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please help me. i am taking the BSL. and there's this one question i can't answer, i have read the lesson, and i have tried all answers, i almost has no points left for the question. what must i do, i can't go forward without having it correct.

Please i wanted to download the hymns, r the links working, or are they being restricted? Somebody help pls.

Hello

question: Are women allowed to preach??

Mr. Jose De Leon Vitug 111,
You obviously have done a lot of research on the history of the bible. You are to be commended on your dedication.
However, I am much like the Bereans, who wanted to see if the things preached to them by Paul were so, to see for themselves.
Would you be so kind as to cite some of the works you got the information from? I understand that some came from your own discernment, but such a wealth of information could not come from that only, especially the non-biblical info, the non-secular data.

Thank You, and grace
and peace
to you and yours
ltg

Readin the bible i have discovered is the best tin that can happen to anyone.By the insiration of the holy spirit,God has shown us the way to salvation and by allowin his only son Jesus to die for our sake,God in his ininate mercy has reedemed us.All is now left for us to abide in his way and so doing, we ll discover that this is the best natural cure because for a start,notin which is not from God can affect us.may we never be found wanted as we prep 4 the comin of our saviour Jesus christ.amen.

I found a webpage, with many resources of Ellen G. White (in the pdf-Format).

Here are the Links:

Books: http://www.pathofthejust.org/P...Books.html
Manuscripts: http://www.pathofthejust.org/P...ripts.html
Pamphlets: http://www.pathofthejust.org/P...hlets.html
Periodicals: http://www.pathofthejust.org/P...icals.html
Miscellaneous: http://www.pathofthejust.org/P...Works.html

God bless you,
MMM

Thank you, Pastor Diyali, for posting your comment. It is beautiful and encouraging. God bless you!

In His love and service,
WLC Team

God is Great and wonderful because He can know everything and moment of the people. He is in me and you always and always.The wolrd will left you and ignore you but Jesus our Lord could not do like this. Like your shadow He is guiding us and protecting us from all the dangers and wonders.He is a alive God our Lord heavenly Father.He chosed me from the womb of my mother and love me a lots.God is our vision and mission in our life.Jesus is coming soon to take and pick up you and me but we have need to examin ourselves and be prepare His way from our life just now and today not for tomarrow.Always we have to wait time but time is not wait you and me because time is also doing His ministry under the guide of Jesus Christ.We are very lucky people because our Father is Jesus Christ.He died for us.He is only the alive God of humen beings in the world and heaven.God Bless You and Me.
Pastor R.Stephen Diyali
Uttarakashi Uttarakhand
North India.

The Bible. What it is.
"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables." (2 Timothy 4:3-4)

"Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them." (Acts 20:30)

"Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world." (1 John 4:1)

"And their word will eat as doth a canker..." (2 Timothy 2:17)

"... ALL nations deceived." (Revelations 18:23)

The above verses, quoted as the Word of God, stand as a warning to all people that the majority of the religious world claiming to be "Christian" would depart from the Truth of God. We are cautioned also that we cannot leave our instruction concerning the will of God to a separate class called the "Clergy": ministers, priests and pastors. The only safe and scriptural course is for us to apply ourselves individually to the examination and study of God's Word, as the "noble" highly-commended believers at Berea examined the Scriptures to check Paul's words - "They searched the Scriptures daily whether those things were so" (Acts 17:11).

During the present dispensation, the Bible makes no distinction between a priestly class and the common people. That ended when the Law ended. The responsibility of searching the Scriptures rests with each individual. A humble, prayerful, consistent study of the Bible itself is the best - the only - way to arrive at a firm conviction of its truth. We grow closer to God and Christ by this exercise; realizing as we read that the natural mind of man, without this Divine direction, is lawless and unruly.

In studying the Bible, we should always seek the assistance of God in prayer. It is important that we understand that it is God Who gives us wisdom in these things and can open our minds to see the beauties of His Word, if we seek it humbly. We will realize that the final Purpose of all things is to fill the earth with the glory of God, and that we are the very highly privileged means He is using to accomplish that Purpose, if we work with Him, and submit completely to Him. "Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it" (Psalms 127:11).

But Paul assures us that: "Our labor is not in vain in the Lord" (1 Corinthians 15:5.

When we study the Bible, we should read it very carefully, keeping our minds centered on each word and phrase, and endeavoring to understand the relation of one verse to another. We must, in approaching the study of God's Word, want to know AND OBEY the truth. There must be a strong desire on our part to investigate its pages so as to become very familiar with its loving message of instruction to us concerning the Way of Life.

Once we have this living knowledge, we will realize we have a duty to spread this information far and wide to other people. When we understand the glorious message which God's Word conveys of eternal salvation and the blessing of all nations in the Age to Come, we will not rest until we have performed God's work in completely devoting our lives to advancing God's honor before all we meet.

To begin with, we must recognize and accept the Bible as the Divinely-inspired, infallible message of God to man. We must believe assuredly that - "God IS, and is a Rewarder of all who diligently seek Him" (Hebrews 11:6).

Further evidence will strengthen our conviction of the truth of these propositions, as we advance into a study of the Bible as we see the internal evidence of its truth and Divinity, and the sureness of its prophetic words. From what God has done, we will gain confidence that what He has yet to accomplish in the earth is man's only means of salvation from himself and his natural end.

By our investigation of this matter with an open mind, we will learn that this book, the Bible, does not speak like other books, but speaks with absolute authority, in such phrases as: "Thus saith the Lord" and "It SHALL come to pass . . "

The Bible is a compilation of a number of books, written by many different men over a long period of time: approximately 1500 years. The times and circumstances of its being written - periods of prosperity, and captivity and servitude - combine, under God's guiding hand, to bring forth a united message from book to book: unfolding a consistent plan of salvation, and illustrating mankind's need of Divine mercy and salvation, unattainable by its own efforts.

A CONSISTENT MESSAGE
The Bible is nothing less than a literary miracle! Although it is composed of 66 books, written over a period of many centuries, by different authors from kings to shepherds, it speaks one theme throughout, unfolding over the ages the eternal Purpose of God. Its very character and unity show it to be not possibly of human origin, and confirm the truth that -

"All Scripture is given by the inspiration of God" (2 Timothy 3:16).

Many of the writers sealed their testimony for God with their blood being shed by their enemies. The only way to account for the Bible is to see - in its composition, and its preservation to our time through the centuries - a supreme guiding hand inspiring and controlling the statements of its authors, causing them to be in complete agreement in all their records. It is impossible to account for the Bible in any other way.

The Bible can be understood by the person who seeks God in humble faith without the need of theological or churchly training in colleges or seminaries. Such institutions only produce priests or ministers educated or trained to preach the particular doctrines of their sects; whose textbooks are the products of generations of traditions, rather than the Bible message.

We must not leave - we dare not leave - our understanding of Bible principles of salvation to such religious leaders. We must apply ourselves to its pages in prayerful, humble petition to God to open our understanding. Personal investigation in this manner will open our minds to the beauties of God's Word and Purpose.

Read the Bible daily and thoughtfully. Use the course of daily Bible readings suggested in the booklet, The Bible Companion. Stick to it faithfully, and you will read the Old Testament once each year, and the New Testament twice yearly.
If there is a book containing the revealed will of God and the plan of eternal blessing for man, IT IS THE BIBLE. It has no rivals. If it does not reveal a Way of life, there is none.

The Bible makes all who sincerely study it better, happier, and wiser.

THE PROBLEMS OF TRANSLATION

The Hebrew language is a particularly difficult language to translate. It has no vowels. These have to be supplied by the reader or the translator, as the case may be. The Hebrew alphabet consists of 22 consonants. For instance, we could have a Hebrew word consisting of the consonants b d. It could be bud, bad, bed, or bid. The vowel would have to be supplied by the reader so as to make up the word which the context required. Also, this applied to most of the Greek New Testament as well as Hebrew Old Testament manuscripts, there were no spaces to separate one word from another; no punctuation, no verses or chapters. Let us take an example direct from the Hebrew and translate it into English. The first task is the easiest and it has already been done - simply supplying English lettering for the Hebrew. Thus it appears:

"Yhvhthhstsrchandnndknwnm"; or, (with vowels and word spacing) "Yahveh thou hast searched me and known me".

The Jews were well aware of this problem, especially in the period following the captivity, as the people became less practiced in the Hebrew language because of the increasing prominence and influence of the Greek language. This was of particular concern was to a group of Jews called the MASSORITES ("keepers" or "guardians" of the tradition) whose sacred duty it was to preserve the text and guard against the least alteration not only in lettering but in pronunciation. To preserve pronunciation without vowels is next to impossible, so they invented a series of vowel signs to be interspaced between the consonants at the appropriate places, also adding signs for punctuation. Their work began about 500 A.D. and continued with painstaking study and unspeakable devotion for many generations. The sign system was finally fully developed by 900 A.D. - a period of four hundred years! Surely this is something that must impress us as much as anything in this study the incredible amounts of time occupied in the preservation, copying, and translation of the BIBLE!

There were various manuscripts and versions that were used by the translators as the translation sources for the Bibles in our possession today. In the following sections we will go down the line and comment briefly upon each one of them.

WHEN AND HOW DID THE BIBLE BEGIN?

A major portion of the Old Testament is occupied by the first five books. Moses is credited with the writing of these, as well as the book of Job. This fixes a starting date for the writing of the Bible, for, although the events recorded by Moses date back as much as 4000 B.C., he lived in the time period dating from about 1570 to 1450 B.C.; and, at some point during those 120 years (most likely towards the end, perhaps about 1500 B.C.), marks the commencement of God's message to us in written form.

The knowledge of writing may have been a rare possession in those days. All evidence seems to indicate that the development of Hebrew writing did not occur until about 1000 B.C. or about the time of Samuel and King David. Other forms of writing prevailed however, and evidence of early forms of Babylonian, Chaldean, and Egyptian writing have been discovered. Moses doubtless learned how to write in Egypt.

The first Biblical reference to writing after the time of Moses occurs in (jdg 5:14), where the Song of Deborah speaks of "the staff of the scribe" (1250 B.C.). Samuel, David, Nathan the prophet, Gad the seer, and many others are said to have made records in writing. But it was not until about the time of the exile, the Nehemiah to Ezra period or about 500 B.C., that the concerted effort was put forth, not only to record events, but also to compile history, arrange prophetic writings, and to select songs and Psalms for their own use as well as succeeding generations. The result of this effort was a collection of writings which soon became valued and treasured as God's message. It was this collection that Christ and the apostles referred to as "the scriptures", or, "Moses and the prophets".

PRESERVING THE BIBLE

Many dangers threatened the existence of those first manuscripts. Any document written upon papyrus or skin was always in danger of being lost or destroyed or succumbing to the ravages of time. We well know what effect a mere 10 or 20 years of use has upon books such as our Bibles; we can easily surmise what happens after the passage of 100 years - the book simply becomes old and brittle, and as soon as a hand is laid upon it, it falls apart. Therefore, in order to preserve the manuscript and increase its usefulness, it was copied laboriously by hand many, many times.

The original manuscripts have long ago disappeared. None are known to be in existence today, although there is always hope that someday some fragments of them may be found. When the tribes of Israel were carried off into captivity by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and Antiochus Epiphanes, king of Egypt, in the 6th century B.C., they brought with them their copies of the scriptures into Babylonia and into Egypt. These copies particularly those that found their way into Egypt - became the sources for future manuscripts and versions.

MAINTAINING BIBLICAL ACCURACY and INTEGRITY

In addition to the dangers of destruction, there were also the dangers of error creeping into the text, on account of all the copying and reprinting taking place. Most of these errors were unintentional and occurred simply by accident. To illustrate, let any one of us try to make exact copies of just a very few pages of printed material, and see how many simple but aggravating mistakes we will make. Most textual errors that have occurred have been of this type - that is, accidental and unintentional. A few, however, have occurred as a result of the copyists' desire to make a correction to a statement, or to use more colorful wording, or - and this is the most common - to bring a statement into harmony with the theological ideas either of the copyist and of the age in which he lives.

Thus by such means a few textual variations have occurred over the hundreds of years that copies have been made. But this problem is not near as great as one might think it could be, because conscientious minds soon became aware of what was happening, and, as a result, whenever a copy was made, or a version printed, there was a concerted effort to preserve and use for the source the oldest and most original manuscripts in existence.

Many of these manuscripts are in existence today, some having been preserved for over 2000 years. While they are not the autographed originals of the Biblical authors themselves, they have brought to us the Bible in the most highly accurate and readable form.

The original God-inspired Bible manuscripts were not written in the English language, but in Hebrew and Greek. The further a version is removed from the original, both in time and in language, the greater the potential for the human element to enter in, because the work of transmitting the Bible down to our times and into our language depended upon the efforts of men who were not inspired. Inasmuch as the human element is a significant factor in this great work, we must realize that the English versions of the Bible are, unfortunately, not the purest form of the Word of God, although certain versions do have a remarkably high degree of accuracy.