Posted on 01/12/2019 1:22:02 PM PST by pcottraux
On one hand, you DO believe the Bible, or the scripture, “is extremely clear that Jesus is the Word of God.”
Just the “scriptures,” like John 1:1, 14, which are about Jesus the Word of God, and are indeed extremely clear, but not on other subjects in the Bible?
Sounds like you are extremely picky with the Bible. If the Bible is extremely clear on one subject, it can surely be so about other subjects.
Eye of the needle was a small gate in Jerusalem, a man would have to be low to go through, a camel could do it, but very difficult, it would have to essentially crawl.
Without the holy spirit, the bible is words on a page.
God is perfect. He cannot cease to be perfect. in fact the Jews had a word for Him that was “sadiq” which doesn’t just mean perfect but “bullseye, right down the middle, dead center, nothing but net” perfect.
God is sadiq. His Word is sadiq. However those who *translate* His Word can be imperfect. The amazing thing about the Bible is not how many errors there are in the many manuscripts unearthed in the early centuries but how *few* errors there are in those manuscripts. It was important to the people making the copies that there be no mistakes.
I believe we can have full confidence that the Holy Bible we have today is God’s inerrant Word and should anyone question the accuracy, consult the Hebrew and Greek texts that they came from.
The Hebrew word is ‘tisa’ (tav shin alef) which does indeed mean ‘take’ as in ‘take an oath’.
Jesus is the Word. The Bible contains God's words. Big difference.
In a word: NO.
Can the word of God contain errors?
In a word: NO.
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To more fully expand on that
Nope. It can not.
+1.
Those of us who read and love God’s Word KNOW it is from Him. Scripture is utterly amazing and life-giving and life-changing because it is communicated by His Spirit.
It is pure Fantaslyand to imagine knowing God without it. He has been having men, guided by the Spirit, WRITE DOWN His words for millennia. They did so and He preserved it. The unsearchable riches of Christ are shared there.
Scoffers need nothing but the flimsiest unbelief to denigrate them, while imagining they know the Author in a higher way. “I see God in my dog/kids/garden/beer/etc.!” Liars. All of that can be shaken, and will be. They need to move from unbelief to faith and discover what cannot be shaken, God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!
Meanwhile, you can bet they’re hanging on every WORD coming from the father of lies through: TV, the movies, the books the websites, the music, the air whooshing through their heads.
Well and truly stated. O er the decades I have used a measuring rod with those who claim they were just born again: do they have a hunger for the Scriptures, for in them they hear their Father, by His Spirit.
This is a dangerous question - not in itself necessarily, but because it was under the auspices of this kind of question that Marxist/Frankfurt-style Higher Criticism took control of Theology.
That in turn gave rise to the search for the best (meaning apparently oldest) manuscripts, ignoring all else, in turn yielding the rejection of the Received Text in favor of the Westcott-Hort previously-rejected texts.
Not Jerusalem, damascus.
Still no proof that my comment about rope isn’t the truth
Left the Lord out of my comment
That should have some bearing on the answer to the question.
Did I mess up the cities? Dang.
My comment on the gate goes back a long ways. My friend’s dad was a pastor and talked about it.
Could that still mean then not to make a bad promise in God’s name. Which contextually could still be using God’s name to do evil. Otherwise, it could still mean we should never take and oath of office with ‘so help me God’. Then again.... consider the warning not to take a phony oath using God’s name to do evil, as is with politicians. I still contend it is more than just about swearing.
The Jewish practice is very broad and not limited to false oaths. I was just noting the exact translation.
A satanic question. SAME thing the serpent said to Eve to throw her off.
But people will ask, so it's the duty of Christians to be prepared with a solid answer. So this blog is my heavily researched response.
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