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581 | do we choose how long we live | Ps 90:10 | BradK | 182460 | ||
Dear gesujoy..., You're quite right to be confused. According to your sister then, God is not really sovereign. An impossiblity! Pray tell what verse in the Bible teaches this? Did Jesus not do God's will as He died well before Her reached 70! BradK |
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582 | Thanksgiving | Ps 92:1 | BradK | 225294 | ||
Happy Thanksgiving Forum Ps 92:1 It is good to give thanks to the LORD And to sing praises to Your name, O Most High; Ps 92:2 To declare Your lovingkindness in the morning And Your faithfulness by night, May we give thanks for our many blessings! BradK |
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583 | Prophetic perfect tense in other verses? | Ps 102:16 | BradK | 99911 | ||
Tara1: I'll join in support of both justme and Tim Moran. I would be impossibly pressed to agree that the NWT is better than 40 other translations? Based on the FACT that there are NO known or reputable scholars who formed the "Translation Committee" of the NWT, your assertion carries little weight, I'm afraid:-( I'd certainly like to see some "proof" to the contrary! The NWT translation is a "mistranslation" at best, and an outright fraud at worst! Speaking The Truth In Love, BradK |
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584 | Christ learned from Buddhist dharma? | Ps 115:3 | BradK | 157663 | ||
Hi Rob, I can tell there is still some confusion by your answer:-) It's important to understand, Christianity is not an "upright moral religion"! It is a personal relationship with a living God Who reveals Himself through the pages of scripture. It is about the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is about who we acknowledge Him to be- merely a teacher, a good person, or God incarnate! Who do you say that He is? Christ was not influenced by earlier Buddhist moral ethics! That is a silly notion not even remotely supported by scripture. Rob, Budda is dead and still in his grave! Christ, our Savior is risen and alive forevermore ( 1 Cor. 15:20)! Both scripture and history attest to this fact. It sound like you are still on a quest. May you come to know the only true God, Jesus Christ and place your faith in Him. If it will help, I'd highly recommend the book, "New Evidence That Demands a Verdict" by Josh McDowell. Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |
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585 | Christ learned from Buddhist dharma? | Ps 115:3 | BradK | 157666 | ||
CDBJ, Sorry about that! I was up late and got up early. I hadn't even finished my first cup of coffee. Brad |
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586 | Healing | Ps 115:3 | BradK | 161019 | ||
Hank: That scenario is to the very core, presuming on God! WOF junk like this has indeed relegated God to being at our beck-and-call, i.e. a glorified vending machine. It is man-centered theology at its' worse:-( BradK |
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587 | Can prayer change perfect will of God? | Ps 115:3 | BradK | 195032 | ||
Hi Cheri, Time only permits me to answer in part. Hopefully someone else can "fill in the gaps". I think C.H. Spurgeon stated it about as well as anything I've read on the Immutability of God (Sermon 1). He states in part that God is immutable: 1. In His essence; 2. In His attributes; 3. In His plans; 4. in His promises Regarding His plans, Spurgeon said: "Then again, God changes not in his plans. That man began to build, but was not able to finish, and therefore he changed his plan, as every wise man would do in such a case- he built upon a smaller foundation and commenced again. But has it ever been said that God began to build but was not able to finish? Nay. When he hath boundless stores at his command, and when his own right hand would create worlds as numerous as drops of morning dew, shall he ever stay because he has not power? and reverse, or alter, or disarrange his plan, because he cannot carry it out? “But,” say some, “perhaps God never had a plan.” Do you think God is more foolish than yourself then, sir? Do you go to work without a plan? “No,” say you, “I have always a scheme.” So has God. Every man has his plan, and God has a plan too. God is a mastermind; he arranged everything in his gigantic intellect long before he did it and once having settled it, mark you, he never alters it. “This shall be done,” saith he, and the iron hand of destiny marks it down, and it is brought to pass. “This is my purpose,” and it stands, nor can earth or hell alter it. “This is my decree,” saith he, promulgate it angels- rend it down from the gate of heaven ye devils; but ye cannot alter the decree; it shall be done. God altereth not his plans; why should he? He is Almighty, and therefore can perform his pleasure. Why should he? He is the All-wise, and therefore cannot have planned wrongly. Why should he? He is the everlasting God, and therefore cannot die before his plan is accomplished. Why should he change? Ye worthless atoms of existence, ephemera of the day! ye creeping insects upon this bay-leaf of existence! ye may change your plans, but he shall never, never change his." I trust this will help in answer of your question. BradK |
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588 | Can prayer change perfect will of God? | Ps 115:3 | BradK | 195046 | ||
Hi Cheri, I've got a bit of time on my lunch/errand break:-) Let's go back to the original question. Keep in mind that God speak through the use of anthropomorphisms (language we can understand) to communicate Himself to us. Scripture cannot contradict scripture either. Scripture is clear that God is both Sovereign and Immutable in His attribures (among others- Ps. 115:3, Mal. 3:6, Heb.13:8)). If this is so, can the creation change the Creator? Is this completely logical if He is, in fact God? Can we, through prayer, alter the Almighty Sovereign in His will and actions? Think about this and it's ultimate ramification if this is so! A.W. Pink wrote this on Immutability: "God is immutable in His counsel. His will never varies. Perhaps some are ready to object that we ought to read the following: "And it repented the Lord that He had made man" (Gen. 6:6). Our first reply is, Then do the Scriptures contradict themselves? No, that cannot be. Numbers 23:19 is plain enough: "God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that He should repent." So also in 1 Samuel 15:19, "The strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for He is not a man, that He should repent." The explanation is very simple. When speaking of Himself. God frequently accommodates His language to our limited capacities. He describes Himself as clothed with bodily members, as eyes, ears, hands, etc. He speaks of Himself as "waking" (Ps. 78:65), as "rising early" (Jer. 7:13); yet He neither slumbers nor sleeps. When He institutes a change in His dealings with men, He describes His course of conduct as "repenting." Yes, God is immutable in His counsel. "The gifts and calling of God are without repentance" (Rom. 11:29). It must be so, for "He is in one mind, and who can turn Him? and what His soul desireth, even that He doeth" (Job 23:13). Change and decay in all around we see, may He who changeth not abide with thee. God’s purpose never alters. One of two things causes a man to change his mind and reverse his plans: want of foresight to anticipate everything, or lack of power to execute them. But as God is both omniscient and omnipotent there is never any need for Him to revise His decrees. No. "The counsel of the Lord standeth forever, the thoughts of His heart to all generations" (Ps. 33:11). Therefore do we read of "the immutability of His counsel" (Heb. 6:17)." [AW Pink- The Attributes of God] I hope this helps, BradK |
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589 | Can prayer change perfect will of God? | Ps 115:3 | BradK | 195047 | ||
Part 2- In regard to prayer and it's purpose, I really like- and it's one of my favorite quotes- what Oswald Chambers says in the first chapter of his book, "If Ye Ask": "Prayer is an interruption to personal ambition, and no man who is busy has time to pray. What will suffer is the life of God in him, which is nourished not by food but by prayer. If we look on prayer as a means of developing ourselves, there is nothing in it at all, nor do we find that idea of prayer in the Bible. Prayer is other than meditation; it is that which develops the life of God in us. When a man is born from above, the life of the Son of God begins in him, and he can either starve that life or nourish it. Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished. Our Lord nourished the life of God in Him by prayer; He was continually in contact with His Father. We generally look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves, whereas the Bible idea of prayer is that God’s holiness and God’s purpose and God’s wise order may be brought about, irrespective of who comes or who goes. Our ordinary views of prayer are not found in the New Testament. When a man is in real distress he prays without reasoning; he does not think things out, he simply spurts it out—“Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and He saved them out of their distresses.” When we get into a tight place our logic goes to the winds, and we work from the implicit part of ourselves. “Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask Him.” Then why ask? Very evidently our ideas about prayer and Jesus Christ’s are not the same. Prayer to Him is not a means of getting things from God, but in order that we may get to know God. Prayer, that is, is not to be used as the petted privilege of a spoiled child seeking for ideal conditions in which to indulge his spiritual propensities ad lib.; the purpose of prayer is to reveal the Presence of God, equally present at all times and in every condition. A man may say, “Well, if the Almighty has decreed things, why need I pray? If He has made up His mind, what is the use of me thinking I can alter His mind by prayer?” We must remember that there is a difference between God’s order and God’s permissive will. God’s order reveals His character; His permissive will applies to what He permits. For instance, it is God’s order that there should be no sin, no suffering, no sickness, no limitation and no death; His permissive will is all these things. God has so arranged matters that we are born into His permissive will, and we have to get at His order by an effort of our own, viz., by prayer. To be children of God, according to the New Testament, does not mean that we are creatures of God only, but that we grow into a likeness to God by our own moral character." [Oswald Chambers, If Ye Shall Ask]BradK |
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590 | Definition of "Perfect Will of God" | Ps 115:3 | BradK | 195094 | ||
Hello Lookn..., Well, let's take a look at a scriptural definition. I would think Rom. 12:1-2 pretty well defines the meaning: Rom 12:1- Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. Rom 12:2- And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. I trust this will help, BradK |
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591 | Definition of "Perfect Will of God" | Ps 115:3 | BradK | 195110 | ||
Hello Lookin..., Let me address the first point due to time. The word for 'perfect' is telios (Gr.)and it is used some 19 times in the NT. Along with "perfect", it's meaning also conveys the idea of 'brought to it's end, finished',and 'wanting nothing neccesary to completeness'. Wuest translates the passage this way: "And stop assuming an outward expression that does not come from within you and is not representative of what you are in your inner being, but is patterned after this age; but change your outward expression to one that comes from within and is representative of your inner being, by the renewing of your mind, resulting in your putting to the test what is the will of God, the good and well-pleasing, and complete will, and having found that it meets specifications, placing your approval upon it." [Kenneth S. Wuest, Wuest's Word Studies from the Greek New Testament] Marvin Vincent says of this passage, "That good and acceptable and perfect will. Better to render the three adjectives as appositional. “May prove what is the will of God, what is good,” etc. The other rendering compels us to take well-pleasing in the sense of agreeable to men." [Marvin Richardson Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament] Finally, the Commentary Critical offers this insight: "and perfect, will of God—We prefer this rendering (with Calvin) to that which many able critics [Tholuck, Meyer, De Wette, Fritzsche, Philippi, Alford, Hodge] adopt—“that ye may prove,” or “discern the will of God, [even] what is good, and acceptable, and perfect.” God’s will is “good,” as it demands only what is essentially and unchangeably good (Ro 7:10); it is “well pleasing,” in contrast with all that is arbitrary, as demanding only what God has eternal complacency in (compare Mic 6:8, with Je 9:24); and it is “perfect,” as it required nothing else than the perfection of God’s reasonable creature, who, in proportion as he attains to it, reflects God’s own perfection. Such then is the great general duty of the redeemed—self-consecration, in our whole spirit and soul and body to Him who hath called us into the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ. Next follow specific duties, chiefly social; beginning with Humility, the chiefest of all the graces—but here with special reference to spiritual gifts." [Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, A. R. Fausset et al., A Commentary, Critical and Explanatory] I trust this will add some understanding to your question. BradK |
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592 | Farewell, Brother Ray! See you soon! | Ps 116:15 | BradK | 171419 | ||
We can indeed rejoice that brother Ray is now in the presence of the Lord! In Him, BradK |
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593 | What is the "word?" | Ps 119:16 | BradK | 163275 | ||
mommapbs, Interestingly, the last half of Spurgeons' commentary on Ps. 1:2 spoke to your exact point: "How much more, then, should we prize the whole written Word which it is our privilege to have in all our houses! But, alas, what ill-treatment is given to this angel from heaven! We are not all Berean searchers of the Scriptures. How few among us can lay claim to the benediction of the text! Perhaps some of you can claim a sort of negative purity, because you do not walk in the way of the ungodly; but let me ask you — Is your delight in the law of God? Do you study God's Word? Do you make it the man of your right hand — your best companion and hourly guide? If not, this blessing belongeth not to you." BradK |
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594 | ... | Ps 119:27 | BradK | 221138 | ||
Hello Kustaff, This is a Study Bible Forum, please familiarize yourself with it's Terms of Use and About Forum. Your rambling , incoherent statements make no sense. Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |
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595 | The Forum Continues To Grow | Ps 119:105 | BradK | 103064 | ||
Steve, I welcome your wise observations. I think you've addressed what has comcerned, and continues to concern many of us on the Forum. Well said and seasoned with grace! By the way, I think you gave about 2 dollars worth:-) Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |
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596 | Is anything in the bible proven untrue | Ps 119:160 | BradK | 67241 | ||
Hi Joe, I concur wholeheartedly with your wise words. By the way, thanks for the reference fom CSBI. It's always helpful to have such a resource handy. In Christ, BradK |
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597 | ... | Ps 133:1 | BradK | 221125 | ||
Hello kustaff, Welcome to the Forum. I might be missing something, but are you just making a statement? Since there's no previous context, I'm a little confused:-) Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |
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598 | Baby Smashing? | Ps 137:9 | BradK | 199257 | ||
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599 | Baby Smashing? | Ps 137:9 | BradK | 199258 | ||
Hello M. Sinapen, The NASB reads this way, "Ps 137:9 How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones Against the rock." C.H. Spurgeon from his Treasury of David says: "Ver. 9. 'Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones'. Fierce was the heart of the Jew who had seen his beloved city the scene of such terrific butchery. His heart pronounced like sentence upon Babylon. She should be scourged with her own whip of wire. The desire for righteous retribution is rather the spirit of the law than of the gospel; and yet in moments of righteous wrath the old fire will burn; and while justice survives in the human breast it will not lack for fuel among the various tyrannies which still survive. We shall be wise to view this passage as a prophecy. History informs us that it was literally fulfilled: the Babylonian people in their terror agreed to destroy their own offspring, and men thought themselves happy when they had put their own wives and children to the sword. Horrible as was the whole transaction, it is a thing to be glad of if we take a broad view of the world's welfare; for Babylon, the gigantic robber, had for many a year slaughtered nations without mercy, and her fall was the rising of many people to a freer and safer state. The murder of innocent infants can never be sufficiently deplored, but it was an incident of ancient warfare which the Babylonians had not omitted in their massacres, and, therefore, they were not spared it themselves. The revenges of providence may be slow, but they are ever sure; neither can they be received with regret by those who see God's righteous hand in them. It is a wretched thing that a nation should need an executioner; but yet if men will commit murders tears are more fitly shed over their victims than over the assassins themselves. A feeling of universal love is admirable, but it must not be divorced from a keen sense of justice. The captives in Babylon did not make music, but they poured forth their righteous maledictions, and these were far more in harmony with their surroundings than songs and laughter could have been. Those who mock the Lord's people will receive more than they desire, to their own confusion: they shall have little enough to make mirth for them, and more than enough to fill them with misery. The execrations of good men are terrible things, for they are not lightly uttered, and they are heard in heaven. "The curse causeless shall not come; " but is there not a cause? Shall despots crush virtue beneath their iron heel and never be punished? Time will show." I hope this helps. BradK |
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600 | God is Sovereign | Ps 145:10 | BradK | 138135 | ||
Doc, Good comments! I believe many are ignorant of the Attributes of God- specifically this one. C.H. Spurgeon offered this in his sermon titled, "Divine Sovereignty from Matt. 20:15: "There is no attribute of God more comforting to His children than the doctrine of Divine Sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most severe troubles, they believe that ‘Sovereignty hath ordained their afflictions, that Sovereignty overrules them, and that Sovereignty will sanctify them all. There is nothing for which the children of God ought more earnestly to contend than the dominion of their Master over all creation — the kingship of God over all the works of His own hands — the throne of God, and His right to sit upon that throne. On the other hand, there is no doctrine more hated by worldlings, no truth of which they have made such a football, as; the great, stupendous, but yet most certain doctrine of the Sovereignty of the infinite Jehovah. Men will allow God to be everywhere except upon His throne. They will allow Him to be in His workshop to fashion worlds and to make stars. They will allow Him to be in His almonry to dispense His alms and bestow His bounties. They will allow Him to sustain the earth and bear up the pillars thereof, or light the lamps of Heaven, or rule the waves of the ever moving ocean; but when God ascends His throne, His creatures then gnash their teeth; and when we proclaim an enthroned God, and His right to do as He wills with His own, to dispose of His creatures as He thinks well, without consulting them in the matter, then it is that we are hissed and execrated, and then it is that men turn a deaf ear to us, for God on His throne is not the God theylove. They love Him anywhere better than they do when He sits with His scepter in His hand and His crown upon His head. But it is God upon the throne that we love to preach. It is. God upon His throne whom we trust. It is God upon His throne of whom we have been singing this morning; and it is God upon His throne of whom we shall speak in this discourse. I shall dwell only, however, upon one portion of God’s Sovereignty, and that is God’s Sovereignty in the distribution of His gifts. In this respect I believe He has a right to do as He wills with His own, and that He exercises that right." Have a blessed Thanksgiving! BradK |
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