| Re: Elders and their children
RJ,
You are still spouting the same old stuff and have yet to answer me. This is the third time I have presented this to you. Quote: |
Originally Posted by Laura Quote: |
Originally Posted by RJ Mac The situation is only problematic because men state the children have to Christians. Where the text reads the children have to be trustworthy. | Perhaps you did not see this? Quote: |
Originally Posted by RJ Mac What does "believing" mean? Titus 1:6 uses PISTOS - which translates trustworthy, faithful, reliable.
If we say it means to be a Christian, then of course all the elders children must be baptized and faithful.
But if we say it means trustworthy, reliable, then does the onus go to the quality of the children. Quote: |
Originally Posted by Laura Why did you leave out "faithful"? The word PISTOS means all of those things. It is the culmination. Faithful to what? The context edicts faithful to the faith or Christ. That implies Christian. | | |
__________________
--Laura
O Lord, I know the way of man is not in himself; It is not in man who walks to direct his own steps.
Jeremiah 10:23 (NKJV)
|