为什么女性减肥这么难？

Question

In Acts 16:6 Paul is forbidden by the HS to go to Asia, yet the next verse Acts 16:7 he still tried to go to Asia and in Acts 19 & 21 he clearly went to Asia.

Why did Paul go to Asia against Gods instructions?

Acts 16:7 Acts When they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them to.

(Bithynia – is in Asia)

Acts 16:6 6 Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia.

Acts 19:1 - While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul took the road through the interior and arrived at Ephesus. There he found some disciples

Acts 21: 27-28 27 When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, who had seen him in the temple, stirred up all the crowd, and laid hands on him,

Answer 1

Forbidden isn't the best translation. The verb κωλυω (koluo), meaning to prevent, to hinder, to restrain, to keep from. It's sometimes best translated with to forbid, with the understanding that it's an effective intervention, not the unheeded warning of an easily ignored wannabe.

When the King James Version uses the translation of forbidden, it doesn't indicate forbidden as in "you are never allowed to go there" but means forbade in the sense of an effective prevention.

In verse 6, Paul wanted to go into Asia and the Holy Spirit prevented him. In the next verse, some point in the future, he tried to go again and was again prevented. As we know from context this was because a call was soon coming which would send Paul into Macedonia.

Later, when he actually did go into Asia, he was not prevented. We don't know exactly what form the spirit's prevention took, but we do know that, rather than fight it, Paul acquiesced and obeyed and much spiritual fruit was reaped among the gentiles.

Answer 2

I see nothing in that account to suggest that the Spirit intended to keep Paul out of Asia for all time. Surely it was just that he wanted the ch16 journey to end in Troas, for the sake of the crossing to Greece.

Heading west from Galatia, instead of north, would have taken Paul direct to Ephesus, and probably kept him there. How could he tear himself away from that mission field? The journey north took Paul towards the distinct and separate province of Bithynia, but Bithynia would have taken Paul eastward, away from Troas, so that was blocked as well. Those two moments of route control led Paul direct to Troas, where the next such moment was the vision of the man from Macedonia.

By the time Paul does reach Ephesus, he has already traversed the length of Greece and taken that land into his mission,so there is no longer any reason for God to postpone his acquaintance with Asia and Ephesus.