Proverbs 20: 26 Commentary

James R. I agree with Tractorman Post #4 with regards to your comments…it is like shooting with a B.B. Pellet gun(wrong comments) a Tank(right words of Tractorman)…hehehe…i don’t know if you are playing around…but hoping you stick with soundness & logical comments…everybody is important…and YOU ARE IMPORTANT IN THE EYES OF GOD!

By TIUCHE (wrote 2756 Bible Commentaries - permalink to this Commentary)
Posted on: 8/1/2011 11:09 am

James - looks like I need to take you to school AGAIN, for your hermeneutic and comprehension of these verses are downright atrocious and assuming! You make ‘bizarre’ comments which are NOT found in these verses AT ALL…

… and NO, you don’t offend me, but you make these DOGMATIC assertions which are NOT found in the verses…

Let’s do this again:

1. Where in the world do you get ‘divine right to rule’? There is NOTHING mentioned about it in this verse at ALL! Sounds like you PERSONALLY have an issue with AUTHORITY, for this verse says NOTHING about some slavish obedience to a ruler.

2. You make the comment ‘notice the king is wise!’ WHAT ?!?!?!?? This verse makes NO blanket statement WHATSOEVER that the king is ‘defacto’ wise. Read the verse - it’s says a ‘wise king’… wise MODIFIES king - it actually implies that some kings might be FOOLISH, but a WISE KING deals with injustice, whereas a foolish one does not - THAT’S the point!!! NOT some slavish, blind obedience in submission to your so-called ‘divine right of kings’.

3. Read my comments AGAIN - I start off by saying that a ‘wise and just ruler’ - hmmm, doesn’t sound like ‘divine right of kings’ to me.

4. Divine right of kings: Definition from http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/STUdivine.htm

“The idea of the Divine Right of Kings evolved in Europe during the Middle Ages. The theory claimed that kings were answerable only to God and it was therefore sinful for their subjects to resist them.”

5. Hmmm, if this were TRUE, then NATHAN rebelled against God for confronting King David’s adulterous sin with Bathsheba. John the Baptist sinned against God for confronting Herod about with sinful relationship with his brother Philip’s wife… and on and on we go…

4. I do NOT mind lucid, charitable and BIBLICAL criticism of my commentary, but to make ‘off the wall’ and specious remarks that are clearly not thought out, illogical and not supported by BIBLICAL thought do NOT advance the argument.

5. I welcome your comments James, but I would LIKE if you would THOROUGHLY analyze the verse FIRST for yourself, look at my comments IN CONTEXT, THEN provide your critique.

By Tractorman (wrote 2613 Bible Commentaries - permalink to this Commentary)
Posted on: 7/31/2011 21:15 pm

GOD WANTS US TO QUESTION EVERYTHING if not, He would have not give us free will and a mind to ponder things.However, God wants us to fully trust His Word and at all times to….

“Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”Proverbs 3:5-6.

Let us not follow after the First Adam who disobeyed the Word of His maker; but the rather we should follow after the Second Adam who obeyed the Word of His Father!(refer to 1 Cor. 15:45

Consider:
Genesis 2:7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
John 5:21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it.
John 6:57 Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.
Romans 5:14 Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who was a pattern of the one to come.
Romans 8:2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.
1 Corinthians 15:46 The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual.

By TIUCHE (wrote 2756 Bible Commentaries - permalink to this Commentary)
Posted on: 7/31/2011 18:00 pm

“Divine Right To Rule” is repeated over and over to hypnotize the massed. Sleep, obey, do not as questions, sleep, obey, do not question us. Obey, obey, obey.

Notice the kings are wise! Actually they are humans just like you.

Christians who question president Barack Obama and sinning, according to the ‘divine right to rule’ doctrine.

By James Richter (wrote 536 Bible Commentaries - permalink to this Commentary)
Posted on: 7/27/2011 19:05 pm

1. A wise and just ruler does NOT
a. Let injustice pass by or continue
b. But gets to the bottom of things
2. After questionings and cross-examinations
a. The guilty are exposed and punished

By Tractorman (wrote 2613 Bible Commentaries - permalink to this Commentary)
Posted on: 7/27/2011 18:46 pm