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781 | Do you own a TNIV? | 2 Sam 21:19 | flinkywood | 68352 | ||
Hi, Makarios, I think I sent these links to you before; they may help clear up some confusion around the "translation" question. Colin. | ||||||
782 | Reliability of King James version? | Is 55:10 | flinkywood | 63746 | ||
Isa 55:10,11 "For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it." The Critical text, on which most "Modern" translations are based, is a distinct textual family from the Textus Receptus, "Received Text", on which the KJV and NKJV are based. Below are 2 places to help answer your question. http://www.cob-net.org/compare.htm http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/kjvdefen.htm Colin |
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783 | Why does God love the world (us)? | Genesis | flinkywood | 59353 | ||
Dear Reformer Joe, I like your post: "...This implys that the will of God is not powerful enough to overcome the rebellious will of man." He is powerful enough, but won't break His own laws or covenants to do so: He won't violate our free will. Great string. Colin. |
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784 | Is Your Modern Translation Corrupt? | 2 Tim 3:16 | flinkywood | 58763 | ||
Kalos, here's a good angle on this subject. Colin http://www.cob-net.org/compare.htm |
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785 | Are Christian apologetics unbiblical? | 1 Pet 3:15 | flinkywood | 57824 | ||
Kalos, I understand. I'm following an argument of yours from a previous string in which you argue for argument over argument, as in "quarrel" or "disputation", if that is indeed your argument. I conclude this series of statements with a . Colin |
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786 | Are Christian apologetics unbiblical? | 1 Pet 3:15 | flinkywood | 57787 | ||
Kalos, regarding arguers, there's 2 Tim 6.3,4 "If anyone advocates a different doctrine and does not agree with sound words, those of our Lord, Jesus Christ, and with the doctrine conforming to godliness, he is conceited and understands nothing; but he has a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words, out of which arise envy, strife, abusive language, evil suspicions..." NASB I heard a joke recently: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are lying in a glade looking up at the stars. Holmes: Observe the sky, tell me what do you see, Dr. Watson. Watson: I see the Milky Way in all it's transfiguring glory, a spray of celestial baublery athwart an indigo firmament. What folly to fancy ourselves anything more than dust motes on a whirling bag of dust. Vanity, vanity is what I see. What do you see, Mr. Holmes? Holmes: Watson, you idiot, someone stole the tent! Some people are going to see, some aren't. Colin |
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787 | Are Christian apologetics unbiblical? | 1 Pet 3:15 | flinkywood | 57755 | ||
Kalos, I joined this forum about a year ago. It's a mixed bag, definitely, with a lot of thick-headed, spiritless arguers. I answered a question here recently for someone of this type. A waste of time. Good thing is, you leave a body of correspondence behind for the sincere to browse. I like Makarios' posts, for ex., or Hank's, or yours, for that matter. Colin. | ||||||
788 | So when does justification come? | Gen 12:1 | flinkywood | 57537 | ||
Rom 10:8,9,10 "But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." Go out and spread the good news. Colin |
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789 | So is the book of Romans 4 a contraditio | Gen 12:1 | flinkywood | 57501 | ||
Faith is an act, a work. In German, for ex., Ich Glaube, "I believe", literally means "I faith". First, we are saved by faith... Eph 2:8,9 "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast." Then we're perfected by works: James 2:22 "Seest thou how by faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?" Abraham trusted God to the extent that he was ready to sacrifice Isaac, ready to demonstrate his faith through an act that was pure Abraham and totally in his character: Mat 7:20 "Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them." Sin, like faith, is also an act; and like faith, it's an act of the heart: Mat 5:28 "But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart." Rahab just acted on what was already in her heart. First it's faith, then works. He's after our character: Rom 5:3,4 :...but we glory also in afflictions, knowing that affliction works out patience, and patience works out proven character; and proven character, hope." So these are complementary, not contradictory. Works are obedient faith. Colin. |
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790 | Do you yet say that Jesus was just a man | John 9:24 | flinkywood | 57033 | ||
Stokey, now that this string has quieted down a bit, I wonder how you can possibly believe that God, who is Love, sent one of His creations--an angel, no less-- to die for us so that He wouldn't have to. Is that not utterly lame? Think of it... And that's the thrust of JW. Don't you see? Remember what He said? "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." Joh 15:13. That's the substance and miracle of His love, that He lay down His own life, not the life of some pre-planned, custom-built stand-in. God isn't so narrow, or so gutless. He formed us in His image then died for us--in pain and love--so that those who believe He did can be with Him forever. It's too much, really, too much to fathom. Stokey, hear what you're saying. Don't you realize how much you're missing with this foolishness of theirs? Get out of there and bring some with you. Colin. |
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791 | Do you yet say that Jesus was just a man | John 9:24 | flinkywood | 55968 | ||
Stokey, do you pray on it? because you are tough. Meanwhile, I'm firing retro rockets and leaving planet JW. Colin. | ||||||
792 | Do you yet say that Jesus was just a man | John 9:24 | flinkywood | 55791 | ||
Stokey, the final verse is Rev 2.8, LITV. Colin | ||||||
793 | Do you yet say that Jesus was just a man | John 9:24 | flinkywood | 55787 | ||
Stokey, God doesn't normally require this kind of workaround to make a thing clear, especially a thing on the order of Jesus' deity. The bible tends to be explicit, not implicit: "Take heed therefore to yourselves and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood." (Acts 20.28, KJV). Try this cool thing: "Who has planned and done it, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I Jehovah am the first and the last; I am He." (ISA 41.4, LITV). Who is that? It's Jehovah, of course. "So says Jehovah, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Jehovah of Hosts: I am the First, and I am the Last; and there is no God except Me." (Isa 44.6 LITV) Jehovah again. "Listen to Me, O Jacob, and Israel My called: I am He; I am the First; surely I am the Last." (Isa 48.12, LITV). Jehovah redux. Now to... "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, says the Lord, the One who is, and who was, and who is coming, the Almighty." (Rev 1.8, LITV) Jehovah once again. "And He said to me, It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the Ending. To the one thirsting, I will freely give of the fountain of the Water of Life." (Rev 21.6, LITV) Who is this? Jehovah? Okay, but who is spoken of in this next verse? "And to the angel of the assembly of Smyrna, write: These things says the First and the Last, Who became dead, and lived:" Stokey, this world is so bonkers. Every day it's "Anything but Jesus." But at the end of the day it has more to with what you believe than what you don't. Colin |
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794 | Do you yet say that Jesus was just a man | John 9:24 | flinkywood | 55740 | ||
Stokey, Rather than being simply "one of the foremost princes," Jesus Christ is "Lord of lords and King of kings" (Rev. 17.14, NWT)and is "far above every every government and authority and power and lorship and every name named, not only in this system of things, but also in that to come" (Eph 1.21, NWT). And, as opposed to "Michael who did not dare condemn the devil with insulting words, but said, 'The Lord rebuke you!'" (Jude 9, Today's English Version), Jesus Christ freely, authoritatively commanded him, "Go away Satan!" (Matthew 4.10, NWT). As for the "voice" in 1 Thess 4.16, it is indeed Michael's, but as a herald, along with God's trumpets, of Christ's coming. So which biblical verse says that Michael is Jesus Christ? |
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795 | Do you yet say that Jesus was just a man | John 9:24 | flinkywood | 55718 | ||
Stokey, The Watchtower, 2/15/79, P.31: "Jesus Christ, whom we understand from the scriptures to be Michael, the archangel." What scriptures say that Jesus is Michael? Colin. | ||||||
796 | The Bible and Science, #3 | Ps 102:26 | flinkywood | 52507 | ||
Hank, my dog is smart and would likely agree, though I don't believe he has an opinion on the matter. Colin (my humanoid handle). | ||||||
797 | The last twelve verses of Mark 16, (9-20 | Mark 16:9 | flinkywood | 52397 | ||
Hi, guys, here's a handy-dandy link which includes a good essay on this question. The page is long, so happy scrolling. Colin. http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/kjvdcha6.htm |
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798 | The Bible and Science, #3 | Ps 102:26 | flinkywood | 52347 | ||
Hank, I live near Hollywood, and until recently drove a Subaru Brat dubbed "Sir Booboo" by my wife. Flinky is our dog. Though I don't buy evolution, I also don't buy creation "science" because it's clearly un-scientific. Flood science is also a misnomer. That animals of icreasing comlexity and similarity are sorted uniformly in age contemporaneous strata worldwide is hard to square with a 6k-yr-old earth plus flood. Nevertheless, Jesus quoted scripture, so I rest assured on God's having created the heavens and the earth, and I'll take the flood on faith. How He did it all and how long it took Him is a mystery I hope to understand in heaven. Good science heads towards God, not away. |
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799 | The Bible and Science, #3 | Ps 102:26 | flinkywood | 52298 | ||
Dear Morant61 and Parable, a recent Economist article reported on current attempts to accord self-sacrificial love with the theory of evolution, whose core tenet is that hazard begat order of increasing complexity and variation: nothingness begat bang begat heat begat dust begat rock begat love. Love came from a rock: evolved from molecules, through single-celled yodie-kadodies, through T-rex, through mamalia, through to H. Erectus and the Beatles. Since it evolved from nothing, love must fit into the theory of nothing somehow; it must have a function beneficial to survival, otherwise it would have been selected out. Self sacrificial love appears on the surface to work against survival, so what's it doing there? Some researchers are puzzled. For this I like 1 John 4:19, "We love, because He first loved us." Morant61, The physical laws God made to run His creation are often used to disprove His authorship of them. Since evolution theory is founded on chance events, I just like how perfectly those same physical laws which supposedly arose by chance (chaos theory's entropy credits? Holy Enron, Batman!) disprove the possibility of their having ever arisen by chance at all. Don't you just love it? The whole thing is too fantastic, really. |
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800 | The Bible and Science, #3 | Ps 102:26 | flinkywood | 52234 | ||
Note how vigorously this law works against the notion that life somehow arose from random events over time. The notion: Given unlimited time plus a trillion typewriting tamarind monkeys, Psalm 139 (KJV) will inevitably result. But since it takes more energy to assemble a thing than to disassemble it, time and chance can't monkeydance. For every simian keystroke there's a weightier anti-keystroke: the 2nd Law means the monkey system is un-typing faster (if even by grace notes) than it types. The life which improbably self-assembled, survived, self-replicated then bulged from the Primordial Pool had oceans more odds against it than for it, more anti-chance than chance, unless... God. | ||||||
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