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Monday, February 10, 2014
Sunday, February 02, 2014
Monday, January 27, 2014
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Inbox: Marital Breakdown
In response to this post Tertius and Susan T. Foh seem to be in agreement. Susan’s position on Genesis 3:16 was advanced by Ted Hildebrandt in the Westminster Theological Journal. Tertius says:
I’m with Ted’s explanation; at the least there seems to be nothing in the immediate context to forbid it. Secondly, 1 Cor. 14:34-37 reinforce it, as does 1 Tim. 2:12. Thirdly, having spent some 50 or more years marriage counselling I have observed that much marital breakdown occurs when either a man fails to fulfil his role as a protector and provider or a woman competes with his leadership. She may do this by asserting her ‘rights’ or manipulating her husband into doing what she wants.
To which I can only add three more passages in the New Testament that also reinforce this interpretation, which are the subject of this coming Monday’s Bible Study 06.
Sunday, January 19, 2014
Monday, January 13, 2014
“A Matter of Interpretation”
The existence of various denominations and sects within
Christianity has led many to conclude that there must be all sorts of different
ways to interpret the Bible. Since most Christian churches say that the Bible
is the Word of God, observers assume that every practice or belief of a
Christian church must be based on a particular interpretation of the Bible. If
another group has a different practice or belief, that must be because they
have a different interpretation. This produces the conviction in people’s minds
that the Bible does not speak clearly, and that one person’s interpretation of
it is just as good as anyone else’s. But is this true?
If everybody was really going to have any number of
different ideas about what the Bible was saying, there would be no point in
writing the Bible at all. The reason authors write books is because they
believe that they can expound their ideas clearly and have other people
understand and perhaps accept those ideas. When people read books, it shows
that they believe they will be able to understand the ideas which the author
wanted to express. We read newspaper stories and magazine articles and books of
philosophy in the belief that the clear communication of ideas is possible. We
may disagree with what we read, but that is not the same as having a “different
interpretation” of what the author was saying.
Saturday, January 11, 2014
Thursday, January 02, 2014
Saturday, December 28, 2013
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Saturday, December 14, 2013
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