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NASB | 1 Corinthians 7:31 and those who use the world, as though they did not make full use of it; for the form of this world is passing away. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 7:31 and those who use the world [taking advantage of its opportunities], as though they did not make full use of it. For the outward form of this world [its present social and material nature] is passing away. |
Bible Question:
Greetings everyone, there seems to be a spirit of discord not harmony in the camp, can we stop bickering over "words" and show the LOVE we should have one for another. We may not agree with one another but can we stop and pray before posting, read over our posts and see where the LOVE is missing/ Now a question to get you thinking? "a conceptual and fanciful personification of the unknown causes of our misfortunes" Do we know what the world is talking about, is the world aware of what they are talking about? Is the language used today hiding the truth or stating the truth, how do we answer? What does Holy Scripture say on the subject? SHALOM RJJ. |
Bible Answer: Actually, the world is not standing still. The underlying presuppositions are changing, becoming more relativistic, and therefore communication becomes more difficult. The premodern worldview held that there is an absolute truth, and this truth is revealed by divine revelation. The modern worldview, born around the time of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, held that there was still an absolute truth that held the world together, but that this truth could be discovered by reason. This lead to rationalist approaches to the Bible, which threatened to discredit it as being God's book. But now we are entering the "post-modern" era, in which even reason is frowned upon, and there are supposed to be many contradictory ways of looking at reality, each just as "true" as the other. That's why worldly scholars today do not simply build upon the rationalist tradition that was constructed over the past 200 years, but come out with new and conflicting approaches to Biblical subjects - such as who the (human) authors of the Bible really were, what the history of early Christianity really was, and so forth. In post-modernism, there is no center. Our apologetics are still fighting the battles of modernism, ignoring the whole new landscape of post-modernism. So, yes, the world is changing, and and communication is very difficult. |
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John Reformed |