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Re: How many times did you ask God for the Holy Gh
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Originally Posted by Jeffrey
Anyone that picks up literature written in Koine Greek, copied in Latin, Middle English and in various forms today, text that relates back 2,000 years, some going back much further than that (Apocryphal and OT canon), different language, culture, time, thought, ideas, entire civilization using different ways of expression, to come back and say "plain and simple" is quite laughable.
What is plain and simple is the story form of Scripture. What is not so plain and simple are many of the details.
I guess men that spend 50-60 years with these Texts are quite "plain and simple" men too.
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"Thou shalt not commit adultry". Oh, wait a second. Let's go view church history and the orignial Hebrew to see what this means. I'm glad Moses didn't "examine" everything the LORD told him.
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Jeremiah chapter 4 and verse 21 KJV
How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
1 Cor. chapter 14 and verse 8 KJV
8For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
Joel chapter 2 and verse 1
Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
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