Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 Titus 1-3

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Titus 1:15 Everything is pure to those whose hearts are pure. But nothing is pure to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, because their minds and consciences are corrupted.

To me, this could mean that everything unbelievers do is tainted by their sinful intentions, or that because they're separate from God their actions are also separate and therefore unable to be pure.

Scott said...

This question is from a previous chapter that no one has been able to answer. Rather than glossing over a verse that may be difficult and cherry picking the ones that people like, I wanted to ask one more time if anyone can explain what appears to be conflicting versus.

All these translations (NIV, Greek to English Interlinear, KJV, Modern Language, Living and Revised Standard) say the same in
I Thes 4:16-17, that at the return of Christ he will bring with him those who are asleep.

14) We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.

However in verse 16: "For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ (asleep) will rise first."

I don't know how to ask it any simpler, sorry. But here we have those coming with the Lord and those raised to meet him. Are these two different groups of believers? It does say that both groups are asleep in the Lord.

If no one can explain I guess I'll just focus on the easy and popular versus on this forum.

Thanks again

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