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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: Constructing doctrine is a very serious business. I understood your comments to indicate that extrapolating doctrine from Biblical narratives was a valid method for you in your tradition. It is not acceptable within the context of my own tradition. (Kalos knows very well the principles of which I am speaking.) Thus, when I wrote to him I started thinking about presuppositional and hermeneutic differences. Hence the phrase "faced with others who do not apply those principles." Ed, you have pastored in many churches: Don't you find that a lot of people just don't think about such things? Or they don't know how to talk about them? Or they believe things without knowing why? Sir, my feet are clay. I have probably sinned more in my lifetime than you have imagined doing in your own. There is absolutely nothing good in me that wasn't specifically put there by a God, Who, in spite of my worthlessness, chose to show mercy on me. There are so many logs in my own eyes that I would never even imagine the few motes in your own. My roots grow out of a long line of God haters; men who studiously and strenuously -- and I mean that quite literally -- sought to do all possible damage to Christianity. I am quite certain that you -- personally and professionally -- have done far more for the kingdom of God than I could have done in twice as many lifetimes. Furthermore, the doctrines of grace, if they teach us nothing else, are so incredibly humbling that they brook nothing in the way of self righteousness. If I now know anything of God and His Word, it has grown out of a walk through fire, and God's boundless mercy and grace. Sir, I do not know the root cause of your sensitivity toward me. Perhaps it comes from my inability to happily accept heresy and apostasy as suitable bed-fellows with the truth. Perhaps it comes from my screen name. Perhaps it is something else entirely. I do not know. But I do know this: your sensitivity is causing you to feel offense when none is intended. I have prayed and searched my conscience as I composed this post. In summation, therefore, let me say without ranchor or umbrage of any kind: Our struggle with sin is difficult at best. Sir, I respectfully submit that the Kingdom of Heaven is not furthered by the manufacture of more sin. |