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701 | Why five words? | 1 Cor 14:19 | Ray | 1932 | ||
Truth Seeker, I don't think that's all there is to it. Try going to 1 Cor 4:16 in a little while on this forum. | ||||||
702 | Why five words? | 1 Cor 14:19 | Ray | 1931 | ||
Truth Seeker, I don't think that's all there is to it. Try going to 1 Cor 4:16 in a little while on this forum. | ||||||
703 | Nephilim Humans? | Gen 6:4 | Ray | 1916 | ||
Hi charis, I can't convince you to capitalize "breath of Life" or "breath of life from God" can I? | ||||||
704 | ...intended to pass by them? | Mark 6:48 | Ray | 1911 | ||
Hi load, Do you sometimes wonder what life with Jesus would be like here on earth? We don't know of His early years, whether He was praised for His good carpentry, or whether He was a good competitor in the games they played back then. We know nothing as far as I know. But I can see Jesus in this picture after feeling compassion for the large crowd because they were like sheep without a Shepherd, and praying to His heavenly Father for a while, and seeing that they still weren't at their destination because of the stiff wind, caught up to them and wanted to pass them and maybe say,"I'll race you to shore." I don't know what He'd say, but I would bet that He was competitive in any sport as any other youngster of His day.(Anyway I'd hate to play golf against God as the jokes go today). Anyway, I think that Jesus was disappointed in their reaction to Him for they thought they saw a ghost, a spirit as you will. In the Greek it says, "Take courage. I am." He got into the boat with them and the wind stopped and they were astonished and still didn't know who He was because their heart was hardened. Do you agree with that? I say they still didn't know who He was because in Mark 6:54 the Greek says that after the boat was anchored and they were good and safe, they recognized Him. Sure all the people recognized him, but I think that's when the disciples recognized Him also. If you look in your translation you can notice that "the people" is in italics meaning that those words aren't there in the Greek. So what does that mean to us today? That Jesus was competitive and a good athlete, pretty fast even against the wind? Of course not. Probably if they had recognized Him, he would have let the wind die down, and allowed them to reach shore ahead of Him. No, what I know that it means for me is that "The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want." |
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705 | To capitalize or not to capitalize? | Bible general Archive 1 | Ray | 1836 | ||
Dear JVH, Please be assured that I respect you, and you are not lacking in honor. "But God has so composed the body giving more abundant honor to that member which lacked, so that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another." I also compared Ephesians 4:5,Philippians 2:14,15, and Philippians 1:27 as good references as well as your Philippians verse for me. Only thing is you wouldn't agree with my Phillipians 1:27 capitalization,"standing firm in one Spirit, with one mind (soul) striving together for the faith of the gospel;" Sorry, I couldn't resist.:-) Let me talk about your points. (1) Right from the start, I decided as far as my own personal study was concerned, I would look at no religious literature except the Bible. I do look at several translations and copyrights, however. (2) All the letters in Hebrew are in caps so it is impossible to show Deity that way. That to me shows how very much scripture is to be individual, interpretive, and only as meaningful as each person can make it. In my interlinear Greek copy, Theos is capitalized. It MUST be capitalized to show the honor that He is due. He is the only true God and not a god. Why must they be capitalized today? Simply because the Deity of Christ is so much denied in our world and in our churches. (3) I have written to you about this one on March 17,2001 and tried to express the thought that it would be better sometimes to err on the side of using capitals. Luke 7:19 says, "Summoning two of his disciples, John sent them to the Lord, saying, "Are You the Expected One, or do we look for someone else?" If they expected One why would they look for someone or any one? That's what I wrote then, saying in other words that why would one be chosen over One, why would they when they Expected One, look for some one? (I do not know Hebrew or Greek. I took Spanish in High School, German in college, Latin in college choir, along with French songs. Didn't do very well in the foreign languages to be honest. I hope to learn Greek, however.) The word "one" is a difficult one in Greek as far as my personal study is concerned. For instance in John 1:2 when it says "He was in the beginning with God." it literally means "This One was in the beginning with God." Later, in verse seven talking about John the Baptist, it reads "He came as a witness" when literally it means "This one came as a witness". The Greek has the same word for "one" with no capitalization. It is up to the reader, always has been up to the reader, to decide if its important or not, which one to capitalize, or leave them both lower case. The book of John was written to downplay the importance of John the Baptist, but I'll let you capitalize the title he has had through the years. But I won't count him as Deity. But here again it was necessary for the individual to decide for himself how important John was. (4) In your Bible study, how many times have you read a verse talking about a Spirit as in an angel, and in the margin it will say,"or spirit".??? Question marks, mine. Have you seen "or Spirit."??? Where is the lower case they prefer? (The word Author is another tough one to decide, at least for me. I think I'm still thinking about the "Author of our faith". I'm not writing the Bible, either, but I think we all individually have to interpret it.) Who should decide about capitalization you ask? What are the denominations of the scholars of the past? Who should decide? Yes, I say we all have to decide, because it is important. John l:l literally says,"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word." This is God's word and I think we should get to know the Word. |
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706 | No more evangelists,pastors,teachers? | Eph 4:11 | Ray | 1811 | ||
Hi charis, Consider Romans 10:14 - ll:8..."for "WHOEVER WILL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.' How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in (Him) whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher?" It goes on to say that all of the people didn't heed the good news from the preachers. "So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of God." Again, we have all that we need already. We have the word of God. It relates to the "priesthood of all believers" that I grew up with. We all can read the scriptures and apply it to our lives and the Bible will teach itself. Rom.11:8 says that the Jews were given a spirit of stupor, eyes to see not and ears to hear not, down to this very day." Rom 11:20 But you "stand by your faith." Stand by the word of God. By the way, I'm not yelling at the start. :-) I think that some time ago someone appeared to be yelling but I think that he was showing the all caps Hebrew and the Jewish significance in his comment. Later, Ray |
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707 | Is Biblical literacy dead?Or is prophecy | Matt 11:13 | Ray | 1809 | ||
Dear JVH, You quoted I John 4:1 but didn't include verse two "By this you know the Spirit of God; every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; and every spirit that does not..."NASB I'm not familiar with the ASV and don't have a copy available. Can you tell me if they capitalize "know the Spirit of God" as does the NASB and NKJ? I believe that it should be a small s. All the other words of spirit are lower case and I think this one should too. What do you think? Or do you care? I don't want to make you mad but I would also put in the lower case I JN 3:24 "We know by this that He abides in us, by the spirit which He has given us. Beloved, do not believe every spirit..." I've learned to compare this scripture with Mt 12:31b ..."but blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven. Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the (Holy) Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him..." I also compare Mathew 12:28 "But if I cast out demons by the spirit of (God), then the kingdom of God has come upon you." I compare it with Mk 11:20 "But if I cast out demons by the finger of (God), then the kingdom of God has come upon you." Now in regard to prophets, why are we looking for a true prophet instead of looking for the one and only true (God), the (Prophet) who was to come? See John l:21 Later, Ray P.S. Please excuse my parenthesis use. |
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708 | All or none? Or some? | Eph 4:11 | Ray | 1806 | ||
Dear charis, I just wrote in another tree I guess and said that I thought in essence that the "as" in Ephesians should not have been inserted. In other words, the church is already equipped by the words written by the apostles, the word of God. I just read Ephesians 3:4 where it says,"By referring to this, when you read you can understand my insight into the mystery of Christ, which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit;..." I would say that we have the word of God and we don't need any new revelations. When you read you can understand. If you read the word, and know Him, you will be used. Eph. 5:8 "... for you were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the (Lord); walk as children of Light (for the fruit of the Light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth), trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord." |
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709 | Does Jude 1:17 answer Eph 4:11? | Eph 4:11 | Ray | 1805 | ||
Dear RCSCROLL, charis, and JVH, I just now read of RC's comment about the past tense in Jude 17, and charis I agree that it's past tense in Ephesians 4:ll 'And He gave some apostles, some prophets, and some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers. Past tense, He gave some. Past tense, "words that were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ." Everything is in place already in the eyes of Jude. You have all the information, revelation, knowledge of the Son of God. You're well equipped with the word of God. JVH, I'm sure you will be happy to know that there is a direct correlation between Jude 17 and Eph.3:ll using my capitalization system. It also points to Ephesians 2:18 "for through Him we both have our access in one (Spirit) to the Father. Ephesians 2:20 has a tense which I need to study to find out, but it too is in a past tense of having been built on a foundation but now we're growing. |
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710 | What about the other ministries? | Eph 4:11 | Ray | 1787 | ||
Hi charis, I looked at Ephesians and your reference in John 13:16 also today. It seems to me that all of us in the body of Christ are equally important. "A slave is not greater than his master, nor is one who is sent greater than the one who sent him." contrasted with Ephesians 4:11 without the word in italics;"And He gave apostles, and some prophets, and some evangeliss, and some pastors and teachers, ..." and why, so that we all can "attain the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God..." So I would say that everythings been done already. We have the word of God and we should be equipped "for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ." Go back also to Ephesians 4:7. "But to each of us grace was given according to the measure of (Christ"s) gift." Go back further to Eph 3:20 "according to the power that works within us, to (Him) be the glory in the church..." Notice the fullness of God and Christ in this section. Now I would go back still further to Eph 3:14 "For this reason I bow my knees before the (Father)." The Holy Spirit. I love Ephesians. Check out the "according to"s of the book. 3:7 "of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of God's grace which was given to me according to the working of (His) power." see 2:18 "for through Him, we both have our access in one (Spirit) to the Father." |
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711 | Please explain this verse? | Mark 15:34 | Ray | 1616 | ||
You're right JVH, Mt 19:17 "There is only One who is good." NIV | ||||||
712 | May I Ask Again... Bible Software? | Bible general Archive 1 | Ray | 1508 | ||
I like my MAC Bible mostly because I can't find any others for my Macintosh. It's amazing what you can find out with just a few words. | ||||||
713 | What makes John the Baptist greater ? | Luke 7:27 | Ray | 1506 | ||
John the Baptist was an important vehicle for the kingdom of God for he introduced the people to the Lamb of God. But they didn't come out to see John but they came to see the Prophet, Jesus. Luke 7:27 "This is the One about whom it is written, 'Behold, I send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way before You.' (The capital 'O' is my interpretation, apologies to anyone who knows me). Could Jesus have gone on to say that anyone who is least in My kingdom is greater than he? I think so. rvh |
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714 | Time to capitalize??? | Col 3:17 | Ray | 1415 | ||
Rev. l9:10 ..."For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. And I saw heaven opened; and behold, a white horse, and He who sat upon it is called Faithful and True; and in righteousness He judges and wages war. And His eyes are a flame of fire, and upon His head are many diadems; and He has a name written upon Him which no one knows except Himself. And He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood; and His name is called the Word of God." This is the only Word of God I found referenced. This is the one place out of 47 that I found the Word of God. He is sacred and holy, He is imperishable and remains, let's worship Him and praise Him with a capital letter for He is worthy. The rest of the references were "word of God". But when did you decide to capitalize the word of God, or the many places found of the word of the Lord? Is it time for you as well as millions of others to show respect for the Lord by capitalizing His names, the ones we know at least? Of course it is, for the time is always now for the scriptures. Now is the time... But sometimes people can revere the Bible more than they know their Lord. Its time for all of us, all the people you mentioned and more to determine for ourselves the deity of Christ and decide if He is who He says He is. We all have to decide if He is a way or the Way. I might say here also that God is spirit, and equally true that He is a Spirit. God is true, but equally true is that His name is True. He speaks truth but equally true is that He is the Truth. Don't be afraid to write in your Bibles people for it is only paper or even papyrus. But I want you to know the Word, and you get to know Him through the word of God. Ray V.H. |
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