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> From: Abdul Rahman" abdulrahman
> Subject: Who Inspired the Authors of the Bible?
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> Who Inspired the Authors of the Bible?
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> By Dr. Lyndsey Jansen
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> Examples of the Biblical Verses that do not Belittle God
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> Would you agree with the Bible when it says. "The Lord is a
warrior; Yahweh is his name" (Exodus 15:3) The Lord is warrior,
that is, well able to deal with all those that strive with their
Maker, and will certainly be too hard for them.
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> Is there man a superior than God? Why does the Bible describe God
to be merely Prince of Peace {Isaiah 9:6- For a child will be born
for us, a son will be given to us, and the government will be on His
shoulders. He will be named Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal
Father, Prince of Peace.} Melchizadek reigned for only a certain
number of years. Jesus the Christ who is the Prince of Peace reigns
forever.
Does not God deserve the grand title, the King of Peace? A prince is
the son of a king. Jesus is the Son of God. God is the King of Kings.
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> God is not omniscient. How come the Bible portrays God's limited
knowledge of His creatures?
1. God cast Lucifer out of heaven.
2. They heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the
cool of the day. It was the approach of the Judge that put them into
a fright; and yet he came in such a manner as made it formidable
only to guilty consciences. He appeared to them now in no other
similitude than that in which they had seen him when he put them
into paradise; for he came to convince and humble them, not to amaze
and terrify them. He came into the garden, not descending
immediately from heaven but he came into the garden, as one that was
still willing to be familiar with them. He came walking, not
running, but walking deliberately, as one slow to anger. He came in
the cool of the day, not in the night, when all fears are doubly
fearful, nor in the heat of day, for he came not in the heat of his
anger. Fury is not in him, Isaiah 27:4. They heard his voice at some
distance, giving them notice of his coming, and probably it was a
still small voice, like that in which he came to enquire after
Elijah. Some think they heard him discoursing with himself
concerning the sin of Adam, and the judgment now to be passed upon
him.
Observe here, I. The startling question with which God pursued Adam
and arrested him: Where art thou? Not as if God did not know where
he was; but thus he would enter the process against him. "Come,
where is this foolish man?'' Some make it a bemoaning question It is
rather an upbraiding question, in order to his conviction and
humiliation: Where art thou? Not, In what place? but, In what
condition?
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> God knows what is right (Job 42:7-8).
1.) "After the Lord had finished speaking to Job, He said to Eliphaz
the Temanite: "I am angry with you and your two friends, for you
have not spoken the truth about Me, as My servant Job has. 8 Now
take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and offer a
burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for
you. I will surely accept his [prayer] and not deal with you as your
folly deserves. For you have not spoken the truth about Me, as My
servant Job has." God knows truth but the three did not.
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> Are the verses that portray God created lies divinely
inspired? "The Lord asked him, 'How?'
22)"He said, 'I will go and become a lying spirit in the mouth of
all his prophets.' "Then He said, 'You will certainly entice him and
prevail. Go and do that.'
23) "You see, the Lord has put a lying spirit into the mouth of all
these prophets of yours, and the Lord has pronounced disaster
against you."
>>He said - I will inspire a lie into the minds and mouths of his
prophets. Thou shalt - I will give them up into thy hands, and leave
them to their own ignorance and wickedness. Go - This is not a
command, but only a permission.<<
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> Does not the Bible belittle God when it says that He is the
husband of a barren woman? To quote: "For your Maker is your
Husband, the LORD of hosts is His name."
>>Sing - Having largely discoursed of the sufferings of Christ, and
of the blessed fruits thereof, and here foreseeing that glorious
state of the church, he breaks forth into this song of triumph. And
as the foregoing chapter literally speaks of Christ and the church.
This church, consisting at first of the Jews, and afterwards of the
Gentiles, had been barren, 'till the coming of Christ. The church of
the Gentiles, which in the times of the Old Testament was desolate,
does now bring forth to God a more numerous posterity than that of
the Jews. Thy maker Will own thee for his spouse. The Lord - Who
hath the sovereign command of all men and creatures, and therefore
can subdue the Gentiles to thee, and can make thee to increase and
multiply in so prodigious a measure, even in thine old age,
notwithstanding thy barrenness in the days of thy youth, of which he
speaks in the previous verse.<<
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> The Bible narrates instances that depict God was omnipresent at
all times.
>>Meaning, that he declared by effect, that he knew their wicked
enterprise; for God's power is everywhere, and neither ascends nor
descends.<<
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> God can be tempted as shown in the following verses: "Why do you
tempt the Lord?" (Exodus 17:2)
>>God can be tempted DUH! Jesus was tempted.<<
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> God is omnipotent. He is powerful to help His creatures.
>>The war was of the Lord, whose omnipotent aid would have ensured
their success in every encounter, whether on the mountains or the
plains, with foot soldiers or cavalry. It was distrust, the want of
a simple and firm reliance on the promise of God, that made them
afraid of the iron chariots<<
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Would you believe that you have robbed God (Malachi 3:8-9)?
>>rob--literally, "cover": hence, defraud. Yet ye have done so to Me
in respect to the tithes due to Me, namely, the tenth of all the
remainder after the first-fruits were paid. The neglect of this duty
was sternly rebuked.
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He is not weak. Isaiah 43:24
>>Isaiah 43:24- But you didn't even do the minimum - so stingy with
me, so closefisted. Yet you haven't been stingy with your sins.
You've been plenty generous with them - and I'm fed up. <<
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> God is not the only Saviour. Did not God say, "Besides me there is
no saviour" (Isaiah 43:10-12)?
>>There will be in the kingdom yet to come no king, but a prince;
the sabbatic period of the judges will return, when there was no
visible king, but God reigned in the theocracy. Israelites, not
strangers, shall dispense justice to a God-fearing people. The
judges were not such a burden to the people as the kings proved
afterwards. In their time the people more readily repented than
under the kings. Judges were from time to time raised up as saviours
or deliverers of Israel from the enemy. These, and the similar
deliverers in the long subsequent age of Antiochus, the Maccabees,
who conquered the Idumeans, were types of the peaceful period yet to
come to Israel.<<
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> God made foolishness. Paul said that God made foolish the wisdom
of this world and that God is pleased with the foolishness of the
message preached to save those who believe.
>>For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I
will set aside the understanding of the experts. 20) Where is the
philosopher? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age?
Hasn't God made the world's wisdom foolish? 21) For since, in God's
wisdom, the world did not know God through wisdom, God was pleased
to save those who believe through the foolishness of the message
preached. Where is the wise?
>>>The Greek philosophers. In Greek, the term "philosopher" means a
lover of wisdom. The scribe? The scribes were the Jewish learned
class. Probably the Greek teachers who "disputed daily" in the
public places. Hath not God made foolish? etc. All their worldly
wisdom is excluded from the gospel. 21) For . . . knew not God.
Worldly wisdom did not search out the true God. Intellectual
speculation had done its utmost, and failed. Hence it was rejected,
and the Divine Wisdom chose by the foolishness of preaching to save.
That is, by preaching what the wise and puffed up of the this world
called foolishness. They called the gospel foolishness.<<<
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> The Law of the Lord made nothing perfect: Would you believe Paul
when he said that the law made nothing perfect.
17)For it has been testified: You are a priest forever in the order
of Melchizedek. 18) So the previous commandment is annulled because
it was weak and unprofitable 19) BUT A BETTER HOPE IS INTRODUCED,
through which we draw near to God.
>>The Levitical priesthood brought nothing to perfection: it could
not justify men's persons from guilt; it could not sanctify them
from inward pollution; it could not cleanse the consciences of the
worshippers from dead works; all it could do was to lead them to the
antitype. But the priesthood of Christ carries in it, and brings
along with it, a better hope; it shows us the true foundation of all
the hope we have towards God for pardon and salvation<<
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> God's commandments are not pure. How true that God told Hosea to
take a wife of harlotry and children of harlotry? Did he really say
to Hosea to go again, love a woman who is loved by a lover and is
committing adultery.
>>In this Hosea represents the person of God, who loved his Church
before he called her, and did not withdraw his love when she gave
herself to idols. Israel gave themselves wholly to pleasure, and
could not stop, as those that are given to drunkenness. <<
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> God repents. He was "sorry that He had made man on the Earth".
>>That he had made a creature of such noble powers, and had put him
on this earth, which he built and furnished on purpose to be a
comfortable habitation for him; and it grieved him at his heart -
These are expressions after the manner of men, and must be
understood so as not to reflect upon God's immutability. It does not
speak any passion or uneasiness in God, nothing can create
disturbance to the eternal mind; but it speaks his just and holy
displeasure against sin and sinners: neither does it speak any
change of God's mind; for with him there is no variableness; but it
speaks a change of his way. When God had made man upright, he was
refreshed. His way towards him was such as showed him well pleased
with the work of his own hands; but now man was apostatized, he
could not do otherwise, but show displeasure; so that the change was
in man, not in God. <<
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> Holiness does not pertain to God alone
>>The people of Israel were holy because of the dedication to a Holy
God.<<
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> God is angry forever. Bible asks: "How long Lord will you be angry
forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire". The people of Israel
yearn for mercy which only can come when they ask.
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> God is not only jealous but his name is Jealous. Did God really
say that He was jealous God?
>>God's jealousy in the matters of his worship: "I am the Lord
Jehovah, and thy God, am a jealous God, especially in things of this
nature.'' This intimates the care he has of his own institutions,
his hatred of idolatry and all false worship, his displeasure
against idolaters, and that he resents every thing in his worship
that looks like, or leads to, idolatry. Jealousy is quicksighted.
Idolatry being spiritual adultery, as it is very often represented
in scripture, the displeasure of God against it is fitly called
jealousy. If God is jealous herein, we should be so, afraid of
offering any worship to God otherwise than as he has appointed in
his word.<<
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> God is not a rock. The Bible says, "who is a rock, except our
God?" it contradicts the statement: "To whom then will you like God?
Or what likeness will you compare Him?".
>>Which of the heathen idols, then, is to be compared to this
Almighty God? This passage, if not written so late as the idolatrous
times of Manasseh, has at least a prospective warning reference to
them and subsequent reigns; the result of the chastisement of Jewish
idolatry in the Babylonish captivity was that thenceforth after the
restoration the Jews never fell into it. Perhaps these prophecies
here may have tended to that result.<<
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> Man blesses God. David said, "I will bless the Lord at all times."
God doesn't dependent on man.
>>Psalm 34:1- I will praise the Lord at all times; His praise will
always be on my lips.<<
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> God is visible. There were men who had seen God.
>>The Appearing of God.
One of the defining characteristics of God in the Old Testament is
that he is the one who appears. The salvation history of Israel is
punctuated with and propelled by appearances from God. God appeared
to Abram, Isaac, and Jacob, promising that their descendants were
chosen by him. Subsequently he appeared to Moses, promising
deliverance and establishing a covenant with Israel. Stephen refers
to this central feature of Jewish religion. Appearing by its very
nature requires one or more people to perceive/receive the
appearance. While later rabbinic texts hold that a direct vision of
God is reserved for the righteous in the age to come, the Pentateuch
in particular recounts that God was visible at certain moments to
certain people.
God appears for specific purposes, so those who receive his
appearances also receive some sort of commission. The appearance of
God both validates a person's role and initiates a new stage in
God's revelation of himself and his purposes for Israel. A common
pattern in the Old Testament is that through his appearance to one
person God subsequently reveals himself to all of Israel. In the
psalms God's appearance in Zion is for the general benefit of those
who are faithful. The religious significance and historical reality
of appearances of God are signified by commemorative sites, such as
El-bethel, Shechem, and Shiloh.
God appears in the Old Testament to reveal his character, identity,
and purposes for Israel. This quality of disclosure is seen in the
fact that an appearance of God is typically connected with a
revelation of his glory or with a "word of the Lord". At his
appearances God reveals himself as one who listens and responds, who
comforts and cares. God's appearances make clear that his purpose
for Israel is both her deliverance and her loyalty to him. God's
appearing functions also as a reward for obedience. The appearing of
the righteous God can be threatening and terrifying, but generally
God's appearances provide hope. Remembrance of God's appearances
provides the basis for trust in God's faithfulness and love.
God makes his appearances in various forms, most typically through
an angel in visions, and in dreams.
While the majority of Old Testament references to God's appearances
tell of specific historical moments, there is also expectation of
future appearances. The future appearance of God or God's messenger
entails judgment but also the vindication of belief in him. One of
the most profound expressions of religious longing is the hope for a
vision of God. Just as several of God's past appearances are
connected with specific places, so future appearances are expected
in religiously significant locales, particularly the temple and
Zion.<<
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> God's work is far from perfect. It questions man's purity, being
God's creation.
>>Humans are unclean and oppose God<<
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> God is oft-forgiving. He does not forgive sins of those whose
hands are full of blood no matter how many prayers they make
>>He shows that where men are given to evil, deceit, cruelty and
extortion, which is meant by blood, there God will show his anger
and not accept them though they seem holy<<
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> God is not the only judge of all mankind. The Bible says, "For the
father judges no one, but has committed all judgement to the Son".
Even Paul claimed that he judged. He also said: "We shall judge
angels. How much more on things that pertain to this life?".
>>Paul had already decided or judged, as though present (wß parwn).
Paul felt compelled to reach a conclusion about the case and in a
sentence of much difficulty seems to conceive an imaginary church
court where the culprit has been tried and condemned.<<
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> How come the Bible talks of "the fear of the LORD"
>>The fear - The law and word of God, because it is both the object
and the rule, and the cause of holy fear.>>
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"the foolishness and "weakness of God" Is He not the Almighty?
>>Because the foolishness of God
Not that there is any such thing as "foolishness" in God, nor the
least degree of weakness in him; but the Paul means that which the
men of the world esteem so, and therefore, by an ironical
concession, calls it by those names; by which is intended either
Christ, who, as crucified, is counted foolishness; yet he "is wiser
than men": yea, even than Solomon, who was wiser than all men
besides; Christ is greater than he in wisdom, having all the
treasures of wisdom and knowledge in him; yea, in redemption by the
blood of his cross, which is accounted such an egregious instance of
folly, there is such a display of wisdom as surpasses all the wisdom
of men and angels: and though he is, as crucified, esteemed as
the weakness of God-
yet in this respect
is stronger than men-
stronger than the strong man armed; and has done that by his own
arm, has brought salvation for his people, which neither men nor
angels could ever have done: or all this may be understood of the
Gospel of Christ, which is condemned as folly and weakness, and yet
has infinitely more wisdom in it, than is to be found in the best
concerted schemes of the wisest philosophers; and has had a greater
influence on the minds and manners of men than theirs ever had; it
is the manifold wisdom of God, and the power of God unto salvation
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> God was a not tribal King. He was the King of Israel.
>>For so the Jews divided their country that for every thousand
there was a chief captain: and because Bethlehem was not able to
make a thousand, he calls it little. But yet God will raise up his
captain and governor in it: and thus it is not the least by reason
of this benefit. He shows that the coming of Christ and all his ways
were appointed by God from all eternity.<<
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> If God were the King of Israel, then Satan must not be superior to
God. The Bible perceives Satan as the ruler of this world.
>>Christ goes to death not unwillingly, but willingly, not that he
is yielding to the devil, but rather that he is obeying his Father's
decree.<<
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> The Bible states God is 3-in-1. co-equal
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> Satan is the god of this evil world. The Living New Testament even
recognizes that Satan is the god of this evil world.
>>god is in small caps just as allah. Satan is not a "God"<<
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