Understanding the Greek?

More than one Translation!

I think it is very important as a preacher teacher to have some grasp of the Greek, so that we can understand the many words from the various versions that are available for reading and study today?

Even if we are still limited to the King James or Revised Bibles, the Greek context is of great value, where as the Hebrew is quiet fixed even to the modern Israeli and so when comparing verses we will have a frame work built on a strong basis!

What Ekklesia faces today is deception and sensuality, the excuse to undermine the laws of God and to have truth expressed with love, rather one without the other!

2 Peter 2:1-3, Romans 16:18, 1 Corinthians 6;20, Galatians 2:4.

Easy and Hard?

Ways!

There are two ways to go in life so the Holy Bible tells us, the easy way to Hell and the narrow way to God!

Most people follow the broad way, even many who have made a confession, soon become inactive in fellowship and a bad example to many others?

But we are of the hard way, that costs and will hurt since we are sharing in some of the sufferings of our lord and our way is narrow and winding, but we are going up and not down even though it may feel that way at times!

Many are called few are chosen, those saved from much will do much, those from less, less will be done.

Psalm 16:11, Matthew 7:13-14, 18:8, Luke 13:24, John 14:6.

A.I. The future of Humanity!

The moral Question?

This depends from what religion or culture that you come from outside that of Christianity and that is why many nations are allowing for research into genetically modified humans as being more suitable than robots on the battlefield and eventually space exploration!

Bur today A.I. is being used in medicine, the nuclear industry and the military, with success, but also serious flawed failures as seen recently in the Middle-East, while the same flaw was ignored in Afghanistan by ISAF?

It would seem in the light of what we have learned so far the high moral ground is being ignored and that for financial gain rather than the cost or the value of human life!

Jeremiah 2:22, 1 Peter 1:18-19, Jude 1:23.

Mark 9:49!

In the AV/KJV, but not in the ESV?

Why has a crucial text in the Gospel of mark been removed by the modern translators of the ESV, thus loosing an important message of Salvation to the readers?

One has to wonder how much more of the Bible is to be changed to satisfy the selfishness that is entering Ekklesia in relation to justifying conduct and life style to fit in with the ideology of the world and the loss of an important message that our Lord was warning if lost cannot be got back again!

Matthew 5:13, Mark 9:50, Luke 14:34, Colossians 4:6.

Roman doctrine in Ekklesia!

The Love of God?

Its a subtle doctrine that most believers have grasped on to in relation to accepting sexual sins and then believing that a all loving God will ignore those issues of our selfishness, prior to this we had the issues of dishonesty when many believed they could get away with diddling their tax forms and other financial dishonesty!

God is love, He loved us to give to us His one and only Son, that we might be saved, we love Him because He has had mercy on us for our failings!

But God does not love sin, he will not tolerate His guidelines being broken and the selfishness of the human heart trying to justify sin.

Leviticus 18:22, John 3:16, Romans 1:25-26, Romans 3:22-23, 6:22-23, Hebrews 9:26, 10:10, 1 John 3:18, 2 John 1:3.

Modern Translations!

Missing the definitions of the text?

Many of the new translations of the Holy Bible, that have sought to move away from the King James version have done an injustice to the Greek, if not also the Hebrew languages and lumped words together into one, when missing the real context of what is being said!

It remains hard to know if this has been done deliberately or it is just being lazy in the work, hoping that only a few would take any notice?

We need to be clear and understand what God is saying to us in the scriptures so that we can preach the Gospel message and see souls saved!

Matthew 22:29, John 4:23-24, Romans 15:4, Hebrews 4:12-13, Revelation 3:20.

Woke-ism and Christianity!

Allowing in more delusion?

First it was issues around divorce, then abortion and now in the last few years more so in the western-Churches homosexuality and now WOKE!

Soon if believers do not take action it will be the undoing of the Holy Bible, last time we discussed the removal of the word rape for another one in relation to Tamar being violated a word that has many connotations, where rape is what it is.

Many other description’s of vile sin too will in time be replaced and the whole emphasis of the Christian faith will be under minded to perhaps a book of fables?

Isaiah 50:8, 51:17, 58:6, 2 Corinthians 11:12, Ephesians 6:13.

Tamar!

Raped by her Brother and then hated by Him?

With the many translations of the Holy Bible and the many search engines the term rape is not to be found in them and in relation to this account many have implied incest, but consensual sex is not rape!

Tamar was raped and the Hebrew word here is used in the context that this young woman was over powered by her brother, Stongs H7901 Shakav.

Later on in the end of the account we have the term violated H6031 Anah, but still not raped?

It is not clear why the term rape is not used, perhaps since it was mostly men doing the translation and they ignored the emphasis to suit there own power over the woman?

2 Samuel 13:5-22, Psalm 55:20, Isaiah 24:5.

Happy New Year 2024!

Jesus and the Law?

Many unwise believers today think that God has given up on His law and its application in our lives, but as we who have a personal faith should know that He has not and the Law of God is eternal!

Yes we are free from the curses of breaking the Law and its punishment, because Jesus fulfilled this for us on the cross and His rising from the dead!

But the law is still not to be abused or ignored and the ten Commandments are part of the 613 laws that cover all area of our lives, they are not archaic as some believe, because of where we might live in the world and we are advised to obey them in our relationship with Jesus, while also pointing them out to both Kosmon and to Ekklesia?

Exodus 20:1-17, Leviticus 19:22, Matthew 19:17-19, 1 John 4:7-21.

The cost of Faith!

Bearing Witness?

All believers will be challenged about our faith in Jesus, about truth, honesty and integrity and we have both a testimony and a knowledge of God and what He is doing for us!

When we think of Stephen the first martyr of the Ekklesia, we see a man who could not be out done and so out of spite and jealousy free slaves handed him over to the religious men of the day to have him stoned to death.

Many believers around the world today are being murdered for the name of Jesus, wither they practice or not, they bear the name Christian and Islam is one of the most hostile followed by all atheism nations who make excuses for truths they cannot bear to hear?

Matthew 10:15, Mark 13:9, Luke 21:13, John 15:26, Revelation 6:9-11.