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However not in context of my reply.
God bless
He took of the twain and made 1 new man....Which is our new innerman the H.G. that new Creature...our new hearts etc
By my spirit saith the lord....Which is that New Covenant....The letter is a killer but its the spirit that is a life giving force....Our husband is a living being which is the gift of God the H.G.....Not the bible which is paper and ink...The letter.....We do not wanna be married to paper and ink but to spirit and life....We cannot bring forth fruit unto God by reading a bible....Its gona come via the seed of our husband which is a living seed...Thats y he has to know us.
Christ is the author of the whole Bible. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we behold his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." John 1:1,14
"Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Spirit" 2 Peter 1:21
Christ spoke in parables, earthly stories with a heavenly meaning. "But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples." Mark 4:34
We compare spiritual with spiritual. "Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual." 1 Corinthians 2:13
The historical-grammatical method of interpretation employed by the churches seeks to discover the writer's intended meaning, and thus fails to recognize that God is the author and that we are to compare spiritual things with spiritual to discover the underlying gospel message.
Moreover, the churches fail to recognize that as we approach the end of the world, where we are today, God is unsealing truths that have been kept sealed until the time of the end ( Daniel 12:9-10). This is spoken of in the Bible as a vision that will speak at the end and not lie.
"And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand."
"And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry." Habakkuk 2:2-3
So when someone comes to God in faith and He Himself will complete the fermentation.
In Romans 1 chapter there is much good. First, Paul thanks the Lord. So he says in romans 1:16-17. The gospel has the power of God unto salvation FOR EVERY ONE WHO BELIEVES.
After it comes a lot of things we christians can do. Here we got a Pattern of What These Christians Are and what we not going to do!
Wicked Christians Do This Things.
Stand strong in the word of God, He will do the work. And He needs ppl like u and me who dare to speak the truth.
Romans 1 chapter. Love u in Christ.
I agree with GiGi it does not mean Dispensationalism. This is my understanding and may others give theirs. Studying the Bible is not always easy, sometimes the meaning of a passage seems clear and others we can spend hours and it still is not clear. First, I will say pray that the Holy Spirit to lead and guide you and then clear your mind of all preconceived ideas you have.
You may notice some parts of the New Testament are capital letters, these are quotes from the Old Testament. Go back and read those from the Old Testament and the whole chapter maybe the one before and the one after to get the full context. Like what Jesus said on the cross, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me", Matt. 27:46, this is a quote from Psalms 22:1.
At first, it may seem Jesus doubts God feeling He has forsaken Him but if we go back and read this Psalm, we can get a better understanding of what Jesus was saying, we see the connection between His crucifixion and this Psalm that was written long before. Same with the other quotes from the OT we should go back and study those quotes they are there for a reason.
In Luke 14:26, the word hate is the Greek word miseo it does not mean hate as we use it today as an emotional feeling it has a meaning of action, to do we love more we choose which centers on moral choice, elevating one over another.
Just a couple of examples of my understanding of the meaning of 2 Timothy 2:15 I hope this helps, If we do not clear our minds of all we hear and what we think we cannot hear the truth from the Spirit of truth.
God bless,
RLW
1) STUDY TO SHEW THYSELF APPROVED UNTO GOD. That's studying scripture as your primary.
Not man's doctrinal biblical history.
2) RIGHTLY ( DIVIDING ) THE WORD OF TRUTH. Take all 66 books and let them synchronize and divide them self.
Note: All scripture is to you for your learning and some as example but all scripture is NOT for you.
Scripture should not be taken out of context nor twisted to say what we would like it to say,
God's message to us is unified as a whole which unveils the nature and character of God and the devastating effects of sin.
This is seen throughout the Word.
The message spans from creation to the eternal ages to come.
It declares God's wider plan of salvation and Identifies the enemy of the faith. "Satan".
But it also distinguishes between many important concepts and periods of time.
For instance, being saved must be differentiated from growing in the Christian life.
AND!!
Passages that were specifically written to Israel should not be confused with those that were written to the Church. Example; Was the Church exiled? Will the Church be re-gathered? No that's Israel!
Literal passages must not be twisted into spiritual passages, and vice versa.
Scripture is its own interpreter, and the Holy Spirit should be the teacher of the believer.
I hope this helps.
God bless.
Good topic for discussion. We all need to be aware and wise-testing what people say against Scripture; asking the Holy Spirit to guide us , and turning away from preachers and teachers who promote error.
There are many great pastors, teachers and evangelists in our day. We can be thankful that we have the opportunity to be present to hear them preach and teach or read their teaching the internet. We can learn a lot from them. But we still cannot put blind faith in anyone as a teacher. We need to be as the Bereans, testing all that was spoken by Paul and other disciples against wheat the Scriptures (OT) says. WE have both the NT and OT to use to test what is being taught or promulgated. So we are to beware of false teachers.
We also are to have compassion and concern for someone who teaches or holds to ideas that are false doctrine. We are to re-teach them with gentleness from the Scriptures in language styles they can understand. We are to attempt to reach them with truth and pray for them to receive the loving correction we offer them. If they refuse to consider what we say, then we have to let them go their way, while we tuck their need firmly in our "prayer box" in our minds and hearts to not give up on praying for them. God gave us an opportunity to bring correction to someone else (no matter the doctrine) not only for us to correct them, but to care about them and not easily discard them by the wayside when they do not heed what we say. Who knows-maybe they will come back around to us again asking for the same information again at a time when they are ready to reconsider their belief.
I am thankful for all the people who helped me with theological questions or corrected me when my doctrine on a topic was not quite pure in the sense that there were still nuances that needed to be straightened out.
You have posed several different questions here in your post. I will speak to your first question regarding 2 Tim. 2:15. This verse is NOT speaking of Dispensationalism. It is not talking about the way Dispensationalists divide up the Scriptures. This was NOT the understanding of this verse before John Nelson Darby and the early Dispensationalists in the 1800's began to interpret it in a Dispensational way so that it would fit with their newly developed theological approach to Scripture called Dispensational Premillennialism.
For the most part, this verse is speaking of studying the Scriptures:
* carefully and prayerfully,
*being teachable and learning from those the holy Spirit has placed in our lives to guide us in our spiritual growth,
*being "tight" as to how we interpret the Scripture by not bringing in wild and sensational interpretations of a verse by inserting things that are not really spoken of in the context of the verse. (This is adding to Scripture)
*and as a "workman" (preacher, teacher as Timothy was) be careful to (rightly divide), that is -preach and teach from the Scriptures with fidelity and faithfulness to the context, genre, wording, and authority of the Scriptures because others are depending on you doing so as a leader.
This verse has NOTHING to do with Dispensational theology. It has nothing to do with dividing the Scriptures up into dispensations and/or designating some Scriptures being to/for the Jews and other Scripture being strictly to/for the Church. To think that this verse DOES teach these ideas of Dispensationalism is to overlay a set viewpoint onto Scriptures to make it mean what it was never intended to mean. Dispensationalism DOES NOT rightly divide this particular Scripture and should not be taught to mean so by them. It is false teaching.
I do agree that it is only through the blood and sacrifice and perfect life of Jesus that we are saved. But the Bible also says that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. ( Romans 10:13-17) Paul said that he is not ashamed of the Gospel for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth. ( Romans 1:26) So we are to know what the Gospel is and we are to share the Gospel with others. We are to study the Scriptures to show ourselves approved of God ( 2 Tim. 2:15) It is important to trust fully in the work of God in Christ for our salvation, be are to grow in grace and knowledge of Jesus. We find knowledge of Him in the written word-the Bible.
Dear Alex, your postings seem to denigrate the value and holiness of the Scriptures and in a way defames them. I know that you offend refer to multiple Scripture texts in most of your posts. So when you speak against the Scriptures you are sending a confusing message-on the one hand you seem to think that citing Scripture is important for the promotion of your point of view -and on the other hand you denounce the Scriptures.
So, I think that you can make your point in a way that does not slander the Scriptures. Please consider finding out how to do that in your posts. David is right. The Scriptures are our authority, not people's feelings, dreams, visions, "prophecies", or rational reasoning. I know that you value the Word, Alex, but in recent posts your wording sounds like you don't.
The crucifix (which you described with an icon of Jesus on it) is a symbol that commemorates His great and holy sacrifice for us. So, for some, this is a graphic reminder. For others of us, a simple cross without the icon of Jesus reminds us of the same thing.
If we allow ourselves one of these similar icons, we cannot condemn the other, because both are icons.
For me, I prefer to not wear any icons like these, not because I am opposed to either one, but because I know that Jesus died AND ROSE for us. The cross was not the end of His saving work for us. It was followed by a triumphant resurrection that defied all natural laws and the thinking of the evil ones. It reminds us that we, too, have a resurrection ahead for us.
But each person can decide in their own hearts what things to use to commemorate the work and life of our Lord.
It is a matter of Christian liberty for the most part and yet we should not let our liberty lead anyone else against their conscience. So for me, being well aware of the commandment to not make any graven images, then I refrain from having them around my neck or in my home so as not to cause offense to a weaker brother. But I am not offended by these things because they are not an object of worship on my part. Even so, I prefer to leave them out of my life.
So glad all went well with taking down that tree. Thanks for the update and may your days ahead be blessed in manifold ways.
Matthew 7:16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
If one is not barring fruit and you are not sure by his doctrine he's probably a worker of the flesh.
You will notice the absence of "love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance in him.
FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT AND WORKS OF THE FLESH.
See; Galatians 5:19-21.
Here's a few of the Characteristics I picked out of the list that has similar properties of one lacking the Spirit.
* Variance = contention debate strife variance.
* Strife = Contentious.
* Sedition = division sedition, "Perhaps one who brings an uproar with the intent to divide against.
LAST BUT NOT LEAST HERESIES.
( Probably is the cause of the previous three mentioned.)
*Heresies = properly a choice that is (specifically) a party or (abstractly) disunion . (heresy is the Greek word itself.) the formal denial or doubt of a core doctrine of the Christian faith as defined by one or more of the Christian churches.
If we bring such accusation as this on someone do we thrive with such a person?
Here's a few principle scriptures.
Titus 3:9-11.
2 Peter 1:10.
Galatians 1:8-9.
God bless.
It seems that you think God is somehow COMMUNICATING to mankind OUTSIDE of the Bible in our day. And that there are parts of the Bible that may not be speaking to us today. If so, we have a very DIFFERENT AUTHORITY upon which to base what we understand and believe about anything God would want to teach us. This includes things like the Condition of Mankind, the Nature of God's Judgement for sin, the Nature of God's Salvation Program. And even what God would choose to reveal to us about the Nature and Glory of God Himself, which our finite minds cannot only begin to grasp.
My authority is The THE BIBLE ALONE AND IN ITS ENTIRITY. And I would not want to listen to anyone that has a WIDER or NARROWER authority than the Bible regarding anything that touches on spiritual things.
God does not strike us down immediately if we insist on having a different authority than the Bible. But He does warn us that there are severe consequences if we continue to do so. Rev 22:18,19 is very clear about that.
God declares in the Bible that Salvation is 100% the Work of God Himself. And that our works (i.e. our obedience to the Law of God) cannot contribute to our Salvation in anyway whatsoever. However, once God has saved us (i.e. God has given us our brand new Resurrected Soul) we have become Born Again, and we will have an earnest and ongoing desire to be obedient to the Law of God as He reveals truth to us from His Word, the Bible. God then assures us that we are His Child. This is the same Salvation that God proclaims throughout the Bible and that He applies, throughout time, to all of those whom He saves and for whose sins Christ has paid the full penalty required by the Law of God.
Wonderfully, God is still saving during our day. Like the Ninevites in Jonah 3 that acknowledged their sinfulness, humbled themselves, and cried to God that He might not destroy them, anyone may still cry to God for His Mercy in the very real hope that God might Save them.
In your opinion, should we learn Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic to understand the Bible? Does God intend to have a one Final Bible? I mean God created the KJV as the one true bible since not all people can understand Hebrews, Greek and Aramaic. There are people who can't even fathom KJV without internet, since the internet is very important in researching about the Bible. Also, what about those that reads KJV Bible translation from their mother tongue? For example, my mother is reading a bible that's a local translation.
( 2 Cor. 11:13-15) The word (transformed) is #3345; it means disguise. The word (ministers) is #1249; it means a Christian teacher or pastor. (These verses tell us that Satans ministers will be disquised as Christian teachers and pastors)
( Mt. 24:11,24) The word (false) is #5573; it means mendacious, i.e. (promulgating) (erroneous) Christian doctrine, speaking lies, deceitful, wicked, liar.
The word (prophets) is #5578; it means a spurious prophet, i.e. pretended foreteller or religious imposter, false prophet, untrue, deceitful, liar.
The word (promulgating) means to promote or make widely known.
The word (erroneous) means wrong, incorrect.
(So these ministers of Satan are disquised as Christian teachers and pastors making widely known wrong, incorrect Christian doctrine, speaking lies).
( Mt. 7:15) These false prophets will come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are (ravening) wolves.
The words (false) and (prophets) have the same meaning as above.
The word (ravening) is #727; from #726, rapacious, extortion, ravening.
now #726; the Greek word "harpazo" is the pre-tribulation rapture word in Greek meaning; to seize, catch (away, up) pluck, pull, take (by force).
These words (ravening wolves) who come in sheep's clothing has a connect to the (pre-tribulation) rapture and promoting widely known, wrong incorrect Christian doctrine.
The word (deceive) in the verses ( Mt. 24:11,24) is #4105; it means to (cause to) roam (from safety, truth, or virtue) go astray, err, seduce, be out of the way.
((These false prophets will cause many to roam from the truth))
This is not my opinion, but it is Scripture.
( Mt. 24:4)
Truth matters.
Here are a few verses that pre-tribulation rapture believers use to prove a pre-tribulation rapture.
( 1 Thessalonians. 4:15-17) There are 3 things to look at in these verses.
(1) v16 says "with the ((trump)) of God. (a trumpet sounds)
(2) v17 says "we shall be caught up to meet the Lord ((in the clouds)) (The Lord comes in the clouds)
(3) v17 also says "we shall be caught up ((together)) with them" (There is a gathering together)
Now a look at ( Mt. 24:29-31)
(1) v31 Tells us "a great sound of ((a trumpet))"
(2) v30 Tells us "and they shall see the Son of man ((coming in the clouds))"
(3) v31 Tells us "they shall ((gather together)) his elect".
(4) v29 Tells us when this happens "Immediately ((after)) the tribulation"
There is no pre-tribulation rapture mentioned anywhere in the Bible.
The Lord comes (in the clouds) with a great (sound of a trumpet) to (gather together) His elect
"Immediately after the tribulation".
Not before!
David there are zillions of bibles in this world but this world is in deep darkness....Thats y God wanted a New Covenant by the blood of Jesus the living WORD... John 5:39 Search the scriptures ( written words ) in them you think you have eternal life but it is them that testify of me...Which is the H.G. the living word a living being the Gift of God....The bible the written word is not the gift of God. only Christ is that GIFT..