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I read it yesterday...got called into work unexpectedly to day or I would have read it today....should be reading it now instead of dinking around on the computer! Verses read, Jerimiah 46-49. I understood it...some of it. The Bible is a book of LAYERS; historical, spiritual and propheticand the mysteries of God (the Author!) are never ending. It can be read as a story and you would get the historical aspect of it. OR....it can and should be STUDIED so that one can understand the spiritual and prohetic aspects of it.
Maggie
Maggie
Well.. the author is God .. carrying men along through penning scripture through them. Using their own styles and characteristics of writing, but real truth. Eg. Paul writing as a skilled, learned man who knew the Old Testament like the back of his hand.. but writing words that God was transmitting through him.
2 Peter 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
This verse is about scripture!
Mat 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Also about scripture- OT
2 Peter 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
This verse is about scripture!
Mat 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Also about scripture- OT
Prophecy is tied up with scripture..some of the time they are the same thing.. prophecy is speaking forth God's Word - the English meaning of foretelling the future is not really the whole meaning of the biblical word..
The Law in Matthew 5:18 is about scripture in the OT.. not the entire one you are right.. but it is OT scripture being referred to.
The Law in Matthew 5:18 is about scripture in the OT.. not the entire one you are right.. but it is OT scripture being referred to.
yes you're right Wattie.
I'm just wondering what the following word to speak means. It does not say "Holy men of God wrote".
I think the holy men spoke, and often common folk wrote it down. I don't think the authors of the prophetic books were the prophets themselves. God gave the message to the prophet, the prophet spoke it, and someone bothered to write it down. If we're talking about authorship, God owns and authored the original content, the prophet is the medium relaying that content, and the person who wrote it down is also another medium. If we're talking about authorship of written Scripture, it is a combination of all three processes.
I'm just wondering what the following word to speak means. It does not say "Holy men of God wrote".
I think the holy men spoke, and often common folk wrote it down. I don't think the authors of the prophetic books were the prophets themselves. God gave the message to the prophet, the prophet spoke it, and someone bothered to write it down. If we're talking about authorship, God owns and authored the original content, the prophet is the medium relaying that content, and the person who wrote it down is also another medium. If we're talking about authorship of written Scripture, it is a combination of all three processes.
Right now Im reading psalms, although I missed the last week. What I love is as I read psalms I see how real and simular the words are to my own many times. The distance seems to dissapear between myself and God. I do pray with scripture every day and It is not only in the word that we find Our Lord but through it that I see Jesus. God bless, pickles
Yeah.. I think the context of the verse will determine if it is about scripture eh
(2Pe 1:19) We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
(2Pe 1:20) Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation.
(2Pe 1:21) For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
Context is about scripture..
So prophecy of scripture-- speaking forth scripture?
(2Pe 1:19) We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
(2Pe 1:20) Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation.
(2Pe 1:21) For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
Context is about scripture..
So prophecy of scripture-- speaking forth scripture?
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