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NASB | 1 Timothy 3:1 It is a trustworthy statement: if any man aspires to the office of overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Timothy 3:1 This is a faithful and trustworthy saying: if any man [eagerly] seeks the office of overseer (bishop, superintendent), he desires an excellent task. |
Bible Question:
Doc: My wife and I watch and support Precepts For Life. I have seen men in Kay Arthur's classes she teaches. Would it be more in line with what Scripture teaches for Kay to restrict her teachings to women only? Then there are her tours to the Holy Land. Is the fact that men attend these trips too. Not very often have I found a teacher that is able to communicate to such wide scope of men and women. I am not sure if Kay speakes in churches on Sunday's as a guest in the pulpit. But if she did would that be unbiblical? Now that David Arthur is at the helm, this may open some doors that were closed before. Kay's teaching is on parr with Bible College teaching. However Seminary took Scripturs to a much deeper level where sentence structure was broken down so deeply at times I found it difficult to follow how some translations came up with the word order that was in there translation. The translation I found the hardest to understand was the 1985 NIV. May I add a word of praise to THE LOCKMAN FOUNDATION and for Dewey Lockman For following the direction of Holy Spirit in making (as far as I am concerned) the most accurate English translation there is today. We are so blessed. Well I might as well thank our special host for this Syudy Bible Forum. "The one who is taught the Word is to share all good things with the one who teaches him." The Holy Spirit teaches me when I read the Bible, that's how I see it anyway. At this time of year I am reminded how wonderful our LORD is. We have the BIBLE which i Love so very much, The Holy Spirit to help instruct us, and the Lord Jesys Christ whom we owe our very breath we breathe, The Blood Jeses shead in our place for my and yiur sine, and because He loves us so much he has a place waiting for us. I cab just barely take it all in. I can say nothing more but to add with the deepest Love.... PRAISE THE lORD. justme |
Bible Answer: Hi, Justme... It would be utterly inappropriate of me to render judgment on what would be the moral outcome of actions in hypothetical circumstances. I will and have asserted the instructions of the Word. It is for each of us to walk that out as dictated by our conscience, for the Scripture alone may properly bind us. That includes joining ourselves to a congregation of like minded believers walking corporately in those injunctions. I understand that some people have a vested interest in egalitarianism. I can sympathize with that, and pray that God will mercifully grant them the grace to submit to His Word alone. It isn't easy. No, let me correct that: outside of God's grace it is impossible. "Unless I am refuted and convicted by testimonies of the Scriptures or by clear arguments (since I believe neither the Pope nor the Councils alone; it being evident that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am conquered by the Holy Scriptures quoted by me, and my conscience is bound in the word of God: I can not and will not recant any thing, since it is unsafe and dangerous to do any thing against the conscience." --Martin Luther (1521) In Him, Doc |