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821 | WHO CREATED EARTH | Gen 1:1 | Hank | 143298 | ||
UWANTAB236 - Who created earth? The answer is clearly stated in the first 10 words of Scripture. See Genesis 1:1. --Hank | ||||||
822 | Suicide.....Hell or no. | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 142870 | ||
The question of whether suicide is an unforgivable sin to the truly regenerate believer hinges on whether the doctrine of the eternal security of the believer is sound. Concerning his salvation, it does not matter how an unregenerate person dies; if he dies in his sins he faces sure condemnation. If a regenerated believer is capable of sinning (and the Bible through precept and example teaches that he is), there is no earthly reason to think that he who is capable of killing his brother is incapable of doing the same thing to himself. I have never known, nor I have I ever been exposed to a description in the Scriptures, of any child of God whose life on earth was one of uninterrputed sweetness and light. Followers of Christ are not perfect; they are not immune to the troubles that all flesh is heir to; they are not, through spiritual regeneration, rendered incapable of committing sin. The taking of one's life is murder; it is a sin, but it is no more unforgivable than any other sin. When a penitent sinner comes to Christ, he is forgiven of all sin and born anew -- regenerated and sealed by the Holy Spirit of God for the day of redemption (Eph. 4:30; Eph. 1:13; 1 Cor. 1:22). How "sure and steadfast" (see Hebrews 6:19) is the believer's hope whose salvation is so irresolute that it hangs on whether the believer can confess fast enough to keep ahead of his sins? Does confession save him? ...... To teach that the regenerate believer is incapable of suicide is tantamount to teaching that he is incapable of all sin, and that is not a biblical doctrine. And to teach that a regenerate believer has no forgiveness for his suicide is tantamount to teaching that the blood of Christ is insufficient to cleanse him from all sin (See 1 John 1:7) --Hank | ||||||
823 | What do you think of your faith? | John 20:25 | Hank | 142513 | ||
It is customary to use the question portion of this Forum to ask a question and not to write a dissertation. So what's your question? --Hank | ||||||
824 | church attendance all but cease in UK? | Rom 1:21 | Hank | 142446 | ||
Pastor Glenn - Whether the pronouncement of Romans 1 applies generally or specifically to the current situation in England and, for that matter, in other parts of the world, I cannot say. Neither can I add an amen to the bleak forecast of the virtual annihiliation of the church in England in 20 or 30 years hence. We simply don't know God's plan for England for the next few decades. God is sovereign. He can do with England as he pleases. --Hank | ||||||
825 | Why the spotlight on gays? | Prov 6:16 | Hank | 142408 | ||
Nelson - You ask two questions. You ask, "Why is there such hatred for homosexuals?" -- Is this a fact? Is there actually rampant and widespread hatred of homosexuals? I ask this because I am not so sure there is. For example, I am a member of a large church congregation, a Southern Baptist Church, and I am keenly unaware of any actual hatred of homosexuals among the congregants. We surely do believe that a practicing, impenitent homosexual is engaging in a sin which the Bible calls a perversion and soundly condemns. But I believe it would be inaccurate to say that we literally hate homosexuals, even though we abhor what they do. .... Your second question is, "Why is our society today so focused on homosexuality?" Perhaps it should be made the subject of inquiry to consider who is doing the bulk of the focusing. Is the spotlight not more in the hands of the homosexual than in the heterosexual community? Which is the more pro-active group and which group is waving more flags, making more noise, making more demands, insisting on special treatment and the enactment of special laws, including but not limited to redefining marriage, favorable to their own agenda and purposes? The spotlight has been turned on homosexuals, yes. But who turned it on? And who keeps its glaring beam burning incessantly? --Hank | ||||||
826 | Christ Jesus testimony / Red writing | Rev 1:1 | Hank | 141910 | ||
Years ago I came to the conclusion that any effort to separate the Scriptures into essential parts and non-essential parts is futile, fatuous and inane. It's as pointless as trying to assign different values to links in a chain. God inspired all Scripture (2 Timothy 3:16), and the product of His inspiration is a divinely woven fabric, complete and perfect, that does not lend itself well at all to the severely limited and bumbling efforts of human beings to make a "qualitative analysis" of the relative importance of various passages of Scripture. Better by far to read and study all of God's word as it is written and forget about what's important and what's not: All of it is important God inspired it all and therefore all of it is important. Since all of it is the word of God, all of it is likewise essential. Who are we to suggest otherwise or assign degrees of importance to God's holy book? Black, red, green or blue, it's the words that count, not their hue! --Hank | ||||||
827 | Is the Amplified bible the same as KJ | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 141900 | ||
The words are different between the KJV and the Amplified Bible in many passages, but the meaning is essentially the same. By and large the same thing can be said of all responsible translations of the Bible. So-called parallel Bibles in which two or more translations are printed side by side give one a good idea of how a thought can be expressed using different words and different locutions. The idea behind the Amplified Bible is to try to convey to English-speaking peoples the shades of meaning -- the nuances -- that are inherent in the ancient languages of Hebrew and Greek, hence to "amplify" (increase, magnify, augment or illustrate) the meaning of the original words, idioms and other syntactical rules of the ancient languages. The Amplified Bible is fun to read. It lends itself well to private reading and study, but it can be confusing and clumsy when read aloud by one person to another or to a group. --Hank | ||||||
828 | NASB or NKJ for these verses? | Ezek 20:5 | Hank | 141657 | ||
Hi, Ray. Regarding the NASB's use of "resolved" versus the NKJV's "said" in Ezekiel 20:8, 13 and 21: If, as marginal notes in the NASB say, the Hebrew word translated "resolved" literally means "said," then I would opt for "said" -- as the NKJV has it -- for the following reason. In narrative accounts, sacred and secular, when it is clear that someone SAID something, it simply should be stated that he SAID it, not that he resolved or opined or exclaimed or mused or joked or anything else, because anything else beyond simply relating that he said so-and-so is to a certain degree editorializing, an activity in which no formal translation should engage. ..... A careful reading of Scripture leads the reader to conclude that God never engages in idle chatter, and therefore that everything He says is His determination. He is determined, or resolved, to do whatever He says He will do. Thus in this sense, since everything He says is His resolve, to render "God said" as "God resolved" is not really necessary in these passages and reflects, as I have tried to point out, a mild editorial bias that is unbecoming to a translation that calls itself the most literally accurate Bible translation in English. When the text says "I said" it should be translated "I said" and not "I resolved." Let the reader, not the translator, draw his own conclusion about the matter. Seeing no cogent reason to displace the literal "I said" with an editorialized "I resolved," -- thus making it necessary to trouble the reader with an avoidable marginal note -- I tend to favor the more literal and thus more accurate rendition of the NKJV. --Hank | ||||||
829 | Solomon drunk writing Ecclesiastes. | 2 Tim 3:16 | Hank | 141418 | ||
Huf, evidence points more to King Solomon's writing Ecclesiastes while eating microwave popcorn and watching reruns of "The Andy Griffith Show" than it does that he was WWI (Writing While Intoxicated). By the way, what prompted this question? --Hank | ||||||
830 | Can Music be a Prayer? | 1 Sam 1:13 | Hank | 141315 | ||
Prayer and praise are often so inextricably linked together that it is hard to say where one ends and the other begins. Especially is this true of song. The Book of Psalms has been called the hymnbook of the Bible, and indeed we have ample evidence that the words of the Psalms were, many of them at any rate, sung or accompanied by music. The words -- lyrics, libretto -- of a number of hymns can be considered, and used, as a prayer. The music that accompanies the words, while it can be offered in praise to God, is not necessarily and always set aside as an instrument of praise. For example, Franz Joseph Haydn wrote the music that accompanies the Christian hymn, "Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken." But "Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles" (Germany, Germany, Over All), the anthem of the infamous Third Reich, is sung to the very same tune. Likewise, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote the music to which "Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee" is sung. The music, but not the words, is from the third movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The original words -- known as the "Ode to Joy" -- that appear in the symphony were written in German by the poet Schiller, and no Christian church that I know of would dare use these lyrics in worship! To sum up: While it is clear that the words of certain hymns can be considered to be both prayer and praise, music itself is not prayer and not even intrinsically praise; nevertheless, it can be lifted up and dedicated as praise to God. --Hank | ||||||
831 | Mu children parish | Hos 4:6 | Hank | 139803 | ||
Try Hosea 4:6. --Hank | ||||||
832 | Where is Babylon? | Joel 2:3 | Hank | 139741 | ||
He-man - Having followed your posts with sustained bewilderment, I'm at the end of my tether in an effort to decode your methodology of stringing scriptural references together. They appear to be so at random and so topically disconnected from one another and from the question being considered that I'm led to think -- but surely not -- that you open your Bible at random, close your eyes and place your index finger on a verse, copy and paste it, then move on to do the same thing several times in order to construct a post. It rather reminds me of a skit that Bob Newhart used to do. He had a theory that an infinite number of monkeys, given typewriters and enough time to peck away, would eventually be able to write all the great books. The best any monkey was ever able to do was type, "To be or not to be, that is the gezzordenplaqst." --Hank | ||||||
833 | Theoretical Question | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 139733 | ||
Salvation is wholly of God, the gift of God by grace through faith and has always been so. It has never depended on time, place, works, circumstances, or anything else. See Ephesians 2:8,9; Hebrews 11. --Hank | ||||||
834 | Christmas tree or other OT custom? | Jer 10:4 | Hank | 138721 | ||
NiecieReed - Jeremiah 10:2-5 refers to the religious practices of the nations, showing in graphic detail the futility of worshiping idols. Even though the practice of decorating the 'wood cut from trees' with 'silver and gold' [vs. 3 and 4] may bring to mind the modern custom of decorating the Christmas tree, the passage from Jeremiah has nothing to do with it. A contextual reading of this satire on idolatry in Jeremiah makes clear that the subject is indeed idolatry and not Christmas or Christmas trees. --Hank | ||||||
835 | Can Satin read our minds?Chaser. | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 138617 | ||
Scripture presents no evidence that God ever empowered Satan with mind-reading capabilities. Satan is a created angel who incurred the judgment of God by rebelling against his Creator (Isaiah 14:12-17; Ezekiel 28:11-19). Omniscience is an attribute of God alone, never of man or angels, the fruit of His creation. --Hank | ||||||
836 | What kind of light is darkness? | Luke 11:35 | Hank | 138347 | ||
Mommapbs: What kind of light is darkness? Human wisdom. Our of 18th century Europe sprang an intellectual and cultural movement that is known today as the Age of Enlightenment, the central theme of which was the effort to humanize religion. The prevailing philosophies of the day rejected original sin and humanized theological systems. By and large, the autonomy of human reason, not God's revealed truth, ruled supreme. Such light as this Jesus called darkness. ...... The people who lived in the days of the judges also had a kind of light that actually was darkness. Everyone followed his own light and did what was right in his own eyes. (See Judges 21:25). ..... So too did the men to whom Jesus was addressing His remarks in Luke 11:35. It was the Pharisees, and they thought themselves to be very wise. They supposed that they had a great deal of light. But the Lord Jesus warned them to think about their situation, because, in fact, from His divine perspective, whatever light that was in them was actually darkness -- the darkness of pretended wisdom and self-proclaimed superiority -- and this darkness was keeping them from Him, the true Light which enlightens every man. (See John 1:9). --Hank | ||||||
837 | Is mastabation a sin? | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 138269 | ||
ford1266 - Scripture does not mention masturbation specifically. Many views on masturbation have been expressed on this forum and may be accessed by using Quick Search. Type in the word masturbation. --Hank | ||||||
838 | Study on Joshua 1:8 | Josh 1:8 | Hank | 138222 | ||
You might try browsing the many resources at ccel.org. --Hank | ||||||
839 | I was given this verse as a verse to us | Prov 4:20 | Hank | 137966 | ||
billinc - The worst way there is to interpret Scripture is to isolate a verse and jump to a conclusion on its meaning and application. Your verse is Proverbs 4:20. Let's look at it in context. What is the general theme of Proverbs? What is the main subject of Chapter 4? Who wrote it? To whom did he write it? Is the author's thrust on prayer and healing or is it on something else? What specifically is said about prayer in Chapter 4? About healing? How does Chapter 4 blend in with the general theme of Proverbs? Does the author say anything specific about healing and if so, what kind of healing is he writing about, physical or spiritual healing? What other passages of Scripture speak of healing? Of praying? Of praying for healing? What kinds of healing does Scripture address? What does Scripture say about physicial healing? Spiritual healing? Does Scripture guarantee physical healing? Was the apostle Paul healed of his thorn in the flesh? ....... These are samples of the kinds of questions that can guide our thinking as we dig into God's word for answers to man's questions and concerns. ...... The most dangerous way to form conclusions on what God is teaching us in His word is to isolate a verse by taking it of context! It's much like trying to bake a cake by choosing and using only one ingredient from the cake recipe! In order to bake a cake, one needs to follow the directions on how to bake a cake. And in order to study the Bible, one needs to follow the directions laid down in 2 Timothy 2:15. ...... This post does not answer your specific question. It is hoped, however, that in some measure the post will encourage you to dig into Scripture and thus be enabled to answer it for yourself. --Hank | ||||||
840 | Year of Jubilee for the Land? | Lev 25:24 | Hank | 137813 | ||
JRM - Modern man has got himself on such a frenzied treadmill to oblivion that he can't stop long enough to give himself a one-day sabbath once a week, much less to give the plundered land a whole year's rest every seventh year. There can be little doubt that the profane movers and shakers of our time would consider God's ways with His land obsolete, just as they consider His Ten Commandments out of step with modern times. But man's notion of doing what is right in his own eyes is not novel. He was hard at it during the ancient times of the judges. The fact that he made a mess of things by doing it then hasn't deterred him from doing it now. --Hank | ||||||
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