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NASB | Proverbs 5:1 My son, give attention to my wisdom, Incline your ear to my understanding; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Proverbs 5:1 My son, be attentive to my wisdom [godly wisdom learned by costly experience], Incline your ear to my understanding; [1 Kin 4:29] |
Subject: Mat 5:27-28. Adultery. |
Bible Note: Hello, Edwin - Of course, no one in the New Testament is reported to have handled snakes nor to have been commanded to do so, which makes the argument sophistic and the illustration academic. ...... When I was growing up in eastern Tennessee many years ago, there was a "holiness" church near Chattanooga that practiced snake handling. It was quite a spectacle and people came from far and wide to see it. The nearest present-day counterpart to the carnival atmosphere that surrounded the snake handlings would be the faith healings staged by Benny Hinn and others of his feather. I recall vividly still the big news event occasioned by one of the practictioners having become the victim of a fatal bite by an uncooperative rattle snake, whereupon civil authorities moved in and put an end, at least temporarily, to the snake handling nonsense, much to the disappointment of those who had come to depend on the events as sprightly amusement. I am not aware whether this religious cult ever resumed the dangerous practice, which, it seems to me, is an example par excellence of putting God to the test. But not any more than invoking the name of God and yelling "Be healed" to a person with a terminal illness. What truly is amazing, my British brother, is the ease with which human beings can find Bible loopholes where there really are none, speak loudly on those issues about which Scripture is silent, and blissfully ignore other issues about which Scripture fairly shouts! O, if only finite man would inculcate 2 Timothy 2:15 into his soul, print it, as it were, indelibly on his heart and commit it to his memory cells, what a difference it would make in Christianity today! If Christians round the world became Bereans instead of blind sheep, it would put the charlatans out of business. --Hank |