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NASB | 1 Corinthians 11:3 But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 11:3 But I want you to understand that Christ is the head (authority over) of every man, and man is the head of woman, and God is the head of Christ. |
Subject: searching for the truth |
Bible Note: Part 2 of 2 How can Paul make such statements? The Gospels do not speak of any special writings that Jesus dictated to the disciples… even when Jesus takes Peter aside after entrusting him with the flock, there’s no rule book that Peter brings back to share with the rest of the disciples. Yet, Paul, adamantly, states that God established a rule for the ministering of the Church! Surely, he must be wrong: It is not in the Gospels! But he is not! It is Jesus’ promise of the Paraclete that gives Paul and the rest of the Apostles the authority and power to establish the temporal Church. It is the Holy Spirit who instructs and guides them. It is the Holy Spirit who reveals the Truth about Scripture! The phrase “don’t commit suicide” is not a found in the Bible, but the commandment not to kill is! Would this command apply only to physical killing? Would destroying a person’s reputation, morality, humanity, spirituality, psyche not be killing that person? If only the letter of the commandment is applied, it could well be argued that destroying and oppressing a person, aside from physically murdering him/her, is not breaking the commandment that orders us not to kill. Is that the extent of the commandment: do not kill physically? By arguing that if the Scriptural text does not exist everything is rendered extra-Biblical we could well be placing Paul and others outside of God’s grace since they have spoken on issues that have no Scriptural backing: The prophecy of Enoch (Jude 1:14-16--resonates on Daniel 7:10) Michael’s, the Archangel, battle with Satan over Moses’ body (Jude 1:9) The traditions passed by the Apostles (2 Thessalonians 2:15; 3:6) Paul‘s declaration that his physical sufferings completes Christ‘s (Colossians 1:24)… If we remove the Holy Spirit and the Church’s history we operate in a vacuum where the Body of Christ is dissected into millions of personal theologies that denounce and uphold everything and anything under Heaven! Surely this is not what Christ meant when He admonished that we love one another and that we be one! It is the Holy Spirit who, through the Church, defines and instructs the Body of Christ: The purpose of this was, that now, through the Church, the principalities and ruling forces should learn how many-sided God’s wisdom is, according to the plan which he had formed from all eternity in Christ Jesus our Lord. In him we are bold enough to approach God in complete confidence, through our faith in him; (Ephesians 3:10-12) but in case I should be delayed, I want you to know how people ought to behave in God’s household--that is, in the Church of the living God, pillar and support of the truth. (1 Timothy 3:15) God does not reveal the hidden Truth to all, as attested by both Christ and Paul: I shall ask the Father, and he will give you another Paraclete to be with you for ever, the Sprit of truth whom the world can never accept since it neither sees nor knows him; but you know him, because he is with you, he is in you. (John 14:16-17) he made known to me by a revelation the mystery I have just described briefly--a reading of it will enable you to perceive my understanding of the mystery of Christ. This mystery, as it is now revealed in the Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets, was unknown to humanity in previous generations: (Ephesians 3:3-5) Clearly, the revelations of the Holy Spirit are not imparted for mere personal gratification; the revelations of the Holy Spirit are made for the edification of the Church!: At the same time, we must recognise that the interpretation of scriptural prophecy is never a matter for the individual. For no prophecy ever came from human initiative. When people spoke for God it was the Holy Spirit that moved them. The Holy Scripture is God’s Salvation Plan brought to its fullness in the Church of Christ! God Bless! Angel |