Where Do People Get that 'God Wants to Tell Us' the Things We Read in The Bible?
@mythociate (21437)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
August 4, 2020 1:27pm CST
I hope you can see the contradictory idea there.
I think The Bible is 'man's written understanding of "what must be God's will because no one successfully proves it wrong" (e.g. it was God's will that the Earth was a flat circle, until we proved that God's will is for Earth to be a spheroid).
But Shepherd's Chapel's late Pastor Arnold Murray insists that--because the title "Revelation" means 'uncovering' in the Greek--it means 'God wants us to know the things written in that book.'
Or does it mean more 'these are things that God hides from most people but -that God revealed to the writer alone (and--I suppose--to any who read the writer's message & hear God's current voice about it)"?
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@VoiceofTruth7 (1121)
• United States
4 Aug 20
I am a Christian and I believe that the Bible is Gods Holy Word I believe That Through The Power of the Holy Spirit He Used People like you and I to Write Down Exactly what he was saying so that we have a blueprint to live by on earth.
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@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
6 Aug 20
Oh really?
Aren't things God reveals supposed to be kept private? Romans 14:22
Bible > Romans > Chapter 14 > Verse 22? Romans 14:22 ? SUM PIC XRF DEV STU Verse (Click for Chapter)New International VersionSo whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himsel
@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
6 Aug 20
SURRRE it didn't. Because now it's popular "wisdom" that circles are 3-D spheres. but ... Draw a circle on a piece of paper; the circle is round, the paper's still flat. (Although the original word also translates to "horizon" and (for some reason) "vault") https://biblehub.com/hebrew/2329.htm
And I know that science-minded people in ancient history knew that the Earth was not flat (because of the different-sized shadows of same-sized objects), but that doesn't make the circle any more-spherical.
People 'weave' meanings into The Bible like that all the time ... some other ones on my mind include 'the idea that The Bible says there'll be a Rapture' (based on the 'hopeful' re-interpretation of 1 Thessalonians 4:17)
... or 'the idea that God "does" evil things' (like 'harden Pharoah's heart' or 'spread a pandemic' etc. ... when a lot of this stems from the fact that the Hebrew language didn't have passive forms of the verbs---God "did those things" the same way the President "takes- or loses-citizens' jobs" or the owner of the fast-food restaurant "cooks the burgers" ... i.e. not 'actively' or 'personally,' but they happened 'under his authority.')
Bible > Isaiah > Chapter 40 > Verse 22? Isaiah 40:22 ? SUM PIC XRF DEV STU Verse (Click for Chapter)New International VersionHe sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like
@kanuck1 (4394)
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6 Aug 20
@mythociate I found other interesting references about Isaiah 40:22. Apparently, the Hebrew word translated circle in most bibles can also be translated as sphere according to a Concordance of the Hebrew and Chaldee Scriptures by B. Davidson. The Scoffeld Reference Bible says about Isaiah 40:22 in a marginal note: “A remarkable reference to the sphericity of the earth.” Moffatt’s translation reads: “He sits over the round earth” and the Catholic Douay Version says “It is he that sitteth upon the globe of the earth.”
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@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
6 Aug 20
@mythociate for more about 'the false doctrine of The Rapture'
https://www.ucg.org/world-news-and-prophecy/the-rapture-a-popular-but-false-doctrine
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