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NASB | 1 John 2:11 But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 John 2:11 But the one who habitually hates (works against) his brother [in Christ] is in [spiritual] darkness and is walking in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes. |
Subject: Worldly Extremes |
Bible Note: Hi, Ed... We do not meet with your approval, that has always been clear. So, all we can do is to define our terms for one another -- or at least, we can explain our terms to you, if not the other way -- just as God through the Prophets did, and Jesus Christ did, and the Apostles did. If our presuppositions are not adequate for your purposes, then that's okay. It won't make the tiniest difference in how you teach, preach, or discuss. You've not been hesitant to put fourth your own many opinions and assumptions. I wonder how Jesus would explain it that stuff? I never quite understand hatred of language. It is odd, though, because God invented labels... and He even holds us responsible for our use of those labels (Matthew 12:3). So it just seems so weird to have people hate nouns so much. Of course, you can demonstrate that perspective by just avoiding them altogether... as if that could be done! J. Gresham Machen described liberalism as, "This temper of mind is hostile to precise definitions. Indeed nothing makes a man more unpopular in the controversies of the present day than an insistence upon definition of terms. . . . Men discourse very eloquently today upon such subjects as God, religion, Christianity, atonement, redemption, faith; but are greatly incensed when they are asked to tell in simple language what they mean by these terms." So, your Spirit Filled love of us will certainly forgive us for trying to use language as precisely as our God and our Lord Jesus and the Apostles have done. We do not find any others providing a better pattern. Someday you will find defining labels as something of benefit in presenting the truth. Perhaps you will emerge from the liberal morass into a far superior way of defining words Biblically. Fundamentalism is within your reach, I do not doubt. I look forward to seeing it, and if I do not see it now, it is probably my own limitation. In Him, Doc |
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