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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: Repost of ID# 105607 Kalos: Until I stumbled upon this Forum nearly three years ago, I'd never been exposed to the idea that one really need not study the Bible, because God personally and individually reveals (in dreams, visions, seances, trances, hunches, and in various other esoteric ways) what He wants His people to know. Which, if true, would lead one to wonder why He troubled Himself to inspire Scripture in the first place. This claim to personal revelation might have some degree of credibility except for one thing. Among those persons who have appeared on the Forum and claimed to have been the recipients of personal divine revelation, no two have been in agreement. This fact certainly gives one pause and causes him to ponder whether God reveals Himself one-on-one. If He does, not only did He waste His time in revealing Himself to man through the common medium of the Scriptures, but He gives conflicting revelation as well. Who could imagine God wasting His time or being divided against Himself? Both propositions are preposterous. In view of the pandemic ignorance of Scripture in our time, even among professing Christians, one cannot help but wonder why Scripture is held in such low regard, as it must be, for what other explanation can be offered for such widespread ignorance? The Bible, to be sure, is not mute on the necessity of searching the Scriptures. What geometrician Euclid said centuries ago still applies to learning today: "There is no royal road to learning." And what applies to learning in general applies to learning the Bible in particular. There is no evidence given in Scripture that God exempts His people from studying and learning His eternal word, or that He causes His word to be superfluous and redundant by revealing Himself privately to individual Christians. It really doesn't take much savvy to determine which members of this Forum read and study the Bible and which do not. "By their fruits, ye shall know them." --Hank |