Appreciations
| Posted On: 04/26/08 03:54:02 PM |
Age 44, NH |
Thanks for your kind words.
-Dr. David M. Berman
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Appreciations
| Posted On: 04/23/08 08:43:24 PM |
Age 54, KENYA |
Hi,
I'm a Minister from Africa.
Just want to send a short message of encouragement and support to Rev. Dr. David. This really the 1st time I have seen God using a Theologian to speak the Truth of the Bible. Since the time of the Pharisees up to this day of Dr. David, Theologians are tools of the enemy to reasoning on the Bible, instead of preaching the Word they are used to present the theology of Catholics, ethodists, Baptists, and all the denominations on the face of the earth, never been able to speak the Word. With Dr. David is now a new generation and a judgment to the rest of Theologians.
Stand firm my brother, knowing that men of vision stand alone in victory as it's written, "Jacob remained alone", then met God.
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women ministry
| Posted On: 04/21/08 09:30:09 AM |
Age 41, ENGLAND |
My dear, no matter how many women you quote who have been teachers, the truth is it is not scriptural. And, when its not scriptural, God is not in it. It might appear good, just because God allows it to happen so He to get preemminence!
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re: snide sarcastic rebuke to an elder
| Posted On: 04/10/08 11:35:05 PM |
Age 52, GA |
I repeat my younger and self-professed much learned detractor. The definition of a deacon is clear in 1 Tim. 3:8-13. Study your Bible, and "rebuke not an elder" (1 Ti. 5:1). Your response makes no sense, you agree that scripture is the final authority, then rebuke me in direct contradiction to it. According to Strong's, diakonos is defined more than one way - a servant, an attendant, a deacon, a waiter. The early translators determined the best definition for Phebe was servant. Are you better than they? Will you repent of your prideful arrogance? If you are still confused, and see no reason to repent of your attack against me, you are welcome to write me at fullgospel@dadsforchrist.org. I will try to help you understand the danger and folly of not rightly dividing the Word. There must be some other underlying reason why you do not wish to repent of this illegitimate stand you've taken. Do you have women deacons in your church? Is your pastor a woman? Or are you simply stubborn and prideful? May the Holy Spirit of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, guide you and keep you. Porter +++
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Needed info
| Posted On: 04/09/08 12:10:43 PM |
Age 73, CO |
I have just become aware of your web site and I think it is very good. Since I just became aware of it I have a question for you. I am searching to find info on Dr. Elizebeth Scott who preaches on TV from CA. Do you have any info on her other than her web site. I listened to her and find her very intelligent as to the languages and her theology teaching seems to be OK. Am I missing anything or have I missed any posted messages on your web site concerning her? If I have please let me know eher I can find more about her as others are concerned also. Thank you........I will await your reply.
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Questions don't go away
| Posted On: 04/07/08 07:45:44 AM |
Age 50, MN |
I think ingoring it with the hopes that it will go away may be the best course of action for you. // But when you want to speak authoritatively about controversial subjects, I personally think you should be prepared to discuss people's viewpoints and try to help them understand why you feel you are correct. and I'm not even talking about your college.
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response but no answer..Here is your answer once only.
| Posted On: 04/04/08 11:42:44 PM |
Age 44, NH |
Since I know the Internet is filled with people who sit behind computer screens and anonymously attack, I know they feel that they can say anything without consequences, I normally do not respond to personal accusations about my character. It is like a cat chasing his tail when one such as myself attempts to respond to lies. I however will respond this time once and once only. Here we go; I graduated from Atlantic Southern Bible College. The name was changed from River of Life Bible College to Atlantic Southern Bible college. The college had a very nice campus in GA. When I graduated, members of my family were in attendance. It was a beautiful time, I felt good having earned my degree in Pastoral Ministry. A few years after I graduated the College closed. Not sure why, but I heard it was financial problems. After that I went on to the Masters, and Doctoral Degree from Christian Bible College in NC. (Along with a tremendous amount of reading work) My Doctoral Dissertation was 350 pages (76,000 words) It is now published and available at any book store, Amazon.com, Walmart.com etc, and also in Europe, and Australia. It is titled "Berman's Commentary on the Book Of Romans." I worked very hard on it and studied every single word in the original tongue. Since I am a husband, father of five, and a full time Pastor who planted 2 churches (one with another Pastor, one by myself, a huge job) I was not able to do everything in the traditional manner of going to live on campus. If that is not good enough for you, don't join the Church I am the Senior Pastor of. One person complained that my theology degrees were not "accredited by the federal government" Why would I want the government to accredit religious study? I do not believe the federal government should be involved with any education!!! I am an originalist on the Constitution! The same people who want "separation of Church and state" want the federal government to accredit theology? I do not care what the federal government says about anything except what the 10th amend. allows the federal government power over. I earned what I have, I have proclaimed the gospel to literally millions of people on radio and TV, I have personally won aprox 800 people to Jesus that I know of. I am willing to speak on issues that most preachers in America are afraid of. Do you think I get paid to write for this web site? Do you think I have personally gained from my decision to leave my business and devote my life to full time service? You know nothing of my sacrifice. People throw darts at me, besmirch my character, and even those who call themselves Christians attack me personally. I am sure that people will attack me even for defending myself here in this reply. By stating my work for Christ they will say I am boasting. I can't win with those who desire to destroy others. If this reply is not good enough, with respect, I simply do not care. I know the truth, I know what I have personally given up to give my life to preaching the Word of God. I was a successful businessman, I gave it up and suffered personally financially. I know the hours of toil, time, and pouring my heart out to help people in desperate situations. I know of feeding hungry, clothing those who were desperate. I know of the marriages, and families I have poured my heart out to help. It is a shame that I must respond to lies that originally started from a blogger who does not even have enough guts to put his real name on his blog. Worse yet are the "Christians" who continue the personal attacks against me. I suggest that people argue against my positions if they disagree rather than the personal attacks. Do I think that this will stop the personal attacks? No I don't and that is just the way it is is a Nation that has turned its back of traditional values. There simply are very few gentlemen left. Most are wolves waiting to pounce. This is the only time I will answer this. I will not allow myself to be distracted from my mission.
-Dr. David Berman
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Yes, the Bible is the Final and Ultimate Authority
| Posted On: 04/04/08 05:47:47 PM |
Age 40, PA |
My dear brother, your understanding of the original Greek is obviously quite limited so I will end with this. The culture has determined that interpretation, not the language or the qualifications of God through other writings. Your opinion is yours and no one can take it from you but your opinion is based not on knowledge of either His word or the Greek. See you in heaven.
Grace and Peace,
Jim
PS Before you attempt to "spank" a younger person, please become learned yourself so you may not think more of yourself than you ought. You make an accusation against another person when you yourself have the log in your eye.
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actual rendering
| Posted On: 04/03/08 10:27:29 PM |
Age 52, GA |
My friend, see my above response to sweetness. Scripture is the final exegeter and arbiter of this trivial dispute. St. Paul clearly defines the qualifications for a deacon, and unless Phebe is a man and the husband of one wife, she does not qualify. No doubt this is why the learned scholars and translators of old, translated diakonos as servant, when they described our dear departed sister Phebe.
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re: sweet
| Posted On: 04/03/08 10:16:17 PM |
Age 52, GA |
My notions are not preconceived my young and unlearned detractor. The definition of a deacon is clear in 1 Tim. 3:8-13. Study your Bible, and "rebuke not an elder" (1 Ti. 5:1) until you're way past wet behind the ears.
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response but no answer
| Posted On: 04/03/08 08:58:57 AM |
Age 50, MN |
Well you responded almost immediately to my first post. You responded to another one about this article. In the past you respond promptly to most posts. //Here you take the time to respond, but you do not answer my question, which is a legitimate one about how you read scripture in light of culture, with a couple of examples and questions for you.// Because you call something a lie doesn't make it one, it appears to me a way to dodge real issues and deflect people from inquiring. There are very real questions about your degrees and the college you got them from. It may be a different article, but as I said these are the kinds of questions we find relevant about our leaders (Barack's history with the UMCC, Hilary's rewriting her trip to Bosnia, and on and on). It is important for them to answer these questions and I believe for you to also, rather than just to say they are lies, when in fact nothing I've written here is untrue.
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why the silence??
| Posted On: 04/02/08 02:40:15 PM |
Age 44, NH |
There is a very simple reason for my "silence" as you put it. I do not get on here and read everything written about me. I do not respond to everything written about me. If I did I would have no time to minister the Word of God. As far as "sidestep and ignore questions", I sidestep nothing! I am who I am and with it comes a myriad of accusations, half truths, and innuendos. I choose to listen to the great advice of the late Dr. Jerry Fallwell, I am not going to spend my time rehashing the same old false charges against me. I simply do not care what people who lie about me may think. I state my positions. If you disagree, that is your right. I am under no obligation to constantly respond to everyone who comments about my positions. Sometimes I respond if I have time to, and feel it makes sense to.
-Dr. Berman
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why the silence
| Posted On: 04/02/08 01:56:10 PM |
Age 50, MN |
I was awaiting your reply Doctor, because I do want to know how you determine what is applicaple to today and what do you discard? We do not adhere to all NT teaching of Paul and very little of the OT in today's church - what are the determining factors? //I try not to make this personal but I have seen you sidestep and ignore questions before (concerning your degrees, accredidation, insistence on multiple titles before and after your name, etc.) We live in a world with complexities and if we back off everytime our preconcieved notions are challenged we don't have much to offer, in my opinion. Character matters on these kinds of issues too as we see everyday in the political arena (we challenge the background of Barack, Hilary, etc all the time).
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No Preachers or Teachers
| Posted On: 04/02/08 07:23:43 AM |
Age 55, TX |
Any role where there is teaching of the Scripture is really not assigned to women. Paul says a woman is not allowed to teach and yet a pastor is to be able to teach as would the teacher in Eph 5 be it a separate offcie or actually speaking to a pastor-teacher.
The older women teach the younger but note the subject matter in Titus and the Greek word for teach is different than that in Timothy.
You argue from silence on Priscila as she was present but we really do not know what subject matter she was involved with so neither position can really use this as an argument. She may have just amened her husband or gave her testimony. It is doubtful that she did any "teaching" as we view the subject but again since the evidence is not there for either side we must refer back to 1 Tim 2 and 3 as well as Titus as the final authorities. Albeit since this happened before that command was given she may have stepped out of bounds but again without more dialogue we cannot argue either way effectively.
Phoebe may well have been the wife of a Deacon and did the type of ministry that Dorcas had in Acts. A wife of a deacon was most likely called a deaconess much like Deborah was called a prophetess though she may have only been married to a prophet. Her real abilities were most likely as a poetess or singer as the word also has that connotation and we see her song in Judges.
Neither Deborah or Phoebe were in the male roles of the titles. Instead of using titles like First Lady or Mrs Pastor as I have heard in our culture the folks recognized her role as the wife by using the title of her husband instead of Mrs. The gender of a noun does not change clear teaching in another passage by the same person who wrote both sections. Were there Elderettes? Only if they called wives of the Elders that but they had no role as an elder.
Also note, that Barak is mentioned in Hebrews 11 not Deborah. Possibly because she did exceed her role and God did not want her to be used as an example for a position she should not have held though it appears to have been thrust upon her by Barak since he came to her. There are many things to be questioned about that scenario.
Though it worked out for Israel, she may have been wrong in doing so proving that pragmatism does not generate good theology or practice. Again, we have too much silence to argue from and nothing profitable for any position comes from that type of argument.
Men lead and women support.
Interesting one of the first "women libbers" founded a college to train women for their calling or role in life, home economics. She said it was their role, not I.
Shalom!
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Presupposition?
| Posted On: 04/02/08 07:08:20 AM |
Age 40, PA |
Both taught Appolos, not just one of them my friend. That isn't presupposition, that is what the original language says. The one with the presupposition is you. The 1 Tim reference speaks of usurped authority, not any authority. Greek scholars know this. It isn't dependent upon an English rendering but upon the original language our Lord used to give us the command.
So the "plain clarity of Scripture" is at odds with your presuppositions.
The problem here is the cultural barrier of the culture and the church since that time gets in the way of Scripture, not the other way around.
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Mea Culpa
| Posted On: 04/02/08 07:03:27 AM |
Age 40, PA |
I did respond to Porter as Mr Berman. My apologies.
Grace and Peace,
Jim
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Actually the Rendering is from the Original Language
| Posted On: 04/02/08 07:02:02 AM |
Age 40, PA |
My friend, she is called a deacon from the original language, Greek and the English that does not reference her as a deacon is inaccurate.
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Culture Shock
| Posted On: 04/01/08 01:23:47 PM |
Age 45, IA |
I trust all the women who attend your church have their heads covered - or do you a way to explain that away, even though it is a clear admonition of scripture? Yes, be careful how you exegete and exposit scripture - but also be careful about the bias you bring to it as you decide which is etched is stone and which can be explained away as culture of the time.
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Sweet
| Posted On: 04/01/08 06:03:58 AM |
Age 26, IN |
Sweet. So we pick an English version not based on whether it's accurate, but rather based on whether or not it agrees with our preconceived leanings :)
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discernment
| Posted On: 03/30/08 01:24:58 PM |
Age 52, GA |
Seems you have a bit of a problem with discernment and rightly dividing the Word, my younger brother in Christ. First of all, you are responding to Porter from Georgia, not Dr. Berman. Secondly, the Lord God, is not the author of confusion. Exegesis, is a bit of science and art, but is ultimately discerned by a combination of the Holy Spirit, and the plain clarity of scripture. So for you to extrapolate a different conclusion from Priscilla's role in helping Aquila while instructing Apollos, brings you in clear contradiction with 1 Tim. 2:12. Now which is right, your supposition, or the plain admonition of 1 Tim. 2:12? I believe I'll stick with clear scripture over your supposition. By the way, are you trying to justify sitting in a congregation led by a woman? Or some Bible study you participate in? No doubt someone ignorant of scripture can be introduced to it by a woman, a sister in Christ, but ultimately the deeper things for a man's instruction comes from another male that is steeped in knowledge of the Word. Peace and joy, Porter +++
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