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1621 | Is this just a fable or is there any sub | Ex 28:35 | Hank | 64732 | ||
Hello, Scribe. I cannot fully concur with your observations regarding the answering of repetitive questions. I have some misgiving that ALL repetitive questions should be treated equally. Having been on this forum since near its beginning, I've come to believe that all questions are not created equal: some clearly fall outside the purview of being considered truly "biblical" questions, as for example those seeking counseling on personal problems of the "Dear Abby" genre. There are "questions" that are more in the form of a statement, a soap-box sermon -- slanted, "loaded" or biased -- than honest questions. Some questions are quite frivolous, trivial, or incomprehensible. Then there's that darling duo of questions that crop up with predictable regularity: Cain's wife and dinosaurs. There are any number of purely factual questions that can be answered in only one way, a simple example being "Who was Moses?" The Lockman Foundation asks that answers to questions be researched before asking the same ones over and over, and in that request lies a great deal of wisdom. Let's allow the archives to be utilized by letting the Search function do what it is intended to do. The Bible is a vast storehouse of information and enlightenment, and we have by no means exhausted its resources on this forum. Until we do [and that will be forever], let's explore it deeper and more extensively by moving forward without incessantly repeating ourselves by addressing a few popular questions over and over. --Hank | ||||||
1622 | Who wanted to preach in Spain? | Rom 15:24 | Hank | 64717 | ||
Paul, who wanted to use Rome as a base of operations for extending the Good News of Christ even farther. See Romans 15:24. No finer example than Paul's is given in Scripture of a man who did his all to obey Christ's command to "go therefore and make disciples of all nations...teaching them to observe all that I commanded you" See Mattew 28:19,20 --Hank | ||||||
1623 | who improved the Forum's look? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 64712 | ||
Hello, justme. No doubt Dan Fox and his other master craftsmen at the Lockman Foundation had a hand in giving the forum a face lift. But since "you can't judge a book (or forum?) by it's cover", it's largely up to us, the users, to take pains to assure that the content is as inviting as the home-page "cover." In the year and a half that I've been active on the forum, I've seen a general trend of improvement in both the cover and content, although there have been some dark valleys among the peaks. Even though we still have an occasional user who stirs up a bit of trouble, by and large we have a fine core of users who demonstrate day in and day out that they are cooperative, sincere, and relish the opportunity to share with others in the noble enterprise of group study of the Bible. I personally have learned much during my time on the forum. Good answers of others teach, to be sure. But so do good questions. Good questions cause one to think about ideas and issues that he may have never considered or has taken for granted. Hard research is called for in order to be able to give an accurate and intelligent answer to a good question. And it is through this research, this digging for the Scriptures' golden nuggets, that we learn best of all. It is the questions, however, that are the catalysts to spur us on, and they deserve much credit, for without them who would be motivated to exert so great an effort? --Hank | ||||||
1624 | WHAT DOES HOLY HILL MEANS? | Ps 2:6 | Hank | 64702 | ||
The "holy hill of Psalm 15:1 refers to Zion (Jerusalem). See Psalm 2:6, 2 Samuel 5:6,7. --Hank | ||||||
1625 | most accurate reading of Isaiah 45:11 | Is 45:11 | Hank | 64700 | ||
ava4: Read the verse, Isaiah 45:11 in the NASB; for clearer meaning of the verse, read it in the context of Chapter 45. If, as I suspect, it is the locution "his Maker" that is giving you trouble, the antecedent of "his" is "Isreal," not "the Lord, the Holy One." [Cf. the Amplified rendering, which changes "his Maker" to "its Maker] If you need further exegesis, try a good commentary, printed or on-line, or ask of the forum: no doubt someone here will be able to help you. --Hank | ||||||
1626 | reincarnation and the Bible. | Mark 10:30 | Hank | 64633 | ||
MYR: Concerning the passage in Mark 10:29-31, please permit an illustration of which I have personal knowledge. There is in my local church a couple who years ago felt called to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ to foreign lands. They lived outside of my home town on a large farm which they owned. They came from a large well-to-do family. But they left their house, their farm, their brothers and sisters, their parents for Jesus' sake and the gospel's sake. (compare Jesus statement in verse 29). Last year at our church we celebrated a homecoming event in honor of this selfless couple and lo! literally scores of people from a half dozen foreign countries as well as many parts of the United States came to join in the celebration, and the man and his wife, these missionaries, repeatedly referred to these visitors as their family. They had many hardships together and suffered persecutions, which served to draw them even closer together as the family of God. They had received "a hundred times as much now....brothers and sisters and mothers and children....along with persecutions. And they spoke as regenerate believers of their steadfast hope of eternal life in the age to come. (Compare with verse 30). .... Does this real-life illustration shed light for you on the meaning of this passage? The Bible in no place teaches reincarnation, but it does teach regeneration. The two are not the same. --Hank | ||||||
1627 | who wrote the boobk of job ? | Job | Hank | 64623 | ||
disciple 1: The author of the book of Job is not known for certain. Suggestions include Job himself, Elihu, Moses and Solomon. The events in the narrative may have taken place in a patriarchal age around the time of Abraham. The theme is timeless. Modern man wrestles with the same ages-old question: Why do bad things happen to good people? Job's three friends were essentially in agreement: Sin is at the root of human suffering. That would exclude no one, not even "good" people, for "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." [Romans 3:23]. Although sin is an unpopular word in the society of our time, is not in the lexicon of modern humanism, and some post-modern theologians have changed their minds even about its reality, God has not changed His mind about sin. --Hank | ||||||
1628 | "...these necessary things: ..."??? | Rev 17:5 | Hank | 64564 | ||
"Should Christians remain silent on these? is the question I meant to address in my former post and so my answer, if it makes any sense at all, will likely appear to make a trifle more sense if viewed as a response to that question and not to the one to which it was attached through my error. You do understand that I'm new to this forum? It takes a slow learner considerably more time than a year and a half to find his way around. Perhaps in another 10 years or so I will be able to stumble around without falling on my face so much :-) --Hank | ||||||
1629 | "...these necessary things: ..."??? | Rev 17:5 | Hank | 64562 | ||
Pastor Glenn, warm greetings, and may I butt in? Not that I have all the answers, but your question interests me, and being from Arkansas, when the subject of pigs comes up, I perk up my ears because I'm an avid Razorback fan and don't want the genetic scientists monkeying around with 'them hogs' as we fondly call them! ..... Back to the serious topic addressed by your question. Some questions are easy, some pointless and trivial, while others -- the best kind, the kind Socrates posed -- are designed to make us think. Yours falls in this latter category, for it is indeed an excellent one. The fear of the unknown is common to man, and even Christian believers are not immune to this fear; but believers have access to mighty resources that are denied unbelievers, chief among which are faith in the absolute sovereignty of God and prayer..... Each milestone of change has been accompanied by dire predictions that this or that new invention, discovery, theory or philosophy signaled the beginning of the end of life as we know it. When the automobile was invented there were naysayers who were convinced that the human body would never be able to withstand sustained travel at the reckless speed of 25 miles an hour. When Charles Darwin published his "Origin of Species" the talking heads of that day predicted the death of the Christian faith because the book, so they said, put to the lie the Genesis story of creation. In the wake of the discovery of atomic energy and the manufacture of nuclear weapons came those who saw this event as the prelude to the utter annihiliation of mankind..... But people travel far in excess of 25 miles an hour; Darwin's theory is now viewed as bunkum by vast numbers in the scientific community and it has not wiped out Christianity by any means; and nuclear weaponry, while still posing a serious threat, has not done away with life on this planet..... Genetic engineering, even human cloning, looms ever nearer on the horizon, and I believe it (parts of it at least; I would exclude human cloning) like nuclear energy, has at least an equal potential for good as for evil. While I would never promote the idea that the Christian should take the ostrich approach to human problems, hiding his head in the sand and hoping a weak hope that somehow the problem will either solve itself or go away, neither would I promote the idea that Christians must become activists to the extent of taking matters into their own hands. We must surrender first and foremost to the sovereign Lord. It is He, not we, who is in charge. We can be instruments for change in the world, but we must be His instruments. We must seek His will through much prayer.... We know not what the future holds for us on this earth -- whether cloning or wars, whether plagues of terrorism or pain of persecution, whether sickness or health, whether fortune or famine.... This much we do know: If God is for us, who is against us? Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. Nothing will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord..... Not genetic engineering. Not cloning. Nothing. [Scriptural extracts from Romans 8] --Hank | ||||||
1630 | Theme is Action/What of Fantasy stuff? | Matt 5:28 | Hank | 64479 | ||
Alabaster: Best answer to your question is probably that wet birds seldom fly at night, but I'm not sure, since I understand neither your question nor my answer :-) --Hank | ||||||
1631 | Are we still doing this? | Mal 2:17 | Hank | 64445 | ||
Hello, Mommapbs. Talk was obviously cheap on the Jerusalem Stock Exchange [JSE] in Malachi's time, and it has failed to rally on the New York Stock Exchange [NYSE] in our time :-) The religious cynicism and moral corruption, the sarcastic taunts against God, of which Malachi spoke are no less around still. I think it not entirely unfair to say that we tend to weary the Lord with OUR words as against listening more closely to HIS words. Hmmm...but surely not on THIS forum, eh? :-) --Hank | ||||||
1632 | Loving God with Heart vs Soul | Deut 6:5 | Hank | 64325 | ||
Hello, JJO. The quote in Mark 12:30 (see also Matt. 22:37) is part of the Shema (Heb. 'hear') of Deut. 6:4,5). The idea is to underscore the completeness of the kind of love God expects of His people. The usage of the various terms such as heart, soul, mind, and strength emphasize, stress, and serve to illustrate the extent of complete love and total commitment that God's people are to have for Him. "With singleness of heart" [Acts 2:46], a good King James Bible phrase that describes the manner of life of the post-Pentecost Christians, is no less appropriate to the manner in which we should love God. To use another good Bible phrase, we are not to be "double-minded", lacking wisdom and harboring doubts, "For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord, being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways." [James 1:7,8]. And another, "No one can serve two masters...You cannot serve God and wealth." [Matt.6:24). When Jesus called His disciples, He never offered them a part-time job! --Hank | ||||||
1633 | Verse for encouragement in death | 1 Thess 4:18 | Hank | 64270 | ||
Whether the widows's husband was a Christian would have a great deal of bearing on which scriptural passages would comfort her. In any case, Psalm 23 is one of the most comforting and uplifting passages in the Bible and, for that matter, in all the world's literature. --Hank | ||||||
1634 | Predestination summary | Eph 1:3 | Hank | 64267 | ||
Dear TEALEAD. To "quickly summarize" the issues of predestination and election is like trying to explain the doctrine of the Trinity in 25 words or less! It simply can't be done. What you might try is Search and type in the key words. There are hundreds, and I do mean hundreds, of posts on this topic in the forum archives. Happy hunting :-) --Hank | ||||||
1635 | Confronting forgiveness | James | Hank | 64039 | ||
Dear Statm44: Sometimes in human relationships it is better to let bygones be bygones and dead dogs lie, "forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead" [Philippians 3:13b]. From your account of your associations with your neighbor, that appears to me to be the wiser course. From your account it looks as though you had every right to express to management your displeasure at the behavior of a gossiping tenant. If you, as you say, have forgiven him his trespasses and asked God to forgive you your anger, I see no reason to do anything else with the issue but drop it once and for all, accept with gratitude and grace the friendly overtures that this neighbor is attempting to make toward you, and pray for God's help in enabling you in turn to be a friendly and loving neighbor to him. --Hank | ||||||
1636 | Why don't we have any portraits of Jesus | Is 53:2 | Hank | 64021 | ||
Oh, but we do, kelly_blue, we do have portraits of Jesus! Tell your Sunday School girls that we have four precious gems, all of them fine portraits of our Lord. They are not the kinds of portraits that appeal to the eye but touch the heart. They do not yellow and fade with time. They are perfect, enduring, eternal and will never pass away. The portrait artists are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, but the Artist who guided their brush strokes is God. I have seen the portrait of Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris, I went to college with Pat Boone, and I have seen Frank Sinatra, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson and Gerald Ford in person. But having seen neither a physical likeness of Jesus on a canvas, nor having ever met Him in the flesh, I know Him far better than I know anyone else who lives or who ever has lived on this earth. --Hank | ||||||
1637 | why is worship hard | John 4:23 | Hank | 64019 | ||
This is, of course, a very general kind of question, Kelly Blue, and one that can be answered only in a general, broad-spectrum manner. I do sense, however, that the drift of the question may be that for some persons the environment, e.g., the natural surroundings of a church camp as opposed to the more formal (and man-made) surroundings of a church building, may be more conducive to worship. It brings to mind the awe that my wife and I experienced during our visit some years ago to Yosemite. We felt something of what the psalmist must have felt when he exulted that the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shows His handiwork. Or that we better were able to understand Paul's argument in Romans 1:20: "For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse." Even so, though I cannot deny that "communion with nature" is a refreshing experience and a vivid reminder of the awesome might of our Creator, we exult in, but do not worship, the creation but worship the Creator in spirit and in truth. Worship need not, indeed should not, be fueled by environment but by thankful and contrite hearts attuned in praise and worship of the loving, merciful and holy God. --Hank | ||||||
1638 | How do you know if God is talking to you | Heb 1:2 | Hank | 64009 | ||
Kelly_blue: "All Scripture is inspired by God (literally, 'God-breathed') and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness." [2 Timothy 3:16]. ..... "God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, [i.e. in many parts of Israel's history and in various ways -- through laws, institutions, ceremonies, kings, judges, prophets] in these last days [from the first to the second advent of Christ] has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world." (Hebrews 1:1,2). You know that God is talking to you when you read His word, the Holy Scriptures. The regenerate believer receives the indwelling of the Holy Spirit at the time of regeneration, and it is He, the Holy Spirit, who, as Jesus promised, guides us into all truth, that truth being, as the Bible says (John 17:17), the word of God. --Hank | ||||||
1639 | Was there a world before the earth? | Gen 1:1 | Hank | 64001 | ||
Hello, kelly-blue. The answer is no. Please read Genesis 1:1 --Hank | ||||||
1640 | Why has the word BEGOTTEN been thrown ou | John 3:16 | Hank | 63913 | ||
Hello, Isaac. Here's a note on 'begotten' that you may find to be of help and interest. It is quoted from the translators' "Word Studies" footnote to the Holman Christian Standard Bible: "English translations have traditionally understood monogenes to be from monos (only) and gennao (beget), thus following the Latin Vulgate (unigenitus) and translating the word 'only begotten.' This has caused great misunderstanding since God the Son did not have an origin and was not created by God. He is Himself an eternal being. It is best to understand monogenes to be from monos (only) and genos (kind, Latin genus), meaning the only one of its kind. This view is more consistent with John's five uses of the word, and support for this translation is found in Hebrews 11:17 where Isaac is called Abraham's monogenes. Isaac was not Abraham's only-begotten son (Ishmael was his firstborn and there were other sons through Keturah), but Isaac was the only one of his kind -- the son of promise. In the Old Latin translation, monogenes was translated as unicus, from which we get our word unique. This is what is meant by monogenes in John's writings (John 1:14, 18; 3:16, 18; 1 John 4:9) Jesus is God's only Son in that His essential nature is the same as the Father's. There are many children of God (see John 1:12,13), but there is only one Son of God." --Hank | ||||||
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