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NASB | 2 Timothy 2:15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Timothy 2:15 Study and do your best to present yourself to God approved, a workman [tested by trial] who has no reason to be ashamed, accurately handling and skillfully teaching the word of truth. |
Bible Question (short): Literally or hyperbole? |
Question (full): Hey BradK, I see that you take Psalm 51:5 literally. Would you do the same for the 8th. verse?: "Let me hear joy and gladness;let the bones you have crushed rejoice. Psalm 51:8. If this is also to be taken literally, which of David's physical bones had God crushed? The bible is replete with hyperboles like these that are meant to be taken in the spirit and emotion in which they were written. David's anguished cry is probably either a deliberate and obvious exaggeration emphasizing his great conviction of his sin or his supposition that because he had become so grievous a sinner, he must have been conceived that way. If the 5th verse is to be taken literally, it must refer to the fact that David's mother was a human adult and therefore "in sin" like anyone of accountable age, all of whom have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, (...in sin did my mother conceive...). Ephesians 2:3 was written to us adult sinners saved by grace, whose natures have been set on fire by our own actions and tongues, which are set on fire by hell, not by the genes and chromosomes passed on by procreation. We are fearfully and wonderfully made and formed in the belly by God with a good and upright nature in his image and likeness. But even in the womb, temptation begins to misshape the innocent human psyche with fear and selfish impulses from demonic suggestion and sounds and emotions coming through the womb wall. So that in time, depravity becomes natural, and the natural man cannot receive the things of God.... So we become the children of wrath by incurring a second nature, as we are corrupted by voluntarily yielding to temptation, just as our first forbears did in the garden. Let's exhonorate God of the charge that he is, has been and will continue to, create billions and billions of babies with wicked and sinful natures at enmity with himself, at their very inception. Thanks for the reference to Jonathan Edwards' treatise. I'll look that up. Restate |
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