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It is what the Holy Spirit decided "Sabachthani" means. It's right there in the Bible. Matthew 17:46; Mark 15:34. "My God. My God, why have You forsaken Me?"

I am not telling you different. Jews in our Lord's time spoke Aramaic, possibly more than Hebrew. When the Lord Jesus said, "Abba, Father," Abba is the Aramaic word used by small children speaking to their father. "Eli Eli [or 'Eloi, Eloi']lama sabachthani?" is a Greek transliteration of...

Some people have a problem with the Father forsaking the Son, because they feel it is inconsistent with the Doctrine of the Trinity. In the early Church, the reality that there is one God in three Persons (not ‘members’) was safeguarded by speaking of a single divine ‘substance’ shared by...

The whole of your post (and the previous one) is a nonsensical attempt to avoid what the text so clearly says, but in Mark 15:34, the Lord Jesus is speaking Aramaic, not Hebrew. This very point came up on this board just a short while ago. Also, enkataleipo is a stronger form of leipo, which...

Enkataleipo means to forsake or abandon (Acts of the Apostles 2:27; 2 Corinthians 4:9; 2 Timothy 4:10, 16; Hebrews 10:25; 13:5). I do not see where it ever means 'sanctify' in the N.T. The Greek word used invariably is hagiazo.

Unfortunately, all this is quite wrong and very misleading. First, the NKJV translation uses the Antiochan (actually, the 'Received') text just as the KJV does. Secondly, the translation of Revelation 13:16 as 'in' or 'on' has nothing to do with the texts as they are identical at that point...

The Lord Jesus was actually alluding to Zechariah 4:7. 'Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubabel you shall become a plain! And he shall bring forth the capstone, with shouts of "Grace, grace to it!"' Zerubabel never moved a literal mountain. What he did was get the second Temple...

The NKJV is an excellent translation. It uses the same texts as the KJV, but is easier to understand and more accurate in several places.

I'm in agreement with much of your post, but I think I need to make one point. I make it as a firm believer in Definite Redemption and in all five points of Calvinism. The Gospel goes out to all. Mark 1:15, "Repent and believe the good news,' is a genuine invitation to whomsoever will come...

If you want to see the 'mark of the beast' in action today, have a read of this: Want to Run a Business? Pledge Allegiance to the Party

God speaks through His word, The Bible, always through His word, everywhere through His word and only through His word. I someone believes that God has spoken to him through a dream, a vision or an impulse, fair enough; just be aware that it is not only God who can speak in this way. But what no...

Where has Pink, in the extract I posted, claimed that 'world' is limited to to the Elect or to believers? And where have I claimed that? In fact, Pink (and I) have declared that kosmos sometimes means all the people in the world. It's right here: Each usage of kosmos must be judged by the...

Well, if you've read him you obviously haven't understood him. No, we (and by this I mean Pink and I) look at the usage of 'the world' and 'the whole world' and observe that the words 'all the people of' do not often appear in connection with them. To write them in is polemic. Pink, as I...

The reason that people suppose this is that they don't understand what Revelation 13:15-18 is teaching. Revelation was not written solely for our generation. It was written for the benefit of all Christians of all times from the time it was written until our Lord's return. In Roman times, you...

John 14:15.

I have nothing to say about Bill Clinton, but concerning Arthur Pink, if you really think that of him, then unless you are dyslexic, I rather think that you have never read anything by him: 'The words of the wise are like goads, and the words of scholars are like well-driven nails, given by one...

Hmmm. I thought Galatians was in the New Testament. The Holy Spirit does not convict true Christians that they do not keep the law, because that law is already written on their hearts in the New Covenant (2 Corinthians 3:3; Hebrews 8:10) and it is their delight to keep it. It is (or should be)...

The Holy Spirit convicts men that they do not keep the law. That is the meaning of Galatians 3:24.

Ultimately it is people's own responsibility to receive the Gospel. John 3:19. 'And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men preferred darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.' John 5:38. 'But you are not willing to come to Me that you may...

Doing research on the origins of the Lollards, I found myself looking at some accounts of the Black Death that killed somewhere between a third and a half of the population of Europe. There were three common responses to the plague: some people just partied hard as if there were no tomorrow (as...