laura
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This interview is very moving. I wanted to know the name of the interviewer and this is but one of his articles....
1. Elyon Means Man . . Can Praise His Supremacy.
Ps 138:2
2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name. (KJV)
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I'll remind you of a story about me and Janice Meier, let's just say she's our resident Hebrew scholar, our on call Hebrew scholar. She is with the Sunday School Board helping write and edit
Sunday School literature. Some of your ladies have the Woman's Study Bible. It is an excellent study Bible and she is one of the editors of that Bible. But as she was here on Sunday morning I said "Janice are you going to be here for awhile" and she said "yes." I said "come by to my office would you and let me talk about some things in Hebrew."
She came in I said, "okay, here's what I want you to study with me." And I pulled up on my computer the Hebrew Bible. She said, "don't you have a Bible?" I said well, "right there it is."
You know, she didn't want to use that new-fangled stuff on the computer. She said, "don't you have a Hebrew Bible." Well, I got it out and dusted it off, and gave it to her. Well, then we studied this verse. This Psalm 138:2 and I quoted the King James. The last phrase of the King James is "for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name."
I wanted some additional help on this. I said, "what is that saying?" Tell me more in the Hebrew what that is saying. I studied a little bit but I'll yield to you that you are superior in Hebrew scholarship. And we began studying and began looking at some of the other translations and she said, "Well, the evidence is such that there is as much evidence or more for the King James translation in that phrase as there is in any others. So you're well on good grounds to be able to say to magnify thy word above all thy name. Can you think about that for a moment. That your word is magnified above your name. When you really think about that if your word isn't any good, then your name isn't either.
I discussed the idea of the inerrancy of scripture with someone the other day. They said well, it's so simple to me. If we have an inerrant God then why can't we have an inerrant scripture? And it just does really follow, it's just that simple. If you have a problem with the Word of God, it is because there is some kind of problem with God. And here it says He magnifies His word above His name. And so the Supremacy of God, I can praise Him in that manner and I can say like this someone said, Father, You magnified Your Word, above all of YOUR NAME!
The WORD was made flesh and dwelt among us, and HIS Name is JESUS! HALLOWED BE THY NAME! The Lion and the Lamb, Jesus.
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