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761 | God granted | 2 Kin 20:6 | Hank | 148736 | ||
Tribe : The man to whose life God added fifteen years was Hezekiah, godly king of Judah. The record of the event is found in 2 Kings 20. --Hank | ||||||
762 | Children are God's , not man's | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 147824 | ||
Uh-oh : Emmaus has responded with grace and wisdom: please ponder long and hard on what he has generously given you. In my home state of Arkansas the chicken business is big. Thousands of hens are maintained in huge houses for the purpose of laying eggs. In a sense I suppose you could call them egg donors. But you are not a chicken. You are a human being created in the image of God (Gen 1:27). Use your body and your sacred procreative gifts, which are really not your own: they belong to God (1 Cor. 6:19), in accordance with God's design. From Genesis to Revelation, Scripture is clear: God instituted marriage between and man and a woman, commanded them to become one flesh, to be fruitful and multiply, and His word even contains instructions to parents on how to bring up their children. God has left no doubt whatever about what His will is regarding marriage and families. There is no evidence, not an iota, that it includes being an egg donor. In a word: Don't! --Hank | ||||||
763 | Why is 'yet' not in the NAS?has support. | John 7:8 | Hank | 147535 | ||
sdee ::: The word 'yet' does appear in John 7:8 in the NASB; however, it appears only once, viz. "Go up to the feast yourselves; I do not go up to this feast because my time has not YET fully come." However, the word 'yet' appears twice in the some other versions, e.g. NKJV, which reads: "You go up to this feast. I am not YET going up to this feast, for My time has not YET fully come." These variant readings are explained as follows: The NASB translators in this passage followed the Critical Text, which generally represents the Alexandrian or Egyptian type of text, whereas the NKJV (and KJV) translators followed the traditional text, known today as the Textus Receptus or Received Text, which was largely supported by the Byzantine family of texts, which according to the NKJV translators' preface to that version "has as much right as the Alexandrian or any other tradition to be weighed in determining the text of the New Testament." .... In any event, the sense of John 7:8 is not essentially altered regardless of which text is followed. The sense of the passage is that our Lord told His brothers that he was not going up to the feast because His time had not YET fully come. He did not mean that He would not go to the feast at all. We learn from vs. 10 that He did in fact go. Vs. 10 also teaches us that Jesus went up quietly and with a minimum of publicity: "not publicly, but as it were, in secret." So, Jesus meant that He would not go with His brothers and have a great and public manifestation. It was not time for that. So sometime after His brothers had gone up to Jerusalem, Jesus made a quiet trip there. --Hank | ||||||
764 | Can doctrine make us lausy christians? | John 17:17 | Hank | 147502 | ||
Lorenzo : No, doctrine or anything else cannot make anyone a 'lousy' Christian simplly because there is no such entity. One is either a Christian or is he is not. Neither can 'once saved, always saved' make anyone a mediocre Christian: again, one is either a Christian or he is not. No, Christianity is not "the worst thing Satan has done": Satan was not the founder of Christianity. Lorenzo, on this Forum a question is supposed to be a question, not a declaration. Should you intend to participate in the Forum, please acquaint yourself with the rules of Forum usage. --Hank | ||||||
765 | Selling on the Church ground. | Matt 21:12 | Hank | 147298 | ||
smerka ::: During my many years as a Christian it has been my observation that budget problems in a church generally are the result of tithing problems among its members, which in turn are indicative of spiritual problems. It is these spiritual problems that cry out and need to be addressed. To the extent that the sheep are fed the temporal needs are met. In a spiritually healthy church there is no need to stage chicken barbeques and jewelry sales in order to meet the fiscal needs of the body of Christ. I am a member of a large and growing church in which Christ is exalted and the word of God is preached. It has no need to drum up schemes to raise money. It meets its internal budget with ease and has a large surplus every year that is generously and joyfully given to fund missionary work beyond its borders. Spiritual malaise may or may not be characteristic of your church, but it might very well bear looking into. Is it a prayerful, Christ-centered church where the gospel is preached in it fullness and purity every Lord's day? --Hank | ||||||
766 | Forgiveness after sinning | 1 John 1:9 | Hank | 147259 | ||
"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" [1 John 1:9]. --Hank | ||||||
767 | how does this help us succeed in life. | 1 Chr 16:8 | Hank | 147065 | ||
JMackey23 ::: Sorry, J, but I'm not following you on this. The Scripture reference you give is 1 Chronicles 16:8, which begins a psalm of thanksgiving delivered by David. I fail to see in it any specific application to one's personal "success" in life: it is a hymn of praise and thanksgiving to God, not a formula for man's personal "success" in life, whatever that may mean. I really don't view the Bible as a manual that teaches one how to become rich and famous, if we may use that as a working definition of what the world calls "success." Jesus put things in a different perspective when He said, "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is there will your heart be also." (Matthew 6:19-21). ....... And Jesus, referring to temporal possessions, also said, "Seek the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added to you." (Luke 12:31). ..... So should we go to the word of God to learn how to be rich? Oh, yes! A thousand times yes! We need to know what true riches are and what they are not, and the Bible will surely teach us that. True riches are not to be found in what the world has to give, but in "the unsearchable riches of Christ" (Ephesians 3:8). Now this may or may not answer your question; I don't know. But it's submitted as something that's at least worth thinking about. Don't you think? :-) --Hank | ||||||
768 | Believers and "Alternative" Spirituality | Luke 11:26 | Hank | 147062 | ||
Pray for and, if possible, with her. Engage her, again if possible, in a daily devotional with you. And seek professional counsel if the situation persists. Your pastor would be a natural starting point in your loving quest to find ways to minister effectively to your wife and to become an instrument in her restoration to a right relationship with her Lord. But proceed with wisdom and caution. She may not be aware of or agree that she is proceeding down "such dark paths," as you have characterized the situation, and well may resent and resist your efforts. I believe all Christians who read these Forum pages, including this one, will remember you and your wife in prayer. God be with you both. Keep looking up. and above all, pray without ceasing. .... Postscript. I usually don't give or advocate anyone's giving specific advice on this Forum, especially when it involves the sanctity of marriage. But your case touched my heart in a special way this evening, and I felt led to say what I've said. And fervently I pray that you and your wife will be able, by God's grace and in His good time, to cast away this troubling thorn that affects both of you in a real and significant way. --Hank | ||||||
769 | what if a christian is married to non-ch | 2 Cor 6:14 | Hank | 146962 | ||
alello ::: 2 Corinthians 6:14-18 is generally interpreted to be a sanction against Christians being bound together with non-Christians in any spiritual relationship or in any enterprise that would be detrimental to the Christians' influence and testimony as members of the body of Christ. But this does not mean that Christians should sequester themselves and shun non-Christians. This would be in violation of the purpose and intent of Christians on the earth: to go into all the world and preach the Gospel (Matthew 28:19). See also 1 Corinthians 9:19-23. But I do believe that 2 Corinthians 6:14-18 does apply to marriage. My wife was a regenerate believer when I married her and so was I. We have been married for more than 45 years. I can't imagine being married to a non-believer. It surely believe it is a cardinal mistake for a Christian to pay no heed to this commandment and marry a non-believer. But of course it's always a cardinal mistake to disregard any portion of God's word. --Hank | ||||||
770 | Did God create man and woman before Adam | Gen 1:1 | Hank | 146958 | ||
Msbyrdn- ::: Genesis 2 is merely a more detailed narration of some of the events introduced in Genesis 1. There has never been any credible account, biblical or otherwise, of God's creation of any human beings besides Adam and Eve. Thus, the male and female of Genesis 1:27 are the Adam and Eve of Chapter 2.The human race shares a common ancestry with Adam and Eve, who alone are the fruits of God's seminal creation. All their descendants are, by God's design, the fruits of procreation. The theory that there was a pre-Adamic race or that there was a time gap between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 is not supported by Scripture and is therefore speculative bunkum. --Hank | ||||||
771 | What does 1 Cor. 2:10 say? | 1 Cor 2:10 | Hank | 146942 | ||
kalos ::: Now we know what it "says" -- but can a verse of Scripture (or anything else) actually "read"? :-) [I know this wasn't your terminology but someone else's.] I'm spoofing the oddities of idiomatic English, of course. But can anyone tell me how spinach tastes? Do leaves of spinach have taste buds? And how does a hammer feel in one's hand? Is the hammer happy when it is being held? Does being held evoke certain emotions in the hammer? And what answer does one offer when asked, "How does your car ride?" Could he not say, "It doesn't. I don't have any vehicle large enough to put it in and take it for a ride."? .... Oh well, this is only Monday. Perhaps things will get better as the week wears on. By the way, just what does a week wear? --Hank | ||||||
772 | The devinci code book whats up? | 2 Tim 4:3 | Hank | 146693 | ||
godiou ::: In the history of literature and letters there has always been a dichotomy between fact and fiction, and until fairly recently human beings have had little difficulty in drawing a clear distinction between the two. But a phenomenon has emerged among the reading public in this age of post-modernism in that some of them in certain instances appear quite willing to accept fiction as fact and fact as fiction. I personally know a couple of quite intelligent people who are more willing by far to accept the outlandish fictional claims of "The Da Vinci Code" as fact than they are the facts of the Bible, most of which they consider myths and folk tales: pure fiction. ..... By any measure "The Da Vinci Code" is literary trash, but it at least has one redeeming quality: the author is honest enough to admit that it is fiction. This makes it less pernicious than the bulk of "religious" junk books being published today which are no less fictional and no more reliable than "The Da Vinci Code," but they claim to be, in some form or another, a "guide" book for the Christian to help him to lead a closer, fuller, more meaningful life in Christ. I browsed the religious-book section of a large bookstore the other day. I was flabbergasted by the sheer number of dumbed-down, superficial books on their shelves. Besides the many "Jabez" books (there have been so many sequels to the original "Prayer of Jabez" that they took up a whole shelf in the bookstore), there was a book with the featherbrained title, "The Original Bible-Based Weight Loss Plan." We can only hope that the original will not be fruitful and multiply, giving birth to a series of sequels! I was saddened to see that in this bookstore's religious section so many man-centered "religious" books and so few God-centered books. Of the former I am talking about the name-it-and-claim it variety, the easy-believe-ism variety, and the positive thinking variety, such as Robert Schuller, Joel Osteen and Joyce Meyer write. I would like to see on the shelves more books of the God-centered variety, such as John MacArthur, Ravi Zacharias, and Norman Geisler write. ..... What impact do bad books have on believers? Well, the best way to prevent the absorption of any adverse effects from a bad book is the same way that one protects his innards from absorbing tainted victuals: avoid them. Our minds are no more immune to the harmful effects of bad books than our intestines to bad food. Philippians 4:8 tells us what we are to dwell on, what we are to nourish our soul with, and what will keep our spirit attuned to God. --Hank | ||||||
773 | What is referred to as "sons of God"? | Gen 6:2 | Hank | 146405 | ||
alan ::: Your question has been asked more than a dozen times on the Forum, so perhaps it will suffice to instruct you how to access these questions and responses. You will see at the top of your screen adjacent to "Home" the words "Questions/Notes on Verse:" In the box type Gen. 6:2 and click "Go." This will take you, when you scroll down, to more than a dozen entries of this question. Clicking on each of them will open the thread for that question and you will be enabled to view various responses. Continuing in turn through the list will open additional threads and more responses. --Hank | ||||||
774 | passover offering you get 7 blessings? | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 146239 | ||
manyapples ::: Perhaps it's Benny Hinn, not the Lord, who promises 7 miracles. :-) ..... Benny is apt to promise 7 -- or 70 -- miracles to anyone who will send in money. --Hank | ||||||
775 | Why is Church full of pagan beliefs ? | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 145964 | ||
swerv ::: The idea of this Forum is to ask questions of someone else, not answer one's own. If you knew the answer yourself, why did you ask? In this case, this reader finds the quality of the question and of the answer weighed in the balance and found wanting: the question assumes much; the answer says little and what it says is pure opinion, and it is totally bereft of Scripture references. You're getting off to a bad start on this Forum, my friend. Read the usage guidelines carefully, please, especially those that address the prohibition of pushing denominational biases. --Hank | ||||||
776 | Why the long threads on sexual topics? | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 145707 | ||
Greeting, justme ::: An excellent question/observation yours, and it is one that new and seasoned Forum users alike ought to pay some attention to. Kalos and EdB have posted excellent responses to this thread and need to be commended for their honesty and candor. I doubt that I can add much if anything of value to what these two good brothers have said. Clearly this Forum aims to be a place for Bible study and hence it should never be allowed to take on the appearance of a lurid soap opera or an advice column for persons with sex problems. ...... You ask specifically, justme, why it is that legitimate Bible study questions don't make nearly as big a splash as questions about masturbating or shacking up (my choice of words, not yours). :-) I rather suspect the answer may be found in Proverbs 23, which continues the study of contrasts between righteousness and wickedness begun in Proverbs 10. From 23:7 "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he." ..... Civilizations have a way of aging and decaying. Once moral and upright, Greece then Rome fell prey to moral corruption and decay. They fell from within, victims of their own immorality. Western civilization is now in the process of crumbling from within, and the obsession with sex and all its trappings that we witness on this Forum is merely a reflection of the society we live in today. But we should not, we must not, permit this Forum to stray from its purpose which is true Bible study, not an expose of sexual problems and dysfuntions. Follow the guidelines of the Forum, I say, and think less about sex (there are, albeit this may come as a surprise to some, other things in life besides sex), and think more about the things that are listed in Philippians 4:8. God bless. --Hank | ||||||
777 | Seeking Bible version history chart | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 145681 | ||
brazos ::: Type in the Google box these words: bible english translation history .... You may find among the selections what you are looking for .... and even a few bonuses. --Hank | ||||||
778 | An indepth helping of the act of marriag | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 145658 | ||
noodlehead ::: If your young friend claims to be such a hot-shot theologian, challenge him to compare notes with a seasoned pastor of an orthodox, Bible-preaching church. I agree with EdB: this young man is trying to justify his actions by twisting Scripture around to fit them. He needs personal contact with someone capable of setting him straight. Obviously he and his 16-year-old lady friend are still a bit damp behind the ears. --Hank | ||||||
779 | Lots happened in 7 days for Saul and Sam | 1 Sam 10:8 | Hank | 145656 | ||
HanklovesJesus ::: From another Hank, greeting and welcome. Perhaps to consider what happened in a week in Genesis 1 and 2 and what happened in a week in the Gospel accounts of Jesus' passion will help to put the events of which you ask in a little better perspective. Some of the mighty acts of God may seem to take too long from our viewpoint: His answer to our prayers and the Second Advent of the Christ come to mind as examples. Others He accomplishes in the twinkling of an eye, as it were: consider how swiftly Jesus performed miracles and what happened so quickly at Pentecost in Acts 2 as examples. God's clock is not our clock, of course; He does not run on human time. ..... Well, it's good to have another Hank on board; surely the Forum can manage with two. You and I have at least two things in common: the name "Hank" and our love of Jesus. --Hank | ||||||
780 | are woman allow to preach in bible | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 145557 | ||
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