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Beware of those who teach with no bible

Jesus says to beware of false prophets in Matthew 7:15. God says to teach the word chapter by chapter and verse by verse in Isaiah 28:10. In Isaiah 8:20, God tells why false prophets don’t teach chapter by chapter and verse by verse. God does not change. Malachi 3:6. The message and the methodology have changed from the days of Christ. Christ and the disciples didn’t travel from church to church singing, dancing, and leading praise and testimony services. If we listened to God, and changed our behavior, life would be better.

TexaCan Loc: Homeward Bound!

Isiah 28:10 doesn’t actually mean to teach chapter by chapter and verse by verse.



https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/precept-upon-precept.

Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...

The Hebrew Bible was not written by chapter and verse, nor was the Greek New Testament.

When the books of the Bible were originally written, they did not contain chapter or verse references. The Bible was divided into chapters and verses centuries later to help us find Scriptures more quickly and easily.

...for example, turning to "John, chapter 3, verse 16" in your Bible, is much quicker than it is to find "for God so loved the world..."

The division of the Bible into chapters still commonly used today was developed by Stephen Langton, an Archbishop in the Church of England at Canterbury. The Church of England is the Anglican Church, known in the United States as the Episcopalian Church.

Archbishop Langton put these modern chapter divisions into place ca A.D. 1227. The Wycliffe English Bible of 1382 was the first Bible produced using this chapter pattern.

It is a modern English form of dividing God's word by thoughts and concepts.

In a few places, chapter breaks are poorly placed and divide content that could better flow together. The chapter and verse divisions are a convenience, however, for all Bible scholars, and ever since the Wycliffe Bible was printed, nearly all Bible translations have used Langton’s division into chapters.

The Hebrew Old Testament was then divided into verses for the first time by a Jewish rabbi named Nathan in A.D. 1448.

Robert Estienne, also known as Stephanus, was the first person to divide the New Testament into standard numbered verses, in A.D. 1555.

Stephanus used Nathan’s verse divisions for the Old Testament, adding verses to the New Testament. Since that time, beginning with the Geneva Bible, the chapter and verse divisions employed by Stephanus have been uniformly accepted and incorporated into nearly every Bible version produced since A.D. 1555.

This comparatively recent history of the development and use of chapter and verse divisions in God's Holy Word makes it obvious that nowhere in Scripture does God say anything about either chapters or verses as they did not exist.

I agree that life would be better individually, culturally, nationally and internationally if men everywhere would abide by the instructions God has given us in the Scriptures, beginning with belief in the Lord, Jesus Christ, and turning away from sin, which is rebellion against the revealed will of God.

TexaCan Loc: Homeward Bound!

Good evening Zemirah!

Hope you’re doing well! Not much longer and we will be enjoying my favorite time of the year. There is nothing more enjoyable than the new life that springs forth in Spring, both in the beautiful wild flowers and new grass in the pastures, and a new crop of baby calves and precious cotton tail bunnies!

This is our first Spring down here so I’m looking forward to enjoying some of God’s beautiful creation indicative to this area. Our neighbor told us that he saw a little alligator in our canal. 😱 I’m not sure if I can replace a cute bunny with a cute ALLIGATOR! I’ll name him Little Jack! That otta help!!

Thank you for another informative lesson on the Bible. I don’t always say this, but I always read them and never fail to learn from them.

God Bless!

MARANATHA

Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...

Thank you and Good evening to you, TexaCan,

I just watched President Trump's news conference on the Coronavirus through twice on YouTube. He handled it well, and the press was a l m o s t respectful to him.

It snowed here much of the day, large beautiful snowflakes, with not much over an inch actual accumulation, but not a hint of springtime.

I actually saw one of the large brown rabbits early today, affectionately called Br'er Rabbit, for the 1st time in months, racing across the yard from beneath the stacked firewood where they live. Officially, they're Eastern Cottontails.

Rabbits do not hibernate in the winter, although a lot of people seem to think so, but they're most active at dusk and dawn, so I rarely see them, not because I'm not up at those hours, just not gazing out the windows. In the winter, rabbits feed on "woody" foods such as raspberry twigs, stems of wild rose, silky and gray dogwood, thorneapple, and other planted shrubs.

Several Red Fox squirrels were racing up and down the tree trunks all afternoon, going to their hidden stashes of acorns and nuts, although it was snowing, the temperature remained in the low 30s, which is almost civilized for late February.

I would not knowingly tolerate any size alligator in a nearby stream or canal if I could find a way to eradicate him/her.

Given the opportunity, the alligator would devour the cute cottontail bunnies.

You might tan the wee reptile's hide, and make yourself a spring purse!

God seems to love springtime.

Zechariah 10:1

'Ask rain from the Lord in the season of the spring rain, from the Lord who makes the storm clouds, and he will give them showers of rain, to everyone the vegetation in the field."

Song of Solomon 2:11-12

"For behold, the winter is past; the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land."

Isaiah 61:11

"For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to sprout up before all the nations."

Genesis 8:22 ...and the greatest of all, There will be no global warming:

"While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”

Maranatha!

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

Good article