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2061 | How could the Bible be true? | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 19917 | ||
John MacArthur collates the differences and comments as follows: "All four gospel writers mentioned the inscription, but each reported a slightly different variation. Both Luke and John said that the inscription was written in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, so the varying reports in the gospels may simply reflect variant ways the inscription was translated on the placard itself. It is even more likely that all four evangelists simply reported the substance of the inscription elliptically, with each one omitting the different parts of the full inscription. All four concurred with Mark that the inscription said THE KING OF THE JEWS. Luke added THIS IS at the beginning and Matthew started with THIS IS JESUS. John's version began JESUS OF NAZARETH. Putting them all together, the full inscription would read THIS IS JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS." ..... At all events, in substance and meaning, the four gospels are in harmony and free of contradiction. --Hank | ||||||
2062 | The GAP theory could be true. | Gen 1:2 | Hank | 19909 | ||
The folks at the Institute for Creation Research, among other groups, have compiled a set of arguments that are at least as equally persuasive that the Gap Theory is full of gaps. (icr.org). What continues to amaze me is what a fuss the gap theorists make of the translation of a single word of Scripture, the Hebrew hayetah of Genesis 1:2, which they insist on translating became instead of was. I can think of no other portion in all of Scripture in which so elaborate a theory has been founded on so weak a premise. --Hank | ||||||
2063 | Does God hear all of our prayers? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 19875 | ||
In the sense that God is all-knowing, the answer would have to be "yes" -- he hears them. In the sense that God always answers prayer in the manner we wish, the answer is "no". But prayers are denied (in a sense, they are not heard) to, for example, those who ask amiss (James 4:3); who regard iniquity in their heart (Ps.66:18); who live in sin (John 9:31); who are idolators (Ezek.8:15-18); who are hypocrites (Job 27:8-9). It becomes apparent that the prerequisite to an effective prayer life is maintaining a right relationship with God. Even so, when God hears our prayers, His answer may be something quite different from what we pray for or expect. One of the singular blessings of my prayers is that some of them were't answered in the affirmative. Looking backward I have been able to see why they weren't. God knows more about what is good for Hank than Hank ever did or ever will! --Hank | ||||||
2064 | Are Christians under the Mosaic law? | John 1:17 | Hank | 19855 | ||
Bill, I believe the Scripture references you cited, among others, answer the question definitively and answer it no. --Hank | ||||||
2065 | /////////// | Exodus | Hank | 19799 | ||
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2066 | Is sex between singles a sin? | 1 Corinthians | Hank | 18873 | ||
JMR, I've read the thread of responses to your question regarding the issue of pre-marital sex. One of them said, in effect, that when two people come together, in the eyes of the Father, they are married. I don't believe this position can be supported by Scripture. All the other posts appear to mirror the view of Scripture. God made sex a part of His creation process and ordained marriage between a man and a woman as the only union in which He sanctions the use of it. My wife and I have been married for 42 years. The proper use of sex has given us joy, not only in enabling us to become parents to three wonderful children, but enabling us to express our love and commitment to each other. This is in accord with God's plan. On the other hand, the misuse and abuse of sex outside of the union of marriage has brought misery and remorse to countless numbers of men and women down through the ages and continues still. Believe me, the decision to wait until marriage to engage in the ultimate physical intimacy is well worth the effort of self-control, and the price one pays to remain chaste until marriage is small indeed in comparison to the heavy price so many pay as a consequence of yielding to the temptation of sex outside of marriage. It is always folly to misuse what God has given us, for in so doing we turn what He meant for our blessing into a curse. --Hank | ||||||
2067 | CHURCH OF SARDIS | Revelation | Hank | 18871 | ||
UNORWOOD, what's your question, please? --Hank | ||||||
2068 | who was cains wife and where did she com | Genesis | Hank | 18870 | ||
Please use Search. --Hank | ||||||
2069 | How can i keep my faith running on high? | Rom 10:17 | Hank | 18627 | ||
Kent, I think we Christians are prone to complain of symptoms of a wavering faith when what ails us is not really that at all, but rather a spiritual anorexia that follows in the wake of our disinclination to feed ourselves properly upon the word of God. As the body without sufficient food atropies so does the spirit. We lose our spiritual tone, we flag in our zeal, we become spiritually weak and undernourished. The word of God is our spiritual food. The Holy Spirit is the agent that enables us to digest it.Prayer rounds out the spiritual menu. If we keep on guard to see to it that we are spiritually well-nourished every day of our lives, the matter of keeping our faith strong will take care of itself. Whether it is weakness of body or weakness of faith that plagues us, in looking to the cause we are likely find the cure. --Hank | ||||||
2070 | Why NASB over KJV? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 18523 | ||
How does one answer the arguments for KJV only? My answer, while subjective perhaps, is frankly that I don't feel compelled to answer them at all. When a position is based on such an ungrounded and biased argument as they advance, it's quite useless to engage them in debate. I simply go my way and let them go theirs. --Hank | ||||||
2071 | Can we agree? | Hebrews | Hank | 17459 | ||
Kelkat: Your statement reads: "God desires for us to be properous so that we are able be used for His purpose." Does Scripture teach this principle? Did the lives of Paul and the other Apostles illustrate it?Was Jesus' earthly life a paradigm of physical prosperity? Where did you learn about it? --Hank | ||||||
2072 | Possible Lockman Forum Improvement #1? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 18014 | ||
Dear Sir Pent: Probably not a really workable solution, but thanks for trying. For practical reasons already enumerated, the status quo may prevail for a while yet. Let's look on the bright side, though. If a post is a good one -- they DO exist :-) -- it wouldn't hurt to have it duplicated in case we don't get it all the first time. If we THINK it is a bad post -- oh, they exist too -- a duplicate reading will either convince us that now we KNOW it's bad, or possibly lead us to change our minds about it. As my great-grandfather Papa George used to say, "If you're dealt a lemon, it's better to make a lemonade with it than to turn sour about it." --Hank | ||||||
2073 | was Gods intention to eat forbid. fruit | Gen 2:9 | Hank | 17636 | ||
Cherrie, God's prohibition was restricted to the eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. (Gen.2:17) The eating of the fruit itself would not, and did not, bring sudden physical death to Adam and Eve. The fruit of the tree was not poison in the sense that hemlock is. The record indicates that they lived many years after they ate the forbidden fruit; they were themselves fruitful and multiplied. The warning of death concerns man's spiritual death and, ultimately, his physical death (Chapter 5). It was not the fruit itself, but their disobedience to God which prompted their taking of the fruit, which would reap for Adam and Eve the harvest of death. --Hank | ||||||
2074 | how would you characterize davids mental | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 17567 | ||
Cher, since no one else yet has attempted to grapple with your question, I'll rush in where my angelic forum friends may have feared to tread :-). Their reluctance may have been occasioned, as is mine, by your use of the term "mental acuity" in regard to the characteristics of David. If by "mental acuity" you mean to inquire about King David's natural intellectual equipment -- his I.Q. if you will -- then I think it would be a fair assumption to say that, in view of what the Bible reveals about him, one could guess that he was rather a bright fellow, albeit perhaps not so bright as his son, Solomon. But the Bible does not seem to place nearly so much importance on "mental acuity" as it does on spiritual discernment, i.e., matters of the heart, of character, of obedience to God. Neither King David nor, later, his son, King Solomon, for all their natural gifts and wisdom, were immune to falling prey to the same lusts of the flesh that are common to all mankind. It was true in their day, and is true still, that no amount of "mental acuity" can save us from sin or deliver us from our sin nature. Only the redemptive act of Christ's shedding of his blood on the cross can do that. So who, in the perspective of God's order of priorities, has the most prized "mental acuity": the "brilliant" Ph.D. professor, cloistered in the ivy halls of academia, who scoffs at the very idea of God -- or the lowly, unlettered laborer who knows Christ and has committed his life to Him? It is our willingness to submit our lives to Christ and to follow Him that defines the only real "mental acuity" that, in the great scheme of things, is worth a row of pins. --Hank | ||||||
2075 | When was "In the Beginning" | Gen 1:1 | Hank | 17523 | ||
Shiner, the best answer to your question is, No one really knows. "In the beginning" refers, of course, to the time when God created the heavens and the earth. We call it the universe. Theories abound, both secular and theological, regarding the age of the universe. The scientific community tends to lean to guesses that are measured in millions of years while many conservative Christian thinkers place the age in thousands of years. The fact remains that no one knows; it is one of many secrets that God chose not to reveal to us in His word. The Bible is very plain about who did the creating; it is silent on the when. --Hank | ||||||
2076 | the tragedies that happen 9/11/01, | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 16979 | ||
Whether the events of terror that were inflicted on the United States last week have any specific biblical reference is a matter that will likely continue to be discussed for days to come. The Christian world view is that God is sovereign and He is in charge of all His creation. We know that Jesus never promised a rose garden in these latter days. On the contrary He spoke of "wars and rumors of wars." The Christian's hope is in Christ, not in the world. We can hope and certainly pray that this tragedy will wake up America and the rest of the world to the realization of how vulnerable and mortal we really are and point us to our need for God in our lives. Evangelist Billy Graham said in his sermon delivered in Washington at the special service held shortly after the terrorist attacks, "This nation needs to turn to God." These events, though tragic beyond belief, do not mean that God is any less in power, any less loving, or any less mindful of the needs of His people. --Hank | ||||||
2077 | Can we eat medium rare meat or not? | Acts 15:29 | Hank | 16945 | ||
This is neither to evade your question nor ridicule it, but in our age of splintered churches and conflicting views on nearly everything under the sun, shouldn't Christians be less concerned about what they eat and more concerned about what's eating them? --Hank | ||||||
2078 | So what does this passage mean? | Matt 10:14 | Hank | 16913 | ||
Bill Mc, I don't see this as a passage of Scripture that should pose any problem for anyone to understand. Jesus' words are clear enough. Take His message to the world. Present it, teach it, preach it. On those who do not receive the message or the messenger, shake off your dust and go to someone else. Jesus used the word "whoever" and "home" and "city", but the sense of the context would be strained indeed should we read it to mean an entire people, or nation, or perhaps a whole region, such as the Middle East. --Hank | ||||||
2079 | Explain doctrine and statement of faith | John 3:16 | Hank | 15834 | ||
Very Precious: Doctrine, purely and simply, means teaching. It is often associated with theological viewpoints or statements of faith, but really is neither, because theological viewpoints and statements of faith derive from interpretation of doctrine, or teaching..... If I had to pick and chose among the verses of Scripture that more nearly and clearly sum up my personal statement of faith, it would be John 3:16, because it is a microcosm of the good news of Jesus Christ. Among creeds, I'd have no quibble with two time-honored creeds, the Nicene and the Apostles' Creeds. They state succinctly, in careful and dignified language, the essential elements of the Christian faith. I hope that your faith is to you as mine is to me, Very Precious. --Hank | ||||||
2080 | why did God not kill Cain? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 15816 | ||
God's Angel: We might pose the same question about King David, for example. Why didn't God kill him after he committed adultery and then murdered the husband of his partner in his sordid affair? Why didn't God bump off Hitler before Hitler murdered millions of Jews (God's chosen people, remember?). Dear Angel, in these matters and in all other matters which the Sovereign Lord has not made us privy to in His eternal word, we ask Why? only in pain of knowing in our heart of hearts that we shall never know this side of heaven, and perhaps not even then. --Hank | ||||||
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