Labels:text | newspaper | publication OCR: "First & Second Opinions' so zealously was their own written opinions God's Word. The Pharisees did much the same. concerning what their elders thought that the Now, as then, there is areal need to be very aware scriptures meant. of the difference between sound doctrine and ThoughI doubt very seriously that the collective opinion Sadducees had the purest of all motives for Commentaries provide a valuable service I used to know a preacher who would get to follow God, even though I may have wanting to by pass traditions for scripture, you to people who understand this difference .... a up to the pulpit and ask everyone to tum to the consider able disdain for the ways inwhich they are have to credit them with a good idea. You see, the distinction made between what God has actually book of Hezekiah You could then hear the rustling attempting to do so. I have always respected the Pharisees had become a sect that taught from said and what somebody thinks He means by it. of Bible pages, as afew muffled snickers floated zeal of the Pharisees. I concurr with the Sadducees' "commentaries". We probably all remember the account of through the room. The preacher would then say, willingness to concede to the existence of nobility I believe that there's plenty of room in the the young prophet that God told to do one thing "You can't find it, can you? Well, that's because in cultures other than their own These two groups Lord's church for opinions .... as long as these are held and stated as such In this, a"commentary" is and who was there after convinced by an older you're looking in the wrong place." were both admirable, and reprehensible, in various prophet to do something else -- simplybecause the "It's not in the Old Testament; it's in the ways. Personally, I had always considered the merely one person's personal views about the elder told the younger that "God said so". The New Testament ...., " he broke-off sharply, followed Pharisees' chief problem to be one of having their exposition of scripture. What happens too often, young prophet's decision was a "fatal error", in that by a smirk "Yeah ... you know .... right there next emphasis-system all out- of-whack. The Sadducees, however, is that these ex pounded statements are he diedin the process of disobeying what God to First and Second Opinions!" on the other hand, seemed to me to be bent on gradually allowedto actuallyreplace the scriptures actually hadtold him. (1 Kings 13) In studying the two major religious justifying almost any means that were necessary them sel ves! This all relates to the question of divisions that emerged from Judaism's contact with towards reaching a desired political end. Needless Have you ever gone to the Bible to find a authority. We have the duty ( and the privilege) of the Grecian culture -the Pharisees and the to say, I had drastically over- simplified their statement that wasn't there? I have. I'm still studying to find the meaning of the things which Sadducees-I was recently struck by one very contrasts. embarrassed about the time I went looking for a God has communicated to us through the Bible. interesting comparison We normally connect the The one feature of their differences that Bible quote -- onlyto find that I had been quoting We need to realize, however, that only God has the Pharisees with their out-spoken legalism, and the surprised me the most was that the Sadducees Shakespearel (The language was so Elizabethan, I right to put things in the Bible! Side statements Sadducees with their aristocratic trends. Now, while were actually more interestedin areturn to the figured it must be from the Bible.) Too many make help, but they will always be just that ...... side this is not a totally inaccurate assessment, it fails to scriptures than were the Pharisees. The reason why the same, or similar mistakes. statements. tell the whole story. this caught me off-guard was because I had When asked to answer spiritual questions, First and Second Opinions are not in the I don't know about you, but I've always for gotten that the Pharisees didn't really teach the I often hear people quote sectarian creeds, pithy Bible. Neither is the book of Hezekiah Nor are a had a fair degree of respect for anyone who is trying scriptures, per se. What they had actually preached sayings, or time-honored traditions --- instead of lot of other things being taught today. BIBLE Sayings Find the correct Bable numbers, and add themtogether to getthe conect sum shown at bottom Bible verses given Bible Numbers |The Handwriting Is On The Walll Servants of God sealed in their foreheads - Fighting menGideonoriginally lad (Rev. 7:3,4) Methuselah's age inyears at his death Judees 7:31 [Dan 5:5-7] Total books in the Old Testament (Gen 5:27) - In the passage. God causeshandwriting to appear Total times Lrael marched around Jexico's walls on awall in the nalane of the King of Rahulon. After a host of Minimum number of physical siblings to Jesus (Joshua6:3,4) A (Mark 6:3) diviners failed. the Ronhet Daniel nives the internretation: Total years of the Babyloniancaptivity (Jeremiah29:10) A the kind skinadom would be conquered bv the Medes and Total lengthof Noah's arkincubits Pieces of silver Judas betrayed Jesus for (Gen 6:15) the Persians (Matt. 26:14,15) That verv nicht. the king died. Asforetold. his Average humanlife-spanin years says David A (Psalm: 90:10) kinnom was rantured hv Darius the Medle. simalinn its Total days Jesus was in the tonb (Matt. 12:40) indusinn into the un-mominn Persian Finire TOTAL 177,500 The saving survives todav as an expression of the inevitability of an event or happening Stress is usually laid upon the impossibility of changing the course of certain PROVERBS 'Ai soft answer turns auny uwath: but, harsh words things happening stir up anger." [15:1)
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