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1781 | Why do we try to do something for God? | James 2:17 | Reformer Joe | 29918 | ||
Absolutely! --Joe! |
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1782 | does God know all things? Genesis 22:12 | James 2:21 | Reformer Joe | 80208 | ||
Greetings. You wrote: "When God sees faith then he says of sinner 'now I know' and justifies." Do you believe that God does not know the mind of the believer before any outward actions take place (baptism or any other form of outward obedience)? I have a real problem with tossing God's omniscience out the window by saying that He has to "see" our faith (as man sees) before He justifies. 'But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart."' --1 Samuel 16:7 --Joe! |
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1783 | does God know all things? Genesis 22:12 | James 2:21 | Reformer Joe | 80284 | ||
'I sorry you have problem here because "Jesus seeing their faith" healed and told man to walk.' Yes, that was Jesus the God-man seeing the faith of His fellow humans and physically healing them. What does this have to do with the omniscient Father declaring humans righteous on the basis of faith apart from works (Romans 4:5-6). "Faith needs to be seen and repenting needs to be more than talk." True faith will be seen, but that does not mean that God doesn't know it is there before it is seen in our works. Repentance isn't even talk. Good works are the fruit of repentance and not repentance itself (Luke 3:8; Galatians 5:22-23). Repentance and faith is a disposition of the heart that results in works. --Joe! |
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1784 | does God know all things? Genesis 22:12 | James 2:21 | Reformer Joe | 80328 | ||
"Oh you deny Jesus knew what men didn't know?" Since the Incarnation, Jesus has two natures, one human and one divine. On earth, Jesus in his human nature was not omniscient (Matthew 24:36). I would also assume that He was not born able to speak or walk, for example. Jesus the man learned things, so it is not inconsistent to say that Jesus saw the faith of men in ways similar to the way you and I do. "Your point is not a point. Jesus saw faith. Don't deny this." Where did I state my denial of this? "Faith is seen by Jesus and God." Agreed. "God saw Abraham's faith." Did that happen before or after he outwardly obeyed, however? "God knows all, but He wants man to do and show his faith." No argument there. --Joe! |
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1785 | Did Jesus go to hell? | 1 Peter | Reformer Joe | 80504 | ||
In addition, all of Jesus' parables spoke of REALISTIC situations if not actual situations. Lost coins, prodigal sons, and virgins waiting for the bridegroom all refer to situations that really occur, in real places. Not one of Jesus' parables take place in some fantasy realm that doesn't correspond to reality. If the setting of Lazarus and the rich man is a fictitious one, then it is out-of-step with every other parable that Jesus told. Additionally, Jesus would be misleading in providing a fictitious description of the afterlife without indicating that the setting of his tale was a figment of his imagination. "These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life." --Matthew 25:46 --Joe! |
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1786 | Did Jesus go to hell? | 1 Peter | Reformer Joe | 80505 | ||
"Tell me ONE time JESUS told someone they had to remain sick because it was God's sovereign will?" Why does Jesus have to say it in order for it to be true? There are a lot of Scriptural truths that Jesus Himself is not recorded as saying. Things that Jesus verbalized are not any more or less true than the Psalms or Pauls' teaching in 2 Corinthians. --Joe! |
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1787 | Did Jesus go to hell? | 1 Peter | Reformer Joe | 80531 | ||
Hi. You wrote: "Not one time did Jesus encounter in His entire 3 years of ministry, the first person who was supposed to be sick because God wanted to teach them something" The gospels show: 'As He passed by, He saw a man blind from birth. And His disciples asked Him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?" Jesus answered, "It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was so that the works of God might be displayed in him. We must work the works of Him who sent Me as long as it is day; night is coming when no one can work. While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world." When He had said this, He spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and applied the clay to his eyes, and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated, Sent). So he went away and washed, and came back seeing. Therefore the neighbors, and those who previously saw him as a beggar, were saying, "Is not this the one who used to sit and beg?"' --John 9:1-8 While Jesus certainly healed this man, he also specifically said there was purpose in his being born blind: "it was so that the works of God might be displayed in him." God had sovereignly decreed that this man spend the first part of his life in total darkness, specifically for the purpose of glorifying Himself in the healing of the man's blindness. Jesus used the blind man and his healing to teach his disciples that He is the Light of the world. Others saw the healing of the man born blind and could not dispute the authority of Jesus. "There was such a major part of His ministry don't you believe He would have been wise enough to teach us that God makes us sick to teach us?" So why did God make the man blind from birth? "No..I do not believe sickness is the chastening rod of God." Chastening implies sin. No one is saying that all sickness is punishment. Does suffering have purpose, however? What does 1 Peter have to say about suffering? Is it meaningless and unnecessary? --Joe! |
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1788 | Did Jesus go to hell? | 1 Peter | Reformer Joe | 80537 | ||
"I have not dialogued with you before, welcome. Alright, good, so who go to this "real place",where is it,why do they go there, and you mentioned Matt. 25:46, for how long?' Well, what adjective does Jesus use to describe the punishment? --Joe! |
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1789 | Did Jesus go to hell? | 1 Peter | Reformer Joe | 80539 | ||
By the way, you didn't really answer my question. Did Jesus Himself have to say something in order for it to be biblical truth? Thanks! --Joe! |
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1790 | Did Jesus go to hell? | 1 Peter | Reformer Joe | 80747 | ||
"I do believe all scriptural truth can be traced back to His teachings, although in the other letters, there is often much more detail." Then show me where Jesus condemned homosexuality. This is the same argument ("Jesus never mentioned it") that the pro-"gay Christian" people use. The fact is that all Scripture is God-breathed, and if there is significant teaching outside of the gospels on any matter, it doesn't matter if Jesus himself addressed it at length or not. "Since physical healing was a MAJOR emphasis of His ministry, how do you think such a MAJOR exclusion as never telling ANYONE who asked for healing, that it was God's will for them to remain sick for awhile." 1. I don't think it was nearly as major as you seem to think it is. How many of his miracles did not involve healing at all? Compare the number of references to Jesus healing to the number of parables He told. Add in all of the teaching moments, sermons, and so on. While His healing ministry was not tiny, it certainly wasn't a MAJOR focus of why He was here. In fact, I think it is safe to reasonably conclude that His healing of people was more about Himself than it was about their maldies. 2. While Jesus did heal the man born blind, was it God's will that he be blind from birth up until that moment? Didn't Jesus say that Himself? --Joe! |
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1791 | Did Jesus go to hell? | 1 Peter | Reformer Joe | 80748 | ||
'Prayerfull...someone seeking an answer of "sufferings" will realize Paul is speaking of persecutions and hardships due to our association with the person of Jesus the Messiah, and will realize one can't erase 'messenger of Satan' and write 'sickness and desease or affliction' as Paul's thorn.' When one is afflicted by demonic activity, does it not often result in physical ailment? Think of those oppressed by demons in Scripture who were mute or suffered seizures. Could Paul have been suffering physical torment from this messenger of Satan? I don't think anyone was arguing for erasing one thing and inserting another, but rather to suggest that the former could very well have manifested itself as the latter. --Joe! |
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1792 | Did Jesus go to hell? | 1 Peter | Reformer Joe | 80754 | ||
Okay...sorry to complicate things with Scriptural truth! :) --Joe! |
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1793 | Did Jesus go to hell? | 1 Peter | Reformer Joe | 80767 | ||
"My friend...what does homosexuality addressed in both the Old covenant and the New covenant have to do with the subject I was addressing." It has to do with your statement: "I do believe all scriptural truth can be traced back to His teachings, although in the other letters, there is often much more detail." The statements of Jesus, while absolutely true, are not more absolutely true than the other absolutely true statements of the Bible. "Jesus, in the gospels did not address homosexuality at all, however he addressed healing and faith almost/if not every chapter of the gospels." While He certainly did address it, I think you may be exagerrating here regarding just how much He did address it. And, as I have pointed out, we need to look at the whole counsel of God, rather than just a verse here and there which can be understood a number of ways outside of its context. So, it is anything but improper to bring in other Scripture passages (as you yourself have done, despite your protests) in order for us to thoroughly and thoughtfully examine the Scriptural support for a doctrine. --Joe! |
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1794 | Fear God! | 1 Pet 1:17 | Reformer Joe | 35805 | ||
You think that most modern preachers dedicate a fifth of their sermons to the fear of God? I think a better paradigm to study (rather than how much "fear" is preached) is whether we have a balance between law and gospel. God's moral law in Scripture shows us the righteous requirements of an infinitely moral, infinitely holy, infintely powerful Judge. That is sufficient to convict God's people of their sin and helplessness, and also show us as followers of Christ what the goal is of our sanctification. The gospel shows us God's gracious provision to meet for us the righteous demands of His law in the person of Jesus Christ. Everything in Scripture can be preached in terms of law and gospel, and in those two we have the whole picture of the character of God and what our response should be. Therefore, both should be clearly preached in every sermon. --Joe! |
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1795 | Fear God! | 1 Pet 1:17 | Reformer Joe | 35813 | ||
You have a very misinformed view of the preaching of Jonathan Edwards. I know that such a skewed perspective is due to the errors of the writers of the textbooks you read in high school, but the fact is that Jonathan Edwards preached the whole counsel of God like few others have before him or after him. I would suggest that you take some time to read some of his works (starting with the _Religious Affections_) and see how much he uses terms like "sweetness" and "mercy" and "grace." He even wrote a whole treatise on grace. Please do not believe the standard bit on the Puritans. There is a great deal of flat-out wrong information about them, their theology, and their lifestyle. Try reading what they actually wrote, and you will be amazed at their grasp of the grace and goodness of God, as well as the horrific nature of our sin against a holy God. And Edwards was 18th-century, by the way. --Joe! |
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1796 | Fear God! | 1 Pet 1:17 | Reformer Joe | 35823 | ||
I don't think that we are viewed quite as the Puritans are. The general view of the Puritans is the grim, black-wearing, somber "fun police" who lived in fear that "someone, somewhere may be happy" as H.L. Mencken put it. I see modern evangelicals characterized more as hypocrites (often true) or "fuzzy-headed" people that need a "crutch" to make it through the day. We are dastardly people who try to force our religion on other people, to be sure, but we are much wimpier about it than the Puritans were! :) --Joe! |
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1797 | Fear God! | 1 Pet 1:17 | Reformer Joe | 35853 | ||
Which is, of course, what did indeed happen to many of them in their day in England. Imagine being in prison in a "Christian" nation simply for refusing to stop preaching the biblical gospel! We could learn a lot of great lessons from men such as John Owen, John Bunyan, and the like about what it means to put one's hands to the plowshare and never turning back. --Joe! |
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1798 | Fear God! | 1 Pet 1:17 | Reformer Joe | 35887 | ||
And a HUGE reason behind that is we have grown accustomed to the state telling us where our boundaries are as believers. While I do not hold the view that the power of the sword belongs to the church, we too readily accept the notion that religion is a "private matter" and the gospel should only be proclaimed where it is legally permissible to do so without starting controversy. Compare that with the words of the apostles: 'And when they had summoned them, they commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered and said to them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to give heed to you rather than to God, you be the judge; for we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard."' --Acts 4:18-20 Would that we were truly a people who literally could not stop talking about what God in his mercy has revealed to us, no matter how much it ruffles the feathers of the "authorities"! Ed was wondering whether "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" would play well today. I happen to think that the messages of the Puritans would stir the hearts and minds of many people as the Holy Spirit operated through that means to bring them to Christ. It would cause countless controversies, to be sure, but God would certainly do His work through those messages. I have been listening to a tape series on the history of the Reformation, and I am truly astounded at how such a seemingly simple thing as a renewed interest in the words of the Bible sparked such a dramatic change in Western history. I know that you know from personal experience, Hank, what it is like to go to church week after week and never hear the gospel of Christ preached. These often unsuspecting folks sitting under the Reformers were given heavy doses of pure, unadulterated Scriptural exposition, and it transformed entire societies. THAT is the power of God when His Word is publicly proclaimed by His people who know it! Sadly, however, most of American society does not have the opportunity to respond to an Edwards-esque sermon, because there are so few places today in which it can be heard. What has resulted is a lukewarm, fuzzy-headed church which is all-too-susceptible to the spirit of this world and its lusts. --Joe! |
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1799 | Fear God! | 1 Pet 1:17 | Reformer Joe | 35891 | ||
I wholeheartedly agree. Most who read Edwards would also contend that he was one of the finest INTELLECTS produced on American soil. Even many non-Christians recognize this, and are dismayed that such a brilliant man "wasted his talents" on such God-centered pursuits. I am glad to have you aboard the forum! --Joe! |
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1800 | Fear God! | 1 Pet 1:17 | Reformer Joe | 35892 | ||
WAK: I encourage you to take some time to move beyong what was on the GED and immerse yourself in the woderful, God-centered, Scripture exalting writings of Jonathan Edwards. It is like a refreshing drink for the thirsty soul to read the words of a man so consumed with the wonder and majesty of Christ. To start off with, grab a book by John Piper entitled _God's Passion for His Glory._ It contains the entire text of Edwards' essay "The End for Which God Created the World" along with a huge commentary on it by Piper. That would be a great place to begin discovering the riches of Edwards. You won't be sorry that you did! --Joe! |
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