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901 | Strict Observance of Bible Versions? | 2 Tim 3:16 | Rowdy | 113945 | ||
You probably know the scripture above as well as anyone on the Forum, at least I'm sure you know of it. Anyway, I have full confidence after a lifetime of 50 years, under the influence of 3 generations of christians, and Bible study, that it is truly God's Word. Yes, it's been through dozens of translations, paraphrasing and other abuses. I've done a little studying of the evidence and the whole subject of manuscripts supporting the Bible. In my opinion, all of us have sufficient reason to believe strongly that God's Word, the sum total of all the translations is almost 99 percent just like God intended it for us. The few differences you see between the different versions are almost miniscule and most of those differences reflect the subtleties of grammar between the different languages. I suppose you've already heard about the dead sea scrolls in middle eastern caves just a few decades ago. In one of the scrolls, they discovered a very old 1st century version of Isaiah. Bible scholars compared this scroll to the modern version of the same book and an incredibly small number of discrepancies was discovered. Like I mentioned, most of those minor discrepancies are small items of grammar. When one considers the tremendous span of time and the thousands of men as translators doing their thing, you begin to appreciate the tremendous amount of protection from the hand of God. I don't know exactly the word changes to which you're referring, but there are some versions of the Bible better than others. The two best versions in my opinion are the New King James and the New American Standard. As a last ditch effort to help you, I'll refer you to apologeticspress.com. There Dr. Bert Thompson does a fantastic job providing evidences proving many different aspects of Christianity, including the Bible as God's Word. I hope this helps and I'll pray for you and your husband. God bless. |
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902 | StudyBibleForum or MyOpinionForum? | 2 Tim 3:16 | Rowdy | 113947 | ||
I really appreciate the overall total sentiment of your message. I agree, I think there's room on the Forum for all of us. That's one of the great benefit of being family or a team. It takes the whole team to cover the field, both in sports and in any endeavor that's worthwhile. I think we all need to appreciate each other. God gave some to be teachers, and some to be prophets...Thanks be to God, he gave some the talent to be good at research, some at memorization and others good at philosophy. Of course I'm leaving several talents out of this picture but you get the idea of what I'm saying. I really need to hush now and just say Thanks. God bless. |
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903 | StudyBibleForum or MyOpinionForum? | 2 Tim 3:16 | Rowdy | 113965 | ||
Ed, I'm going to bow out at least for the moment and let you respond to Hank, IF you wish to. I think Hank knows my position and how I feel about the whole situation. Hank, no hard feelings on my side. I can see and I'm certain you and a lot of others have quite a bit invested in this Forum, and rightly so. It is a great medium through which great minds with a wide spectrum of maturity and knowledge can exchange ideas and build on those discussions. God bless you in this, your ministry to the Lord. |
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904 | How do we know when we are hearing God? | 2 Tim 3:16 | Rowdy | 113970 | ||
In addition to Aniset's good, well-thought-out message, there are other scriptures most useful, like: Acts 17:10 As soon as it was night, the brothers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they went to the Jewish synagogue. 11Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true. and 1 Jn 4:1 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world. 4You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. 5They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. 6We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit[1] of truth and the spirit of falsehood. but the best is 1 Tim 4:1 The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. 2Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. 3They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth. 4For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, 5because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer. 6If you point these things out to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, brought up in the truths of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed. 7Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives' tales; rather, train yourself to be godly. 8For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come. 9This is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance 10(and for this we labor and strive), that we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, and especially of those who believe. So what's the bottom line: there's no short-cuts, no substitute for studying God's Word and being in a constant state of prayer. I'm sure you'll get various opinions on this subject but I and a lot of other people don't believe you're going to get a great revelation. God is done with giving special one-on-one revelations to single people and let them be prophets to the modern. God sent the very best of the best (His Son) so why should He send anyone else. But I do think the Holy Spirit will reinforce what you read and study if you're truly open minded to His Word. I think the correct answers will come to you if you'll seek them out diligently. I hope this helps and God bless you in your diligent perseverance. |
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905 | wondering about this in my life | 2 Tim 3:16 | Rowdy | 114503 | ||
I take great comfort from the following: Deut 4:25 After you have had children and grandchildren and have lived in the land a long time-if you then become corrupt and make any kind of idol, doing evil in the eyes of the LORD your God and provoking him to anger, 26 I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live there long but will certainly be destroyed. 27 The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you. 28 There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell. 29 But if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul. 30 When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your God and obey him. 31 For the LORD your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your forefathers, which he confirmed to them by oath. Please notice even the most vile creature among us can change his ways and turn his heart toward God. Yes, I'm convinced that if we turn to God in prayer, He'll turn to us and answer our prayer, whatever condition or relationship we're in. We just need to resolve to study God's Word and obey the instructions we read there. God bless. |
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906 | What is the Bible? | 2 Tim 3:16 | Rowdy | 114513 | ||
You might be interested in checking into Zondervan's new Bible Handbook. It's expensive but it has an excellent introduction which has some very good answers to your question. I purchased a copy for our library. It's actually quite heavy for a book its size because of the high quality paper and the pictures thereon. God bless. | ||||||
907 | Something positive from the Movie | 2 Tim 3:17 | Rowdy | 116222 | ||
Just got another fantastic E-Mail from my friend, which I just had to share. Hope you think so too. Interesting............ The Passion of Christ is Rated R The "R" of course is because of the violence, the gore. In movie terms "R" stands for RESTRICTED, but in this movie "R" stands for RELEVANT, for REALISTIC, for it REALLY happened for a REASON because we were REBELLIOUS we needed a REDEEMER, we needed to be RECONCILED, we needed to be RECOVERED, we needed to be REGENERATED. Jesus needed to be REJECTED so that we could have a RELATIONSHIP not just a RELIGION. The "R" is to REMIND us to REMEMBER what Jesus did to REMOVE our sin to RENDER Satan powerless, to RESCUE us from eternity in hell. The "R" rating is to show that Jesus was RESPONSIBLE for giving you REST. As a RESULT of his death Jesus RETIRED your debt. The "R" rating means that some will be REPULSED, some will REFUSE to believe, some will be RELUCTANT, some will think you are RIDICULOUS in believing that a death was REQUIRED. The "R" rating means that the RESULT of sin has been REVERSED and now through faith in Christ your REWARD is eternity and you are now RIGHTEOUS before God because you have RECEIVED him as the RULER of your soul. What a REVOLUTIONARY and RADICAL solution to REDEEM mankind. God bless all who see the movie AND see what they've studied come to life. Rowdy |
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908 | Scripture regarding women | Titus 2:4 | Rowdy | 111799 | ||
I think we can infer a lot from Paul's letter: 2 Tim 1:5 I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also. 6For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. 7For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. Paul recognized the tremendous power mothers have over their children. Then there's the example of Hanna and her son Samuel. Another is Ruth and Naomi. God bless. |
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909 | Scripture regarding women | Titus 2:4 | Rowdy | 111831 | ||
Amen, Searcher. This is further endorsed by the old saying: There's no other hand more powerful than the one rocking the cradle. History has proved this to be so true. God bless. | ||||||
910 | Titus 3:5 and washing of regeneration | Titus 3:5 | Rowdy | 132566 | ||
In my opinion, the reason for the splintering of the Lord's church is much like that of "opening of Pandor's box." Once the apostacy happened, which was inevitable as predicted by the Apostles throughout the NT, it was virtually impossible to get the church back to Her Original and Perfect condition as installed by the Holy Spirit in Acts 1-2. This basic "method of operation" for mankind was started long ago starting in the Garden of Eden, after the flood, substituting kings instead of God installed judges on through to Jesus time. The Isrealites rejected the prophets throughout the OT...it's simply not within mankind on the whole to prefer God's guidance on this earth. We see this principle further endorsed by Jesus with words about Judgment in Matt 7:13 "Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. 14 "For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it. We humans are finite; we're physical whereas our God infinite and spiritual. His thoughts and ways are so far above our thoughts and ways, so in our present condition, there's no way the bulk of mankind would ever qualify to be in the presence of God. This alien relationship also applies to the church or anything else started by God. All Creations by God always start off perfectly...it's left up to mankind on earth to mess them up. If this begins to sound like I'm down or slamming human-kind too much, that's because we tend to think too much of ourselves; just look at this growing trend of humanism. But "with God, we can do all things." That's the most important conclusion to draw from all this. I hope this helps and God bless. Rowdy |
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911 | If you never admit when you are wrong... | Titus 3:9 | Rowdy | 133904 | ||
A similar statement in support, you've probably heard it. "Never argue with a fool as pretty soon, it becomes difficult to distinguish between the two." Appreciate your words and God bless. Rowdy |
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912 | What is a repentance from dead works? | Heb 6:1 | Rowdy | 133574 | ||
I just plugged in the words "dead works" into the Search Engine and came up with the following verses. Heb 9:14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? James 2:17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself. James 2:26 For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead. It seems James devotes the whole of Chapter 2 of his letter to this topic. Basically, I gather from his discussion that our works must be genuine and of real value both to our fellow man and our God and Father above. What do you think? Good question and God bless. Rowdy |
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913 | What is a repentance from dead works? | Heb 6:1 | Rowdy | 133595 | ||
I like the attitude of your first paragraph. We absolutely MUST not think that ANYTHING we do or say could possibly be more than "filthy rags;" I agree wholeheartedly. HOWEVER that does NOT mean that we can think for a single moment that we get into Heaven without doing them. Our "faith without works is dead" per James 2. So we must reconcile this conundrum by doing the works BUT with a proper attitude as if we were slaves, mere servants to our Lord for that's what we are. He bought and paid for us with His Own Dear and Precious Blood. His was the only thing that could have been used to make such a purchase. So we owe Him everything we are, everything we own and everything we can hope to be or to accomplish. That brings us back to doing good deeds in His name as we're commanded. Col 3:17 Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father. I hope this helps and God bless. Rowdy |
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914 | What is a repentance from dead works? | Heb 6:1 | Rowdy | 133637 | ||
Copied for reference: Matt 25:40 "The King will answer and say to them, 'Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.' I'm hoping that I'm assuming correctly here (maybe she'll forgive me if I err): Mommapbs and I were ultimately referring to the attitude, at least I know I was. I would further clarify with one of Jesus parables below. Luke 18:9 And He also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and viewed others with contempt: 10 "Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 "The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself: 'God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 12 'I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.' 13 "But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, the sinner!' 14 "I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted." We can do all the good we could possibly cram into our lives but if we do it with anything else but with the most humble attitude, it won't count for anything. When we actually do/say everything in the name of the Lord as commanded, then we can be assured we on the right path (straight and narrow) headed in the right direction. Paul also talks about this in 1 Cor 13. I hope this makes it a little more clear. God bless. Rowdy |
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915 | What is a repentance from dead works? | Heb 6:1 | Rowdy | 133639 | ||
I think I can agree with some of what you're saying. Please read on. "So, we mustn't think that we need our filthy rags, but we do in fact need them? What does God need our filthy rags for? :-)" In this situation, God DOESN'T need them. He has no needs whatsoever for He's God BUT we NEED to do them for our benefit. You might say it's beneficial to us in the same manner as our prayers. Here again, God doesn't need our prayers as He knows our needs AND our wants before we do. BUT we're commanded to "pray without ceasing." In both cases our prayers and our works of faith help us keep our focus on God just like Peter discovered while walking on water. "Eph. 2:8-9 doesn't say that we are saved by works done in the proper attitude." James 2 on the other hand does make it clear that "faith without works is dead" and thus worthless to both us and to God. "Nor does James 2 talk about works done with a proper attidute. The individuals in James 2 were claiming to have faith and did not need to demonstrate any works. James was showing them that real faith 'works', thus they did not have real faith. "Thus, 'works' are the result and evidence of faith, not the basis of salvation." This is the only item with which I can agree in part. Yes indeed our works should be thought of by us as being proof of our faith. But notice the reverse is also true. If we have no works to look back on how can we say we have true and genuine faith for the devil himself believes in God and yet continues to disobey? If we can't lay claim to ANY acts of obedience, how can we claim to love God or our fellow man? So, yes, I agree with you, works is most certainly NOT the basis of salvation as the ONLY foundation for salvation MUST be Jesus Christ, He alone and the Grace of God, His Father and ours. I guess you might compare this Grace and our works as a marriage. One can't be married to another human being WITHOUT accepting the idea that there may come some days of trial and difficulties but the couple stays married regardless for that's God's Will. In the same way, when we become children of God, that automatically means we agree to bear the costs as Christ suggests in his parable AND we MUST bear our own cross of submission to His Will as he commanded. We can't have one (Grace) on the one hand and NOT have the other (acts of obedience). God DEMANDS real and genuine faith and I'm afraid He's going to be looking for our proofs of that faith on Judgment Day. How do you anticipate that God is going to distinguish between christians and other sinners on the Day? I hope this helps to clarify. God bless. Rowdy |
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916 | Are we too dull to understand the Bible? | Heb 6:1 | Rowdy | 133661 | ||
Dear Kalos, my friend I'm sorry that you seem to be interpreting my posts in such a way. I don't really think I'm portraying such messages but I'm always willing to discuss specifics. If you'll identify the particulars, I'll do my best to respond. It sounds like you have quite a list, do it may take me a while. Could you break down the quantity maybe to a couple or three per post? I'm constantly re-evaluating my posts and my positions in an attempt to make sure that they're in agreement with either the specific Words from the Bible OR the obvious intent behind the Spirit of the Bible's position on a particular topic. But I must admit, I knew this topic of baptism would be a sensitive one to most folks. And the only reason I'm so stubborn about this issue is because it seems to be widely misunderstood by a good many people. Finally, I'd be literally the very last person in the world to reflect the image of not making a mistake. I've made far more than my fair share of mistakes, both in my life and on this Forum. So for those mistakes, I'll apologize to you and to whomever else I need to apologize. But I can't apologize for God's requirement about our getting into His Family. As I've mentioned many times before, this issue of baptism is very important to Him, just as circumcision was very important between Him and the Israelite nation. I hope very much to continue our dialouge on this subject only to get everyone as much as possible INTO the Family of God so we can ALL go to Heaven together, as our Lord prayed. Looking forward to your response and asking for your patience. God bless. Rowdy PS: Were you able to find an example of a Godly person in the Bible who was able to please God with belief only to the exclusion of obedience to His Commands, His Terms and Conditions, in any dispensation? I'd certainly like to discuss this with you. |
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917 | What is a repentance from dead works? | Heb 6:1 | Rowdy | 133664 | ||
Yes, I agree with this and all the other verses but getting to the rub, "where the rubber meets the road," how will this be done? In other words, in strict compliance with this verse and all the others, the devil himself is going to Heaven. How will God distinguish and keep him along with all his followers out of Heaven? Please advise and God bless. Rowdy |
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918 | What is a repentance from dead works? | Heb 6:1 | Rowdy | 133680 | ||
If they're done in His name with a humble attitude, I'd think these kind of acts would be pleasing to Him. Don't you think so? But He is the ultimate Judge, our opinions don't really count for much in the final analysis, on Judgment Day. Tell me what you think. God bless. Rowdy |
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919 | Are we too dull to understand the Bible? | Heb 6:1 | Rowdy | 133681 | ||
I keep responding to your posts but you don't seem willing to respond completely to mine. Why do not respond to all the points in my posts since they're also supported with scripture? Still looking...God bless. Rowdy |
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920 | Are we too dull to understand the Bible? | Heb 6:1 | Rowdy | 133690 | ||
I thought of another response to your post while I was eating lunch, because your harsh words weigh very heavily on my mind. Have you ever considered how the prophets of God felt when they received the kind of chastisements such as your's above? One of the worst treatments was Jer 38:6 Then they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malchijah the king's son, which was in the court of the guardhouse; and they let Jeremiah down with ropes. Now in the cistern there was no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank into the mud. I'm sure you know the scriptures at least as well as I do if not better. I indicated a similar statement to Hank and meant every word of it. This controversy on this subject has been raging for centuries so I just count myself blessed to be in the same crowd with Jeremiah and all the other prophets. I will continue to pray for all of you. God bless. Rowdy |
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