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1621 | weeping | John 11:35 | Hank | 173276 | ||
Why, you ask, did Jesus weep? The verb translated "wept" is used only here, John 11:35, in the entire New Testament, and it means a shedding of tears, an expression of deep sorrow, of intense grief. Jesus was God No one could affirm that fact any better or more incontrovertibly than John did in the prologue to his Gospel (see John 1:1-14). Jesus was also a Man. John records this vivid description of a distinctly human emotion: Jesus wept. He wept because He felt genuine grief in the death of His friend, Lazarus; and He was no doubt moved to compassion for Lazarus' sisters, Mary and Martha of Bethany, who also grieved in the loss of their brother. John was no Docetist: he affirms in this passage, as he did in other passages of his Gospel, the full humanity of Christ. And, as stated, he also affirms in his Gospel the full Deity of Jesus Christ. ..... The segment of your question that asks: "weeping is not glorifying? God dislike?" frankly doesn't make a great deal of sense to me, and strikes me as being rather impertient and presumptuous, not to mention fatuous and inane. I'll leave it to you to ponder just how God Incarnate could possibly do anything unglorifying to Himself or could dislike His own behavior. --Hank | ||||||
1622 | Do you recall the day of your Salvation | John 12:32 | Hank | 103857 | ||
It has been 54 years, but time has not erased the memory of that Sunday evening long ago when I was reborn in Christ Jesus. The days my father and mother died, the day of my marriage, the days of birth of my three children, the day my younger son died -- all these are important milestones in my life, but the day of my salvation eclipses all the others. --Hank | ||||||
1623 | Kathy, Is "Lifting His name" Biblical? | John 12:32 | Hank | 104027 | ||
Searcher, I quite agree with you, and it is pushing Scripture to hang on to the phrases "lift up" or "lift up His name" and insist on their being applied to something we do on behalf of Christ. In the plain language of John 12:32,33, it is horrifying to think of lifting Christ up to be crucified again on the cross. Moreover, we are most presumptuous to think that weak and sinful man can "lift up" His holy name. He is very God of very God. Who do we think we are that we have the power to lift up the name of the Son of God? His name is already and eternally lifted up: His name is above every name, and it is not within our poor power to lift it up. It is we, not Christ, who are in need of being lifted up. We need to revise our terminology. "Lifting up" Jesus is not something we are commanded to do, nor can do. He lifted me out of the bonds of sin and death and gave me life. I have no power to lift Him! The terminologies we should be using -- and stop toying around and playing silly word games with this "lifting up" business (We are taking it out of its biblical context in John 12:32,33) -- are words such as praise, worship, love: these things we can do. And should do. These things Jesus commands: to praise Him, worship Him, love Him. The only people who ever "lifted Him up" crucified Him! Must we insist that He be lifted up again and again? God forbid! ....... This thread and another similar one have their genesis in a bad interpretation of John 12:32,33 by a user who took the passage of 12:32 out of context, apparently ignoring 12:33. From it two long threads have issued. That's par for the Forum course. We latch onto a thin thread and weave it into a fuzzy piece of cloth a mile long :-) It wearies me. I think I'll mulch leaves tomorrow and give my body some exercise and my soul a rest! God's blessings, Steve. --Hank | ||||||
1624 | who is the beloveh disciple of Christ? | John 13:23 | Hank | 84356 | ||
Panacolusa: The apostle John is generally considered the best candidate for the appellation, "the disciple whom Jesus loved." See John 13:23; 19:26; 20:2; 21:7,20. --Hank | ||||||
1625 | Why did Jesus encourage to betray? | John 13:27 | Hank | 145025 | ||
iktoose ::: Jesus did not encourage Jesus to betray Him. The devil had already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot to betray Christ (see John 13:2). Now, in 13:27, Satan entered Judas, taking control of him. Knowing this, knowing that the betrayer was now fully determined, the Lord told him to do it quickly. Obviously He was not encouraging Judas to do evil but simply expressing sorrowful resignation. Judas was personally possessed by Satan himself in his betrayal of Jesus. But this does not exonerate Judas, because his evil heart wanted exactly what the devil wanted, the death of Jesus. Satan and Judas were in accord. --Hank | ||||||
1626 | Why new? What was the old? | John 13:34 | Hank | 33600 | ||
Rdagelet: The commandment to love one another was not a new commandment. See Lev.19:18. where the standard is "as yourself." But Jesus' standard, making it a new commandment, is "love one another, even as I have loved you." To love as sacrifically as Jesus did is what makes it a new commandment. --Hank | ||||||
1627 | Brotherly love, primary? | John 13:35 | Hank | 4651 | ||
Dear Percival: Many thanks for posting your thoughts. Your observation is astute, your scripture reference apt, and if your implied question has any validity -- and I believe it does for some, but by no means all, of the participants on this forum -- then it should serve as a wake-up call to all of us. It is easy enough for those of us who have made a large number of postings during the several weeks this forum has been live to become so involved that we lose sight of the tone we are setting and the impression we are making, whether good or bad, to other users and visitors of the forum. There has been far too much bickering over trifles. Opinion upon opinion has been advanced with little, if any, scriptural basis for it. There have been sharp verbal exchanges. The purpose and aim of the Lockman Foundation in establshing this Study Bible Forum is inherent in the very name itself, Study Bible. The concept was to provide an on-line source of Biblical exegesis and exposition that anyone could turn to for help and guidance in his study of the Word of God -- analogous to a printed Study Bible. It was never conceived, and is not designed to be, a medium for airing one's spiritual laundry, or for promoting any particular denominational bias over another, or for honing one's persuasive skills. Far more attention and space have been given to issues that divide us than they deserve. Too much has been made of minor and relatively unimportant details and side issues. On far too many occasions the focus has been diverted to petty squabbles about this word or that phrase, and the real spiritual truth has been sidetracked. In short, this forum, for the most part, is not following the pattern laid out for it by its founders. But it is yet new. We still have the opportunity to build it into something useful and good, into something that can honor our Lord, and into something that could become the vehicle through which someone could find Christ. I therefore ask, humbly and sincerely, that all users of this forum who profess Christ as their Savior and Lord to pray that it may truly be a monument to Him and His Holy Word; that it may always reflect the love that He has for His people and the love they should have toward one another; that it clearly exhibits awe, honor, and deep respect for sacred scripture; and that we, individually and collectively, be granted the grace to preserve unity in the bond of peace. A house, or a forum, divided against itself cannot stand. Percival, I appreciate your thought-provoking comments, and I feel certain tha many other users of the forum do too. Please say with us and favor the forum with additional input. --Hank | ||||||
1628 | Is this heaven or the family? | John 14:2 | Hank | 61816 | ||
Aspilos, cheerful greeting! Thank you for your response to one of my vintage posts. I'm disinclined to speculate much about things of which I know little and understand even less, and that includes any attempt to describe heaven beyond the glimpses of it God gives us in Holy Writ. In John 14:2 and elsewhere wherein Jesus talks to His disciples of heaven, it is my sense that our Lord spoke to them with the full realization that they were, after all, finite human beings and not especially sophisticated ones at that, but simple folk; and that He clothed his thoughts in simple, earthy language that they could understand and relate to. I think that we can come no nearer to a full and complete comprehension of the joys of heaven than we can of the horrors of hell, but at the same time I believe that God has revealed enough about the nature of each so that we can fervently desire to live with the Lord in eternal heaven and shudder at the thought of banishment from Him in a devilish hell. I will conclude this answer, the inadequacy of which I am keenly aware, with the stirring yet delicate lines of a poem written by a first-rank poet, Emily Dickinson, a woman who during her entire life rarely set foot out of her native Amherst, Massachusetts but whose mind and imagination spanned the universe. Here's the poem. In a touching and magnificent way it puts words to what the human heart often feels about heaven. "I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; .... Yet know I how the heather looks, and what a wave must be. ..... I never spoke with God, nor visited in heaven; ..... Yet certain am I of the spot as if the chart were given." ....... Aspilos, I hope to meet you there! --Hank | ||||||
1629 | What happens to Non-Christians? | John 14:6 | Hank | 3166 | ||
The language Jesus uses in John 14:6 is plain, clear, forthright and leaves little wiggle room. But we are disciples of the King, ambassadors for the gospel; nothing more, nothing less. God never appointed us to judge the world. That fearful and awesome responsiblity rests upon His shoulders, and His alone. We are in sales. He is in management. In his first letter to Corinth Paul addresses the subject of spiritual gifts and in 12:31 says this, "I show you a still more excellent way." Read in context the meaning is clear. He is saying that the right way to exercise all spiritual gifts is the way of love. Thus when the Christian's approach to all non-Christians -- believers in something or believers in nothing -- is with a loving heart and a sincere and humble attitude that says quietly, "Please, if I may, let me show you what I have found and have come to believe is a more excellent way." No bigotry. No assertions that my God is better than your God. No condemnation. No judgment ... But it could be asked, "Isn't the Bible often judgmental?" The answer, of course, is Yes, it is. Does that give us the authority to be judgmental also? No, it doesn't. We have every right and reason to condemn sin, in ourselves and others. We have no right to condemn sinners. Hank | ||||||
1630 | can anyone get to heaven without jesus? | John 14:6 | Hank | 36699 | ||
Not according to Jesus. Read John 14:6. --Hank | ||||||
1631 | Is JESUS a ticket to heaven or is a way | John 14:6 | Hank | 40974 | ||
Golfer, please read the verse immediately before John 17:3 for your answer. Actually, "a ticket to heaven" is not exactly the way the Bible describes salvation through Jesus Christ, but Jesus made it inarguably clear in John 14:6 that, to use your ticket-to-heaven phrasing, certainly no one else is issuing any tickets to heaven. --Hank | ||||||
1632 | Paganism seems to fit what i do believe | John 14:6 | Hank | 49082 | ||
Lost and Not Found: Do you mind answering a few questions, privately or on the forum, as you prefer? What is your definition of paganism? Why does it seem to fit what you believe and what you say you want to believe? Have you read the Bible? Do you feel you have sufficient background knowledge to be able to compare Christianity to paganism? Are you convinced that you are anything more than a sinner in rebellion against God? Is what really attracts you to paganism the fact that in paganism you can do your own thing and not be accountable to God? --Hank | ||||||
1633 | True church of God | John 14:6 | Hank | 53696 | ||
Faith 531 -- The 'true church' is not identified by a shingle on the outside of a building. A label or a name on the church door does not necessarily mean that all, or indeed any, of the members congregated inside are regenerate believers and thus members of Christ's body, the church, the 'true' church, if you will. It is only through regeneration that anyone ever becomes a member of, or is added to, the church, the true church, the body of Christ. Church membership as we commonly understand it, that is, the act of going through the motions to meet the requirements of a particular denomination, does not per se constitute addition to the Lord's body, the true church. Only regeneration does that. So we have essentially two types of membership. One is "physical" membership in a certain denominational group. The other "spiritual" membership in Christ's church. The latter is the true church. --Hank | ||||||
1634 | Jews saved without Christ? | John 14:6 | Hank | 82816 | ||
"Jesus said to him (Thomas), 'I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'" [John 14:6] ..... "Let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. This is the stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone. Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." [Acts 4:10-12]. --Hank | ||||||
1635 | Effect of Christian Universalism ? | John 14:6 | Hank | 92069 | ||
newoldstock: First post from you, first welcome to you! I feel an affinity with your position, for I am a pilgrim too, one who, I surely do believe, made progress when some half dozen years ago things became unbearable for this pilgrim in the PCUSA (Presbyterian), and my wife and we switched to an SBC (Baptist) church and rejoice that we did. .... It's sad to say there continues to be among the so-called mainline churches a steady downgrade: each passing year they reach new lows in orthodoxy and new highs in apostasy -- in the promulgation of secular humanism that expresses itself in ever-changing forms with the rapidity of a constantly rotating kaleidoscope. Universalism is one of many other manifestations of this downgrade from orthodox Christianity. In the wake of the 9/11 tragedy, many leaders of mainline churches broadened the definition of ecumenenism to embrace all religions as equals, and to view pagan gods as equal to, or the same as, the Judeo-Christian God of the Bible. Much of this downgrade began in 19th century Great Britain and we in America are now feeling the full gale force of its ill wind. ..... In its wake there is the unscriptural doctrine of universalism, which flies in the face of Jesus' declaration in John 14:6. But there is more, much more. There is endorsement of the homosexual agenda and of murder by abortion. There is denial of the need for Christ's atonement and of the plenary divine inspiration of Scripture. There is the rise of cults that deny the deity of Jesus Christ. There is alarming proliferation of the heretical Word-Faith movement. When secular humanism moved into the church, it gave birth to a blasphemous man-centered theology that could not and did not co-exist with biblical God-centered theology. Much of what that once was the church of God has ended up in our time in a state not unlike the ancient people of God in the days of the judges, that is, "everyone did what was right in his own eyes." (Judges 21:25). ..... A special P.S. -- I do hope that you have found an evangelical church where the man in the pulpit consistently preaches the word of God and the worshipers in the pew truly believe it; or, if not, that you will diligently seek God's guidance to lead you to His sheepfold. --Hank | ||||||
1636 | What makes Christianity different | John 14:6 | Hank | 106335 | ||
Dr X - There are any number of things that distinguish Christianity from other world religions, but if I had to pick and choose the two features about Christianity that set it apart from all others, I'd choose these: The founders of all other major world religions were seekers of the truth. Jesus Christ proclaimed Himself to be the truth. The founders of all other major religions were born to live and are now dead. Christ was born to die and now lives. Christianity of all major world religions stands alone in that its Founder, Jesus Christ, died, was buried, on the third day was resurrected. He lives today and will live eternally. ..... All religions do not lead to God. The Lord Jesus himself said, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me." It is absolutely impossible to hold that the Bible is true and at the same time to hold that all religions lead to God. --Hank | ||||||
1637 | How about the other sheep | John 14:6 | Hank | 108090 | ||
newoldstock: On no other issue than the way to salvation is the Bible clearer. He who issued the exigent command, "Follow Me" also laid it down unequivocally and unambiguously that He is the only way to salvation. I can think of no other passage in all Scripture that is more direct and clear than John 14:6 in which Jesus says, "I am the way, the truth, and the life; no man cometh unto the Father but by me." ...... We can spend all our days asking, "But how about the Muslims or the Buddhists or this or that religion?" and we won't change the incontrovertible truth of Acts 4:12: "Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is no other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." The evidence of Scripture is overwhelming and the verdict sure: "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasing life...but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." [John 3:16,18]. --Hank | ||||||
1638 | God in his wisdom knows our hearts. | John 14:6 | Hank | 129801 | ||
"Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me" [John 14:6] ......... "And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved" [Acts 4:12]. --Hank | ||||||
1639 | people who have never heard the Gospel ? | John 14:6 | Hank | 149948 | ||
Gina: Jesus took the speculation and the guesswork out of the answer to your question in John 14:6, didn't He? So did Peter when he addressed the Sanhedrin in Acts 4:12. --Hank | ||||||
1640 | could this number mean anything? | John 14:6 | Hank | 156341 | ||
faith_21: Dear inquirer, I assure you that I am not "furious about your question," per your request! You will notice that I chose to use Jesus' words of John 14:6 as the Scripture reference to your question, and you may well ask what John 14:6 has to do with your question, and before this post has ended, I hope to be able to show you. ..... Your question has to do with numerology, and numerology can take you a long way, a long way, that is, in the wrong direction. Numerology is old. Pythagoras, who lived some 500 years before Christ, is best known for his famous geometric theorem, but he also dabbled around with mystic doctrines, one of which was numerology. Now considered pseudo-mathematics, numerology is still very much alive in the world of the occult -- fortune tellers, astrologers and other assorted soothsayers -- charlatans and deceivers all -- who will gladly part you from your money and give you absolutely nothing but lies in return. Read what the Bible says about the Egyptian Pharaoh's magicians and diviners in Exodus 7-9. Modern-day numerologists, astrologers, fortune tellers and other fakirs are no more effective or reliable than Pharaoh's magicians were. ..... So, therefore, ardently do I admonish you to stop playing around with numerology. If you are, as you indicate in your bio, a follower of Christ, then by all means follow Him and leave the pagan soothsayers, along with their numerology, to their own devices! You will not find truth in numerology, but you will find truth in Jesus Christ, just as He said in John 14:6. ..... Faith_21, forget this numerology nonsense. It leads to nothing worthwhile and certainly doesn't contribute to, but detracts from, your Christian witness. --Hank | ||||||
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