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1801 | That didn't really answer my question. | Rom 9:23 | Hank | 86381 | ||
Whitewave: Some two years ago I had a question concerning what I considered a quirky NASB rendition of Ecclesiastes 12:13, so I sent an e-mail about it to Lockman.org. They answered my e-mail with a rather long and detailed explanation. I appreciated their kind response, although I still consider the passage quirky. You might want to query them regarding the passage in Romans 9:22-24. If you do, and get an answer, please post to this thread what you found out. --Hank | ||||||
1802 | Alter Calls? | Rom 10:9 | Hank | 25346 | ||
Hugger, isn't it simply unreal! Can you believe that all the flutter on this thread started from your innocent, uncomplicated question about altar calls? Some day I may ask, "According to the Bible, what color is Sunday?" That should be enough to keep this forum engaged for at least a couple of days, don't you think? --Hank | ||||||
1803 | Alternative to the term "Jesus is LORD"? | Rom 10:9 | Hank | 175333 | ||
Fellow Pilgrim - I'm sorry to hear that you have a problem with the word 'lord,' especially as a title for Jesus. But I suggest a remedy to every one who needs it -- to those "post-modern, anti-monarchic" kids you mentioned in your post, and everyone else who is having a problem with this common four-letter English word. The remedy? Use a dictionary! It is hard to feel much pity for anyone who is too indolent to open a dictionary to learn what a word means. If you happen to hear any of these young people grumbling about having to look up the meaning of the word 'lord' that we members of the older generation use and understand, please remind them that we who were born a generation or two before them have to consult a dictionary to learn the meaning of some of the four-letter words THEY use, words like nerd and geek for instance. It's as much their responsibility to learn what 'lord' means as it is mine to learn what 'geek' means. It is not our business to rewrite in street slang what are perfectly good standard English translations of the Scriptures. I shudder to think of having no better option than of having to pick and choose which variation on the "Cotton Patch Gospel" I preferred. --Hank | ||||||
1804 | should you pray to god or jesus/ | Rom 10:13 | Hank | 54437 | ||
"When you pray, say: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name." (Luke 11:2a). The speaker and instructor in this passage is Jesus Christ. The students are His disciples. The context is Jesus' answer to the request of one of His disciples, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples." (Luke 11:1) --Hank | ||||||
1805 | Can one be saved by only reading Bible? | Rom 10:14 | Hank | 79376 | ||
"And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name." [John 20:30,31]. --Hank | ||||||
1806 | 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 | ||||||
1807 | People that never heard about Christ... | Rom 10:17 | Hank | 158570 | ||
Hi, Az... Please read Acts 4:12 and John 14:6. --Hank | ||||||
1808 | Where exactly does faith come from? | Rom 10:17 | Hank | 160341 | ||
"So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" (Romans 10:17). Faith comes not from ourselves; it is the gift of God. See Romans 12:3; Eph. 2:8; Phil. 1:29. --Hank | ||||||
1809 | ESSAY ON HOLY LIVING | Rom 12:1 | Hank | 209307 | ||
RUSSSH :: What's your question, please? --Hank | ||||||
1810 | Can it be wrong when it feels so right? | Rom 12:2 | Hank | 150624 | ||
Katebote: Your question: "Would it be wrong to believe something about the author of the Bible that couldn't be backed up with Scripture?" .... My answer, yes, Katebote, it would be very wrong. It would be presumption. It would be speculation. And there is no reason on earth to assume it would have an ounce of truth in it. The Bible says, "And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect" (Romans 12:2). Pray tell me how is man to know what the will of God is except by the word of God, the book we call the Bible? Where does faith in God come from? By believing what we want to believe about Him? No! The seminal source of faith is ultimately the word of God. The Bible says, "Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God" (Romans 10:17). --Hank | ||||||
1811 | Diversity of interpretation leeway? | Rom 12:2 | Hank | 150639 | ||
Sorry, katebote, but I can answer neither of your questions because both call for speculation. As for the first, "why is there so much disagreement as to the Bible's interpretation?" my "answer" is that I simply don't know. ...... And to the second, "can there be a certain amount of leeway given by God for this diversity of interpretations" I will have to say honestly that I am far from being capable to speak as an oracle of God. .... The very best I can do is to commend to you for your attention and study what the Bible says: "Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth" (2 Timothy 2:15). --Hank | ||||||
1812 | How do I (you, we) come across? | Rom 12:3 | Hank | 97697 | ||
Aixen - EdB, adroitly blending scriptural passages with personal experience, came up with an excellent answer that I do not presume to equal. However, two small points come to mind. The first is that Jesus obviously never questioned man's capacity for self-love and thus gave few discourses that could be viewed as pep talks designed to enhance self-esteem. Instead He told His followers to love their neighbor as they loved themselves. The second point I would try to make is that being overly concerned with the image we project -- how we come across -- to people is itself narcissistic and really has no place in the life of a follower of Christ. It was a minister of yesteryear -- I can't recall just who it was -- who said, "People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages." There are doubtlessly some people who have what the psychologists call "low self-esteem." But they are very possibly far outnumbered by the self-centered snobs who are overly endowed with egotism. The message of the Bible is to lead a life centered not on self but on Christ. Even the most worldly psychologist would endorse that as being sound therapy! --Hank | ||||||
1813 | How high is your self-esteem? | Rom 12:3 | Hank | 97818 | ||
Aixen: "It's hard to know what to think." ..... Paul: "Whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are of good report: if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things." (Philippians 4:8) --Hank | ||||||
1814 | How high is your self-esteem? | Rom 12:3 | Hank | 97819 | ||
Aixen: "It's hard to know what to think." ..... Paul: "Whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are of good report: if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things." (Philippians 4:8) --Hank | ||||||
1815 | How high is your self-esteem? | Rom 12:3 | Hank | 97821 | ||
Aixen: You ask, "How high then should be your self-esteem?" ..... Probably not high enough to cast a shadow on your humility. --Hank | ||||||
1816 | And not so low that ...? | Rom 12:3 | Hank | 97842 | ||
...it is mistaken for imbecility. | ||||||
1817 | a list of the spiritual gifts | Rom 12:6 | Hank | 191023 | ||
quaddy - Lists of spiritual gifts are found in Romans 12:6-8; 1 Cor. 12:8-10; 1 Cor 12:28-30; and Ephesians 4:11. Thanks for your question. Welcome to SBF. Hope you enjoy it. --Hank | ||||||
1818 | God's love not important in daily life | Rom 12:12 | Hank | 7941 | ||
The answer for me can be summed up in one word: Hope. And I do not mean hope in the sense of wishful thinking, but in the Biblical sense of confident expectation. God in His love for us does not pamper us or kiss a boo-boo on our knee when we stumble the way a mother does for her child. He does not give us a glass of cold lemonade to quench our thirst on a hot summer day the way a loving spouse will do. But by the act of His Son on the cross He gives us His immeasurable love, the offer of eternal life through Christ. And upon acceptance of that love, we have a hope that is both sure and steadfast. A life led with nothing to hope for but misery here and eternal misery hereafter is not a thing to be desired. Our life on earth is no Eden. But we do have a blessed hope in Christ Jesus. Hope of righteousness (Gal.5:5); Hope of glory (Col.1:27); Hope of salvation (1 Thess.5:8); Hope of eternal life (Titus 3:7); Living Hope (1 Pet.1:3).....As you observe in the declarative part of your question, God's redemptive love does not guarantee exemption from human suffering in this life. Indeed we, all of us, have our thorns in the flesh against which God's love does not shield us. And who is immune to crying out in pain and distress, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" Why do the righteous have to suffer? The book of Job raises the question, but does it answer it? Possibily I can understand why you would say that God's love is more scary than comforting. But don't you feel that it is we who are lacking in our ability to delve into the mind of the Almighty God? He is indeed awesome and transcendent, and we are merely His finite creation. His ways are not our ways, and his thoughts not our thoughts..... Still and all, romantic notions of love nothwithstanding, I believe that God does manifest His providential love and concern for His people here on earth in countless ways. We may not always read them as being His love, no more than a child reads parental discipline as love. I am the father of three children, all of them grown now. But how many times can I recall when my wife and I had to refuse to buy them all the candy they wanted and were told, "Mommie and Daddy, you don't love me anymore." Or the time I stood by my little daughter's side when the pediatrician was treating a painful boil, and she looked dolefully into my eyes and said, "Please, Daddy, make him stop hurting me." Maybe God's love for His children is something like that. --Hank | ||||||
1819 | Locate verse not repaying evil for evil | Rom 12:17 | Hank | 155757 | ||
Romans 12:17 and 12:19 may be what you have in mind. --Hank | ||||||
1820 | Abiding with Lockmans rules? | Rom 13:1 | Hank | 107883 | ||
Justme - Happy New Year! Yes, it's perfectly o.k. to point out the Lockman Foundation's guidelines to another user who abuses his privilege to post on the Forum. And it's certainly o.k. to report abuse to Lockman. Since the Forum began, there have been literally dozens of abusers whose user accounts Lockman has revoked. ..... By the way, in case you haven't heard, Arkansas beat Missouri, but I won't brag about that. No, not much! :-) --Hank | ||||||
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