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TAFPC Adult Sunday School Bible Study 台美團契長老教會成人主日學三年讀經運動 04/16/2006 討論問題 Question 1: 1 Chronicles 17:3-14, 22:6-10 Ephesians 2:19-22 根據歷代志上的描述﹐在國政安定後大衛王就想在耶路撒冷建造安放約櫃的方。但是上帝借由先知拿單﹐向大衛用預言的方式(oracle)告訴大衛不可以為其建聖殿。理由是上帝是無所不在自由的上帝﹐不受人訂立的地界或場所限制。相反的﹐是上帝主動為自己的子民尋找安身的地方 (17:4-9)。而且要賜給大衛後嗣(17:10) 。這個中文翻做"後嗣"的字﹐在英文聖經裡忠於原文的翻譯其實是 a house 。House ﹐類似中文的"家"﹐在舊約聖經裡可以有多重的意思﹕可以指建築物﹐或者引伸說是治理的朝代或政權 (17:11-12)﹐也可以指家族或是世系(17:13-14)。中文聖經把17:12的house﹐根據歷代志第23章大衛對其子所羅門的訓示就翻成建築物的聖殿。認為是指所羅門建聖殿一事。在 23: 6-10裡大衛解釋上帝的曉諭﹐說上帝不讓其建聖殿的理由跟原本拿單傳達的理由其實不同。大衛認為是自己在戰爭中殺害生命﹐才不夠資格建聖殿(22:7-8)。大衛﹐或者說是歷代志作者筆下的大衛﹐對house就完全認定是一座建築物。把上帝要揀選他后代作王的認為就是自己的兒子所羅門 (22:9-10)。不過﹐上帝借拿單傳達給大衛的曉諭﹐從我們基督徒的觀點來解釋﹐可以不單指是耶路撒冷的聖殿﹐上帝特別寵愛大衛的後嗣不只是所羅門。那個曉諭﹐可以看做是超越當時的預言﹐指向後來的耶穌﹐因為耶穌的確是大衛世系的后代。聖殿﹐則是指在上帝家裡合一的信徒﹐包括猶太人和非猶 太人 (Ephesians 2:19)。 今天在我們台美教會的處境﹐為上帝建造聖殿的意義是什麼﹖請分享你的看法。 Question 2: Passion and Resurrection (A Good Friday question) Mathews 27:11-56, Mark 15:1-41, Luke 23:1-49, John 18:14-40, 19:1-37
The Passion and the resurrection of Jesus are the key elements in the Gospel story. Jesus was rejected by his own people, and abandoned by his handpicked disciples. Besides
taking an awful beating (see the movie "Passion of the Christ"), he was cruelly tempted to
despair by Satan and died in obedience to the heavenly Father. The raw images in the
movie perhaps invade our religious comfort zone, which has long since been cleansed of
the Gospels' harsher edges. Nowadays we worship in churches where the bloodied body
of Jesus is absent from sanctuary crosses or else styled in ways so abstract that there is no
hint of suffering. In sermons of contemporary churches, too, the emphasis all too often is
on the therapeutic: what Jesus can do for us. But the story of Passion really depicts the
suffering of the Christ for the sake of love. So love and suffering are inseparable. When
we observe Good Friday, are we ready to share the cross that Jesus carries? Or are we
still following what theologian H. Richard Neibuhr summarized the creed of an easygoing
American Christianity: "A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without
judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross." Please share your thoughts.
Question 3: Jesus' body -- God's Temple Matthew 23:37--24:2 Mark
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