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NASB | 2 Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God's truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold, |
Bible Question: Does anyone have an opinion on the devinci code book? What impact do you think it will have on believers? |
Bible Answer: godiou ::: In the history of literature and letters there has always been a dichotomy between fact and fiction, and until fairly recently human beings have had little difficulty in drawing a clear distinction between the two. But a phenomenon has emerged among the reading public in this age of post-modernism in that some of them in certain instances appear quite willing to accept fiction as fact and fact as fiction. I personally know a couple of quite intelligent people who are more willing by far to accept the outlandish fictional claims of "The Da Vinci Code" as fact than they are the facts of the Bible, most of which they consider myths and folk tales: pure fiction. ..... By any measure "The Da Vinci Code" is literary trash, but it at least has one redeeming quality: the author is honest enough to admit that it is fiction. This makes it less pernicious than the bulk of "religious" junk books being published today which are no less fictional and no more reliable than "The Da Vinci Code," but they claim to be, in some form or another, a "guide" book for the Christian to help him to lead a closer, fuller, more meaningful life in Christ. I browsed the religious-book section of a large bookstore the other day. I was flabbergasted by the sheer number of dumbed-down, superficial books on their shelves. Besides the many "Jabez" books (there have been so many sequels to the original "Prayer of Jabez" that they took up a whole shelf in the bookstore), there was a book with the featherbrained title, "The Original Bible-Based Weight Loss Plan." We can only hope that the original will not be fruitful and multiply, giving birth to a series of sequels! I was saddened to see that in this bookstore's religious section so many man-centered "religious" books and so few God-centered books. Of the former I am talking about the name-it-and-claim it variety, the easy-believe-ism variety, and the positive thinking variety, such as Robert Schuller, Joel Osteen and Joyce Meyer write. I would like to see on the shelves more books of the God-centered variety, such as John MacArthur, Ravi Zacharias, and Norman Geisler write. ..... What impact do bad books have on believers? Well, the best way to prevent the absorption of any adverse effects from a bad book is the same way that one protects his innards from absorbing tainted victuals: avoid them. Our minds are no more immune to the harmful effects of bad books than our intestines to bad food. Philippians 4:8 tells us what we are to dwell on, what we are to nourish our soul with, and what will keep our spirit attuned to God. --Hank |