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NASB | Jude 1:3 ¶ Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Jude 1:3 ¶ Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I was compelled to write to you [urgently] appealing that you fight strenuously for [the defense of] the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints [the faith that is the sum of Christian belief that was given verbally to believers]. |
Subject: What do we believe? |
Bible Note: Aixen7z4 In the past people didn't read the Bible because they couldn't they were illiterate. Today people don't read the Bible because they are lazy. In the past the problem was dealt with in a various ways and I think they need to be reinvestigated as I believe they will work today. People are hungry for Biblical truths look at the response to the movies the Passion today or Ten Commandments in past. However as most know these movies fail to provide true Biblical accounts. “Hollywood liberties” are taken to make them more exciting or believable. In the times past to teach people the gospel men and women wrote hymns that told gospel truths. Today we sing songs that make us feel better. we need to begin writing and singing songs once again that are doctrinally sound and are filled with Biblical truths. Another way is the one that brought us to this point. Creeds and doctrinal statements. Once again the church needs to make it a practice to recite the creeds and/or doctrinal statements that teach, reinforce and cause people to memorize by rote repetition scriptural truths. Lastly preaching needs to change from the just trying to draw large congregations through eloquent dissertations designed to entertain and impress and get back to preaching that teaches biblical truths. Lastly the church needs to call sin, sin. We have so marginalized sin in a effort not to offend we have actually opened the door to sin. We talk about relative truth and situational ethics but we offer no cure. People actually long for exacting standards but they want them only when they are universally applied to everyone. That is not to say they won’t rebel from time to time but they accept being drawn back in. EdB |