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281 | who is the number twelve person in 1 Cor | Acts 1:21 | Rowdy | 119891 | ||
Remember this Book was written by Luke who "interviewed" the Apostles and other key folks and of course was guided by the Holy Spirit. So his perspective was from a historical viewpoint; that is, he wrote long after it happened. Hope this helps and God bless. --Rowdy |
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282 | Learning about Pastor! | NT general Archive 1 | Rowdy | 119854 | ||
Just in case you're interested, I too must join Hank and ask that you post to the Forum, learning to master the difference between the upper case and the lower case. It's very difficult to even read your statement so I won't be responding to your actual message. I would assume almost everyone on the Forum would prefer your following at least that much of the protocals around here. Regardless, God bless. --Rowdy |
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283 | Are we free from KEEPING the Law? | Ex 20:8 | Rowdy | 119747 | ||
So let me see if I understand you. Heb 9-10 has done away with the practice of blood sacrifices but you reject what the rest of Hebrews says about the superiority of the NT over the OT. Also how do you deal with Paul's admonition to the Galatians Gal 5:16 So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. 17For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want. 18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law. Why would you treat these two groups of instructions so differently especially since they were almost certainly written by the same human author and inspired by God? Please explain. In my professional world, I deal with contracts and contract law. When we issue a contract with an ambiguous set of clauses, the contractor can take advantage of the buyer by focusing on that ambiguity and interpret whichever way he can get away with and guess what. The courts will support that position. Why? Because the issuer of the contract was obligated to make certain the clauses are NOT ambiguous but when they conflict with one another, the issuer takes it on the chin. Surely, you don't think our God would author such an ambiguous position as the one I've described on previous posts with reference to marriage and divorce, forgiveness for enemies and lust for a woman out of marriage, our primary day of worship. To me these differences must be reconciled; one set of laws must submit to the other. Please respond with your position on these points. I really appreciate your perseverance and God bless. --Rowdy |
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284 | Deuteronomy 29: 23 | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 119717 | ||
In addition to CDBJ's good words and thorough analysis, I thought I'd throw in this tidbit, as a little more enlightenment as to why. Deut 6:5 "You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 "These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. 7 "You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. 8 "You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. 9 "You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. Good words for us as modern children of God to follow in this day and time. God bless. --Rowdy |
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285 | Are we free from KEEPING the Law? | Ex 20:8 | Rowdy | 119716 | ||
Where's your scripture supporting your statement? Where is the scripture telling us which portion of the OT to follow and which to not follow? Do you have any direct responses to the main points of my post? Do you have any scriptures that speak directly and countering the scriptures I used in that same post? God bless. --Rowdy |
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286 | Are we free from KEEPING the Law? | Ex 20:8 | Rowdy | 119644 | ||
You keep on criticizing my "style" and the quality of my posts to this Forum but I have yet to see yours as being any better. As I've mentioned, I keep supporting my statements with scriptures and you keep dodging the points contained therein. Will you please respond to my posts with specific statements directed to my points with scriptures that specifically contradict the scriptures I've cited? If you'll do so, I'll try my best to respond in kind. Since you brought up the 10 Commandments, that would be a good start. How can you possibly defend them in light of my points about the Sabbath, forgiving one's enemies and lusting for a woman out of marriage? The Sabbath is NOT endorsed by the NT but instead the first day of the week. The latter two points are commanded in the NT but not found in the OT. Please reconcile this for me with scriptures of course. God bless. --Rowdy |
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287 | Are we free from KEEPING the Law? | Ex 20:8 | Rowdy | 119612 | ||
I'd like to refer you to post no 119610. Is it possible we can agree to that understanding as stated between Kalos and myself? Is that the position you're advocating? Please let me know as I'd like to get this kind of discussion behind us and move on to something more productive. God bless. --Rowdy | ||||||
288 | Are we free from KEEPING the Law? | Ex 20:8 | Rowdy | 119611 | ||
I'd like to refer you to post no 119610. Is it possible we can agree to that understanding as stated between Kalos and myself? Is that the position you're advocating? Please let me know as I'd like to get this kind of discussion behind us and move on to something more productive. God bless. --Rowdy | ||||||
289 | Are we free from KEEPING the Law? | Ex 20:8 | Rowdy | 119610 | ||
I just read your post for the first time and I'd like to think I can agree with just a note of caution. That is the few places where the OT and NT show a contrast, as is the case with marriage and divorce, then I and all other christians should side with the NT. Yes, as I've stated before the best portions of the OT are indeed repeated by Jesus and His Apostles whenever they show support or endorsement of NT precepts and new relationships but most of the time, the NT goes far beyond like forgiving our enemies instead of being allowed to hate them. Another the sin of lust in our hearts (our minds) for a woman outside the marriage relationship compared to the OT command of abstaining from adultery. The most powerful contrast is between the Perfect High Priest in the NT compared to the Levitical Priesthood in the OT. In so many ways, the NT is far superior, again as cited in the Book of Hebrews. So as long as we're agreed on this basic setup, the OT is the perfect document to study and understand the NT. I really am hoping we can agree on these terms as I have so many posts on this Forum indicating a rather deep gulf between me and those that love the OT. My preference is for the NT as stated in my profile. God bless. --Rowdy |
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290 | Are we free from KEEPING the Law? | Ex 20:8 | Rowdy | 119577 | ||
Colin, have you ever read the Books of Romans or James; from which the following exerpts are provided: Rom 6:1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? 2 May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; 7 for he who has died is freed from sin. 8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. James 1:25 But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does. James 2:12 So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty. So you see this Law of Liberty, we call Christianity is far, far superior to the OT as cited throughout the Book of Hebrews. But we do benefit from study of the OT and compare it to the NT. Thus we learn why the Scribes and Pharisees were the way they were and why our Lord Jesus was so harsh with them. They had all this history with God and the Law of Moses to educate them but the Jewish leadership never seemed to learn much depth at all. They had developed an extensive road system and a good system of education. They had a perfectly good high functioning economy and a political system to rival that of the Roman Government. But they were amazingly shallow in thinking about God and His World of the Spiritual Realm. So "Yes" to your question. I have read the whole OT; I'll admit it's been several years and I need to re-read it, especially the latter half as you've suggested. But I must admit this is the second time someone has asked me that question. Would you mind explaining why you seem to think I'm missing out on something? To me it seems you and several others of you are missing my point of this post and others I lodged on this topic. The most difficult aspect of this topic I'm dealing with is the extreme amount of avoidance from you folks on the points I make with my posts. I support these points with scriptures that clearly state the superiority of Christianity over the OT. Christ most emphatically DIDN'T destroy the Law of Moses, He took It with Him to cross and crucified It along with Himself. That's one reason He said "It's finished" as He fulfilled the Law. He was the single human being in all of God's Creation that could possibly meet the qualification and be that Perfect Sacrifice. When something is fulfilled, it is completed, it's done and is put away on a shelf as a relic, available for study but it's no longer to be looked at for authoritative guidance. That's why we have the NT. So, will you respond to my post, point by point and address the specific scriptures I've provided? Please do but if you need a little more time, I can understand. Regardless of your choice to respond or not, I'll pray God's blessings on you and yours. --Rowdy |
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291 | What benefit does Paul afford the Jews? | Rom 3:1 | Rowdy | 119541 | ||
I'd like to add the following: 1 John 5:6 This is the One who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. and Rom 6:3Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. 5If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection. 6For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with,[1] that we should no longer be slaves to sin-- 7because anyone who has died has been freed from sin. 8Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. 10The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. You see, God puts us in contact with Jesus' life giving blood through our faith in Him and through our humble submission to His terms and conditions. That's why baptism is so important, that's where we contact Jesus blood. Baptism is such a humbling act indicating our acceptance of God's commands to qualify ourselves as His children and receive the gift of the Holy Spirit: forgiveness for our sins in accordance with Acts 2:38. Hope this helps and God bless. --Rowdy |
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292 | spending and saving money | Matthew | Rowdy | 119536 | ||
Another good scripture on the subject from Paul 1 Tim 6:6 But godliness actually is a means of great gain when accompanied by contentment. 7 For we have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either. 8 If we have food and covering, with these we shall be content. 9 But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. 11 But flee from these things, you man of God, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance and gentleness. Notice money is a root but not the only root. So it's a matter of attitude toward God. Instead of worry about the physical things of this world, Jesus tells us in Matt 6:31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Hope this helps and God bless. --Rowdy |
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293 | why isn't the fourth commandment kept? | Ex 20:8 | Rowdy | 119530 | ||
And another Heb 10:23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; 24 and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, 25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near. I realize that Paul (assumed author) doesn't here cite in this book the preference for the first day of the week for christians as the day of worship but the Apostles do so in numerous other books in Acts 20 and in 1 Cor 16:1 Now about the collection for God's people: Do what I told the Galatian churches to do. 2On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will have to be made. Notice here, he even tells the Corinthians that he has provided the same instructions about the day of worship to Galatia. Sounds like a universal endorsement from the Holy Spirit if you ask me. The most important point about all this is the fact that the Law of Moses with its mention of the Sabbath has been done away with its being nailed to the cross with Jesus. God bless. --Rowdy |
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294 | What was James then referring to? | Rom 4:1 | Rowdy | 119517 | ||
I have to agree with Tim. Nicely done. Yes, indeed it is like a marriage of two into one. God's Grace in man can only produce works of faith to prove that faith and Grace actually exists in the man. Otherwise how could we hope our Father will be able to distinguish us as His children from the rest of world? God bless. --Rowdy |
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295 | God's punishment | Deut 1:1 | Rowdy | 119516 | ||
I can only guess you're referring to the punishment God issued in response to the Israelite nation in refusing to place their faith in their God and conquer the land of Cannan, as promised to them through Abraham. Their sentence was spend 40 years in the desert wandering until every one of them died except for the two spies, Joshua, Caleb and Moses. Those two spies were the only ones who brought back a report saying they COULD and SHOULD take the land in contrast to their fellow spies earlier in Exodus. It's interesting that God didn't destroy outright but He allowed them to destroy themselves and waste their lives in the desert as cited in Num 14:29 In this desert your bodies will fall-every one of you twenty years old or more who was counted in the census and who has grumbled against me. 30 Not one of you will enter the land I swore with uplifted hand to make your home, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun. 31 As for your children that you said would be taken as plunder, I will bring them in to enjoy the land you have rejected. 32 But you-your bodies will fall in this desert. 33 Your children will be shepherds here for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the desert. And the amazing part is that they lost their faith after seeing all the wonderful displays of power in escaping Egypt and crossing the Red Sea. But don't be too hard on them. We're just just as faithless as a world. At one time, the whole world knew about christianity and we had to mess it up. When man takes his focus off Jesus as being head and instead placed his confidence in the supreme ruler of the Catholic organization, that's where we first messed up. Then we began to believe the "Divine Right of Kings" and bestowed that power in our national rulers. Now look at our current generation and how we've messed up this wonderful country we live in. Across the world, we used to be known as a christian nation. No more, now christians overseas are considering the sending of missionaries to America to convert Americans to christians. I know...I've heard 'em discuss it. We as a nation ought to be ashamed. To what particular aspect of God's punishment are you referring? Maybe I've missed it entirely. Please share a few more details of your thinking. You haven't given us very much. God bless. --Rowdy |
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296 | Who Is Our Mutual Enemy? | Mark 13:7 | Rowdy | 119509 | ||
Your point is well taken as you did a superp job of supporting it with several good scriptures. I'll have to think about this tough topic for a while. "See ya" at that time. God bless. --Rowdy | ||||||
297 | Violent Correction | Neh 13:25 | Rowdy | 119507 | ||
In answer to your question about Why the Block? I don't know in this case. I can only guess that one or more of us (it could be me) has touched briefly on a subject the "Forum Protectors" feel is controversial or denominational and thus damaging to the image of the Forum. I'm afraid I have to admit quite a few of the threads I like to participate on are done that way. In my opinion, if we're not to try to correct misunderstandings or false teaching as it relates to the Bible, then why have the Forum in the first place? But then again, it is very important that we all maintain an open mind AND an open heart to all of God's Word. It's also very important that we should be polite and courteous to one another. That's sometimes difficult to do with stubborn knuncle-heads like me. I do hope I didn't cause your thread to be blocked. God bless. --Rowdy PS: I really should extend my apology to CDBJ as well. |
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298 | Who Is Our Mutual Enemy? | Mark 13:7 | Rowdy | 119503 | ||
Just remember dear Colin, we're commanded to love the sinner but hate the sin, both his and ours. Tough to do, you bet it is. Especially when their manner of speech and everything about them exudes evil or some variation. But that's our mission. God bless. --Rowdy |
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299 | Hungering and thirsting f/righteousness? | Matt 9:38 | Rowdy | 119501 | ||
Thanks for your note. It's just tough to take sometimes. Being patient with folks is a full-time job. God bless you, dear friend. --Rowdy | ||||||
300 | Are we free from KEEPING the Law? | Ex 20:8 | Rowdy | 119479 | ||
I can only cite the following Col 2:13 When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, 14having canceled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross. 15And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross. Here we see Paul very clearly and emphatically tells the whole world that the Law of Moses was nailed to the cross and is therefore dead. Of course it is available for study and reference as Jesus did throughout His ministry when the Law of Moses was alive and in full power. But now with the Law of Moses being dead and notice it did NOT get resurrected with Christ. Instead Christ has been granted all authority for this dispensation as cited in Matt 28 and endorsed in Mark 9:2 After six days Jesus took Peter, James and John with him and led them up a high mountain, where they were all alone. There he was transfigured before them. 3His clothes became dazzling white, whiter than anyone in the world could bleach them. 4And there appeared before them Elijah and Moses, who were talking with Jesus. 5Peter said to Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters--one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah." 6(He did not know what to say, they were so frightened.) 7Then a cloud appeared and enveloped them, and a voice came from the cloud: "This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him!" Here, you might notice or be reminded that God told the disciples (and the whole world) to listen to Jesus with the blessing of both Moses and Elijah, thus we are to obey Jesus exclusively. God didn't say "Listen to them" but "Listen to Him!" Yes, indeed the OT is available for study, and explanation of NT concepts but because the OT (Law of Moses) was inferior as shown throughout the Book of Hebrews, we need to graduate to the NT and understand it is a better covenant with better promises and the Perfect High Priest. Also, we cannot observe any authority in the OT or a portion thereof because of Paul's teaching in Gal 5:16 So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. 17For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want. 18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law. I don't really see how God could be much more clear on this subject. God bless. --Rowdy |
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