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NASB | Genesis 6:9 ¶ These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 6:9 ¶ These are the records of the generations (family history) of Noah. Noah was a righteous man [one who was just and had right standing with God], blameless in his [evil] generation; Noah walked (lived) [in habitual fellowship] with God. |
Subject: animals and the flood |
Bible Note: Ocelot: But so frequently "sensitivity" is a bed-fellow of compromise, and "tolerance" of duplicity. ..... How much of this do you see going on in the typical modern church?: "Preach the word; be instant in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine" (2 Timothy 4:2). ..... And how much of THIS is going on?: "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables" (2 Timothy 4:3,4). ...... We don't need to be particularly sensitive or tolerant, in the modern wilted-down senses of these words: that is not what Christians are commanded to do. "Preach the word" is what we are to do, and in large measure it is not what is being done. Churches have tried every appeal under the sun to draw people -- every appeal, that is, except the one that will draw people: the preaching of Jesus Christ and Him crucified. (see 1 Corinthians 1:23-25). How many times have modern church leaders promulgated the idea that the gospel of Christ must be specially packaged for our modern times? The theological word for that idea, when translated from the Greek, is "baloney." ...... Just this week I read a newspaper article about the steady decline in membership of what were once known as the main-line churches in America -- a decline that has been going on steadily and continuously for over a quarter century. Is it mere coincidence that the decline in membership matches up chronologically with the decline of gospel preaching from the pulpits of these churches? And add to that, for it is an inevitable corollary, their abject failure to reject the infiltration of false doctrines while at the same time failing to stand firm for Christian morals -- God's immutable moral laws against, for example, murder and sexual immorality. And in this newsapaper article, a certain preacher in one of these liberal main-line churches whined, "I don't understand why we are losing members. We're doing all we know how to attract and keep them." Perhaps so. Perhaps they've indeed forgotten how to preach the gospel of Christ. How sad. How sad when about all that's left of many erstwhile churches to distinguish them from the world is the spire atop the church building. --Hank |