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981 | Rowdy, How were John/ Jesus obsessive? | 1 John 5:6 | Rowdy | 122858 | ||
I was comparing their ministries with man's standards. Since John was dressed with the clothing of a Nazarene and stayed out in the desert and almost everything said and done by Jesus was bizarre by human standards. The manner of His trial, death and ressurection alone make His life stand out as completely obsessed with His Father. God bless. --Rowdy |
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982 | Rowdy, How were John/ Jesus obsessive? | 1 John 5:6 | Rowdy | 122904 | ||
Thanks for the correction. You're probably correct as usual. And I have to agree with your other recommendation. I guess I don't see obsession as a bad thing when we have God on our side endorsing such devotion. For instance, almost anybody in today's world would see Jesus' display of anger in His Father's temple as obsesssive but Bible students like those on the Forum know different. For me personally, I believe it's best if we as humans strive to strike a balance in our lives, study our Bibles, listen to our inner souls, listen to the wise counsel of others (especially those who we can see have been spiritually successful) and then make up our own minds. I say this is the best strategy for us to live our lives BECAUSE we don't have a miraculous level of participation in our lives by the Holy Spirit, at least not so easily evident as it was in the first century. Thanks again for your response. God bless. --Rowdy |
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983 | Can we agree? A case of agreement? | 1 John 5:8 | Rowdy | 119246 | ||
First of all, I have to say, I'm not sure how productive this discussion is, but I'll comment for what it's worth. It seems to me that whenever the Bible talks about THE Spirit, it's talking about one of the Godhead so I'm naturally inclined toward capitalizing the word as in the first two versions. The only other kind of spirit that I would understand the Bible might mention would be for example the spirit of man. In that case, it should never be capitalized as it is never meant to be Godly in our basic nature. In your opinion, is there yet another or a 3rd kind of spirit in the Bible? If so, what are your conditions for capitalizing or not capitalizing it? So, I'll let you go back to counting the tally of the citations of spirit in God's Word. But tell me, what is all this going to do for you when you get finished with that tally? I pray for God's blessings on you. --Rowdy |
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984 | Can we agree? A case of agreement? | 1 John 5:8 | Rowdy | 119274 | ||
It seems to me that the most important thing that should be discussed when considering such topics is "What did the originating authors actually intend to say?" Hopefully, that kind of thinking is uppermost in all good, thorough and honest interpreters as they consider God's Word in rendering a new translation or updating one. As I said in my initial post, it still seems to me the Bible discusses two basic types of spirit: 1) His Spirit or 2) our spirit. That's because His priority is that He wants us to come Home to Him in Heaven instead of going home to the devil or hell which has been prepared for ALL those who refuse to believe AND obey His commands. Did you come up with another type of spirit? I don't see it in your response herewith. I await your reply, dear friend. Thanks for some interesting discussion and God bless. --Rowdy |
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985 | Can we agree? A case of agreement? | 1 John 5:8 | Rowdy | 119412 | ||
Ray: But if you would say that God does not have a spirit I would disagree with that. For Jesus gave up His spirit when He breathed His last. God also breathed into Adam's nostrils the breath [sic] of life. John 3:8 talks about the wind or the spirit from God. Rich: I must emphatically insist that God's Word does certainly state that His Spirit not only exists but He longs for our return, ALL mankind. He longs for this but He knows it won't happen for everyone. As a matter of fact, the Bible pictures only a remnant or a minority will make it to Heaven as cited in Matt 7:13. Ray: For Ezekiel 36:26,27 I don't know if the spirit occurances there should agree in case or not. Rich: I must admit, I don't know for certain. I see your puzzlement. A person could argue either Pro or Con. John 3:11, NASB, "Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know and testify of what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony." John 3:11, NKJ, "Most assuredly I say to you, We speak what we know and testify what We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness." Ray: I go with the NKJ for that verse. Can you see the possibility of the spirit and the Spirit as determining a plural of "Our witness"? Rich: I would have side with you on this choice. Here Jesus is speaking and is clearly referring to Himself and the Godhead in general. Ray: 1) Certainly the witness of our spirit is worthwhile but the the witness of God is greater. My witness as a man in agreement with the Scriptures, (I believe), is that the understanding should be-- that the authors intended to say-- "For there are three that bear witness, the spirit and the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement." 1 John 5:9, "If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for the witness of God is this, that He has borne witness concerning His Son." Ray: What is His witness? That Jesus is the Son of God. 1 John 5:6, "This is the One [sic] who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood." And the [One], the Spirit, is the truth. Rich: In this case, one must go with the context and decide in favor of the deity of the Spirit. The part I have difficulty in comprehending is the blood and water's interaction in this scenario. The only water of any value in the NT is that of the baptism. The only blood of any significance in the NT is that of Jesus Christ. So my question to you: Should the blood and water in this verse be capitalized, indicating their deity? I've got to summarize this whole discussion by asking or mentioning one thing. I say question as I'm not sure. (Please correct me, you Greek scholars, if you see fit to do so.) But if I recall correctly, the Greek language in the first century DID NOT provide for upper case or lower case of letters. I guess they didn't see a need to address this concept of deity in their written language upon discussing their many gods. Thus we as modern Bible students are left with the task of interpreting what the authors really intended. Again, almost with the risk of repeating myself to nausium, in my mind, the Bible presents two kinds of spirit: 1) God's Spirit of the Godhead 2) spirit of man which might. Also, you didn't address my other question: Do you see room in God's Word for yet a third kind of spirit? What would be your scripture in support thereof? God bless. --Rowdy |
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986 | Major critical problem with 3 John? | 3 John 1:1 | Rowdy | 110937 | ||
I can only guess you're referring to the portion about Diotrephes, as follows: 5Dear friend, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers, even though they are strangers to you. 6They have told the church about your love. You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God. 7It was for the sake of the Name that they went out, receiving no help from the pagans. 8We ought therefore to show hospitality to such men so that we may work together for the truth. 9I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will have nothing to do with us. 10So if I come, I will call attention to what he is doing, gossiping maliciously about us. Not satisfied with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers. He also stops those who want to do so and puts them out of the church. A word of caution is warrented here. All of the harsh treatments that are shown throughout the Bible almost always have the assistance of the Holy Spirit. For example: the punishment of Ananias and Sophira for lying about money and Simon the Sorecer made blind by Apostle Paul. With the help of the Holy Spirit, these individuals were identified as being motivated by evil or the Devil, thus they were dealth with rather harshly. We on the other hand, CANNOT see into the hearts of our fellow christians or even sinners. We can only inspect and ask them about their actions and their words. So we talk gently with people and try to find out their true motivation. If a person proves over and over again, his only motivation is to merely get all the selfish gain out of this world, then we should "shake the dust off our shoes" and leave him, give him up to God. HOWEVER, if we don't have that proof of this persons attitude or the condition of his heart toward God then we should always assume there's reason to hope he or she might repent. Thus we must tread lightly, ask the right questions, know God's word but above all, love the souls of God's children for if we don't we jepordize our own soul's ultimate home for eternity. I hope this is close to what you're looking for. If not, how about elaborating and give us a few details. God bless. |
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987 | Talking about the Church he left! | 3 John 1:9 | Rowdy | 111394 | ||
I can only say Amen to this advice. We all should follow Christ's advice concerning differences between members of God's family, Matt 18:15-17 and then when all else fails, warn him about God does to those who cause division, Rom 16:17-20. God bless those who study God's Word AND OBEY His Words. | ||||||
988 | What is the apostacy? | Jude 1:8 | Rowdy | 121488 | ||
Recently, I've been studying about the apostacy from a Biblical perspective and an historical one. I'd be interested in what exactly is the common view among most Bible students on this subject. What is the apostacy? Please based your discussions on what the Bible says about it. At the very least, I assume most of you will include 1 Tim 4:1. God bless you all. --Rowdy |
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989 | End times? | Revelation | Rowdy | 109404 | ||
I have to say I agree with iriandani on this issue. The book of Revelation is a very complex book, filled with a tremendous amount of figurative language which is very, very difficult to interpret. Personally, I think the first 3 chapters are relatively straight forward and are good for our reference and most certainly applicable to us today. For example it could be aurgued that all congregations of the Lord's church world-wide could see themselves in one or more of those seven epistles written in the first three chapters and could apply the instructions to improve accordingly. However, about the only absolutely positive conclusion or message I can get from the balance of Revelation is the fact that our Lord and Savior will indeed triumph over evil in the final day or Judgement Day which I believe will be the final day for this whole universe. Yes, I guess I'm saying I don't believe there's any scriptures to support the concept of the rapture or Premillennialism. Christ's meeting us in the sky is just the simple prelude to meeting God at His Judgement. As for "looking over the shoulders," that's just another way of saying looking/studying a book of the Bible "through the eyes of the original addressee" and is a perfectly valid concept as was mentioned before. Yes, indeed the main message of love and salvation for all of mankind is the theme throughout the Bible. But the nitty gritty details such as specific instructions from Paul to Timothy for him to bring Paul's coat and to bring Mark is obviously intended only for the actual recipient. These kind of details make the Bible come alive for you and me for it is also the grand history book for mankind and human beings did write all the information therein while keeping in their mind very important messages from God. Remember, the Bible, God's Word is an absolutely unique, one-of-a-kind. There's just nothing like it...that's one of the characteristics that convinces me that It truly is inspired. Although we see tremendous depth and some complex issues especially from the pen of the Apostle Paul, we are assured that most God's Word is to be clearly understood by the great majority of His creation because our God desparately wants us to come back home to Him. So I take advantage of the philosophy and approach the Bible with the advice that's been taught to me: Each book of the Bible should be interpreted as straight-forward as possible unless the figurative language in a particular book is obviously there without its own interpretation. Then we should use the balance of the Bible as its own best commentary. But in no way does our God want us to build up a whole new slant or an innovative concept such as the two mentioned above without clear and straight-forward directives from Him or one of His official Representatives, such as the Apostles. I really must shut up now as I may have already angered some of you in reading this but it is my prayer that some of you will continue studying and praying about this subject. Like as been said before on this Forum, our God is a God of peace and love and I do want to promote that aspect of His message. But we as human beings need to realize that God doesn't expect us to dig up tremendous controversies from His Word. As is made very plain by His Plan of Salvation. His words of Salvation are so simple, even a small child can read them and figure out how to be a christian. He may not know the cost nor be ready to understand what real repentance is all about but he can understand God loves us and how to get back home. I still wish God's richest blessings on all who read this message. |
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990 | what is a citation,echo and allusion | Revelation | Rowdy | 118150 | ||
Found a website for you with lots of stuff about all 3 of these terms but it's all about symbols and unusual conclusions in Revelation. So I would urge caution. So many of these kind of writings from common men are filled with a lot of junk and they don't seem to harmonize with the Bible as a whole. But here it is: www.andrews.edu AGAIN, I would urge you to study God's Word and give It first preference far above anything else written in this world. God bless you in your study of His Word. Above all, one should NOT base a whole new philosophy different to the Word of God when we're strictly forbidden to do so even if it comes from "angels." Instead we should treat it as a false teaching or false doctrine IAW Gal 1:6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel-- 7which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! 9As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned! God bless. --Rowdy |
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991 | sermon ideas for preaching rev.2:18-29 | Revelation | Rowdy | 123200 | ||
I myself haven't preached on this subject but I heard a sermon on this topic but the preacher covered all 7 letters just briefly. His position with which I agree was that all 7 letters represent in a broad general manner all of the different responses from our Lord to all the many different congregations throughout all of time, past, present and future. From this one letter, one can only point out the obvious warning against idolatry and false teaching. One should also emphasize staying faithful to our first love, Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of His beloved church, His bride. Rev 2:18 "And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: The Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and His feet are like burnished bronze, says this: 19 'I know your deeds, and your love and faith and service and perseverance, and that your deeds of late are greater than at first. 20 'But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads My bond-servants astray so that they commit acts of immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. 21 'I gave her time to repent, and she does not want to repent of her immorality. 22 'Behold, I will throw her on a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of her deeds. 23 'And I will kill her children with pestilence, and all the churches will know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts; and I will give to each one of you according to your deeds. 24 'But I say to you, the rest who are in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not known the deep things of Satan, as they call them--I place no other burden on you. 25 'Nevertheless what you have, hold fast until I come. 26 'He who overcomes, and he who keeps My deeds until the end, TO HIM I WILL GIVE AUTHORITY OVER THE NATIONS; 27 AND HE SHALL RULE THEM WITH A ROD OF IRON, AS THE VESSELS OF THE POTTER ARE BROKEN TO PIECES, as I also have received authority from My Father; 28 and I will give him the morning star. 29 'He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.' I would go ahead and preach what the Lord has to say about the other six churches. In one way or another, we all can see ourselves as individuals or as congregations and apply the instructions as needed. Sometimes this involves taking heed of the instructions from one or more and act accordingly. I take great comfort in the fact that these first 3 chapters of Revelation is not filled with so much figurative symbolism and we can take these letters to the 7 churches (congregations) to heart. Hope this helps and God bless. --Rowdy |
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992 | description appear in the old testament | Rev 1:14 | Rowdy | 118258 | ||
Although it's not specifically stated as much, I think almost everyone agrees this passage is describing Christ. Isaiah 53:1 Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? 2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. 3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. 6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. Apparently Jesus' appearance was about average according to verse 2. I don't know for certain but I don't think you find any specific description of Christ, the kind you're looking for in the OT. Just me personally, I'm thinking that's a good thing. If his appearance were described somewhere accurately in the Bible, then those physcial characteristics would turn into items of worship for some folks and might even cause fights between parents, etc. God bless. --Rowdy |
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993 | What would prompt these tears? | Rev 7:17 | Rowdy | 121338 | ||
Tim, Hank, Mammapbs and BradK and anyone else who believes in this philosophy of salavation through Grace only, without works or being fruitful in God's vineyard, please explain to me the following. 1) First of all, why bother to participate on the Forum? Why not just kick back and enjoy life? Take a vacation and count your blessings. Sure, go to worship when you can and it's convenient to you but no real sweat there either. You've been guaranteed your Home in Heaven, right? 2) Please expalin to me the reconciliation of the parable of Jesus with the story of the vine and His being the branch AND your NOT being fruitful in contrast to the scriptures. 3) Please explain to me how you plan to prove to Christ, to God or to anyone else including Judgment Day IF you're NOT fruitful as shown in John 15:8. 4) What was Christ talking about in Rev 2:10 by our being faithful? Wonder if one of you is NOT faithful sometime in the future, what then? How is this guarantee fulfilled then? 5) Finally, how do you plan to get around the fact that we'll all be judged by ALL of Words of Christ AND ALL of the Words of His official representatives, as written down in the NT? There are other questions but believe it or not, I'm trying to restrain myself. Please explain these answers to these questions as I've asked before with scriptures in support. I'd really appreciate it and God bless all of you. --Rowdy |
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994 | Rowdy, where is your Scriptural support? | Rev 7:17 | Rowdy | 121360 | ||
This is easy as I'm sure you already knew for Jesus says Luke 19:22 "He *said to him, 'By your own words I will judge you, you worthless slave. Did you know that I am an exacting man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow? John 12:48 "He who rejects Me and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day. and then in Matt 16:19 "I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven." Matt 18:18 "Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven. also in 2 Tim 3:16 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; I think there's more but that should be enough. After all, the Lord is God Almighty and if He says it once, it's good enough for christians, correct? God bless. --Rowdy |
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995 | What would prompt these tears? | Rev 7:17 | Rowdy | 121363 | ||
I do sincerely appreciate your response. I do also regret we won't be seeing your ideas on those other points. It should be a good discussion, fruitful and productive for all good Bible students. IF you do happen to see some future opportunity to respond to any portion of this thread, please feel free. Looking forward to a long association with you on this wonderful Forum. By the way, I went to the very first post 001 and noticed the date and some of the names of the first few participants, some of whom are still with us. Can you tell me the story of the person who first started this wonderful ministry of the Forum? I consider myself blessed to have found it. I'd appreciate it. If you need to refer me to someone else, that will be fine. God bless. --Rowdy |
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996 | What would prompt these tears? | Rev 7:17 | Rowdy | 121365 | ||
I think I can say Amen to your statement. However, instead of the word "theology," I would prefer to just call it "being a christian." The "ology" words, most all the Greek words which end in "y" make it sound as if we're depending on man's wisdom. I know, I know you didn't mean to say that. It's just one of my hangups. But good response and God bless. --Rowdy |
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997 | Rowdy, where is your Scriptural support? | Rev 7:17 | Rowdy | 121367 | ||
Tim, I do hope you're not trying to say that because these don't say exactly say what you want it to say, that this basic guidance doesn't apply to the whole world. Why else was the Bible written? Yes, my friend that's exactly what God is looking for a response from the whole world to His Word. He even addresses those that DON'T actually have an opportunity to read a Bible, for they will be judged without it. They'll be judged like the hundreds of people (possibly thousands) who will be judged without God's written Word but by what God installed in them at birth: their conscience. So, yes indeed the whole Bible does apply most emphatically to the whole world. Now of course, I should remind you that the NT out-ranks the OT in current authority as there are just a few things that are obselete in the OT, i.e. worship on the sabbath, the practice of easy divorce for men, sacrifice of animals for our sins, etc. I do hope you'll pray on this and reconsider your position. God bless. --Rowdy |
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998 | Rowdy, where is your Scriptural support? | Rev 7:17 | Rowdy | 121383 | ||
Hank, dear Hank, as patient and longsuffering as you think you are with me, please believe me I am trying to be even moreso with you. So you'll either just have to forgive me or kick me off the Forum along with the others. I can only suppose you've notice how I've started imitating the style of your post with my name at the end of every one. It makes it so easy to look up one's own posts. I'm sure you knew this but just in case you or someone else might need to know... All you need to do is insert the key words (in this case: conscience, judge, Rowdy) into the Quick Search and up pops all my posts on the subject. You see my dear friend, I too grow weary of repeating over and over again the same scripture and see the points of my posts ignored again and again. BUT in an effort to be a team player, I just looked and wrote down the best post of mine on the subject, numbered 118862. In it I cite the prime scripture in support of my main point. I did notice that quite often you lodge an occasional post, making a statement like I have without scripture. So I guess we're all guilty of being just a little lazy. But I'll forgive you. God bless. --Rowdy PS: From my perspective I too have a job to do in trying to correct misconceptions of the Bible teaching/doctrine and I find that I must obey God rather than the dictates of men. I'm sure you remember that came from. Hint: Acts and Peter. |
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999 | Rowdy, where is your Scriptural support? | Rev 7:17 | Rowdy | 121434 | ||
I've offered and cited scriptural references in support of my points before. All you have to do is insert into the Quicksearch the key words in question along with my nickname, Rowdy and you'll bring up the scriptures from my past posts. My main point with this post is to add a new thought to a scripture I've used in the past. You and several others have criticized my posts in the past but I notice as in your post above, you cite far more stuff from other men outside the Forum than you do from God's Word. Seems interesting. Anyway, the concept to which I'm referring is "better safe than sorry." Like I've been saying in previous posts, there are several scriptures that deal with a controversial issue like this one about Grace. I'll admit sometimes some of these scriptures seem to emphasize Grace over other things involved in our relationship with God. But there again, there is pretty clear guidance from James 2 that emphasizes "faith without works is a dead faith." Then there's Jesus' comparison to branches and the vine and our producing fruit in John 15. So what are we to do with these seeming contradictions? I've been saying for quite some time w/several previous posts about our being judged by ALL of Jesus' Words AND those of His official representatives, the Apostles. And I've stated we should obey ALL these Words as being "better safe than sorry." Now I gotta admit for a long while, I couldn't think of specific scripture(s) to support this latter concept, in spite of using this verse a few times before, it just didn't click. Yeah, go figure. The scripture? Matt 5:29-30 If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell. Now did anyone in the NT heed these Words and actually eliminate a body part? The answer as you know is of course not. Nor has any christian group started advocating such a practice. So, was our Lord really serious? You bet. If it actually came to making such a choice; living our lives whole and go to hell or go to heaven and leave a body part while here on earth, I quite certain all christians would gladly do without that body part. So a modern nickname to such a concept as Jesus is setting forth might clearly be known as "better safe than sorry." In this line of reasoning, when the Bible portrays two or more different points about a particular subject, one more conservative than the other, my common sense tells me to do my best to do both of them and be certain of pleasing our God. But now, we have clear guidance from our Lord endorsing this very principle. Again, I would urge that all christians obey ALL Christ's Words and those of the NT writers as being blessed by the Holy Spirit. Hope this is clear and God bless. --Rowdy |
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1000 | What would prompt these tears? | Rev 7:17 | Rowdy | 121474 | ||
Of course, I have to agree. There's no question but that this "ology" is clear and straight forward. I'm just being a little conservative than I have to be when I say I prefer to use just good ole English. Just like you've stated about this silly obsession with the KJV, it's a preference on my part. I guess I'm just a little overwhelmed by the whole group of ologies when they come at you several at a time in one post. It makes me a little uneasy. Who invented this latest ology about salvation? As I'm sure you've heard, this world of us, especially America is "eaten up" with this obsession of humanism and its advocates like to think we can do without God and His Word. It's really quite disgusting to deal with and quite conceited of a fellow human being to think of the human intellect to that degree. So I like to keep things simple in my world. Yeah, believe it or not simple in spite of my propensity for verboseness. Say, that reminds me, while I've got you "on the line." Why is that the Forum is so incredibly conservative about restricting some of these threads. I've noticed along with a few others, that sometimes these threads of discussion are restricted almost as soon as the first question is posted, without at least to me a whole lot of controversy. If the Bible cites controversy like of Grace and faith with or without works isn't it proper for us as Bible students to discuss those items of controversy as God commands through His example of the Bereans? Please advise. Thanks. God bless. --Rowdy |
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