The
Evangelist Phillip and the Ethiopian Eunuch receiving the Gospel
Today,
reply is on the use of faith as a standard to determine the
correctness of spiritual presentations, and developing discernment to
consistently grasp spiritual meaning, quality, and value. Sinners
who turn to Jesus Christ in repentance are like infants and newborn
babes who must come to correctly recognize their own parents and
those in affiliation as family. At first there may be displays of
indifference and rejection, because everyone is a stranger. All
developing believers start out operating in terms other than genuine
spiritual knowledge and experience, and must be built up and edified
through the Holy Spirit. Redemption and salvation are not one-time
events so much as a continuous and ongoing stream of events. This
makes it that believers will experience discrete episodes of
discovery and growth, yet, will not have complete and full
understanding. Believers are able to accept a condition of partial
knowledge because there is a condition of full commitment and trust.
Grace has been bestowed on those who follow Christ, and serves as an
earnest or “good-faith payment” of their coming transformation
and eternal rewards. It is written: 1st
Corinthians 13: 9-12, King James Version (KJV): 9 For we know in
part, and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect is
come, then that which is in part shall be done away. 11 When I was a
child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a
child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For
now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I
know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. A
fighter in the “Yahoo! Answers” public forum on Religion and
Spirituality, who uses the ID “Rolando C I” (Level 6 with 18,913
points, a member since April 29, 2008), posted the following:
Why
does the king james Bible include Acts 8:37 ?
And
other translations exclude it ?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and
sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing
asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is
a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is
there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things
are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to
do. (Hebrews 4: 12-13, King James Version, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: We Must Acknowledge Christ (08/08/2019); The
Requirements for Relationship (06/30/2019); Recognizing Holy and
Unholy (01/31/2019); We Have To Believe? (01/06/2019); The Word From
GOD (12/11/2018); By Reading The Bible? (11/18/2018); Knowing What To
Believe? (12/31/2017); From Cover to Cover? (01/04/2016);
Translation, Please… (01/11/2013); Why So Much Murder? (01/12/2013)
“Rolando
C I”, in context, the verse you refer to presents a clear, yet not
full declaration of the faith a Christian should express (Acts 8:
35-38, King James Version (KJV): 35 Then Philip opened his mouth,
and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus. 36 And
as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water:
and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me
to be baptized? 37 And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine
heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus
Christ is the Son of God. 38 And he commanded the chariot to stand
still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the
eunuch; and he baptized him.)
For
me, the following presentation conveys the same declaration: Gevurot
8: 35-38, Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB): 35 And having opened his
mouth, and beginning from this keta (section) of the Kitvei Hakodesh,
Philippos began to preach and fier ois (elucidate) Yehoshua/Yeshua to
him. 36 And as they were going along the derech, they came upon some
mayim and the eunuch says, “Hinei, mayim! What prevents me from
being given Moshiach’s tevilah of teshuva in the mikveh mayim?”
37 [And Philippos said, “If you have emunah b’chol levavcha, it
is mutar. And he answered, saying, Ani ma’amin ki Rebbe Melech
HaMoshiach Yehoshua Ben HaElohim hu.] 38 And he commanded the
chariot to stop and both went down into the mikveh mayim, both
Philippos and the eunuch, and Philippos gave him Moshiach’s tevilah
of teshuva in the mikveh mayim.
Where
sinners begin their return to GOD through Jesus Christ by embracing
instruction from the holy writings, many become convinced that they
must continue using only the exact wording and precise presentation
they were first shown. As developing Christian believers, they want
to be alert and on guard against spiritual confusion that accompanies
the use of materials and messages from sources that may be in
conflict, that are not biblical, and that have questionable origins.
Rather than respond to the holy writings relying on finite academic,
scholarly, and secular tools such as intellect, logic, philosophy,
and science, the Christian believer is to apply sacred standards of
faith and other spirit matter imparted from the makeup of divinity.
Included are forbearance, holiness, longsuffering, lovingkindness,
oneness without sameness, personhood, wisdom, and wrath against sin.
Believers are to practice discernment wherein their own fresh deposit
of life essence (breath; spirit; word) from divinity enables
them to recognize and respond to the same spirit substance (we also
say, the image of Jesus Christ) as it appears within events, other
persons, themselves, the holy writings, etc. Consider the following
from the Bible:
1.
Hebrews 5: 12-14, KJV: 12 For when for the time ye ought to be
teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the
first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have
need of milk, and not of strong meat. 13 For every one that useth
milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a
babe. 14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age,
even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to
discern both good and evil.
Yehudim
in Moshiach 5: 12-14, OJB: 12 For indeed by this time you ought to
be [rabbininic] morim saying shiurim, but instead you have need again
to be taught the orthodox Jewish basic ikarim (principles,
essentials) of the Divrei Hashem, and you have become one having need
of cholov and not solid okhel. 13 For everyone partaking of cholov
is unacquainted with HaDivrei Tzedek, for he is an olel (infant). 14
But solid okhel is for the mevugarim (mature ones, adults), the ones
whose keilim (faculties) have been trained by practice for
distinguishing both HaTov and HaRah. [T.N. In the next chp a warning
is given to the Messianic Jew who re-submits Yehoshua to re-trial and
reassigns the original verdict of deceiver: no re-rebirth, no
rerepentance for such shmad]
2.
1st Corinthians 12: 3, KJV: 3 Wherefore I give you to
understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus
accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but
by the Holy Ghost.
Kehillah
in Corinth 1, 12 : 3, OJB: 3 Therefore, I make known to you that no
one speaking by the Ruach Hakodesh of Hashem says, “Al Yehoshua ki
Cherem hu” (“a curse of the ban of destruction is on Yehoshua”),
and no one is able to say, “Yehoshua hu HaAdon” except by the
Ruach Hakodesh.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, 3. 1st Corinthians 2: 14,
KJV: 14But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of
God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them,
because they are spiritually discerned.
Kehillah
in Corinth 1, 2: 14, OJB: 14 But a natural person does not receive
the things of the Ruach Hakodesh of Hashem, for they are narrishkait
(foolishness 1:21-24) to him, and he is not able to have personal
saving da’as of them, because they are discerned in the Ruach
Hakodesh.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it
unto you according to your faith.
Orthodox
Jewish Bible (OJB). Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2008, 2010, 2011 by
Artists for Israel International.
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