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Scenic Rim Regional Council libraries (including outreach services and all programs listed below) temporarily closed their doors on Wednesday 25 March, until further notice. Further information on library services below:
Even though the libraries are closed, you can still contact one of our friendly Librarians on the telephone numbers below:
Beaudesert: 07 5540 5142
Boonah: 07 5463 3064
Canungra: 07 5543 5791
Tamborine Mountain: 07 5540 5473
Visit the COVID-19 webpage on the Scenic Rim Regional Council website for information about the ongoing response to COVID-19.
First5Forever, a project funded by the Queensland Government and the State Library of Queensland, aims to improve the educational outcomes of all Queensland children by encouraging learning through everyday experiences from birth to the age of five. Simple activities including storytelling, songs and rhymes help to build children's confidence around communication and basic literacy skills.
Scenic Rim Libraries run regular storytime sessions for preschool aged children throughout the year. Storytimes are designed to encourage children to have a life-long love of books and often include songs, rhymes, arts and crafts and activities. Our special event Storytimes are held throughout the year to acknowledge and celebrate events like Christmas and Easter through children's books.
Beaudesert Library: Wednesdays 9.30am-10.30am
Tamborine Mountain Library: Mondays 10.30am-11.30am
Boonah Library: Fridays 10am-11am
Canungra Library: Mondays 9.15am-10am
Singing, stories and lots of fun for under 3s. All welcome.
Boonah Library: Mondays at 10am (excl school holidays)
Beaudesert Library: Mondays at 9:30am (excl school holidays)
Tamborine Mountain Library: Fridays at 9:30am (excl school holidays)
Singing, stories and rhymes to start the literacy journey for the first year. All welcome.
Boonah Library: Mondays at 11:15am (excl school holidays)
The summer reading club runs from December to January each year. The program is a Queensland Government initiative and provides materials and activities to encourage children and young adults to discover great authors and illustrators of picture books, junior and young adult fiction and non-fiction. Literary and creative activities, both online and in your library, aim to encourage a love of reading and ongoing multi-literacy skills development amongst Queensland children, young people and their families. There are also some great prizes to be won from the State Library of Queensland as incentives to get kids motivated to read.
The program is strongly supported by Scenic Rim Regional Libraries, YPLG (Young Peoples Librarian Group), the education sector, children and families as well as Queensland authors and illustrators.
Aims of the Summer Reading Club include:
For further information visit your local library or mobile library. Alternatively, you can visit the Summer Reading Club website for direct access to the program, book reviews, interactive activities and registration.
Every Tuesday at 3.30pm at Tamborine Mountain Library we have Bentley, the library dog, available for your child to read to. Reading to animals creates a fun and comfortable environment for young children to practise reading confidently out loud.
Scenic Rim Libraries offer Institutional Membership for schools and early childhood centres. Institutional members may participate in our bulk borrowing scheme – enjoying more resources for longer loan periods. Institutional members, as well as teachers and early childhood educators, are also able to borrow from our range of storytelling resources.
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Institutional members may participate in our bulk loan scheme. Loans of up to 50 items are available and may be borrowed for an entire term. Resources can be collected and returned to your nearest branch. Contact your nearest branch for further information.
Bringing a class to your local library is an ideal opportunity for you and your students to:
Scenic Rim Libraries run regular storytime sessions across our services. Schools and childcare groups are always welcome to attend. Please let us know in advance so we can make sure we have enough space and resources to accommodate your group. Storytelling sessions may also be arranged at times to suit your needs and to link with class themes or topics. Please contact your nearest branch for more information.
Our libraries have a collection of puppets, toys and storyboards available to support storytelling. Kits are available for loan to schools, teachers and early childhood educators.
Beaudesert Library is a depot for Queensland Museum kits. QM Loans kits contain museum specimens and artefacts with resources that support:
Kits can be sent to your nearest branch library. Download the current schedule from the Queensland Museum's website.
Scenic Rim Libraries acknowledge the valuable contribution of Teacher Librarians to education and young people. We are always keen to hear from school library staff interested in partnering with libraries or suggestions of how we might support school libraries.
For further information on our programs for young people and schools please contact:
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First Interstate Bank hosted the Montana High Tech Business Alliance Reception in Missoula for the third year in a row, welcoming more than 130 guests to the sixth floor of their downtown branch on November 15, 2016. First Interstate Bank is a founding member of the Alliance and a strong supporter of Montana's booming high-tech industry. Missoula Market President Tom Severson, Vice President Sue Larew, and the FIB team provided gourmet hors d'oeuvres and drinks and breathtaking views of Missoula as a backdrop to a night of networking. Photos by Thomas Kurdy, Ndigena.
CONNECT: Investors Fund Growing Montana Companies
2016 was a landmark year for Montana companies connecting with VC and angel investors. Bozeman's Next Frontier Capital announced the successful closing of its inaugural $20 million fund in June and has funded five Montana companies to date, including Alliance members Centricient in Bozeman, Clearas Water Recovery and Orbital Shift in Missoula. Pictured here are John O'Donnell of AGC in Bozeman, a lender that deploys millions of dollars in growth capital to Montana companies and Liz Marchi, founder of Frontier Fund II in Polson, an angel group that has made seed investments in member firms like Ignite Feedback and CrossTX in Bozeman.
Access to capital has been cited in Alliance surveys as the second largest barrier to growth for member companies (behind finding talent). Check out the Alliances' list of 50+ Montana Business Financing Resources which was updated for the Missoula CEO Roundtable with assistance from Sue Larew of First Interstate Bank in Missoula and Robert Nystuen of Glacier Bank in Kalispell.
PROMOTE: Lightning Talks Feature LMG Security, Clearas Water Recovery and Orbital Shift
During the reception, Sherri Davidoff spoke about the growth of her cyber security consulting, research and education company, LMG Security. Davidoff graduated from MIT with degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. She wrote the world's first textbook on Network Forensics and teaches at Black Hat and other industry conferences.
Davidoff founded LMG Security in Missoula in 2008. Her team is up to 25 employees and climbing. LMG is hired by clients to "break into networks and write reports about it." Demand for services is so high LMG has more requests than the company can handle. According to Davidoff, the biggest challenge in her field is lack of trained staff. "I like to say cyber security actually has a negative unemployment rate," Davidoff said. "There are probably people that have jobs and shouldn't."
Davidoff and LMG Security helped launch the Cyber Security Lab at the University of Montana, training students to fill jobs in this fast-growing field.
Clearas Water Recovery in Missoula is a modern Montana success story. CEO Jordan Lind is a 3rd generation Montanan, the descendant of sugar beet farmers. He earned his MBA at the University of Montana and became a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. Lind now leads a team of co-founders at Clearas, a provider of a patented biological-based wastewater treatment system.
Founded in 2009, Clearas recently closed a $4 million series B round including an investment from Bozeman's Next Frontier Capital. According to Lind, Clearas has 40 employees and will do about $4 million in revenue this year. Next year they have backlog to take them to $16 million and the year after $27 million.
On Tuesday, Nov. 15, Missoula software-as-a-service company Orbital Shift announced the closing of a $1.25 million Series Seed round led by Next Frontier Capital and followed by Frontier Fund II. Founder and CEO Kevin O'Reilly, pictured at right, spoke at the Alliance reception in the wake of the big announcement.
After graduating from the University of Montana with a Masters of Computer Science and an MBA, O'Reilly launched Orbital Shift in an apartment in 2009. The company relied on early customer feedback to fine tune its products in online workforce management. Today over 40 percent of Orbital Shift users log into the software every single day.
According to O'Reilly, bootstrapping early on helped the company develop resilience and fine-tune its formula for success. "I read Greg [Gianforte's] book on bootstrapping and took it to heart, O'Reilly said. "As I was seeking capital, I took a lot of arrows because of that. 'Why did you bootstrap? Why didn't you just raise capital from the beginning?' Some of that came from hard lessons and being a serial entrepreneur. I realized I wanted to make sure I knew what I was going to do with that capital before I took money again."
Orbital Shift recently opened an office in Bozeman. (See the news release and Orbital Shift job postings below.)
ACCELERATE: CEO Roundtable Recommends Task Force to Market Montana Jobs
At the Missoula CEO Roundtable, Dr. Bryce Ward, Associate Director of the UM Bureau of Business and Economic Research, presented new data about the potential pool of candidates for Montana high-tech and manufacturing jobs. According to Ward, Montana has just 1,250 software developers in the current workforce. If Montana's percentage per capita were the same as the rest of the country, the state would have 4,000 software developers.
Ward also cited a Gallup study that found Montana has the lowest percentage of residents who want to move (13 percent) compared with states like New Jersey and Connecticut where nearly 50 percent of residents want to move. These statistics point to an opportunity for companies to leverage Montana's high quality of life to fill gaps in our skilled workforce.
Cheryl Behr, Strategic Marketing and Julie Blodgett, HR Business Partner, for Applied Materials, reached out to fellow employers to see if there was interest in investing in a collaborative marketing campaign to promote Montana jobs through the Montana High Tech Business Alliance. Several members volunteered to join a task force to look at the data, choose a focus, and present ideas at the next CEO Roundtable meeting, which will be Feb. 21, 2017 in Bozeman.
2017 High Tech Industry Survey Coming Soon
CEOs at the Missoula Roundtable underscored the value of the Alliance's high-tech industry reports in providing baseline
data, growth rates, and average wages. They also wondered, 'with all the growth happening in Montana in 2016, when will we know this year's data?' The answer is – next week!
Surveys from BBER will hit inboxes starting the week after Thanksgiving with results released Feb. 21, 2017. Thank you in advance for participating.
High-tech Community Loses Bill Squires, Blackfoot Telecommunications CEO
Blackfoot Telecommunications announced Monday that CEO Bill Squires passed away following a brief illness. He was 54 years old.
Squires oversaw a period of aggressive growth for Blackfoot, doubling revenues from 2009 to 2014 with plans to double revenues again by 2017. The telecommunications cooperative grew to 170 employees, more than $100 million in assets, and a customer base spanning 30 communities in Montana and Idaho.
Bill Squires was a visionary leader in Montana's high-tech industry and the economic development community, crafting ambitious programs to spur entrepreneurship and bring more high-wage jobs to Montana. He oversaw an upgrade in broadband capacity at Missoula's MonTEC business incubator to one gigabit per second in 2013 to support high-growth tech startups.
Bill served on the Board of the Missoula Economic Partnership and many other organizations. He was a devoted father, golfer, and Griz fan. He is gone far too soon and his loss is felt deeply by Montana's high-tech community.
Jason Williams, Blackfoot's Chief Operating Officer, will take over as interim CEO.
Celebration of Life for Bill Squires will be November 28, 2016, 4 pm.
Blackfoot Telecommunications CEO passes away at age 54 (Missoulian)
Bill Squires, Blackfoot Telecom CEO, Dead at 54 (Missoula Current)
Missoula Software Firm Orbital Shift Closes $1.25 Million Round with Next Frontier Capital, Frontier Fund II
(Missoula, MT – Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016) – Orbital Shift, the software company reimagining workforce management for a cloud-based world, announced the closing of a $1.25m round led by Next Frontier Capital and followed by leading angel investors including Montana's Frontier Fund II.
Orbital Shift is a cloud software application that allows employers to create and maintain staff schedules, control labor costs, enhance staff communication and awareness, and provide online time clock and labor reports. With hundreds of customers, Orbital Shift is a proven leader in meeting the workforce management needs of employers across multiple industries, with 53,864,990 hours recorded to date across 6,965,915 scheduled events.
Click here to read the full press release.
Learn more about the Orbital Shift employee scheduling software here:
Orbital Shift is Now Hiring!
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The hero of a historic win for Lafayette's men's basketball team, Paul Staubi '88 is extending his legacy for student-athletes and theater students.
Campaign Initiative: Athletics
Lafayette's 23-sport Division I athletics program is an incubator for leadership and provides individual opportunities for students to excel. The Maroon Club helps us shape leaders on and off the field through support for coaches, equipment, scholarships, programs, and facilities.
Here are some examples of the impact of your investment.
From the Pacific to College Hill
World War II veteran Forbes Meston '50 has lived through intense experiences. A charitable gift annuity has simplified his finances.
Lafayette Dedicates Weinstein Natatorium
The facility reopened in August after undergoing a dramatic transformation thanks to a major gift from Mike Weinstein '70 and his wife, Jill.
Lafayette to Dedicate Weinstein Natatorium Oct. 1
The facility reopened in August after undergoing a dramatic transformation thanks to a multi-million-dollar gift from Mike Weinstein '70 and his wife, Jill Weinstein.
$89,377 Raised in 15 Days for Men's Lacrosse
Donations from Matching Gift Challenge "are critical to our program and continue to enhance the experience for our team," head coach Jim Rogalski said.
Challenge Accepted
The Maroon Club's Friends of Cross Country/Track & Field 10-day challenge raised $19,914 from 204 donors.
From the Gym to a Job
The Maroon Club co-sponsored the Career Development Series for Lafayette Student-Athletes.
Weinsteins' Gift Will Transform Swim Facility
Construction providing improvements and new features for the natatorium will begin in March 2016.
Matching Gift Challenge Is Major Success
Over $41,000 was raised for the field hockey program in just two weeks.
Record Year for Maroon Club
$1,761,357 was raised for sport-specific funds, the Maroon Club General Fund, and current-use scholarships.


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The City of Los Angeles prides itself on small and minorirty owned business development. In 2012 the city rebranded it's Business Assistance Program to Business Source across it's 9 business one stop centers and needed a system that could improve service delivery to the businesses as well as capture real-time prorgram performance. The Launchpad Economic Development Cloud application was deployed in less than 90 days and allowed the city to provide federal, and local funders real-time data. What used to take 6 months to get reports, now is done in real-time.
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The latest facts about Haydon Wick fromwww.britishsurvey.org/Swindon/Haydon_Wick/
- 10211 people live in Haydon Wick.more…
- There are about 4450 dwellings in the ward.more…
- 4% of our residents are from minority ethnic groups.more…
- 37.08% of people are between the ages of 20 and 39.more…
- 3 people in Swindon are 100 years old or more.
- There are 1444 people over the age of 60 living in this ward.
- 88.52% of residents own there own homes either owned outright or with a mortgage.
- 5.57% of residents live in council or housing association homes.
- 5.24% of residents live in privately rented homes.
- 0.67% of residents live completley rent free!
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Environment .
- The population density of Haydon Wick is approximatley 12727 people per square mile.
- The actual size of the ward is 0.8 square miles (208 hectares).
- The biggest industry in this area(with 20.69% of people) is the manufacturing industry.
- The biggest male industry in this area(with 29.12% of males) is the manufacturing industry.
- The biggest females industry in this area (with 21.26% of females) are the wholesale and retail trade motor mechanic industries.
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- 52.18% of people over the age of 16 are currently married.
Source: National Statistics website: www.statistics.gov.uk Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO
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However, in the 2001 Census, Hadon Wick had 10,211 residents making it the second most populous Ward after Freshbrook and Grange Park with 10,383
There are 15 areas of Swindon with Parish Councils and of these, Haydon Wick has one of the lowest levels of Council Tax being 11th out of the 15
Until May 2000, Haydon Wick had always been represented by Labour Councillors – In 2002, just 2 years later all 3 Councillors are Conservatives
Haydon Wick had the lowest crime figures in Swindon in 2001 per head of population; it suffered 2.14% of the Town's crime with 5.45% of the total population.
Haydon Wick Parish covers a larger area than Haydon Wick Borough Council Ward
There is a Community Association which mets regularly at the Haydon Centre on the third Monday of each month at 7.30pm. They are always looking for new residents to join the Association – for more details ask at the Haydon Centre Reception or call 706666.
Government statistics are available on Haydon Wick Ward (Click Here)
There is a Nature Reserve called the Seven Fields Nature Reserve which is in a valley surrounded by the communities of Haydon Wick, Greenmeadow, Abbey Meads, Penhill and Whitworth
There is a farm in Haydon Wick
In the 2001 Census, Swindon had more males than females in every age range up to age 65. This contrasts with the UK as a whole where females out number males from the age of 22! See the full picture atwww.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/pop2001/Swindon_UA.asp
the Haydon Wick Brook which flows from the River Ray is the network that carries much of the water flows in the area. Visit the Environment Agency page on Haydon Wick
In 2001, over 73% of housing stock was placed in Council Tax bands C, D and E
There are 4 Primary Schools in the Ward – Catherine Wayte, Greenmeadow, Haydonleigh and Haydon Wick but there is no Secondary School
There are two schemes of sheltered accommodation: Haydon Court and James Wilks House
There is one care home: Fessey House
There is no Post Office in Haydon Wick Ward
There are 4 Pubs – The Fox and Hounds, Shield and Dagger, Manor Farm and the Toby Carvery
There are 2 Churches – St John's and Emmanuel United Reform Church
For more information visit www.upmystreet.com/overview/?l1=sn251qq and enter your post code
The Electoral Roll for 2002 shows Haydon Wick Ward has 7,907 eligible voters – more than any other Ward in Swindon
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I had lost a friend some time back, but I am glad that I have got the relationship back. I know this sounds strange, but I am talking about meditation. Many seem to associate meditation with religion.
There are the statues of Buddha in deep meditation; the strange lotus posture of practitioners, often in a room reeking of incense; and the reference to words like Vajrayana and Vipassana.
Meditation for me is neither exotic nor mysterious. It is a down-to-earth activity that has been a part of practically every ancient tradition of developing yourself. It is a practice that brings peace and calm, helps overcome tension and lets you focus on whatever means the most to you.
I started exploring when I was in Nepal. Whether it was the ever-present beauty of the snow-capped mountains or the simple, sturdy belief of the hill people in 'going inside,' I was intrigued enough to give it a try.
I visited the Swayambhunath and Bouddhanath temples, as all tourists do, and I loved the elegance of the Lumbini monastery and the peace and quiet of the Kopan monastery. But it was the modest Seto Gumpa that had my steadfast loyalty.
Rimpoche Chokyi Nima is a pleasant middle-aged person. He has a strong build and a soft voice. For a spiritual person he has a singularly earthy style and speaks on the most esoteric themes in the most pragmatic way.
He will readily show you around the monastery and explain its procedures, but he seems most at home answering your questions at length. No question is too basic or too silly for him. He answers you simply, clearly and with utmost humility.
He helped me realize how much my past training restricts my view of myself. If I break my leg or develop high fever, I go to the doctor and take medicine. Short of that, I rarely notice what is happening in my own body.
I eat at certain hours, but I seldom notice a twinge of hunger. I work during the day, as I am supposed to do, but scarcely observe any special pleasure or discomfort while doing it. My body may be telling me of a certain unease, but I would usually ignore it until it became onerous.
Take another example. If my colleague was rude or my client insulted me, I would nurse my pain in silence, because that is the 'manly' thing to do. At best, if I shared it with a friend, he would probably curse the perpetrator and urge me to ignore it. But the pain would persist and would fade only with time.
Yet there is a better answer. All pain, like all joy, comes through the mind, and our mind is usually like an untrained horse, running unruly in different directions. There is a simple way to discipline that horse and exercise control over what we allow to upset or exhilarate us. Meditation, the simple act of sitting quietly and focusing, mindfully and for a short period, allows me to start reining my wayward mind.
It is amazing that, though we flatter ourselves as reasonably disciplined people, we find it infernally hard to keep our mind on a single theme, like our breathing, for a few seconds.
I live in a beautiful area with charming trails, and, when I walk, I have noticed that I have often, over a twenty-minute stroll, noticed nothing. Nothing at all. I am blinded by my thoughts, imprisoned in a small cell of trivial concerns and petty regrets.
Let alone the majestic green trees in my suburb or the shiny gray clouds of the season, I go through my day, like most of my neighbours I guess, observing little, feeling nothing, caged in a daily routine of insignificance. The little attention I pay to my own body, shaving or showering, lets me detect a scratch or cut after days, and a change of feeling or sensation possibly after weeks.
The most wonderful thing about those twenty or thirty minutes of meditation is that, cutting out a specific time out of the hurly-burly of life, I am deliberately taking care of myself – and thus taking care of everything else. It feels like a reassuring companionship. I have a good friend back.
The writer is a Washington-based international development advisor and had worked with the World Bank. He can be reached at [email protected]


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QUESTION: I have this issue with both my Android phone (Galaxy S5) and Android tablet (Galaxy Tab 2). When my email syncs I keep getting old emails being retrieved as if they were new emails. Many of these are weeks old and ones that I believe I've deleted (at least from my device) multiple times. What's up with this? – Jim P. from Indianapolis, Indiana
ANSWER: I would have to look at both devices to know for sure but I suspect that the problem lies in how your email account is configured on one or both of your devices.
The type of behavior you are describing occurs when an email account is configured as a POP account. This is a bit of an outdated way to set up an email account where each device checking email knows nothing about the other. So when you get 10 new emails on one device and delete 8 of them, all 10 emails show up again on the other device.
You can work around this by looking for an email setting on each device that tells the device to delete an email off the server when you delete it off your device. This isn't foolproof but it would be better than what you have now.
A better way to configure your email
The more modern way of configuring an email account, however, is to use IMAP. Without getting into the nitty gritty details, IMAP ensures that when you delete an email off of one device, it is automatically deleted off the server where your email is housed. Same goes for other actions as well. For instance, with IMAP, if you read an email one on device it will show up as read on any other device. Or if you apply a label or move an email into a folder, the same action will be reflected on all other devices.
If you believe what I just described is your issue, your best bet is to delete your email account from each device and set it up again, this time making sure it is set up using IMAP. If all of this sounds greek to you, contact me again and I'll be happy to help you.
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Rangiroa or "Te Kokota" is the largest atoll in the Tuamotus and the 2nd largest in the world. Rangiroa translated means Far, Vast, or Long Sky. The atoll consists of about 250 islands, islands and sandbars, and its nearest atoll is
only 12 kilometers to the west. Although the name "Long Sky" applies, it is actually the vast endless turquoise lagoon that catches your eyes as you can look across to the endless horizon where you cannot even see the other side of the atoll in most places. There are approximately 100 narrow passes called hoa, in the fringing reef. The big island of
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There are approximately 2500 inhabitants around the atoll. Tiputa village is found on the eastern end of the atoll & Avatoru is the main town located on the northwestern part of the atoll, both are situated at the 2 largest passes on the island, Tiputa Pass & Avatoru Pass. These passes are not only the entrance for shipping and local commerce, but they are famous for scuba diving and drift diving & snorkeling. From in the air when the tide is going out there is enough water traveling through the passes that it can appear as a river flowing into the ocean.
Rangiroa's world famous lagoon is over 45 miles long and 16 miles wide and divers come from all over the world to visit some of the most spectacular marine life and underwater scenery on earth. The lagoon has the warmest and clearest water that divers dream of. Favorite excursions include shooting the pass or drift diving as some call it, where 100's of varieties of fish, eels, sharks swim past you, swept along by the strong currents. Although many visitors come to Rangiroa for the diving, many come for the unsurpassed beauty and tranquility.
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Rangiroa Island Activities
Scuba Diving
Rangiroa's lagoon offers world class diving. The lagoon is like a huge inland sea which offers abundant marine life. Tiputa and Avatoru pass which are filled with fish moving from lagoon to the ocean and back are 2 main sites, but there are also submarine caves and the main lagoon itself which you may encounter surgeonfish, mullet, hump head wrasses, manta rays, leopard sharks, grey sharks, eagle rays, barracuda, turtles, pelagic sharks, and dolphin to list some. Between December and March, huge hammerheads gather in the area to mate outside the pass. Within the lagoon there 15 popular dive sites, and several dive centers with qualified dive masters. "Six Passengers" is one of the best.
Haumana Cruises
This is one of the most unique opportunities to cruise within the lagoon for 3, 4, and 7 days with all inclusive food & beverage and activities. This private yacht style vessel has 20 staterooms and offers one of the best experiences in French Polynesia. Exclusive to Haumana is the fly fishing activity which they are famous for. Haumana is our special partner and is available year round at affordable prices. Ask our specialists for pricing.
Lagoon Excursions
The most popular lagoon trip is to the blue lagoon which is about an hour's boat ride from the hotels. The Blue lagoon is a lagoon within a lagoon and is formed by a natural pool of crystal blue water on the edge of the reef.
Pink Sand Beach – Le Sable Rose
Pink Sand Beaches are about a 90 minute ride from the village of Avatoru and are at the southeastern end of the lagoon. The pink reflections in the sand have been caused by huge coral outcrops that formed over 4 million years ago. Swimming and snorkeling are amazing.
Pearl Farms
Gauguin's Pearl Farm offers guided visits to their black pearl farm which is built over the lagoon. The guided tours operate Monday through Friday and the boutique is open daily.
Rangiroa Dining & Nightlife
Dining Choices are limited on this island, but each property caters to their own quests with a good selection of local produce and fresh caught fish. Island entertainment is generally scheduled for select nights at each hotel.
Hotel Kia Ora
This open air lagoon side restaurant is open for breakfast lunch and dinner. The dinner menu offers several different choices each night including fresh fish from the lagoon. Food is excellent here whether you are a hotel guest or want to come in from another hotel or pension. The restaurant offers a barbeque buffet on Wednesday and Saturday nights while a local style Polynesian dance show is performed. There is also an overwater bar and lounge which serves a wonderful array of exotic cocktails.
Le Kai Kai
The restaurant is located next door to Pension Martine. Guests are served on an outdoor terrace and choice include wonderful fish dishes, sashimi and shrimp curry. Le Kai Kai is open for lunch and dinner daily except Wednesday. Some cards are accepeted.
Chez Beatrice
This restaurant is open daily except Wednesday. They serve breakfast, lunch and dinner. The restaurant offers a great selection of Chinese and local dishes as well as French cuisine. You can eat at restaurant or take out. Credit Cards are not accepted
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Monument Valley
04 April 2014
A wonderful new game (available on iOS and soon on Android). It reminds me of Fez, Journey and Sworcery, but still with its own unique atmosphere and mechanics.
The game is short, reasonably priced (4$) and stunning. Sounds are just perfect.
I'm pretty sure that this game is going to generalize low-poly graphics in indie games.


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After a particularly mind-bending week of attending the Business Agility conference, I wandered into a coffee shop while visiting Louisville, KY and stumbled upon this little gem:
Change is always on my mind. I spend hours thinking about better ways to coach organizations and individuals on embracing change, making change easier, experimenting with small changes or going all in.
When people resist change, fear is usually the cement that keeps their feet stuck in place. Fear makes people afraid to take risks, to learn new skills, to lose their jobs.
The key to undertaking any large change effort, whether it is a transformation, reorganization, or a shift in a new direction, is finding leaders (at all levels) who have the courage to support the change—typically leaders who are willing to stick their neck out, even if there's a chance it will get cut off!
I have been coaching in several organizations and the one consistent theme I have seen regarding successful change initiatives is that they have servant leaders who drive change in a way that inspires others to leave their fears in the "box." These organizational "heroes" are ready to be active change agents by pushing boundaries, questioning, and helping the organization take the action needed to transform.
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- Recruit and bring along others willing to become change agents. Extra bonus for getting skeptics to leave their fear in the box!
Great leaders are capable of transforming their organization and its culture. Leave your fears in the "box" and be a heroic change agent who inspires people to join forces and push the organization forward!
By the way, I'm not sure what the cow in the box represents, but I will noodle on it. Maybe it will be my next topic…


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Does the Bible Teach its Own Unique Authority?
I decided not to finish the blog post responding to 21 Reasons To Reject Sola Scriptura with the most important one of them all: Does the Bible teach it? I decided in the next and last installment, there is room for a stronger finish.
Thus, that brings us to the ultimate issue on the protestant side. A seasoned Catholic apologist will make this the number one response to the protestant claim that the Bible is the sole infallible rule of faith for the Christian and is the highest authority, above all other authorities (Sola Scriptura). And that response is:
"The Doctrine of Sola Scriptura is not taught anywhere in the Bible"
It is rhetorically stimulating to attempt to run a Reductio Ad Absurdem on the protestant in this way. The argument says that the claim "all the theology God wants us to know is found in Scripture" is itself a theological claim not found in Scripture. To argue that the orthodox view of Scripture refutes itself is a nice attempt to steal a page out of the Presuppositional Apologetics Handbook. The argument looks good, its panache, complete with plenty pomp and frill. The problem though is that it isn't true.
The Burden of Proof
The question could be raised as to whether does the Scripture needs an explicit statement teaching Sola Scriptura (SS) in order for the doctrine to be biblical. There certainly are verses that teach SS, and Christians throughout the history of the Church have been happy to meet the Roman demand, but the question still remains. Eric Svendsen, in his book Evangelical Answers, says it this way,
"[O]ne must first show that the Scripture is insufficient, not simply that Scripture makes no explicit statement of sufficiency…the burden of proof is on the Catholic apologist to demonstrate the insufficiency of Scripture in light of the obviously high authority by Jesus and the writers of the New Testament, and in light of the conspicuous absence of any appeal or ascribed authority to extra-biblical tradition" (80).
Svendsen gives the doctrine of the Trinity as an example of the idea that the Bible can teach something clearly without explicitly saying it. There is no one Scripture which explicitly states the doctrine, but a combined testimony of the Scriptures leaves us with an undeniable teaching of the doctrine. He is arguing from established precedence. The Scriptures were around and authoritative before the formation of any external church body, and these Scriptures were recognized as being from God. Jesus constantly appeals to the Scriptures as authoritative, and the Scriptural gospels and epistles make this claim for themselves, too. The authority of the Scriptures is established.
If anyone wants to claim there are other authorities Christians need, the burden of proof is on them to demonstrate that. For we have the established precedence in regards to Scripture. Thus, we don't need a SS verse, the Scriptures authority is established, and we maintain this position until it's infallibly demonstrated otherwise.
Refuting the Refutations
2 Timothy 3:14-17,
"But as for you [Timothy], continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work."
Although there are others both in explicit and implicit forms, this is perhaps the strongest verse in all of Scripture which teaches the doctrine of Sola Scriptura.
The experienced Catholic apologist will be waiting in the wings for this one. The protestant citation of this verse will be as surprising to the catholic as the clay pigeon is for the marksman. Peters was that marksmen, thus, this portion of his blog was dedicated to refuting this one verse. The rest of the portion of this blog will be refuting the refutations:
"The Greek word ophelimos ('profitable') used in verse 16 means 'useful' not 'sufficient.' An example of this difference would be to say that water is useful for our existence – even necessary – but it is not sufficient; that is, it is not the only thing we need to survive. We also need food, clothing, shelter, etc. Likewise, Scripture is useful in the life of the believer, but it was never meant to be the only source of Christian teaching, the only thing needed for believers."
What was said about ὠφέλιμος is true, but the problem lies in disconnecting "profitable" from the context. Namely, the words "complete" (ἄρτιος) and "equipped" (ἐξηρτισμένος).
Paul tells Timothy that the profitable Scriptures are able to complete him. If they are not sufficient, how could they complete him? The text also says that he is equipped for every good work. This means there is not one good work God asks of Timothy that the Scriptures do not equip him to know and perform.
Is it a good work to pray to Mary? Where do the Scriptures prepare Timothy to pray to Mary? Is it a good work to teach the bodily assumption of Mary? Where do the Scriptures teach the bodily assumption? Teaching and believing proper theology is good work, and this means all proper theology is contained in the Scriptures.
Another issue with this claim is the negative argument. Paul presents the positive here, and his silence provides the other half. Even though he uses the word profitable, where else does he give us the necessary second half of the equation, if the Bible is only a portion of what Timothy needs?
The Catholic suggests that since Paul here is using the term profitable, that means that the Scriptures are helpful, but that there are other forms of authority that are also profitable. But where does Paul ever give us these? He never says the church is profitable for teaching, rebuking, etc. He never says tradition is profitable for teaching, rebuke, etc. The fact remains that the only thing Paul ever says is profitable for us today, in regards to doctrine and good works, are the Scriptures. As Svendsen puts it,
"[I]t is significant that while Paul does not say that only Scripture is sufficient, he does point only to Scripture" (Evangelical Answers, 79).
The term theopnuestos (God-breathed) as a matter of fact, is only used of Scripture and is never used of any other form of authority. When asking if the Bible teaches Sola Scriptura, it is important to note that the Bible never indicates anything other than the Scriptures as God's very words.
The word profitable, is not the issue. When seen in context, 2 Timothy 3 is still teaching sufficiency, and the Bible never teaches anything else to also be profitable or God-breathed. If the Scriptures are not sufficient, they could not have completed, by themselves, Timothy, nor teach him every possible good work.
"The Greek word pasa, which is often rendered as 'all,' actually means 'every,' and it has the sense of referring to each and every one of the class denoted by the noun connected with it. In other words, the Greek reads in a way which indicates that each and every 'Scripture' is profitable. If the doctrine of Sola Scriptura were true, then based on Greek verse 16, each and every book of the Bible could stand on its own as the sole rule of faith, a position which is obviously absurd."
I don't have any technical training in Coine Greek, but I find this objection suspect given its novelty and the fact that it is so underutilized. I wouldn't accept the claim just on the basis of the one source cited.
Secondarily, a simple study into the a Greek lexicon demonstrates pasa (πᾶσα) is translated as "all" very regularly and consistently throughout the translations of Scripture. I guess Peters knows something that every single Greek expert who translated the orthodox translations were not privy to.
Words are defined by their context, and Peters' interpretation dislocates "all" from the verse beforehand which says "sacred writings." Paul already established his usage of a unit of Books together. Thus, we do believe each Scripture on its own is profitable, but the Scriptures as a whole is contextually Paul's focus.
Even given Peters' poor Greek grammar, there are still a handful of problems.
First and foremost, it proves too much. If the Greek word must be rendered as "every" in that text, then why doesn't Peters believe that every single text is a sufficient standard? He called that interpretation "obviously absurd," but that is what the text says apparently.
Also, one could render this as "every" and not come to his conclusions. Perhaps Paul is saying every Scripture is profitable, and therefore, together, equip you sufficiently.
"The 'Scripture' that St. Paul is referring to here is the Old Testament, a fact which is made plain by his reference to the Scripture's being known by Timothy from 'infancy' (verse 15). The New Testament as we know it did not yet exist, or at best it was incomplete, so it simply could not have included in St. Paul's understanding of what was meant by the term 'scripture.' If we take St. Paul's words at face value, Sola Scriptura would therefore mean that the Old Testament is the Christian's sole rule of faith. This is a premise that all Christians would reject."
Like the last objection, this proves too much. If the text is actually saying the Old Testament alone equips Timothy to perfectly complete, equipped for every good work, why doesn't Peters' believe that? The Catholic makes his job more difficult because, given this assumption, this means the Old Testament alone must teach to Timothy the bodily assumption, the Papacy and its lineage, Papal infallibility, Transubstantiation, Perpetual Virginity, Purgatory, etc. It is a long, uphill battle to show these doctrines from the Old Testament alone. If the Old Testament is all that is in focus, as the Catholic claims, then they need to be ready to demonstrate how the Old Testament prepares Timothy to teach all Catholic doctrines from the Hebrew Scriptures.
The real thrust of the argument however is in the accusation that only the Old Testament is said to be God-breathed in this text. Is it true that the only books in question here are the Old Testament books?
Although no one denies the Old Testament (OT) is the primary focus for Paul, it is entirely possible that he is not speaking exclusively of the OT Scriptures. Many of the New Testament books were in writing and circulation by this time, and they were considered Scripture.
1 Thessalonians 2:13,
"And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers."
Here, not only is Paul identifying his teachings as Scripture, he is recognizing that his recipients see it as that too. Paul was not going on any rogue, disillusioned power-trips by claiming something about himself that only he believed.
Not only did his churches believe this, but Peter also considered that Paul's writings were theopnuestos (θεόπνευστος), referring to them with the same title he refers to the OT books as: Scripture (2 Peter 3:16).
1 Corinthians 14:37-38,
"If anyone thinks that he is a prophet, or spiritual, he should acknowledge that the things I am writing to you are a command of the Lord. If anyone does not recognize this, he is not recognized."
Paul not only explicitly says his teachings are the very words of God, but he condemns any who do not recognize them as he does. (By the way, 1 Corinthians and 1 Thessalonians were both written prior to 2nd Timothy.)
Given the fact that Paul and Timothy were so close (Philippians 2:19-24) and that this letter was written to Timothy, whom Paul laid hands on and ordained him to pastor his churches (1 Timothy 4:14), it is clear Timothy met this basic requirement of understanding Paul's unique apostolic role. Timothy certainly recognized Paul's letters as being equal to the Old Testament in authority. Timothy considered this letter he received as Scripture, it is therefore entirely possible (albeit likely) he considered it a part of the the God-breathed Scriptures Paul speaks of in 2 Timothy 3.
As a side note, these verses do seem to obliterate Peters' Roman Catholic notion of how we come to know something is from God. He is clearly operating under the assumption that it wasn't until the New Testament was completed and canonized that it became recognized as theopneustos.
"St. Paul's words here obviously took on a new dimension when the New Testament was completed, as Christians eventually considered it, too, to be 'Scripture.'"
As the Scriptures referenced above clearly indicate, the early church did not need Rome, or a completed Canon to identify Paul's writings as Scripture. This statement is so patently false, it's hard to wrap my head around it.
Paul specifically made it very clear throughout the New Testament that his teachings and writings ought to be viewed this way Thus, while Paul is talking to Timothy in 15 about the Old Testament, when he begins to speak of the broader term "Scripture" and qualifies it with "all," certainly "all" Scripture is in view. In other words, Paul is talking about the Old Testament by talking about it's divine origins/nature, which he then applies to all Scripture.
Peters' clearly is not new to the game, and so preemptively he attempts to deal with this.
"Protestants may respond to this issue by arguing that St. Paul is not here discussing the canon of the Bible (the authoritative list of which books are included in the Bible), but rather the nature of Scripture. While there is some validity to this assertion, the issue of canon is also relevant here, for the following reason: Before we can talk about the nature of Scripture as being theopneustos or 'inspired' (literally, 'God-breathed'), it is imperative that we identify with certainty those books we mean when we say 'Scripture'; otherwise, the wrong writings may be labeled as 'inspired.'… It can be argued, then, that the Biblical canon is also the issue here, as St. Paul – writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit – emphasizes the fact that all (and not just some) Scripture is inspired. The question that begs to be asked, however, is this: 'How can we be sure we have all the correct writings?' obviously, we can only know the answer if we know what the canon of the Bible is. Such a question poses a problem for the Protestant, but not for the Catholic, as the latter has an infallible authority to answer it."
The first thing that needs to be noted is that Peters does not refute the idea that Paul is referring to the nature of Scripture, not Canon. No argument was given to rebut it our assertion of the fact that New Testament books are also in view. In fact, all he says is, "[T]here is some validity to this assertion." That's it.
The only way to refute this is to either deny the New Testament books carry the same nature as the Old, or show where the Scriptures teach something other than all the Scriptures, which exists today, is God-breathed. The former the Catholic has no desire to do, the latter the Catholic has no ability to do.
That is why, as seen above, the article instead moves to the classic Catholic trump card which has been dealt with multiple times in this series: appealing to an infallible authority.
The problems with appealing to the "infallible Catholic Church" to know the canon and to refute 2nd Timothy 3 is:
1) The Romanist has inappropriately separated Canon from Scripture.
His definition of canon is a question-begging epithet. He assumes canon is a separate revelation, specifically given to us from the Church. Thus, unless the Canon is revealed, one can't know which books are God's books. However, Canon is a function of inspiration, it does not work the other way around. The question is not "Can we know the Canon?" The question is, "Can we know any book is inspired by God?" And if the answer to that is "yes", then we can know the canon. And as Paul made clear, the early church was able to recognize inspired books, even prior to the closing of the canon.
A blind man can tell the difference between an orange and an apple by sinking his teeth into it. Thus, if you put a pile of assorted fruit before him, it won't take long for him to establish a "canon" of oranges. He can tell you which ones are oranges, which ones are not, and then maybe even put them in a little orange pile.
Likewise, the early church knew which books were from God and which were not, and then we put them in a little orange pile. The canon was not the revelation to be discovered, the God-breathed nature of the books were. The canon was the function of that revelation.
2) Simply believing your church is infallible does not give anyone an infallible understanding of the canon.
Here is the real crux of the issue which has been addressed in this series multiple times. The author attempts to refute the sufficiency of Scripture in 2 Timothy 3:16 the way Rome refutes everything when finally backed into a corner by exegesis like bayonets: by pulling rank.
Peters says, "Such a question poses a problem for the Protestant, but not for the Catholic, as the latter has an infallible authority to answer it." The problem is that the Mormon can say this too. Oh, so can the Jehovah's Witness. Simply believing your church is infallible does not give anyone an infallible understanding of the canon, for they merely beg the next question: How do you know your church is infallible?
And guess what the Catholic has to do in order to answer that question? He must appeal to the very things protestants are not allowed to appeal to in determining the canon for themselves; namely, fallible reasoning, and historical evidences.
If fallible man cannot know God's canon, how can they know God's church? And if they are able to recognize the voice of God in His church without the Church, why can't they recognize the voice of God in Scripture without the Church, too?
This is such a crucial point as it comes up so often. Ultimately, in order for any human being to know anything at all, God must reveal. And when He does, His voice must be self-authenticating. If it isn't, mankind is stuck in absolute skepticism and an infinite regress of knowledge. Thus, the Catholic's insistence that people need an external authority to identify Scripture, but they don't need one for identifying the authority itself, forces them into the believing the peculiar position that God's Word is self-authenticating… sometimes.
It's completely arbitrary! God is self-authenticating in the Church..but not in Scripture…
Either God's Word is self-authenticating or it isn't. If it is, then we can hear God with or without the church (John 10:27), or God's Word is not self-authenticating, and thus, we can never have full knowledge of canon OR of the Church.
Thus, logically, the Catholic can never have any more knowledge of canon than the Protestant. The Catholic must make a fallible decision, with no external authority, to trust the Church is man's necessary external authority. All the while, the Catholic grieves the protestant for doing that very thing with the Scriptures. It's self-refuting.
To further illustrate this point, allow me to steal Dr. James White's classic question on this matter: how did the Jew living fifty years before Christ know 2nd Chronicles and Isaiah were Scripture?
They had no infallible Church, no Pope, and yet; Jesus held them accountable for knowing the Scriptures. Clearly, God's people don't need an infallible Church to hear their Shepherd's voice; and to claim so forces one into an infinite, logical regress. For one would need an infinite amount of external authorities to validate the one underneath it
Because this is the only refutation given to 2 Timothy and the argument of the nature of the Scriptures being the focus, it seems the Protestant position holds.
Greek Words
Earlier I asked this question: "If [the Scriptures] are not sufficient, how could they complete [Timothy]?" Peters' answers that with a series of propositions from the Greek.
"The Greek word artios, here translated "perfect," may at first glance make it seem that the Scriptures are indeed all that is needed. 'After all,' one may ask, 'if the Scriptures make the man of God perfect, what else could be needed? Doesn't the very word perfect imply that nothing is lacking?' Well, the difficulty with such an interpretation is that the text here does not say that it is solely by means of the Scriptures that the man of God is made 'perfect.'"
It is necessary to again quote Svendsen,
"[I]t is significant that while Paul does not say that only Scripture is sufficient, he does point only to Scripture" (Svendsen, 79).
Since Paul only points to Scripture, yes, he does say Scripture alone. The article is here demonstrating a classic argument from silence. The burden of proof then falls on the Catholic to demonstrate where Paul gives the other necessary components, not to point out the lack of other necessary components.
"The text – if anything – indicates precisely the opposite to be true, namely, that the Scriptures operate in conjunction with other things. Notice that it is not just anyone who is made perfect, but rather the 'man of God' – which means a minister of Christ (cf. 1 Tim. 6:11), a clergyman. The fact that this individual is a minister of Christ presupposes that he has already had training and teaching which prepared him to assume his office. This being the case, the Scriptures would be merely one item in a series of items which make this man of God 'perfect.' The Scriptures may complete his list of necessary items or they may be one prominent item on the list, but surely they are not the only item on his list nor intended to be all that he needs."
First, if Scripture is sufficient to make a pastor perfect, why would it not do the same for the lay person? Is Peters really suggesting the Bible is not effectual to the lay person to the same degree that it is another fallible person who is called to ministry? Paul points out the fact that Timothy is clergy because the context of the chapter/book is Paul calling Timothy to operate in his new office rightly; he does not point this out in an attempt to communicate that the Bible was meant to be more effectual to him than to his congregation.
The fact that Timothy is clergy in no way excludes a proper reading of the grammar of the text. The indication that Timothy had "training" has nothing to do with what Paul said about Scripture in the text. Paul said Scripture is profitable; not pastoral teaching. Paul said Scripture makes the man of God perfect, not the teaching. This is a clear red-herring being imposed on the text, forcing Paul into a natural contradiction. Paul is allegedly telling a man who needs something other than the Scriptures to be perfect that he is made perfect by nothing but the Scriptures.
"Also, taking this word 'perfect' as meaning 'the only necessary item' results in a biblical contradiction, for in James 1:4 we read that patience – rather than the Scriptures – makes on perfect: 'And patience hath a perfect work; that you may be perfect and entire, failing in nothing.' Now it is true that a different Greek word (teleios) is used here for 'perfect,' but the fact remains that the basic meaning is the same. Now, if one rightly acknowledges that patience is clearly not the only thing a Christian needs in order to be perfect, then a consistent interpretive method would compel one to acknowledge likewise that the Scriptures are not the only think a 'man of God' needs in order to be perfect."
Notice how appealing to the most technical definition of the Greek word Ophelimos was used to completely debunk Sola Scriptura earlier, but when a different text of Scripture uses an entirely different Greek word, the definitional distinctions are without difference. What inconsistency!
Even prominent Roman Catholic apologist James Akin with Catholic Answers agrees that this is a bad argument:
"There's a substantial amount of overlap in the semantic ranges of the words, though there are different nuances to them. I'm not very persuaded either by the use of passages like James 1:4, etc., as a rejoinder to the sola scriptura interpretation of 2 Tim. 3:16 or by the reply Protestant apologists make to this (i.e., it's different Greek words in the passages). The fact is that there are different Greek words, which dramatically weakens the force of the argument for the Catholic side. Yet they are also words that have a good bit of overlap in meaning, which weakens the force of the Protestant rejoinder. The results of the argument and counter-argument thus become muddled and inconclusive. Neither side has a decisive argument here. The James 1:4, etc., argument is inconclusive, and the Protestant rejoinder to it is also inconclusive. As a result, I don't use that argument regarding 2 Tim. 3:16. I think there are better, stronger arguments to use."
Akins' honesty is a breath of fresh air, and is most welcomed. However, the fact remains that the words being different is very, very significant. No other text in the Scriptures can be used to deflect the hard, Greek exegesis done for 2 Timothy 3:16 and what the text explicitly says about the Scriptures with the words artios and exartizo.
James White said this very thing in his debate with Patrick Madrid. Here is a lengthy portion of the material he presented in that debate:
"Now, the term, artios, Vine tells us means, 'fitted, complete.'
Bauer, Arndt, Gingrich and Danker tell us the term means, 'complete, capable, proficient.' That is, as they say, 'able to meet all demands,' giving the specific citation of II Timothy 3:17 as the reference.
One of the newest lexical resources, Louw and Nida's Greek-English Lexicon Based on Semantic Domains, uses the term, 'qualified' as well.
The great Greek scholar, Richard Trench, in his Synonyms of the New Testament, said with reference to this term,
'If we ask ourselves under what special aspects 'completeness' is contemplated in artios, it would be safe to answer that it is not as the presence only of all the parts which are necessary for that 'completeness', but involves, further, the adaptation and aptitude of these parts for the ends which they were designed to serve. The man of God, St. Paul would say, should be furnished and accomplished with all which is necessary for the carrying out of the work to which he is appointed.'
I pause only long enough to note that Paul here asserts that the man of God can be complete, capable, proficient, and qualified because he has available to him, always, God's inspired Scriptures. Surely here Paul would have to direct us to any and all other rules of faith that we would need to be complete, but he does not. But, Paul was not satisfied to merely state that the man of God may be artios, 'complete,' but, he goes on to define what he means. 'Fully equipped for every good work.' The term is exartizo, here in the perfect-passive-participial form, the prefix, ex, having, as Robertson noted, the perfective force. Vine tells us that here in II Timothy, it means 'to fit out, that is, to furnish completely.' Bauer, Arndt Gingrich and Danker expressed this with the term, 'equip.' Hendrickson makes reference to a related term, katartizo, and it's use at Luke 6:40, where it is translated, 'fully trained.' We see here, then, that Paul teaches that the man of God is thoroughly or completely equipped for every good work. Now, what does it mean to say that one 'is fully equipped,' if not to say that one is sufficient for a task?…We further see, the Scriptures can equip the man of God for every good work…Louw and Nida's Greek-English Lexicon, where we encounter the definition given for the semantic domain of exartizo, I quote,
'To make someone completely adequate, or sufficient for something; to make adequate, to furnish completely, to cause to be fully qualified; adequacy.'
They translate our passage as, 'completely qualified for every good deed.' While Louw and Nida give us two witnesses, I wish to direct you as well to the well-known scholarly resource by Fritz Reinecker and Cleon Rogers, entitled Linguistic Key to the Greek New Testament. Here, we find the following, in regards to both terms, here in verse 17: Artios: 'fit, complete, capable, sufficient, i.e., able to meet all demands'; Exartizo: 'completely outfitted, fully furnished, fully equipped, fully supplied."
Hence, we see the following:
Number 1: Paul here teaches that the Bible is A rule of faith. For he says the Church's function of teaching and rebuking and instructing is to be based upon God-inspired Scriptures.
Number 2: We see that this passage teaches the sufficiency of the Scriptures to function in this way.
And, number 3: We see that Paul not only does not refer us to another rule of faith, but implicitly denies the necessity of such a rule of faith by his teaching on the ability of Scripture to completely equip the man of God. Therefore, I assert that the doctrine of Sola Scriptura is taught plainly in this passage."
Again, nothing can be used to deflect that: either the term means sufficient or not. The opponent must deal with the protestant work done with the Greek words artios and exartizo, and turning to a similar but different word, in a different Book is simply a smoke screen.
"The Greek word exartizo in verse 17, here translated 'furnished' (other Bible versions read something like 'fully equipped' or 'thoroughly furnished' is referred to by Protestants as "proof" of Sola Scriptura, since this word – again – may be taken as implying that nothing else is needed for the 'man of God.' However, even though the man of God may be 'furnished' or 'thoroughly equipped,' this fact in and of itself does not guarantee that he knows how to interpret correctly and apply any given Scripture passage."
This is another classic rank-pull. However, it happens to be totally irrelevant. First of all, why didn't Paul say this if this were true? This is a complete imposition of theology on a text where it isn't found.
However, more importantly, this completely misses the point. Whether there are people who are able to mishandle the Scriptures is completely irrelevant to what the Scriptures are. The Scriptures are sufficient, man may twist them, but that doesn't change their nature nor does it alter their sufficiency.
Would the Catholic really be willing to argue God is not completely sufficient to save because there are people who can reject His command to repent?
Paul's point is not that the Scriptures make us infallible. His point is not that a rule of faith must be something which can't be misunderstood or abused. His point is that every good work is contained in the Scriptures. Thus, to say that some people misapply or mishandle them is not relevant to how the Scriptures are able to function as the sole rule of faith. How does the fact that a person can be wrong about the Bible prove there is divine theology revealed somewhere outside it? It's a complete leap of logic; there is not connection.
On top of all that, this again begs the question: if the Scriptures are not enough because we need to learn how to interpret them from the Church, why don't we need an interpreter to tell us how to interpret the Church's teachings?
The same self-refutation is found as mentioned earlier. Why is the inspired church capable of doing something the inspired Bible isn't? That disparages the nature of the Scripture; rendering necessarily less inspired.
To conclude this long post, allow me to mention one other text that is important to this discussion along side 2nd Timothy 3.
Mark 7: 5-13,
And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?" And [Jesus] said to them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, "'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.' You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men." And he said to them, "You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition! For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.' But you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, "Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban(that is, given to God) then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother, thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.'"
This is so crucial to the discussion of whether or not the Bible teaches Sola Scriptura. Notice that in Scripture, we not only never have Scripture being examined or held up to another or a higher authority, we never read of Scripture calling another authority as God-breathed or profitable, but we do see tradition being held up to the Scriptures. This means it is clearly and explicitly Jesus' understanding that traditions are to be examined in light of the Scriptures.
Jesus assumes their knowledge of the canon, relies on the perspicuity of the Scriptures, expecting they know what the Bible is and what it says, and then condemns them for never examining their traditions in light of that. Jesus chastises the Pharisees for refusing to examine their traditions in light of Scripture. Notice how He didn't expect them to reinterpret the Scriptures so that they matched their traditions.
The classic Roman challenge is that Jesus is only condemning human tradition, not infallible, divine tradition. And that's true! But that misses the point. The Pharisees thought their tradition was divine! Thus, Jesus gives us the means for knowing when tradition is true or not; and it is not by appealing to a church, but by holding tradition underneath Scripture. Jesus gives us in this text the guidelines for how to deal with tradition: examine it in light of the Scripture.
In other words, according to Jesus, if Rome's traditions were apostolic and not human, how should they know this? By examining them in light of the Scriptures. That means the Scriptures serve as the final reference point. That means tradition cannot be on the same podium; the Scriptures occupy a space above all traditions.
Jesus holds the Bible above all tradition. Jesus expects God's people today, living in a time when He is ascended and the apostles are dead, to make the inspired, preserved, prophetic Scriptures their highest court of appeals, for the Scriptures alone serve as the only God-breathed rule available for the church today.


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