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Re: Lesson Study #2 - The Final WORD
[Re: Daryl]
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04/13/07 10:42 PM
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Looking ahead in the quarterly, I see that prophecy, science, and archeology will be discussed. So rather that jumping ahead perhaps, we should consider this weeks lesson more.
Why do you think it is titled, "The Final Word"?
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Re: Lesson Study #2 - The Final WORD
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04/13/07 10:52 PM
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Looking ahead in the quarterly, I see that prophecy, science, and archeology will be discussed. So rather that jumping ahead perhaps, we should consider this weeks lesson more.
Why do you think it is titled, "The Final Word"? Jesus is known as the "Word". The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. . . ... He is also know as the "Alpha and Omega". The begining and the end. . . . Do you think the authors of the lesson were referencing this or did they have something else in mind when they gave the lesson the title: "The Final Word"?
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Re: Lesson Study #2 - The Final WORD
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04/13/07 10:56 PM
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Monday's study brings out the idea that the Bible was God-breathed. As Monday's lesson states:
The Lord communicated His Word through various means. Besides revealing Himself in visions and dreams, He sent messages in the form of direct appearance (Exod. 3:2-7), through an angel (Dan. 8:15, 16), or through eyewitnesses (1 John 1:1-3).
It goes on to say:
Regardless of how God communicated to them, the writers of the Bible were not acting merely as writing machines. God did not push them as He would keys on a typewriter to produce His message. Each writer had his own writing style; these differences are seen all through the Bible. The crucial point is that these messages were not their own; they were writing down what was delivered to them by God. They were His messages, not their messages (2 Sam. 23:2, Amos 3:8).
1 - "the book of the Lord" (Isa. 34:16), 2 - "the gospel of God" (Rom. 1:1), 3 - "the oracles of God" (Rom. 3:2), 4 - "the word of Christ" (Col. 3:16), 5 - "the good word of God" (Heb. 6:5). Maybe, we could also refer to the Bible as the Final Word. 
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Re: Lesson Study #2 - The Final WORD
[Re: Daryl]
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04/14/07 05:02 AM
04/14/07 05:02 AM
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Besides being the "Word" Jesus, the anointed one, is called the "Faithful and True Witness.
The sacred Scriptures, the Bible is also called the "Word as well as the "two Witnesses".
A witness who has seen the event firsthand is known as an eye-witness. Witnesses are often called before a court of law to testify in trials. The witness gives evidence.
It is interesting that we call the divisions in scripture, "The Old and New Testament"
Words such as witness, testament, and testify brings to mind a legal system, a judgement or perhaps a court or trial.
In Revelation 3:14 Jesus is refered to as the faithful and true witness.
Proverbs 14:25 A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.
John 5:46 For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for he wrote of me.
Luke 24:27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
Revelation 11:3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
Zechariah 4:13-14 And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the LORD of the whole earth.
John 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
1 Thessalonians 2:13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
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Re: Lesson Study #2 - The Final WORD
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04/14/07 05:50 AM
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Jerome (346 - 420) gave us the well known Latin translation of Bible known as Vulgate. He also had doubt on extra books from Septuagint but he included them in his Latin translation and referred them as apocrypha.Canon of The Old Testament by W. Hartono http://mafg.home.isp-direct.com/bible01.htm
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Re: Lesson Study #2 - The Final WORD
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04/14/07 05:57 AM
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But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms. The opinions of learned men, the deductions of science, the creeds or decisions of ecclesiastical councils, as numerous and discordant as are the churches which they represent, the voice of the majority--not one nor all of these should be regarded as evidence for or against any point of religious faith. Before accepting any doctrine or precept, we should demand a plain “Thus saith the Lord” in its support. Great Controversy, 595.
"The word of the living God is not merely written, but spoken. The Bible is God's voice speaking to us, just as surely as though we could hear it with our ears. If we realized this, with what awe would we open God's word, and with what earnestness would we search its precepts! The reading and contemplation of the Scriptures would be regarded as an audience with the Infinite One" (Testimonies for the Church, 6:393) It is one thing to treat the Bible as a book of good moral instruction, to be heeded so far as is consistent with the spirit of the times and our position in the world; it is another thing to regard it as it really is--the word of the living God, the word that is our life, the word that is to mold our actions, our words, and our thoughts. To hold God's word as anything less than this is to reject it. And this rejection by those who profess to believe it, is foremost among the causes of skepticism and infidelity in the youth. {Ed 260.1} Let every one who has been blessed with reasoning faculties take up the Bible and search its pages, that he may understand the will of God concerning him. In this Book divine instruction is given to all. The Bible is addressed to every one--to every class of society, to those of every clime and age. Every one should read the Bible for himself. Do not depend on the minister to read it for you. The Bible is God's Word to you. And Christ has made this Word so plain that in reading it, no one need misunderstand.” ST, 11 July 1906, par. 6.
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