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NASB | Malachi 3:6 "For I, the LORD, do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Malachi 3:6 "For I am the LORD, I do not change [but remain faithful to My covenant with you]; that is why you, O sons of Jacob, have not come to an end. |
Bible Question:
What is your wuderstanding of Eccl3:14? Do you see this as literal? |
Bible Answer: Hello stackablee, The passage here touches upon the Immutability of God. C.H. Spurgeon, in his first sermon, made these penetrating remarks: "IT has been said by some one that “the proper study of mankind is man.” I will not oppose the idea, but I believe it is equally true that the proper study of God’s elect is God; the proper study of a Christian is the Godhead. The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of a child of God, is the name, the nature, the person, the work, the doings, and the existence of the great God whom he calls his Father. There is something exceedingly improving to the mind in a contemplation of the Divinity. It is a subject so vast, that all our thoughts are lost in its immensity; so deep, that our pride is drowned in its infinity. Other subjects we can compass and grapple with; in them we feel a kind of self-content, and go our way with the thought, “Behold I am wise.” But when we come to this master-science, finding that our plumb-line cannot sound its depth, and that our eagle eye cannot see its height, we turn away with the thoughts that vain man would be wise, but he is like a wild ass’s colt and with the solemn exclamation, “I am but of yesterday, and know nothing.” No subject of contemplation will tend more to humble the mind, than thoughts of God. We shall be obliged to feel “Great God, how infinite art thou, What worthless worms are we!” But while the subject humbles the mind it also expands it. He who often thinks of God, will have a larger mind than the man who simply plods around this narrow globe." The Bible Knowledge Commentary says this: "Anticipating that people who cannot understand God’s plan might accuse Him of being arbitrary, Solomon described the nature of God’s plan and the response it should elicit. Solomon said the work of God is eternal (everything God does will endure forever) and perfect and immutable (nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it; cf. 7:13). In support of this last point Solomon referred as he did in 1:9 to the repetition of natural events: Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before." There would be no reason to not understand this passage as literal, as it is in harmony with all that scripture says about the nature and attributes of God.(1 Sam. 3:12; 2 Sam. 23:5; Ps. 89:34; Matt. 24:35; James 1:17). Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |
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