in on this interesting thread? A couple of things in your post puzzle me. For one, if we opt to accept the KJV rendering of "book of life" (almost all Greek manuscripts read "tree of life"), it becomes necessary, doesn't it, to take the word of strangers? I mean, it's not very likely that we are going to make the acquaintance of any of the 1611 translators anywhere this side of heaven, is it? ..... And the other thing that puzzles me -- it's really a medley of statements on the same theme, how we can know God. ...... You say, "Anyone should be able to attain to the truth of God without knowing Greek." Since the New Testament was written in Greek, how is one to know the gospel of Christ unless he knows Greek unless, of course, some "stranger" translates it for him into a language he does know? ..... You say, "People without having seen or heard of a Bible can come to know God." How? If the written word of God is superfluous, why do you suppose the apostle John bothered to write the fourth gospel and put in it these words: "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 20:31). ..... You say "This (referring to knowing God without His written word) has to be so, because so many in the world throughout history have not heard of Jesus or the Bible or anything written in it." Why does this "have to be so?" If your theory is true, tell me how it fits in with John 14:6 and Acts 4:12. .... You say, "It is not so much that the Bible has to reach people but that Christ has to reach people...To anyone searching for God, God will reveal Himself." How does Christ reach people? How does God reveal Himself? Look at John 20:31 again. See also Hebrews 1:1,2; Romans 1:16; 2 Timothy 2:15; 3:16; Hebrews 4:12. .... My friends, what you have made in your post is a series of statements for which you have not provided, and I believe cannot provide, any scriptural support. Please, may I gently remind you, be diligent to base what you post on solid scriptural foundation. I'm sure you share with me a keen sense of responsibility to adhere closely to Lockman's injunction to support all our doctrinal statements with Scripture. And I feel certain that none of us desires to misguide or misinform any readers of this Forum by publishing his own opinions in lieu of and at the expense of sound biblical exegeses. --Hank | ||||||
4308 | reassurance of lambs book of life | Rev 20:15 | Hank | 118693 | ||
Henry and Emmy: While I find your post disconcerting, I, like Kalos, cannot convince myself that you truly mean to say about the Bible what one easily could infer to be a slap in the face of the Holy Bible. The Holy Spirit who indwells all true believers guides and illuminates through the instrument of the written word of God, the Bible. 2 Timothy 3:16 says that all Scripture is breathed of God. We, dear friends, do not test the Bible in any manner. Quite to the contrary, it tests us. Please, again I ask you, please base your statements on Scripture if you believe Scripture is trustworthy. If you believe otherwise, I say ever so regretfully and painfully that StudyBibleForum is not the place for you. --Hank | ||||||
4309 | reassurance of lambs book of life | Rev 20:15 | Hank | 118695 | ||
Henry and Emmy: While I find your post disconcerting, I, like Kalos, cannot convince myself that you truly mean to say about the Bible what one easily could infer to be a slap in the face of the Holy Bible. The Holy Spirit who indwells all true believers guides and illuminates through the instrument of the written word of God, the Bible. 2 Timothy 3:16 says that all Scripture is breathed of God. We, dear friends, do not test the Bible in any manner. Quite to the contrary, it tests us. Please, again I ask you, please base your statements on Scripture if you believe that Scripture, all of it -- every book, every chapter, every verse, every word, is true and is indeed the inspired word of God. If you believe otherwise and post material that can be construed to cast doubt on the authority of Scripture, I say ever so regretfully and painfully that StudyBibleForum is not the place for you. --Hank | ||||||
4310 | reassurance of lambs book of life | Rev 20:15 | Hank | 118780 | ||
Henry and Emmy: It is perfectly true that throughout the history of God's dealing with mankind, He has communicated in many ways: "God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days HAS SPOKEN to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world." Please note the words "has spoken" which I placed in caps for emphasis. We learn of His speaking to us in his Son through the revealed word of God, the Bible, through which we may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing we may have life in His name. (cf. John 20:31). There is no new revelation. The Scriptures are complete, the canon is closed. Scripture, "sola scriptura," is that for which Jude appealed to the saints that they contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints. (Jude 3). ..... You asked that Scripture be defined. Without going into a long-winded spiel, let's keep it simple. Scripture is the sacred writings of the Bible, the revealed word of God. That's what it meant to Paul when he said in 2 Timothy 3:16, "All Scripture is inspired by God..." --Hank | ||||||
4311 | reassurance of lambs book of life | Rev 20:15 | Hank | 118795 | ||
Kalos: The Bard of Stratford-upon-Avon will not rest easy in his grave if he gets wind of the following parodies: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our "simple" Bible but in ourselves, that we are simpletons." ..... And another fracture of Shakespeare: "There are more things in Genesis to Revelation, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your theology." --Hank | ||||||
4312 | Rev 21:6 | Rev 21:6 | Hank | 214423 | ||
AMO14 - Dear Forum contributor, please look kindly upon my candor, but I fail to see in your concluding remark, i.e., "The Peshitta is Scripture" a valid summation of the points you have attempted to make in your preamble to it, whatever your preamble may be intended to mean and whatever service it may be intended to render to the readers of Study Bible Forum. On the contrary, I cannot help but view them as a series of quantum leaps into the speculative and esoteric at the very best and your summary statment as a non sequitur par excellence. Being keenly aware of my own pitiful shortcomings in ineptness, and blatant ignorance of, the events surrounding the early years in which the New Testament Canon and its textual bases were being formed and finally established (and for centures accepted by orthodoxy), I submit that I may not be entirely alone in my imperfect understanding of such weighty matters. Among what I've managed to garner from various resources on the subject thus far hag been a proclivity for questioning the credentials of others who may claim a more excellent knowledge than I but who are unable to produce much convicing proof in favor of the merits of their position. There are few places, if indeed any at all, reserved on this Forum for the expostion of any view that is not or cannot be solidly founded upon God's written message to man that appears wholly within within the pages of the Holy Bible, which we identify as being and understand and affirm to be the canocial 66 books of the Bible and no other. Inasmuch as this is a Bible Study Forum and nothing else -- nothing less and nothing more -- we restrict the scope and aim of this Forum to abide within the paramaters embraced by the concept contained in the doctrine of sola scriptura. The remrks are not intended to discourage you but on the contrary to challenge you to enter into the spirit and purpose of this Forum in such a way as to benefit your readers and bring glory to God who alone is worthy of our devotion and praise. --Hank | ||||||
4313 | Will unbelievers be raised from Sheol? | Rev 21:8 | Hank | 31798 | ||
The Bible teaches clearly that Christ is himself "very God of very God" and therefore one's belief in God the Father must encompass the belief that God revealed himself in the form of the Messiah, Jesus Christ. The two Persons of the Godhead, together with the Holy Spirit, are so inextricably inter-related that belief in one must embody the belief in all three. Thus, from the Christian perspective, anyone who professes belief in God the Father while denying the Son or the Holy Spirit, in fact denies them all. Ed, this is a circuitous path that leads me to say that I agree with you! --Hank | ||||||
4314 | Will unbelievers be raised from Sheol? | Rev 21:8 | Hank | 31799 | ||
Curtnsally, you made a number of observations in this post, not one of which I disagree with. But of the many fine statements you made, perhaps the wisest of all is your candid admission that how God does all that he does you simply do not know. One who has broad knowledge can be called learned; one who recognizes the limits of that knowledge can be called wise. --Hank | ||||||
4315 | Will unbelievers be raised from Sheol? | Rev 21:8 | Hank | 31811 | ||
Curtnsally, I fully recognize that you are new to the forum and thus may be (blissfully, may I say?) unaware that the issue of election vs. free will has been, as you put it, "juiced up" already to such a magnitude that the juice therof nearly drowned us all at one point, and we flounder still in the somewhat subsiding flow. Had you been around during the peak of the storm, you might have thought, as some of us did, that it was a re-enactment of Noah's flood and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah blended into one epic drama :-) --Hank | ||||||
4316 | Will unbelievers be raised from Sheol? | Rev 21:8 | Hank | 31993 | ||
Joe, God has indeed made himself known; it is right in front of our faces, surely enough. Perhaps though we are many of us not unlike the little boy who wondered whether he had a nose like other little boys, since he himself had never seen it. He lived long ago, before the invention of the mirror, and so one day he asked his mother, "Do I have a nose?" The mother led him to a quiet pool of water and invited him to look at his reflection. He, of course, then was able to see clearly that he indeed had a nose..... There are some who may need to be led to see what is in front of their faces, that God does make himself known. Perhaps that's part of our work as ambassadors. Soli Deo Gloria! --Hank | ||||||
4317 | WELCOME, NEWCOMERS | Rev 22:17 | Hank | 9295 | ||
WELCOME, NEWCOMERS ...... It's so good to see a number of new users on the forum and the return of some seasoned veterans also. Welcome aboard and please join us in prayer that God will lead and direct our paths as we gather here to study and learn more about His precious Word. --Hank | ||||||
4318 | completeness of the bible. | Rev 22:18 | Hank | 13700 | ||
False prophets are nothing new, of course. The Bible is sprinkled with warnings against them. Jesus had to deal with false teaching and hypocracy among the Jewish leaders, as did Paul and the other Apostles later among the early churches. You might show your friend these passages among others: Prov.12:17; Matt.24:24; 2 Cor.11:3-4, 12-15; Rev.20:10.... Let's pray that your friend at least will subscribe to the premise that the Bible is the authoritative, inerrant word of God. May the Lord be with you as you minister to your friend about Him. --Hank | ||||||
4319 | Originals? | Rev 22:18 | Hank | 79375 | ||
Radioman, the procedure the JW's and kindred cults use to lend a semblance of credence to many of their false and far-fetched claims, in addition to being unconvincing, is neither new nor clever. In the annals of human history and thought, it has always been possible to exhume some sort of pseudo-authoritarian "proof" to support virtually any position on any conceivable topic. It is easy enough to dig into dusty tomes of the past and come up with evidence of sorts that would overwhelmingly support a thesis that the earth is flat. The problem from a theological perspective issues from taking individual preconceptions of truth to scripture with demands that scripture itself conform to them. This practice, of course, entails the substitution of exegesis for eisegesis; or, in extreme cases such as one sees in portions of the New World Translation, a surgical treatment of scriptural text in which passages are blatantly mistranslated or excised completely from the text. While the numbers of persons who hold on to the flat-earth position have dwindled dramatically, the numbers who are deceived by the false doctrines of the cults are legion still and continue to rise. --Hank | ||||||
4320 | Originals? | Rev 22:18 | Hank | 79488 | ||
Excellent, Joe. And should it console you (assuming misery loves company), while you ruminate on the reality that Texas gave the world Hagee, please ponder on the cross that we Arkies must bear as best we can: The Natural State gave the world a certain undistinguished two-term national president. :-( --Hank | ||||||
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