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81 | Christ centered faith ? | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 177566 | ||
SNB3 - You do more harm to yourself than anyone else by your blatant dishonesty, lies and deception. You have been twice removed for cause from participation as an interactive member of this Study Bible Forum, yet you continue to register under different names. This is dishonest. ...... You affirm with every post that it is biblically based, is not intended as a personal attack on the authority of the Bible or an effort to foster divisiveness, ill-will, dissentions or other disruptions to this Forum. You are therefore lying to this Forum each time you post your unwanted garbage to it. ...... Moreover, you engage in deception by posting untrue and unsubstantiated opinion adverse to Christianity and urging the users of this Forum to renounce their beliefs and follow yours. ...... It is obvious that you are not a Christian believer, but have you no sense of decency about you? Have you no respect for anyone else? Have you, in fact, no self-respect? Why don't you at least act like a decent human being, stop spamming this Forum, and be on your way? If peddling your anti-Christian views is something you are bent on doing, please peddle in on a web-site that deals in such trash. We don't condone it here. --Hank | ||||||
82 | Is it disrespectful to not use a title | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 177738 | ||
No, I don't believe so. He is my friend as well as my pastor. In private conversations he calls me Hank and I call him Dale. He has earned my respect for him as my pastor and I let him know it. I don't see that my calling him Dale diminishes this respect in any way. Moreover, I'm nearly twenty years older than he is, so I don't feel the least awkward in calling him Dale. Calling him by any exalted title would not enchance my respect for this man of God, and calling him by his first name does not diminish it. We don't put much stock in titles in my neck of the woods. There is a saying here in the Ozarks that we don't particularly care what you call us as long as you call us when supper's ready. :-) --Hank | ||||||
83 | tongues? | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 178178 | ||
Lilliesofthefield - One of the favorite expressions my mother was fond of using was this: "Let's not run this into the ground." It was her way of saying as a native of Alabama what the Lockman Foundation says to users of SBF: "Please limit to the best of your ability, the known denominational biases that produce potential strife and undue conflict. Please avoid interjecting obvious denominational biases, especially when urged by peers to cease. Otherwise, it becomes a battle of wills, and only tears down morale and causes division. If we are notified this situation is occurring, we will review it and act as necessary." ...... I've carefully reviewed your 21 posts to date, and all but about three of them are about speaking in tongues. You have been asked by your peers to cease, they having informed you that this subject has already been, in my mother's words, "run into the ground." ...... Yet, you persist to post on this divisive issue, leaving us no further remedy but to appeal to the owners of the Forum for relief from the situation your refusal to comply has put the Forum in. Should you therefore continue to resist the pleas of your fellow Forum users, the matter will be brought before Lockman and you may find yourself at risk of losing your privilege to post to SFB. We don't seek more dialogue with you on this subject, but we do respectfully ask a final time that you post on other subject or stop posting altogether. --Hank | ||||||
84 | script on burial/ cremeation, how / why | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 179355 | ||
Lorenzo - Cremation was not the general Hebrew method of disposing of the dead, but it was not unknown to ancient Hebraic culture, particularly in the case of criminals as Joshua 7:25 attests. Morever, we find in 1 Samuel 31:12,13 and account of the citizens of Jabesh Gilead having burned the bodies of Saul and his sons. But it is of interest to note that afterwards they interred their bones. In light of the fact that the Philistines had beheaded Saul, the cremation may well have been an act on the part of the valiant men of Jabesh Gilead to hide the damage. ...... At all events, Scripture neither sanctions nor specifically forbids cremation, although we may reasonably infer that the Israelites placed a certain amount of importance on burying their dead; for example, the account (Gen. 23:2-15) of Abraham's considerable efforts to find a suitable burial site for his deceased wife Sarah, and Jacob's plea to Joseph not to bury him in Egypt (Gen. 47:29,30). --Hank | ||||||
85 | nothin about facing east for resurection | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 179356 | ||
No, Doc, I ain't never seen no casket what said "THIS END UP" on it :-) (But see 1 Kings 22:35.) --Hank | ||||||
86 | OT laws repeated in NT | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 179647 | ||
Valoree - Having known your correspondent Doc for some time and having had considerable exposure to his writings and his ideas, I must say that he is far more astute than you appear to give him credit for being. Moreover, in human dialogue the failure of the hearer to understand is often closely related to the failure of the speaker to communicate clearly. To a degree of which many of us are either unaware or unwilling to admit, we all of us live in glass houses and should throw stones cautiously and prudently, if indeed at all. Hank | ||||||
87 | Your Favorite, Best Quality Bible? | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 179826 | ||
Justme - Perhaps I can be of help to you in resolving a problem you have experienced with a Foundation publication. Please e-mail me at placeonea@webtv.net. --Hank | ||||||
88 | were is the answer i couden't find it. | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 179903 | ||
Sir, the information you seek may be found on first, second and third base, respectively. Respectfully, --Hank. | ||||||
89 | Whom baptizes with the Holy Ghost | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 180053 | ||
Note on Post 180020, wherein appears the question, which is assumed to be intended as a rhetorical question, "Well, what is the Holy Ghost but Jesus?" ..... The orthdox doctrine of the Triunity of God (Trinity) is the distinctive and essential Christian doctrine that there is one God in three Persons. The Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God. There is a distinction between the Persons so that the Father is not the Son, the Father is not the Spirit, and the Son is not the Spirit. Each is a Person. The Holy Spirit is not to be envisioned as a mere force or influence. ..... Adapted from a Glossary entry, "The Believer's Study Bible," 1991, Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville. --Hank | ||||||
90 | No one wants advice | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 181531 | ||
For years it's been my conviction that the brightest and most informed people on earth are those who have the sagacity and keen insight to agree with me. --Hank | ||||||
91 | What sort of New Year’s Resolution... | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 181654 | ||
Kalos (John) - Happy New Year to you, dear friend and brother in Christ. Concerning resolutions it behooves us to bear in mind that man's best-laid plans have a way of going awry, as Jesus reminds us by the parable of the rich fool in Luke 12:16-21. Therefore, resolutions ought to be made, if at all, in view of our total dependence upon the providence of God and, as followers of Christ, in accordance with His will. --Hank | ||||||
92 | NISB | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 182744 | ||
John, in connection with this business of highlighting the Bible text, I happened to notice the Bible of a lady who sat beside me on the pew one Lord's Day morning. She had opened her Bible to the Gospel of Matthew and was reading from the Sermon on the Mount. I noticed that every word on both of the open pages had received the highlight treatment. This little incident occurred before the formal worship service had begun and, since people were engaging in greetings and small talk, I ventured a comment on my observation of the copious amount of highlighting. "How do you determine what to highlight?" I asked. "Oh, that's easy," she said. "I just highlight the parts that are important. Would you like to take a look at my Bible?" she asked. ..... And it was an experience, too, that's for sure. This dear old soul, this avid highlighing soul, had spared few passages of Scripture from getting the highlighting treatment. And I expect that in due time she will get around to coloring up the few parts she missed. ..... Whatever floats her boat, I suppose .... but it clearly doesn't float mine to have my favorite edition of the Bible garishly decorated in lemon yellow or shocking pink. If I care so little about Scripture not to be reminded of the eternal truth of 2 Timothy 3:16, I honestly doubt that a fist full of assorted crayons is going to help me much anyway. The Holy Bible is not a coloring book. ..... I thought your point about the distractions to current reading occasioned by previous markings was especially significant. --Hank | ||||||
93 | Translation | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 183044 | ||
Kalos - A post par excellent! It's time Bible readers came to grips with the question of translations. The church sorely needs to know what God actually said, but does it want to know? Along with its infatuation with the demons of easy believe-ism, Word-Faith nonsense, and every brand of liberalism and humanism under the sun, it is hardly surprising that the church is now willing, even eager, to embrace bogus Bibles, and think nothing of following a small band of so-called translators who dictate to it what they think God may have meant by what He said. Have we become so presumptous to think that God doesn't know how to communicate properly and needs His word filtered through the minds of the dynamic equivalence hot shots and slick paraphrastic stylists? Has the modern mind grown so obtuse and flabby that it has lost its ability to think and needs to surround itself with the linguistic crutches afforded by the plagues of dynamic equivalency and paraphrasing? One shudders to think that some of the worst farces of the Bible ever rendered into English have risen high on the charts of best-sellers. Thank you, John, for posting these sobering comments by Dr. MacArthur, and I urge every reader of this Forum to pay particular attention to them. It's time to wake up and stop supporting this mad rush to dumb down the holy word of God. Every time we pluck down our money for one of these literary disasters posing as God's word, we are indeed aiding and abetting them to continue with their pollution of the Holy Scriptures. --Hank | ||||||
94 | why should we pray and speak in tongues | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 183499 | ||
Dear PDAL - I nearly by-passed your post, but your usage of "by-pass" caught my eye as I passed by and, since it will be a few minutes before dinner is served at my house, I thought I would use the time to greet you and ask a couple of quick questions. First of all there is a colony of Bereans who hang out at this Forum (I among them, by the way) who have a habit of wanting to test everything we read and hear about the Christian faith by what the Bible actually teaches. ...... Now the reason I suppose that the word "by-pass" caught my eye so readily is that I've had a heart by-pass but to the best of my knowledge and belief I've never had a soul by-pass such as you speak of, and am not aware that such a thing is actually taught in Scripture. Perhaps you can tell me where I'd go in the word of God to learn about it. Bear in mind, if you please, that you're dealing with one of those hard-headed sola scriptura kinds of guys who relies on Scripture as the one and only source of his faith and practice. One more item I'd like to mention before I go to dinner. You allude to "people who view and understand scripture from a redemptive view point, which for me is the best way to interpret scripture." What I don't understand is, just what exactly is a "redemptive view point"? And what causes it, whatever it is, to be the best way to interpret scripture? Well, soup's on so I must go. But I'll be looking forward to your response. Every good wish to you. --Hank | ||||||
95 | Jude quotes Enoch? | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 184124 | ||
West - Perhaps my answer does not, as you say, match your question; and hence does not meet your criterion, whatever that may be! Thanks for pointing that out; I've been limping along on this Forum for six years and six thousand posts without being aware heretofore of this foible. It is hoped that your lone question and your response to the answer will not, in retrospect, prove to be the apogee of your career on SBF. --Hank | ||||||
96 | They are married,is it sin to have oral? | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 185161 | ||
"If something feels good, do it." .... If thou wrote these words, O Timothy, I declare unto thee that it is beyond the powers of observation granted unto me to find them. Yea, even reading betwixt the lines, the implication thereof faileth to appear. Wherefore it must needs be conluded that thou saith nought to be construed as, If unto thee it feeleth good, go ye therefore and doeth it. --Hank | ||||||
97 | A church that does not practice tongues | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 185723 | ||
Dear elect - The modern practice of speaking in tongues, known technically as glossolalia, possibly may in some instances be a contrivance for drawing attention toward the practitioners of the phenomenon. I have no proof that it is or is not, and would like to see you and everyone else who uses this Forum supply documentation to stand behind broad, sweeping statements of this sort. ..... Now I make no secret of being a Southern Baptist (see my user profile), and stand behind "The Baptist Faith and Message" statement of belief and practice. Consequently, I am distinctly not of the feather of Christians who profess to believe in and practice what is commonly called "speaking in tongues," the main characteristic of which, unless I'm badly mistaken, is the utterance of sounds that are incomprehensible -- an ecstatic babbling, if you will. But it is not my burden or my prerogative to condemn others whose beliefs and practices differ from mine solely on the basis that they do differ. What you or I happen to believe has no authority at all except to the degree that our beliefs are in line with Scripture. I cannot rightfully declare a practice wrong simply because I believe it to be so. My words carry no weight at all unless I am able to back them up with Scripture. Nor do yours. ...... Now, what I want to scold you a little about is this: In so many of your posts you do not hesitate in the least to make your beliefs known, even dogmatically so, but what we on Study Bible Forum are interested in -- what, in fact, this Forum is all about -- is not so much your beliefs but God's message: what does His word teach about the topics under discussion? I noticed your advice to the person who wanted to know how to find a solid church. I frankly thought it was one-sided and tinged with your (I guardedly and perhaps unwisely use the word) obession about election. ..... Surely you know that the kindred issues of free-will and election and of Calvinism and Arminianism are hot topics that have been debated for centuries and are without closure still. They are topics that are, in a word, controversial. They engender debate, interminable argumentation and ill-will that often sinks to vicious name-calling. Accordingly, the people who manage this Forum have imposed a proscription on divisive topics such as this one. You would therefore be well advised to lay off this subject, no matter how dearly you may love to talk about it. I'm no statistician, but I'd venture that there are literally hundreds of other topics within the pages of the Bible that are well worth one's time and effort without picking from among them the election/free-will matter about which even gifted theologians who are well above my pay grade are pondering still. ..... With all that behind me, and in view of the fact that this is the first correspondence I've had with you, welcome to Study Bible Forum. I pray that you will be a blessing to us and we to you. --Hank | ||||||
98 | A church that does not practice tongues | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 185730 | ||
Thanks, elect, for your prompt response. I'm particularly appreciative of the tone of your post. Responding to your request for information, herewith are links to a trio of articles on Calvinism and Arminianism that may be of some help to you and serve as a brief introduction to these two systems of soteriology. The first discusses the five points of Calvinism, the second Arminianism, and the third seeks to compare the two systems. Let me know whether you found them useful. ..... http://www.gotquestions.org/calvinism.html ..... http://www.gotquestions.org/arminianism.html ..... http://www.gotquestions.org/Calvinism-vs-Arminianism.html ..... Every good wish, --Hank | ||||||
99 | Translation / Transliteration | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 186275 | ||
Excellent answer, Tim! Clear and easy to follow. --Hank | ||||||
100 | Calvin or Armini | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 186722 | ||
Very well, GE. I see no earthly need to pursue this issue further with you. ..... One side note I would like to make, however. On March 27 in your Post 185733 you asked what soteriology meant and that same day in Post 185742 Doc told you. Now here you come on April 12 saying you don't know what soteriology is. It causes me to wonder whether you pay any attention to the answers you receive from the good people on this Forum. Pardon me please if I am wrong in my observation, GE, but it seems to me you derive some comfort in not being a scholar yourself and seeing no need for scholarship. Moreover, you express amazement at "how complicated and deep some people try to make the Scriptures." Friend, no one needs to exert any effort in trying to make the Scriptures deep. The Scriptures ARE deep. Did any rational person ever believe or assert that the Author is shallow? Even though God, as John Calvin aptly put it, talks to us in baby talk, His words still take the keenest of human minds to the end of their tethers very rapidly. We stand in absolute awe of the might and majesty of the transcendent God of all creation, with whom, said the psalmist, there is none to compare (Psalm 40:5). ...... "My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways, declares the Lord. "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts" (Isaiah 55:8,9). ...... It is vain to try to put God in a box and unspeakably vain to try to re-image Him in our image, though some do. --Hank | ||||||
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