Theologian

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I was just thinking of how many splinters of Christianity are split away from main Christian bodies because of taking Scripture out of context or misinterpreting it. I thought of KJVO advocates like Riplinger (not like Hills or Letis) who make wild claims based on a Scripture taken out of context (especially in the use of ellipses). Then i thought of how a new splinter group of folks who don’t think the Bible should be in a bound book could be created…

…the word of God is not bound! (2Ti 2:9)

ETS papers are available to read online!!! at Reclaiming the Mind Ministries.

Enjoy.

The ESV Blog points to a blog that gives a reason for the Mat 27:9-10 quote as being from Jer., but it is also from Zechariah.  I have always thought that the real reason was because the Jews were known to combine the minor prophet scrolls withing the major prophets. So Zechariah would have been in the Jeremiah scroll. Thoughts?

The ESV Blog has a very interesting video posted on the social networking in the NT…very cool.

From page 338, section 2…

…what is it to pray in faith?

It is not to believe that the very thing…that we pray for, shall be always given…the right method of acting thy faith in prayer, which must be taken from the nature of the promise thou puttest in suit…our faith is to be shaped by the promise. If that be absolute…then thy faith may expect the very thing promised; if otherwise, then thou art not to limit thy faith to the thing itself, but expect money for money-worth; health, or as good as health…An absolute faith on a conditional promise…is fancy, not faith.

To pray in faith is to ask of God, in the name of Christ, what he hath promised, relying on his power and truth for performance, without binding him up to time, manner, or means.

From page 105, section 2…

Faith gives the soul a view of the great God. It teacheth the soul to set his almightiness against sins magnitude, and his infinitude against sins multitude; and so quencheth the temptation. The reason why the presumptuous sinner fears so little, and the despairing soul so much,  is for want of knowing God as great. Therefore, to cure them both, the serious consideration of God under this notion is propounded.

From page 48-49 of section 1…

…the saints have ever had their armour, and the preaching of the gospel unlocks it. As gospel-light ascends, so Satan’s shady kingdom of darkness vanisheth…he labours either by persecution to drive the gospel away, or by policy to persuade a people to send it away from their coasts.

from section 1, page 21…

“God brings his grace into the heart by conquest. Now, as in a conquered city, though some yield and become true subjects to the conqueror, yet others plot how they may shake off this yoke; and therefore it requires the same power to keep, as was to win it at first.”

I am reading “the Christian in Complete Armour” by William Gurnall…and i am loving it! So i’ve decided to quote some of the more awesome things that are in the book. Here we go…

“The Christian must not be of such a complying nature as to cut the coat of his profession according to the fashion of the times…”