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NASB | Matthew 22:42 "What do you think about the Christ, whose son is He?" They *said to Him, "The son of David." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 22:42 "What do you [Pharisees] think of the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed)? Whose Son is He?" They said to Him, "The son of David." |
Subject: What do you think of Christ? |
Bible Note: Dear Flinkywood, The following is addressed to Hank. So please do not respond. It is not my desire that he respond either. I do believe that this desire is naïve and useless because he and/or others will respond anyway. But I will express the desire anyway. Flinky, I am a strange person, and everywhere I roam I am told so. I already know it, but I know that there are some who will take this opportunity to confirm it anyway. I would let then know it is not necessary, but they will do it anyway. I think they want to make me feel bad, or make themselves feel good, or promote and defend what they stand for. So let it be. Hank has noticed the posts I directed to the Lockman Foundation -- something about leaving the format of Bible study to enter into a praise phase. He doesn't quite understand what it is all about, but he is concerned that it is consuming lots of space on this Forum. He has urged me review the guidelines of this Forum and use prescribed procedures to direct any questions to Lockman. He states that it is altogether useless and inappropriate to post open letters to Lockman on this web site. Hank is a brother of mine and I respect and appreciate him highly, principally because I have received private communication from him and a few other people on this forum and I believe I that know him better than I do most of the others on this forum. But he does not quite understand me or my purpose in initiating this thread or trying to redirect attention to the initial post. I believe it is the purpose of people, and all of creation, to give praise to God, and the fact that someone does not understand that puzzles my mind. It is the purpose of my life, and I seek to do it everywhere. One of my many problems is that I do not express myself well. What if I said, “We have learned a lot about Christ. Why not devote one thread on this forum to expressing what we think about him”. That’s all I was saying. Please do not tell me I did not say it well. I know that. Look at the first sentence in this paragraph. Look at this thread. I am asking the question “What do you think of Christ?” to give people an opportunity to do, as you have done, to praise the Lord, to say good things about him. I see most of what has happened as an attempt to distract us from that purpose. It is in an attempt to identify this and as a last ditch effort to return this thread to that purpose that I write here. I would hope that Hank would know that I am not as daft as it may seem. And yet, it does not matter whether I am really that bad or worse. What matters is that Jesus Christ be praised. There are those who would tell me that there are better ways to do that. There are many others things they would tell or teach me. I just want them to know that I am aware of their ideas and suggestions, and many more. But I decided to do what I did anyway. I would say to Hank that that post was not really addressed to Lockman. It was an open letter meant only for others to read and to consider. It was not designed to try to change the purpose of this forum from Bible Study to praise. It was an attempt to elicit some little bit of praise to God, some little drop of honor to him, which he wants, in the midst of a vast ocean of Bible study and personal attacks, which he does not want. It was not designed to criticize the site, so please do not go there. I would do anything in my power now to get folks to get off this present discussion and to return to the top of the thread and say what, based on Scripture, they think of Christ. I would have this post to stand alone whether or not they do that. Whether or not they do that. Whether or not they do that. Let it be. It is by responding to posts like this that, in my mind, the forum is filled with useless matter. Better, I think, to say something nice about Jesus. I do not think the Lockman Foundation would object to a little bit of praise in the midst of this Bible study endeavor. But I could be wrong. That is all I wanted to say. Hank is a good man. When he thinks about it I think I think he will understand. I will be shocked if he responds again to tell me he does not understand and that this post is inappropriate. But I have been shocked before. There are believers in the lord Jesus Christ here. There must be at least ten. One has chosen to express what they think about Christ. Where are the nine? Are they involved in tussling with Aixen because he asked them what they thought about Christ? And that, my friends, is all I asked. That, my friends, is all I wanted. And let’s say what I wanted does not matter. That is what I think he wants. May Jesus Christ be praised. |