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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. |
Subject: Paul’s missionary work created a controv |
Bible Note: Dear grafted in, Would you mind providing Scripture that shows that the "Vision" (I'm assuming the vision you are speaking of is from Acts 11:5-10) does not have anything at all to do with food? I'd like to know why Peter is told to "kill and eat" if it is not? And why would the Holy Scriptures be so confusing to say "kill and eat" as this seems it is most surly about food; if it is not? And Peter's response in v8 is quite telling: "But I said, 'By no means, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered my mouth.'" Now, we know this also is mainly a massage to Peter that the Gentiles are not to be neglected in giving out the Word, and the good news of Salvation in Christ, but, "nothing to do with food" this is a bit hard to swallow. Sorry about the pun. :-) Then, we also have this from the mouth of Paul, in the second chapter of Galatians, in regard to Peters hypocrisy; in that he first was eating with the Gentiles and then withdrawing from eating with them, because of his fear of what the Jews might think of him. Gal 2:11-14 "But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. For prior to the coming of certain men from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he began to withdraw and hold himself aloof, fearing the party of the circumcision. The rest of the Jews joined him in hypocrisy, with the result that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy. But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of all, "If you, being a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, how is it that you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?" Read the whole of this chapter, (in fact, read all of Galatians) it will help you in your understanding of just went on there, and how the 'vision' did indeed have something to do with food, and not just about the people. Chapter and verse, please, beyond Heb 13:8 ? That verse is not a, cache all, end all, verse, by any means. John |