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NASB | 2 Timothy 4:2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Timothy 4:2 preach the word [as an official messenger]; be ready when the time is right and even when it is not [keep your sense of urgency, whether the opportunity seems favorable or unfavorable, whether convenient or inconvenient, whether welcome or unwelcome]; correct [those who err in doctrine or behavior], warn [those who sin], exhort and encourage [those who are growing toward spiritual maturity], with inexhaustible patience and [faithful] teaching. |
Subject: Contemporizing Christians Message? |
Bible Note: Dear Doc, I have a feeling you won't answer me but understand one thing please... I am not into liberation theology or the Jesus movement at all. I am talking about applying the Biblical priciples of plain old hermeneutics as taught by the like of Gordon and Fee and many others to take first century incomparable settings to twenty-first century settings and trying to come up with a reasonable application without changing the text, without transforming the text, without changing the meaning of the text, without "making it relevant by altering it in any way shape or form", but by taking the essence of the teaching and applying it to today. You, all of you now have the wrong impression of what I am about, what I am a product of, how I would go about interpreting a text, because you have run away with the words, "relevant for today" and applied every crack pot theory of Biblical interpretation and decided that is what I am engaged in, nothing could be further from the truth here, you have misinterpreted what I meant by the onviously heinous phrase to you "make a relevant message for today" to mean something that I do not mean. I apologize if somehow you have not understood me, but I tried over and over to make clear by one little example of every one in here saying we cannot take the issue of hats and make that normative today to illustrate that we cannot just take a text and slap it on today's society and say that that is the essence of what literal interpretation means. There has to be a way to make what Paul taught about hats and make that understandable for today, which is all I meant by saying "relevant for today". But I doubt you will be open or listen or see anymore, I hope you will, I really do, because you have not understood anything yet, you have taken what you know about others who have used the words "relevant to today" and decided I mean what they mean and I do not! Tam |