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No - no wager, Tim, I am more interested in you answering the matters rather than trying to skim the surface.
Access to the Tree of Life is given only to the Elect. The context in Rev 22:19 indicates that one will be denied access because he/she "takes away from the words of the prophecy of this book."
No other passage in Scripture references such a denial. However, being blotted out of the Book of Life fits the theology and context of Rev. 22:19.
Gen 3:22 Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever--"
Gen 3:23 therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.
Gen 3:24 He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.
No - no wager, Tim, I am more interested in you answering the matters rather than trying to skim the surface.
Hmmm..you brought it up, but now you're dropping it. Well, OK. Please be aware that the CT is regularly condemned, including here, by people who use for proof the moral failings of W&H. And my observation is that they love to dish it out, but have a hard time taking it. Another sign of the internal weakness of the AVer theory.
Access to the Tree of Life is given only to the Elect. The context in Rev 22:19 indicates that one will be denied access because he/she "takes away from the words of the prophecy of this book."
Exactly.
No other passage in Scripture references such a denial. However, being blotted out of the Book of Life fits the theology and context of Rev. 22:19.
Yes, there is another passage. The Bible begins and ends with this parallel.
Gen 3:22 Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever--"
Gen 3:23 therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.
Gen 3:24 He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.
And the overwhelming number of Byzantine texts bear this out. Not that an AVer cares about numbers. Well, they do care about numbers, but only when defending their pet theory. Number are a legitimate "proof" for the TR being God's authentic Word. But numbers are airily brushed aside when they are used against the AVer position.
Where are these statistics coming from? I looked at Metzger's text commentary and it said that no Greek manuscripts contained "book." Also, I thought Rev. 22 was pretty scarce in the manuscript evidence. Is there some kind of central database where you can look this up?
I'm not going to get into this debate, but I want to quickly address your repeated accusation that some people are accusing elders of being in violation of their ordination vows. That is simply not true, and I haven't heard anyone make that accusation.
I'm not going to get into this debate, but I want to quickly address your repeated accusation that some people are accusing elders of being in violation of their ordination vows. That is simply not true, and I haven't heard anyone make that accusation.
Wow, Paul. Thanks. Instead of enjoying my lunch I have to go and look this up
http://www.puritanboard.com/f63/wcf-1-8-ct-40915/index7.html
From a thread you started, so that those who didn't follow THAT thread know I'm not making things up. 23 people on the silly poll YOU started said that Elders in Reformed churches HAVE to use the TR or they are in violation.
I'm not sure whether it's a semantic problem, one of memory, comprehension, back peddling or something else, but not only did many of the Elders here see it clearly that way, but James White mentioned the thread YOU started, and also saw clearly what the poll has to mean.