Who are the elect? Not the pious IMO

[DuckieLady]

@FluffyYellowDuck Do you have a copy of the Geneva Bible?

I wish I had...

Not a physical book, but you can read the Geneva 1599 here. (Just click Bible book list at the top and you can pick whichever one you want.)

 

[farouk]

Not a physical book, but you can read the Geneva 1599 here. (Just click Bible book list at the top and you can pick whichever one you want.)

@FluffyYellowDuck Thanks! I've seen a facsimile copy of the Geneva, but it's not my copy. Yale did an edition of Tyndale's New Testament some years back, which preceded the Geneva Bible.

 

[DuckieLady]

@FluffyYellowDuck Thanks! I've seen a facsimile copy of the Geneva, but it's not my copy. Yale did an edition of Tyndale's New Testament some years back, which preceded the Geneva Bible.

I will have to look that one up, too! I have loved studying from the older Bibles.

Here is a different link of Geneva with the corrected spelling. I don't know why the spelling is so off in the Bible Gateway version. I assume it has something to do with OCR and not being corrected.

 

[farouk]

I will have to look that one up, too! I have loved studying from the older Bibles.

Here is a different link of Geneva with the corrected spelling. I don't know why the spelling is so off in the Bible Gateway version. I assume it has something to do with OCR and not being corrected.

@FluffyYellowDuck Thanks! Even the King James of 1611 did not have the same spelling of the version referred to sometimes today as the "1611 King James"; its spelling was not actually standardized until 1769.

 

[DuckieLady]

@FluffyYellowDuck Thanks! Even the King James of 1611 did not have the same spelling of the version referred to sometimes today as the "1611 King James"; its spelling was not actually standardized until 1769.

A little hard on the eyes, but all the more interesting!

 

[farouk]

A little hard on the eyes, but all the more interesting!

@FluffyYellowDuck I think you are still quite young (it's a blessing!) but for many of us the time comes when print size and clarity becomes a big issue...

 

[Brakelite]

I should have re-phrased that, some on here don't like my beliefs? Oh this place is packed full of pride brother. I'm right, your wrong...on and on. If God knows our hearts, that is all that SHOULD matter...do we please men? Never!
And you are correct Mantis, people just "straight up don't get along anymore. It sometimes resembles young kids fighting among each other, at a certain point, mom doesn't even care who did what or even started it! She's tired of her children always fighting. Kind of makes me think that God is pretty low on patience with us as, with all the fighting, it only shows that we do NOT love one another. And He commanded us TO love one another. Some will not consider certain people brothers or sisters, or even saved if not believing as they do. Are we open for what He has for us? Genuinely open to Him? If so, HE will make things clear, Amen!!

The first fight on earth was between brothers. So will the last. Jesus said our greatest enemies will be those of our own household. In our own churches. It isn't secular counsellors or atheistic lawyers or members of Antifa who enter our church boards and shut down evangelism campaigns.

 

[mjrhealth]

That’s an interesting quote from Jesus. Another is something like “MANY are called but few are chosen”.
Do you think he calls everyone?

He calls many, bur pride and religion gets in the way, than there is,

Joh_15:20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

Joh_7:7 The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
Joh_15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

Cant blame anyone for not wanting that.

 

[DuckieLady]

@FluffyYellowDuck I think you are still quite young (it's a blessing!) but for many of us the time comes when print size and clarity becomes a big issue...

Haha, already need my reading glasses, but luckily still just at a 1.25+ A couple more years though...

 

[farouk]

Haha, already need my reading glasses, but luckily still just at a 1.25+ A couple more years though...

@FluffyYellowDuck Oh do I know the feeling...

But this has always been a hazard for those who are bookworms, which I think you probably are...

 

[farouk]

Baclklit's comment is a reminder of the supreme importance of emphasizing care in studying Scripture prayerfully.

 

[Nancy]

The first fight on earth was between brothers. So will the last. Jesus said our greatest enemies will be those of our own household. In our own churches. It isn't secular counsellors or atheistic lawyers or members of Antifa who enter our church boards and shut down evangelism campaigns.

Good point QT

 

[Brakelite]

Good point QT

Cutee? I like you too.

 

[Nancy]

Cutee? I like you too.

 

[Truman]

My people.

 

[Truman]

Unfortunately for me, they are in New South Wales.

 

[Nancy]

My people.

What are they doing Ron? Does that rock represent the "burning bush" The large container represent the world maybe?

 

[Truman]

What are they doing Ron? Does that rock represent the "burning bush" The large container represent the world maybe?

The red areas represent where most, but not all, of the twelve tribes of Israel are scattered.
The baptism of fire is consuming the carnal, or sinful, nature that we, as descendants of Adam, are all born with.

 

[Truman]

My name is Truman.

 

[Nancy]

My name is Truman.

Sorry bout that.

 

[farouk]

My people.

I think the point of the New Testament is that it is individual faith in Christ that saves, not circumcision, bloodlines, etc.