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521 | How can anyone be saved? | 1 Cor 2:14 | Lionstrong | 60891 | ||
Hi Ray, You say, "the GOAL in our instruction and witnessing should be that the person would FEEL [my caps] the love of God." And you believe that God wants believers to FEEL loved. Yet you provide no scriptural support for these sentiments. You quote an excellent verse where Paul says the goal of our instruction is love, then you ignore it and say that the goal is to FEEL love. Paul's is practical; yours is emotional. I'll take Paul's. Peace, From the hip |
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522 | How can anyone be saved? | 1 Cor 2:14 | Lionstrong | 60913 | ||
Hi Ed, 1. Yes. 2. No (neither can a save one.) 3. Don't understand question. Please rephrase. 4. No. Peace, |
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523 | How can anyone be saved? | 1 Cor 2:14 | Lionstrong | 60927 | ||
Hi Ed, 2 Cor 5:10, "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad." This is the purpose of judgment. One thing my freewilling brothers in Christ have to understand is that responsibility, and hence the judgment, is not based on volition, but on knowledge. Rom 1:21-24, "For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks.... Therefore God gave them over..." Luke 12:47,48 "And that slave who knew his master's will and did not get ready or act in accord with his will, will receive many lashes, but the one who did not know it, and committed deeds worthy of a flogging, will receive but few. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more." As the image of God we are rational and have innate knowledge, that is, knowledge not learned by experience, but by virtue of being the image of God. (Gen. 1; Rom 2) We knowingly transgress or fail to conform to God's law. Animals cannot sin because they have no rational knowledge even if they have wills. Another thing believers need to understand is the federal headship of Adam (Rom 5). He is the head and representative of the human race descended from him by natural generation. When our head fell, we all fell. When he became a sinner, we all did. When he sinned, we sinned in him. In Adam all die. (1 Cor 15:22, "For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.") Christ is the head of redeemed humanity, and what he is and did counts for them. "Man cannot do anything about that sin unless God so moves, then when God does so move man has to accept Jesus and be forgiven of that sin." This is basically the same question Paul has his reader ask: Rom 9:19-24, "You will say to me then, "Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?" On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, "Why did you make me like this," will it? Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use? What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory, even us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles." How can a sinner believe, unless God, by His Spirit, changes his heart? Peace, |
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524 | How can anyone be saved? | 1 Cor 2:14 | Lionstrong | 61101 | ||
Hi Hank! If I may take a stab at your question: I’m free to take a privately charted luxury liner around the world, but my small financial reserves makes me unable to do so. Fallen man’s moral capital is less than small; it is non-existent! He is morally bankrupt! While free, he has no moral capital to invest a faith commitment in Christ. This is a financial analogy of the effects of sin in man. Of course, we usually use Paul’s biological analogy. He says that we were morally dead in sin (Eph 2), incapable of doing anything to please God (Rom 8), including believing in His Son. Peace in the Lamb, |
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525 | How can anyone be saved? | 1 Cor 2:14 | Lionstrong | 61176 | ||
May I also add that this discussion of free will seems to be based on the notion that man's will is the basis of his accountability. There is no Scriptural basis for this idea. Whereas there is support that responsibility is based on knowledge. As I wrote to Ed: One thing my freewilling brothers in Christ have to understand is that responsibility, and hence the judgment, is not based on volition, but on knowledge. Rom 1:21-24, "For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks.... Therefore God gave them over..." Luke 12:47,48 "And that slave who knew his master's will and did not get ready or act in accord with his will, will receive many lashes, but the one who did not know it, and committed deeds worthy of a flogging, will receive but few. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more." As the image of God we are rational and have innate knowledge, that is, knowledge not learned by experience, but by virtue of being the image of God. (Gen. 1; Rom 2) We knowingly transgress or fail to conform to God's law. Animals cannot sin because they have no rational knowledge even if they have wills. Peace, |
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526 | How can anyone be saved? | 1 Cor 2:14 | Lionstrong | 61180 | ||
Hi Ed! Your view of the effects of sin on the will of man does not do justice to the biblical data. It’s not that man needs some assistance in choosing Christ, such that the grace he needs from God is to be made aware of his sin, his need for salvation, and a chance to reject it. The biblical picture is that sin has made man, morally speaking, dead--dry bone dead! (Eph 2, Ezek 37) He cannot make ANY moral choices that are pleasing to God (Rom 8). This means that he cannot make the moral choice of faith in Christ. The grace needed by fallen man dead in sin in order to choose Christ is to be made alive! (Eph 2) The grace needed to come to Christ is not to be made aware, but to be drawn to Him (Jn 6), otherwise fallen man WILL not come. The grace needed to enter the Kingdom is not a chance to reject it, but to be born again, something which only the Spirit of God can accomplish (Jn 3). Peace, |
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527 | How can anyone be saved? | 1 Cor 2:14 | Lionstrong | 61301 | ||
Jude 1:3 Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints. Jude 1:4 For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. Hello John, While I certainly don't accuse our Arminian brethren of being enemies of the Cross of Christ, I think most of our struggles with what the Bible does or does not teach comes from "in the house," not from the outside, as the above passage seems to suggest. The sovereignty of God in salvation will be a continuing (and important!) topic of discussion and debate and Bible study on the forum, just as there will always be trivial questions about weather the sons of God are angels. So keep defending the doctrines of grace. I'm not saying that you haven't or won't make any mistakes along the way, but I believe you are within the Forum guide lines. Those who hate sovereign grace or who are simply tired of the subject need not post any comments. This is the proper place to discuss "thus saith the Lord." Peace, |
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528 | How can anyone be saved? | 1 Cor 2:14 | Lionstrong | 61308 | ||
Hi John, You need not answer this, but by freedom I meant that no external force hindered, limited or coerced my choice. In that sense I was free. My choices were limit only by internal factors, in this case, my insufficient funds. This I likened to fallen man. It is not God, man, Satan, what he ate for breakfast or any other external force that causes a man to reject Christ. In this sense he his free. The cause is his own insufficient moral capital. Peace, |
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529 | Human Happiness and the Will of God | 1 Cor 7:32 | Lionstrong | 136797 | ||
Human Happiness and the Will of God Human happiness is the will of God -- not that we would seek our own but that of others. For example, in 1 Cor 7:32 and following the husband seeks to please or make happy his wife and vice versa. Although this is categorized as a worldly concern it is not called sin but rather what spouses are expected and obligated to do (compare verse 3). Note, the same idea found in the OT. Newly wed men are not permitted to join the military so that they may stay home for the year and make their wives happy. (Deut. 24:5) Something worth thinking about, wouldn't you say? |
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530 | The Unity of Faith, Hope and Love | 1 Cor 13:13 | Lionstrong | 120266 | ||
Apparently Easton classifies faith, hope, and love as "three main elements of Christian character." I've never thought of the subjects of faith, hope and love as elements of Christian character. When I think of character I think of the moral qualities of a person. I think of faithful, not faith, hopeful, not hope and loving, not love. Faithfulness is a character trait, whereas faith is the mental activity of believing or that which is believed. Do you see what I'm saying? |
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531 | The Unity of Faith, Hope and Love | 1 Cor 13:13 | Lionstrong | 120270 | ||
Hi Emmaus, Again "virtue" sounds like Easton's "character traits" above. I ask myself what is faith, what is hope, and what is love. One can write a thick book on each subject, but whereas each is something a person has, I don't think of each as virtues or character traits. A non-Christian has faith, but not in Christ. A non-Christian has hope but not in Christ, love for self maybe but not for the God and Father of Christ. Faith has to do with what we think; hope has to do with what we look forward to; and love has to do with how we act. I think love is the end or result of the previous two, the fruit. Love is the reason for the other two. But this applies to any human being. What one believes will determine his hope, which will in turn determine whether, how, and what he loves. So, I'm looking for a term that will unite these three things, and virtues or character traits do not seem to fit. |
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532 | The Unity of Faith, Hope and Love | 1 Cor 13:13 | Lionstrong | 120286 | ||
Clever! Hello Hank! Perhaps we may have to be content with "things," but perhaps not. Unifying things is what every student of the Bible does. If fact, Paul, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, unified several important things for the church. The most comprehensive teaching on the Gospel found in one place is the Letter to the Romans. Where would we be without this great word from God through Paul? Later, the saints had to make up a word to unify what the Bible says about the Father, Son and Holy Spirit--Trinity. We "divide" the word of God in order to see its unity, what it says as a whole. |
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533 | The Unity of Faith, Hope and Love | 1 Cor 13:13 | Lionstrong | 120372 | ||
Emmaus, I concede to the unifying term of virtue! I remembered that a I a had a commentary (that I’ve never read) by my favorite author. He also groups them under the words virtues and gifts. To quote: “However, the study committee who wrote the report are mistaken. This is not what Paul says. He says some will remain and some will not. In 12:28, Paul lists the gifts as apostolic authority and prophecy first. Does the Synod report wish to maintain that God has appointed some to be apostles in the tenth, fifteenth, and twentieth centuries? This would be good Romanism; but Protestants think otherwise. Surely the apostleship has ceased. Hence, the time of cessation that Paul implies is not the return of Christ, but the completion of the canon. Similarly, the verse itself does not say that all the gifts are to remain. It says only that faith, hope and love remain, these three [these three is italicized], and no others are mentioned.... “It [the use of the word “now” in this verse] can hardly refer to the remainder of the apostolic age alone, for then there would be no contrast between the charismata that are passing away and the three virtues that remain....” (First Corinthians, Gordon H. Clark, p. 215) I still resist the use of the term virtue in a moral sense as in Easton above, and my computer dictionary lets me off the hook! Its third definition says, “3. A particularly efficacious, good, or beneficial quality; advantage: a plan with the virtue of being practical.” (American Heritage Dictionary) I also resisted it because I was thinking of the terms generically, and Paul is not using them generically. He’s talking about SAVING faith, the hope OF GLORY, and the love OF GOD poured out in our hearts through the HOLY SPIRIT (Eph 2:8,9; Col 1:27; Rom 5:5). So, while this technically satisfies my query, I still look for a unifying term for the generic use of these terms. |
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534 | So God is the cause of sin then | Gal 2:17 | Lionstrong | 13605 | ||
Rom. 9:19-21: A very powerful passage! God is soveriegn over what a man will be, and then to hold him accountable for what he does. He has potter's rights to make to make one man a vessel of wrath and hold him accountable for his sins, and to man another man a vessel of mercy and reward him for his good works in Christ! Peace, Lionstrong |
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535 | How do we do the How? | Gal 5:16 | Lionstrong | 4108 | ||
Thanks, very much, Prayon, for your answer. This may turn into a Bible study on the Holy Spirit, and I wouldn't mind if it did! Although it doesn't change my question, your translation does change the meaning of the verse a bit. Instead of saying, "do this and this will result," your translation says, "do this and don't do that." This, like I said, doesn't change my question of "How." It's just a note in passing. You answer reminds me of what Paul wrote to the Ephesians, "Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might." I'm moved to tears by being reminded of how great and precious is Christ's gift of the Holy Spirit. He comforts us,lives in us, seals us, prays with and for us, puts genuine love in us, never leaves us, and by Him we cry out "Abba, Father!" If our Father is to be glorified by our life of good works, if done in our own strength, it glorifies ourselves not the Father. Our good works must be done in the strength He supplies, in order that He may receive all the glory. Our good works must be the fruit of the Spirit. Thanks, again, Prayon. Lionstrong |
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536 | How do we do the How? | Gal 5:16 | Lionstrong | 4952 | ||
Well, Prayon, I'm not sure how to explain my question further. If someone tells you to do something, you might not know how to do it. So you might ask them how. But after listening to your answers and thinging about it, I think I understand the passage better now. What threw me is the fact the any successful obedience to God must be done "by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ..." (1 Pet 4:11) Successful obedience is obedience that results in God being glorified. We may do what is right, but if done for the wrong reason or by the wrong means, it does not glorify God, i.e. the Pharesees who prayed so that they would be praised by men. And here Paul gives us a command, but I understand now that it's not so much a command as it is saying in a different way what Peter said. It is instruction on how to successfully obey God, how to avoid dishonoring God, and that is by walking in His Spirit, living by the Holy Spirit's power. It was because I was misunderstanding what Paul was saying that I asked a confusing question. So I'm sorry if I confused you with my question, Prayon. I was confused myself. But your answer turned on the light. Thank you. Lionstrong |
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537 | Is Drugs mentioned in the Bible? | Gal 5:20 | Lionstrong | 142859 | ||
Granted, but to suggest that all drugs have a necessary connection to witchcraft and therefore are evil and should never be used is wrong. Just like good things can be put to evil use, in the same way things meant for evil can put to good use. The evil is not in inanimate object but in our hearts, and it is our hearts that use things to evil or good purposes. |
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538 | Is Drugs mentioned in the Bible? | Gal 5:20 | Lionstrong | 142861 | ||
It just seemed you were saying all drugs are evil and therefore can never be put to good use. | ||||||
539 | Any difference? | Ephesians | Lionstrong | 5391 | ||
I'm sorry, wist, I don't know to what your question is in reference. Your question is not connected to the tree in which I made a comment. Lionstrong |
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540 | Covenants and Dispensation? | Eph 1:10 | Lionstrong | 5279 | ||
jim, let's take the discussion of the cost of salvation to Matt 13:46 Lionstrong |
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