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Don't feel pressure on any reply. I can't stay online daily for long periods myself. That website I mentioned has 128 commentaries and they are from Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, Church of England, Lutheran, etc. Most are from the past but the scholarship in some of these is excellent...

Growing up with the Scofield Bible, it took a while until I finally saw how the pre-trib, pre-mil annotations so often directly contradicted the Scriptures themselves. Dispensationalism reads into the Scriptures the erroneous and fanciful reasoning of men. I remember thinking, after being...

Dave, I was never actually a KJV only believer, but when checking newer versions I compared them to the KJV and considered the KJV to be the standard by which to judge other translations. After reading the full, many page Translators to the Readers Preface in early KJV Bibles, I began to seek...

Was the 18th century Methodist Joseph Benson a full preterist? His note on Joel 2:31 "The expressions here used, in their literal sense, import the failing of light in the sun and moon, whether by eclipses or any other cause, such as perhaps, at the time here referred to, by the prodigious...

The prophesy about "the great and terrible day of the LORD" refers to the judgment on Israel in 70AD, and it is mentioned twice in the OT. Speaking to the "children of Zion" Joel 2:23 - "The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the...

Comparing "people of the world" to "believers" brings to mind how complicated it can be comparing dating and marriage today where erotic love is prominent to the 1st century where arranged marriages were common. We so often read our 21st century culture back into the NT record. How often would...

Hi Silver Fox, those verses you quoted are indeed well known and traditional, but for centuries there have been questions over the translation and interpretation of them. I'll give some alternate translations and a footnote out of the Roman Catholic Study Bible. 21Pity me, pity me, you that...

This an example of the misleading use of the word "lust". Does a man marry a woman for whom he has felt or entertained no substantial sexual desire? I believe my original reply fully answers your question. If a person desires to do something sinful, that desire is sinful whether is is sexual...

I'm not replying specifically to the OP but in general to this sort of discussion as commonly encountered. The English word "lust" is found 40 times in the KJV New Testament, but 8 times in the RSV NT and only 1 time in the YLT NT where it is used in 2 Tim. 2:22. Lust is usually thought of as...

"In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus." (1Cor 5:4-5) So, we are to think...

When encountering two statements in the scriptures that seem irreconcilable, it is clear that one or possibly both are being misunderstood from how the writer meant the words. The statement in Hebrews reads, "Indeed, the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword...

Scripture uses "soul" and "spirit" interchangeably. The biblical view of man is dichotomic. "It is perfectly evident that the Bible uses the two words interchangeably. Notice the parallelism in Luke 1:46,47: “My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.” The...

A literal word for word translation of Paul states it this way. "For we reckon that a man is to be declared righteous by faith, apart from works of law." (Rom 3:28) There is no definite article in the Greek so it is "law", not "the law", and this refers to any applicable law of God, not just...

The translation of John 3:3, 7 as "born again" followed the Latin Vulgate, translated into English in the Douay-Rheims, and for 400 years has been the translation found in the KJV, so it has become the best known, the traditional translation. Yet as far back as the 16th century there have been...