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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: Greetings Aixen7z4! You made the following two statements: "Some believers read the word “Go” and they know what the Lord is saying, and they go. Some spend a lifetime studying words such as “Go” and they never get around to going." And, "Some of us have gone to school to study the Bible. (It is not clear that we should have done that)." Concerning your first statement my friend, why would you make such a generalization. There is no either/or between studying and doing. One cannot 'do' what God wants unless one 'knows' what God wants one to do. :-) I have always been amazed that so many try to create false dichotomy between scholarship and spirituality. One does not have to be ignorant to be spiritual. :-) While it is certainly true that Abraham did not have a Bible, we do. And, we do because God willed it to be so. So, should we ignore it? Concerning your second statement, it is no more wrong to study the Bible in school than it would be to study counseling in school. ;-) If we were all perfectly obedient to God's word, there would be no schisms in the Body of Christ. However, there are always those who either stray from the truth for lack of knowledge or who deliberately prevert the truth. The New Testament itself is filled with examples of inspired authors confronting the false doctrines that were current in their day. Should we simply ignore false doctrine so that we can pretend that we are in fact united? You also wrote: "Thank God for the scriptures. We should read them. We should saturate our minds with them. We should seek the Lord and his will in them. But we can go too far." This is far different from the attitude expressed in Scripture my friend. Ps. 1:2 - "But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night." Ps. 119:11 - "I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you." Acts 17:2 - "As his custom was, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures," Acts 17:11 - "Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true." Rom. 15:4 - "For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope." 2 Tim. 3:15 - "and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus." I simply can't agree that we can 'go too far' in saturating our minds with God's word! Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |