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681 | The New Birth - A Survey | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 128980 | ||
New Creature, following this thread with interest, I see the word "repent" has been used, along with some talk about whether it's active or passive. On other threads the word "repent" often appears also and by the way some Forumites have used it, it occurs to me that a mini remedial course on what Scripture means when it uses the word "repent" might not be out of place. Accordingly, I'm herewith submitting a few verses that may be of some value for those who would like to refresh themselves on what God means when He uses the words "repent" and "repentance." Here is a short sampling: Isaiah 45:22; Matthew 6:19-21; Acts 14:15; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Colossians 3:2; 1 Thessalonians 1:9; Hebrews 9:12-14. ...... Biblical repentance is not what some Christians think it is or what some dictionaries define it as! ...... P.S. Many secular dictionaries are wrong in their definition of onanism too :-) Compare the popular dictionary definition of onanism with Genesis 38:9! --Hank | ||||||
682 | How do you know the Bible is the word of | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 129788 | ||
The Old Testament contains some 300 prophecies that were fulfilled perfectly in Jesus Christ. Not one of these prophecies was written any later than 400 years before the advent of Jesus, the promised Messiah, and some of them predated His birth by a thousand years. Statisticians estimate that the odds against a charlatan being able to rig all these Old Testament prophecies are so astronomically high as to make it a statistical impossibility. Thus, the fulfilled Messianic prophecies not only attest to the divine inspiration and inerrancy of Scripture but to the unimpeachable reality that Jesus Christ is the Messiah, the Savior, the Son of God. There are, of course, many other powerful witnesses, internal and external, that the Bible is the word of God, a number of which have been displayed on this thread by other Forum users. ...... I'd sooner argue the case that water isn't wet than to try to prepare an argument that the Bible is not the word of God. --Hank | ||||||
683 | Was NT Written in Greek or Hebrew? 1 | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 130770 | ||
Kalos, how disappointing that all these august Forum scholars haven't hit upon the obvious solution. The only divinely inspired New Testament in existence today was written in neither Hebrew nor Greek. As everyone knows (or jolly well ought to know by now!), it was written in Elizabethan English in 1611. Some call it the Authorized or King James Version, but those of us who are priviliged to know all things fully recognize it to be the real McCoy, the one and only, the incomparable DIT, the DIVINELY INSPIRED TRANSLATION. QED. Case closed. With this truth so plainly evident, we need no longer tax our little heads with insignificant details of what happened a couple of thousand years ago. That was a long time before DIT came along and settled the matter once and for all. Repeat: The REAL New Testament, the DIT, was written in English -- English mind you. Not Greek. Not Hebrew. Not Spanish, French, German or NewsSpeak. English, I tell you; and the date of the DIT was 16ll A.D. --Hank | ||||||
684 | men who wrote the bible use imagination | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 149945 | ||
Rhoney2000: Lionheart gave you an excellent answer. Now I'm going to ask you a question: Have you read the Bible? Imaginative literature is fiction, not fact. The Bible is fact, not fiction. No one can read the Bible open-mindedly and intelligently and come away with the conviction that it is the product of some 40 writers of antiquity whose over-active imaginations ran away with them! The Bible is not a work of fantasy or fiction; it is the word of God. ...... Herewith a quartet of references to add to the two Lionheart gave you: Hebrews 1:1,2; Psalm 119:105; Proverbs 30:5,6; Revelation 21:5. There are literally scores of additional passages in Scripture that attest to its truth and its divine inspiration. How do I know that the Bible is not the work of man's imagination? And how do I know that Jesus loves you and me? And how do I know what I must do to be saved? These things and more I know because ... the Bible tells me so! And it tells you so, too. Read it, believe it, mark it, learn it, and inwardly digest it. It is the living word of the living God! To doubt God's word is to doubt God. And to doubt God is a most foolish thing. --Hank | ||||||
685 | Role of liberation | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 159378 | ||
Biblejeff: Be specific please. What do you have in mind? --Hank | ||||||
686 | Right and wrong | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 160461 | ||
NightJay0044: I think no passage of Scripture better answers your question and the related question before it than the parable of the good Samaritan recorded in Luke 10:30-37. Your question can only be answered properly and biblically by citing Bible principles, not by getting bogged down in detailed hypotheses. --Hank | ||||||
687 | That is not an answer | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 160585 | ||
nodrog - Last evening I made a special effort to answer your question biblically to the best of my ability. Please don't get testy with other members of this Forum. If you have other Bible-based questions or responses, you are welcome to enter them. But we will have none of this quibbling, understand? This Forum has been like a war zone this evening, with people in an attack mode. Too close to Halloween, is it? This is a Bible study forum. Let's treat it with respect. --Hank | ||||||
688 | Is belief in the bible needed to be save | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 160838 | ||
hetfield - Yours is a multi-faceted question, so please permit me comment on but two of them. ...... You ask why we need to believe the Bible is the word of God in order to become a member of a church. Well, we don't actually, at least in some groups that call themselves churches. If they don't ask, we need not tell. But what good is membership in a church like that? We don't "get saved" by joining a church. In fact, we can join a dozen churches and still be as lost as a goose in a snow storm. There is absolutely no way to be saved except by God's grace through faith in His Son, Jesus Christ (See Ephesians 2:8,9). The point I'm striving for is this: having one's name on a local church's membership roll is not tantamount to being saved; not by a long shot. ..... Now as touching your question of whether the New Testament is the word of God. Let's suppose it is not. Let's just assume it was written by a few rather ignorant, overly-zealous men, of the common class for the most part, who lived some two thousand years ago. Let's further assume that it is studded with error, ancient myth and superstition, full of mistakes, exaggerations, and wishful thinking. Keeping in mind therefore these assumptions, let's ask ourselves: (1) Why haven't scholars, even highly skeptical ones, been able to put the whole New Testament to the lie? They've had nearly two thousand years to make their case and prove it. But how many bona fide proofs can you find that the New Testament is a hoax, a bogus book not worth a plug nickel? How many? ...... (2) If the New Testament is not the inspired, inerrant word of God but is on the contrary a curious and spurious group of writings of dubious value that testify of the man Jesus who himself never wrote anything that we know of -- if such is the case, how can we believe in Jesus at all? Are we so naive that we would believe fairy tales? Would we trust our eternal soul to a testimony that was so obviously steeped in myth and fable? Can we say we believe in Jesus and reject the only written testimony that we have, a compendium of 27 little books we call the New Testament? ........ Where did you learn of Jesus? Friend, where did you learn of Jesus? Again, friend, where did you learn of Jesus? Was it from the New York Times? ....... I'll close this post with some words I pray that you will ponder long and seriously: "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) ..... Bibliography: Please read "The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict," by Josh McDowell. It answers many of your questions in depth, something that cannot really be accomplished on a Forum such as this. ...... May God lead you to His truth, to His Son, the Savior. --Hank | ||||||
689 | friend, a homosexual, what do you do | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 167327 | ||
johnpastors: The apostle Paul in the preamble (1 Cor. 12:31) to his famous "love chapter" (1 Cor. 13) gave the Corinthians the imperative to learn the "more excellent way." He was, of course, speaking of the way of love, of agape, which he so beautifully explained in chapter 13. But being in Christ is also a more excellent way.. As for all other sinners so for the practicing homosexual, there is a more excellent way -- God's way, following His commands and leading a lifestyle in accord with His moral laws. And who knows? You, as a friend of a homosexual, may be the one person on earth who can show him a more excellent way, by word and deed. It's a heavy responsibility but it's also a marvelous opportunity. Pray, and we will pray with you, that God will use you as his instrument to bring this lost sheep into the fold. --Hank | ||||||
690 | the Resurrection of Christ | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 170506 | ||
kang: So enormous is the volume of extra-biblical material available on the life of Jesus Christ, including His resurrection, that even to list a bibliography far exceeds the limits of a post on this Forum. The best I will try to do is refer you to two books. The first book is by Josh McDowell and is called "The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict." Section 9 of Part 1, called "The Resurrection -- Hoax or History?" contains much good material. The second book is one you doubtlessly have in your possession. When you pick up this book -- I'm referring you to the Bible -- you hold in your hands the most authoritative book ever written on the birth, life, death, burial, resurrection and ascension to glory of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. I've taught for many years and have come to the firm conviction that the attitude of the teacher toward the Word of God spills over into the hearts and minds of his students. If the teacher is firmly grounded in the faith and saturated in the word of God, his words have infinitely more power to convince that those of a namby-pamby teacher who himself is not sure whether what he is teaching is the truth. ....... There is such an abundance of internal evidence in Scripture of its authenticity that corroboration by secular sources is not only unnecessary but pales by comparison with what God says in His word. The Christian faith or lack of it should never be determined by what some historian says! ....... My advice to you as a Bible teacher myself is simple: teach the Bible. I've been a Christian for well over half a century, have taught Bible classes for half that time, and the longer I live the more convinced am I that in matters of Christian belief and practice, God's word alone is sufficient. It is the measuring rod, not secular history which, at best, is riddled with error and tarnished by man's biases, guesses, conjectures, propaganda and a host of other limitations. ...... A young seminary student once asked his professor to recommend a good book on the life of Christ. The professor responded, "Have you tried the one that Luke wrote?" So it is with the resurrection accounts: Have your students tried the ones that Matthew, Mark, Luke and John wrote? ..... I pray that God will bless your ministry. --Hank | ||||||
691 | tithing | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 176267 | ||
Holland - The tithing system laid down in the Old Testament pertained to the Israelites. The New Testament does not command Christians to follow the Old Testament system of tithing. Please use Search to gain access to my Post # 175875 --Hank | ||||||
692 | can a devorcee pastor a church? | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 176358 | ||
Dear Meo - In the interest of trying to avoid excessive duplication, I invite you to use the search function and type in such key terms as: divorced pastor. This search will lead you to scores of posts, some of which will not speak specifically to your question but others will. --Hank | ||||||
693 | Baptism by gesture or required? | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 176775 | ||
Dear Oz - Being baptized, i.e. immersed in water, is considerably more than "just a symbolic gesture." It is a command of our Lord (Matthew 28:19); therefore, it should never be dismissed lightly or considered as trivial and unimportant. But is is an act of obedience on the part of the believer who has already been saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ (cf. Ephesians 2:8) and not by works (v.9). This immersion in the name of Jesus Christ (Acts 2:38) or the Triunity (Matthew 28:19) neither saves nor contributes to salvation in any way. Christ commanded His disciples to be baptized, making baptism essential to obedience, and this witness to salvation is testimony of the believer's obedience to the command of Christ. Only immersion (in contrast to other forms of applying water to the body, such as sprinkling or pouring on the head) fulfills the symbolism of (1) pointing back in history to the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ, (2) emphasizing the present in showing the believer's death to sin and resurrection to walk in newness of life with Christ Jesus, and (3) looking to the resurrection of the body when Christ comes again (cf. Romans 6:3-5). ..... The term "baptism" in Scripture does not, of course, always refer to immersion in water. It is used in reference to the coming of the Holy Spirit into the life of the believer at the point of regeneration (see 1 Corinthians 12:13). ..... While there are some groups who hold to baptismal regeneration, neither this writer nor the communion of which he is a part does, believing instead that salvation is solely the work of God and not of man, and that man is saved by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. --Hank | ||||||
694 | what is the meaning of sactification | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 176827 | ||
Weezy - This says essentially what CDBJ has said in his excellent answer, but in different words, so that perhaps it will serve to enchance your understanding of this important biblical concept embodied in the word "sanctification." I'm reproducing from the Glossary entry found on page 1891 of "The Believer's Study Bible" edited by the late Dr. W. A. Criswell and published by Thomas Nelson. ...... "Sanctification. (1) Positional - the work of the Holy Spirit in setting a man apart for Jesus Christ at his conversion (1 Pet. 1:2). ..... (2) Progressive - the work of the Holy Spirit which continues throughout the life of the believer and which results in increasisng personal holiness. ..... (3) Ultimate - the culmination of the sanctifying work of the Spirit resulting in glorification in the presence of God." ....... Thus ends the Glossary entry. It is worthy of note that sanctification in all its forms is the work of the Holy Spirit. We do not become sanctified by doing good works; we do good works because we are sanctified by the work of the Holy Spirit. Thus, both justification and sanctification are not of man's doing but of God's grace and therefore "Soli Deo Gloria!" is not an empty phrase. It means "To God alone be the glory!" -- and God alone, by his amazing grace, both justifies and sanctifies. ...... "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me." --Hank | ||||||
695 | what scripture relates blessings to luck | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 176877 | ||
Dear Spiritfilled - I'm not sure of your plan or purpose. You will find neither the word "luck" in the Bible nor the concept of chance or caprice being taught in the Bible. Are you seeking to find more scripturally-oriented phrases to replace such common expressions as "good luck" and "lucky me"? Since Scripture recognizes no such reality as luck, I don't see how you can engineer a devotional such as you describe. I'd opt to forget about the idea of luck altogether and build instead on the idea of God's blessings to His people. The Beatitudes of Matthew 5 come to mind. They will require some digging on your part in order to be able to explain them to the youth, but they are excellent material for devotional thought and reflection. May God guide you in your preparation. --Hank | ||||||
696 | What are Pauline verses? | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 181580 | ||
rod - If "Pauline epistles" is your meaning, you'll find them listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_epistles --Hank | ||||||
697 | How many Gospels record the feedings | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 182247 | ||
Duplicate question. | ||||||
698 | how many gosepls record the feedings | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 182249 | ||
Luv - Instead of giving you the answer to this easy question, perhaps I can help you more by showing you how to find it easily. Right on this page, go to the "Get Bible Text" search engine, limit your search by selecting "New Testament" and then type in two words, five thousand. Other quick and easy ways to find the answer to your question are these: Use a printed Bible concordance and look at entries for "thousand" or perhaps "five thousand." Or look under "miracles" or perhaps "miracles of Jesus Christ" in a standard Bible dictionary. Or consult a "Harmony of the Gospels" spreadsheet that you will find in a number of reference and study Bibles. All of the study tools that I've mentioned here are rather commonplace, easy to find, and are enormously helpful in Bible studies. --Hank | ||||||
699 | How long did Jesus wait to heal Lazarus | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 182251 | ||
Luv - Now that we've learned a little about how to research the Scriptures, why not attempt to answer your question and let us know how you did? Fair enough? --Hank | ||||||
700 | what church do i go to? Help!! | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 185559 | ||
maricjess - Try http://www.gotquestions.org/looking-church.html --Hank | ||||||
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