Steaver, I may be in trouble. My wife disagrees with me. :tonofbricks:
Oh boy! I understand that. I will pray for you :smilewinkgrin:
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Steaver, I may be in trouble. My wife disagrees with me. :tonofbricks:
You are right: Rachab is simply the Greek rendering of the Hebrew Rahab and is in the genealogy of Christ. But that doesn't prove anything about Psalm 51. It is a just another red herring.Here is what I am coming up with so far. According to “All the Women in the Bible” on pp 66 it reads” In the genealogy of Christ we find the name of Rachab, along with other women…….There is some question as to whether this was Rahab, the harlot, but most scholars identify Rachab and Rahab as one in the same person.”
Rahab has nothing to do with this conversation as Rahab was not the mother of David; Bathsheba was. And there is nothing in Scripture that indicates that David's birth was sinful, or "the sin of Bathsheba" that HP refers to--is some fictional thing that HP brings up is an unwarranted accusation which is false teaching.If in fact David was illegitimate, it would not have kept him from being picked by God to sit on the throne. God often takes the base things of this world to accomplish His ends. What the world despises, God often uses.
I like that. It gives me hope!:godisgood:
DHK: Rahab has nothing to do with this conversation as Rahab was not the mother of David; Bathsheba was. And there is nothing in Scripture that indicates that David's birth was sinful, or "the sin of Bathsheba" that HP refers to--is some fictional thing that HP brings up is an unwarranted accusation which is false teaching.
My bible says Rachab. Can you show how this is Rahab for me?
Rahab has nothing to do with this conversation as Rahab was not the mother of David; Bathsheba was.
Here is what I am coming up with so far. According to “All the Women in the Bible” on pp 66 it reads” In the genealogy of Christ we find the name of Rachab, along with other women…….There is some question as to whether this was Rahab, the harlot, but most scholars identify Rachab and Rahab as one in the same person.”
An interesting note is that “Josephus and some rabbis refer to Rahab not as a harlot but as an innkeeper…..” It goes on to say that innkeepers were not noted as the most moral persons, and were sometimes called harlots.
Pray for me as I tell my wife of my find.:smilewinkgrin:
Thanks Marcia for the correction. I did.I'm sure you just misspoke - Bathsheba was not David's mother. She's the one he committed adultery with.
The above are Burkitt's comments on Matthew 1:51. To denote the freeness of God's grace, which extends itself in the saving effects and benefits of it to them that are most unworthy and ill-deserving.
2. To encourage the greatest sinners to unto Christ by faith, and seek to be ingrafted into him: for as Christ, by the power of his godhead, did purify our nature from all the pollution of our ancestors, so he can, by the power of his grace and spirit, sanctify our persons and natures, how foul and impure soever they either are or have been.
3. Hereby our Lord gives us to understand, That he came to save the most notorious sinners, as well as those lives have been less scandalous.
4. This is recorded for the support of such as are illegitimate and base-born, how vile soever their
parents' sin has rendered them in the eyes of men, it is their own sin only which exposes them to
contempt in the sight of God. It is not illegitimacy, but unregeneracy, that makes us objects of God's wrath.
Love, holiness and justice all work together in God's plan of redemption. Because you can't understand it from a human standpoint doesn't mean you should reject it.DHK: Burkitt:”… how vile soever their parents' sin has rendered them in the eyes of men, it is their own sin only which exposes them to contempt in the sight of God. It is not illegitimacy, but unregeneracy, that makes us objects of God's wrath.”
[quote[HP: Would to God men would accept that comment at face value, and understand clearly that if it is sin it does according to Scripture render man as an object of God’s Divine wrath. Are we being consistent by the admission of original sin, while saying as well that only ‘ones own sin exposes them to contempt in the sight of God’? I think not.
You are right it doesn't. But it does tell us that we bear the consequences of another's sin.If man is born a sinner due to sin being inflicted upon them due to the sins of Adam or anyone else, that is a concept at direct antipodes with Scripture. Scripture very plainly tells us that no man is accountable to God for the sins of another.
Again, you take Scripture out of context. We bear the consequences of Adam's sin--a sin nature. Adam is the federal head of the human race, and by his sin the entire human race is plunged under a curse, which includes mankind inheriting a sin nature. Until the curse be removed things will continue as they are. We bear the consequences of Adam's sin.Eze 18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Does not Scripture tell us that the first man is Adam.DHK: Again, you take Scripture out of context. We bear the consequences of Adam's sin--a sin nature. Adam is the federal head of the human race, and by his sin the entire human race is plunged under a curse, which includes mankind inheriting a sin nature. Until the curse be removed things will continue as they are. We bear the consequences of Adam's sin.
HP: Hogwash. I by no means take that Scripture out of context. It states exactly what it says it states, you simply cannot accept it because it runs contrary to your presupposition of original sin. Your whole argument of a federal head is nothing more than an unsupported philosophical notion nowhere stated or implied in Scripture. Federal headship is nothing more or less than pure unadultrated Calvinistic philosophy.
It tells me our physical father is indeed Adam as physical descendants, but eternal life does not come via our physical father. All have sinned. Our only spiritual hope comes from the Second Adam, for we are fallen sinners without hope. Christ has come to redeem us from our sins and the eternal consequence of our sin and to grant to us eternal life IF we reamin firm in our hope and obedience to the end.