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4421 | any ideas yourself? | 2 Tim 2:15 | DocTrinsograce | 180197 | ||
Dear Timmania, What you are talking about is what is called a "systematic theology." Let me give you a more narrow definition of theology, one that is best suited for our purposes. Theology is everything the Bible has to say about all of the topics that it itself mentions. In this same vein we would define doctrine, then, as everything the Bible has to say regarding a particular topic. One of the best and most easily read systematic theologies I've encountered -- and use all the time -- is by Dr. Wayne Grudem. (Published by Zondervan, ISBN 0-85110-652-8.) It rather appeals to me because it is very nicely organized in an outline fashion. If you email me, I can direct you to some good online resources that might be useful to you. In Him, Doc |
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4422 | Bible Study | 2 Tim 2:15 | DocTrinsograce | 182755 | ||
Dear Cuddle, I write in my Bible, following the old Protestant president dating from the 1600's. I put anything there that might be pertinent the next time I read a text. Including Greek and Hebrew word meanings, other references, or short outlines. I am particularly fond of putting down linked references. For example, if I do a topical study, I write down the fore and aft references. In other words, the reference to the previous passage associated with the study, and references to the following passage associated with the study. The last passage will point forward to the first passage, and vice versa. Consequently, when I find any one of them, I can loop back around to all the rest. I use colors, too, I'm afraid. Since our study of Scripture is an effort to study God, I have highlighted each of the Persons in the Trinity, and their related pronouns. I use green for the Father, yellow for the son, and pink for the Holy Spirit. (I don't know why, but I've been using that color scheme for years!) Consequently, I can quickly pick out passages that speak to the nature of God from His self-revelation. I often use E-Sword, like you! I have it open in a window on my computer at all times. I use a variety of concordances, but most often use Vines and Strongs. I also use a variety of commentaries -- but only to validate that I've not gone astray in my own exegetical efforts. Then I generally use those which have been proven by the church through time. I also generally prefer the more interpretive commentaries, rather than the inspirational or devotional ones. In Him, Doc PS I had a friend who collected old Bibles. It was fascinating seeing one of the old Puritan Bibles. It was the Geneva translation. There were notes in the margins, but they were almost impossible to read! I hadn't realized that cursive writing had changed so much in the last 350 years. But the most awesome one in my friend's collection, was an old Huguenot Bible. They were terribly persecuted by the Roman Church. For some reason (unknown to me) when the soldiers would kill a Huguenot, they would "baptize" the victim's Bible in his blood. I actually got to hold one of those Bibles. It still brings tears at the thought of it. |
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4423 | how you have so much faith | 2 Tim 2:15 | DocTrinsograce | 193417 | ||
Dear mznctl, That's a blessed testimony. Thank you for sharing it! Recently a pair of Muslim men I know asked me why I was always so happy. Without thinking I said, "Because I am in right standing with God!" :-) In Him, Doc |
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4424 | How do I obtain what I'm asking for? | 2 Tim 2:15 | DocTrinsograce | 199971 | ||
Hi, David... How about this: Pray for the things that you already know are God's will! In Him, Doc |
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4425 | freedom of speech on the pulpit | 2 Tim 2:15 | DocTrinsograce | 217134 | ||
Dear Sister Azure, The focus of church in worship is Gospel-centered, God honoring, Christ magnifying, Spirit led. Consequently, we make every effort to magnify the Word. Music prepares the heart so that people whose lives are being changed by the Gospel, led by people whose lives have been changed by the Gospel, may more readily receive the ministry of the Word. Hence, our music must augment our doctrine and be consistent with our doctrine. As believers, our affections are changed from love of the world to delight in the Lord -- does our music diminish the one and magnify the other? As believers, our minds are transformed from carnality to the Word -- does our music diminish the one and magnify the other? As believers, our bodies are not vessels of sensuality, but living sacrifices -- does our music diminish the one and magnify the other? As believers, all things are brought into subjection to the Lord of us all. Therefore, our objective is to creatively seek to design all of our activities to honor and reflect the character of the King. Below are some quotes that I find helpful. In Him, Doc Of worship and worship styles: "[The Master] did not will in outward discipline and ceremonies to prescribe in detail what we ought to do (because He foresaw that this depended on the state of the times, and He did not deem one form suitable for all ages)... Because He has taught nothing specifically, and because these things are not necessary to salvation, and for the up-building of the church ought to be variously accommodated to the customs of each nation and age, it will be fitting (as the advantage of the church will require) to change and abrogate traditional practices and to establish new ones. Indeed, I admit that we ought not to charge into innovation rashly, suddenly, for insufficient cause. But love will best judge what may hurt or edify; and if we let love be our guide, all will be safe." --John Calvin "All worshiping, honoring, or service invented by the brain of man in the religion of God, without His own express commandment, is idolatry. We may not think us so free nor wise, that we may do unto God, and unto His honor, what we think expedient." --John Knox "There are always two parts to true worship. There is seeing God and there is savoring God. You can't separate these. You must see Him to savor Him. And if you don't savor Him when you see Him, you insult Him. In true worship, there is always understanding with the mind and there is always feeling in the heart. Understanding must always be the foundation of feeling, or all we have is baseless emotionalism. But understanding of God that doesn't give rise to feeling for God becomes mere intellectualism and deadness. This is why the Bible continually calls us to think and consider and meditate, on the one hand, and to rejoice and fear and mourn and delight and hope and be glad, on the other hand. Both are essential for worship." --John Piper |
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4426 | SEARCHING FOR THE TRUTH | 2 Tim 2:15 | DocTrinsograce | 243623 | ||
Hi, Robert... People who deny the doctrine of the parousia of Christ do so because of one root problem. Christ cited it when He said of the Sadducees that their error arose from not understanding the Scriptures, and not even the power of God (Matthew 22:29). Although they all share this common root problem, they span a wide spectrum of perspectives. On one hand, there are those who deny the divine origins of the Scripture. On the other hand, there are those who add something of greater authority. Ever since the Word incarnate, we have struggled with people who have a low view of the Bible. Goodness, it started even before that, with Satan's questioning what God had commanded our First Parents. It continued to be problematic for the children of Israel. Our Lord and apostles encountered it. The church down through the centuries have surfaced and dealt with a variety of heresies of the same sort of thing. Today, we see it all over the world. Of course we know from Paul's Roman epistle (chapter 1) that the root cause is not an inability to reason properly, or to accept what is true, or a failure to hear; the cause is a moral one. This is what Paul calls the natural man (1 Corinthians 2:14). Another problem is the god of this world (2 Corinthians 4:4); to say nothing of the world system (Colossians 2:20). I have yet to see anyone denying the Word as having any other causes than these three. If you wanted to you could read up on some of these people who have propounded a denial of the Second Coming... but it probably isn't worth the effort. It is hard enough finding those who teach, preach, walk, and live the Word, depending on its authority alone. So instead, just keep filling your mind with the Word, let it transform you. Ultimately, God will deal with the gadflies of this world. By the way, if you are asking a question of a specific forum member, mark it as a note. Over the years there is a convention to view the questions as being open to everyone to answer. In Him, Doc |
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4427 | are we suppose to fight sin or flee from | 2 Tim 2:22 | DocTrinsograce | 177679 | ||
It would appear from this passage and others like it that some kinds of temptations are powerful enough that the best defense is to run. | ||||||
4428 | Timothy's age | 2 Tim 2:22 | DocTrinsograce | 241341 | ||
Hi, 00123... The designation "agapetos teknon" does not necessarily imply that Timothy was a child (chronologically). As John Calvin states in his commentary on the phrase, "By this designation he not only testifies his love of Timothy, but procures respect and submission to him; because he wishes to be acknowledged in him, as one who may justly be called his son, the reason of the appellation is, that he had begotten him in Christ; for, although this honor belongs to God alone [Father], yet it is also transferred to ministers, whose agency he employs for regenerating us." Although I have assumed that Timothy was younger than Paul (cf Acts 16:1), it always seemed to me that this designation was more a ministerial and affectionate one. Paul used the same phrase in addressing Titus. The pattern of use of father and son in this way was commonly repeated in the early church. It is, perhaps, for this reason that it is retained in the Church of Rome and in Eastern Orthodoxy. In Him, Doc |
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4429 | crowns in heaven | 2 Tim 2:23 | DocTrinsograce | 221230 | ||
More than 1, yet still a finite number. | ||||||
4430 | in verse 26 whose will God's or Satan's | 2 Tim 2:26 | DocTrinsograce | 182995 | ||
Hi, bjandy... Welcome to the forum! The Literal version by Jay P. Green, Sr. translates these verses -- rightly, I think -- as follows: "But a slave of the Lord ought not to quarrel, but to be gentle towards all, apt to teach, forbearing, in meekness teaching those who have opposed, if perhaps God may give them repentance for a full knowledge of the truth, and they having regained senses out of the snare of the devil, being captured by him to do the will of that One." Hence, Paul is speaking of the remedy to Satan's entanglements in order to free the believer to do God's will. Interesting that we run into so many people that raise up things other than doctrine as being most important in the Christian life. That is sad, because they are only "greasing the skids" that lead into Satan's web. The Westminster Confession, using the somewhat antiquated language of its day, addresses these traps of the wicked one: "The two great pillars upon which the kingdom of Satan is erected, and by which it is upheld, are ignorance and error; the first step of our manumission [liberation] from this spiritual thraldom [kingdom] consists in having our eyes opened, and being turned from darkness to light, Acts 26:18. The understanding is the guide and pilot of the whole man, that faculty which sits at the stern [the pilot] of the soul: but as the most expert guide may mistake in the dark, so may the understanding, when it wants [lacks] the light of knowledge: without knowledge the mind cannot be good, Proverbs 19:2; nor the life good, nor the eternal condition safe, Ephesians 4:18." Richard Baxter recommends, right in line with Paul, the divine remedy: "A most sovereign antidote against all kind of errors, is to be grounded and settled in the faith: persons unfixed in the true religion, are very receptive of a false; and they who are nothing in spiritual knowledge, are easily made anything. Clouds without water are driven to and fro with every wind, and ships without ballast liable to the violence of every tempest. But yet the knowledge we especially commend, is not a brain-knowledge, a mere speculation; this may be in the worst of men; but an inward, a savory, an heart knowledge, such as was in that martyr, who, though she could not dispute for Christ, could die for Him." Mark these counsels well, as they are solidly rooted in the teaching of Scripture. In Him, Doc |
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4431 | Who were Jannes and Jambres? Source? | 2 Tim 3:8 | DocTrinsograce | 160863 | ||
Dear Mike, John Gill writes that the "Targum of Jonathan has these words: 'and Pharaoh called the wise men and the magicians; and Janis and Jambres, the magicians of the Egyptians, did so by the enchantments of their divinations.'" I don't believe I've ever looked at that particular targum. In Him, Doc |
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4432 | What is a Reprobate? | 2 Tim 3:8 | DocTrinsograce | 179042 | ||
Hi, Ginger... The term reprobate comes from the Greek word adokimos (Romans 1:28; 2 Timothy 3:8; and Titus 1:16) meaning to be rejected. Scripture makes reference to those who are the elect or chosen of God (Romans 18:7; Romans 8:33; 1 Thessalonians 1:4; Titus 1:1; 1 Peter 2:9; and elsewhere). As a consequence, the term reprobate and elect have become mutually exclusive. (Note that I do not say that Scripture treats them as such. We do not, to my knowledge, have a passage of Scripture that actually gives us the authority to treat them as antonyms. Nevertheless, in theological parlance over the years that has become the practice.) The Canons of Dort speak of reprobation in chapter 1, "Moreover, Holy Scripture most especially highlights this eternal and undeserved grace of our election and brings it out more clearly for us, in that it further bears witness that not all people have been chosen but that some have not been chosen or have been passed by in God's eternal election -- those, that is, concerning whom God, on the basis of His entirely free, most just, irreproachable, and unchangeable good pleasure, made the following decision: to leave them in the common misery into which, by their own fault, they have plunged themselves; not to grant them saving faith and the grace of conversion; but finally to condemn and eternally punish them (having been left in their own ways and under His just judgment), not only for their unbelief but also for all their other sins, in order to display His justice. And this is the decision of reprobation, which does not at all make God the author of sin (a blasphemous thought!) but rather its fearful, irreproachable, just judge and avenger." Some Reformed theologians believe in something called absolute predestination. This is the idea that God explicitly and actively chooses the elect, while explicitly and actively rejecting the reprobates. However, the majority of Reformed theologians view election as an action of God, while reprobation is a consequence of inaction -- a "passing over" if you will. In other words, reprobation is the default position of all mankind, requiring no action of God at all. Note that there are common uses of the word reprobate which are not purely theological in nature. One might say, for example, "How can the world be so reprobate?" Such uses are idiomatic, and are not intended for proper technical use in discussing the theological doctrines of predestination, etc. In Him, Doc |
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4433 | How would you explain these verses.... | 2 Tim 3:12 | DocTrinsograce | 128476 | ||
Ishmael and Isaac represent the two kinds of offspring of Abraham. The first, the natural (fleshly) offspring of Abraham's union with Hagar. The second, the supernatural (spiritual) offspring of Abraham's union with Sarah. In these we have a picture of the two covenants contrasted, representing legalists and true believers. The things of the flesh are always at odds with the things of the spirit (Romans 8:7). Therefore, those of the world will always persecute God's elect. The children of God are a constant reminder to the children of the world that they are accountable to a Creator. | ||||||
4434 | scriptues for the falsely accused? | 2 Tim 3:12 | DocTrinsograce | 225088 | ||
Dear underhiswings, Welcome to the forum! It helps me to remember when people say bad things about me falsely, that if they knew me like God knows me, they could say much worse things about me that would be true! Imagine, though, how our Lord Jesus walked on this earth, being falsely accused, and yet being perfectly righteous! We all have a very skewed sense of justice. We spend a great deal of energy trying to justify ourselves, when in reality, that is up to God. What is that we actually deserve? Another thing that makes it difficult for people is that they do not understand the attributes of God. Without explicitly saying so, they deem His actions unloving, unjust, or unwise. The cure for this, of course, is to learn about Him! "There is no attribute of God more comforting to his children than the doctrine of Divine Sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most severe troubles, they believe that Sovereignty hath ordained their afflictions, that Sovereignty overrules them, and that Sovereignty will sanctify them all. There is nothing for which the children of God ought more earnestly to contend than the dominion of their Master over all creation—the kingship of God over all the works of his own hands -- the throne of God, and his right to sit upon that throne. On the other hand, there is no doctrine more hated by worldlings, no truth of which they have made such a foot-ball, as the great, stupendous, but yet most certain doctrine of the Sovereignty of the infinite Jehovah. Men will allow God to be everywhere except on His throne." --Charles Hadon Spurgeon In Him, Doc |
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4435 | Bible Version for Lutheran | 2 Tim 3:14 | DocTrinsograce | 214323 | ||
Hi, acs555d... This might be of interest to you: http://infocus.cph.org/abs/ In Him, Doc |
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4436 | Mentally incapacitated can be saved? | 2 Tim 3:15 | DocTrinsograce | 165498 | ||
Dear wry, Salvation is not a matter of mental states or psychological ability. It is not something that takes place in the emotions or the will, although it impacts all of these things (Romans 5:5; 1 John 3:21, 24). It is a work (Hebrews 5:9) and gift of God (Ephesians 2:8) whereby at a time of His own choosing (Ephesians 1:10), those that belong to Him (Ephesians 1:4), though dead in sin, are made alive (John 11:25). It is a mysterious work (John 3:8), one whose exact machinations we will never fully understand. (Use the search command for the words "ordo salutis" for those things that are revealed in the Word.) Certainly, under normal circumstances there is a definite -- although not exhaustively quantifiable -- set of truths that a believer must necessarily comprehend in the process of salvation. However, that process is a spiritual one, not a mental one (1 Corinthians 2:14). It seems apparent that this is why some people who are "mentally challenged" can exhibit obvious evidences of regeneration, and why others do not have any clear memory of the salvation experience yet manifest lives of love and obedience to the Lord. God inevitably and certainly saves those who are His own, working when, where, and how He pleases for their benefit and His glory. (see John 3:3, 5, 6, 8) In Him, Doc |
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4437 | should I worry about using NIV over KJV | 2 Tim 3:16 | DocTrinsograce | 126256 | ||
The Word is inerrent in form that it was originally given to men, not in a translation. So the best thing for all of us to do would be to learn Hebrew and Greek! :-) However, translations have been done differently with different assumptions and different objectives. (Note that I'm not talking about paraphrases which aren't in the same league at all!) The KJV is actually a pretty good translation. I really like it. But it takes a little puzzling over because of the vocabulary. I really like the NASV, too. It is a very good word-for-word translation, much more like that of how the KJV translators worked. The NIV is okay, but it tried to convey more of the feel of sentences over their literal translation. I think that was a bit too difficult task, since the feel of a sentence in English would differ between someone from the Bronx and someone from Chattanooga. There's my 2 cents. I hope it helps. |
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4438 | KJV the ONLY authentic Word of God | 2 Tim 3:16 | DocTrinsograce | 129838 | ||
I liked Ed's comments. I remember seeing a cartoon once with a Bible scholar standing before King James. King James had his arms crossed, looking stubborn, as he said, "Nope. No way! If the Latin Vulgate was good enough for grandpa, it is good enough for me!" :-) |
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4439 | old testiment of use today | 2 Tim 3:16 | DocTrinsograce | 132499 | ||
Hi, BSC... welcome to the forum! The theological term for this belief is antinomianism. It is frequently shared by another doctrine that is common today called dispensationalism. You might try looking these words up on the web. There you can find arguments for and against both doctrines. | ||||||
4440 | how do you study the bible | 2 Tim 3:16 | DocTrinsograce | 147495 | ||
Hi, Joche... Here's an excellent and proven method of Bible study: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/6135/index.htm In Him, Doc |
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