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81 | Demons | Eph 6:11 | Hank | 208584 | ||
Just a brief off-topic note, peacebestill, to extend to you a warm welcome to Study Bible Forum. If you would be so kind and feel so inclined, please fill in your personal profile. This would be of enormous help to the rest of us in getting to know you better. You can access this area by clicking on your user name in any of your posts. You might wish to peruse the profiles of a few of the regular users to get some idea of the content of the personal profiles. Again, welcome, and let us know if at any time you feel we can be of help. --Hank | ||||||
82 | What do we have as a conseqence of goda | Bible general Archive 4 | Hank | 208583 | ||
Hi, Brothers Steve and Jeff :: When thinking about God's incomparable grace and trying to describe it, amazing is an understatement, yes. It is a word that doesn't carry quite the oomph that it did back when the hymn "Amazing Grace" was written, the erosion accounted for partly because of overuse and misuse. To illustrate: Now and then I tune in on one of these drawn-out commericals -- called infomercials, I believe -- on cable TV. Just recently I viewed one of these on which the salesman was describing the glorious features of a food chopper of some sort. His constant claim was, "You'll be amazed." Now I can't possibly imagine myself being amazed by a plastic whopper-dopper chopper. And it wasn't just the chopper that was supposed to be amazing. The low price was also supposed to be amazing as well. So just how is the viewer supposed to think about this concept of amazing? Is he amazed by the grace of God on the one hand and equally amazed by the food chopper on the other? I cringe at the abuse that the English language has suffered in the last half century or so. ..... But I believe that the grace of God is truly amazing, in the best and highest sense of the word. Yet the word 'amazing,' like other words in our language, falls dismally short of the mark when it is applied to the mighty God and His attributes. Upon consulting my copy of Roget's Thesaurus, I found some 50 synonyms for 'amazing,' but found none that was truly adequate to describe or define the grace of God. Yet I am convinced that the regenerate believer knows in his heart what it is and what it has done in his life, even though he may fall short, as I do, of being able fully to express it adequately in words. I believe the grace of God is in a real sense akin to the "peace of God, which passeth all understanding" (cf Philippians 4:7). --Hank | ||||||
83 | Misprint, in Forum Bible (NASB) | Matt 18:15 | Hank | 208497 | ||
IMM :: There are no misprints in the NASB translation of the verse you cite, Matthew 18:15. If you have a copy of an edition of the NASB 1995 Update that provides translators' notes in the margins, you will find an explanatory note on this verse that reads as follows: "Late mss add, against you" The marginal note refers back to the text and clearly indicates that this insertion appears immediately after the words "If your brother sins" in some late manuscripts. But obviously the phrase "against you" does not appear in the manuscript text that the NASB translators followed. I checked this verse in other versions. KJV, NKJV, ESV, and NIV all retain the phrase "against you." The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB) also retains the phrase in its text but appends this footnote: other mss omit 'against you.' ..... I agree with you that the phrase 'against you' seems to fit the context, but being no translator or Greek scholar at all, and having to struggle to write even passable English, I confess that these waters are much too deep for me. :-) You can voice your concern to the Lockman Foundation and perhaps they will respond. They did to me some years ago when I raised a few questions involving what I thought was NASB's unconventional rendering of the last six words of Ecclesiastes 12:13. ..... Over the years I've also had a few questions about certain odd locutions in the King James Bible, but decided it would be most unkind to disturb the venerable translators' peaceful slumbers. :-) --Hank | ||||||
84 | What do we need to know about God | John 17:3 | Hank | 208495 | ||
jamison :: In your post # 208487 you asked Azure to "step outside the box of standard theology." Why did you do that? Is that where you live? It would appear so. Tell us then, how does the plan of salvation look from "outside the box"? What is the outside-the-box doctrine on soteriology? Which of the following statements best fits outside-the-box theology? ..... (1) Man is saved by his good works. ..... (2) Man is saved by faith in Christ plus his good works. (3) Man is saved by God's grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. What does out-of-the-box theology say? --Hank | ||||||
85 | Adam and Eve Perfect or Flawed | 1 Tim 2:11 | Hank | 208279 | ||
Sorry, John. The only partial quotations taken out of context that have become the norm on SBF are those from Scripture. :-) My absolute favorites are the bungled quotations, as, for example, these words from the well-known Christmas carol, "while shepherds washed their socks by night..." --Hank | ||||||
86 | Adam and Eve Perfect or Flawed | 1 Tim 2:11 | Hank | 208267 | ||
Dear John :: It surprises me that anthing I've said on these pages over the years would be considered quotable. But to your question of whether I'd mind your quoting my words to others, the answer is no, sir, I have no objection. Grace to you, John. --Hank | ||||||
87 | Adam and Eve Perfect or Flawed | 1 Tim 2:11 | Hank | 208245 | ||
Immanuelsown: Looking over the battery of questions you've posed to Humbled, I don't see how they can be answered without delving into speculation. Do you? I lay no claim whatever to any expertise on matters involving High Theology or anything of the kind, so I'm fairly well limited when it comes to trying to connect the dots. And that is good! It forces me to attempt to speak only where the Bible speaks and to keep my mouth shut where the Bible is silent. I have enough trouble learning and digesting what the Bible clearly reveals, and so it leaves me no time to speculate and ruminate on the those things which our loving and all-wise Father chose not to elaborate. God's eternal and unchanging word will be around long after I'm gone. Few indeed are they who care about my opinions now and fewer still will remember them after I've gone. So my candid view about questions such as you've asked is this: If God did not choose to reveal these details, is it our business to worry very much about them? I really don't believe that God expects us to fill in the blanks ourselves nor needs man to take over where He left off, do you? I'd feel more comfortable about this thread if it were dropped here and now, without further ado. ..... Just how important is it to know about things such as Eve's "motivation" and how much time elapsed between the time God commanded Adam and Eve not to eat the forbidden fruit and the time Eve was tempted? The narrative of Adam and Eve has endured and imparted the message it was intented to impart for centuries as it is, without being gussied up with all these minute frills and details. Let's be content to learn from it all that it clearly reveals without tarnishing the sacred record by adding our worthless speculation and groundless guesses. --Hank | ||||||
88 | love as opposed to false humility | Luke 16:1 | Hank | 208243 | ||
s-o-g :: Sir, I'm confused. Who, pray tell me, are you addressing? --Hank | ||||||
89 | Will suicide condem my soul to hell? | Ex 20:13 | Hank | 208121 | ||
s-o-g :: No one on this Forum is a firmer advocate of context, context, context than I, so lay off your implication that I take Bible verses out of context and serve them up "willy nilly" fashion to prove a theory! You say John 10:10 blows my theory out of the water. It didn't blow anything I said in my post out of the water. I advanced no theory but merely cited the passages in the New Testament that define what is commonly known as the unpardonable sin, and pointed out that these passages are not about suicide. I really have no idea of what you're trying to prove by what you have said in your response. and I frankly wonder whether anyone else does, or even you do. So why don't you take a dose of your own medicine and stop yanking verses out of context in an effort to shore up an untenable preconceived notion that is foreign to any biblical definition or orthodox interpretation of the unpardonable sin. --Hank | ||||||
90 | Will suicide condem my soul to hell? | Ex 20:13 | Hank | 208110 | ||
Dear s-o-g :: The scriptural account and description of the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit -- the "Unpardonable Sin" -- is given in Matthew 12:22-37 and Mark 3:22-30. ..... There is not in the scriptural account of this sin even the remotest suggestion that it is suicide or has any connection whatever with suicide. To equate suicide with the unpardonable sin is bad, enormously bad, interpretation of these passages in Matthew and Luke. Try this link: http://www.gotquestions.org/unpardonable-sin.html --Hank | ||||||
91 | is it ok to lie in certain cases | Col 3:9 | Hank | 207976 | ||
bowler :: I know the hour is late and perhaps I nodded off for a moment, but in reading your post, I was taken back in my reverie to the time years ago when I read Erskine Caldwell's novel, "God's Little Acre." Written in the 1930s, it is the story of a Georgia dirt farmer named Ty Ty Walden and his family. They lived off the land. In good years they got by but in bad years they suffered enormously. It was during one of the bad years when a severe drought threatened to wipe out all of Ty Ty's crops that he went alone out into the middle of his sun-scorched fields and, in his own clumsy way, began to pray. As I recall the prayer, it went something like this: "Now God, you know we need rain and we need it bad. I've been patient with you but I'm here to tell you my patience is running out. We need rain today, but I'm willing to give you until tomorrow to do something, and if you don't, well, I'm going to have to take matters into my own hands. Amen." ...... When you said in your post about one being placed in a situation in which there were no good options and no time left to wait it out to see whether God would deliver -- this was so close to Ty Ty's prayer in the parched field that it evoked a virtual deja vu in my mind. ..... But neither Ty Ty's prayer nor your post said much about the providence of God. And were you unable to find anything in Scripture that would corroborate some of your statements, especially those in the second paragraph of your post? --Hank | ||||||
92 | is it ok to lie in certain cases | Col 3:9 | Hank | 207972 | ||
Hi, Cheri :: You stated, "Lying is always wrong, BUT..." and then you listed what you believe to be an exception. Let's carry this reasoning process a little further by extending it into other areas and applying it to other sins. Can we hold that homosexuality is wrong, BUT... it's O.K.for those who claim to have a defective gene and thus can't help being "the way God made me" as many homosexuals assert? Can we denounce stealing BUT justify it for those who say they cannot keep from stealing any more than the homosexual can keep from practicing homosexuality? Can we denounce murder as sinful BUT justify abortion on demand? Can we denounce adultery BUT justify the adulterer on the grounds of having an over-active libido or having a spouse who just doesn't understand the adulterer's emotional and sexual needs? The litany could go on, of course, because for every one of God's commandments man has invented a ton of ways to justify his disobedience of each of them. ...... In none of the Ten Commandments will we find the word "except." We never read "Thou shalt not steal, except..." or "Thou shalt not bear false witness, except..." Once we begin to look for loop holes, once we start trying to chip away at God's commands and look for ways to justify our sins, we may as well throw out the whole thing and stop pretending. We may get pretty good at deceiving others and downright excellent at deceiving ourselves, but we never get to first base in our efforts to deceive God. ...... This is not posted as a springboard to debate (I don't engage in or promote Forum debates), nor is it intended to be a personal attack on anyone. Not at all. It's something that I feel deeply about, however. And that something is that it is so very dangerous to allow ourselves even to think of ways to append to God's straight and clear commands that little word BUT... That can get us in a peck of trouble! Let us not look for ways out of, but for ways into, God's truth. "Open thou mine eyes that I may behold wonderous things out of thy law" (Psalm 119:18, KJV). --Hank | ||||||
93 | Trying to Choose a Study Bible | Bible general Archive 4 | Hank | 207873 | ||
Dear Dimmyimmy :: Thanks for your question, welcome to Study Bible Forum, and, by the way, I like your user name. It has a certain charm about it. ..... Now to your question. My pick of the short list to which you have narrowed your search for a study Bible is the MacArthur Study Bible, hands down. I bought a copy shortly after its initial publication and over the years have found myself going to it more frequently than to any of the other half dozen study Bibles that I own. The text of my copy is New King James, but it is now available in NASB, which you pointed out in your question. Both translations are excellent and both are more literally accurate than either of the other two you mentioned, the NIV for the NIV Study Bible and the NLT for what you term the Life Study Bible, by which I surmise you mean Life Application Study Bible. Both the NIV and NLT follow a translation philosophy they call 'dynamic equivalence' which is a fancy term for paraphrase. ..... But if the translation used is of paramount importance to you -- and I am convinced it should be for everyone -- you may wish to consider the NASB Study Bible, which has essentially the same annotations as the NIV Study Bible. And the Life Application Study Bible is published using versions besides the NLT. I'm familiar with the annotations in both the Life Application and the NIV Study Study Bibles, and in my view both are fairly sound and conservative but somewhat weak and "generic" on basic doctrinal issues, whereas MacArthur leans toward the essential doctrines of reformed theology. ..... My suggestion to you would be to gain access, if possible, to each of these; to observe and compare what they offer, and then to decide which one you like best. I render this advice with a measure of caution, however; because if you are a hopeless collector of Bibles like me, you're likely to end up with all three if your purse permits. :-) At any rate, best wishes for a happy quest, and if you have further questions that you think the Forum might be able to help you with, check back with us now that you know our address. ..... At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I'll repeat that my choice among the three is MacArthur. --Hank | ||||||
94 | Clarification needed, Justme | Bible general Archive 4 | Hank | 207854 | ||
Justme :: Don't crawl in a hole, brother! If I crawled in a hole every time I made a mistake, I'd spend as much time underground as a mole. --Hank | ||||||
95 | Clarification needed, Justme | Bible general Archive 4 | Hank | 207805 | ||
Hi again, Justme :: May I please offer a small correction of what obviously was a typo but which changes the meaning considerably? You wrote, "As Hank has so kindly reminded me that politics is a subject now allowed on SBF..." The word "now" properly should be "not." Isn't it remarkable how much difference a single word, yea, even a letter, can make? Or a comma. For example, "No tears will be in heaven." Insert a comma after no and you get "No, tears will be in heaven." Careful attention to detail, by the way, makes for a good argument in favor of an accurate, literal, word-for-word translation of God's word over a loose paraphrase. Now I must proofread with utmost care this little essay on attention to detail. How embarrassing it would be to make this post only to have someone point to a glaring mistake in it! Grace to you, Justme. --Hank | ||||||
96 | Please pray for the election | Bible general Archive 4 | Hank | 207718 | ||
Hello, Justme :: Thanks for your kind response and your re-evaluation of the situation with regard to using Study Bible Forum as a platform for making political statements. This being a presidential election year and our being faced, as we all of us are, with a highly charged contest, it is understandable that some if not most of us participants on SBF may find it sometimes difficult to restrain ourselves from speaking our minds on the subject, but restrain we must in order to comply with the aims and code of conduct of SBF as set down by our hosts, the Lockman Foundation. We simply cannot afford to allow this Forum to become a political battle ground, and there is a clear and present danger that that's what it would become if we opened all stops and relaxed all restraints. Again, thank you for your understanding and cooperative attitude. And of course, the caveat applies as much to me as it does to you and all other registrants of Study Bible Forum. Grace to you, my Missouri neighbor. --Hank | ||||||
97 | Please pray for the election | Bible general Archive 4 | Hank | 207710 | ||
Dear Justme :: While on other forums, other venues your comments may well be appropriate, do you really feel, in view of this Forum's aims and guidelines, that they have a place here? To be honest with you, I don't. --Hank | ||||||
98 | Heb6:4-6 Loosing salvation or what? | Heb 6:4 | Hank | 207654 | ||
Dear son :: If you are going to quote the King James Verson or any other version on this Forum, at least be respectful enough of the sacred text to quote it right! In Hebrews 5:14 the King James does NOT say what you quoted it as saying. You mixed a little of Scripture with a lot of nothing -- nothing, that is, but your unvarnished opinion. In doing so, my friend, you warped the meaning of the passage -- warped it injudiciously, warped it irresponsibly, warped it to suit your own preconceptions. And then, as though you needed to add insult to injury, you proceeded to append a ludicrous non sequitur about SBF nit-pickers, without bothering to cite who they are or what kind of nits they pick. All things considered, son, the Forum would show a dramatic improvement if you from this day forward never posted anything else of this caliber. If you hope to retain your privilege to post, it would be extemely wise to brush up on the guidelines that govern behavior of registrants on Study Bible Forum. --Hank | ||||||
99 | the man who wrote the most books in bibl | Bible general Archive 4 | Hank | 207621 | ||
JcBleau :: The apostle Paul, with 13 books. This does not count the book of Hebrews which some have attributed to him, but Pauline authoriship of the book has been highly disputed. ....... Thanks for your question and welcome to SBF. --Hank | ||||||
100 | Death God's friend or enemy? | 1 Cor 15:25 | Hank | 207587 | ||
Flinty-Joe :: Live and learn -- that's what I do! ..... In my 59 years as a follower of Christ, I never knew that the Sovereign God of heaven and earth "chilled out" until I read your post. :-) ...... I happened to have majored in English in school back when we did some cranky, old-fashioned things, such as picking up an essay (a post on SBF could be called an essay of sorts, I suppose), and assigning it a title based on its content and purpose. Now, let's see, how can we give your post a title? Is it about divorce (first paragraph)? Or about how God chilled out (second paragraph)? Or about pre-trib (third paragraph)? ..... Oh, my, my what a burden is placed upon this old bird's tired wings to come up with a title for your essay. In desperatiion I must admit that, like stjohn, I am compelled to throw in the sponge, and with him confess that I have no idea what you're talking about. Please be merciful unto your fellow Forum friends and do your best to clothe your thoughts in more lucid prose that does not so thoroughly obscure them and befog us. I've been hanging around words for about seven decades and know well how tricky and elusive they can be when they take a notion. And I know too how supremely difficult it is to write a sentence that says exactly what the writer wants it to say. Difficult, but not impossible. At least we can all try. And it never hurts to know what we want to say before we start typing! I've always subscribed to the idea that I can't expect my readers to understand what I'm trying to say unless I fully understand it myself. --Hank | ||||||
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