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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:
Do we rightly divide (handle) the word of truth? (Eph 1:17 NASB) that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him. The knowledge of him comes from our efforts to study the Scripture, but the revelation(enlighten) Comes by the spirit. Also the Wisdom (proper application of knowledge) comes by the Spirit. The Spirit from The Father Glory and through the power of prayer. Are we rightly dividing the Word? |
Bible Answer: shalor - The obvious answer to your good question, "Are we rightly dividing the word?" is no. How else can one account for the splintered sectarianism that comprises what is called Christianity today? Each faction claims to be right, and a number of them claim to be exclusively right. The Scriptures acknowledge but one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one church, the body of Christ. Scripture clearly speaks to the reality of divisions. Jesus speaks of wolves in sheep's clothing; the epistles are rife with warnings about false teachers. Even so, new sects, new cults, new splinters from old communions spring up with alarming frequency. There seems to be no end to the isms man can invent, no limit to his ability to find an isolated passage of Scripture that he can twist and mold to fit his every doctrinal aberration. Or lacking any scriptural proof with which to give his doctrine the gloss of authenticity, he can always fall back on that darling of false prophets, special revelation from God. Yes, I'm quite convinced that we are not rightly dividing the word of God. But I'm ill prepared to offer a cure-all for the scourge of the pandemic disease of denominationalism. --Hank |