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NASB | Ephesians 5:29 for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Ephesians 5:29 For no one ever hated his own body, but [instead] he nourishes and protects and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, |
Subject: how can suicide be the same |
Bible Note: Hi, Jeff... That is what we call a specious argument. No one arrives at such conclusions because aspects of common language are understood. For example, Genesis 32:31 says, "the sun rose." We understand this to be a phenomenological statement. No one would say that the Bible is promoting the geocentric theory of the universe. I have an astronomy and physics background. I have friends now actively doing research in the field. In common parlance they say things like, "I'll be working until sun rise." They are not making statements of a cosmological nature! :-) As I've affirmed before, the best explainer of Scripture is Scripture. Your example of "all flesh" further fails in that it attempts to pin God down out of the context of the passage as a whole. In this case, one must look at all of the statements of God in Genesis 6 and 7 to gain the sense of what He is saying. You keep mentioning people twisting your words. One must be cautious to set a proper example, let one looses all credibility. In Him, Doc |