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1/2/2021 5:50 PM |
James Thomas | | Fla | | | |
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Gay M Allen wrote: Thank You James, and ladybug~! your help is awesome, I respect your wisdom as I have been reading your comments for a while now and have come to the conclusion that they are accurate and you speak truth, may God bless you. Amen to your reply LB!Psalm 100:3 Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. May God bless you Gay. ----------- So glad to hear the wonderful news about your Son MS. |
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1/2/2021 12:26 PM |
James Thomas | | Fla | | | |
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Gay M Allen wrote: Thank You All, BLB is great I forgot all about it too, what is your opinion of e-sword.net ? I can't speak on the esword site as I haven't used it. In my thoughts, The bottom line is that commentaries are written by men wheras Scripture is written by God. Scripture has its own commentary given through the cross references of the prophets cited by the NT authors. That's why there can really be no such thing as a New Testament church as the NT is citing prophets and explaining what they said in detail. Acts 15:16 cites Amos 9:11. That creates an objective context that's there for us to explore, learn, and ask questions. Like; What sword? How did God raise the tabernacle of David again? What happened to the first? Does modern worship consist of such dialogue? None I'm aware of yet Jer 9:24 says God delights in us knowing and understanding Him and He promised to give us a heart so that we could (Ezek. 36:26) There are plenty of these tethered texts in which to do the same such as these: Acts 2:17 / Joel 2:28 Isa. 49:6/ Acts 13:46-47 Anyway, I hope this can be of help to you or anyone else for that matter. |
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1/1/2021 7:01 PM |
James Thomas | | Fla | | | |
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ladybug wrote: Yes James, blb is an excellent source for study. I use bible hub too, but prefer blb. Concerning Isaiah, spot on. God teaches His sheep His truth. Hope your day is filled with Christ, a deeper desire to know Him, and to proclaim Him to a world that is getting darker by the hour... Thank you for those well wishes. May God continue to bless you! |
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1/1/2021 4:55 PM |
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Jennifer Cunningham wrote: What is the fascination with Trump the narcissist, get over it. The people has spoken, look at his behavior after the election, firing and putting down people who don’t agree with his wicked assumptions with no proof... Something to consider. What if what he is saying is true and not wicked assumptions? What if those whom he thought he could trust turned on him? Look, No one here is fascinated with Trump as far as I know, except maybe for Jim. He loves Trump. The problem is the people have not spoken. They have been stolen from. The proof of a stolen election is not being reported but actually censored by the MSM and the evidence is plentiful. Read the 106 page lawsuit in Georgia filed by Sidney Powell. The allegations of treason are backed by witnesses ready testify. The state of Penn. mailed out 1.7 million ballots and received back 2.5 million. Even my 7 year old Grandson knows something is wrong with that. That's just two examples but there's plenty more. I would think a Christian would, above all else, desire truth to prevail and let the chips fall where they may. And if that happens, Biden and Harris will be placed in the jailhouse, not the White house. |
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1/1/2021 1:40 PM |
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Dr. Tim wrote: There is substantial evidence that Mr. Trump did win the election, Jim. Tragically for America, the same cabal of crooked citizens, politicians, judges and newspeople who stole the election not from Donald Trump, but from the American people, are now denying and suppressing the evidence of fraud on the same massive scale as the election counting itself. If it’s “fair” for the left to take the election by fraud, then I for one say that it is equally fair—nay, more than fair—for the right to repossess it by force. I think it’s time for martial law until civil law can be restored. |
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12/29/2020 2:07 PM |
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Neil wrote: However great a man he may have been, he did not have the last word on how NT Greek should be translated. If one must paraphrase, it should be as close as possible to the original word, and "abusing themselves" is too vague – there are many ways to abuse oneself. No he didn't have the last word and Tyndale was quite open to having his English translation from the Greek critiqued as he stated in his intro in the 1534 NT rendering. But He found that his Hebrew translation work helped him better translate the Greek into English by the Hebrew OT citations found in the Greek NT. Since Hebrew was more easily translated into English than Greek in his eyes, he utilzed that nuance to Essentially have Scripture translating Scripture. And your right, there are many ways to abuse oneself like those who did so with man's wisdom defiling themselves, prefering their idols over God's Word. 1 Cor. 2:4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: If you look across the prophets, the souls were defiled by lies served up by the priests. (Mal.2:1) Same spoken here as well. Ezek 37:23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, |
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12/28/2020 3:35 PM |
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Rom 13:4 He is the minister of God, **a revenger to execute wrath** upon him that doeth evil.His instrument of vengeance is a sword. (Deut 32:41) All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword (Amos 9:10-12, cf Acts 15:15-18). There's no biblical warrant for Rom 13 to be a reference to civil magistrates. Its simply a misunderstanding of whom bears the sword and furthermore what the sword even is. If the above "minister of God" is a reference to secular authorities, then why is that same revenger - which revealed wrath in Rom 1:18- said to have come from heaven? Rom 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed** from heaven** against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness. |
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12/28/2020 3:16 PM |
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Textual variants can be reconciled in a more proper way than the current practice of comparing them to other manusripts and coming to a conclusion based upon age or number of manuscripts. Instead we can allow Scripture to do so. Using your example: 1 Tim 1:10For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, We can see that whoremongers defiled themselves with their own inventions. In Jer 3:9 there were those who committed adultery with stones and with stocks. The context remains the same in these other examples as well. Psalm 106:39 Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions. Isa 24:5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. Ezek 22:4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; Based upon what the prophets teach, The whoremongers appears to me to be part and parcel of the Great whore and the term in 1 Tim 1:10 seems appropriate to me. |
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12/28/2020 2:38 PM |
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Carl in Asheville wrote: The word "beasts" in Daniel 7 and Revelation 13 are symbols of world powers (i.e. empires and leagues of nations) governed by human. Interesting thoughts on the beasts. Here's another thought on their identity.Daniel 7:12 As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time. The beasts had their dominion taken away. What dominion? Matthew 21:43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. Any other references to these beasts? There's 2 Peter 2:4 and also here. Jude 1:10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. If you read the context in the above, the identity is given as those whom God was a husband to.(Jer 31:32) |
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