Rightly dividing the word

[OCSANDLOVER]

I would like to know exactly what this means.To rightly divide the word? I have been in a discussion and I am not quite sure what this means ,thanks for any input.:scratch

[Jadiri]

here is what I got basically Rightly divideing the word of truth Mean Dont make it up as you go along it's not about what our opinions are its about what is the Turth of the word.. :)

If people did but consider of what little use most of the controversies in religion are, they would not be so zealous in their strifes of words, to the subverting of the hearers, to the drawing of them away from the great things of God, and occasioning unchristian heats and animosities, by which truth is often in danger of being lost. Observe, People are very prone to strive about words, and such strifes never answer any other ends than to shake some and subvert others; they are not only useless, but they are very hurtful, and therefore ministers are to charge the people that they do not strive about words, and they are most likely to be regarded when they charge them before the Lord, that is, in his name and from his word; when they produce their warrant for what they say. - Study to show thyself approved unto God


2Ti_2:15. Observe, The care of ministers must be to approve themselves unto God, to be accepted of him, and to show that they are so approved unto God. In order thereunto, there must be constant care and industry: Study to show thyself such a one, a workman that needs not be ashamed. Ministers must be workmen; they have work to do, and they must take pains in it. Workmen that are unskilful, or unfaithful, or lazy, have need to be ashamed; but those who mind their business, and keep to their work, are workmen that need not be ashamed. And what is their work? It is rightly to divide the word of truth. Not to invent a new gospel, but rightly to divide the gospel that is committed to their trust.

[LoudRam]

This is from the New Living Translation. This might help out a bit.

2Ti 2:15 Work hard so God can approve you. Be a good worker, one who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly explains the word of truth.

[Paidfor]

here is what I got basically Rightly divideing the word of truth Mean Dont make it up as you go along it's not about what our opinions are its about what is the Turth of the word.. :)

If people did but consider of what little use most of the controversies in religion are, they would not be so zealous in their strifes of words, to the subverting of the hearers, to the drawing of them away from the great things of God, and occasioning unchristian heats and animosities, by which truth is often in danger of being lost. Observe, People are very prone to strive about words, and such strifes never answer any other ends than to shake some and subvert others; they are not only useless, but they are very hurtful, and therefore ministers are to charge the people that they do not strive about words, and they are most likely to be regarded when they charge them before the Lord, that is, in his name and from his word; when they produce their warrant for what they say. - Study to show thyself approved unto God


2Ti_2:15. Observe, The care of ministers must be to approve themselves unto God, to be accepted of him, and to show that they are so approved unto God. In order thereunto, there must be constant care and industry: Study to show thyself such a one, a workman that needs not be ashamed. Ministers must be workmen; they have work to do, and they must take pains in it. Workmen that are unskilful, or unfaithful, or lazy, have need to be ashamed; but those who mind their business, and keep to their work, are workmen that need not be ashamed. And what is their work? It is rightly to divide the word of truth. Not to invent a new gospel, but rightly to divide the gospel that is committed to their trust.

Good one!!:yay

[OCSANDLOVER]

THANK YOU FOR THE INFORMATION! :thumb

[Hootmon]

Rightly Dividing, in its simplest terms, means to not take things out of context in order to prove your point.

Either Scripture proves your point on its own, or your point is wrong.

[Sing4Him]

http://www.biblebelievers.com/scofield/

[AKJV1611]

I would like to know exactly what this means.To rightly divide the word? I have been in a discussion and I am not quite sure what this means ,thanks for any input.:scratch

Isaiah 28:10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

[gregbed]

I would like to know exactly what this means.To rightly divide the word? I have been in a discussion and I am not quite sure what this means ,thanks for any input.:scratch

Rightly dividing” is orthotomeō (ὀρθοτομεω), from temnō (τεμνω), “to cut,” and orthos (ὀρθος), “straight,” the compound verb meaning “to cut straight.” Moulton and Milligan suggest that it might be a metaphor derived from the stone mason’s art of cutting stones fair and straight to fit into their places in a building. They quote Sophocles, a Greek writer, using it to mean, “expound soundly.” Vincent defines the word, “to cut straight,” as paths, “to hold a straight course, to make straight, to handle rightly.” He says: “The thought is that the minister of the gospel is to present the truth rightly, not abridging it, not handling it as a charlatan, not making it a matter of wordy strife (v. 14), but treating it honestly and fully, in a straightforward manner.”
You can glean a little more than from verses 16-18 where Paul gives the example of two people who are not rightly dividing the word, Philetus and Hymenaeus. They have swerved (ESV) away from the mark that marks the straight line that Timothy is to figuratively cut. Their false teaching that the resurrection has already occurred is the result.
Greg

[hilhill]

Have you been talking with someone from The Way International??

They like to use that phrase.. ALOT..