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361 | Love God, His word, any difference? | Ps 95:10 | Lionstrong | 153407 | ||
Thanks, Jeff, You're right. I did already have an answer to my question, and I did not post it because I was looking for an answer. I was looking for discussion and the thoughts of others on this question. |
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362 | Imperatives not true or false | Ps 119:142 | Lionstrong | 58178 | ||
Hello Steve, Correct, Gordon Clark. Had the privilege of meeting him before he died. His meaning of imperative is the ordinary dictionary definition, that is, a command or request. Within the set of imperatives (the Decalogue) of Exodus 20 there are indicative statements. So, while the "Thou-shalt-nots" of the Decalogue are neither true nor false, we do have within it indicative statements that can indeed be true or false. God's imperatives are not given in a vacuum. Although the sufficient reason for all God commands is that He is God, he does many times give us other reasons for his commands. Some commands are also given in their historical or situational context to make the reason they are given understood. So, I think that the truth that the psalmist and Paul are talking about is not the imperatives themselves, but the whole system in which the imperatives are imbedded. The commands are given in an historical or situational context, and/or God gives additional reasons for the command. So it is in the context and reasons that we find truth, and these truths are inseparable from the commands. They form a system called the Law of Lord (Psalm 19:7 The law of the LORD is perfect, restoring the soul; The testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.). Peace, |
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363 | Senility 'n th'Word of God: A Meditation | Is 26:3 | Lionstrong | 104688 | ||
Senility and the Word of God: A Meditation Is 26:3 "The steadfast of mind You will keep in perfect peace, Because he trusts in You. I have a sneaking suspicion, a theory even, that some people become senile (loose their memory) in old age because they haven't remembered the Lord in their earlier years. Why should the Lord keep someone's mind if he hasn't bothered to keep the Lord on it? It is the one keeps his mind steadfast on the Lord whose mind the Lord will keep in peace. There are many passages on remembering the Lord and the things of the Lord, but I suppose the two most important are the fourth commandment and communion: Ex 20:8 "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 1 Cor 11:25 In the same way He took the cup also after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me." |
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364 | Senility 'n th'Word of God: A Meditation | Is 26:3 | Lionstrong | 108263 | ||
Thanks for your observations, Momma, Yes, I agree that believers suffer from various diseases through no fault of their own. Two things are happening: 1) We all (Christians and non-Christians) experience some degree of misery from the fall of Adam, and with few exceptions we all have or will experience death till Christ comes. 2) But some will experience temporal chastening (believers) or punishment (unbelievers) in this life as a result of our own sins. |
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365 | Can salvation be lost due to actions? | Ezek 3:18 | Lionstrong | 31631 | ||
Dear Prayer Warrior, Don't you see, then, that what you've written is a salvation by what you do (works), rather than a salvation by what God has done (grace)? Peace, Lionstrong |
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366 | please, two part question, need more | Ezek 3:18 | Lionstrong | 31648 | ||
Hi Prayer Warrior, You wrote, "Once saved always saved is only saved if you keep your walk. No one can take you out of Gods hands but you can, by continuing to sin." How is this a "once saved always saved?" This is a "saved if you keep your walk." If we're saved if we keep our walk, how is this NOT a salvation by works? How is this a salvation by grace alone? Eph 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; Eph 2:9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. The Bible says, 1 Pet 1:5 who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. John 10:28 and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. John 10:29 "My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. Now if someone that God has saved can take himself out of the Father's AND the Son's hands, what does that say about the power of God to protect them "for a salvation ready to revealed at the last time?" In his word, God has given his people much assurance that we need not fear that our own propensity to sin will result in our not making it. He loves his people; he is almighty; he has the power to keep you; and he will. By God's power and grace, his people will persevere in good works till the end. "Saved until we screw up" is neither an expression of "once saved always saved" or "Salvation by grace alone." Concerning repentance: Only a new believer who does not yet realize how sinful he is thinks that he can repent of every sin he's committed since becoming a believer. Nevertheless such a notion of dying with unconfessed or unrepented sin is still a variation on the theme of salvation by our actions (works) rather than salvation by God's grace alone. Peace, Lionstrong |
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367 | Can salvation be lost due to actions? | Ezek 3:18 | Lionstrong | 31706 | ||
Hello Prayer Warrior, Your understanding of the Christian life is clearly a salvation by works and has nothing to do with what Christ did on the cross for his people. The Christian life you describe totally negates the purpose for which Christ came--to save sinners. OK, what we're really talking about, I think, can be expressed in different ways: How ought Christians to deal sin in their life? or, Now that I'm saved, now what? or If I'm not saved by good works, does it matter that I do good works now that I'm saved? The issue that you're dealing with, Warrior, is important, because Christ does not save his people TO sin, but FROM it. (Rom 6) And although we're not saved BY our good works, we're saved FOR good works. (Eph 2:8-10) The verses that you shared are good verses, but maybe... the framework in which you are putting these verses is as if the good life of a believer is not the product of God's grace through faith. I mean you talk about repentance as if it weren't given to us by the grace of God. The Bible says: 2 Tim. 2:25 with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth... Acts 11:18 And when they heard this, they quieted down, and glorified God, saying, "Well then, God has granted to the Gentiles also the repentance that leads to life." Warrior, you put a terrible burden on yourself if you think it depends on you to live the Christian life successfully. It depends on God, because, "..it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy.(Rom. 9:16) But worse, as I said, it dishonors the work of Christ on the cross. Jude 1:24 ¶ Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, Jude 1:25 to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. Peace, Lionstrong |
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368 | Is there nothing we can do? | Matthew | Lionstrong | 38749 | ||
Hi WAK, Limited Atonement has been debated much on this Forum. Look it up. Peace, Lionstrong |
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369 | How do we attain righteousness? | Matthew | Lionstrong | 38761 | ||
Hi jeane, Welcome to the Forum! I think you answered Dave's question: "How do we attain the standard of righteousness that Christ requires?" You said, "is it to keep gods commandment" Is this a question or an answer? If it's an answer, the Bible says that nobody can attain righteousness by keeping God's commands. The Bible says, "because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin." Rom 3:20 So we can never reach God's righteous standards by trying to keep God's commands. God will never say to us that our righteous deeds are enough for him to say that we have become righteous. Now don't get me wrong! I'm not saying that we ought to disobey God's commands. What I'm saying is that we can’t become righteous by keeping God's commands. And I'm not saying that we should not care about being righteous either! Everyone ought to want God to call them righteous! What I'm saying is that the only way for God to accept us as righteous is to believe in His Son, Jesus. Righteousness is God's gracious gift to anyone who believes in Jesus, who died on the cross in the place of all who believe in Him. Once we believe in Jesus, we should go on keeping God's commands because we love him, and He sent Jesus to die for the sins of his people. Righteousness, Jeane, is God's gift through faith in Jesus Christ. Rom 5:17 ...much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ. Peace, Lionstrong |
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370 | How do we attain righteousness? | Matthew | Lionstrong | 38805 | ||
Hi Magnum, No, I am not saying that Jesus cannot empower us to keep God's command. He Gives us the Holy Spirit, who empowers us to know and live the truth. But we still sin and are not righteous in ourselves according to God's standard. See 1 John 1:8,9. God counts us righteous only by faith in Christ alone. Read my post again, please, Magnum. What I said was, "the Bible says that nobody can attain righteousness by keeping God's commands." If we could attain righteousness by keeping God's commands, then Christ died needlessly. Please read Gal. 2:21. Any saint of the Bible who is called righteous, is righteous only by faith in God's word, not because they have never sinned. Rom. 4:3 For what does the Scripture say? " And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness." Rom. 4:5 But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness, Rom. 4:6 just as David also speaks of the blessing upon the man to whom God reckons righteousness apart from works: Rom. 4:7 " Blessed are those whose lawless deeds have been forgiven, And whose sins have been covered. Rom. 4:8 " Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not take into account." Peace, Lionstrong |
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371 | Jesus God/God God still unclear | Matt 1:23 | Lionstrong | 4958 | ||
Dear Joe, I think your explanation of the Trinity is fine. I wish I could do half as well. But when you said, "The fact that God is a being who has revealed himself to be one Being in three Persons is hard to comprehend, since we experience nothing in creation that bears resemblence to this unique quality of God," I would say there is. When my Arian (sp?), i.e. Jehovah's Witnesse nieghbors come by I illustrate diversity in unity with the creation of man (Gen 1:27). God created man (unity, man -- one class, distinct from the rest of creation), male and female he created them (diversity, two persons); marriage (Gen 2:24) the man and wife (diversity, two persons) becoming one flesh (unity, united in marriage); the church is one loaf, one flock, one body with many members. You're right the oneness and plurality of God is unique, but He has given us things in creation which resemble that concept of diversity in unity. Lionstrong |
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372 | Jesus God/God God still unclear | Matt 1:23 | Lionstrong | 4969 | ||
Hello Buf: Jesus, the Son of the Father, can also be called father not because Jesus is the Father, but because just as Adam is the father of the human race, fallen in him; Jesus as the second Adam is the father of redeemed humanity. See the comparison and contrast of Adam and Jesus in Rom 5. Also consider 1 Cor 15:20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep. 1 Cor 15:21 For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead. 1 Cor 15:22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. 1 Cor 15:23 But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that those who are Christ's at His coming, 1 Cor 15:24 then comes the end, when He hands over the kingdom to the God and Father, when He has abolished all rule and all authority and power. Lionstrong |
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373 | Jesus God/God God still unclear | Matt 1:23 | Lionstrong | 4993 | ||
Thanks, Joe I agree; all analogies break down. That's why I capitalized on your "resemblence" and underscored your "unique." Lionstrong |
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374 | Jesus God/God God still unclear | Matt 1:23 | Lionstrong | 5050 | ||
Matt 11:27 "All things have been handed over to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him. Dear Buf: Here's my take on Mat 11:27. Jesus has the authority of God the Father to a saving knowledge of the Father to whoever he wishes. Lionstrong |
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375 | Jesus God/God God still unclear | Matt 1:23 | Lionstrong | 5093 | ||
Matt 11:27 "All things have been handed over to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him. Dear Buf: Here's my take on Mat 11:27. Jesus has the authority of God the Father to give a saving knowledge of the Father to whoever he wishes. Lionstrong Sorry, left out a word. |
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376 | Was Mary a virgin her whole life | Matt 1:25 | Lionstrong | 47509 | ||
Dear jawz, You write, "If you read them with the same English grammar interpretation "until" in Matthew 1:25 they make no sense." Could be, but "until" in the usual sense makes perfect sense in this context. Joseph and Mary were husband and wife. They loved each other. And they did what husbands and wives do after Jesus was born. And they had kids. So, what's the big deal with all this? Is this just a precursor to Maryolatry? Peace, |
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377 | Light and Good Works | Matt 5:16 | Lionstrong | 37676 | ||
Hi Radioman, So, are you saying that you think "light" in the context of Mat 5:16 means good works? Peace, Lionstrong |
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378 | Light and Good Works | Matt 5:16 | Lionstrong | 61018 | ||
Hi Firedup, and welcome to the Forum! I agree that moral excellence in very important. Christ saved us to be holy people of good works. And there are other important truths in God's word. The importance of these truths are not what we are concerned with in this passage, but with the meaning of the term "light" in this context. Let your light shine that your good works may be seen. So the light is not the good deeds of our life. It is the good deeds of our life that Christ wants the light to shine on. It is the gospel that enlightens men to see our good deeds aright, that is, as the product of God's grace and not anything in us. Natural man has ingrained in his mind that it is our good works that save us, that make us acceptable to God. Therefore it is imperative that men see our good works as they really are, in "light” of the gospel. The gospel teaches that it is, "by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them." (Eph 2:8-10) The good works are not in us or from us, and the gospel light will help men see this and glorify the Father and not us. If the good works are not seen in the gosple light, men will glorify us for our good works and not the Father. If light in this passage means life or good works then, (1) it makes the words "good works" in the passage redundant, (2) it ignores the meaning of light as knowledge as used in other passages of Scripture. (3) it ignores the illuminating analogy of knowledge, and (4) it ignores the fact that men already see (visually) our good works, but they don't see (understand) our good works. 2 Tim. 1:10, “but now has been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,” Peace, P.S. I'm curious; how did you come upon this post, since it is not a recent entry, and this is your first post? |
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379 | Light and Good Works | Matt 5:16 | Lionstrong | 61327 | ||
Hello Firedup! I'm sure there are many passage in Scripture that speak of our life in Christ as being illuminating. One passage that comes to mind is Phil 2:14-16: "Do all things without grumbling or disputing; that you may prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world, holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may have cause to glory because I did not run in vain nor toil in vain. But you'll notice that even in this context the gospel ("word of life") is included. So, while "light" sometimes refers to "life," in careful Bible study you must see what a word means in the passage in which it is used. So, in the context of Matt 5, it is God's people who have the gospel light. To the extent that we have the gospel light, we ARE the light of the world. We are to tell men the gospel that they may see our good works for what they really are, that is, wrought in God, not in us, that the Father may be glorified. (John 3:21) Somewhere in your Christian life you'll come across the concept of word and deed. You can't have one without the other. Good works without the gospel still leaves men lost. Good News without good deeds is hypocrisy. Peace, |
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380 | I CAME TO FULFILL THE LAW | Matt 5:17 | Lionstrong | 12555 | ||
"I don't believe that we have to obey the Law of Moses now. Instead, as born again believers, we obey the Law that is written on our hearts by the Holy Spirit." Dear Yitzhak, If this is the law believers are to obey (the law that's in our hearts) it is subjective. It results in "every man doing what's right in his own eyes." For all practical purposes this veiw of the law is antinomian. Peace, Lionstrong |
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