A Plea to Christians

[There would be a great quote here by Martin Luther on "non-essentials", but nobody that's cited it gives the source.]

[There's be a great quote by Spurgeon here, perhaps, but nobody gives its source.]

Please brothers, CITE YOUR SOURCES!!!

Personally I do not like, necessarily, copying quotes, rather to look up the source then perhaps quoting the text from there.

Too much misinformation is spread through careless propagandizing of information without investigating it first and investigation is hampered by the lack of citation.


2011-12-24 Revised. Removed:

(t desire and the wherewithal to have “travelled about 7000 miles, in about 18 months, chiefly by foot,” Mr. Asplund recorded fand that should be done after ensuring it hasn't been removed from context to twist it in some way).(t desire and the wherewithal to have “travelled about 7000 miles, in about 18 months, chiefly by foot,” Mr. Asplund recorded fand that should be done after ensuring it hasn't been removed from context to twist it in some way).

Because it made no sense where it was and I do not know how it got there.

I just looked up the text and found it on a page about "Regular Baptists" here, http://baptistbulletin.org/?p=1077 and probably looked up something on religious history one day, came across this, and somehow introduced the material into this post, though I really am mystified as to how.

Microsoft is getting nervous...

Trying to access Hotmail on Firefox using Linux, I get the "shiny" new live interface that doesn't detect my browser, so doesn't change to the "Classic view" (which is no longer possible to choose manually). Maybe they're just trying to beat-up Linux, since it works using Firefox on Windows; maybe they're just not caring anymore, and removed classic altogether; Mozilla indicates that Microsoft is trying to fix things... I can access it from a Windows PC, but from a linux or unix consol, it does not work.

Most everything works except...you cannot edit e-mails: not new, draft, nor replies: period.

I was going to do a temporary measure: forward all messages to gmail until things were fixed: Gmail just works. However when I attempted this, here's the reply I received:

You're only able to forward mail to a custom domain or an e-mail address that ends in hotmail.com, msn.com, or live.com. Please try again.

I don't know what you think, but forwarding is basic functionality expected of e-mail providers...and I'm pretty sure this is anti-competitive behavior: the stuff the EU keeps finding Microsoft, massively, for perpetrating against users: for which the company is now receiving heavy punishments and orders to open-up protocols and to document their API. I might've even paid for MS Mail in the future: now I'm just disgusted with the company, it never learns.

A Place for Response to a Comment...

This post is a place made for a response to a comment where I asked a fellow a question regarding this comment, about a biblical phrase, which [comment] was:

The HCSB (Holman Christian Standard Version, 2003) has a note at 1 Sam. 25:22, "Lit. "of those of his who are urinating against the wall." Because this is an idiom for "men," I like that the HCSB chose that word as the text's translation. And yes, "men" may well be a better translation than "males".

I'm just curious about why "men" may be better than "males"; perhaps he means this because fellows like Rashi took this to mean anything with a phallus, (even dogs), although it actually just means male humans.

An Archive-Section for the Blog

2011
Feb '11
Jan '11

2008-2010
Dec '10
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Oct '10
Sep '10
Aug '10
Jul '10
Jun '10
May '10
Jan '10

Dec '09
Nov '09
Jul '09
May '09
Apr '09
Mar '09
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Dec '08
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Jul '08
May '08
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(So I wanted a way to make a blog "archive" without using more than about a line of side-bar space. KISSing it, I've decided to make a post that I can hand-edit with the months, and so I present to you the Blog's Archive.

Unfortunately it's not a post I can make disappear and have called only by someone clicking on the "Archive" link to the right. That's okay, though, a little exposure and perhaps Google might take notice and implement features in blogger that are like this.)

Reprobation

You likely may have no idea what "Reprobation" means: It is by many of today's standards a hard doctrine to swallow, but according to our predecessors one plainly expressed in scripture. Some say God merely lets people continue as they are (as SVC here, which is pastored by a discerning, though dispensational, brother, mind you), but here's why many before us said otherwise, explaining what this concept is from scripture:

The Sovereignty of God in Reprobation, by A.W. Pink.

Resources on the King James Version

This is a post meant to be successively updated, and accessed from the side-bar. It was made to remove its links from cluttering that bar (the one to the right).

Significance, About, etc.
The King James Version (Bible Researcher)

Study
Quoting Michael Marlowe: "This is historically the most important version and it continues to be the most impressive literary translation of the Bible ever made. All serious students of the English Bible should make themselves thoroughly familiar with it."


KJV-Onlyism

[Examine] KJV-Only[ism]
"Against The Flood of Propaganda from King James Onlyism"
Westcott & Hort Resource Center: Two Frequently attacked men who's words are taken out of context by KJV-onlyists; those quotes are given in-context at this site, which is also trying to make their full works available (for scholarly-historical interest, though some would still apply today, mostly some of their doctrinal writing, works like their text-critical writing often does not)

Saints' Voices, "Liberty", and Separation

Something from "Andy S", reformatted, who over on an OldTruth post wrote, "Here is something a professor at a Bible school gave me about tv" and posted:

"The television is my shepherd, my spiritual life doth want.
It maketh me sit down and do nothing. It leadeth me beside men of no faith.
It restoreth my desire for worldly pleasures.
It requireth all my spare time and keepeth me from doing the will of God,
because it presenteth so much foolishness which I must see.
It increaseth my knowledge of nonsense
and keepeth me from the study of the Word of God.

Yea, though I live to be a hundred,
yet the viewing of my television shall have first place in my life
as long as it doth operate,
for it is my closest companion.

Its sound and its picture, they comfort me.
It presenteth foolishness and folly before me continually
and keepeth me from surrendering my whole life unto God.
It anoints my mind with seeds of corruption
and fills my head with vanity, which profiteth me nothing;
my cup remains empty.

Surely, no good things will come of my life,
because I am devoted to my television,
which leaveth me no time to serve God acceptably.
Thus I will dwell in the House of Confusion[,] forever."

And another unsorted, but valuable question by a brother (bryan rieke) left there is [here missing the first sentence]:

i too have been musing what being "separated" looks like. i mean it has to look like stuff i do and dont do to some degree... no? it seems of late i have been hearing alot about our(christians) freedom in christ or christian liberty. conspicuously absent is talk of holiness though. christian liberty is great but i fear that liberty is cherished more than christ is, i.e., the things of christ treasured over christ himself.

I note that "liberties" in the NT often refers to that which some boasted in, for which they were admonished not to boast or parade-about at the expense of conscience or wrecking of weaker brothers and sisters; and some simply just did what was wrong, but tried to call it "liberties".

While not, at the moment, fully probing into "liberty", here's a sermon on "True and False Separation", by Bob DeWaay, though I'm not sure on the comments about the Law: http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/critical_issues_
commentary/archives.asp?bcd=5/5/2008

Could anyone else comment (correctly) on that (the law comments about certain points being done-away with)?