89 chapter project: Matthew

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The most powerful argument against "born again" being a thing, and a good thing, is a conversation with anyone claiming to be "born again".
 
paradox3 ---your quote ----- Again, may I ask is this renewal of the Spirit an event that happens on a singular occasion? Do you have a personal narrative about your experience with renewal?

Yes I do have a personal experience ---and I can tell you my personal experience was profound ------it happen on one singular occasion and I never looked back ---
 
If this event was Berserk-style, I imagine a number of near death experiences happened because people never looked in one important direction.
 
paradox3 said:
Not sure what is funny about two posters from different traditions seeking to understand each other. In this case, unsafe and I are trying to understand what each other means by Being Born Again.
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What I found amusing is that unsafe talks on and on about the need to be born again, and yet when you asked her the simple question of what bring born again means to her, she sidestepped the question.
 
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blackbelt1961 said:
maybe, just maybe because it was written approx 700BC so language was of that time ,

but hey im sure you knew that cuz you know everything, gobbledegook in the time of Solomon was standard

you are a winner
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Lol. The gods word bible version was not written 700BC. Lol. It was compiled in 1995. 2695 years later by some strange men in Cleveland, Ohio. Who it appears had no idea what they were doing.
You're definitely funny. Say some more stupid stuff.
 
Pavlos Maros said:
Lol. The gods word bible version was not written 700BC. Lol. It was compiled in 1995. 2695 years later by some strange men in Cleveland, Ohio. Who it appears had no idea what they were doing.
You're definitely funny. Say some more stupid stuff.
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So to you the bible is just one book .

Can't beat your intelligence

You win
 
blackbelt1961 said:
What was packaged?
66 books ? 72 I believe for Catholicism

Thus the time of writing of proverbs
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What I mean blackbelt is that many books are compiled and bound together and sold as one unit, "The Holy Bible." People don't typically go out to buy just the book of Matthew, or just the book of Genesis, or just the book of Obadiah.
 
Jae said:
What I mean blackbelt is that many books are compiled and bound together and sold as one unit, "The Holy Bible." People don't typically go out to buy just the book of Matthew, or just the book of Genesis, or just the book of Obadiah.
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blackbelt1961 said:
I get that that is the point I was trying to make to pavos, each book of the Bible was written at different times
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Okay, but in that the books are normatively bound together and sold as one unit, let's be more understanding of those who think it's just one book.
 
So it seems there is a God's Word translation of the Bible. I did not know this.

As @Pavlos Maros has stated, it was published in 1995.

The GW bible. Who knew?
 
Back to Being Born Again. Two posters have told us they experienced this but did not go into detail. I can certainly understand that these things are very personal. And I am getting from comments here that it is a one time event.

What is the connection between Being Born Again and believers' baptism?
 
paradox3 said:
Back to Being Born Again. Two posters have told us they experienced this but did not go into detail. I can certainly understand that these things are very personal. And I am getting from comments here that it is a one time event.

What is the connection between Being Born Again and believers' baptism?
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In the Baptist tradition (and in many other evangelical churches), credobaptism is thought to be an outer sign of an inner reality. The believer going under the water represents the death to self, while their rising up from being under the water represents their rising to new life.
 
Jae said:
Okay, but in that the books are normatively bound together and sold as one unit, let's be more understanding of those who think it's just one book.
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I'm sure I was quite understanding, I'm sure he knew the bible what's more than one book,
 
paradox3 said:
The GW bible. Who knew?
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I am following along with this translation:

The Gospel in Brief: The Life of Jesus (Harpe… (Paperback)
by Leo Tolstoy, Dustin Condren
The task must be to understand the essence of his teaching ...
https://www.amazon.com/dp/006199345...ProductDesc=1#product-description_feature_div
From the Back Cover
The most celebrated novelist of all time, the author of Anna Karenina and War and Peace, retells "the greatest story ever told," integrating the four Gospels into a single twelve-chapter narrative of the life of Jesus. Based on his study of early Christian texts, Leo Tolstoy's remarkable The Gospel in Brief—virtually unknown to English readers until this landmark new translation by Dustin Condren—makes accessible the powerful, mystical truth of Jesus's spiritual teaching, stripped of artificial church doctrine. "If you are not acquainted with The Gospel in Brief," wrote the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose life was profoundly influenced by it, "then you cannot imagine what an effect it can have upon a person."

Ludwig Wittgenstein was a philosopher obsessed with the difficulties of language, who wanted to help us find a way out of some of the muddles we get into with words.
 
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