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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: "That's just your interpretation."(?) |
Bible Note: BradK: Perhaps far too many wannbe Bible students are beleaguered by their own wishful thinking. They carry their Bibles to church religiously (pun fully intended) in the vague hope that the Holy Spirit will, by a mystical process of spiritual osmosis, let His truth ooze out through the closed leather covers of their Bibles while they are in transit to and from the house of worship. Contrast that "method" to the methods of giants of the faith whom you allude to in your post, almost all of whom have spent countless hours pouring over Scripture in toil and sweat in order to learn as much about the word of God as their heads could hold. When I hear a pert, vain -- and deplorably lazy -- upstart who scarcely knows an apostle from an epistle defame "the experts" and try to obviate the necessity of studying the Bible with the alibi that he receives his very own "special revelation" directly from God, it makes me want to, well, frankly, it makes me want to throw up. I'm sure we've all heard (and at some time used) the exuse, "I just don't have time to read the Bible" or "I fall alseep when I try to read the Bible." But how many of these exuse masters habitually spend entire evenings glued to their beloved TV or computer screens, and manage all the while to stay wide awake? --Hank |