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61 | I don't know what version this quote is | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 167751 | ||
Hello, Mary. Welcome! You spoke of having been saved in a Baptist church. As a card carrier in the SBC (Southern Baptist Convention for those who are yet unelightened!), I trust you haven't strayed from the Baptist fold. :-) .... I've read your posts, enjoyed them, and marvel at your gift for expressing yourself so laconically. It's a refreshing contrast to many of us Forumites who have the less desirable gift of verbosity. In plain English, some of us can be boring windbags at times! ..... May I ask a favor? Would you mind going to your user profile section (you can access it by clicking on your user name in any of your posts) and filling in a bit of information about yourself? You may wish to examine some of the other users' profiles in order to get a handle on the kinds of things that they have written in theirs. BradK, kalos, Doctrinsograce and many others have excellent user profiles. Again, welcome. Hope you enjoy studying with us at SBF. --Hank | ||||||
62 | sermons online? | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 170232 | ||
Jeff, if you don't mind my brief intrusion, I'd like to add my second to what Brad has said with reference to Keith Moore and his church in Branson, MO. I surveyed the situation by taking a long Google-guided look at Keith Moore, his ministry and his mentors -- people such as Copeland, Dollar, and Hagin: Word of Faith promoters all. On the Keith Moore site, a cursory glance at the "Praise Reports" suggests strongly the kind of 'name-it-and-claim-it' mentality that his followers have bought into. I would call Keith Moore's teaching no more orthodox than that of any other of the false teachers who subscribe to the heretical Word of Faith Movement. --Hank | ||||||
63 | Women being preachers.... | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 171421 | ||
Dear Justme: Thanks for your kind and generous salutations. ..... My area of the Ozarks has escaped much of the tornadic activity and other forms of highly inclement weather that has assailed your beloved Missouri thus far this Spring. We have, however, had some rain, a most welcome balm to this drought-stricken region. It's good to hear from you as always. --Hank | ||||||
64 | Is sacrifice requirement to christianity | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 171573 | ||
Dear John: The segment of your post to Jared that says, "I will pray for you and ask God to lead you to a church that teaches sound doctrine, where the gospel is proclaimed and Christ is lifted up" is an excellent statement, one that I endorse without reservation, and I will join you in prayer for this young man, Jared. .... I too did a bit of research on YWAM and, albeit a few well-known names in religious circles apparently have some good things to say about the movement, I found, as you did, some alarming things too. I will touch briefly on but two of them. The first is that the organization (or at least certain local chapters of it) have been visited and tainted by the false doctrines (heresies) of the Word of Faith Movement -- the 'name it and claim it' psycho-babbel that has as much to do with the preaching of the gospel of Christ as a baboon does with programming a computer. And the other caveat I'd like to mention is this. I noticed the word "ecumenical" showing up in many of their web sites. The road to ecumenicism is a dangerous and slippery one, freighted with temptations and invitations to fall away from orthodoxy all along its path, embracing, as it does, doctrines that are sound and doctrines that are as false as they come, having an impossible goal of melding all of them under one broad canopy and calling the mixture unity, or one-world religion, or something of the sort. Scripture makes a clear distinction, and draws a sharp line of demarcation, between sound doctrine and false doctrines. It is not within the province of dim-sighted man to mix sound teaching with false teaching and call it ecumenicism, nor to re-image God nor, nor to re-define His eternal Word to fit the notions of the world in our time. Those misguided souls who dare to try it do so to their own eternal peril. --Hank | ||||||
65 | why so hard to understand | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 171824 | ||
Mat, it would be perhaps easier to approach your question armed with specific knowledge of the problem you are having with understnding the Book of Numbers. Lacking such knowledge, however, I'll venture a stab at it and hope that at least part of what I am going to say will be helpful to you. ....... I'd never thought of the book as presenting interpretative challenges that were unusually difficult. I could name several books of Scripture that strike me as more difficult to grasp than Numbers. I'll grant you that it's easy enough to get bogged down in the numberings of Chapters 1 and 26, but the thrust of the book really centers around the wilderness wanderings of Israel, chiefly those wandering years from the time they left Sinai until they arrived at the river Jordan. God had redeemed Israel from Egypt's slavers, had delivered them from the "house of bondage." He gave them the Law at Sinai. He had given them in Moses an exceptionally gifted leader. Moreover, they were supernaturally guided by daytime cloud and night-time pillar of fire. With all these things to their credit, Israel had every possible reason to march triumphantly in the pefect will of God to the promised land. But instead they failed miserably and repeatedly, and this Book of Numbers records their failures. ...... With this very brief background sketch, perhaps you will be able to approach this fourth book of the Pentateuch with less trepidaion and with greater confidence, the better to understand what you read. ...... The first five books of the Bible comprise the Pentateuch, or Torah, and I've always maintained that it is best to view these books of the Torah as a unit. Therefore, to read the Torah as a unit will enhance your understanding of Numbers, putting the book in a broader context. Of equal or greater importance, your becoming well acquainted with the Torah will give you an invaluable background, a foundational knowledge, as it were, that will greatly aid your understanding of all the rest of Scripture. ..... Additionally, you may indeed be helped by availing yourself of a Bible dictionary and a reliable study Bible or two, and pehaps a non-technical commentary. The "King James Study Bible" (Nelson) and "MacArthur Study Bible" (Word/Zondervan) have some good notes on Numbers, and both of these publications are conservative and reliable. For a brief, non-techical commentary on Numbers, try volume 3 of "Layman's Bible Book Commentary" (Broadman Press). ..... Well, perhaps these tips will help you to get into Numbers and read this portion of God's word with greater understanding. But most of all, enter into your study of this book, and of all 65 of the other books of Scripture, with prayer for illumination by their Author. ...... You will notice that I have not attempted to address your original question as written, which was, "Why is (the book of Numbers) so hard to understand?" The question is assumptive and, frankly, assumptive questions should never be asked -- or answered -- on this Forum. The question that you originally asked in the form that you asked it assumes a fact which may or may not be true at all, or it could be true for A but not true for B. As a general rule, most regular users of this Forum, including this respondent, are extremely reluctant to address assumptive questions. ..... Let's say for the sake of argument that the Book of Numbers IS hard to understand. And you asked why it was so hard to understand. But is that what you really wanted to know? Didn't you, in fact, want to find out ways that might serve to help you understand the book better than you have been able to understand it thus far? So, without being assumptive at all, you could frame your question (request) something like this: "I am having difficulty in understanding the Book of Numbers and would appreciate suggestions that may help me to understand the book better." A request such as this is far more likely to pull positive responses and fetch you the information you are seeking than asking why the book is so hard to understand. For example, I was tempted (though obviously did not yield) to dismiss your original question with the answer, "Because it's written in Hebrew." :-) ...... God bless you, friend, and I encourage you to keep plugging away, examining the Scriptures daily, just as the Bereans did in Acts 17:11. Because all Scripture is...(see 2 Timothy 3:16), and we are commanded to... (see 2 Timothy 2:15) --Hank | ||||||
66 | farmer's almanac? | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 171844 | ||
Doc, your post about "the signs being right" (or wrong) brings back memories that have lain dormant in my little gray cells for decades. Yes, now I remember hearing the grown-ups talking about "the signs" when I was a kid growing up in northern Georgia and eastern Tennessee. I recall hearing an old truck farmer -- he seemed old to me then: nearly everybody seems hold when you are 8 or 9 years old -- I recall hearing an old truck farmer talking to my dad about planting peas or corn or whatever and saying, "I can't plant until next week. The signs ain't right this week." I didn't know what the old farmer was talking about, and as soon as he got out of ear-shot, I asked my dad what the signs were. But even after my dad tried to explain the signs to me, I still wasn't sure I understood the idea very much. These simple old farmers of yesteryear who looked to the signs for help in planting their fieldswere, nearly all of them, professing Christians, some very strict and devout ones. I suspect that scarcely a one of them was even vaguely aware of the origin of the signs. I doubt that it ever occurred to any of these old planters of days gone by, them whom we now incline to think of as simple folk, that trusting in the signs for guidance, agricultural or otherwise, was in any manner in conflict with the faith they confessed so fervently in congregation every Lord's Day morning. --Hank | ||||||
67 | god shouldn't send people to hell. | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 171965 | ||
Ocelot: If you have time, read the material in the link that Doc suggested to Muzka. If you have enough time, read it twice! And to all Forum readers I recommend the same thing. This SDA propaganda has been promoted before on this Forum; it is not only discouraged but patently proscribed by Forum guidelines. --Hank | ||||||
68 | Advice on how it should not be practiced | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 173558 | ||
Prayon: The fact that you totally disagree with my stated position on the practice of "being slain in the spirit" neither surprises me nor angers me . What does bother me a great deal is for a veteran Forum user such as yourself to post a strong condemnation of a doctrinal position without submitting as much as a single word of Scripture to refute that position or lend any authority to your own. Those of us who are veteran users of this Forum know full well that hear-say, experiential, and anecdotal "evidence" simply won't fly, yet you submit as your lone reason for disagreeing with my position the following: "I have to totally disagree with Hank. I believe that one can be 'slain in the spirit' and have seen people done so." ..... Prayon, this simply is not scriptural proof. If you or anyone reading this page can make a solid biblical case for the practice -- "a biblical case" meaning adequate evidence from God's word, not from subjective and error-prone personal experience or observation -- I will be glad to read and study it, and if it shows clearly that my position is in error, I will be happy to retract every word I've written in disfavor of the the practice. ..... Post 5184, which you offered as a reference, contains nothing but an account of an alleged "personal experience." It contains not one word of Scripture. What are Christians supposed to do, base their belief and practice on their own feelings opinions, and experiences -- and the feelings, opinions and experiences of others -- or base what they believe and practice on the clear and inerrant teachings of the Word of God? Have we come to regard 'sola scriptura' as a musty relic from the past? Is 2 Timothy 3:16,17 outdated? Do we need something more, a new experience, a new kick to quicken us? Must we insist on inventing new and exciting experiences such as being 'slain in the spirit' to add glitter and dazzdle to the Christian journey? Must we measure the worth of the Christian committment by the degree of health and the amount of wealth we can acquire when we vacuously presume to play the muddle-headed 'name it and claim it' game with the Sovereign Holy God? What a farce! How far so much of modern Christendom errs from "the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints! (Jude 3). ..... Dear sister, this post is about principles, not personalities; hence, while I disagree vigorously with your position, I love you all the same as a fellow believer, a sister in Christ; and may we seek not to disagree agreeably, but rather to search for God's truth about which we may both agree without reservation. --Hank | ||||||
69 | Advice on how it should not be practiced | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 173560 | ||
Good post, bliss. Welcome. Nice to have you on SBF. --Hank | ||||||
70 | moses married how many times | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 173766 | ||
Dear k-man, Please cite Scripture to back up your answer that Moses was married twice. I know we Bereans can get sticky at times, slow things down, and become a general nuisance, always harping on 'prove this, prove-that.' I admit it's a nit-picky attitude to have and can become burdensome, but please coddle us just a little. I guess it's just the funny way we Bereans have of venting the spleen and regulating the circulation. One way to get along famously with Bereans is to 'speak where the Bible speaks, and remain silent where the Bible is silent.' I feel sure you've heard this 'non-creed' recited somewhere before. :-) --Hank | ||||||
71 | Genesi 3rd chp. Satan tempt Eve | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 174664 | ||
wisdom 111 - Upon first reading your response to srbaegon's (Steve's) Post 174537, I decided to let it slide. But having read your post again this evening, along with your subsequent remarks, I felt constrained to come forth and vocalize my concerns about your Forum decorum. The warning you issued to Steve, viz., "Be careful in giving an answer, it may come back to haunt you in the future," could have pertained to nothing Steve himself said in his post, inasmuch as all he did was to list two groups of Scripture references pertinent to the question. Are we on Study Bible Forum to infer that we should beware of answering a question by the use of Scripture, lest it somehow have a boomerang effect and "come back to haunt" us? ..... To be quite candid with you, Mr. or Ms. Wisdom, your remarks to Steve make no sense to me and, judging from Steve's response, I'd venture to say they make no sense to him either. I'm not going to ask you again why you said what you said or what you may have meant by it. Steve has already asked you a similar question which you did not answer with anything that helped in the least to clear the matter up -- so I infer that you have no idea why you responded to Steve in such a rude and uncharitable manner, not to mention one that had no basis at all. To ask you again would not be unlike sawing sawdust and I doubt that it would serve any good purpose. ...... So in lieu of rehashing hash, my message to you is this. From now on please see to it that you think through your responses and weigh their potential impact ever so carefully before you commend them to this Forum. Much time spent in the preparation of a post is time well spent, please believe me, and will likely be profitable to you and spare you a heap of trouble. In a word, don't post until you are duly prepared to post; don't say anything unless you are sure of what you are saying. With that, I truly wish you well and will be looking to you in future for posts of a quality that truly represent your very best efforts. --Hank | ||||||
72 | Women vs wearing pants /trousers | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 175077 | ||
Doc, it is my pleasure and privilege to agree with you: I also believe the Deuteronomic passage speaks of what we call 'cross dressing.' And that is largely determined by the conventions of a given society. For example, being a denizen of the Ozark mountains and not a Scottish Highlander, I would look hideous and feel worse wearing kilts. I would be utterly out of syle wearing those colorful skirts here. I have no doubt that it would be looked upon as cross dressing. And I'm very sure my mountain brothers would come after me with sticks and stones. ...... By the way, I don't play the bagpipes either, but that's another story. --Hank | ||||||
73 | where did God come from? | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 176054 | ||
Tinaraine - It's tough to lose parents at any time, particularly when one is so very young. I know. My father died when I was a lad of 10. It's tougher to lose a child. I know that too. My son died when he was not quite 21. So, whom does one blame for the hard knocks of life? Do we let God take the rap for our sorrows while we take credit for our joys? Do we follow the advice of misguided people like Job's wife who, when Job was drowning in a sea of troubles, enjoined him to curse God and die? (Job 2:9) ...... Is God unfair? Is He silent, is He hidden, does He care? ..... It seems to me that your husband has, as we all at times have had, some profoundly important things on his mind -- questions that cry out for answers. And so may I please offer to you and to him a short list of books? They have helped me and numberless other human beings to soothe a faith that's almost been shattered by the slings and arrows of life and the stiff-necked stubbornness of the human will. The books are: 1. The Bible. 2. Disappointment with God, by Philip Yancey. 3. Mere Christianity, by C. S. Lewis. 4. The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict, by Josh McDowell. The latter two books were written by men who were professing atheists for a number of years before their encounter with Jesus Christ, who turned their lives around, as He always does. ..... I am personally acquainted with a man of an exceptionally keen intellect who is now a very effective evangelist. He was an atheist as a young man. But along came an old pastor of a country church who challenged this young man to read the Bible from cover to cover, with as much objectivity as he could muster, before giving up on God for the rest of his life. The young self-proclaimed atheist accepted the challenge and began to read at Genesis 1:1. I believe he made it as far as the Gospel of Luke before he became a born-again follower of the Lord Jesus Christ! He's living proof that "the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword" just as Hebrews 4:12 says it is. ..... You and your husband have my best wishes and my prayers. --Hank | ||||||
74 | How many people will go to heaven? | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 176820 | ||
teresaa - Quoting from your post "...in the church today people believe in once saved always saved." .... True. I do. So does the church I'm a member of. But we believe in the doctrine of the eternal security of the believer, not because it is something we dreamed up, but because Jesus taught it (cf. John 10) and the Pauline letters confirmed it, as did the letters of John, Peter and Jude. ..... You continue, "but there are Bible verses that can prove that this is not true." ..... No there aren't, teresaa, unless they are wrenched from their context and given an eisegetical spin. Using the same level of biblical interpretation, I can give you a Bible verse, Genesis 6:14, that can "prove" beyond any doubt that you and I ought hasten to gather together some gopher wood right now and build ourselves an ark to shelter us from a forthcoming cataclysmic event of epic proportions. ..... It is not only possible but it is relatively easy to thumb through the pages of Scripture and pick out some "proof texts" that one can use to lend a measure of verisimilitude to almost any preconceived idea or half-baked doctrinal stance. The most dangerous doctrines on earth are those that seem true but, when weighed on the balance of God's word, are patently false. Man has no reason and can offer no excuse to stumble around in doctrinal darkness. He has the light of the word of God and instructions on how to use it: "Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth" (2 Timothy 2:15) ...... Won't you reconsider your position on this important doctrine in light of the full context of what Scripture actually teaches about regeneration and the eternal security of the believer? The regenerate believer can no more "lose" his salvation than he could save himself to begin with. Salvation is wholly of God. Man is as powerless to save himself as he is to keep himself saved. ....... What I have said in this post is intended as a didactic exposition of scriptural teaching and in no sense as a personal attack on you or anyone else. ...... May God bless your spirit and illumine your understanding as you study His blessed word! --Hank | ||||||
75 | How many people will go to heaven? | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 176821 | ||
teresaa - Quoting from your post "...in the church today people believe in once saved always saved." .... True. I do. So does the church I'm a member of. But we believe in the doctrine of the eternal security of the believer, not because it is something we dreamed up, but because Jesus taught it (cf. John 10) and the Pauline letters confirmed it, as did the letters of John, Peter and Jude. ..... You continue, "but there are Bible verses that can prove that this is not true." ..... No there aren't, teresaa, unless they are wrenched from their context and given an eisegetical spin. Using the same level of biblical interpretation, I can give you a Bible verse, Genesis 6:14, that can "prove" beyond any doubt that you and I ought hasten to gather together some gopher wood right now and build ourselves an ark to shelter us from a forthcoming cataclysmic event of epic proportions. ..... It is not only possible but it is relatively easy to thumb through the pages of Scripture and pick out some "proof texts" that one can use to lend a measure of verisimilitude to almost any preconceived idea or half-baked doctrinal stance. The most dangerous doctrines on earth are those that seem true but, when weighed on the balance of God's word, are patently false. Man has no reason and can offer no excuse to stumble around in doctrinal darkness. He has the light of the word of God and instructions on how to use it: "Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth" (2 Timothy 2:15) ...... Won't you reconsider your position on this important doctrine in light of the full context of what Scripture actually teaches about regeneration and the eternal security of the believer? The regenerate believer can no more "lose" his salvation than he could save himself to begin with. Salvation is wholly of God. Man is as powerless to save himself as he is to keep himself saved. ....... What I have said in this post is intended as a didactic exposition of scriptural teaching and in no sense as a personal attack on you or anyone else. ...... May God bless your spirit and illumine your understanding as you study His blessed word! --Hank | ||||||
76 | How many people will go to heaven? | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 176867 | ||
teresaa - We seem to be going around in circles on this. Is salvation by faith only, or do we contribute to it by works? ..... A quote from your post: "I would rather live with the belief that there is a chance to lose my salvation. It keeps me in fear of the the Lord." ...... What this says, of course, is that though you say that works do not save, you believe that works contribute to salvation by keeping you saved. That leads inexorably to the conclusion that salvation is a joint effort between you and God. Scripture does not teach this, teresaa. Please go to the following web site and read the article: http://www.gotquestions.org/contribute-salvation.html .... If we do not earn salvation through works, as you have posted and as Scripture clearly teaches, tell me how it can be that we can "lose" our salvation by works. So why would you rather live with the belief that there is a chance to lose your salvation? Because it keeps you in the fear of the Lord, you say. Teresaa, believe what Scripture teaches and set aside what you would "rather believe." I know of no better way to live in reverental awe (fear) of the Lord than to take Him at His word, do you? --Hank | ||||||
77 | Emergent Church question | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 177244 | ||
Doc, if the Emergent Church Movement and others of a similar stripe keep whittling away at that fragile one-half inch crust....what, I ask rhetorically, will remain? ..... Yet when, in despair, I bow my head, the words of our Lord flood my soul and afford me blessed surcease of sorrow: "Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away" (Mark 13:31). Trouble invariably comes about when men who would aspire to follow Christ forget two things: That the Bible is the authoritative, inerrant and plenary word of God, and that God is absolutely sovereign. ...... But man so easily forgets that God is sovereign and makes himself the center of his own private universe, including the organism he calls the church. But a man wrapped up in himself makes a small package. --Hank | ||||||
78 | Emergent Church question | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 177282 | ||
SSBG - ..... "All you guys must be Theologians or something" ..... Count me in as a "something." :-) ..... Dr. Mohler is not always easy reading, but he writes a number of things worth knowing and I've found that the expenditure of the effort it takes to read him is well rewarded. Dr. Mohler not infrequently makes heavy demands upon his readers, but this is almost universally the norm for any writer who is truly worth reading. There is no royal road to learning, but in our time not a few well-meaning but ill-advised writers and speakers, as well as Bible translators, attempt to spoon-feed their audience through over-simplification. The result so often is a watered-down serving of mush that neither properly instructs nor edifies; and it clearly is not particularly inspiring. One of the criticisms one frequently hears about the King James Bible and even modern formal-equivalence translations is that they are difficult to understand. Hence, we have a glut of paraphased versions, each claiming to be easier to understand than all the others. But does accuracy of translation suffer? I submit that it does. ..... Back to Dr. Mohler's article. May I suggest to you that you go back and read Part 1 of the article again, and then again if necessary? Have handy a good dictionary that will help you with the words that may be unfamiliar to you. Then proceed to Part 2 of the article. ..... Why am I suggesting this? Obviously you had some interest in the subject or you would never have bothered to read Part 1 of the article or to have responded to me. You may find Dr. Mohler hard to understand at times, especially on the first reading, but I don't believe you will find him tedious. ..... I'm an avid proponent of the idea that it is of foremost importance to know what is happening in and to the church in our day. As any good military general understands, it's not only important to know the position of his own camp well but also the position of other camps about him with whom he may be engaged. The apostle Paul is a good New Testament example of this principle, as he demonstrated by his encounter with the Greek philosophers and in the sermon he delivered to them on Mars Hill in Athens during his second missionary journey (see Acts 17:16-34). A reading of this account makes it obvious that Paul, like a good general, not only knew perfectly well where he stood but he also knew where his listeners stood. In like manner so should we. That is why I believe it so important to know, and know well, what Scripture teaches; and, like the Bereans of old, to be able, when we are exposed to the various religious teachings of our time, to discern truth from error by "examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so" (see Acts 17:11). ..... We cannot hope to lead others to the truth if we do not know the truth ourselves. And this requires our utmost diligence (see 1 Timothy 2:15..... Thank you so much for your response. May God bless you in your walk with Him. --Hank | ||||||
79 | Emergent Church question | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 177283 | ||
SSBG - Oops! The Scripture reference to 1 Timothy 2:15 that I cited toward the end of my post 177282 was intended to be 2 Timothy 2:15. Please pardon the slip. --Hank | ||||||
80 | 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 | ||||||
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