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Some major problems with "KJV-onlyism" lies in the assumptions it makes and some of which you enumerated.
From an evangelical perspective, we accept the idea that the Bible is, indeed, the word of God. Specifically, "men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit."
20 knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from
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They're sorted chronologically within their particular subject matters.
First, the 5 books of the Pentetuch are packed together, these are all fairly chronological.
Then, comes the narrative history of the kingdom of Israel ( all of Jesus' glorious, inglorious and vainglorious ancestors) culminating with the exile and return of the Jews to their ...
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Note that this answer refers to the Protestant Bible. The Catholic Bible, and the Eastern Orthodox Bibles largely follow this pattern, but contain different books. More on the differences can be found here. The differences are also noted below.
First, understand that the Bible is not a single book It's a collection of 66 books, written at different ...
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I don't think there's any reason to suppose he restricted healings or other miracles to the sabbath. It seems he was much more free with his healings (cf. Mat. 9:35ff) and with his commands about healing (cf. Mat. 10:7f).
But one instance is enough to disprove the hypothesis: Jesus healed the ear of the servant in Luke 22:49f. Then according to 22:66, he ...
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"Prophecy" has at least verbal two connotations in the Bible - fore-telling and forth-telling. Merriam-Webster defines the verb thusly:
V| to utter by or as if by divine inspiration; to predict with assurance or on the basis of mystic knowledge; to give instruction in religious matters {preach}
Foretelling
Foretelling is saying what the future will ...
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According to When Skeptics Ask (Normal L. Geisler and Ronald M. Brooks, 1990 Baker Books):
The following books were in question at one point or another:
Hebrews because the author is unknown. However, it was accepted as having apostolic authority, if not apostolic authorship.
James because of conflict with Pauls teaching about salvation by faith alone. ...
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Sometimes alternate post are not competing with original posts only complimenting them. I seek to compliment and amplify Affable’s post which has already more simply stated. Partly to help me straighten it out in my own mind!
I am gathering my results to your question more from a word study using the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, Gerhard ...
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Perhaps two of the most famous minor prophets will illustrate that prophecy is not so much about telling the future as the present.
Jonah, for example, only issues a single proclamation about the future - "Forty days, and Nineveh will be destroyed," - and even that one ends up not coming to pass because of God's grace. Amos, another prophet, makes very few ...
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I fully believe in the Bible as the perfect word of God without any error whatsoever. I also like the KJV. However, there is no Biblical basis for believing in an inspired translation, from one language to another. This would put translators at the same level as prophets and apostles for they would need a special anointing that determines what scripture is.
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