[PRCo] Re: MERRY___CHRISTMAS

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!



>> Jim Holland wrote:

>>       Only the King James and New King James
>> translates this in Luke-2.14 as:   
>> """Good Will Towards Men."""    The NASB, NIV,
>> Amplified, NEB, RSV, ABUV, Knox, TCNT, etc. all
>> translate similarly to ...

>> "Glory to God in the highest, and on
>>       earth peace to men on whom his favor rests." (NIV)

>> Quite a difference in meaning between KJV and these!

 

> Donald Galt wrote:

> "Peace to men of good will" - until recently the
> preferred Roman Catholic version - corresponds to the
> centuries-old "pax hominibus bonae voluntatis" of
> the Vulgate. I'll accept that the more recent
> translations are more accurate - though of course they
> are only as good as the Greek texts they are based upon.

 
>> Matt 10:34    "Do not suppose that I have come to
>>       bring peace to the earth.    I did not come to
>>       bring peace, but a sword. (NIV)



> Doggone religion, never as simple as you expect!


	But definitely not difficult.

	[Mankind]  can definitely get  *religion*  all mixed up and
even  *use*  it to his own purposes, but that doesn't change what
is said and what is meant.    It is difficult to deny self and
listen to Scripture, but the rewards are tremendous.




Ps 119:89
	Your word, O LORD, is eternal; it stands firm
		in the heavens.    (NIV)

Matt 5:18
	I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth
	disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least
	stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from
	the Law until everything is accomplished.    (NIV)

Matt 24:35
	Heaven and earth will pass away,
		but my words will never pass away.    (NIV)




	The first verses about  *good__will*  *imply*  that there is a
group within mankind on whom the favor of God does not exist.   
This, then, implies the  *battle*  *division*  between those with
favor and those without favor which is then amplified in Christ's
comments about the sword of division  --  separating those who
believe from those who do not believe.
	And This is what really matters in life  --  not the gearing on
a trolleycar Nor its color(:->)  --  but what we believe!
	The world does not like  *Believers*  and will treat them like
they did Christ  --  that's fore-told by Christ as well.



John 14:6
	Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and
	the life. No one comes to the Father except
	through me.    (NIV)


	Christ  IS  THE  TRUTH    ----    *Our___Humanity*  does not
like being confronted with  Truth  --  *WE*  battle against it 
All  The  Time!!


	Those, then, who profess Christ are enemies of those who do not 
--  just for believing!

	The Sword of Division comes between those who believe and those
who don't and it starts at home and spreads out from there  -- 
even On-List and Off-List!



If  *Christ*  is Not in Your  *Christ*--Mass  --
	there's no time like the present to
		make a change!



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		M-E-R-R-Y____C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S



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	Some of the context around those verses of Sword of Division are
provided below:::::::


Matt 10:32-37
32	"Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also
	acknowledge him before my Father in heaven.
33	But whoever disowns me before men, I will disown
	him before my Father in heaven.
34	"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace
	to the earth. I did not come to bring peace,
		but a sword.
35	For I have come to turn "'a man against his father,
	a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law
	against her mother-in-law--
36	a man's enemies will be the members of his own
	household.'
37	"Anyone who loves his father or mother more than
	me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son
	or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; (NIV)



Luke 12:49-53
49	"I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how
	I wish it were already kindled!
50	But I have a baptism to undergo, and how
	distressed I am until it is completed!
51	Do you think I came to bring peace on earth?
	No, I tell you, but division.
52	From now on there will be five in one family
	divided against each other, three against two
	and two against three.
53	They will be divided, father against son and son
	against father, mother against daughter and
	daughter against mother, mother-in-law against
	daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against
	mother-in-law."    (NIV)



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Jim

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