I thoroughly enjoyed getting a Master's in Biblical Counseling from an online conservative seminary, and a few years later began to study for MDiv. I couldn't get far because so many of the expert sources we were expected to digest referenced those who did not believe the Bible was inerrant and even such people as Freud. It hurt but I had to back away. May God bless and protect Theos U, in such a time as this.
_@theresaflynn4645_ -- With a few exceptions, Bible scholarship has been "off the rails" for a long time. Scripture clearly claims to be "God breathed" (2 Tim 3.16), but the idea of "inerrancy" misses the mark and Theodore Letis (a trustworthy scholar) traced the error to B.B. Warfield in his 1997 book _The Ecclesiastical Text._ The original 16th-century reformers believed that the autographs of the Bible were "infallible" and this is what the 1648 _Westminster Confession of Faith_ stipulated. (Warfield initiated the switch to "inerrancy".) The reformers even included versions (a.k.a. translations) as infallible -- but only _where_ they faithfully reproduced God’s original words. Sadly, most people today no longer understand the difference between inerrant and infallible. Jesus, Himself, only claimed that the Pentateuch (a.k.a. "The Law") was inerrant (Matt 5:18) and this was scientifically supported by statisticians Witztum, Rips and Rosenberg in their fully peer-reviewed paper _Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis_ (published in Vol 9, Issue 3 of _Statistical Science_ Aug 1994) who demonstrated this only for the Hebrew text. The point I'm trying to make is: (1) There is much more to the subject of "inerrancy" than most Bible students realize, (2) they should be focused on "infallibility" so as to not be tripped by minor typos, and (3) significant facts and relevant history are ignored by most "experts". By the way, for several years I've been studying the history of the Bible and its protection through the centuries by the Holy Spirit. My focus was originally on English translations. But, in light of modern translators' excess reliance on two of the oldest and most corrupt ancient Bible manuscripts that survive, it forced me to dig much deeper. My study is not yet finished, but I can confidently report that God's words have been faithfully preserved to the present day. But two sources are required for the Old Testament (OT) and two sources are required for the New Testament (NT) and no single source is perfect. For the OT, the Hebrew text (as preserved in the consonants of the _Masoretic Text)_ is the primary source. The Greek _Septuagint_ is an important secondary source, but only for those messianic passages that were altered after Jesus death/resurrection and before the Masorete scribes began to add the vowels and notes. For the NT, we have Erasmus' _Textus Receptus_ and thousands of reliable Greek manuscripts (the _Majority Text)._ As with the OT sources, neither NT source is perfect. But both the _Textus Receptus_ and _Majority Text_ are very good, have very few disagreements and, in similar fashion as the Greek _Septuagint_ can help us identify the rare corruptions in the OT Hebrew, likewise the _Textus Receptus_ and _Majority Text,_ each help to identify the other's errors. So, in the end, God has provided what we need for the humble truth-seeking scholar to recognize God's original words. And He's done so in a brilliant way that is very difficult to damage in spite of Satan's non-stop efforts to do just that.
Woke is a reaction against bibliolatry. I love listening to Christian leaders who would absolutely despise my understanding of scripture, Christians and Jesus himself. I’m a Christian and follower of Christ and folks like Paramahansa Yogananda and Bart Ehrman seem to be a good antidote to wokeness. Some eastern yogis seem to understand Christ and Christianity itself better than Christians. And Bart Ehrman is more honest and learned about scripture than those that over-emphasize it. And yes, it can be over-emphasized. - The history of Christian hermeneutics is probably one of the most important topics any Christian could ever study. - Keep up the good work, and don’t sweat the UFOlogy too much. It’s not anti-biblical, but yes, folks can idolize it, just like they can Christian tradition and scripture. - Thich Nhat Hanh said something like ~ “it’s better to approach people via the Holy Spirit than via theology.” Worth considering. 🙏
I think you'll get to 100K subscribers by the end of the month (September, 2023.) You may already be there because TH-cam holds on to quite a few until it can certify that there is no doubling up or fake followers as in Twitter in the old days.
In order to be able to deal with the UFO and UAP issue you have to be able to identify who and what they are from a most likely perspective. This is where we must stand on scripture to identify the most likely answer to what they are and HOW to deal with them. We can start by identifying what scripture has to say about the topic. Currently, our understanding of the physical universe and the known laws that govern its behavior it would strongly argue that linear travel from other stars within our own galaxy is all but impossible for all practical purposes. So then we should look at scripture to see what it tells us about beings that are not of earth. The only significant light scripture casts on this topic is that there are MANY beings that make up the host of heaven. Genesis and Revelation speak in some detail about this realm. We know from revelation that their was a war in Heaven. We also know that angles chose to rebel against Gods plan and took women and had offspring with them. That offspring resulted in the Nephilim. I believe these "extraterrestrials" are Fallen Angels and they are going to play a major role in the tribulation. They are going to play a major role in the coming GREAT DECEPTION that is a part of the great tribulation.
Agreed 💯. The late Dr Michael Heiser connected many many dots for me regarding the unseen realm. His documentary by the same name is a great place to start if you haven't seen it. 🙏😎
You might find it worthwhile looking up a discussion between Mike Signorelli and Dr. Hugh Ross called "The Biblical Truth about Aliens" u tube. I don't know Mike S but I do know Hugh Ross ( not personally). I think the discussion is worth listening to.
Possibly ! If the Annakim, Nephilim, fallen angels get their last shot at the throne of God Revelation 9 and 12 I almost want to be there to participate as a vessel of the Holy Spirit. Bring em on ❤
This is exactly what America needs people who are establishing a different better form than those who have been poisoned by the culture ...God bless and guide them
Yes, it is sad these days. A person wearing what may be symbolic of the book of Revelation could be construed as somehow evil. Kind of like Trump holding his hands together in a way that others assume is symbolic of a "known" secret society hand sign. Maybe the shirt with serpent was a gift from his wife. BTW, how do you know for sure the shirt is displaying a serpent? Do you own one yourself?
non cessation reformed? um.... what? there are 2 words for tongues, dialektos and glossa, both mean languages that already exist, not Kenneth Copeland and his silliness. Charismatics contradict scripture.
Yeah , what's antithetical about being woke in relation to practicing Christianity ? I consulted the Oxford dictionary for a definition of this fashionable buzzword , and it defined woke as having a concerned awareness about social , political , and racial , injustice , oppression and discrimination . Christ is our supreme exemplar , and as such we , as Christians , should aspire to emulate as best we can , his heroic ministry of denouncing and actively challenging those institutional scourges . Yeah , by the very meaning of the word woke , which you guys in the above video grievously scorn , Jesus , our Lord and Saviour , was in historical fact , the woke activist par excellence
I thoroughly enjoyed getting a Master's in Biblical Counseling from an online conservative seminary, and a few years later began to study for MDiv. I couldn't get far because so many of the expert sources we were expected to digest referenced those who did not believe the Bible was inerrant and even such people as Freud. It hurt but I had to back away. May God bless and protect Theos U, in such a time as this.
_@theresaflynn4645_ -- With a few exceptions, Bible scholarship has been "off the rails" for a long time. Scripture clearly claims to be "God breathed" (2 Tim 3.16), but the idea of "inerrancy" misses the mark and Theodore Letis (a trustworthy scholar) traced the error to B.B. Warfield in his 1997 book _The Ecclesiastical Text._ The original 16th-century reformers believed that the autographs of the Bible were "infallible" and this is what the 1648 _Westminster Confession of Faith_ stipulated. (Warfield initiated the switch to "inerrancy".) The reformers even included versions (a.k.a. translations) as infallible -- but only _where_ they faithfully reproduced God’s original words. Sadly, most people today no longer understand the difference between inerrant and infallible. Jesus, Himself, only claimed that the Pentateuch (a.k.a. "The Law") was inerrant (Matt 5:18) and this was scientifically supported by statisticians Witztum, Rips and Rosenberg in their fully peer-reviewed paper _Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis_ (published in Vol 9, Issue 3 of _Statistical Science_ Aug 1994) who demonstrated this only for the Hebrew text. The point I'm trying to make is: (1) There is much more to the subject of "inerrancy" than most Bible students realize, (2) they should be focused on "infallibility" so as to not be tripped by minor typos, and (3) significant facts and relevant history are ignored by most "experts".
By the way, for several years I've been studying the history of the Bible and its protection through the centuries by the Holy Spirit. My focus was originally on English translations. But, in light of modern translators' excess reliance on two of the oldest and most corrupt ancient Bible manuscripts that survive, it forced me to dig much deeper. My study is not yet finished, but I can confidently report that God's words have been faithfully preserved to the present day. But two sources are required for the Old Testament (OT) and two sources are required for the New Testament (NT) and no single source is perfect. For the OT, the Hebrew text (as preserved in the consonants of the _Masoretic Text)_ is the primary source. The Greek _Septuagint_ is an important secondary source, but only for those messianic passages that were altered after Jesus death/resurrection and before the Masorete scribes began to add the vowels and notes. For the NT, we have Erasmus' _Textus Receptus_ and thousands of reliable Greek manuscripts (the _Majority Text)._ As with the OT sources, neither NT source is perfect. But both the _Textus Receptus_ and _Majority Text_ are very good, have very few disagreements and, in similar fashion as the Greek _Septuagint_ can help us identify the rare corruptions in the OT Hebrew, likewise the _Textus Receptus_ and _Majority Text,_ each help to identify the other's errors. So, in the end, God has provided what we need for the humble truth-seeking scholar to recognize God's original words. And He's done so in a brilliant way that is very difficult to damage in spite of Satan's non-stop efforts to do just that.
Love these guys!!❤. Awesome awesome, praise Jesus
Numbers 6:24 is a well known blessing worth reading, Eric. :)
Woke is a reaction against bibliolatry. I love listening to Christian leaders who would absolutely despise my understanding of scripture, Christians and Jesus himself. I’m a Christian and follower of Christ and folks like Paramahansa Yogananda and Bart Ehrman seem to be a good antidote to wokeness. Some eastern yogis seem to understand Christ and Christianity itself better than Christians. And Bart Ehrman is more honest and learned about scripture than those that over-emphasize it. And yes, it can be over-emphasized. - The history of Christian hermeneutics is probably one of the most important topics any Christian could ever study. - Keep up the good work, and don’t sweat the UFOlogy too much. It’s not anti-biblical, but yes, folks can idolize it, just like they can Christian tradition and scripture. - Thich Nhat Hanh said something like ~ “it’s better to approach people via the Holy Spirit than via theology.” Worth considering. 🙏
I think you'll get to 100K subscribers by the end of the month (September, 2023.) You may already be there because TH-cam holds on to quite a few until it can certify that there is no doubling up or fake followers as in Twitter in the old days.
Do you teach on I Corinthians 14 church order?
In order to be able to deal with the UFO and UAP issue you have to be able to identify who and what they are from a most likely perspective. This is where we must stand on scripture to identify the most likely answer to what they are and HOW to deal with them. We can start by identifying what scripture has to say about the topic.
Currently, our understanding of the physical universe and the known laws that govern its behavior it would strongly argue that linear travel from other stars within our own galaxy is all but impossible for all practical purposes. So then we should look at scripture to see what it tells us about beings that are not of earth. The only significant light scripture casts on this topic is that there are MANY beings that make up the host of heaven. Genesis and Revelation speak in some detail about this realm. We know from revelation that their was a war in Heaven. We also know that angles chose to rebel against Gods plan and took women and had offspring with them. That offspring resulted in the Nephilim.
I believe these "extraterrestrials" are Fallen Angels and they are going to play a major role in the tribulation. They are going to play a major role in the coming GREAT DECEPTION that is a part of the great tribulation.
Agreed 💯. The late Dr Michael Heiser connected many many dots for me regarding the unseen realm. His documentary by the same name is a great place to start if you haven't seen it. 🙏😎
You might find it worthwhile looking up a discussion between Mike Signorelli and Dr. Hugh Ross called "The Biblical Truth about Aliens" u tube. I don't know Mike S but I do know Hugh Ross ( not personally). I think the discussion is worth listening to.
Possibly ! If the Annakim, Nephilim, fallen angels get their last shot at the throne of God Revelation 9 and 12 I almost want to be there to participate as a vessel of the Holy Spirit. Bring em on ❤
if George Michael and Kurt Cobain started a Seminary 😂
This is exactly what America needs people who are establishing a different better form than those who have been poisoned by the culture ...God bless and guide them
So this man got up and decided to get dressed: A Bull and Serpient for wardrobe. 🤔
Yes, it is sad these days. A person wearing what may be symbolic of the book of Revelation could be construed as somehow evil. Kind of like Trump holding his hands together in a way that others assume is symbolic of a "known" secret society hand sign. Maybe the shirt with serpent was a gift from his wife. BTW, how do you know for sure the shirt is displaying a serpent? Do you own one yourself?
non cessation reformed? um.... what? there are 2 words for tongues, dialektos and glossa, both mean languages that already exist, not Kenneth Copeland and his silliness. Charismatics contradict scripture.
Yeah , what's antithetical about being woke in relation to practicing Christianity ? I consulted the Oxford dictionary for a definition of this fashionable buzzword , and it defined woke as having a concerned awareness about social , political , and racial , injustice , oppression and discrimination . Christ is our supreme exemplar , and as such we , as Christians , should aspire to emulate as best we can , his heroic ministry of denouncing and actively challenging those institutional scourges . Yeah , by the very meaning of the word woke , which you guys in the above video grievously scorn , Jesus , our Lord and Saviour , was in historical fact , the woke activist par excellence
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@@Angel-cu5mf Yeah , lol ? What's lol ?