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621 | preaching the Gospel? | Eph 2:8 | Beja | 226956 | ||
Julia, I can not think of any passage that teaches that we must preach the gospel in order to be saved. What scriptures does your husband give to support this statment? What does your pastor say about this? Ephesians 4 teaches that is the church that is meant to build you up such that various winds of false doctrine will not cause you such turmoil. In Christ, Beja |
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622 | preaching the Gospel? | Eph 2:8 | Beja | 226978 | ||
Julia, 1.) The things your husband are teaching are false. In the case of the trinity I would assume he is denying that Jesus is God. If that is the case your husband isn't a saved man. 2.) I get the impression that you don't have a firm doctrinal stance yourself. Do you attend church? Are you a part of some denomination? 3.) Winning him over with your actions is exactly what Peter instructed in 1 peter. In Christ, Beja |
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623 | preaching the Gospel? | Eph 2:8 | Beja | 227014 | ||
julco, Very good. I am glad to hear it. In Christ, Beja |
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624 | one on one relationship with God? | Eph 2:12 | Beja | 227092 | ||
ae9839, Eph 2:12 remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. I marvel at your question. You profess to not be saved. The implication being that all the wrath of God abides on you Joh 3:36 "He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him." Yet the fact that you are unsaved does not discourage you, but the possibility you can not get answers from God would discourage you? Why do you delay in trusting Christ? He is very willing to receive you. The payment for your sin is available in his dying on your behalf. His righteousness is available to you to make you acceptable to God the Father (2 Cor 5:21). Eph 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. All that is needed is for you to desire Christ over your sins (repentance) and to trust in what he has done as your only and sufficient merit before God (faith). Why wonder about these things? Be saved, have peace with God (Rom 5:1). Enjoy access to God (Heb 10:19-22). God is truely a loving and merciful God, but that love and mercy is in Christ. Do not be discouraged when He is so freely offered to you! In Christ, Beja |
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625 | How should we view Christianity. | Eph 4:24 | Beja | 243902 | ||
EdB, You are arguing for rules that go beyond what God commands, and you are saying that we ought to have no dealings with the unclean untrustworthy sinners who are unbelievers, and then you are saying others sound as pharisees. You really ought to consider the irony in that. In Christ, Beja |
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626 | How should we view Christianity. | Eph 4:24 | Beja | 243918 | ||
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627 | cussing/foul lang | Eph 5:4 | Beja | 230228 | ||
accox4, Eph 4:29 Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear. Eph 5:4 and there must be no filthiness and silly talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. In Christ, Beja |
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628 | A Godly reason for disobeying husband | Eph 5:24 | Beja | 224536 | ||
Just as a point of clarification. If a husband commands his wife to contradict the word of God she must disobey THAT command. That doesn't mean she now may disobey all commands. I would assume this is in fact what justme meant. Though correct me if I'm putting words into your mouth, Justme. In Christ, Beja |
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629 | Marriage as a Covenant Relationship? | Eph 5:32 | Beja | 206771 | ||
Heb 8:7-13 and its counterpart in Jeremiah has your answer. Yes we are in a new covenant. But as verse 9 says it is one, "Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers." The difference in the two is that the old covenant was as you are asking, full of rules and expectations. But what is unique about the new one is that it has no qualifications on our side. A normal covenant has I will do "such and such" and your part is to do "whatever." The way the new covenant is different is that it has no "our" part. God describes it fully in terms of I will do these things and put my laws on their heart and forgive their sins. We have a new covenant that is not dependent on the weakness of our flesh but solely on God's resolve to save. | ||||||
630 | Marriage as a Covenant Relationship? | Eph 5:32 | Beja | 206779 | ||
My deepest apologies, I think I responded to the wrong post with this as I was reading several then went back and replied, I thought the question was with regards to our new testament context relationship with christ being a covenant, I didn't mean to speak on marriage at all with that answer, please forgive me on this one. | ||||||
631 | Marriage as a Covenant Relationship? | Eph 5:32 | Beja | 206836 | ||
Bowler, Please see my second post in this thread. |
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632 | Praying to the Holy Spirit | Eph 6:18 | Beja | 221631 | ||
Cathy, Unless my greek is rusty, which it may be, then eipen means "to say" and apokrinomai means "to respond." His point being that if it had said the holy spirit had responded then it would have implied they were praying to the Holy Spirit, but the passage didn't use that word. I wouldn't say the word choice here is conclusive, but worth pondering. Either way there is just no reason to think that God responding through the Holy Spirit implies that was who they were praying to. If God sends a fireman in response to prayer does that mean we were praying to firemen? The logic just doesn't work. In Christ, Beja |
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633 | Is the "conflict" physical or spiritual? | Phil 1:30 | Beja | 224354 | ||
carrob, If you read the context of this verse you will see that Paul is infact mentioning physical persecution. He has just discussed the fact that he is in prison for the gospel. And welcome to the forum, I hope you are blessed by it. In Christ, Beja |
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634 | To Snitch or Not To Snitch ??? | Phil 2:2 | Beja | 224117 | ||
PewPotato, That verse works both ways. I would assume deceiving for gain also implied the other party was being deceived resulting in loss. If you were being scammed would you want somebody to tell you? Should Mordecai have snitched on the people planning to murder the king? I think we all agree that he should. Should you snitch if you see a man breaking into your neighbors house? I think we would all agree. What difference is there in this beyond the greatness of the crime? In one sense your verses are finely spoken. He should not tell out of some sense of vengence or hostility, but rather out of love for the one being wrong. In Christ, Beja |
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635 | Is accepting gratitude right or wrong? | Phil 2:3 | Beja | 241315 | ||
ria, Here you are taking a theological principle, "all praise ultimately belongs to God," and extrapolating a behavior from it which scripture doesn't expressly command. This is something you should be careful about, which you evidently are since you are asking here. But the main thing you want to do is to let your mind browse through scripture to see how it stands up. For example, in this case I consider the rewards we are promised. Such as how if we give a cup of cold water to somebody on account of Christ we will not loose our reward for it. I consider how revelations says the bride is granted to be clothed in white attire which are the righteous deeds of the saints. So even though our works are granted to us, and ultimately God is the architect of our works Eph 2:8-10, yet we are going to be rewarded for them and adorned by them. They are granted by God to the bride, the church, for our beauty and glory. So as I let my mind browse through scripture, while I do see God as the source of all good, and I do see that our good works are Him accomplishing good things through us, I also see God rewarding and adorning us through these good works. They are God's gifts to us, before they are our gifts to God. If I do something good, by God's grace, and if God intends to eternally reward me and adorn me through this, do you suppose he begrudges a man to tell me thank you? I would think not, so I would suggest the behavior your are speculating from this principle doesn't stand up to scripture. I hope this helps. In Christ, Beja |
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636 | If "heaven" is a metaphor | Phil 3:20 | Beja | 240192 | ||
Movingon, "is the same as most Amillennial twisting of plain literal words to suit their own inventions" Perhaps a little more graciousness to those we disagree with would be fitting. In Christ, Beja |
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637 | If "heaven" is a metaphor | Phil 3:20 | Beja | 240199 | ||
Movingon, Sorry it took so long for my reply. I've read over most, but not all, of the thread you pointed me to. I am no judge or jury on this forum nor do I intend to present myself as such. But since you have asked me regarding it, or at least I think you have... It is quite easy to identify where that thread went wrong. The problem was that it began with an insincere question. When I say an insincere question I mean a question that was not actually seeking to learn something. You already had your answer resolved, you asked purely to bait somebody to answer so that you could then "instruct" the forum. Everytime this happens on the forum it leads to a confrontational thread. Usually it is the sign that the poster will stay briefly and argue much. I so hope you prove this wrong. I hope you stay long and are benefitted by this community. But I also hope you refrain from trying to make this forum your personal teaching ministry. So often somebody will come here and they don't come to study scripture and to grow with everybody. The arrive planning to teach us something they assume we have all missed. This never goes well. You will likely continue to find yourself in confrontational threads as long as it is your intentions to be a "teacher." So much more good could be done on this forum if we all simply had the mind to discuss particular texts of scripture together. But sadly more often we come to this forum not studying scripture, but to argue for our systematic theologies. Systematic theology is great, but when we debate systems rather than slowing down and discussing individual sections of scripture we learn little and debate much. In Christ, Beja |
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638 | Why dont we live old law handed by moses | Col 2:16 | Beja | 224395 | ||
DGMAWRIGHT, First let me say you are going to get quite a variety of answers to this, so let me simply give you my answer and point you towards a very good and very readable book on the topic. Alright then, my answer: First we must read the passage quoted in fullness. Christ says Mat 5:17 "Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill. For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is accomplished." So Christ says that he has come to fullfill the law, and that it will not pass away until all is accomplished. Now, some of the things in the law Christ did indeed accomplish. There were many things which we sometimes refer to as "ceremonial law" which were things that pointed to Christ. For example the sacrificial system. These things simply pointed to Christ. Now that the One to whom they pointed has arrived, there is no need for them and they have passed away. We can see this clearly stated in Colossians 2:16,17. Col 2:16 Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day-- things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ. So these things merely portrayed Christ in advance and now that Christ has arrived they have been accomplished/fulfilled. I agree with John Calvin when he said that it was fitting for such things to cease when Christ arrived lest there be confusion over what they were pointing to. So some aspects of the law have ceased because they have in fact been accomplished. Some of the Law also were given not as an eternal measure of morality but simply because some laws were needed in order for the Hebrew nation to function. So we have those laws which are sometimes referred to as civic laws. For example, the Israelites were commanded that in the case of a murder that the elders were to go and measure which city it was closest to and based on that do a certain thing. Or that they were to set aside cities for people who unintentionally killed a man could flee to and be spared punishment. These things Christians can't do today because we aren't running the governments like the Old Testament Saints were running the Hebrew nation. So Ceremonial laws have been accomplished/fulfilled, civin laws are given to national identities which we don't reproduce today. Finally we come to the moral commandments which are many but to name a couple examples I'll list: Do not murder, do not steal, do not commit adultery, do not covet, do not hate your brother etc. These moral laws we are still to obey. Now, keep in mind that those who are in Christ are in no way judged by these laws in terms of acceptance or rejection before God. Our justification is entirely in Christ through faith. However, being in Christ doesn't mean that we are now free to murder! Nor should any Christian suggest that we are free to do so. The fact that we are now justified in Christ apart from whether or not we steal, does not mean God suggests we should in fact feel free to steal. So while our justification is entirely in Christ apart from the law, the moral laws of the old testament still show us right from wrong. And God desires that we walk in righteousness even though our salvation is entirely from Christ's righteousness and not our own. So to sum up, Civic laws simply don't apply to individuals, ceremonial laws are fulfilled, moral laws are still the expectations of right and wrong, but our justification is entirely apart from the law and entirely in Christ Jesus dying on our behalf and giving us His righteousness all of which is imparted to us upon faith. Now, there is my answer. I say again, not all agree upon this. If you would like a wonderful easy to read book that will help you to understand, I reccommend "Marrow of Modern Divinity." I got it online and simply printed it off. Outstanding book for helping us to understand these things. In Christ, Beja |
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639 | Did Jesus come for the gentiles only? | Col 3:11 | Beja | 223643 | ||
Clreid, Colossians 3:11 Ephesians 2 Romans 11 Just about any book in the new testament probably has something somewhere that refutes this also. In Christ, Beja |
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640 | sexual toys | 1 Thessalonians | Beja | 232856 | ||
Magie, Given that you have stated in another question that you are not married, yes. In Christ, Beja |
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