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NASB | 1 Timothy 2:9 Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Timothy 2:9 Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves modestly and appropriately and discreetly in proper clothing, not with [elaborately] braided hair and gold or pearls or expensive clothes, |
Subject: Rowdy, Rowdy, are you sure? |
Bible Note: Sir, thank you for your kind and considered words. I am quite certain that your intentions are of the very best sort. Some years ago I would have agreed with every word. I, too, felt very strongly that the mere thoughts of men were of no consequence. That I had something better in what I called "the leading of the Holy Spirit." It was a very comfortable place to be because it allowed me to discount any teaching that didn't "feel right" (which I called "discernment"). Of course, since I remained ignorant of anything that believers thought, suffered, experienced, or fought for, I was happy that I had reached the pinnacle of theological knowledge: "just Jesus and me." I said to myself, "I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing!" But I didn't know that I was "wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked." I didn't realize that what I was doing was living in the same kind of error that Gnostics espoused. Of course, I didn't know that because I didn't know what Gnostics were or what they believed. I couldn't see error, because I didn't bother to learn how Satan had deceived men in the past. I didn't even believe that I needed to diligently study the Word of God, because I thought the time had come when the Spirit would do all the teaching. Ignorance had become a crown that I wore proudly. My pastors and teachers told me how much closer to God I was for having the courage to shed all those old, musty traditions. I do appreciate what you are trying to do, sir. I have the same desire to help you! Isn't that why we are here in this forum... to learn and help others learn the truth of God? The truth of God is ageless. We in the Reformed Baptist tradition do not think that the truths of the doctrines of grace grew from the mind of Paul, Augustine, Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Whitfield, Toplady, Edwards, Spurgeon, Lloyd-Jones, Schafer, or MacArthur. No, we believe that they originated entirely in the mind of God, before the foundation of the world. That truth spans ages. Do I find my identity in truth? Yes, sir I do. For truth is dear to the heart of my Savior, so how cannot it not be dear to my own heart? It is late for me again. I must sign off more quickly than I would have preferred. We will talk again. Deuteronomy 32:7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee. |