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441 | Definitions - God? | Bible general Archive 1 | Lionstrong | 17199 | ||
Dear Steve. "When we limit God (or anything) when define Him." The only way God can be unlimited, it to define him as the pantheist do. They define God as everything. Since God is not everthing, He must be limited. He is limited to being good and not both good and evil. He is limited to being almighty and not both almighty and impotent. His is limited to being most wise and not .... You see my point. Definition are not evil; they help us to know what we are talking about. Peace, Lionstrong |
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442 | Is it a sin to play the lottery? | Bible general Archive 1 | Lionstrong | 17067 | ||
Dear Norrie, ......... ¶¶ I wrote, "But just because there is no express command, it does not mean that such a prohibition is not implied in other commands of God." ............... Peace, Lionstrong |
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443 | Adam's Nature and Naming | Gen 2:19 | Lionstrong | 17066 | ||
A Meditation. ........ ¶¶ It does not say that God commanded Adam to name the animals. He just brought them to him, and Adam, following his nature as the image of God, named the animals. Adam acted according to his nature. God named things; Adam named things. ............... Lionstrong |
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444 | Adams Occupation | Gen 2:15 | Lionstrong | 17065 | ||
A Meditation. ......¶¶Adam was not a farmer but a gardener/grounds keeper. Is this why I like to putter in the yard? ........ Lionstrong |
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445 | No Rules, Just Right! | Ps 34:8 | Lionstrong | 16815 | ||
Dear Sir Pent, "it is impossible for there to be any laws which God MUST keep." "God would not do any actions contrary to biblical precedents" Why would he not if he's not bound by any rules? Or are you trying to have it both ways, my brother, SAYING there's no law which binds God, while secretly holding him to them. For your consideration, Lionstrong Ps 115:3 But our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases. |
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446 | So what is God's vs. Adam's image? | Gen 5:3 | Lionstrong | 16338 | ||
What Man lost in the Fall Dear Bill, I think what you've hit upon is pyrite not gold. The issue of what man is and what he lost at the Fall is crucial to how one understands salvation in Christ. I think the Roman Catholics hold a similar view to what you just espoused which logically has resulted in an evisceration of the Gospel of Christ. But from you other comments, I think you haven't gone that far. Gen. 2:7 Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. The point of the author I quoted is that this is how man came to be the image of God. The author identifies knowledge with the image of God. Clark writes, "...Scripture defines the image as knowledge..." He further says, "...this knowledge comes by the act of breathing into Adam the spirit of life..." So the author is not talking about "the Divine life of God." By the breath of God, man was created as the image of God. The death fallen man experiences is the separation from God caused by sin and its curse, not the loss of the life God gave him. The life that man has is still spiritual, but it is no longer toward God. As the image of God, man did not cease to be a spiritual being. Man's spiritual death is not a loss of life, but a loss of a relationship. Life and death are indeed central themes of the Bible. "For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all shall be made alive." 1 Cor. 15:22 But the Divine life is not what was lost in the Fall. What was lost in Adam what is what is restored in Christ, that is, knowledge, righteousness and holiness of the truth. (Col 3:10,11; Ehp 4:24) We have eternal life in Christ because in Him is "renewed" what was lost in the fall, knowledge. "And this is eternal life, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent." John 17:3 Peace, Lionstrong |
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447 | Is God still creating man in His image? | Gen 5:3 | Lionstrong | 16336 | ||
The Love of God and the Value of Man Dear Bill, Rom. 8:38,39 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. As great as the all-powerful love of God is, it is not the basis for the worth of man. Rather it is what man is, the image of God. Ps. 8:4,5, "What is man, that Thou dost take thought of him? And the son of man, that Thou dost care for him? Yet Thou hast made him a little lower than God, And dost crown him with glory and majesty!" Man is made A LITTLE lower than God!! If one agrees to the truth that man did not become nothing (of no value) when he became a sinner, then he must agree that his worth is not based on how God feels about him, but rather on his inherent worth as God made him. If God loved a beautiful stallion, would that make it something for which Christ would die? Why? Because it's still a horse. Now, don't get me wrong, God does care for his creation. "His eye is on the sparrow" (Matt. 6: 26) and all creation will benefit when man's redemption is consummated (Rom 8: 19ff). But was it for them that Christ died? Christ came to save sinners (I Tim 1:15) not palominos. In I John 3:1, the great love of God has not changed our worth, it has changed our relationship from being sons of disobedience (Ehp. 2: 2) to that of children of God. Peace, Lionstrong |
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448 | The Wrath to Come | 1 Thess 1:10 | Lionstrong | 16099 | ||
Dear BJ, ¶. Your post seems rather provincial. You write as if the events about which you wrote are supposed to happen in the U. S. I don't recall the U. S. being mentioned in Scripture. If anything we're one of the unnamed nations making up the iron and clay feet of the statue of Nebuchadnezzar's dream. ¶. I'm sure some of the Jewish prophets of Jeremiah's day said that the invasion of the Babylonians was not of God but of Satan. My point is that God can and has brought one nation against another in judgment without it being prophesied. A good king of Judah tried to prevent one foreign king from attacking another. The one king warned him not to prevent him because he was commissioned by God. Now, was this particular attack prophesied and found in Scripture? (2 Chr. 35) God is not only sovereign over nature to bring natural disasters, but he's also sovereign over the king's heart and "turns it wherever He wishes." Prov. 21:1 Peace, Lionstrong |
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449 | The Wrath to Come | 1 Thess 1:10 | Lionstrong | 16033 | ||
Dear BJ, Eschatological views fall into three camps, amil, pre-mil, and post mil. The pre-mils are further distinguished by their tribulation views. What are your views, BJ? |
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450 | The Wrath to Come | 1 Thess 1:10 | Lionstrong | 16000 | ||
The Wrath to Come 1 Thess. 1:10 and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, that is Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come. Today as I watched one World Trade Center tower burning I saw a jet airliner torpedo into the other. Huge plumes of flame exploded from the sides of the second tower. The fire and smoke to me was a picture of the wrath of God. This was indeed a day of wrath. Was this in a way an expression of the wrath of God toward America? Even if it wasn’t, nonetheless many hundreds of people died a fiery death. I found myself weeping several times today as I thought of the spouses made widows, the children made orphans and the tragic loss of lives. But as terrifying and horrible as this day has been it will pale compared to the Day of Wrath. How many of those people who died a fiery death today will have to face a second fiery death that will last forever? I am sobered by today. But as terrible as today was, people need to be warned of a day even more terrible, and it’s coming soon. Eph. 5:15, 16 Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men, but as wise, making the most of your time, because the days are evil. Peace, Lionstrong |
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451 | What is eternal life? What is saved? | John 6:37 | Lionstrong | 15215 | ||
Dear Sister D, Once Saved, Always Saved The letters of the Apostles to the churches address many issues and questions. But have you noticed that one question that they do not directly answer that has been a big question in Western Christendom? Can a believer lose his salvation? Maybe this question was not address directly by the Apostles because it was not a question. They understood that if God acquitted you of guilt, if he declared you innocent, justified, forgiven, then that’s what you were. They understood that God would not renege on his promise, his declaration, his word. They understood that if God through Jesus saved a sinner, that sinner was saved to the uttermost. So, they understood that once God himself declared you justified, it was a done deal. So the big question of their day was on what basis would God justify a man in the first place? Their (the Jews) answer: by the works of the Law, by keeping God’s holy Law. The Apostles’ answer: It is now and has always been by faith on the basis of grace, not by keep God’s good and righteous commands. Paul then deals with the objections and questions of such a proposition as justification by faith alone apart from works of the law. Such objections as “if justification is by grace and not the law then a person can sin without any consequences.” (Rom 6) Now, once Paul presents the Gospel of justification by faith alone (Rom 1 through 8) and goes on to deal with other questions of the Christian life, he does NOT deal directly with the big question we “modern” Christians have, and that is, “Now that I’m saved, will or can I lose my salvation?” Although you’ll find a negative answer to that question indirectly and by implication in the writings of the Apostles, I think that the Apostles don’t deal directly with that question because for them it was a non-issue. "...he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jeus Christ," Paul says in passing. They dealt with other questions of Christian theology and Christian living. Peace, Lionstrong |
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452 | Once Save; Always Saved? | John 6:37 | Lionstrong | 15183 | ||
Dear Kin, I noticed that this is your first post. Welcome to the forum! I hope your time here will be well spent. As you've noticed, we are not a united forum, but we're gathered around God's Word. And I think that's a big plus! You may not come the see God's power and love to keep those he has saved, but maybe in some other area of God's Word you will be edified. Peace, Lionstrong |
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453 | What is eternal life? What is saved? | John 6:37 | Lionstrong | 15181 | ||
Dear Sister D, May I formally welcome you to the forum. Although your comments have generated strong disagreement, I welcome you. And even if we disagree, some of us can be pretty nice guys. :-) Peace, Lionstrong |
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454 | Should the Bible be taken literally? | Bible general Archive 1 | Lionstrong | 15176 | ||
Dear Ed That's the beauty of God's Word and how it applies to every dispensation and culture, be it the agrarian culture of ancient Israel or the high tech information age of western civilization. Back then "no murder" could apply to not sacrificing you child to Molech. Today it's abortion and stem cell research. The command is unchanged; the applications are as diverse as our circumstances. We need the leadership of the Holy Spirit and the wisdom and courage (against the pressures of PC) he supplies to stand against brokeness of our world and the wilds of the devil. Peace, Lionstrong |
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455 | Should the Bible be taken literally? | Bible general Archive 1 | Lionstrong | 15160 | ||
No offence, dear brother Ed, As Hank said your question is really not about literalness, but about interpretation as a whole, about people imposing unbiblical presuppositions on Scripture causing them to reject portions of Scripture as being outdated or only for the time it written. Scripture must be interpreted by Scripture, not by the current "wind of doctrine" of our culture. From the Westminster Confession of Faith: The infallible rule of interpretation of Scripture is the Scripture itself: and therefore, when there is a question about the true and full sense of any Scripture (which is not manifold, but one), it must be searched and known by other places that speak more clearly. Peace, Lionstrong |
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456 | Doing Away with Childish Things | Gen 1:1 | Lionstrong | 15005 | ||
A Meditation: It’s wonderful how the truths we learn of God’s Word as a child stay with us and don’t change. They just get deeper. As a child we could wade happily in the refreshing truths of God’s Word. As an adult we can joyfully swim in them. One particular truth I have in mind right now is the fact that God created the heavens and the earth. I memorized Gen. 1:1 as a child. (A very important verse. Mothers, teach it to your kids!) And God has used that truth to save me from the meaningless life that comes from believing the lie of evolution. But, as I said, my childhood understanding of creation was true, although some misconceptions had to be corrected along my journey to manhood. The first misconception was that, like man, God started with something to make the universe. Then it was pointed out me in Psalms that God started with nothing. He just commanded something to be and it was. What a mighty God! It was at that time I learned a theological four-letter word (besides love)- fiat (pronounced - fee-ot). It’s a fancy Latin word that means command. God created by fiat out of nothing. Another childhood misunderstanding was put away when I learned that the creation of the heavens and the earth was part of God’s overall plan. As a child I though of a carpenter making something. After he’s done making whatever he makes, it’s put somewhere and the carpenter forgets about it and makes something else. But with God, I’ve learned, creation was only the beginning of his plan, “In the beginning...”. In my mind I separated--no, rather I never connected creation to redemption as part of God’s plan. “...God, who created all things; in order that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places.” (Eph. 3: 9,10) Since the church is the community of the redeemed, this verse clearly unites the two major themes of the Bible, creation and redemption in the purpose of God. Praise God for his wonderful works! Lionstrong |
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457 | Purposes for heavenly bodies | Gen 1:14 | Lionstrong | 14993 | ||
Dear Nolan, It's interesting that you focus on eschatology. The first coming of Christ was an eschatological event. Also interesting is that God made something "in the beginning" (the stars) for the purpose of being used as a sign for the eschaton. Peace, Lionstrong |
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458 | Purposes for heavenly bodies | Gen 1:14 | Lionstrong | 14973 | ||
"for signs, seasons, days, and years;" God did not make the sun, moon and stars for the calendar making only, but also for signs. Witness, Matt. 2:2, " For we saw His star in the east, and have come to worship Him." What, if any, is the relationship between the purpose for which heavenly bodies were created and the evil practice of astrology? |
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459 | Who created god? | Bible general Archive 1 | Lionstrong | 14580 | ||
Dear Peaches, What you wrote is totally the product of your imagination. If you tried to support any of your statements about God from the Bible, you would find none. Not to be harsh on you, but this is a Study Bible Forum, where we attempt to give biblical answers to honest questions. (And since God alone knows the heart, we can't say any questions is dishonest.) I'm sure your sentiments are well-meant, but the last thing truth is, is sentimental. Peace, Lionstrong |
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460 | Who created god? | Bible general Archive 1 | Lionstrong | 14579 | ||
Dear Peaches, What you wrote is totally the product of your imagination. If you tried to support any of your statements about God from the Bible, you would find none. Not to be harsh on you, but this is a Study Bible Forum, where we attempt to give biblical answers to honest questions. (And since God alone knows the heart, we can't say any questions is dishonest.) I'm sure your sentiments are well-meant, but the last thing truth is, is sentimental. Peace, Lionstrong |
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