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sin or of Salvation it doesn't work that way either our Old Testament is not the same as the order of the Hebrew old testament which actually ends with
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Chronicles um you may also be aware that our first and 2 Samuel are actually first and 2 Kings and our first and second Kings are Al actually third and
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fourth Kings okay so you know that just shows that the order of the books is not sacred uh I I don't frankly know off the
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top of my head where that order came from in in our Bibles the gospels are generally to have agreed to have been written much later than the Epistles so um in fact the earliest
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epistle may be the the letter of James so you know we have we think the gospels are right at the beginning you know and the New Testament that's what Jesus did but they were actually WR written later
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in the first century as far as we can tell so the order of our Bible is not sacred therefore reading it in that order there there's nothing sacred about that as well so
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what I want to do is I want to approach the Bible um here's a quote that is a is a paraphrase of of something that Socrates is alleged to have said and by the way everything Socrates said is
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alleged um because he never wrote anything down um but he he said an unexamined life is not worth living um an unexamined Bible is not worth
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reading uh I would take I would take this a little bit further and say that an unexamined unexamined Bible is dangerous reading okay it is very easy
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to to take the scripture from a perspective of perspective of one's earnestly felt religion and turn it into a violent instrument of of
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hatred or of heresy so the Bible is not something to be toyed with um one of one
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of the Lord's um most stinging rebukes of the false prophets of Israel was basically saying how dare you take my
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words upon your lips and I think that that stands eternally as a warning of anyone who would preach or teach or or really just quote scripture how dare you
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flippantly or flippantly or self-interestedly take my word upon your lips so the approach to the scriptures of course is very important as to the attitude that we have in studying it
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what what do you think it is uh and so that's where I'm going to begin what
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Bible and I begin here because I think modern think modern Christians think think they know the answer or they've been told what the answer is in um solid Orthodox doctrinal
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terms for example we have that it is the uh inherent word of God it is without error in the autographs or in the originals that's part of many uh
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statements of faith of of individual congregations that we believe that the Bible is the inherent word of God it has no errors it is infallible means it has no uh no f falness no no error at all um
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but even in that statement we acknowledge that its inherency is in the originals which we don't have we all acknowledge that what we have are copies
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of manuscripts that have been compared to one another over the years and there are some discrepancies so oh so that uh we can be challenged on that claim that
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it is the word of God by un Believers and by liberal Believers on the basis of the fact that there is not one uniform manuscript okay it was not is not
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presented to us on plates of gold in reformed Egyptian um as the Book of Mormon was supposedly was but uh it's been given to us down through the ages in Papyrus and
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uh codexes codices and there are differences add also not handed down an all at in the Quan
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righton FAL religions they seem to have very yeah very tight yeah that's a very good point um that that false religions have a very tight um uh line to their
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Authority that the the Revelation is given to One Man by one Angel all at one time now not not the Bible you know holy men moved of God wrote uh um as God
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directed them over the course of some 1500 years so and all these documents have have come together uh also we've talked about this in our our hermeneutics class there there never was
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a time either for the Old Testament or the New the New Testament when Believers came together and said in out this book's in this book's out the idea that in ad90 there
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was a council of Jamia of Jewish rabbis who came together and said this is our Old Testament that never happened that that's historical that's Legend okay there was a meeting there but it by no
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means first of all represented all of Judaism and secondly it didn't come up with an authoritative Cannon neither did the Council of NAIA in ad 325 it simply recognized those books
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that had already been recognized for several hundred years as being canonical so this thing is it's the closest thing to an actual living organism that that a
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document could be that that it has grown together into what has been widely recognized as the Christian scriptures or the Hebrew scriptures for thousands
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of years however because there is no single Angel speaking to one single Prophet this is another area where unbelievers can attack and liberal
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Believers can say well you know it can't be inherent because there are discrepancies between this book and that book the reign of this King in this book is not the same as the reign of the same
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King in this other book and and therefore obviously it it can't be inherent and I'd love to be able to go into all into all those difficulties but I think that's beyond the scope of of what we're doing
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here that's more of a hermen hermeneutics class U so what is the Bible well again we say it's the inherent word of God without error in
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us this leads us to the reality that many of you have in your English Bibles of the marginal notes and any of you been disturbed by reading a passage and then seeing a little footnote and going down to the
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bottom of your of your page and saying some manuscripts say or some manuscripts don't even have this passage that's disturbing especially for young believers right because they're being
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told this is the inherent word of God which is with it or without it now the approach that some Churches have taken is they have they have sacralized a
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particular version of the Bible now we're all familiar with King James only view but that's not much different than the New American Standard only view okay when you know when all
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your Pew bibles are the same version and all your pastoral staff use the same version you're ESS you're essentially a version only church and sure that gets
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through a lot of things because we just go with the version that we think Paul used okay um but that doesn't get around I
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mean that just doesn't cut it and it's not cutting it um there's a there's there's I don't know where the word is ironic an interesting thing going
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on in the midst of increasing functional illiteracy within our
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society in some segments of the church there is actually increasing biblical literacy it's almost like a small revival going on within evangelicalism where people are actually starting to read their own Bibles again
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and they're starting to notice and to question well why why I mean Mark's going to deal with this eventually you know why is so much of Mark 16 is it 16
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16 why is it bracketed okay can't I pick up that snake or can I you know what what does Mark tell me um and and that's something
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we have to deal with as Believers so we do believe that it is the inherent word of God but my point is that doesn't necessarily help us know how to study it
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okay because of the of the um historical realities of manuscripts um we know that the scripture says it is living and
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active sharper than any two-edged sword but this actually speaks to its effects not what it is and and those um uh this the silly Christian art that
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tries to turn biblical metaphor into actual literal um that's that's not how to read the Bible it it's it's not a sword at least
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not a sword in the same sense as a physical military weapon so when we read in Romans 13 that the civil magistrate has a sword in his hand that's a
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completely different sword than we read in Ephesians 6 the sword of the spirit which is the word of God okay although honestly many times the church has not
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discerned the difference between the two and has used this more as an offensive weapon because it's a sword okay so I'm going to slice you with it um that's not
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what the metaphor means but the point then again is this is this speaks to the
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effect not the essential uh being of the word it doesn't really answer the
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question what is the Bible and and I mentioned already that we we believe as Peter says that
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God this means the Bible is to us a communication it's it's a communication from God we call it a self-disclosure or Revelation so I think we're getting a little bit closer to its identity um it
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man so it's divine revelation and this is another area of
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confusion it's divine revelation but it's mediated through
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agency Yuri if it's the word of God translated well it doesn't matter if it's a it's a simple translation as as the person understands the word of it should be it
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should do it job like I for example I went to a church that used Nas and I use ni because it's easier for me to read and theer was just
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translating the nas into na was what he his translation okay I I I I think get your point and I agree with it
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I'm going to restate it uh that the the argument over versions and translations is somewhat pedantic and and and unbeneficial um there are better and
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there are worse we have I think I don't want to just say they're all fine because they're they're not all fine some of them are are downright I mean for example the septu agent the Greek
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translation of the Hebrew Old Testament is recognized widely and perhaps universally by Hebrew Scholars both Jewish and Christian as a lousy translation it was done quickly under
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the orders of of the the the rulers of Egypt um to put it in their library and it was done rather poorly just question
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we got our jering of theate based on the agend okay all right so great we got an error from an error um so uh our order
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came from the vgate which came from subagent and the subagent is is not a good translation um the the translation that that we have whether you may have
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noticed that we don't establish a a constant or a conformist attitude towards the translation you use okay we don't necessarily use the same one um I
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will say however this is a side note coming out of Yuri's question um we talked about we will talk probably in and out through the last few weeks of this discussion about the training for
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the eldership and the question of course do you need to go to Seminary and the answer was no you do not need to go to Seminary however it seems to me that there needs
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to be a functional understanding of the biblical languages within the Teaching Ministry of the of the congregation if there is not then that
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congregation um must become dependent on outside input whether it be commentaries or a particular teacher that the pastor likes to follow you're you're you're not
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actually studying the Bible just from the English okay now I won't say that it's critical but over time the lack of
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knowledge of the biblical languages will almost inevitably lead that Cong congregation astray at some point there will be some point of scripture that they will go astray
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simply because they're following a particular translation so on the one hand translations are not vital you don't have to have the the right one I me it's always baffled me um how the
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King James only people for example deal with Believers in Spain but then I realized Spain has its own King James um I can't remember the the name of it
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but yeah the V right or whatever I can't pronounce it but they have their own King James and I guess every I'm sure the Germans have their Luther's Bible um so everybody has their but I don't think
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that's the right approach I don't think we we we don't it's kind of like confessions we don't say oh it's all in here you know it's all in the in the Westminster Confession everything we
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need is here or it's all in the King James Bible we don't need to worry about anything else that's that is not safe everybody okay so you have you have a
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translation that's basically you know it takes the place of the king jamee okay uh and I don't think that's the right approach I think that stifles the Berean
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in us okay but I don't know and I'm not saying that every single believer should know Greek and Hebrew I don't think that I don't think that's reasonable um and
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actually hasn't prevailed in most of the history of the church including the early church but that there be several who do I think is if there's if there's anything that seminaries have to
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offer the languages would be about the most important thing in my opinion do you have a comment yeah I think that that statement would presume the
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availability those they are Ava seems should Avil yeah and they're available now online and um and they're
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also available here I mean we can we can teach Greek and the Greek is more important than the Hebrew because frankly as I said the Hebrew for most of the New Testament writers was
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septuagenarian musp of the Hebrew Bible are much further from the originals in time than the earliest Greek manuscript scripts of the new testament which date some of them within 50 years of the date of writing so the Hebrew Hebrew language
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had kind of fallen out of Vogue and I don't really think that's a problem because the New Testament provides us with divinely inspired commentary on the
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Old Testament so that I don't think Hebrew is the langu I know my Hebrew Professor is probably having fits if he's getting this through the ether but um I don't think it's nearly as
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important as the Greek so a functional knowledge of the Greek is something that should be in the congregation okay um so that's a side
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exactly and and we encounter that a lot in our Bible study we encounter words for example just a simple word um deun which is translated righteousness in some places and justification in
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other places it's the same word the word Soo to save uh it could mean to give Health you know it has multiple meanings in the Greek um and and so we go through
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our our English translations and and I've pointed this out in sermons and on Thursday nights that within the same section you'll have the same Greek word translated by two or three different
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English words English words so someone is doing interpretation for you that's my point when you're reading a a a translation someone has
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done theological interpretation for you you want to minimize that either through Bible study collectively but the the
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more layers there are between you and the text that's basically someone is mediating the revelation of God to you like a bird feeding its young they have
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already digested it and now they're giving it back to you in their form okay you cannot be Berean that way now that
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does again I want to draw a limit around that you don't need to all read from the Greek Testament but I think you need to realize that no matter what translation you're using some level of
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interpretation which means some level of commentary has already gone in to to that translation it's just hidden you don't see don't see it do you think about using Interlinear
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Bibles um they bother my eyesight now I I I use them to kind of cross check my own I could not possibly
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the same thing is true anybody Interlinear Bible uh Interlinear Bible will have all of the um the Hebrew and then the English underneath or if it's
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it maybe the Hebrew the septu and the English all in the same lines okay or there's polyglot where you'll have the English the Latin the Greek you know all
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in different columns um have have you heard of the Amplified Bible okay okay yeah it reminds me of my granddaughter
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filigree like every possible meaning of the word is used okay the polyot Bible is I mean the Amplified Bible is three times larger we don't read or we don't read inter linearly we don't think it
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it's a study tool is what it is it's all it is it should not be your regular reading Bible because it's going to interfere with just the process of reading I think if you can read an
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Interlinear that's fine for me I jump the lines and I'm reading half English half Hebrew and a little bit of Greek and it's confusing Especially since one of them goes the other
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direction my ice meet in the middle so um I've used them yeah uh but they're online now too okay so um you
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know if if there's a particular Hebrew word in Isaiah and the commentator references um Genesis I might pull up the Hebrew Bible online and it's often
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an Interlinear that's so all these tools are online now um that make it so so available to us that we really are remiss if we don't make ourselves um or
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take advantage of that so we have divine revelation mediated through human agency but that doesn't necessar well that also doesn't tell us how to study it you know Paul says study to show yourselves
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approved but as I pointed out a couple weeks ago study note taking for example study is not something that we are naturally attuned to when you say that
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isn't well that's part of the controversy of the human agency that that is what leads us to the debate about what what is biblical inherency the the
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inspiration plenary means every verbal means word so the view is that every single word is inspired my view is not that
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view there's another view that that says this view basically uh it doesn't admit it but it basically says that these holy men were not just moved by God they were
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taken over they became essentially um the the word is amasis they became secretaries or what you robots robots that they just Bas basically you know something else is
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moving their hand the M the words are coming in and they're putting the words on the paper um that that is possible I mean Ezekiel was prevented
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from speaking from speaking but only at that time right okay so that so this is again this does not deny the ability of the Lord to to
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supervene both in action Paul was prevented from going into bethenia by the Holy Spirit or by writing or speaking Ezekiel was forbidden to speak
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okay so was um I mean so was Zacharias John's father you know he was rendered dumb until so we're not saying that that
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you know this is where it gets tricky because if you say that the men were involved it's like you're denying God was involved okay um I think what Peter is teaching is is a different view that
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is called Confluence Confluence is when two streams come streams come together there
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together there is in every individual book of the Bible and even within a an author's own Corpus there is individuality and uniqueness
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that cannot be denied okay if you read Paul's letters then you realize that that they they differ from one another even to the point they they differ
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because of his relationship to the recipients which which is very human because there's only one God of the Philippians and of the Romans and of the
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Corinthians and of the Galatians right and that one God does not have a different mood to the Philippians than to the to the Galatians but Paul
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did in the one he's rejoicing in the other he's in the labors of childbirth that Christ be formed in them again the Romans was a church he hadn't founded and his intention was to visit so his
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attitude comes out in his writings now this bothers people because it thinks we we think that that because humans are Fallen they can they they can do nothing
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but what's what wrong well that's not true okay we we can actually we can actually get 100% on a chemistry test we don't need to be indwelt by the Holy
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Spirit to do so okay we we're sin does not so thoroughly corrupt us that God has to take these men over entirely and make them robots in order to convey his
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Revelation he has not done that the the human element is so patently there even their sins Moses's failures are in
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Moses's history not like Winston Churchill he you know Moses wrote an honest history including his own failures I find it strange that
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dispensationalist who want to read the word of God literally would say that something like Corinthians is for the future Millennium when it's obviously people Church yeah that's one
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of the problems with dispensation hermeneutics is that it fails to realize that the documents that they're taking literally were occasional letters that they were written on an occasion to an
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address a particular occasion to do so with eternal wisdom that applies to similar and other circumstances throughout time but nonetheless there was a particular situation in Corinth
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that Paul was addressing so um this is something that we have to wrestle with how do we allow the human to be um you know for a reformed person
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to use this word cooperating you know with the spirit of God okay no I mean we know right in our Salvation people are holding up crosses
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um garlic thrown at me I would like I would like that that doesn't repel an
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um whenever we introduce the human we think we're introducing error okay um um but that that's not logical that that's not necessary that the human is involved and yet it is
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preserved from error by the spirit of God the revelation of God though is mediated through human agency and that in itself is a very powerful indication
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of what the Bible is or maybe I should say what the Bible isn't it isn't it already isn't it isn't that exactly the
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difference of what we're talking about inspiration is from some other guy writing something Wonderful by the fact that God's agency
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is fully realized in that human effort is that I think that's a fair statement that um God's agency is fully realized in the effort of Paul's writing of
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Romans um as opposed to um Clement's letter to the Corinthian Church okay um we there is a lot that has been
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written that is not wrong just because it was written by an uninspired man or woman um but it you don't have the same
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Authority as you do with the inspired scripture the the truth that is conveyed there originates not in the author's mind but in the mind of God
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I think speak respect his own creation of man
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right image of God so it's almost like God is respecting that yes Ling man and allowing man to take part of
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own I I think that's exactly right I think that the human agency shows that that our God is not the um the god of the deest who who drop or Islam who
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drops a book down on us and says deal with it he he's a God who interacts with the
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creature that he made in his own image okay now this this sometimes sounds Blasphemous and I hope you don't take it that way but the very Act of the
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creation of man expanded the the Trinity now has an image that it interacts with okay so man is a is a
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great concept not as great as God but God has dained to create a being in His image okay and now that image is
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inseparably linked to him and his Holiness either by Grace or by judgment it it is it is an irreparable
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Bond Ain so if you're talking about the inspired nature of the original writers aren't you
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to fur don't you have to acknowled inspiration in the translation I mean isn't it God presing God preses Andes and all that God preserved
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it somebody put it together in one book is is that
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person ARP were is is the preacher inspired the same way that Paul was inspired we would no um how do you do how do you deal with
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that that's that is that that is the person and work of the holy spirit so the answer is
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yes but to the question in the same way the answer is no decided that who decided that who
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decided the body of Christ that that's that is the that that is the intangible almost exotic nature of the church that it is a living
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organism that is consisted of individuals all indwelt by the Holy Spirit but Spirit but the there's not agreement have the
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Catholic Bible there's not well exactly that you're you're right which
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shows that what Paul says in 1 Corinthians 13 that we see now as in a mirror dimly is
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true that's a that is aing studies I mean we're doing studies and the words sometimes aren't in the original we're going as far as doing a word stud and it's to affect meaning of the oring
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ofre I just don't know how we thatp we don't unless it's written in our it is that I guess let me try to
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um part of our not having attained Perfection as Paul puts it is is the vestages of sin that dwell in our members because of that we will not
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attain Unity of Doctrine this side of the new Earth that that our minds are still clouded by Prejudice by
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preconceptions uh and also just simply by unwillingness to actually accept what God's word God's word says there may be fear there may be
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Pride but all of those things are operative within the church because they're operative within every believer and because of that we will have denominations and we will have
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disagreements isn't that error that is error but it may be but we're claiming inherency no I'm not see I'm not
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much trouble I yeah of iny though even that isly debated what does that mean what does it mean what is in there was there's a song on the um if famili with
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the glory revealed has bunch of scriptural sections set to song they're very good but one of the one of the better ones is actually the words of so far in in job and I'm pretty sure he was
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wrong in what he was saying it's a beautiful song it sounds really great but like in the context show up and tell him to shut up
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so should we sing this song should we sing this song let's not I guess it sort of illustrates the issue with whether what you mean by in ercy because how far are you going to
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that how do I put this um because your question is excellent it's something that I've wrestled with for decades um and it and my position is dangerous I'll it's already cost us some
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attendance of our church I'll just say that right up front I do not hold to plenary verbal inspiration I it's I hold the same
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position to that as I do to confessionalism and that is it is a false sense of security and it is simply shortcutting mental activity and that that that's what we
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can that's you believe it it's written you believe it you don't question you believe yeah okay that you've come to the if you believe that you have come to the wrong Church all right is that that I do not see
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that as being first of all biblical secondly that's more dangerous than wrestling with these doctrines okay because I fundamentally
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trust that Those whom the father has given the son he will lose none nothing I can say can take you out of the father's hand now I will be judged for
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what I say but I don't have to rely on any false fence or Security in order to keep you in line that's the holy spirit's job the reason and I have so
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much I have thousands of years of historical evidence of the Holy Spirit fundamentally keeping all of us in line without doing so in such a way as to completely override our own mental
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processes this is what able was saying this shows the loving relationship between God and his children that he has guided Us in the path of righteousness
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for his name's sake but not lock step in line okay so when I look at the scripture I say yeah I I could not stand up and defend the inherency of this bi
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this book but I know it to be true as have millions across the Millennia whose Spirit has testified that this is the word of God whose
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Spirit has testified that we are the children of God it it's not something that we can tangibly put in black and white or that we can logically argue it's something written on the heart
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which is the promise of the New Covenant so at least we can say oh we were told this was going to happen that he was going to write it in our hearts okay but all of these to me are simply attempts
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to control everybody's mind you will tow the line or you will find someplace else and frankly those who wish to tow the
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line do not stay here long okay because what is so sad is to see so many believers who have no desire
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to use their own brains because they are afraid that it will lead them away from Jesus Christ you can't okay I can't lead you
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away from Jesus Jesus Christ if you are in him and if you aren't in him I can't put you there okay there's such there there are limits and so the point being is
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that when we begin to study the Bible and this is exactly where I'm headed so I appreciate these comments we have to actually throw actually throw off all of those things we've been
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told and rely once again as John says you have no need of any to teach you for you have the
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anointing okay now that doesn't mean teachers are not beneficial Christ left them to the church as church as gifts but they're not essential to your
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understanding of the revelation of your father okay so we don't need we don't need the helps of confessions but used correctly they're very helpful okay we
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don't need commentaries but used correctly they're very helpful and we really don't need plary verbal inspiration because that simply makes it harder for us to deal with the obvious
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discrepancies between our own Bibles and within our own Bibles I think we have rest idea is this is the word of God the best
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we can tell but I think that always not don't depend on the Holy Spirit to us like should
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right we think we can go in there we can study this word and find every verse and understand it all our own doing right you don't try to oh yeah because some
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some of my best books are written by unbelievers they are the best technical analysis of the grammar of the Hebrew of the Greek they they compare they show me
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oh this is basically essentially in Romans what Isaiah says you know oh look at that very helpful he these people aren't saved at all you can tell from
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their attitude and what they're and plus you can look them up and say they're that you know they're not Believers but that's not how we study the Bible okay that's how a technician studies the
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Bible and that's another good point we're not going to study the Bible technically although we will use technical AIDS in Bible study so Paul says all things are
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profitable okay or all things are are legal not all things are profitable but those things that are used properly can be profitable but if
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they're used improperly they become idols and they actually they actually prevent knowledge they do not assist
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over when I hear made over ncy what does all this mean I'm thinking yeah a lot of it deols on trying to come up with a unified theory of all scripture which is very
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technical like you said or or on drilling down on exactly these words and if that one turns out not to be the actual correct word whole the whole
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thing falls apart that I was doing and that's overgrazing the ground it's that's what right and that's what commentaries do they do over grads and
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um one of the things that we we do advocate in your own study is that if you do use study AIDs that you make sure you don't use
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them from the same author or even the same denominational or doctrinal perspective um it it is fun for me this is weird
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this is nerdy I know but in Reading commentators of the past you get to witness their little spats okay uh as well so and so says and
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he's obviously just ignoring this passage and then that person says well so and so is ignoring this passage and that's what you're saying is pretty much if we try to reduce the Bible down to a
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formula we have to leave out many passages that work against us even even election has passages
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that are hard to deal with that really sound like Jesus died for everyone okay so even even the doctrines of Grace you you you look up those proof texts but
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that's proof texts are not Bible study because there are so many texts that have been left out because they not only do not prove the concept they seem to
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prove the opposite this this book is truly living and that's why it seems to us as confusing as life
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Yuri the way every I read it it's the LA that if you find your wife at your job basically if you quit your job you have to leave your wife and children with the
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boss where is that oh oh yeah okay slave yeah if you if you are if you are manumitted when you choose to leave your master um then
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your wife and children stay with the master I don't think that applies to your your your job today I think you can take the whole kitten Kaboodle with you and with that
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note let's close in prayer father we do thank you for your word and word and we we ask that we would accept the challenge of the
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bereans that we we would indeed even question Paul though he was an inspired Apostle they they were nobl minded in that they
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did not simply accept his word but rather they went back to your word to study to see that these things are so and yet father when we go to your word
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we we are often lost in The Labyrinth Maze of the different types of writings and even the things that are being
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said so we trust your holy spirit to guide us to the truth because we know he will never lead us to us to error so we pray that you would continue
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to guide us into all the Truth For Your Glory and for our good
