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161 | Is God really just? | Deut 32:4 | Lionstrong | 30562 | ||
Let me try again, Art. You query, "But believers sin too. So wouldn't the just reward also be hell? And if we don't get our "just reward" but something else, then wasn't God being merciful and not just?" It would be unjust for God punish the believer for his sins. Why? because the believer's sins have already been laid on Christ and punished. Is 53:6, "All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all To fall on Him." On the cross the justice of God was satisfied. The death that Christ died, he died for sin. Therefore the sin-penalty is paid once for all, and need not be paid again 1 Pet 3:18, "For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;" In fact, though in your experience you sin and will struggle with it until you meet the Lord, God counts you as being righteous in Christ, because Christ has not only taken your sin, but God has clothed you with Christ's perfect righteousness. 2 Cor 5:21, "He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." Concernig God's justice and mercy, God is being merciful AND just. God is free to extend mercy to whomever he will (Rom 19:5) because the believers sins have been justly punished in Christ on the cross. God remains just, because NO sin goes unpunished, AND he can and does freely extend mercy to whomever he will. Finally, God does not "punish" believers for their sins. He, now as our heavenly Father in Christ, disciplines us that we might bear the peaceful fruit righteousness that we already have in Christ. (Heb 12:5-11) Peace, Lionstrong |
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162 | No promise land for Moses ? | Deut 34:6 | Lionstrong | 152842 | ||
Num 20:7 and the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, Num 20:8 "Take the rod; and you and your brother Aaron assemble the congregation and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it may yield its water. Num 20:11 Then Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation and their beasts drank. Num 20:12 But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you have not believed Me, to treat Me as holy in the sight of the sons of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them." Deut 3:25 'Let me, I pray, cross over and see the fair land that is beyond the Jordan, that good hill country and Lebanon.' Deut 3:26 "But the LORD was angry with me on your account, and would not listen to me; and the LORD said to me, 'Enough! Speak to Me no more of this matter. Deut 3:27 'Go up to the top of Pisgah and lift up your eyes to the west and north and south and east, and see it with your eyes, for you shall not cross over this Jordan. |
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163 | How should be interpret Joshua 10:12-14? | Josh 10:12 | Lionstrong | 5134 | ||
Why can't we interpret it literally? If we start from the Bible as our sole source of truth (sola scriptura) we could not deduce from the Scriptural data that the earth rotates on its axis. In fact mathematically and logically one could accurately predict the positions of points of light in the heavens if the sun, moon and stars rotated around the earth and the earth were a fixed point. In fact do you really know that the sun didn't stand still? Do you really know that the sun doesn't rise? Do you really know that the earth rotates on its axis? Or are these questions such an affront to your unexamined presuppositions that you immediately dismiss them as ludicrous? I know the Bible uses figures of speech, but as serious Bible students isn't the only reason you believe that the sun standing still is a figure of speech is that you believe what you've been taught about the earth rotating on its axis? Because Science says so? Someone has said, "In the popular mind, 'It has been scientifically proved' has replaced the Biblical formula 'Thus says the Lord.'" Lionstrong |
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164 | Defining Truth | Josh 10:12 | Lionstrong | 6476 | ||
Truth is not physical, relative or temporary. With respect to physical, it is not some physical motion in the brain either. Truth is not individualistic. Truth is universal, mental or spiritual, eternal, absolute, and unchanging propositions or thoughts. All scientific laws are tentative. Progress in science insures that the present laws will be replaced by other laws. If truth is unchanging, then science is false. |
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165 | Quest for Truth | Josh 10:12 | Lionstrong | 6509 | ||
Scripture does not give definitions for all the words it uses. Many words we know the definitions of although they are not given in Scripture. Sometimes the context or other passages helps us understand how a word is to be taken. Although "truth" is not defined in Scripture, it is clear from how it's used in Scripture that it is not the "truth" of our culture which views truth as relative. John 14:6 is no more a definition of the word "truth" than is 1 John 4:8 is a definition of love. John 14:6 teaches that Jesus is the truth. It does not teach that truth is Jesus. This verse, then, tells us something about the nature of truth. Since "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever," we learn that truth is eternal and immutable. |
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166 | Defining "Truth" | Josh 10:12 | Lionstrong | 6631 | ||
Really, Hank, if one finds a posting particularly pointless, he needn't feel obligated to respond. Someone else may feel differently. But of any forum, the Study Bible Forum is the right place to come to see what the Scripture says about truth. If one can't study truth and the content of truth here, Lockman may as well close up this shop! Granted, the philosophical implications of Bible doctrine is not for everyone, but there are plenty of other studies elsewhere in the forum from which they can profit. |
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167 | Who's on first? | Josh 10:12 | Lionstrong | 6632 | ||
Look up the tree for my post dated 5/28 to find what's being talked about. It starts off, "Once one defines..." | ||||||
168 | The burden of proof is on you. | Josh 10:12 | Lionstrong | 6635 | ||
My point is that one needs no special reference. Any encyclopedia of recent or not so recent date will have this information. My own source was my computer's Grollier's Encyclopedia (1996), under the heading of gravitation (no page number). One might also find some helpful information uner the heading of Physics, history of. | ||||||
169 | Did NASA prove Josh 10:13 to be true? | Josh 10:12 | Lionstrong | 66683 | ||
Hello Pastor Barney, It is incorrect to say something proves an item in the Bible. If something proves the Bible then that something becomes the final authority, not the Bible. God's word is its own authority. We don't prove the Bible. We start with the Bible, God's revelation of truth to man, and prove everything else by it. A proper understanding is that sometimes something --corroborates-- an item or two in Scripture. But it in no way supports upholds or proves God's Word. God's Word is the final authority, not the discoveries or scientific or ecclesiastic pontifications of man. Ps 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path. Ps 119:130 The unfolding of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple. John 17:17 "... Your word is truth." Peace, |
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170 | What man commanded? | Josh 10:13 | Lionstrong | 66254 | ||
Angelface, You might find the study on this passage interesting. Type in 5107 in the Quick Search box. Peace, |
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171 | Was Sampson a suicide terrorist killer? | Judges | Lionstrong | 17402 | ||
Judg 16:30 And Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!" And he bent with all his might so that the house fell on the lords and all the people who were in it. So the dead whom he killed at his death were more than those whom he killed in his life. Dear McLemore, Welcome to the Study Bible Forum! The subject of suicide crossed my mind the other day, and I did think about Samson in that context. It struck me that his death was not suicide, since by definition suicide is taking ones own life. The above verse shows that he asked the Lord to let him die with the Philistines, and the Lord answered his prayer, otherwise it was possible, though maybe unlikely, that he would have survived the collapse of the house. Samson had been captured and enslaved, while the bombers premeditatively and voluntarily crashed the jets to murder people. Samson acted in defense of the nation who was indeed being oppressed by the Philistines. As you remember, the Philistines had removed all weapons from the Israelites. The oppression the terrorists claim is only in their minds. Peace, Lionstrong |
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172 | 1 Chr 10:14 contradicts 1 Sam 28:6 | 1 Sam 15:11 | Lionstrong | 243491 | ||
Luke 18:1   Now He [the Lord Jesus] was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and not to lose heart, I think the passage can be looked at in two ways to understand them as not contradictory. In the first place in both records Saul inquires of a medium. To inquire of a medium is not to inquire of the Lord. Saul did not inquire of the Lord when he inquired of a medium. The second way to look at it is that Saul did not persevere in prayer. He asked of the Lord once and then went to a medium. Samuel, Saul's mentor, is an example of persevering in prayer, He said, “Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by ceasing to pray for you; but I will instruct you in the good and right way. (1 Sam. 12:23 ) Also, Samuel kept grieving before the Lord in prayer for the wayward Saul until the Lord in essence told him to stop. 1 Sam. 16:1 says,   "Now the LORD said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel?" So, (1) Saul did not inquire of the Lord in terms of persevering in prayer, and (2) Saul did not inquire of the Lord in that he chose inquiring of a medium after one failed attempt of inquiring of the Lord. |
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173 | Were does it say all babies go to heaven | 2 Sam 12:23 | Lionstrong | 49076 | ||
Dear DIM, Were in the Bible does it say that all babies go to heaven if they die? It does not. Another responder said that by inference the Bible does say all babies go to heaven, but he gives no biblical premises that logically infer such a conclusion. King David was a believer and the children of believers are holy. (1Cor 7:14) God makes no such statement with regard to the children of unbelievers. When Israel conquered the cities Canaan, the children were not spared. It was also argued that because a baby cannot think, repent and thereby be saved from their sins, it goes to heaven. This statement contains assumptions that are false. One false assumption is that we become sinners when we willfully sin. The truth is we all became sinners in Adam and in him we are already condemned (Rom. 5:12ff). As hard as it may sound, there is no basis in Scripture for the teaching that all who die in infancy go to heaven. If any infants are saved, such as John the Baptist was, it is NOT because they are innocent, but because God is gracious in Christ. Peace, |
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174 | Lionstrong, maybe this will clarify... | 2 Chr 7:14 | Lionstrong | 17628 | ||
Dear Bill, Thanks. I understand and agree with "the whole" of your explanation. But you defined the word all as "the whole of" which you further said meant "not all." Of course I understood you were refering to "teaching, reproof, correction, and training in righteousness," but the word all modifies the word Scripture. Therefore it cannot mean "the whole of" as you were using the phrase. But all this is beside the point, Steve's point, that is. "This passage does not apply to the US or Christians?" True, it may not have reproof; it may not have correction, but is it true that this passage has no application to God's NT Israel? Peace, Lionstong |
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175 | Biblical contradiction? | 2 Chr 35:21 | Lionstrong | 37286 | ||
2 Chr 34:27, 28 "Because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its inhabitants, and because you humbled yourself before Me, tore your clothes and wept before Me, I truly have heard you," declares the LORD. "Behold, I will gather you to your fathers and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, so your eyes will not see all the evil which I will bring on this place and on its inhabitants.""' And they brought back word to the king. Hi Seedsower, Welcome to the Forum, The text says, "so your eyes will not see all the evil which I will bring on this place and on its inhabitants." My guess at the meaning of peace, in light of the way King Josiah died, is that the land of Judah under Josiah's reign was not in turmoil, that God had not yet brought the "all the evil" that would come upon Judah after King Josiah's peaceful and righteous reign was over. So, though he personally died as a result of the voilence of war, he and Judah were enjoying a time of peace and favor with God. In Addition: 2 Chr 35:24 So his servants took him out of the chariot and carried him in the second chariot which he had, and brought him to Jerusalem where he died and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah. You'll also note that King Josiah did not die on the battle field. The wounds he suffered were severe, but not so severe as to result in his immediate death on the field of battle. He was brought all the way back to Jerusalem. And it does not say how many days or weeks he lived after he got back home, so his passing might have been--and I would say, was--peaceful in contrast to dying in agony. Peace, Lionstrong |
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176 | Job DID charge God foolishly? | Job 1:22 | Lionstrong | 45696 | ||
Dear Baptistbred, I start by quoting Job 42:1-7: "Then Job answered the LORD and said, "I know that You can do all things, And that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted. 'Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?' "Therefore I have declared that which I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know." 'Hear, now, and I will speak; I will ask You, and You instruct me.' "I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear; But now my eye sees You; Therefore I retract, And I repent in dust and ashes." It came about after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, that the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken of Me what is right as My servant Job has."" Job did not charge God foolishly. This was not his sin. His sin is identified by Elihu in chapter 32 and following. Otherwise, what Job said about God, in contrast to what his friends said, was right by God’s own testimony. The passage in Job IX is referring to a man’s own guiltlessness. Job understood that no man can stand absolutely guiltless before God, and God in His absolute and terrible justice “destroys the guiltless…” The only way a man can stand guiltless before God is to be clothed in the perfect righteousness of Christ. To charge God foolishly is to accuse of God of doing wrong. This, Job did not do. As in chapter 42, in chapter 9 Job is declaring the absolute Sovereignty of God in all He does. In other words, Job was saying that no matter what God does it is right, and it's right just because it is God who does it. Peace, |
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177 | Lionstrong, What does God say in 38:1ff? | Job 1:22 | Lionstrong | 46254 | ||
Dear Searcher, In his laying in to Job God did not accuse him of charging God foolishly. Job did not charge God foolishly. This was not his sin. His sin is identified by Elihu in chapter 32 and following. Otherwise, what Job said about God, in contrast to what his friends said, was right by God’s own testimony. (42:7) Peace, |
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178 | Why should we obey God? | Psalm | Lionstrong | 64121 | ||
Hello Whatever, As you see, there are several good reasons why we should obey God. Here are two very basic reasons: (1) Gen 1:26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." Gen 1:27 God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Gen 1:28 God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth." God is our creator. He owns us. We therefore ought to obey God because we OWE him obedience as our creator. (2) Ex 20:1 Then God spoke all these words, saying, Ex 20:2 "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Ex 20:3 "You shall have no other gods before Me. God is our Savior and our God (v.2). We therefore OWE him obedience (v.3) as our Savior and God. In both passages you have the relationship (Creator, Redeemer, God) and then the commands given on the basis of that relationship. You posted your question under "general questions and notes about the book of Psalms." Here's a quote from Psalms that captures all three ideas of Creator, Redeemer and our God: Ps 100:3 Know that the LORD Himself is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture. Peace, |
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179 | How do you know there is a God? | Ps 46:10 | Lionstrong | 19508 | ||
Welcome to the Forum, Maryann, I would start by clarifying the question. How do you know that there is a (fill in the blank)? If someone asked me, How do you know that there is a snark, I would ask him what's a snark? Likewise, I would ask him, What do you mean by God? The word doesn't mean the same thing to everyone. Clear communication requires that we both know what we mean by our words. Now, if someone were to asked me, how do I know that there is an eternal, omniscient, omnipotent, sovereign invisible Spirit who created everything from nothing, who is all wise, most just, good, loving, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness and truth? I would say, I know because the Bible tells me so. The next question might be, well, how do you know that the Bible is true? But I'll leave the inquirer to ask that question. Peace, Lionstrong |
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180 | People want answers! | Prov 3:5 | Lionstrong | 46652 | ||
Dear Inmyheart, Let me add my personal welcome to the forum! The forum is made up of many people who call themselves Christians, as you know. We represent many points of view here. So you must be like the noble-minded believers of Berea and check out what we say with SCRIPTURE to see if those things are so. (Act 17:10,11) Peace, |
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