Moses had entered a realm of high voltage, and this tells us something important about the nature of the God who is about to reveal his personal name. He is neither a God to be trifled with nor approached in a casual, flippant manner, nor sidled up to as one might fraternize with a chum at a football game. For this God is holy, and holiness demands a response of reverence, awe, and wonder. Shortly after his conversion, Augustine reflected on the reality of the God whom Moses met on the far side of the desert—He Who Is—in the form of an extended prayer to the Lord:.
Oh God, from whom to be turned is to fall; To whom to be turned is to rise; From whom to depart is to die; To whom to return is to revive; In whom to dwell is to live. Whom no man loses unless he be deceived, Whom no man seeks unless he has been admonished, Whom no man finds unless he has been cleansed.
Whom to abandon is to perish, To reach out to whom is to love, To see whom is true possession. His email address is tfgeorge samford. Daniel L. Akin Nashville: Broadman, , rev. Comments are visible to subscribers only. Log in or subscribe to join the conversation. Support First Things by turning your adblocker off or by making a donation. Close Login. What is the point? So, this is what we are trying to say, Tom. Tom: Dave, and. Believe what we say!
Dave: And, indeed they are. That was home schooling way back there. So, the whole problem—well, not the whole problem, but one of the major problems with religion—well, Jesus said it, we have talked about that too, in Matthew The people are at your mercy. Tom: Now, Dave, just let me just interject this. Jesus was referring to those who represented the religious establishment. He was dealing with the Jewish religious establishment, who began to pervert these things.
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Skip to main content. Search form. March 2, Dave: No! Dave: Exactly. Dave: Right. Tom: Jesus, who was a Jew; this is not anti-Semitism! Dave: Now Tom, if I offended anyone out there. Tom: Yeah, we have an objective reference here.
Dave: Amen. The verses reveal that the Holy Spirit moved men to write Scripture, which we call the Bible. In this passage we discover that God Himself caused the prophets and apostles to write what He wanted written.
Scripture or the Bible is also called the Word of God. The phrase Word of God reminds us that the words in the Bible are the words of God. He wrote it. Acts helps us understand that both the Holy Spirit and David wrote the prophetic statement Psalm that is quoted. Acts illustrates that Isaiah and the Holy Spirit were the two authors of Isaiah There are two authors to every book in the Bible. A human author wrote as God the Holy Spirit influenced him to write the words God wanted written.
God did not just communicate the concepts; He even directed the individual words. That is God was concerned about the plurality of the word. In Matthew Jesus refers to the Hebrew language in which the Old Testament was written and states that the strokes on Hebrew letters and the letters will not change. That is, God directed the writing of the Old Testament in exact detail.
We understand that God wrote the Bible. He directed the words even to the plurality of the words, letters, and strokes on the Hebrew words. Therefore, if we ignore the meaning of the words that God wrote, then we distort what He so carefully wrote. God has warned those who change His Word that they will be punished Deuteronomy ; ; Proverbs ; Jeremiah ; Revelation Since God carefully selected the very words of the Bible, should we change them? Some have reasoned that the Hebrew word for God, elohim, in Genesis has both a feminine and masculine gender.
Some would have us believe that Genesis reveals that elohim is actually both masculine and feminine, but that appears to be a misunderstanding of the concept of Adam and Eve being made in the image of God.
Since the word image cannot mean that Adam and Eve were identical copies of God, this reasoning is faulty. It is always masculine and can never be of neutral gender since the Hebrew language does not have a neutral gender. Therefore, the two words for God will always have a masculine gender, but that does not mean God is a physical male.
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