Featured Biblical vs Secular Definitions of English Words

It also is a way of taking Christians out of the world (1 Cor 5:9-10), where they can't understand us, and we can't understand them. I had an instance where I was talking to an attorney about someone trespassing on my property. I mentioned that I hoped the person was convicted of his bad behavior, meaning that his conscience would bother him. Of course, the attorney thought I meant "convicted" of a crime in a court of law, and since there hadn't been any actual charges filed, there was no expectation of a court conviction. It was an awkward exchange.

 

In addition, Christians of different stripes also can't understand each other very well, as the meanings of the words are different between different denominations. It's a sort of Christian "Babel".

 

You mean like the Black Lives Matter indoctrination that's being foisted on many corporations today?

I agree it's a problem in the churches, for sure, and the liberal mindset is not a "long ago" problem.

To tie the two together, "racism" is double-speak for "anything that doesn't agree with liberal thought" these days, and "social justice" essentially means acceptance of homosexuality and trans-genderism, and churches seem to be jumping on the bandwagon in many cases.

 

Maybe this why Christ said to come out of her.
MB

 

Noah Webster was a Christian, and committed to helping people understand each other better through his dictionary. He was also a founder of our nation, who influenced other founders, like George Washington and James Madison on how to set up the government.

As the church and its influences were decidedly influential in the founding of America, so is the church influential in the stability of America, despite the push to marginalize it, both from within the church and without.

The babel of American politics is going to tear America apart, though the church can last through such schisms. If the church isn't united, including in the use of words, it also will tear apart.

[Jhn 17:20-23 KJV] 20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

 

Assuming we can figure out what "her" refers to. The apostate church? Jerusalem? Babylon (which fits my assertion of the importance of @JonC's topic).

 

Yes, that’s one reason the country will implode.
But “Babel” Battle has been going on for sometime. The multiple uses for once familiar words can land you in a minefield of confusion when trying to engage certain groups of people.

 

Churches are referred to as "HER" The Roman church has signed an agreement with Islam's Imam to create a one world religion. The church has always been referred to as her.
MB

 

I believe it would be hard to deny Christ was speaking of a Church.
Rev_18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
The whore that rides the beast is IMHO the RCC
MB

 

Babel confused languages (at God's command) to spread out the people they were not doing His will in populating the whole earth (and cooking up evil in the city). Pentecost reunited people who spoke different languages.

The church has a job of uniting people in Jesus Christ, and to do that, language plays an enormous part. Like the scriptures that are constantly being translated into new tongues. Thus the importance of this thread.

 

Lets consider a few words found in scripture (or more accurately in our English translation of scripture).

1) Draw - does it mean compel by irresistible grace or attract by the persuasion of lovingkindness?
2) Foreknow - does it refer to knowledge of the future or knowledge acquired or formulated in the past, such as a plan?
3) Men of flesh - does this mean someone whose mind is set on fleshly desires, or to any unsaved person?
4) Propitiation - does this refer to the act of turning aside God's wrath or the means of salvation from God's wrath?
5) Come to Me - does this mean to put our faith in Christ, or to be spiritually placed in Christ?

 

I think the problems in the church today are much, much bigger than the RCC. When the church is embracing behavior God calls abomination, the whoring is at full tilt.

 

To balance this out, one must also point out that definitions get infused with an external theology, which upon becoming mainstream, then makes its way into the dictionary, and then the Biblical word is read in the light of the dictionary's connotation. Dictionaries don't fall from heaven.

 

Apostate Judaism was the great city, 'Mystery Babylon':

8 And their dead bodies lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. Rev 11

10 standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
21 And a strong angel took up a stone as it were a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with a mighty fall shall Babylon, the great city, be cast down, and shall be found no more at all. Rev 18

 

It's also interesting that at the time the scriptures were written there were no dictionaries . At least there are none left in existence if there were
MB

 

I think you are correct, but does this mean it applies to current day Jerusalem, or did it already happen and apply to Jerusalem in 70 AD?