[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by rdp

Oh yes, Paul was quoting the gospel of Matthew there in Acts 19...ah yes I see. So every time someone says "Jesus" they are preaching...ok.


Oh yes, someone can inform the lost about the gospel without ever referencing the text of Scripture...."ahhh yes, I see" ! See how easy that was?

I can inform the lost about the gospel without quoting a verse and exegetically explaining it. I can tell someone "Jesus died for your sins" and not be quoting a verse. They can then ask me what to do and I can say "Believe in Jesus. Repent of your sins. Be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ" without exegetically expanding on a particular verse. But that is irrelevant because we HAVE the scriptures today. THEY did not. They were not all quoting a book of the gospels or Acts


Im not gonna keep answering that just because you either did not read my answer the first time or just did not like it. But like I said I have sat in meetings where the Preacher never got to a specific text and exegetically expounded it.


Likewise, I'm not going to keep explaining to you that preaching does indeed inherently contain the idea of referencing the text of Scripture....or else we have to tell lost people about the biblical gospel without using the Bible !

You confusing what Im saying. The Word "PREACH" is from a certain greek word that PREDATES it's use in the bible and was used by Greeks. It therefore inherently does NOT refer to exegetically expounding on a scriptural passage.

Someone could go out and preach Zeus or Allah or whatever they want. Some people preach the virtues of vegetarian diets. The word simply means to proclaim something. You can proclaim what the scriptures teach without ever having directly referenced a verse and exegetically expound on it.