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lilyofthefield -> RE: Any UFC Fans??? (3/16/2007 12:54:34 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Timcp
lilyofthefield,
Where in 1 Corinthians 9 do you get boxers? I read about runners in a race... and beating the air.
I guess this is why you have denominations really.
It has nothing to do with denominations. It has to do with studying the original Greek text. The words used by Paul are outw pukteuw. "So I fight". The word pukteuw is applied to the boxers, or the pugilists, in the Grecian games. It was a common sport at the time.
hws ouk aera derwn Not as one that beateth the air. "The phrase here is taken from the habits of the pugilists or boxers, who were accustomed, before entering the lists, to exercise their limbs with the gauntlet, in order to acquire greater skill and dexterity. There was also, before the real contest commenced, a play with their fists and weapons, by way of show or bravado, which was called skiamacia, a mock-battle, or a fighting the air."
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So if you watch an event, or hear of someone dieing in an MMA match. You'll have a clear conscience? Just because two people decided to fight? Knowing that person died in their sins(assuming they weren't christians)?
Why would my conscience not be clear? Of course, I would be saddened if something that tragic happened, just as I am when someone is injured in a football game or any other sport. Why would you assume these people are not Christians? Randy Couture, who just won the heavy weight belt for the 3rd time, is an outspoken Christian. There are many boxers and fighters who are Christians. I am a martial artist - and a Christian.
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1 Timothy 4:
8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
NIV: 8For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.
Amp: 8For physical training is of some value (useful for a little), but godliness (spiritual training) is useful and of value in everything and in every way, for it holds promise for the present life and also for the life which is to come.
NLT: 8 “Physical training is good, but training for godliness is much better, promising benefits in this life and in the life to come.”
NKJV: 8 For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.
This verse was a common saying at the time. The purspose was not to exhort people against exercising. The point is that exercising physically can profit us physically, so much more can "exercising" our spirit profit us in every way. Of course, knowing God, reading His Word, keeping Him first is of more value than anything else in the world. In other words, all the exercise, education, etc. in the world means nothing if we don't have God. Exercise is just used as an illustration in the verse.
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