Comments for Weird Thinkers http://weirdthinkers.wordpress.com Just another person sharing his thoughts... Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:24:36 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on HCSB Collection by Robert Jimenez http://weirdthinkers.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/hcsb-collection/#comment-345 Robert Jimenez Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:24:36 +0000 http://weirdthinkers.wordpress.com/?p=129#comment-345 Adam, try it again. Or just try this link: http://picasaweb.google.com/downeyimages/HolmanLegacyHCSBBible?authkey=Gv1sRgCPnnn5mxj-mftwE&feat=directlink The Legacy is really nice, top leather. The leather in the Minister's bible does not compare. There is a cheap version of the Legacy that feels like cardboard, so be careful. So if you do purchase the Legacy, and it does not look like mine, soft and supple then you purchased the wrong one so send it back. Adam, try it again. Or just try this link:
http://picasaweb.google.com/downeyimages/HolmanLegacyHCSBBible?authkey=Gv1sRgCPnnn5mxj-mftwE&feat=directlink

The Legacy is really nice, top leather. The leather in the Minister’s bible does not compare. There is a cheap version of the Legacy that feels like cardboard, so be careful. So if you do purchase the Legacy, and it does not look like mine, soft and supple then you purchased the wrong one so send it back.

]]> Comment on HCSB Collection by jadambyrd http://weirdthinkers.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/hcsb-collection/#comment-344 jadambyrd Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:41:54 +0000 http://weirdthinkers.wordpress.com/?p=129#comment-344 I can't seem to access your photos concerning the Legacy. I have the Minister's Bible and can't decide between purchasing a Legacy or a new Minister's Bible and having it rebound. I can’t seem to access your photos concerning the Legacy. I have the Minister’s Bible and can’t decide between purchasing a Legacy or a new Minister’s Bible and having it rebound.

]]> Comment on Please pray for the Laurie family by adela aragon http://weirdthinkers.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/please-pray-for-the-laurie-family/#comment-343 adela aragon Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:36:17 +0000 http://weirdthinkers.wordpress.com/?p=157#comment-343 dear greg, my husband Frank lost his son Miguel 32 years old to an overdose of drugs. I don't know if he is in heaven because the life he led was not a believer this was my husband's only child. he is angry with God because of this. It breaks my heart to see him in pain and to not want to give his pain to God. I am a christain and believe I pray for him and would like to ask you to please pray that the Lord will touch him so that he will become a believer again. Thank you so much for being such a good role model for those who are in pain. adela dear greg, my husband Frank lost his son Miguel 32 years old to an overdose of drugs. I don’t know if he is in heaven because the life he led was not a believer this was my husband’s only child. he is angry with God because of this. It breaks my heart to see him in pain and to not want to give his pain to God. I am a christain and believe I pray for him and would like to ask you to please pray that the Lord will touch him so that he will become a believer again. Thank you so much for being such a good role model for those who are in pain.

adela

]]> Comment on Bibles I Own by Terri http://weirdthinkers.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/bibles-i-own/#comment-342 Terri Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:25:46 +0000 http://weirdthinkers.wordpress.com/?p=59#comment-342 I know I'm late to this party, but I just wanted to say something about the HCSB Minister's Bible. For me, the ideal one would be without the minister helps but also without the references. I hate references in a Bible I'm just trying to read and pray with. I find them very distracting and ugly. The Minister's version is the only HCSB I've found without the references, and better still it's single column and paragraph formatted. It's the only HCSB I've found with large enough font size which doesn't have those cross references so here's hoping that they keep them out of this Bible, drop the minister helps and name, even add a red letter version, and a burgundy choice, and I'll be a happy camper! I know I’m late to this party, but I just wanted to say something about the HCSB Minister’s Bible. For me, the ideal one would be without the minister helps but also without the references. I hate references in a Bible I’m just trying to read and pray with. I find them very distracting and ugly. The Minister’s version is the only HCSB I’ve found without the references, and better still it’s single column and paragraph formatted. It’s the only HCSB I’ve found with large enough font size which doesn’t have those cross references so here’s hoping that they keep them out of this Bible, drop the minister helps and name, even add a red letter version, and a burgundy choice, and I’ll be a happy camper!

]]> Comment on HCSB Apologetic Study Bible – Review by Steve http://weirdthinkers.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/hcsb-apologetic-study-bible-review/#comment-341 Steve Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:06:26 +0000 http://weirdthinkers.wordpress.com/?p=123#comment-341 To: CD-Host- Please explain which areas the Study Bible is incorrect. I have referenced everything I have read so far and besides the fact that they had no room to go into adequate depth on each issue to make a reader an expert on each subject, the writers were highly accurate in their knowledge of each subject. This study Bible is not intended to make someone an expert on Buddhism or reincarnation, etc...but gives readers brief commentary on some of the views in comparison and contrast with biblical teaching. To: CD-Host-

Please explain which areas the Study Bible is incorrect. I have referenced everything I have read so far and besides the fact that they had no room to go into adequate depth on each issue to make a reader an expert on each subject, the writers were highly accurate in their knowledge of each subject.
This study Bible is not intended to make someone an expert on Buddhism or reincarnation, etc…but gives readers brief commentary on some of the views in comparison and contrast with biblical teaching.

]]> Comment on Bibles I Own by Robert Jimenez http://weirdthinkers.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/bibles-i-own/#comment-329 Robert Jimenez Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:30:06 +0000 http://weirdthinkers.wordpress.com/?p=59#comment-329 Diana, although I don't blog here anymore I do keep up with any responses. Check me out where I blog now, I just posted a nice new bible available from Holman (HCSB)<a href="http://theinquiringminds.wordpress.com/2009/01/02/limited-edition-ministers-bible-hcsb/" rel="nofollow">.</a> Diana, although I don’t blog here anymore I do keep up with any responses. Check me out where I blog now, I just posted a nice new bible available from Holman (HCSB).

]]> Comment on HCSB Collection by Limited Edition Ministers Bible - HCSB « Inquiring Minds http://weirdthinkers.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/hcsb-collection/#comment-328 Limited Edition Ministers Bible - HCSB « Inquiring Minds Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:07:06 +0000 http://weirdthinkers.wordpress.com/?p=129#comment-328 [...] I own the prior edition which I really like to read.  The fonts are excellent, the spread between the text is nice, and the leather is a good cowhide, but not soft or supple, or flexible in anyway but it is a nice grain matte finish.  I have often thought of sending this one out and having it rebound.  I used mine the other day when I had to speak at a funeral.  You can read a bit more about it here. [...] [...] I own the prior edition which I really like to read.  The fonts are excellent, the spread between the text is nice, and the leather is a good cowhide, but not soft or supple, or flexible in anyway but it is a nice grain matte finish.  I have often thought of sending this one out and having it rebound.  I used mine the other day when I had to speak at a funeral.  You can read a bit more about it here. [...]

]]> Comment on Bibles I Own by Diana cofield http://weirdthinkers.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/bibles-i-own/#comment-327 Diana cofield Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:02:09 +0000 http://weirdthinkers.wordpress.com/?p=59#comment-327 I also collect bibles and I love everyone I have. I have 52 and four coming in the mail. I really am liking the ESV study Bible. I love to compare the wording and the comments and the well everything about them. I do love your website where people of like monds canwrite comments. Good Job. I also collect bibles and I love everyone I have.
I have 52 and four coming in the mail. I really am liking the ESV study Bible.
I love to compare the wording and the comments and the well everything about them.
I do love your website where people of like monds canwrite comments.
Good Job.

]]> Comment on Are you a Charismatic Christian? by Robert Jimenez http://weirdthinkers.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/are-you-a-charismatic/#comment-326 Robert Jimenez Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:18:01 +0000 http://weirdthinkers.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-326 Hello Joy, I am unclear as to why you are not Charismatic??? Your whole dialog pertained clearly to salvation, which it seems that you have embraced Calvinism. And it does not sound like you are at all interested in any sort of friendly dialog, since you came here to tell me that you "know for a fact", and according to you, the "Holy Spirit - straightened out your doctrine". Well you have facts and God himself has spoken to you to correct the rest of us. Where do we go from here? You should take some time and read the works of Jacobs Arminius. Also, just in case you didn't know the Gifts have not ceased. I guess scriptures that fit your model you just ignore. Take Saint Paul's advise: 1 Thess. 5:19-22 TNIV Do not put out the Spirit's fire. 20 Do not treat prophecies with contempt 21 but test them all; hold on to what is good, 22 reject whatever is harmful. It sounds like you have put out the Spirit's fire in your life, and that is why "those other things just went away". You should reconsider why you have contempt towards the gifts of the Spirit. Hello Joy,

I am unclear as to why you are not Charismatic???

Your whole dialog pertained clearly to salvation, which it seems that you have embraced Calvinism. And it does not sound like you are at all interested in any sort of friendly dialog, since you came here to tell me that you “know for a fact”, and according to you, the “Holy Spirit – straightened out your doctrine”. Well you have facts and God himself has spoken to you to correct the rest of us. Where do we go from here?

You should take some time and read the works of Jacobs Arminius. Also, just in case you didn’t know the Gifts have not ceased. I guess scriptures that fit your model you just ignore. Take Saint Paul’s advise:

1 Thess. 5:19-22 TNIV
Do not put out the Spirit’s fire. 20 Do not treat prophecies with contempt 21 but test them all; hold on to what is good, 22 reject whatever is harmful.

It sounds like you have put out the Spirit’s fire in your life, and that is why “those other things just went away”. You should reconsider why you have contempt towards the gifts of the Spirit.

]]> Comment on Are you a Charismatic Christian? by Joy http://weirdthinkers.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/are-you-a-charismatic/#comment-325 Joy Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:46:08 +0000 http://weirdthinkers.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-325 Hello all! I am not Charismatic, and the reason is because as a Christian by new birth and a Baptist by conviction, I have studied God's Word enough that I know for a fact from the Bible that salvation is eternal and begins when a person is born again. Most Charismatics and Pentecostals believe that salvation can be lost when a person falls out of fellowship with God and backslides. But the Bible teaches in many (over 100 I have personally found) that salvation is eternal. John 5:24 states, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life." When he believes, from that moment he has (possesses - present tense) everlasting life. I haven't seen a Charismatic church or any Pentecostal church that teaches correctly on this important Bible doctrine. The Bible says we need to "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." My husband and I were Pentecostal before we were Baptist, and he spoke in tongues and had the "gift of healing". Amazing that after we got our doctrine straightened out by the Holy Spirit, on eternal security, that those other things just went away on their own. Not wanting to be argumentative, but I feel I needed to share the truth from God's Word. That Southern Baptist pastor evidently needed to have a closer walk with His Lord, and wondered - without having fully studied the doctrine from God's Holy Word - if speaking in tongues would help him in that quest. Hello all! I am not Charismatic, and the reason is because as a Christian by new birth and a Baptist by conviction, I have studied God’s Word enough that I know for a fact from the Bible that salvation is eternal and begins when a person is born again. Most Charismatics and Pentecostals believe that salvation can be lost when a person falls out of fellowship with God and backslides. But the Bible teaches in many (over 100 I have personally found) that salvation is eternal. John 5:24 states, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.” When he believes, from that moment he has (possesses – present tense) everlasting life. I haven’t seen a Charismatic church or any Pentecostal church that teaches correctly on this important Bible doctrine. The Bible says we need to “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” My husband and I were Pentecostal before we were Baptist, and he spoke in tongues and had the “gift of healing”. Amazing that after we got our doctrine straightened out by the Holy Spirit, on eternal security, that those other things just went away on their own. Not wanting to be argumentative, but I feel I needed to share the truth from God’s Word. That Southern Baptist pastor evidently needed to have a closer walk with His Lord, and wondered – without having fully studied the doctrine from God’s Holy Word – if speaking in tongues would help him in that quest.

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