米迦網誌::Encounter with God

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箴言 10:11:義人的口是生命的泉源，強暴遮蓋惡人的口。

箴言 10:13:聰明人嘴裡有智慧，無知人背上受刑杖。

箴言 10:19:多言多語難免有過失；約束自己嘴唇的，是明慧人。

箴言 10:31:義人的口結出智慧的果子，乖謬的舌頭必被割除。

箴言 10:32:義人的嘴使人喜悅，惡人的口說乖謬的話。

箴言 11:12:藐視鄰舍的，真是無知；聰明人卻緘默不言。

箴言 12:6:惡人的言語等著要流人的血，正直人的口能拯救人。

箴言 12:16:愚妄人的惱怒立時顯露，精明的人卻能忍受羞辱。

箴言 13:2:人因口所結的果子，必得嘗美物，奸詐人的慾望卻是強暴。

箴言 13:3:謹慎口舌的，可保性命；口沒遮攔的，自取滅亡。

箴言 14:3:愚妄人的口中長出驕傲的枝子；智慧人的嘴唇，能保障自己。

箴言 15:1:柔和的回答使烈怒消退，暴戾的話激動怒氣。

箴言 15:2:智慧人的舌頭闡揚知識；愚昧人的口發出愚妄。

箴言 15:4:說安慰話的舌頭是生命樹；奸惡的舌頭使人心碎。

箴言 15:7:智慧人的嘴唇散播知識；愚昧人的心並不是這樣。

箴言 15:23:應對得當，自己也覺喜樂；合時的話，多麼美好！

箴言 15:26:邪惡的思想是耶和華厭惡的；恩慈的話卻是純淨的。

箴言 15:28:義人的心思想怎樣回答；惡人的口發出惡言。

箴言 16:21:心中有智慧的必稱為聰明人；動聽的話能增加說服力。

箴言 17:7:愚頑人說佳美的話是不相稱的，何況尊貴的人說虛謊的話呢！

箴言 17:27:有知識的約束自己的言語；聰明人心平氣和。

箴言 17:28:愚妄人默不作聲，也算是智慧；閉口不言，也算是聰明。

箴言 18:4:人口中的言語如同深水，智慧的泉源好像湧流的河水。

箴言 18:20:人口中所結的果子，必使自己的肚腹飽足；他嘴裡所出的，必使他飽足。

箴言 19:1:行為完全的窮人，勝過說話欺詐的愚昧人。

箴言 20:15:雖有金子、許多紅寶石和寶器，但充滿知識的嘴唇比這一切更寶貴。

箴言 21:23:謹守口舌的，保護自己免受患難。

箴言 22:11:喜愛內心潔淨，嘴上有恩言的，君王要作他的朋友。

箴言 25:11:一句話說得合宜，就像金蘋果鑲在銀的器物上。

箴言 25:15:恆久忍耐可以勸服掌權的人，柔和的舌頭，可以折斷骨頭。

箴言 26:5:要照著愚昧人的愚妄回答他，免得他自以為有智慧。

箴言 31:26:她開口就說出智慧的話；她的舌頭上充滿慈愛的訓誨。

Catholic Church no longer swears by truth of the Bible
By Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent

THE hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church has published a teaching document instructing the faithful that some parts of the Bible are not actually true.

The Catholic bishops of England, Wales and Scotland are warning their five million worshippers, as well as any others drawn to the study of scripture, that they should not expect “total accuracy” from the Bible.

“We should not expect to find in Scripture full scientific accuracy or complete historical precision,” they say in The Gift of Scripture.

The document is timely, coming as it does amid the rise of the religious Right, in particular in the US.

Some Christians want a literal interpretation of the story of creation, as told in Genesis, taught alongside Darwin’s theory of evolution in schools, believing “intelligent design” to be an equally plausible theory of how the world began.

But the first 11 chapters of Genesis, in which two different and at times conflicting stories of creation are told, are among those that this country’s Catholic bishops insist cannot be “historical”. At most, they say, they may contain “historical traces”.

The document shows how far the Catholic Church has come since the 17th century, when Galileo was condemned as a heretic for flouting a near-universal belief in the divine inspiration of the Bible by advocating the Copernican view of the solar system. Only a century ago, Pope Pius X condemned Modernist Catholic scholars who adapted historical-critical methods of analysing ancient literature to the Bible.

In the document, the bishops acknowledge their debt to biblical scholars. They say the Bible must be approached in the knowledge that it is “God’s word expressed in human language” and that proper acknowledgement should be given both to the word of God and its human dimensions.

They say the Church must offer the gospel in ways “appropriate to changing times, intelligible and attractive to our contemporaries”.

The Bible is true in passages relating to human salvation, they say, but continue: “We should not expect total accuracy from the Bible in other, secular matters.”

They go on to condemn fundamentalism for its “intransigent intolerance” and to warn of “significant dangers” involved in a fundamentalist approach.

“Such an approach is dangerous, for example, when people of one nation or group see in the Bible a mandate for their own superiority, and even consider themselves permitted by the Bible to use violence against others.”

Of the notorious anti-Jewish curse in Matthew 27:25, “His blood be on us and on our children”, a passage used to justify centuries of anti-Semitism, the bishops say these and other words must never be used again as a pretext to treat Jewish people with contempt. Describing this passage as an example of dramatic exaggeration, the bishops say they have had “tragic consequences” in encouraging hatred and persecution. “The attitudes and language of first-century quarrels between Jews and Jewish Christians should never again be emulated in relations between Jews and Christians.”

As examples of passages not to be taken literally, the bishops cite the early chapters of Genesis, comparing them with early creation legends from other cultures, especially from the ancient East. The bishops say it is clear that the primary purpose of these chapters was to provide religious teaching and that they could not be described as historical writing.

Similarly, they refute the apocalyptic prophecies of Revelation, the last book of the Christian Bible, in which the writer describes the work of the risen Jesus, the death of the Beast and the wedding feast of Christ the Lamb.

The bishops say: “Such symbolic language must be respected for what it is, and is not to be interpreted literally. We should not expect to discover in this book details about the end of the world, about how many will be saved and about when the end will come.”

In their foreword to the teaching document, the two most senior Catholics of the land, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, Archbishop of Westminster, and Cardinal Keith O’Brien, Archbishop of St Andrew’s and Edinburgh, explain its context.

They say people today are searching for what is worthwhile, what has real value, what can be trusted and what is really true.

The new teaching has been issued as part of the 40th anniversary celebrations of Dei Verbum, the Second Vatican Council document explaining the place of Scripture in revelation. In the past 40 years, Catholics have learnt more than ever before to cherish the Bible. “We have rediscovered the Bible as a precious treasure, both ancient and ever new.”

A Christian charity is sending a film about the Christmas story to every primary school in Britain after hearing of a young boy who asked his teacher why Mary and Joseph had named their baby after a swear word. The Breakout Trust raised £200,000 to make the 30-minute animated film, It’s a Boy. Steve Legg, head of the charity, said: “There are over 12 million children in the UK and only 756,000 of them go to church regularly.

That leaves a staggering number who are probably not receiving basic Christian teaching.”

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BELIEVE IT OR NOT

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UNTRUE

Genesis ii, 21-22

So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept he took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh; and the rib which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man

Genesis iii, 16

God said to the woman [after she was beguiled by the serpent]: “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”

Matthew xxvii, 25

The words of the crowd: “His blood be on us and on our children.”

Revelation xix,20

And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had worked the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshipped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with brimstone.”

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TRUE

Exodus iii, 14

God reveals himself to Moses as: “I am who I am.”

Leviticus xxvi,12

“I will be your God, and you shall be my people.”

Exodus xx,1-17

The Ten Commandments

Matthew v,7

The Sermon on the Mount

Mark viii,29

Peter declares Jesus to be the Christ

Luke i

The Virgin Birth

John xx,28

Proof of bodily resurrection

全部聖經都是神所默示的 (提後 3:16).

天地要廢去、我的話卻不能廢去。(路 21:33)

” 因為時候要到、人必厭煩純正的道理．耳朵發癢、就隨從自己的情慾、增添好些師傅．” (提後 4:3)

I am unclear why the bishops have sought to “correct” the bible(米迦按 : 絕句!). The statement in the Gospels, when Pilate presented Jesus as an innocent man who he did not want to crucify, and the crowd calling out: “His blood be on us and on our children” is true. However, the Christian interpretation (held by some) that we should persecute Jews because of that statement is the part that is untrue - so the interpretation across the centuries has been incorrect, rather than that statement from the Gospel. God is our judge, not man. Jacqueline Godfrey, Chelmsford

Truly shocking. How dare these characters who have the affront to call themselves cardinals and bishops alter the word of God just to appease an anti-Christian PC brigade. Cowards and charlatans the lot of them. Which part of the Bible is true then? At a time when anti-Christian forces are amassing in Hollywood in the production of The Da Vinci Code, the last message Catholics want to hear is that the Bible is not true. If the authors of this report have any dignity at all they should resign there positions asap. Gregory Syle, London

How arrogant can Man get? To decide which parts of God’s word are true and which are not beggar’s belief! Because the links between the different parts of Scripture make them dependent upon one another, it means that either it is all true, or it is all lies. We cannot have it any other way. Interestingly, Jesus Christ clearly taught that it was all true - so they are saying that God Himself is wrong! Dominic Stockford, Teddington

A lean description of the sequence behind effective learning.

1. Becoming Aware (Knowing about)

2. Understanding (Intellectually grasping the Concept)

3. Wanting to Apply the Learning (Desire / Motivation)

4. Applying (Trying)

5. Refining (Adjusting performance based on insights from consequences and feedback)

6. Producing Desired Results (Getting what’s expected from applying the learning)

7. Mastering (Developing proficiency in method; obtaining high quality output)