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NASB | Judges 8:23 But Gideon said to them, "I will not rule over you, nor shall my son rule over you; the LORD shall rule over you." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Judges 8:23 But Gideon said to them, "I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the LORD shall rule over you." |
Subject: Example of the definition of insanity |
Bible Note: phand :: Distinctly I remember reading many years ago as a very young Christian of the foolishness of God's people in Old Testament times: how they turned from worship of God to idols, how they yearned to be like the pagan nations around them, and of how rapidly they forgot what God had done for them. And I marveled at how anyone could be so dim-witted and short-sighted as those people were in ancient times. We've certainly come a long way since then, I reasoned, and no one today worships golden calves and all that sort of thing today. We're much too civilized, too educated, too smart, too sophisticated to do dumb things like that. Looking backward upon my early years, I now realize how very naive I was. Man sins as grievously today as he did then. He hasn't invented any new sins. With modern technology he has learned how to sin in new "space-age" ways perhaps, but sin is still sin, isn't it? We have our own versions of the golden calf, and idolatry is idolatry whether its object is a golden calf or lusting after fame or power or money -- anything whatever that man allows to come between him and God. The world still lures us and we want to be part of the action. And how easily we forget -- or don't care -- what Jesus did for us on the cross. ..... To think that man is becoming better and better, to believe that he is somehow on an evolutionary path that eventually will take him to perfection is nothing short of self-deception. As you say, "Sinful nature is sinful nature." And as the Scripture says, "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23). And it says also that there is salvation in no other but Jesus Christ, for there is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved (see Acts 4:10-12). .... By the way, welcome to Study Bible Forum. It's good to have you with us! --Hank |