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1101 | Why can't I speak in tongues yet ? | Acts | stjohn | 204292 | ||
Dear Tam, Certainly, It would be next to impossible to carry on any meaningful dialog without some form of chat, and in the spirit of friendship, and in small doses, it is of course acceptable, but please note that we do try to keep it "short". Tam, I can assure you my dear that no one intentionally meant to have you stumbling around struggling with this site, (we cant see through the screen), so we simply did not know the extent of your trouble. Again, sorry. When I first got to SBF I did have a little trouble but I soon found my way and had, (though I did note your request) I just figured you would do the same as I did. And I am sorry that you thought we were intentionally ignoring you. Also, when I first got here, I had a similar experience with not liking some of the unsolicited advice, (no-one likes to be corrected) I soon found however, that it was all given in the spirit of Christian love and unity. I have come to find that the people here are loving, kind, and patient; but as you, at first I didn't see it that way. In all fairness though I never accused anyone of slander. Oh my, Really? That's a bit severe! I also received some of what I thought was undue hummer pointed from behind my back, and I must admit I was a little put out by this, but soon learned too, that this was just a little good natured and lighthearted hummer and was certainly never intended to harm, so I got over it. May I ask you to please forgive and do the same? I don't intend to minimize your discomfort at this but just ask that you please give us a break here, though we are Christians, we are still human after all, and unfortunately, not perfect. Now I really don't want to seem like I'm harping on this, but you continue to mention brevity as if it is some sort of sin. Please, just look around at what others are doing with their posts? I know it must be hard for you, we are all different, but we do mostly try to keep it to a paragraph or two, don't worry, your message will get through, people aren't that obtuse: and though there is no rule on this, in the spirit of unity and respect, there has to be some happy medium don't you think? Now of course there are those that seem too brief, and there are those that tend to run long; but I think by asking us not to use brevity our host is meaning not to use just a very few words, and as some of us sometimes do just answer with a yes or no; again even at that sometimes a one word answer is appropriate, even a yep or nope is sometimes ok. ok? Happy medium? Now, you can ignore this part of my post if you please, but please, don't come back with an argument about the hosts wishes for us not using brevity, just look at what others are doing if you desire to go with the flow. Again, I'm Sorry I am harping, I'll drop it now that I've said my peace. And I ask you please to do the same, there is no need to keep this going. Amen? Tam, this place has been and is a real blessing to me, and I hope it is to you too. Sometimes I can hardly believe how much I have learned, especially how to get along and be patient. If you think I'm bad now you should have known the fella that first got here. I don't know why I wasn't drummed right on out of here! :-) But of course it's because the people here are loving and patient Christians. I hope we can burry the hatchet and have a productive cordial relationship in the future. I hope/pray, that you can understand that I NEVER intended to offend you. I know I'm not very graceful at times, but I do try to be. :-) Please forgive me, Tamara; may God bless you as you study and learn with us. Shalom and God bless John |
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1102 | Why can't I speak in tongues yet ? | Acts | stjohn | 204300 | ||
Hey Loinheart, and Cheri: I too was taught that I was supposed to speak in tongues, and they even went so far as to imply, indeed, some were quite insistent that I just start to speak in gibberish and after a wile the Holy spirt would take over for me. Good grief! By the way I read 1cor 12, 13, and 14 at least 50 times! I thought I must be missing something. But alas, it wasn't I that was missing something! Sadly because I still love them and visit from time to time, I soon found a new church. Shalom and God bless John |
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1103 | Why can't I speak in tongues yet ? | Acts | stjohn | 204303 | ||
Encouraging and wise words my Sister, that we can all hang our hat's on, oops! Sorry! :-) And a good show of good old common sense too, by the way! My dear old dad used to say to me more times then I can remember, "Johnny boy, would you PLEASE use your head for something besides a hat rack, and use a little common sense! It took the Holy Spirit to get the message through my thick head though. Bless you my Sister! Mostly I use Shalom in deference too Cheri and Azure. :-) And I think it just sort of means peace, hello and good-by, (doesn't it?) and that's a good thing yes. Shalom and God bless John |
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1104 | Why can't I speak in tongues yet ? | Acts | stjohn | 204309 | ||
Why, did I miss something? Oh no. lol I think it was Dr. Ironside that said, "God don't put the cookies on the top shelf where the kiddies cant reach them!" |
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1105 | Help! Unclean vs clean meat? | Acts | stjohn | 204908 | ||
Dear Steven: You're correct when you say it was now lawful for Peter to associate with Gentiles but, you're mistaken about peter (also known as Cephas) not eating with the Gentiles, or being under the law to not eat with them, and we are quite safe to say that they were not eating Kosher! But when his Jewish friends showed up he pretended to then that he had not been eating with them, and Paul rebuked him for doing this and called him a hypocrite! Paul says in Galatians ch 2 "But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. For prior to the coming of certain men from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he began to withdraw and hold himself aloof, fearing the party of the circumcision. The rest of the Jews joined him in hypocrisy, with the result that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy. But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of all, "If you, being a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, how is it that you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews? "We are Jews by nature and not sinners from among the Gentiles; nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified." Gal 2:11-16 That puts the lavitical law on the shelf does it not! Shalom John |
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1106 | Help! Unclean vs clean meat? | Acts | stjohn | 204913 | ||
Dear Searcher: I believe you're correct, very good point! Scripture does surely show, that It must have been a tradition, added by men. Shalom John |
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1107 | Help! Unclean vs clean meat? | Acts | stjohn | 204932 | ||
Hey Jim; No offense Jim, but do we really need to speak disparagingly of, and single out Mothers in law? I know many that are lovley children of God, and would be the last to try to encouradge anyone, to go back under the law. 1 Pet 3:10 | ||||||
1108 | Help! Unclean vs clean meat? | Acts | stjohn | 205565 | ||
....and the people said, amen. | ||||||
1109 | Help! Unclean vs clean meat? | Acts | stjohn | 205777 | ||
Hi Jim: You wrote: I hold to the hermeneutic that later scripture can not contradict earlier scripture (of course, no Scripture can contradict any other). So if Paul is going to argue that the everlasting covenant that God made with Israel would be cancelled, he needs to go back to the books of Moses for proof. We see him doing this a lot to root his arguments in the Scriptures. Well, Sir, I agree with the first, but to the latter, I don't believe that that is his argument at all. He doesn't say it was canceled, (Dose he?) but that it was just not fulfilled yet. I think maybe that answer is in Rev...? My two cents, God bless John |
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1110 | Help! Unclean vs clean meat? | Acts | stjohn | 205778 | ||
oops! Sorry MJH I called you Jim, I sure wish I'd quit doing that! | ||||||
1111 | Help! Unclean vs clean meat? | Acts | stjohn | 205780 | ||
Hi MJH: aah, I see where my confusion is, thank you. This calling each other (Jim) by the way, has just got to stop, it getting monotonous! :-) God bless John |
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1112 | I see alot of people are using the title | Acts | stjohn | 216204 | ||
grafted in, here's some info that I hope will increase your understanding of the office of Apostle. And certainly we can rule out Acts 1:21-22 as leaving Paul "out of the loop" By his own testimony and the fact that he met our Lord in person and was instructed by Him personally. Paul in fact calls himself an Apostle on many occasions. Rom 1:1, 1 Cor 1:1, 2 Cor 1:1, Gal 1:1, Eph 1:1, Col 1:1, 1 Tim 1:1, 2 Tim 1:1, Titus 1:1. Shalom John "(one sent forth), in the New Testament originally the official name of those twelve of the disciples whom Jesus chose to send forth first to preach the gospel and to be with him during the course of his ministry on earth. The word also appears to have been used in a non-official sense to designate a much wider circle of Christian messengers and teachers See (2 Corinthians 8:23; Philemon 2:25) It is only of those who were officially designated apostles that we treat in the article. Their names are given in (Matthew 10:2-4) and Christ's charge to them in the rest of the chapter. Their office. -- (1) The original qualification of an apostle, as stated by St. Peter on the occasion of electing a successor to the traitor Judas, was that he should have been personally acquainted with the whole ministerial course of our Lord from his baptism by John till the day when he was taken up into heaven. (2) They were chosen by Christ himself (3) They had the power of working miracles. (4) They were inspired. (John 16:13) (5) Their world seems to have been pre-eminently that of founding the churches and upholding them by supernatural power specially bestowed for that purpose. (6) The office ceased, a matter of course, with its first holders-all continuation of it, from the very condition of its existence (cf. (1 Corinthians 9:1)), being impossible. Early history and training .--The apostles were from the lower ranks of life, simple and uneducated; some of them were related to Jesus according to the flesh; some had previously been disciples of John the Baptist. Our Lord chose them early in his public career They seem to have been all on an equality, both during and after the ministry of Christ on earth. Early in our Lord's ministry he sent them out two and two to preach repentance and to perform miracles in his name Matt 10; Luke 9. They accompanied him in his journey, saw his wonderful works, heard his discourses addressed to the people, and made inquiries of him on religious matters. They recognized him as the Christ of God, (Matthew 16:16; Luke 9:20) and described to him supernatural power (Luke 9:54) but in the recognition of the spiritual teaching and mission of Christ they made very low progress, held back as they were by weakness of apprehension and by national prejudices. Even at the removal of our Lord from the earth they were yet weak in their knowledge, (Luke 24:21; John 16:12) though he had for so long been carefully preparing and instructing them. On the feast of Pentecost, ten days after our Lord's ascension, the Holy Spirit came down on the assembled church, Acts 2; and from that time the apostles became altogether different men, giving witness with power of the life and death and resurrection of Jesus, as he had declared they should. (Luke 24:48; Acts 1:8,22; 2:32; 3:15; 5:32; 13:31) Later labors and history. --First of all the mother-church at Jerusalem grew up under their hands, Acts 3-7, and their superior dignity and power were universally acknowledged by the rulers and the people. (Acts 5:12) ff. Their first mission out of Jerusalem was to Samaria (Acts 8:5-25) where the Lord himself had, during his ministry, sown the seed of the gospel. Here ends the first period of the apostles? agency, during which its centre is Jerusalem and the prominent figure is that of St. Peter. The centre of the second period of the apostolic agency is Antioch, where a church soon was built up, consisting of Jews and Gentiles; and the central figure of this and of the subsequent period is St. Paul. The third apostolic period is marked by the almost entire disappearance of the twelve from the sacred narrative and the exclusive agency of St. Paul, the great apostle of the Gentiles. Of the missionary work of the rest of the twelve we know absolutely nothing from the sacred narrative." Smith's Bible Dictionary |
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1113 | I see alot of people are using the title | Acts | stjohn | 216212 | ||
I'm cognizant of what you said, grafted... I was simply pointing out that it wouldn't put him out of the loop. :-) We cannot take one verse out of context to mean something that is made clear in another part of Scripture. And also just adding some information to admonish and perhaps edify all who may be reading along. My concern, grafted in, is that there are far too many that call themselves apostles today that, are little more then harbingers of heretical teaching. John |
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1114 | I see alot of people are using the title | Acts | stjohn | 216213 | ||
The Apostle Paul says himself in Gal 1:11-12 "For I would have you know, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ." He (Paul) makes it clear that he did not learn it from any man nor any of the other apostles. He goes on to say in vv 15-19 "But when God, who had set me apart even from my mother's womb and called me through His grace, was pleased to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went away to Arabia, and returned once more to Damascus. Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem to become acquainted with Cephas, and stayed with him fifteen days. But I did not see any other of the apostles except James, the Lord's brother." Paul shows that there was no way he could have learned it from any other then Christ Himself, as his only opportunity to meat with any of the others was not until three years after his conversion on the road to Damascus, yet he was able to preach it with power ant truth and, also, in showing he was given power from Christ to preform signs and wonders. This was Paul's own contention that, he was a true apostle of Christ, having been personally witnessed to by Him, and none other. John |
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1115 | Jesus asking for forgiveness | Acts | stjohn | 221509 | ||
Pastor Beja, I must say that was an excellent post. Very well done, sir. If I haven't said so already, or even if I've already said so, It's good to have you on the forum. John |
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1116 | How Judas Iscariot died? | Acts 1:18 | stjohn | 185917 | ||
Hello cheri! Not to worry! If you want to talk go for it, if it will help you to understand something. Thats what we are ALL here for is to talk about our God, and His wonderful Word! God bless. John |
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1117 | How Judas Iscariot died? | Acts 1:18 | stjohn | 185942 | ||
Dear Cheri, I would just like to say welcome to the forum! And, I think you add a beautifully innocent honesty to this place! Thank you! Bless you my dear sister! Peace, John |
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1118 | Who should baptize? | Acts 2:41 | stjohn | 218193 | ||
Hello, Andrew, A warm welcome to the forum! My dad wanted to name me Andrew, my mom, didn't. Guess who won. :-) You say that the Bible clearly teaches immersion only and, many, I know believe this. My Church practices this, and I find it to be the tradition pretty much wherever I go in this corner of the world -we have lots and lots of water here- besides I haven't ever been one to quibble over which is the proper way to baptize. (Just wondering.... What would an Eskimo do in winter? Or a desert nomad?) I've always thought -from reading Scripture)- it was an outward symbol of an inward change, i.e. when we believe, we are immersed in the Spirit -baptized in and of the Holy Spirit, that, being true baptism. Can you please show me the scriptures that 'clearly teach' immersion only. John |
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1119 | Who should baptize? | Acts 2:41 | stjohn | 218208 | ||
Hi Searcher, Yes, I would tend to agree with you, and have really always seen it pretty much in that way, though I've never quibbled with the believers I've been attached to. It doesn't do any good to argue about it when we are with those who feel very strongly about something that doesn't adversely effect our salvation or sanctification. I wasn't around any believers for quite some time and obviously not a member of a Church when I first believed and was saved. I did read the Bible several times though, and felt no strong compulsion to be baptized. But, as soon as I joined a Church I wanted to be baptized right away. That says something I think, about it (i.e. water baptism) being an outward sign. I was baptized (dunked!) in the river by the way, it was very cold! :-) John |
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1120 | Who should baptize? | Acts 2:41 | stjohn | 218211 | ||
Dear Searcher, So what is your issue? I'm not clear about what you are saying. Should there be a delay to see if they are saved, or not? And who, pray tell is it that, determines whether someone is saved? The eunuch was baptized right away, so were the 3000. John |
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