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1581 | Explain the "devoted" in Joshua. | Rom 9:16 | Hank | 68238 | ||
Hank reporting to Hanks1: Hello, do you read me? :-) [I assume we aren't really kinfolk!] .... Hanks1, I cited Romans 9:16 as the scriptural reference to my answer because it reminds man that God is sovereign. There are a literal host of questions that begin with "Why does God" or "How does God" do this or do that which are not within our scope as finite creaures to be able to know or give answer to. Romans 9 and Job 38 and following help us see God -- and ourselves -- in proper perspective. --Hank | ||||||
1582 | who change the sabbath.Ex.20:8 | Luke 13:15 | Hank | 68231 | ||
Oliver, rather than adding to the risk of making the forum look like Nick-At-Night reruns, I'll suggest that you go to Search and type in Sabbath. There are many entries in the archieves on this subject and perhaps you will enjoy reading some of them. --Hank | ||||||
1583 | How old was Noah when began building Ark | Gen 7:6 | Hank | 68213 | ||
"Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japeth." [Gen. 5:32].... "Now Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of water came upon the earth." [Gen.7:6] --Hank | ||||||
1584 | he 6:1-6 unforgivable sin? | Exodus | Hank | 67963 | ||
Duplicate question, already answered. | ||||||
1585 | What would He. 6:1-6 be referring | Exodus | Hank | 67960 | ||
Hi, Casey. The Hebrews passage, specifically 6:4-6, is indeed a difficult passage, and many have been the interpretations and misinterpretations of it. The most satisfactory exposition of it that I've ever found, and the one that squares with the rest of Scripture and does not conflict with other scriptural teaching, is the one Charles H. Spurgeon gave in his sermon on this passage of Scripture. You may access it on line by going to www.spurgeon.org. Click on Sermons and find this one listed under Hebrews 6:4-6. Your second question concerns the definition of the blasphemy against the Spirit. Let's be sure to look at the full context of the Matthew and Mark accounts of this sin. Does not the context strongly suggest that this was a very particular kind of sin? -- that it was, in fact, "unpardonable" because it involved attributing to Satan Christ's authenticating miracles. The scene is this: Jesus healed a blind, demon-possessed man [Matt.12:22]. The crowds were amazed [v.23]. The Pharisees countered, "This man casts out demons only by Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons." [v.24]. The Incarnate Christ was led by the Spirit, not by Satan and his minions [Read of the temptation of Jesus in Matt.4:1-11.] For the Pharisees to attribute Jesus' power to Satan instead of God the Holy Spirit constituted the blackest, vilest kind of blasphemy. The Messiah came by the grace of God to atone for the sins of man; He was the only hope for salvation of the Pharisees then and is our only hope now. So how could God forgive the Pharisees when they rejected the works and person of God's only Son by ascribing to the powers of Satan the very acts of Jesus that authenticated that He was indeed their long-expected Messiah. The only way to God is through Christ. So then the Pharisees abandoned their only hope for salvation when they severed a saving relationship with Him by saying He derived His power from Satan and not from God. --Hank | ||||||
1586 | Exodus 15: 1-27 | Exodus | Hank | 67792 | ||
mkia08: Please state your question. --Hank | ||||||
1587 | I THINK ABOUT SEX 24/7 | Phil 4:8 | Hank | 67789 | ||
Bonner, please pardon my error. The quotation in my former post was correct but the reference was not. It's Philippians 4:8, not 2:8, as erroneously cited. --Hank | ||||||
1588 | I THINK ABOUT SEX 24/7 | Phil 4:8 | Hank | 67786 | ||
Bonner: The mind cannot dwell on but one thing at a time. Thus, I would suggest that you copy Philippians 2:8 on several cards and place them in your car, your bathroom mirror, on the refrigerator, on your desk and, above all, write the words indelibly on your heart and allow them to sink deeply into your mind: "Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things." If you are a Christian, pray for deliverance from your obsession. If you are not a Christian, surrender your life to Christ, believe in Him, trust in Him, and confess Him as your Lord and Savior. --Hank | ||||||
1589 | Mercy can only go so far... right? | Eph 5:5 | Hank | 67764 | ||
Maispa: It's more pragmatic than ironic that Bibles are a prime target for thieves: Bibles bound in genuine leather are expensive; moreover, they are popular items making resale by the thief easy. I have several friends who are booksellers and they have told me that expensive Bibles are indeed more vulnerable to theft than almost all other books. But even though stealing a Bible is a sin, so is stealing a paper clip or a Rolls-Royce. The Bible does not name things that one should not steal but says simply, "You shall not steal." [Ex.20:15] But, "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." [1 John 1:9]. There is a wideness in God's mercy which mortal man cannot comprehend. --Hank | ||||||
1590 | Praise the Lord! | Exodus | Hank | 67753 | ||
inmyheart: I too scanned all 39 postings entered by "Sister" and I am not nearly so impressed as you indicate that you are by her postings. Out of all 39 postings that are recorded alongside her user name, none but 4 contain any direct Scriptural references. There were ample sprinklings of "I feel", "I personally think (or believe)" and that sort of thing, but extremely little scriptural evidence offered to substantiate her opinions, musings, and conjectures. May we all be reminded of the stated purpose of this web site, i.e., a BIBLE Study Forum. That does not mean it is to be used as a free-for-all guessing game or opinion poll. --Hank | ||||||
1591 | a human answer to my previous question | Matt 5:12 | Hank | 67683 | ||
Scrkuker: Pastor Glenn has done a fine job in providing you a series of appropriate passages of Scripture. They forum a sort of composite of God's answers, if you will. Besides these, I have nothing to add except to suggest that your friend, if she is being stalked by a male student, address the matter to the proper authorities at the school she's attending. --Hank | ||||||
1592 | who did cain have a child with? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 67489 | ||
finalife: Cain went away from the presence of the Lord, settled in the land of Nod east of Eden, and married a wife who bore him a child, Enoch. [Gen. 4:16,17]. Now you know as much about Cain, his spouse, and their progeny as the rest of us! --Hank | ||||||
1593 | How do NASB translators use shall/will? | Ps 119:48 | Hank | 67094 | ||
Belyn, to answer your question, allow me to cite an example. Some time ago I had a question regarding NASB's language used in Ecclesiastes 12:13, in the phrase "because this applies to every person." This rendering differs somewhat from KJV, NKJV, NIV, ESV, et al. In time a member of the translation team wrote a long and scholarly explanation and e-mailed it to me. [Even so, I still prefer the more traditional rendering, i.e., "for this is the whole duty of man"] I'm sure you will be afforded an audience also for your question about their usages of 'shall' and 'will.' Just send an e-mail inquiry to the Lockman Foundation whose address is given at the bottom of the home page. And, if you will (or is it shall :-), share your enlightenment, when received, with the forum. Best regards. --Hank | ||||||
1594 | I leviathen in Job 41 satan? | Is 27:1 | Hank | 67032 | ||
JA03: Leviathan as used in Job has been variously considered to be speaking of a mythological sea monster, a crocodile or other marine creature. Isaiah gives the word a symbolic meaning in Isaiah 27:1, usually interpreted to mean the enemies of God who will be judged when the Lord returns. To my knowledge, Leviathan is never used in Scripture to refer specifically to Satan. --Hank | ||||||
1595 | offspring of Adam and Eve | Gen 5:4 | Hank | 66952 | ||
The opening chapters of Genesis reveal this: that God created Adam, and from a rib of Adam, formed Eve. He told them to be fruitful and multiply; in other words, have babies. They did. We don't know whether Eve gave birth to three sons (as you assume) or thirty, or even more. Neither do we know how many daughters there were in the first family. We do know that Adam lived to be 930 years old (Gen.5:5), and that he "begat sons and daughters" (Gen.5:4). Proscription of incest came much later in time. Whereas the Bible produces no evidence whatever that God created any human beings but Adam and Eve, and whereas He commanded them to multiply and fill the earth, we therefore have no reason not to draw the inference that the descendents of Adam married one another and produced families. There is not other viable explanation available of how the human race was able to reproduce itself "after its kind." Given the extremely long life span of Adam, it is mathematically possible that there were literally thousands of his descendents walking the earth by the time he died. Your question, by the way, is a variant of "Who was Cain's wife?" -- a question that has been asked on the forum many times and answered in various ways, some of them sensibly and others less so. The fact is, whether we're disposed to accept it or not, that the Bible does not always provide line-and-rule, detailed answers to all our questions. Even if it did, it's unlikely that we are equipped to understand them fully. For example, the Bible in Gen. 1:1 says this: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." The traditional Jewish and Christian belief has always been that this verse declares that God created these heavens and this earth "ex nihilo" -- a Latin term meaning "from nothing." Look in the opening verses of Gensis at how many times the phrase "and God said" is used. God, by His might and power, literally spoke things into being. But are you, am I, is anyone prepared to write a thesis setting forth a clear explanation of just how God was able to do this? Scientists and philosophers in their ignorant bewilderment have postulated all sorts of theories, but none of these has ever been proved nor, for that matter, has made much sense. I like the explanation a little girl gave of the "big bang" theory. Said she, "God spoke and bang! there it was!" ..... I'll close with a final observation about the Genesis account of creation and the beginnings of mankind. I see nothing wrong with pondering on the logistics of how the human race began to reproduce, so long as we don't dwell on that and miss the more important account of the fall of man, the genesis of sin, and the plan of redemption that God in His love established even then, even in the long, long ago. Perhaps I'm not disposed to be intellectually curious enough to delve into the question of Cain's wife with full-blown gusto. But I have been possessed with a bump of curiosity sufficiently large enough to lead me to seek God's answer to what I've long considered man's most important question: How can I restore and maintain a right relationship with God? Another way of saying this is, "How can I be saved?" And the Bible gives us a great deal more information on that than it does about Cain's wife! --Hank | ||||||
1596 | when we go to war with iraq will we end? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 66948 | ||
May mercy be granted to me, an old backwoods Ozark rube! I must be woefully behind in my political geography. When did Israel become Iraq? The Bible does not cite a World War I, II, III, or any such thing; it does not provide a specific calendar of dates or events by which man can mark off the time remaining before Christ's return; and it does not promote foolish speculation upon eschatologic matters. Hence, your question, which is laden with assumption and speculation, is unanswerable from a biblical perspective. --Hank | ||||||
1597 | Where do we go with burdens? | James 1:5 | Hank | 66665 | ||
Justme, your question brings to mind a line from a hymn we used to sing in a little country church long ago when I was a boy: "Take your burden to the Lord and leave it there." In all these years since then, I've never been able to find any better solution than that and doubt I ever will. --Hank | ||||||
1598 | What about...? | Matt 19:5 | Hank | 66430 | ||
Renedaelizabeth: I agree with Tim: marriage needs to be validated by a legal document, the marriage certificate. That document certifies the marriage, is a requirement in order to be recognized by the state as being legally married, and Christians are commanded to be subject to civil authorities [Titus 3:1]. Since you do not specify the conditions under which "it is not possible at the moment to have the legal documents to say they are married," I won't venture any sort of answer to this part of your question, since I have no earthly idea of the circumstances which may lie behind your question. --Hank | ||||||
1599 | Truth or truth? I suggest truth to you. | 1 John 3:19 | Hank | 66428 | ||
Ray, compare John 14:6. "I am the way, the truth, and the life." All three words -- way, truth, and life -- refer to Jesus, of course. They are nouns, but they are not names for Jesus. In English, nouns can be, and in this illustration, are used as modifiers -- functioning more like adjectives than nouns. Neither the NKJV or the NASB capitalizes 'way, truth, and life' in John 14:6; and neither version capitalizes 'truth' in 1 John 3:19. Both capitalize 'He' which is a personal prounoun that refers to Jesus. Both versions, as you know, always capitalize personal prounouns that refer to any member of the Trinity. I believe the translators of both versions were consistent and correct in their approach to capitalization. --Hank | ||||||
1600 | Is baptism a work? | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 66362 | ||
Teacher, please see Ephesians 2:8-10. The Bible says that we are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, not of works. Thus, the question of whether the command to be baptized constitutes a 'work' is moot, because we are not saved by anything else except God's grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. I recognize this is not an exhaustive treatment of the subject by any means and thus invite you to Search the archives of the forum for hosts of posts on this issue. --Hank | ||||||
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