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The devil is in the details
winner08:
I was reading Gen. I have gotten to the part where God destroys man in the flood, all except Noah. I notice this before but never really meditated on the words. God Say's He was sorry that he made man. Do I understand this correctly? Was God sorry? Well I really meditated on this word sorry, and I know God is not human and is spirit so how can He have a human emotion like being sorry, witch also indicates that He made a mistake so He was sorry. NOWAY we all know better. Also in Gen where sons of God has sex with the daughters of men. They produce giants. It all sounds so fairytalelish. A good story. So I esword and in the KJV I believe each word has a number and each number has a correct meaning in Hebrew of the word with the number. So giant also has the meaning of bully and tyrant. Now with this it make more since than what I know the meaning of giant is.Also the word sorry, this in Hebrew text says it has several meanings one is grieve. Now with this one word it changes the meaning of the text for me. So this makes me wonder just how many times I read a certain verse and it is not relay what I think it is because of a word might have a different meaning than what i know the word to means in English. Does anybody understand this?
Darren
Chris R:
Ray has a process when reading scripture, it may help.
When something is true, scripturally true, then nothing can or WILL contradict that truth.
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be, are ordained of God. [Rom 13:1]
God knows, and ordains ALL things...Nothing takes God by suprise.
God has a will and purpose, nothing will change it. Some folks are given eyes to see these truths, some are not.
Chris R
dewey:
Hallelujaj, I think that you have it rite,good job chris love ya , dewey said it I T S O C
Kat:
Hi Darren,
--- Quote ---Now with this one word it changes the meaning of the text for me. So this makes me wonder just how many times I read a certain verse and it is not relay what I think it is because of a word might have a different meaning than what i know the word to means in English.
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This is one of the points that Ray makes in the Bible study 'Does a sovereign God ever change?' I just finished the transcript and here are a few comments Ray makes.
http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,7714.0.html -------
Whenever we’re studying the Scripture we are faced with false definitions, bad translations, contradictions and the theory of ‘free will.’ These are all major road blocks to understanding the Scriptures.
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That’s why when I really want to study a subject, I mean if that word appears 158 times in the Bible, thank God for E-Sword, because I’ll click on every one. I’ll do two things; I see how it is used in a sentence, in context and I’ll see if it is the same word. It may be translated from all different words and then you’ve got to take that into consideration. That’s one area where a concordant is really good.
They tried to be unbiased when they translated the Scriptures. So they came up with an equivalent of every Hebrew or Greek word. In other words they studied it and examined it in every way and found the very closest English equivalent to that word. Now sometimes because of idolisms and other things you can’t go with that, but a lot of times you can. But then they would translate it to that and they would say, ‘well yea we think…’ but that’s your prejudice. That is the King James Bible talking, you see. No, they’ve already determined that word means this, so they would translate it to that. Now sometimes it comes out a little awkward, but it’s at least considerably more accurate.
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The Scriptures are true. Every word of translation is not always true. But the Scriptures are true. Even the Scriptures may have some mistakes, we have some that don’t have a verse or don’t have a word. There is hardly any copies of the Greek or Hebrew Scriptures, that you can separate by a hundred years or so, that are all exactly perfect. You know even though they counted the letters and everything, but they still are not completely the same. But for the most part there is a consistency there.
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mercy, peace and love
Kat
dewey:
Is there one cardanal beining out there that can say ,this is what that means , i dont think so . If so please explaine the spiritual meaning . so you have some some scritures, now explaine them them love ya dewey
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