The Importance of How to Interpret a Biblical Text

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The_Watchers_2017

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or, chase them with a broom flipping over their tables full of their demonic materials and clean the House of God?
 
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i know, this is a website.
but i am here and God is inside of me.
so theoretically, the place where I or any true Follower of God is at is WHERE God is at.
and should be protected as such.
 
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The_Watchers_2017 said:
should they be kind and loving when addressing Satan with the Truth of God's Holy Word? [False Teachers - Preachers]?
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Love your enemies. Bless those that curse you. Do good to those that hate you. Pray for those who persecute and despitefully use you.

I imagine if they fit into any of the above categories, the answer is yes.
 
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Cameron143 said:
Love your enemies. Bless those that curse you. Do good to those that hate you. Pray for those who persecute and despitefully use you.

I imagine if they fit into any of the above categories, the answer is yes.
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You aren't able to do BOTH, as you've mentioned + address them with the Truth?
 
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if someone is teaching a demons doctrine, isn't it loving them by saying, you are wrong and if you don't change will end up in Hell for all Eternity?

then you pray and hope for the best for them.
 
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The_Watchers_2017 said:
i know, this is a website.
but i am here and God is inside of me.
so theoretically, the place where I or any true Follower of God is at is WHERE God is at.
and should be protected as such.
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I think Spurgeon addressed this well when he said something like this...if people are attacking a lion, you don't send people to protect the lion. The lion already knows how to defend itself. Simply let the lion out of the cage. How much more true is this of the Lion of the tribe of Judah.
 
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Cameron143 said:
I think Spurgeon addressed this well when he said something like this...if people are attacking a lion, you don't send people to protect the lion. The lion already knows how to defend itself. Simply let the lion out of the cage. How much more true is this of the Lion of the tribe of Judah.
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i think you mean:

i personally pray, God, no matter what, tragedy, pick them up and shake them, whatever it TAKES for them to wake up and see the Truth, that is what I desire for you to do to them, God.
 
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it's too bad this was not in a real church setting, when someone interrupts the Preacher, and the Preacher Rebukes them and then the person is kicked out.

where is the love for them, pray for them, in that scenario, but afterwards when in Prayer time, not in the Moment?
but before then, you are Rebuking and physically removing them.

so, i see all things relating to God should be done the same way.
 
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I'm making an imaginary claim to escalate my rubbish further because I need to justify myself it's bad this, if this was not in a real church setting, when someone interrupts the Preacher, and the Preacher Rebukes them and then the person is kicked out.

I need to appeal to preachers here so I can get there support and carry on with my self justification

where is my love for them, when do I pray for them, in that scenario, but afterwards when in Prayer time, not in the Moment?
but before then, you are Rebuking and physically removing them.

so, i see I should do what I want with all things relating to God should be done the same way.
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you missed some grammar
 
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Fundaamental said:
you missed some grammar
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This is still a good description where MORMONS are going to spend all Eternity, whether it's accept it or not:

10 ... he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.
11 And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night
 
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Around 2,300 years ago,the Greek-Egyptian emperor Ptolemy ordered the Jewish sages to render the Torah into Greek on two separate occasions. The first time, he had five scholars carry out the translation together. The second time, he assembled 72 scholars, isolated them in separate rooms, and had them prepare their own simultaneous Greek translations. On the 8th of Tevet, all 72 scholars produced identical versions having made the same 13 changes, where they judged that the literal rendition would result in a significant distortion to the intended meaning.

An ancient rabbinic source, Masechet Sofrim, provides an account of the first translation:

It happened once that five sages wrote the Torah in Greek for King Ptolemy. That day was as terrible for the People of Israel as the day that the Golden Calf was made, because the Torah was unable to be translated adequately.​
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Upon reading this passage, it seems that the rabbis were extremely hostile to the idea of It seems the rabbis were extremely hostile to the idea translating the Torah – or at least translating it into Greek. It appears that they were concerned the translation would not do justice to the text’s intent, going so far as to compare it to one of the greatest religious abominations in Jewish history.


Never trust the Greek rendition of the Hebrew because the Greek has no way of using the word to establish the INTENT of the Hebrew.

A Hebrew idiom may not be easily translated into Greek.
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That is strange because Jesus spoke largely in Greek even in teaching about the law. He never once made this claim. Greek never prevented Him from teaching.
 
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The_Watchers_2017 said:
im still going to condemn who I want when I want a good description where MORMONS are going to spend all Eternity, whether it's accept it or not:

10 ... he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.
11 And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night
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don't worry about your self
 
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The_Watchers_2017 said:
if someone is teaching a demons doctrine, isn't it loving them by saying, you are wrong and if you don't change will end up in Hell for all Eternity?

then you pray and hope for the best for them.
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Jesus said as much and similar. On numerous occasions.
 
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