Even Jesus Christ on earth, He was unable to take up His own cross, due to His injuries and tiredness, the Cross is heavy for Him to bear at one time on the journey to Calvary. Another man on the street was called to carry Jesus' cross. This man is called "Simon," (Matthew 27:32), where is that Simon in our Churches today? be a Simon today. Jesus was injured, tired, trapped by the armies, punished for all mankind, fulfilling God's salvation plan.
Another man was carrying His cross! Lord's cross even was carried by a man, what about you? Are you a brother's keeper? Or you are putting extra heavy loads on us?
There is an old pastor I knew, few days ago, he taught his younger elders and pastors and preachers to be quarrelsome, murmuring that the brothers who are reading Chinese Union Version are not spiritual and not wise enough like the KJV readers, so the old pastor continue to pursue the Chinese Bible readers and the pastors. He claimed he had found a perfect copy of Bible from reading the KJV, he said the perfect Bible is hidden under KJV, he said the perfect Bible is the underlying Hebrew and Greek text where the KJV Bible was translated from. This is quite obvious a lie, hard to believe, unless they provide solid proof. But they cannot provide solid proof, and the churches split because of the his theory. They had overlooked the cross Jesus bear for them! They put heavy burden to those who are following Christ. That is why the denomination stopped growing like last time.
Are you a brother's keeper? No, some of us are acting like the robbers who had robbed the man on the way to Jericho, the robbers bitten the man, half death, until the good Samaritan came to rescue and help the poor fellow. (Luke 10:33)
A few minor copy mistake did not defile the whole Holy Bible! The CUV is a Holy Bible! What defile a man? Does CUV defile a man? No! Does CUV carrying the Gospel message? Yes! Does CUV preaches and teaches about Christ, yes!
And the Charismatic on the other hand, pursuing people to speak in tongue, they forgot that the Bible also teaching we must pray with our understanding too. (1 Corinthians 14:15) I wish the Charismatic does not overlooked that the gift of speaking in tongue is only for self edification and uttering mystery! The church needed to hear sermon! The cross of Jesus is our glory!
I pray Conservative and Charismatic churches may reconcile in the Cross of Jesus. Amen. I am undone and a useless man on the way, if I do not take up my cross to follow Jesus. May God have mercy on me.
We pray for unity within the Bible-Presbyterian Church. Calling some of their fundamentalists to repentance. We reprimand Far Eastern Bible College (FEBC) lecturers for teaching heresy and living in lust and pride! ++THIS BLOG HAS STRONG LANGUAGE. Reader discretion is advised++
24.6.09
Thou art the man!
Acts 5:42 (King James Version)
And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ. My dears readers, preaching about what, what did the Apostles preach? Did they teach and preach about these subjects?
Hebrew Bible and its underlying Hebrew text?
Perfect books, scrolls?
Perfect manuscripts?
A plea for a perfect Bible?
Politics?
How to be a good scribe and Pharisee?
A founding pastor's memoir?
Verbal Plenary Preservation?
My self Centred theology?
No, not those things! Every day they teach and preach about who and what? No, they did not teach and preach about those people and those things! They teach and preach about Jesus Christ.
One day, a man called Nathan was sent to a pastor to tell him a story, Nathan said to the pastor, "There is a man, a Christian man in the country, he had taken a young beautiful good wife, but after they got married for few years, they became poor, and the man became violence, and in anger he wanted to kill his wife, the wife was tortured, even though they stayed together he dislikes his wife, and scolded his wife often, and bitten his wife often, he bullies his wife, he hated his wife, he was angry in every way his wife lived, talked and walked, and he was intended to divorce his wife, and he was keeping thousand other women in his heart, and he is looking for another younger woman to replace her. The wife is living in fear and sadness."
The pastor was angry when he heard this from Nathan, and he asked Nathan, "Surely this man deserved to be punish, tell me who is this man, tell me." And Nathan said to the pastor, Thou art the man!
Do you, pastors and theologians, do you loved your church? You as a pastor, you who are theologians, you did not love the church, you had bitten the church with wrong teachings, you had scolded the church with name callings, you had hated the church without reasons, you dislike the church Christ die for, you had split the churches Christ suffered for, you are angry with churches Christ loved with, you had divorce the church with Jesus Christ as the Bride, because you wanted to kill the BP churches. You are the man!"
You did not love the church like Jesus loved His church!
You had replace Jesus Christ with other secondary things!
You had replace Jesus Christ with this Verbal Plenary Preservation!
Do you loved your church?
The old pastor had betrayed the young pastors! He cannot make every one to think and work like him, because every one is unique!
Is there any lie in Verbal Plenary Preservation? Pastors, theologians......listen, "Why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost....(Acts 5:3) .............thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. (Acts 5:4)
Brothers betray brothers! Pastors betray pastors! How cruel this is? How do you feel? You are called to preach about Jesus Christ, teach about Jesus Christ, love your brothers, love your church, love your own wife!
2 Corinthians 4:5 (King James Version)
For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
May the Lord keep us away from those wrongs and errors, those false teachings and false preachings!
And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ. My dears readers, preaching about what, what did the Apostles preach? Did they teach and preach about these subjects?
Hebrew Bible and its underlying Hebrew text?
Perfect books, scrolls?
Perfect manuscripts?
A plea for a perfect Bible?
Politics?
How to be a good scribe and Pharisee?
A founding pastor's memoir?
Verbal Plenary Preservation?
My self Centred theology?
No, not those things! Every day they teach and preach about who and what? No, they did not teach and preach about those people and those things! They teach and preach about Jesus Christ.
One day, a man called Nathan was sent to a pastor to tell him a story, Nathan said to the pastor, "There is a man, a Christian man in the country, he had taken a young beautiful good wife, but after they got married for few years, they became poor, and the man became violence, and in anger he wanted to kill his wife, the wife was tortured, even though they stayed together he dislikes his wife, and scolded his wife often, and bitten his wife often, he bullies his wife, he hated his wife, he was angry in every way his wife lived, talked and walked, and he was intended to divorce his wife, and he was keeping thousand other women in his heart, and he is looking for another younger woman to replace her. The wife is living in fear and sadness."
The pastor was angry when he heard this from Nathan, and he asked Nathan, "Surely this man deserved to be punish, tell me who is this man, tell me." And Nathan said to the pastor, Thou art the man!
Do you, pastors and theologians, do you loved your church? You as a pastor, you who are theologians, you did not love the church, you had bitten the church with wrong teachings, you had scolded the church with name callings, you had hated the church without reasons, you dislike the church Christ die for, you had split the churches Christ suffered for, you are angry with churches Christ loved with, you had divorce the church with Jesus Christ as the Bride, because you wanted to kill the BP churches. You are the man!"
You did not love the church like Jesus loved His church!
You had replace Jesus Christ with other secondary things!
You had replace Jesus Christ with this Verbal Plenary Preservation!
Do you loved your church?
The old pastor had betrayed the young pastors! He cannot make every one to think and work like him, because every one is unique!
Is there any lie in Verbal Plenary Preservation? Pastors, theologians......listen, "Why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost....(Acts 5:3) .............thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. (Acts 5:4)
Brothers betray brothers! Pastors betray pastors! How cruel this is? How do you feel? You are called to preach about Jesus Christ, teach about Jesus Christ, love your brothers, love your church, love your own wife!
2 Corinthians 4:5 (King James Version)
For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
May the Lord keep us away from those wrongs and errors, those false teachings and false preachings!
22.6.09
Hold on the spiritual weapon!
Since the Bible is our only spiritual weapon.
The Bible means a faithful Bible translation like NKJV, KJV, NIV, CUV, ESV....We have no energy to take up this spiritual weapon, because the weapon is too big and too heavy and too difficult for us to hold on, in order for a man to use his only spiritual weapon, he must do one thing!
The key to use the spiritual weapon is prayers!
Ephesians 6:18 And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints.
With all kinds of prayers! He must pray to God, it is after he prayed to God, then God grant him the power to take up the weapon, and then he may use the weapon, and continue to hold on the spiritual weapon.
1 Corinthians 14:15, So what shall I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind; I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my mind.
He must pray with his understanding, ...in between all those prayers, some of them are given the gift to pray in tongue! Pray with my spirit means pray with tongue, an unknown tongue, no one understand what you say, but you pray! It is in the Bible! Do you believe the Bible?
And the tongue is a spiritual gift from God Himself, for man to
1. uttering his mysteries.
1 Corinthians 14:2, For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God. Indeed, no one understands him; he utters mysteries with his spirit.
2. self edification.
1 Corinthians 14:4 He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church.
So pray and read the Bible, prayer must come first, before the scripture. Christ's disciples put the prayers before the scripture in their ministry! First to prayer and then to ministry of the word.
Acts 6:4 But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
Wrong teachings like Verbal Plenary Preservation had broken the unity of the church, in this they had broken the ministry of the prayer and then it will continue to break the ministry of word. There are great dangers ahead for BP churches.
In this moment, I pray to God, in the mighty Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, may the Lord rebuke the disturbers, and I command the spirits from Kerala to be bound and send them back to the places they belong to. In Jesus' Name, amen.
The Bible means a faithful Bible translation like NKJV, KJV, NIV, CUV, ESV....We have no energy to take up this spiritual weapon, because the weapon is too big and too heavy and too difficult for us to hold on, in order for a man to use his only spiritual weapon, he must do one thing!
The key to use the spiritual weapon is prayers!
Ephesians 6:18 And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints.
With all kinds of prayers! He must pray to God, it is after he prayed to God, then God grant him the power to take up the weapon, and then he may use the weapon, and continue to hold on the spiritual weapon.
1 Corinthians 14:15, So what shall I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind; I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my mind.
He must pray with his understanding, ...in between all those prayers, some of them are given the gift to pray in tongue! Pray with my spirit means pray with tongue, an unknown tongue, no one understand what you say, but you pray! It is in the Bible! Do you believe the Bible?
And the tongue is a spiritual gift from God Himself, for man to
1. uttering his mysteries.
1 Corinthians 14:2, For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God. Indeed, no one understands him; he utters mysteries with his spirit.
2. self edification.
1 Corinthians 14:4 He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church.
So pray and read the Bible, prayer must come first, before the scripture. Christ's disciples put the prayers before the scripture in their ministry! First to prayer and then to ministry of the word.
Acts 6:4 But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
Wrong teachings like Verbal Plenary Preservation had broken the unity of the church, in this they had broken the ministry of the prayer and then it will continue to break the ministry of word. There are great dangers ahead for BP churches.
In this moment, I pray to God, in the mighty Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, may the Lord rebuke the disturbers, and I command the spirits from Kerala to be bound and send them back to the places they belong to. In Jesus' Name, amen.
The Bible is
The Bible was written so we could believe in Jesus (John 20:31)
No one is allowed by God to add anything to or take anything away from the Word (Revelation 22:18-19)
The Bible is like a mirror (James 1:23)
The Bible is our only spiritual weapon (Ephesians 6:17), "tongue speaking" is not our spiritual weapon!
The Bible is truth (John 17:17)
The scripture gives us the wisdom that leads to salvation (2 Tim 3:15)
No one is allowed by God to add anything to or take anything away from the Word (Revelation 22:18-19)
The Bible is like a mirror (James 1:23)
The Bible is our only spiritual weapon (Ephesians 6:17), "tongue speaking" is not our spiritual weapon!
The Bible is truth (John 17:17)
The scripture gives us the wisdom that leads to salvation (2 Tim 3:15)
21.6.09
The Bible
The Bible never contradict it self, the Bible gives truth from God, and God never lie to man. We must agree that King James Version is useful to a man, we cannot say KJV is useless, rather we see man sometimes is useless. Useless means unprofitable to the mankind, the Bible even say there are unprofitable servants, Matthew 25:30, Luke 17:10, uselessness in the spiritual sense where man do not worship his creator, but worshipping the created things!
Aren't there are more useless men on earth than King James Bible. It is up to you who must learn how to use KJV bible to make us useful. To have a KJV Bible does not make you to be perfect automatically! It is those who know how to use KJV Bible to edify other that matter in the church, 5 words that can edify that matter, and do not forget that the world outside the church needs a gospel. Stop unprofitable talks and teachings like the VPP in the Bible colleges, Titus 3:9.
Sad to say, there are people misusing minor Bible issues to contradict themselves in living the Christian life in the church. And this is a stumbling block to evangelise the unsaved. At the end of the world, when Christ returns, there are people claiming, "The most interesting thing I wanted to talk to other is about those missing pages, words, letters we had found in KJV, and that is why KJV is the only Bible translation we must trust in and no other."
In other word they are saying, even the natives in the jungle also must learn king and queen English! The theologians who are teaching the Verbal Plenary Preservation is saying to the unlearned natives, "Study queen and king English to show thyself approved unto God!!!!!" (They miss interpret 2 Tim 2;15)
The theologians see me, as seeing a ghost, and they send someone to tell me, "You are a tiger, you must be put into a cage, because you are fierce and dangerous, you are biting people!" So I have another nick name, tiger!
Aren't there are more useless men on earth than King James Bible. It is up to you who must learn how to use KJV bible to make us useful. To have a KJV Bible does not make you to be perfect automatically! It is those who know how to use KJV Bible to edify other that matter in the church, 5 words that can edify that matter, and do not forget that the world outside the church needs a gospel. Stop unprofitable talks and teachings like the VPP in the Bible colleges, Titus 3:9.
Sad to say, there are people misusing minor Bible issues to contradict themselves in living the Christian life in the church. And this is a stumbling block to evangelise the unsaved. At the end of the world, when Christ returns, there are people claiming, "The most interesting thing I wanted to talk to other is about those missing pages, words, letters we had found in KJV, and that is why KJV is the only Bible translation we must trust in and no other."
In other word they are saying, even the natives in the jungle also must learn king and queen English! The theologians who are teaching the Verbal Plenary Preservation is saying to the unlearned natives, "Study queen and king English to show thyself approved unto God!!!!!" (They miss interpret 2 Tim 2;15)
The theologians see me, as seeing a ghost, and they send someone to tell me, "You are a tiger, you must be put into a cage, because you are fierce and dangerous, you are biting people!" So I have another nick name, tiger!
19.6.09
The Bible is Perfect
According to Acts 15:20, these are the rules for the new believers. To keep holy, they are to refrain from taking these physical food and do not do these things. These rule applied on present Christian, in choosing the better and faithful Bible versions,
1. Refrain from reading any Bible offered to the idols, to have nothing to do with idols. worshiping, (1 Corinthians 8:10) This meant we have to choose a Bible version or translation, which is not promoting idols worshiping. Greed is a type of idolatry.
2. Refrain from reading any Bible versions which promoting blood eating, blood is symbol of life, (Leviticus 1:5). This also means we are to refrain from reading any Bible versions which is promoting violence and terrorism, racism, murdering, hatred...communism...
3. Refrain from reading any Bible which promoting people to eat strangled animals, the strangled animals have blood in the body, same with rule number 2.
4. Refrain from reading any Bible version which is promoting sexual immorality. (refer to Leviticus 18), we are abstain from homosexual, adultery, fornication's and premature sex.
After laid down these 4 simple rules in accepting KJV, CUV, NKJV, ESV, NIV, and etc...The question arising next to solve is, what is the word "Bible" means to us? Why we accept KJV and NKJV and CUV and ESV as a Bible?
What is the scope of the Bible?
(a) The Hebrew Bible. We called the Old Testament.
(b) The Greek New Testament.
The autographs, the Greek manuscripts written by the original authors, have not survived. Scholars surmise the original Greek text from the versions that do survive. The three main textual traditions of the Greek New Testament are sometimes called the Alexandrian text-type (generally minimalist), the Byzantine text-type (generally maximalist), and the Western text-type (occasionally wild). Together they comprise most of the ancient manuscripts. (quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible)
(1) The Scope of the Bible Text is:
For the Old Testament is the Masoretic Text. For the New Testament is The Byzantine text, Alexandrian text and Western text, these are the ancient manuscripts which we must accept them, to found out where the Bible verses are.
(2) The translations of the Bible are.
There are many translations, some are closer to the original text, some are not, like the KJV and NIV, they are both consider closer to the original text. Refer to the list of English Bible in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_Bible_translations
When I was still in the primary school, I first read the 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees, after few years, I read some Christian magazines, and then after few years I started to read Chinese Union Bible, and then my first English Bible is NIV, and then KJV, until now, I am reading the Word of God in many other translations.
(3) The Inspiration of the Bible:
I hold the Biblical infallibility perspective, that the Bible is free from error in spiritual and scientific matters. So I believe the Bible is inspired, infallible and inerrancy of the Bible is sure. I believe in 2 Tm 3:16: "All scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness."
(4) The inerrancy of the original Bible:
Some American Protestants adhere to the 1978 Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy which asserted that inspiration applied only to the autographic text of Scripture.
(5) Some copies mistakes do not influence the faithfulness and the structure of the Bible.
(6) The original meanings are mostly found in the Holy Bible in our hands now, 99.99% of the original wordings are found, and we may have to be tolerant to each other in the rest of the 0.01% wording, they are the variants in the different Bible manuscripts. We still need some time to make sure of the true wordings, but this does not make our Bible void or less trustworthy.
KJV readers must be tolerant with the NIV and CUV readers.
I give you an example:
One student writes, I have 5 lemons. Another student writes, I have 5 yellow lemons, and another student writes, I have 5 lemon. Another write, I have lemons.
The original meaning and intention are there in these 3 sentences, there copy mistakes does not overrules, the original meaning that, they all have lemons! These kinds of mistake does not effect the the original meaning.
(7) The English Bible translations like KJV is not perfect. It is close to the original copy, some Bible translations are closer to the original.
(8) The Bible is preserved for us, why I said the Bible is preserved, because we have more than 5000 pieces of manuscripts that give us the Bible, in few thousands of years, the Bible verses are preserved miraculously for us through wars, bad weathers, fire, persecutions, times, places...God had preserved the Word generations after generations, time after time, the Bible is forever, eternal, sweeter than honey, better and priceless than gold, and the Bible speak until today, the Bible is the light onto our paths, and the Bible lead us to Christ, the Bible speaks about Christ, the centre is God, and the centre of man is Christ, and the head of mankind is Christ, and the Bible is sending the same message even after 2000 thousand years Christ born in Israel. The gospel message is preserved in the preserved Bible, and that is why it is like a jewel in the sand, and whoever found this preserved Word of God, found the gospel, whosoever found the gospel found the Christ, whosoever found Christ, found God, because God is in Christ!
And Christ's Name is Jesus from Nazareth. The Bible is preserved for us, that is why we trust the Bible is trustworthy, and that is why we read the CUV, KJV, NKJV, NIV.
(9) The complete Bible I believed is hidden in all the manuscripts and in all the Bible translations. And we are very sure that we have at least 99.99% of the Bible wording in KJV and NIV and others translations.
(10) The LORD is the Bread from heaven, the hidden manna, the living Word of God! These simple rules of the Bible is making us to believe the original Bible is perfect! This is only my personal view.
1. Refrain from reading any Bible offered to the idols, to have nothing to do with idols. worshiping, (1 Corinthians 8:10) This meant we have to choose a Bible version or translation, which is not promoting idols worshiping. Greed is a type of idolatry.
2. Refrain from reading any Bible versions which promoting blood eating, blood is symbol of life, (Leviticus 1:5). This also means we are to refrain from reading any Bible versions which is promoting violence and terrorism, racism, murdering, hatred...communism...
3. Refrain from reading any Bible which promoting people to eat strangled animals, the strangled animals have blood in the body, same with rule number 2.
4. Refrain from reading any Bible version which is promoting sexual immorality. (refer to Leviticus 18), we are abstain from homosexual, adultery, fornication's and premature sex.
After laid down these 4 simple rules in accepting KJV, CUV, NKJV, ESV, NIV, and etc...The question arising next to solve is, what is the word "Bible" means to us? Why we accept KJV and NKJV and CUV and ESV as a Bible?
What is the scope of the Bible?
(a) The Hebrew Bible. We called the Old Testament.
(b) The Greek New Testament.
The autographs, the Greek manuscripts written by the original authors, have not survived. Scholars surmise the original Greek text from the versions that do survive. The three main textual traditions of the Greek New Testament are sometimes called the Alexandrian text-type (generally minimalist), the Byzantine text-type (generally maximalist), and the Western text-type (occasionally wild). Together they comprise most of the ancient manuscripts. (quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible)
(1) The Scope of the Bible Text is:
For the Old Testament is the Masoretic Text. For the New Testament is The Byzantine text, Alexandrian text and Western text, these are the ancient manuscripts which we must accept them, to found out where the Bible verses are.
(2) The translations of the Bible are.
There are many translations, some are closer to the original text, some are not, like the KJV and NIV, they are both consider closer to the original text. Refer to the list of English Bible in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_Bible_translations
When I was still in the primary school, I first read the 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees, after few years, I read some Christian magazines, and then after few years I started to read Chinese Union Bible, and then my first English Bible is NIV, and then KJV, until now, I am reading the Word of God in many other translations.
(3) The Inspiration of the Bible:
I hold the Biblical infallibility perspective, that the Bible is free from error in spiritual and scientific matters. So I believe the Bible is inspired, infallible and inerrancy of the Bible is sure. I believe in 2 Tm 3:16: "All scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness."
(4) The inerrancy of the original Bible:
Some American Protestants adhere to the 1978 Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy which asserted that inspiration applied only to the autographic text of Scripture.
(5) Some copies mistakes do not influence the faithfulness and the structure of the Bible.
(6) The original meanings are mostly found in the Holy Bible in our hands now, 99.99% of the original wordings are found, and we may have to be tolerant to each other in the rest of the 0.01% wording, they are the variants in the different Bible manuscripts. We still need some time to make sure of the true wordings, but this does not make our Bible void or less trustworthy.
KJV readers must be tolerant with the NIV and CUV readers.
I give you an example:
One student writes, I have 5 lemons. Another student writes, I have 5 yellow lemons, and another student writes, I have 5 lemon. Another write, I have lemons.
The original meaning and intention are there in these 3 sentences, there copy mistakes does not overrules, the original meaning that, they all have lemons! These kinds of mistake does not effect the the original meaning.
(7) The English Bible translations like KJV is not perfect. It is close to the original copy, some Bible translations are closer to the original.
(8) The Bible is preserved for us, why I said the Bible is preserved, because we have more than 5000 pieces of manuscripts that give us the Bible, in few thousands of years, the Bible verses are preserved miraculously for us through wars, bad weathers, fire, persecutions, times, places...God had preserved the Word generations after generations, time after time, the Bible is forever, eternal, sweeter than honey, better and priceless than gold, and the Bible speak until today, the Bible is the light onto our paths, and the Bible lead us to Christ, the Bible speaks about Christ, the centre is God, and the centre of man is Christ, and the head of mankind is Christ, and the Bible is sending the same message even after 2000 thousand years Christ born in Israel. The gospel message is preserved in the preserved Bible, and that is why it is like a jewel in the sand, and whoever found this preserved Word of God, found the gospel, whosoever found the gospel found the Christ, whosoever found Christ, found God, because God is in Christ!
And Christ's Name is Jesus from Nazareth. The Bible is preserved for us, that is why we trust the Bible is trustworthy, and that is why we read the CUV, KJV, NKJV, NIV.
(9) The complete Bible I believed is hidden in all the manuscripts and in all the Bible translations. And we are very sure that we have at least 99.99% of the Bible wording in KJV and NIV and others translations.
(10) The LORD is the Bread from heaven, the hidden manna, the living Word of God! These simple rules of the Bible is making us to believe the original Bible is perfect! This is only my personal view.
Some poor men are saved into heaven
Luke chapter 16:19-31
"There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores and longing to eat what fell from the rich man's table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.
"The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried. In hell, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. So he called to him, 'Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.'
"But Abraham replied, 'Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony. And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.'
"He answered, 'Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my father's house, for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.'
"Abraham replied, 'They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.'"
'No, father Abraham,' he said, 'but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.'
"He said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.' "
In the end, money cannot save a man, nor a man saved his money. He goes empty handed.
"There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores and longing to eat what fell from the rich man's table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.
"The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried. In hell, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. So he called to him, 'Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.'
"But Abraham replied, 'Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony. And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.'
"He answered, 'Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my father's house, for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.'
"Abraham replied, 'They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.'"
'No, father Abraham,' he said, 'but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.'
"He said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.' "
In the end, money cannot save a man, nor a man saved his money. He goes empty handed.
My most interested thing is
The charismatic and Pentecostal churches do not happy when they know some one like me critique them in the way the speak in tongue. They want bigger drums, better music, freedom of speech, shorter training in theological schools, bigger pay, richer and healthier, in these they become happier and happier, the churches become bigger and bigger, until they wanted to build more house churches!
The conservative churches are not happy when some one critique them in the way they handle different Bible and theological stand. They wanted more fluent speaker, with oratorical power, fiery sermon, solemn, serious, straight forward in rule and regulations, they wanted better Bible translations, they wanted the original Bible, they like to fight over on a few Bible verses, and continue to fight until no end, and they are happy in these inward fighting for the Bible, they said they are fighting for the truth, and you cannot do anything against the truth, and they wanted the truth, and they are happy in this life styles.
The Jehovah Witness are not happy when we are rejecting them in the way they talk about Jesus Christ, and believe in Him, perfect man and Perfect God. Christians see Jehovah Witness as a cult!
The Jehovah Witness has become our constant enemy until the end of the world, and they wanted the whole world to follow them, but they themselves do not want to follow Christ!
So, now a day, I heard some followers of Christ proudly announced, "The most interested thing I am going to talk is 'money'....money...money, you must ask God for more money. Without money we cannot survive, we need money to buy food."
And another follower of Christ proudly announced, "The most interested thing I am going to talk about is the Bible....the Bible, this Bible verse...the perfect Bible and VPP. Without the Bible there is no salvation!"
And another follower of Christ proudly announced, "The most interested thing I am going to talk about is the Gospel....the Gospel, the Gospel!" Let go and do something good for the Lord.
And another follower of Christ proudly announced, "The most interested thing I am going to talk about is the movie, social welfare, politics, I am in the world, the world in me, the world and me are one, and the world must believe in this one world religion, every morning I rang a bell to wake up a god, and I am that god, I am god, and I rang a bell to worship god, I burnt incense to a god, and I am that god whom I am worshipping. I am god to myself, I am worshipping myself. I feel good about being a god! You are not a god, if you do not worship yourself, make yourself a god today, ring the bell loudly in the morning!
Who am I to follow?
Romans 1:16-17 Paul wrote about his most interest thing is the Gospel.
I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last,just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith."
So the churches and his followers are contradicting each other, they are fighting inwardly, but outwardly they are calling each other as brother and sisters, but they are cursing those disagreement, until they split.
Paul commanding them to esteem each other, in whatever differences, rich or poor, Jew or Gentile, they are united into one body of Christ.
Philippians 2:3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. 4 Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.
At the end of the world, the follower of Christ, say this, "Money is the most interested thing!" Are you one of them? And some still fighting over a few missing letters, and so quarrelling over the mode of worships, the size of the keyboard and drums at the stage of the church...they eat, drink and be merry until Christ return!
The conservative churches are not happy when some one critique them in the way they handle different Bible and theological stand. They wanted more fluent speaker, with oratorical power, fiery sermon, solemn, serious, straight forward in rule and regulations, they wanted better Bible translations, they wanted the original Bible, they like to fight over on a few Bible verses, and continue to fight until no end, and they are happy in these inward fighting for the Bible, they said they are fighting for the truth, and you cannot do anything against the truth, and they wanted the truth, and they are happy in this life styles.
The Jehovah Witness are not happy when we are rejecting them in the way they talk about Jesus Christ, and believe in Him, perfect man and Perfect God. Christians see Jehovah Witness as a cult!
The Jehovah Witness has become our constant enemy until the end of the world, and they wanted the whole world to follow them, but they themselves do not want to follow Christ!
So, now a day, I heard some followers of Christ proudly announced, "The most interested thing I am going to talk is 'money'....money...money, you must ask God for more money. Without money we cannot survive, we need money to buy food."
And another follower of Christ proudly announced, "The most interested thing I am going to talk about is the Bible....the Bible, this Bible verse...the perfect Bible and VPP. Without the Bible there is no salvation!"
And another follower of Christ proudly announced, "The most interested thing I am going to talk about is the Gospel....the Gospel, the Gospel!" Let go and do something good for the Lord.
And another follower of Christ proudly announced, "The most interested thing I am going to talk about is the movie, social welfare, politics, I am in the world, the world in me, the world and me are one, and the world must believe in this one world religion, every morning I rang a bell to wake up a god, and I am that god, I am god, and I rang a bell to worship god, I burnt incense to a god, and I am that god whom I am worshipping. I am god to myself, I am worshipping myself. I feel good about being a god! You are not a god, if you do not worship yourself, make yourself a god today, ring the bell loudly in the morning!
Who am I to follow?
Romans 1:16-17 Paul wrote about his most interest thing is the Gospel.
I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last,just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith."
So the churches and his followers are contradicting each other, they are fighting inwardly, but outwardly they are calling each other as brother and sisters, but they are cursing those disagreement, until they split.
Paul commanding them to esteem each other, in whatever differences, rich or poor, Jew or Gentile, they are united into one body of Christ.
Philippians 2:3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. 4 Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.
At the end of the world, the follower of Christ, say this, "Money is the most interested thing!" Are you one of them? And some still fighting over a few missing letters, and so quarrelling over the mode of worships, the size of the keyboard and drums at the stage of the church...they eat, drink and be merry until Christ return!
18.6.09
Lust of the eyes
What is adultery
Matthew 5:27"You have heard that it was said, 'Do not commit adultery.'[a] 28But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
Exodus 20:14 "You shall not commit adultery.
Beware of the dangers in the Internet! It is like a web trap us in side, and it is like a enemy, which invades our family life, and it is like a knife cut us apart, and it is like a swarm of locust that destroys our corps!
The adulterous will not inherrit the kingdom of God!
Matthew 5:27"You have heard that it was said, 'Do not commit adultery.'[a] 28But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
Exodus 20:14 "You shall not commit adultery.
Beware of the dangers in the Internet! It is like a web trap us in side, and it is like a enemy, which invades our family life, and it is like a knife cut us apart, and it is like a swarm of locust that destroys our corps!
The adulterous will not inherrit the kingdom of God!
North Korea and Palestine
North Korea is an independent country and she is making atomic and nuclear weapons, she is making them for the end of the world, for the coming wars are great, and they are free to go to space and go into the sea, because God is oversee them, and they will be made stronger for the coming of Adonai. Hallelujah, Adonai is merciful forever!
And the Palestine must be protected, they must be given a piece of land, co habit with Jerusalem, and then the people will live in peace for a time. The Israelites do not give them a piece of land, and the Israelites are making problems for themselves, so, I called onto Adonai, God, please give a good piece of the futile land for the Palestine's people, they must be respected. Because their cries had risen to Adonai. Since the Israelites delay, and do not cooperate with UK and USA, and do not give them the land, there is a fear from the sea, to come and make the Israelitea to be in fear, make way for them to obey Adonai. Even until they make agreement with the Palestines. Three days and a half they will lived in peace! Hallelujah!
And the Palestine must be protected, they must be given a piece of land, co habit with Jerusalem, and then the people will live in peace for a time. The Israelites do not give them a piece of land, and the Israelites are making problems for themselves, so, I called onto Adonai, God, please give a good piece of the futile land for the Palestine's people, they must be respected. Because their cries had risen to Adonai. Since the Israelites delay, and do not cooperate with UK and USA, and do not give them the land, there is a fear from the sea, to come and make the Israelitea to be in fear, make way for them to obey Adonai. Even until they make agreement with the Palestines. Three days and a half they will lived in peace! Hallelujah!
Salary for the policeman
This is far most important in maintaining the peace in the society, at the end of the world, this is only my personal opinion.
Suppose today, 10 kilogram of white rice is costing you 30 bucks in your country. How much salary your government should pay your policemen per month? The policemen should received a salary at least 2500 to 3500 bucks per month. Some country even paid the policemen more than 4000 bucks, sometimes plus allowances and bonuses!
If a country underpaid her policemen, this is not fair to them. The policemen are working hard to keep us safely, so we must respect them, we know no every one of us is perfect. They are facing dangers day and night, so it is reasonable to increase their salary. They are not working like a teachers, they are working harder than a teachers, they risk their life in patrolling the streets at night, even at gun points.
CEO and managers are receiving big bucks at the recession?
Suppose today, 10 kilogram of white rice is costing you 30 bucks in your country. How much salary your government should pay your policemen per month? The policemen should received a salary at least 2500 to 3500 bucks per month. Some country even paid the policemen more than 4000 bucks, sometimes plus allowances and bonuses!
If a country underpaid her policemen, this is not fair to them. The policemen are working hard to keep us safely, so we must respect them, we know no every one of us is perfect. They are facing dangers day and night, so it is reasonable to increase their salary. They are not working like a teachers, they are working harder than a teachers, they risk their life in patrolling the streets at night, even at gun points.
CEO and managers are receiving big bucks at the recession?
Kept pure in all ages
What is the meaning of "pure" in Matthew 5:8, "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God." Here "pure" is from root word, "katharos," "pure" means ethically free from corrupt desires, from sin and guilt. "Pure" is in spiritual sense, free from pollution.
I found sometime different word has same theological point, the condition to see God, compared to Hebrew 12:14, ".....and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord." Here "holiness" is from "hagiasmos." Sanctified!
The Condition to see God is this,
1.the pure in heart
2.holiness.
1 Peter 1:16, "Be ye holy; for I am holy." Here the word holy is from "hagios," in the same chapter St. Peter is writing about holiness in the heart, the holiness in the heart is called "a pure heart." After writing about holiness in the heart, in 1 Peter 1:16 previously, in supporting his point about holiness, now he stressed holiness in the heart, in 1 Peter 1:22, "...you have purified your soul.....see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently." The word pure here is from the Greek word, "katharos."
Firstly, St Peter wrote be ye holy, next he wrote that you have purified....and then ye love one another with a pure heart."
Be ye holy is equal to have a pure heart. "Purity" has equal meaning and important to "holiness!"
Having a Holy Bible or a pure Bible does not mean we have a perfect Bible! Some words are missing, this does not mean the Bible is not holy, the Bible still is the Holy Bible, a few missing words are missing, does not make the Bible to become a unholy Bible! Having a Holy Bible means having a pure Bible! Holy Bible and Pure Bible are the same meaning to me, it does not mean a perfect Bible to me! Since I believe a few words are missing or miss copied!
In Westminster Confession Chapter 1, 8 , what does "kept pure in all ages means?" What does that "pure" means actually? "Kept pure in all age" means kept holy in all ages! That is why in 2 Timothy 3:15, the Bible is called the "...Holy Scripture..."
The Bible is kept holy! Without any blemish and without spot in holiness! It means Kept holy for all ages!
Does these word "kept pure" carrying any sense of perfection, did God gave mankind a gift to have this "photocopying" power and ability, in handling down the Bible to us by human hands? Can mankind copy without error? Is there a gift like this? Copying and copying for few thousand years and copied without mistake?
You mean the word "pure" means you men copied the Bible without any copying errors, not one word nor not even one letter missing or miss copied, does it means when the person who was copying in the past does not make any careless mistake at all, 100 % perfectly copied to us by hands, robotic human hands, 100 % perfect, not even one letter was missing in the copying process for thousands of years, even totally you claimed, you said every word are copied to us, without one word missed? Does "kept pure" mean these statement? I do not think so!
I believed God preserved the Bible for us, this is miracle, and God kept it holy for all ages for us! This is what kept pure in all ages really make sense to me!
The Bible is the Word from God eternally, and the Bible is Holy and pure! So I can say loudly, by the grace of God, may I read the Bible every day. And I have a Pure Bible, I have a Holy Bible, I have the Word of God! Say this and read the Bible every day. And be a doer of the Word. And keep away from the error of Verbal Plenary Preservation, and also the theologian who taught people to believe in this false teaching.
May God bless us, to discern, is to know God, and is to see God at last!
I found sometime different word has same theological point, the condition to see God, compared to Hebrew 12:14, ".....and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord." Here "holiness" is from "hagiasmos." Sanctified!
The Condition to see God is this,
1.the pure in heart
2.holiness.
1 Peter 1:16, "Be ye holy; for I am holy." Here the word holy is from "hagios," in the same chapter St. Peter is writing about holiness in the heart, the holiness in the heart is called "a pure heart." After writing about holiness in the heart, in 1 Peter 1:16 previously, in supporting his point about holiness, now he stressed holiness in the heart, in 1 Peter 1:22, "...you have purified your soul.....see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently." The word pure here is from the Greek word, "katharos."
Firstly, St Peter wrote be ye holy, next he wrote that you have purified....and then ye love one another with a pure heart."
Be ye holy is equal to have a pure heart. "Purity" has equal meaning and important to "holiness!"
Having a Holy Bible or a pure Bible does not mean we have a perfect Bible! Some words are missing, this does not mean the Bible is not holy, the Bible still is the Holy Bible, a few missing words are missing, does not make the Bible to become a unholy Bible! Having a Holy Bible means having a pure Bible! Holy Bible and Pure Bible are the same meaning to me, it does not mean a perfect Bible to me! Since I believe a few words are missing or miss copied!
In Westminster Confession Chapter 1, 8 , what does "kept pure in all ages means?" What does that "pure" means actually? "Kept pure in all age" means kept holy in all ages! That is why in 2 Timothy 3:15, the Bible is called the "...Holy Scripture..."
The Bible is kept holy! Without any blemish and without spot in holiness! It means Kept holy for all ages!
Does these word "kept pure" carrying any sense of perfection, did God gave mankind a gift to have this "photocopying" power and ability, in handling down the Bible to us by human hands? Can mankind copy without error? Is there a gift like this? Copying and copying for few thousand years and copied without mistake?
You mean the word "pure" means you men copied the Bible without any copying errors, not one word nor not even one letter missing or miss copied, does it means when the person who was copying in the past does not make any careless mistake at all, 100 % perfectly copied to us by hands, robotic human hands, 100 % perfect, not even one letter was missing in the copying process for thousands of years, even totally you claimed, you said every word are copied to us, without one word missed? Does "kept pure" mean these statement? I do not think so!
I believed God preserved the Bible for us, this is miracle, and God kept it holy for all ages for us! This is what kept pure in all ages really make sense to me!
The Bible is the Word from God eternally, and the Bible is Holy and pure! So I can say loudly, by the grace of God, may I read the Bible every day. And I have a Pure Bible, I have a Holy Bible, I have the Word of God! Say this and read the Bible every day. And be a doer of the Word. And keep away from the error of Verbal Plenary Preservation, and also the theologian who taught people to believe in this false teaching.
May God bless us, to discern, is to know God, and is to see God at last!
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