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| bio | website | hartmen.us/todd |
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| location | United States | |
| age | 39 | |
| visits | member for | 11 months |
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Christian, dad, and programmer
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Jun 22 |
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Old testament accuracy of God's Word (God Speaking continued) ... were spoken to "by the angel of the LORD" (Ge 16, 21, 22, ...) who is said to have "spoke[n]". Some instances have dialogue between God and men (Ex 32). Otherwise, it's not altogether certain if people heard God speaking. |
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Jun 22 |
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Old testament accuracy of God's Word God Speaking to People: Be careful not to draw too much information from silence. We certainly do not have all the writings of everyone who was a prophet, because more prophets are mentioned (Iddo, Hanani, Micaiah, ...) than we have writings for. We're never told explicitly how "the word of the LORD came" to the prophets or to other people. On occasion, the patriarchs were spoken to "by angels " |
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Jun 22 |
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Old testament accuracy of God's Word Transmission: The Jews had a tradition of meticulously preserving the Scriptures. This was probably not the case throughout their history, but it's doesn't seem too likely that the apostate Israelite kings would have spent much time or money copying the text of a book they cared nothing for. Those likely to actually do any copying or updating would have been very careful to preserve it. |
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Jun 22 |
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Old testament accuracy of God's Word Silence: There was a period of over 400 years of prophetic silence (at least, nothing written and preserved) between Malachi and the coming of Jesus. It is not unprecedented for God to treat us differently for a (long) time. |
