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581 | Are menstrual cloths disgusting to God?? | Is 64:6 | Hank | 159079 | ||
starfire: John Calvin is on record as saying that God talks to us in baby talk. By that the great reformer meant that the mighty truths of the transcendent God are cast in human terms that human beings can relate to and thus better understand. This is true of the passage in Isaiah 64:6. We therefore have absolutely no reason to repudiate God for this vivid illustration in His word or draw from it any hint whatever that God is being in any way disrespectful of women or condemning or finding abhorrent woman's natural function of menstruation. The point of the similie is that the waste material during the monthly cycle is just that, waste material, and therefore as worthless as man's righteousness is in God's eyes. The prophet used the imagery of menstrual cloths to picture uncleanness, which is true of the best behavior (righteousness) of unbelievers (see Philippians 3:5-8). The imagery of the simile is vivid; it is something we can identify with and understand; and being plain and vivid, it is something that we can remember easily. It is, as Calvin said, a fine example of God's "baby talk." --Hank | ||||||
582 | Correct Interpretation | James | Hank | 159038 | ||
Aliennow: Please define "it" in your statement. Regardless of what "it" means as you've used it, there are no loopholes in Scripture that allow one to sneak in a sin now and then with impunity. That's antinomianism. "What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? (Romans 6:1,2). --Hank | ||||||
583 | will god forgive anyone bout anything? | 1 John 1:9 | Hank | 158979 | ||
Kea13: "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). --Hank | ||||||
584 | will god forgive anyone bout anything? | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 158976 | ||
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585 | who made god? | Is 9:6 | Hank | 158963 | ||
Kea 13: Kea, I'm tempted to ask how old you are! Typically the question "Who made God?" is asked by six-year-old children! ..... No one made God. He is not a created being. He is eternal. ..... And if we ask, "Who made God?" we need to ask also "Who made the being who made God, and who made the being who made the being who made God?" And so on, endlessly. The Bible throughout teaches clearly -- very, very clearly -- the eternality of God. Here are a few passages for you to look up, and please do read them by all means. Deut. 33:27; Isaiah 9:6; Romans 16:26; and 1 Timothy 1:17. Are you under the age of 18? --Hank | ||||||
586 | what does the tree of life represent | Gen 2:9 | Hank | 158913 | ||
H Smith: Sir, the tree of life "represents" about the same thing as an oak or cedar tree represents: a tree. It was a tree, a real tree not a symbolic one. There is no evidence that the passage is allegorical. The tree had special properties to sustain eternal life. In addition to Genesis 2:9, see also Revelation 2:7 and 22:14,19. --Hank | ||||||
587 | what does the bible say bout races? | Gal 3:28 | Hank | 158909 | ||
Kea13: Good to have you as a registrant of SBF. The Bible contains no prohibitions against inter-racial marriage based on skin color, but it does contain prohibitions in the Old and New Testaments on religious grounds, not racial grounds per se. ...... Galatians 3:28: "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus." ..... 1 Corinthians 6:14,15: "Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness with lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever?" It is plain that these verses in Corinthians have nothing to do with inter-racial unions but rather with a Christian and an unbeliever. Restrictions have been placed on marriage in matters pertaining to one's faith but never on the color of his skin. ..... I'm 70 years old and can well remember segregated schools, restaurants, movie houses and, yes, even churches. I heard a sermon one time when I was a youth in which the preacher tried to make a biblical case for segregation. He twisted Scripture horribly in an effort to prove his point, but of course he failed miserably. .... He allowed that he had nothing against "the coloreds" as he called them and grudingly (so it seemed) admitted that God loved them too, but that "the coloreds" should stay in their place. He never said what "their place" was supposed to mean. --Hank | ||||||
588 | How did the error live so long? | Matt 21:29 | Hank | 158837 | ||
Dear Art and Nancy: I quite agree with you that 35 years is a long time to let a boo-boo grow gray with age before taking remedial steps, but, alas, I don't have the answer to that one. ..... As for as how long to let the ink dry on new translations, I'd say at least until the second or third printings. That should take care of the printing errors and the bulk of other glaring errors that may be present in the work. I read somewhere that Thomas Nelson makes minor revisions -- I've heard it called "fine tuning" -- in their New King James Version with every subsequent printing, although no major revision has been made since its maiden publication of the complete text (Old and New Testaments) in 1982. I assume Lockkman does much the same thing. I note that Lockman lists ten different copyright dates for the NASB ranging from 1960 through 1995. Well, that's the best no-answer I've got :-) If you'd like to pursue this further, why don't you drop Lockman a friendly e-mail and ask them why 35 years was allowed to lapse before they attended to this matter? And report your findings back to us! --Hank | ||||||
589 | Joining a Church? | 1 Pet 5:1 | Hank | 158834 | ||
Truecalling: You have a right to be confused! The way "joining a church" is kicked around these days is confusing. There are two ways that "joining" a church is used. First, in Scripture. But there the word "joining" is not used, but "adding." Acts 2:47: "...And the Lord was adding to their number day by day those who were being saved." At the moment of regeneration, believers become members of the body of Christ, His church. ..... The other meaning of "joining" has to do with becoming identified as a member of a specific local church. Different churches have different "rites of passage" as it were, i.e., conditions under which they receive members. It is quite possible to "join" a local church without having been "added" to the church, the body of Christ. That is another way of saying that joining a local church is not necessarily evidence of salvation, neither will it effect salvation. There is only one way to be saved, and that is by the grace of God through faith in His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. --Hank | ||||||
590 | will going to church get me to heaven? | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 158832 | ||
Dave: The term "going to church" is such a misnomer! It follows the same error as calling a building the church. The church is the body of Christ and is composed of all the redeemed in Christ. So in a real sense nobody "goes to church." We who are individual members of the body of Christ do assemble in community for the purposes of worship, instruction, the breaking of bread and prayer. Christ saves. We are saved by grace through faith in Him. Read the book of Acts. You won't find in it a single example of any regenerate believer who cloistered himself in a cave and absented himself from the fellowship of the saints. He who inclines to drum up excuses for not attending worship services on the grounds that this will not keep him out of heaven has a decidely myopic view of what the church is all about. If everyone thought as he thinks, local churches would become extinct. You figure the consequences of that! --Hank | ||||||
591 | people assumptions is causing confusiuon | Rom 1:26 | Hank | 158725 | ||
tew: You ask, "Why do people assume this verse (Romans 1:26) is referring to two women being together? ..... Let's look at what the verse says: "For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural." ..... To exegete this verse correctly, we need merely to take it for what it plainly says. When a verse is as plain and speaks so forthrightly as this one does, pray tell me what assumption is necessary. The only sensible answer is that none is, of course. Homosexual practices are very clearly condemned in this passage: female homosexuals (lesbians) in v. 26 and male homosexuals in v. 27. Scripture roundly condemns homosexuality in the Old and New Testaments. God approves of only monogamous, heterosexual relationships and only within marriage. ..... Your wording of the question is curious. Why did you word it the way you did? --Hank | ||||||
592 | Thanks you Hank, all books have a purpo | Ruth | Hank | 158693 | ||
Dear Truecalling: If I may, allow me to amend your phrase "most books have their purposes" to "all books (of Scripture) have their purposes." ..... Here's a capsule of the book of Ruth. It is widely acclaimed as a masterpiece of world literature. Boaz, the kinsman-redeemer, is considered a type of the Christ. Ruth herself is indicative that Gentiles in Old Testament times (she was a Moabite woman) could believe in the true God. Moreover, since Ruth figures in the geneology of Jesus, it shows that Gentile blood was in the line of Him who became the Savior for all mankind. Additionally, this little book is a moving example of the sovereignty of God in caring for His people (2:12). I've read the book many times over and gain new insight with each subsequent reading. I've read many works in my day that the world of letters considers masterpieces, but I've never read any piece of writing more supremely a master work than this lovely book. --Hank | ||||||
593 | I don't understand the purpose on Ruth? | Ruth | Hank | 158691 | ||
truecalling: The best direction I can give you is to read an introduction to the book of Ruth from a good Bible dictionary or study Bible. John MacArthur gives a fine one in his study Bible. Then read the book of Ruth 50 times, but not all in the same sitting! I'm not joking. The way to learn Scripture is to read and study it, and commit favorite passages to memory. If you are a child of God, begin each study session with prayer and end it with meditation upon what you have read. --Hank | ||||||
594 | Your thoughts on 40 Days of Purpose? | 2 Tim 4:2 | Hank | 158689 | ||
Dear newoldstock: Having been in the church for 56 years, I've had occasion to see many things "sweep through" many churches. All that most of them do is stir up a little dust for a while, but the dust soon settles back down to where it came from without effecting permanent change. Whatever happened to expositional preaching and teaching from the Word of God? Are churches so bent out of shape and have so dramatically lost their way that they have become so deplete and so desperate for material that they feel constrained to hitch their wagon to every weak little twinking star that comes floating along? It seems to me that the books that John, Matthew, Paul, Peter, Mark and Luke wrote have a decided edge on anything Mr. Warren ever wrote. The church's marching orders on what to preach is given in 2 Timothy 4:2 and on what to study in 2 Timothy 2:15 and 3:16. The Christian must live all his days with purpose, not just 40 of them! --Hank | ||||||
595 | why the error? | Matt 21:29 | Hank | 158663 | ||
Dear Art and Nancy: This post is chiefly to welcome you both to SBF and not to answer your question. Makarios has already attended to that very nicely. ..... I do, however, admire your perspicacity in noting the difference between the rendering of Matthew 21:29 in the 1977 and 1995 editions of the NASB, and your being sufficiently interested in it to go to the trouble of pointing it out to Forum readers. Errors do crop up even in modern editions of the Bible with all their safeguards, but thankfully most if not all of them are corrected in subsequent editions. ...... Translations are made by man and man errs. We all of us, translators not excluded, are not altogether unlike the cautious fellow who was so proud of his attention to detail and emphasis on accuracy that he considered his writing virtually free of error. But it wasn't, as evidenced by his remark, "I take great pains to proffread my work in in order to make sure is it free of erorr." ..... Or this example: A few years ago a picture of a group of guys in hard hats appeared in our local newspaper over the caption, "Sebastian County Garden Club Elects New Officers." To make it worse, the newspaper listed the names of these rugged men in hard hats. And they had really cute masculine first names, such as Mary, Phyllis, Missy and Sarah. Errors? You bet. They happen to the best of us! Even learned and seasoned translators. Even Forum posters! --Hank | ||||||
596 | who's idea was money? | Job 31:39 | Hank | 158659 | ||
mrmethOd: Money wasn't satan's idea any more than sex, guns and food were! The proper use of all these things benefits man. It's their abuse that gets him in trouble. The Bible never says that money is evil, but it does say that the love of it is -- is, in fact, the root of all sorts of evil. (1 Tim. 6:10). In citing this verse, most of them who do stop at "all sorts of evil." But let's quote all of 1 Tim. 6:10: "For the love of money is the root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs." So there is a reason why God says what He does about the love of money. We may be assured that there is always a reason behind God's commands! ..... Money, even lots of it, still leaves a void in the human heart. Solomon wrote, "He who loves money will not be satisfied with money" (Eccl. 5:10). Luke tells us that the Pharisees were lovers of money (Luke 16:14), and Hebrews 13:5 says this, "Make sure that your character is free from the love of money, being content with what you have." ..... The message of Scripture is not to condemn money but the love of it. To put money or anything else ahead of God in our lives is idolatry. --Hank ...... | ||||||
597 | God is like the wind is this biblical | Acts 2:2 | Hank | 158603 | ||
Girl: I can find nothing descriptive of God in Scripture that meets your criterion. The closest thing I can steer you to is Acts 2:1-4 wherein the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost is described as a noise from heaven like a rushing wind. It was LIKE a wind but was not wind. And Paul in Romans 1:20 speaks of the invisible attributes of God, His eternal power and divine nature, having been clearly seen and understood through His creative acts. No mention of wind, but the passage may satisfy your description of one's ability to see the works of the invisible God in the world around us. ..... Some time ago my wife and I visited Yosemite. The majestic splendor of those mountains and valleys, those streams and waterfalls, brought to focus in my mind the real meaning of Paul's message to the Romans in Romans 2:19,20. ..... Someone else may be able to supply you with a more definitve answer, but this is all that I can find in Scripture that seems even remotely pertinent to your question. Perhaps you might point out to your child something that is quite evident of God's work: The changed lives of those who are regenerate followers of Jesus. --Hank | ||||||
598 | about change | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 158601 | ||
John 80, your two words, 'about change,' don't give us much to go on. If you have a question, please try asking it by using a complete interrogatory sentence. --Hank | ||||||
599 | Is Satan also spoken about in 2 Cor. 4:4 | Eph 6:12 | Hank | 158595 | ||
SaulofTarsus: Interesting choice of a user screen name! Saul of Tarsus was a persecutor of Jesus (Acts 9:4,5). --Hank | ||||||
600 | Help with a demon possision. | 1 John 5:14 | Hank | 158574 | ||
Tcswl: You ask, "Could you please show me something to use to pray with and for him." ..... Friend, you may wish to use your knees, but you don't need any kind of "something" to pray with! If you are yourself a regenerate believer, simply pray for the healing of your family member. But ask in accordance with God's will: "This is the confidence which we have before Him, that if we ask anything ACCORDING TO HIS WILL, He hears us" (1 John 5:14). Followers of Christ need no mantra or missal, no beads, no apparatus of any kind in order to go to God in prayer. Neither do they need an earthly priest or dead saint in order to get through to God in prayer. --Hank | ||||||
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