On Thu, 15 May 2008 06:18:24 -0400, "Carl" <saints@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>Here's an enlightening exposition on Psalm 53:1 by noted Christian
>theologian Charles Spurgeon.
>
>May God bless,
>Carl
>my website -- http://www.nettally.com/saints/
>my blog -- http://www.anniemayhem.com/cgi-bin/wordpress/
>
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Prophet Carl,
Once again you join with CS Spurgeon to do the work of Satan. Since
you speak for Spurgeon you are a dead man's prophet.
Psalm 53:1 was spoken by God through a man of God to Israel:
Heb 1:1 KJV
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto
the fathers by the prophets,
Heb 1:2 KJV
Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath
appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
God spoke the words of what we call the Old Testament through holy men
of God called prophets. God spoke the words of what we call the New
Testament through His Son, a prophet, who is superior to all other
prophets which were men of God.
2Pe 1:20-21 KJV
20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any
private interpretation.
21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy
men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
Psa 53:1 KJV
<To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David.> The
fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and
have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
David was a man of God, a prophet who spoke for God to Israel:
2Ch 8:14 KJV
And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the
courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their
charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of
every day required: the ****ters also by their courses at every gate:
for so had David the man of God commanded.
Neh 12:24 KJV
And the chief of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son
of Kadmiel, with their brethren over against them, to praise and to
give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God,
ward over against ward.
Neh 12:36 KJV
And his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarael, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai,
Nethaneel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments of David
the man of God, and Ezra the scribe before them.
David was speaking for God to Israel about Nabal and natural men
(naturalists) in general. The Hebrew word for fool is Nabal, a dolt,
a fool. The text also applies to men in general, generic man who
behaves as a fool. Not once is "atheist" used in the word of God. Nor
would Psalm 53:1 apply to a true atheist which is merely someone who
does not believe there is a God. It speaks against those who profess
there is no Creator and against the people of God. These would
include those who call themselves atheists but who are really
naturalists who wor****p themselves and the opinions of men as gods.
Carl, a true atheist is one who does not believe in a god; any god of
any kind. The word "atheist" comes from "atheos"; the negative
particle "a" that means no, not, or without and "theos" (God) and
means no god, not god, or without god. An atheist is one that is
without god. If he is without god then he does not talk about God or
God's people. Those who speak against God and against God's people
believe there is a God and that there are God's people; else they
would not talk about them. Those people are religionists and are
usually fundamentalist religionists who often speak and behave like
Osama Bin Laden, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Adolph Hitler and other haters
of Israel. What I am saying is that most people who call themselves
atheists are really suckers who have been suckered into a form of
philosophy (naturalism) which motivates them to speak against the
spiritual. They are too stupid to know any better because they have
been deceived; professing themselves wise they became fools. They are
naturalists (natural men) by choice. Many of them are former church
members who when the going got tough ran like hell from the church
beause they are inherently cowards
1Sa 25:25 KJV
Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal
[Heb nabal] : for as his name is, so is he; Nabal [Heb nabal] is his
name, and folly [Heb nabal] is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not
the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.
Look at the words in Psalms 53:1 are read all the words; not just the
first few words:
Psa 53:1 KJV
<To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David.> The
fool hath said in his heart, {There is} no God. Corrupt are they, and
have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
What did the fool say in his heart?
(1) {There is} no Creator (Heb. Elohim, God: The Creator in
relation****p to His creation as its Creator (Gen 1:1))
(2) Corrupt are they.
(3) They have done abominable iniquity.
(4) There is none that doeth good.
The fool (singular) is speaking against God and and they (plural).
What kind of man would deny the Creator? One who has been told there
is a Creator. One cannot deny what he has not heard of. He can only
deny what he has heard of and refused to believe; or, has heard and
believed and then changed his mind.
Consider also Romans 2:18 - 3:3.
Spurgeon is wrong because he says that Psalm 53:1 applies to atheists;
a word not used in the scriptures. The correct and more accurate
word is unbelievers who may be natural men or unbelieving believers.
Psalm 14:1 is similar but not identical to Psalm 53:1. The primitive
text of Pslam 14:1 uses the word Jehovah; not Elohim. This time Nabal
says there is no God in covenant relation****p with Israel and speaks
against Israel.
So, in both cases, David the King of Israel who is also a prophet a
man of God speaks against Nabal a fool who denies that there is a
Creator and denys that Creator has a entered into a covenent
relation****p with Israel. He also speaks against those people that
the Creator has chosen to be His people. Remember, David spoke, but
God gave David the words that were spoken.
If you must be a prophet, learn how to be one for Jesus Christ.
BB
>
>Exposition On Psalm 53:1
>by C.H. Spurgeon
>
>Psalm 53:1
>The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and
have
>done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good. (KJV)
>
>Ver. 1. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. And this he
does
>because he is a fool. Being a fool he speaks according to his nature;
being
>a great fool he meddles with a great subject, and comes to a wild
>conclusion. The atheist is, morally as well as mentally, a fool, a fool
in
>the heart as well as in the head; a fool in morals as well as in
philosophy.
>With the denial of God as a starting point, we may well conclude that the
>fool's progress is a rapid, riotous, raving, ruinous one. He who begins
at
>impiety is ready for anything.
>
>No God, being interpreted, means no law, no order, no restraint to lust,
no
>limit to passion. Who but a fool would be of this mind? What a Bedlam, or
>rather what an Aceldama, would the world become if such lawless
principles
>came to be universal! He who heartily entertains an irreligious spirit,
and
>follows it out to its legitimate issues is a son of Belial, dangerous to
the
>commonwealth, irrational, and despicable. Every natural man is, more or
less
>a denier of God. Practical atheism is the religion of the race.
>
>Corrupt are they. They are rotten. It is idle to compliment them as
sincere
>doubters, and amiable thinkers--they are putrid. There is too much dainty
>dealing nowadays with atheism; it is not a harmless error, it is an
>offensive, putrid sin, and righteous men should look upon it in that
light.
>All men being more or less atheistic in spirit, are also in that degree
>corrupt; their heart is foul, their moral nature is decayed.
>
>And have done abominable iniquity. Bad principles soon lead to bad lives.
>One does not find virtue promoted by the example of your Voltaires and
Tom
>Paines. Those who talk so abominably as to deny their Maker will act
>abominably when it serves their turn. It is the abounding denial and
>forgetfulness of God among men which is the source of the unrighteousness
>and crime which we see around us. If all men are not outwardly vicious it
is
>to be accounted for by the power of other and better principles, but left
to
>itself the "No God" spirit so universal in mankind would produce nothing
but
>the most loathsome actions.
>
>There is none that doeth good. The one typical fool is reproduced in the
>whole race; without a single exception men have forgotten the right way.
>This accusation twice made in the Psalm, and repeated a third time by the
>inspired apostle Paul, is an indictment most solemn and sweeping, but he
who
>makes it cannot err, he knows what is in man; neither will he lay more to
>man's charge than he can prove.
>
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