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NASB | 1 Timothy 3:2 An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Timothy 3:2 Now an overseer must be blameless and beyond reproach, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, sensible, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, |
Subject: Rule or Ideal? |
Bible Note: Your thought is about as close as I could have worded it, with the exception of the essence of my thought, which I have a hard time putting into words myself. In an attempt... There is so much deception out there today that I have become, perhaps a little too leary of anything that has the slightest appearance of possible deception. I know there is a name for that. I call it my "gut feeling." Whenever I have gone against that "gut feeling" I have inevitably gone wrong. As an example, I believe in total fairness to everyone, no matter the appearance. Yet I have found that, to date, every time I have ever given anyone "the benefit of the doubt" when I experienced that "gut feeling," It has been proven that I should have gone with that "gut feeling" in the 1st place. Though Doc had no ulterior motive, I can only imagine what his phrase could have escalated into. It may sound a little dramatic, but it is not unimaginable that the a-bomb could have originated from a simple and pure curiosity on the part of an individual who wouldn't have hurt a flea. GB |