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buzugee: semantics, my friend, semantics

There is nothing semantic here. Its just like when you helped big momma write letters, you were the writer and big momma was the author, you penned big momma's thoughts etc on paper for her, afterwards then posted the letter. OK, notice similarly, how Timothy too penned the thoughts of the author by writing "I want you to know that our brother Timothy has been released. If he arrives soon, I will come with him to see you" There is no doubt Timothy was the writer of Hebrews however he wasn't the author. If Timothy were the author and not merely or only a writer, then it is absurd that Timothy is writing he will arrive with himself; when " our brother Timothy has been released. If he arrives soon, I will come with him" was penned.

buzugee: HMMMM you dont say. all this time my whole life i thought writer was the same as author

Well, the author and writer of the 10 commandments on the tablet is God but then if thought through another way, like who is the author of the Bible and who are the writers of the Bible, the author-writer difference becomes apparent.

buzugee: GENTLEMEN, i think i may have cracked the case.So a couple of weeks ago i treated myself to a KJV bible. i am looking at it now and at the back of the book of hebrews it says WRITTEN TO THE HEBREWS FROM ITALY BY TIMOTHY. so there you have it, it wasnt appollos or barnabas or paul or whatever name yall came up with. it was TIMOTHY.

You are 100% right, Timothy was the writer however he was not the author. Author and writer are often interchangeably used though both words, really are quite different.

God2man: Here we go again, I have created a topic on this before, must we accept all our Pastors teachings?

How do we know the truth? Or how do we know the person saying the right thing?

For example, this brother has the holyspirit, he is well read in terms of scripture exposition, he said; tithe is forbidden or it has been stopped. Another brother, holyghost filled, very sound in Biblical teachings, he said; tithe is scriptural, it must be paid or given whatever. We now arrive at a crossroads, we do not know who to believe again. I asked the question must we accept all our pastor's teachings. The answer i got was that we should study the scripture and not interpret the scripture out of context.

Christians, where do we go from here?

Frosbel,Goshen360, what do we do?


God bless you.
God2man.

When you were young, you accept everything told. When you are grown, come of age or transition to maturity, you dont necessarily have to accept all your Pastors teachings. And if you do, then you will be in same shoes as the Israelites. They; the Israelites, stayed at a distance and said to Moses, "You speak to us, and we will listen. But don't let God speak directly to us, or we will die!"

Now not all pastors are very humble man or more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth as Moses was and since you cant 100% vouch pastors motives or credibilities, then the buck stops with God, in regards to knowing the truth or how to know the person saying the right thing.

God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind

Let God speak directly to you. Listen to God. There really is not much more to do than doing that.

Goshen360: Thank you for this question again. I had wanted to use this thread to teach something to my other brethren but guess the thread didn't go too far. Am not saying I know ALL but at least, we can use a thread like this to "probably" put an end to some/certain issues when we compare spiritual things with spiritual.

Back to your question and adding to the contribution of Frosbel,

Many of us claim to have the Holy Spirit but when it comes to interpreting the bible, we simple dump this Holy Spirit and start using our own understanding hence, we have so much confusion. Like Frosble said, God is NOT the author of confusion should ALL of us follow same Holy Spirit in us.

Again. Understanding biblical text is key to right biblical interpretation. The Bible says what it means and mean what it say.

Another thing is tradition. Many of us come here to argue traditions we have grown up with rather than search/find out if those traditions of men in our churches are really right and sound teachings. There are many traditions I grew up with from my early church but no longer believe them to be true and sound biblical teaching today because I have searched the scriptures by myself. I can go on and on but I will rather stop at these two main point. However, I still like to ASK God2man some basic questions as I intended at the beginning of this thread.

The reason is because you jettisoned the church's "law of gravity" that was keeping you grounded after finding a better one; the "law of aerodynamics" that keeps you in flight whilst in the air.

There are many "laws of gravity" in the church. They turn people turkey, a hindering factor. Blocking an enabling environment to rise high in the air or fly like an eagle. Just as you work out your salvation you need to work out which ones of the "laws of gravity" to drop/discard and the "law of aerodynamics" to embrace as when/if arrested on a matter/issue and convicted on it by the spirit of Truth

buzugee: KJV
STREET PREACHERS ( OR WHAT THE LORD REFERS TO AS THE HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS )
APOCRYPHA

Only place I know this done is in the states, need them too in the streets of naija, but leaving out the swear words when preaching though

buzugee: he shooo is in heavy darkness i tell ya. Our logicboy needs an exorcism. anything short of that and he aint breaking free. he got demons stronger than legion holding him down in that pit of darkness

Demons or legions aint going to waste their energy on our logicboy, they have their own battles in the pit of darkness they dealing with to worry about him. The chain of darkness is just like the shrouds of clothing wrapped over dead bodies. He is enveloped or delivered in this chains of darkness. To break off the chains of darkness all by himself, he sure would need some anointing of sorts or if not the one similar to Samson's.

buzugee: you make no sense. if the story is not true why have you opened several threads shouting about how evil God was because of what he did to Job ? you cant sneak your way out of this one. you are one confused man. time to come into the light. this darkness thing aint working for ya. its making you unstable in all your ways. scripture says ' a double minded man is unstable in all his ways '

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It is easier said by you than done by him

It is only the mercy of God coupled with a broken & contrite heart which can get him delivered from the chains of darkness that's embroiled him

A change of name such as from Simon to Peter to cement it rock solid too.

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