Results 1621 - 1640 of 1928
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1621 | Is baptism done only once? | Eph 4:5 | Reformer Joe | 42462 | ||
And where do you go to church that water baptism is no longer practiced? --Joe! |
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1622 | Is baptism done only once? | Eph 4:5 | Reformer Joe | 42500 | ||
You can keep referring to these verses all you want. They do not mean what you say they do. --Joe! |
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1623 | Is baptism done only once? | Eph 4:5 | Reformer Joe | 42502 | ||
You can keep referring to these verses all you want. They do not mean what you say they do. --Joe! |
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1624 | Is baptism done only once? | Eph 4:5 | Reformer Joe | 42520 | ||
Wow...is there a 1 Corinthians 3:16 church in my neighborhood? Why can't you answer the question? You ARE under the government and discipline of a local congregation, aren't you? --Joe! |
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1625 | Is baptism done only once? | Eph 4:5 | Reformer Joe | 42521 | ||
And Peter is talking about a past event when he says he remembered! You do understand basic English grammar, right? Meybe we better take this step-by-step: 1. Peter is called to Cornelius' house. 2. Peter tells them about Christ. 3. They demonstrate that they have received the Holy Spirit. 4. This is the point at which Peter "remembers" what Jesus said before. 5. They are WATER BAPTIZED. 6. Peter goes before the church at Jerusalem, and explains that he WATER BAPTIZED them BECAUSE he remembered what Christ said. Notice that he does not say, "Now I remember." He says, "I rememberED." Past tense. He did prior to his apopearance before the church, when he was at Cornelius' house. Good grief! Romans 5 talks about Adam. Paul writes Romans after the events in the Gospels. Does that mean that Adam came after Christ's earthly ministry? That is the same logic you are using here. You are WRONG WRONG WRONG, and all you are demonstrating is that you are an unteachable, factious person who blasphemes God by dinigrating His holy ordinances. --Joe! |
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1626 | Is baptism done only once? | Eph 4:5 | Reformer Joe | 42523 | ||
"where does it say in the bible that the holy spirit teaches through the church?" As I said, go back up the thread and examine all the verses which show that God has appointed the office of TEACHER in the church, and that the gift of TEACHING is one of the gifts of the Spirit. Go back and examine the Bible verses I have cited (1 Corinthians 12:28, Ephesians 4:11, and Colossians 3:16, which are representative of dozens of others which imply the very same thing). Are they wrong? Or am I? If I am wrong about them, please, oh, please tell me what they really DO mean! --Joe! |
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1627 | Is baptism done only once? | Eph 4:5 | Reformer Joe | 42543 | ||
So I suppose that means you have no answer to the verses I posted. How surprising. --Joe! |
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1628 | Is baptism done only once? | Eph 4:5 | Reformer Joe | 42545 | ||
But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. --1 Timothy 3:13 You are on the road to hell, Mr. Scott. --Joe! |
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1629 | Is baptism done only once? | Eph 4:5 | Reformer Joe | 42709 | ||
Acts 19 is a case of those who had received John's baptism of repentance, but had not believed in Christ yet. Notice the water baptism, signaling that they had joined the church. It was at that point that they received the Holy Spirit. Now look at all the other examples of post-Penetcost conversions. After Penetcost, ALL of them receive the Spirit upon conversion. You can say "no one receives the baptism of the Holy Spirit at salvation." And I will continue to point out that that view is a 20th-century novelty that has no basis in Scripture. --Joe! |
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1630 | Is baptism done only once? | Eph 4:5 | Reformer Joe | 42861 | ||
You wrote: "First, because the people of Acts 19 were baptised, this does not signal the joining of the church." I am a little confused here. I thought you were Church of Christ. Yes, the Lord adds to the church (which means that we are JOINED to the church, even if you do not like that word), but don't you see us becoming part of the communion of saints -- the bride of Christ -- at BAPTISM? You also wrote: "Second, as for all post-Pentacost conversions receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit, you need to read the account of Philip and the Eunuch in Acts 8:34-39. Its says that the eunuch went away rejoicing but never says he received the Holy Spirit." No, and it didn't say what he had for dinner that night, either. That doesn't mean he starved! We can see in other places in Scripture where becoming a Christian means receiving the Holy Spirit. Let's start with what is most likely the verse of Scripture you quote most: 'Peter said to them, "Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.' --Acts 2:38 Then we can move on to what Paul says: "In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation--having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of His glory." --Ephesians 1:13-14 "However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him." --Romans 8:9 "Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God." --1 Corinthians 6:11 Lastly, we can point to the words of the Lord Himself: "Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, 'From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.'" But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.' --John 7:37-39 As you can see, those who hear the gospel in belief/repentance receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. To say that it is at the discretion of the apostles ignores all of those cases (such as Cornelius in Acts 10) where the Holy Spirit is not transmitted by any discretionary action on the part of the apostles. As an aside, since all the apostles are at home with the Lord, how do you think we receive the Holy Spirit today? --Joe! |
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1631 | Is baptism done only once? | Eph 4:5 | Reformer Joe | 43048 | ||
You wrote: "Secondly, just to clear up some things about how the Holy Spirit manefest itself today, when you say receive the Holy Spirit do you mean receive gifts or salvation? Or, do you mean that the Holy Spirit lives inside you literally? To better explain my view I need to know where you stand on this." You raise some very good questions here. I would like to talk about the Holy Spirit's indwelling first. Since He is God, He is obviously omnipresent, so indwelling cannot mean that He is physically somewhere He wasn't before (because this would mean that he was not everywhere before). So when Paul says that the Spirit of God "dwells" in us (Romans 8:9-11, 1 Corinthians 3:16), that must be speaking in a spiritual sense, regarding a different way in which the Spirit relates to and interacts with the Christian. Salvation and receiving the Holy Spirit are not the same thing, but since the founding of the church salvation has been accompanied by receiving the Holy Spirit, who dwells in every believer in the sense I described above. Are there still gifts? Yes, but not all of them. I think you and I agree on which ones are most likely not in operation today. --Joe! |
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1632 | Is baptism done only once? | Eph 4:5 | Reformer Joe | 43090 | ||
You wrote: "And the word of God is the bible. If you believe what I have stated then we are closer to same belief and knowledge of the bible than I previously thought. I hope that this true." Well, you didn't state much, other than citing a few Scriptures. I believe that the Spirit of God primarily works in and through the word of God in a believer's life. The two are not the same, of course, but the Spirit does not normally act apart from His revelation as it is received in the Christian's life. That is why the lifelong, careful study of the Bible (and sitting under the preaching of a gifted teacher well-versed in the word) is so indispensable, because it is the main instrument that the Spirit utilizes for sanctification. --Joe! |
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1633 | Individualistic Bible reading unbiblical | Eph 4:11 | Reformer Joe | 46038 | ||
Please note that the Bereans were searching the Scriptures TOGETHER in the case of Paul's teaching. What one has to realize is that just as God has provided the Bible and His Spirit to help us discern true teaching from false teaching, he has also given good, spiritually-gifted teachers to help us discern our own false understandings of Scripture from the true ones. The best way of looking at it, in my opinion, is that the Bible is the ultimate, final, infallible authority and the only source of revelation for the Christian today. God has given the church, among whom the Spirit dwells, with His gifted teachers, to correctly interpret Scripture. The church is not infallible, but I would say that as far as an individual congregation or denomination adheres to the whole counsel of God explounded in the Bible, that the church is reliable. He has also given of His Spirit to all of us, so that both individually AND collectively He works within us to teach us truth from error. So there are several dimensions to learning from God about Himself, but nowhere do we see a scenario of "me, my Bible, and the Holy Spirit" as the sole and preferable means of knowing God. We are just as prone to error as false teachers are, because we each still have a tendency to want Scripture to say what we want it to say. The collective communion of saints helps us combat that tendency to justify our own particular sins. --Joe! |
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1634 | there's many denomination yet 1 spirit | Eph 5:1 | Reformer Joe | 61590 | ||
Watts and Edwards were not dispensationalists. Dispensationalism originated with Darby. --Joe! |
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1635 | there's many denomination yet 1 spirit | Eph 5:1 | Reformer Joe | 61591 | ||
Please PLEASE tell me that your source is not Alexander Hislop. --Joe! |
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1636 | there's many denomination yet 1 spirit | Eph 5:1 | Reformer Joe | 61592 | ||
Interesting. What did you consider to be straw arguments in Mathison's book? I have not read it yet, but his other work represents some fine scholarship. --Joe! |
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1637 | Who is the bride of Christ | Eph 5:25 | Reformer Joe | 27826 | ||
Sorry...I was using the term as the Bible uses it. I assumed that was a valid point of reference for the person asking the question. So, for the still-uncertain, by the "church" I mean what is sometimes referred to as the church universal, the church invisible, the elect, a holy nation, a royal priesthood, a people of God's own possession, the called-out ones, the saints, the brotherhood of believers, etc....otherwise known as all of those human beings from past and present who have been regenerated--given new life--by God's grace alone through faith alone in the redemption purchased for them by Christ's substitutionary perfect life and death alone. Better? :) --Joe! |
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1638 | Can we put doctrine into practice? | Eph 5:25 | Reformer Joe | 54020 | ||
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1639 | Can we put doctrine into practice? | Eph 5:25 | Reformer Joe | 54108 | ||
Well, this is a Study Bible Forum, so we will be spending a lot of time on what the Bible says. My two-word answer made a lot of sense. What do I do to love my wife as Christ loved the church? "Not enough." Just ask my wife! :) The Bible is not heavy on day-to-day specifics on a lot of issues, such as husbands treating wives. However, with Christ as our example, it should be clear that a husband's love for a wife should be one of both providing spiritual direction and one of utter self-sacrifice. I do not know you nor your spouse, but those are good measuring sticks to see where you are feebly approaching Christ's spirit of self-sacrifice and where you fall short. Ask yourself constantly, "How can I glorify God through my marriage by loving my wife sacrificially as Christ willingly and joyously gave Himself over to death for His people?" That is when the specifics will fall into place, on an encounter-by-encounter basis. As the Holy Spirit transforms and renews us, we obey God's commands and that plays out in how we strive to assist our wives in their sanctification. An excellent book on this issue is called "Reforming Marriage" by Douglas Wilson, published by Canon Press. The fact of the matter is the Bible doesn't say, "Thou shalt do the dishes when your wife is tired" or "Bring to your wife roses seven times a month." The Bible is chock full of God's will in the form of general principles. It is our duty and joy to translate those into the specifics. --Joe! |
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1640 | Does God have a spiritual body? | Eph 5:25 | Reformer Joe | 54207 | ||
It is God the SON who has the spiritual body, the one that came out of the tomb. Read Philippians 3:20-21 to see whose body our spritual bodies will be like. --Joe! |
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