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NASB | Genesis 2:9 Out of the ground the LORD God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 2:9 And [in that garden] the LORD God caused to grow from the ground every tree that is desirable and pleasing to the sight and good (suitable, pleasant) for food; the tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the [experiential] knowledge (recognition) of [the difference between] good and evil. [Rev 2:7; 22:14, 19] |
Subject: The fruit and leaves of the tree of life |
Bible Note: Hello brother Jonp, I believe what I have observed happening on the Forum regarding you, is very much the same as what happens with a lot of new forum members. However, your excess of posts (147 in 22 days) makes the issue seem bigger than perhaps it truly is. I haven't kept statistics but I'm guessing that your posts make up a significant percentage of the postings in the past 22 days. And all that with the rest of us knowing very little about you. Your user profile is more of an advertisement for your website (no offense). Perhaps what's most important is that, while a lot of what you present is very well explained and supported by Scripture, some of the things you have presented are questionable at best. For example, you have mentioned more than once that the truth of the word of God "comes to us from many angles. I truly do not know what you mean by that. I would agree that the differences in our own histories and presuppositions causes each of us to approach the truth of the word of God from "many angles", but it is our angles that require straitening. Honestly though, I just can't position you from the way you present your statement. There are certainly no angles on the truth and as I believe we both agree, the truth of Scripture is never changing. Time, circumstances, culture, nor anything else has any effect on truth. God's truth is absolute. And while we agree that there is symbolism in the bible, I don't agree that "obtaining a balance" is what we're to seek, but the truth verified with Scripture and not going an inch further than that. Jonp, in finding this forum my guess is that you must have run across at least a few different forums that were mostly chaotic and anything goes types. Most of the regulars here work hard to keep SBF from becoming such a place. All types come here, saved and unsaved I'm sure. I'm fairly sure too that many of those don't actually read the "Terms of Use" that they agree to when registering. So you can imagine that those of us who have found SBF to be less tolerant of unsupported "winds of doctrine" and focused on the truth of God's word would like to keep it that way. God bless, Jeff |