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201 | Let's crucify Ezra Brown | Job | Brian.g | 34155 | ||
SRN It would be great if you could also give us some profile information about yourself. It just gives everyone a chance to know each other a little better. Brian |
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202 | By What Right Does God Rule Man? | Ps 2:11 | Brian.g | 188078 | ||
LockN This is a powerful (almost overwhelming) question and can be interpreted in numerous ways. Could you help me understand the context of this question. Is it intended as a statement of indignation, or as a question of relative relationships, or something else? I believe this effort on your part will help facilitate an appropriate answer. Regards Brian |
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203 | God's Right to Rule. | Ps 2:11 | Brian.g | 188344 | ||
LockN Before we go any further, asking this type of academic-style of question in order to understand the fullness of Christ’s message is fine and acceptable and I have no problem with you asking it. However, to ask the same question as a challenge to the First Commandment is to put ourselves into the role of judging God. We would be judging whether God should be allowed to make this demand of us; whether the demand is fair and just; and we would be challenging God’s wisdom. Regardless of the final outcome of our judgment, we are saying that our intellect, our fairness and our ability to judge, is greater than God’s. And that would be wrong. • In your response you said “Is the mere fact that God created man the only reason why God has a right to rule over men or is there another more legitimate basis for understanding this divine right?” My response that there is a more complete answer to Divine Right. In addition to creating man, God created not just man, but everything including Divine Rights. Who has a greater wisdom for granting and deciding rights and privileges, than God? Nobody. It is God’s right to make any demand He chooses of man and man does not share in that Divine Right to challenge God. • Towards what end or purpose was God’s reason for creating man? My response is for unity with God. This is an important question, because our relationship with God is predicated on His purpose of creating us. In John 17, Jesus prayed for our unity with God and with Jesus. This was God’s reason for creating us. • What compelled God to create man – what was the driving force which caused God to act? o Was it an external force or urge driving God to create man? No, because prior to creation, there was nothing outside of God. After creation, there is nothing outside of God powerful enough to compel or force God to act. o Was it an internal force; some thing or some need within God; driving God to create man? No, because that would imply that God created man in order to fulfill some form of deficiency, incompleteness or void within God. God is whole and complete. o The only reason remaining as to why God created man is compassion. – love. • We have love as God’s driving force for creating man; with the end purpose of God’s act of creation being our unity with God. • With love being God’s reason for creating man, it is safe to say that God would follow through, after the act of creation, in a manner which would be for our continued best interest, including protecting and nurturing man. God would not create man with the purpose of unity with God and then abandon man to the evil one. Ours is a jealous and protective God. • Should our unity with God be on our terms, God’s terms, or someone else’s terms? When comparing God’s terms to our terms for the purpose of union with God, God’s wisdom is infinitely greater than ours. As such, man will experience far greater enjoyment and good from our union with God by following God. As far as someone else defining the terms of our relationship with God, the evil one does not work to accomplish God’s purpose. Brian |
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204 | can you explain psalm 13:5? | Ps 13:1 | Brian.g | 106604 | ||
In verse 5, the psalmist is simply ending with his confessing his trust in God and with a statement of praise. Brian |
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205 | Advise on contradictions found in bible | Ps 25:4 | Brian.g | 17659 | ||
Benjibabs It was an interesting conclusion to your question, by seeing your question posted twice and the resulting confusion, as to what was said by whom, when, and etc. I curious, was this to reinforce a point or strictly by accident. Brian |
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206 | Advise on contradictions found in bible | Ps 25:4 | Brian.g | 17664 | ||
Sir Pent Thanks for the clarification. Actually, I enjoyed it. Brian |
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207 | How can I find true peace? | Ps 46:1 | Brian.g | 174830 | ||
Cynthia If you read Psalm 22, you'll be in good company. Brian |
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208 | IN GOD I WILL PRAISE IS WORD | Ps 56:4 | Brian.g | 71320 | ||
Verse 10 and 11, join together with verse 4 as a refrain. Brian |
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209 | Please provide any commentary on Ps 84:5 | Ps 84:5 | Brian.g | 17602 | ||
Joseph's Father According to Julius Africanus: Estha married Mathan, a descendant of David through Solomon, and became the mother of Jacob; After Mathan's death she took for her second husband Mathat, a descendent of David through Nathan, and by him became the mother of Heli. Jacob and Heli were, therefore, uterine brothers. Heli married, but died without offspring; His widow, therefore, became the levirate wife of Jacob, and gave birth to Joseph, who was the carnal son of Jacob, but the legal son of Heli, thus combining in his person two lineages of David's descendents. Brian |
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210 | Please provide any commentary on Ps 84:5 | Ps 84:5 | Brian.g | 17604 | ||
Sorry for the previous entry, I selected the wrong question Brian |
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211 | Can catholic man marry a catholic widow | Ps 103:12 | Brian.g | 136158 | ||
Loner My suggestion would be to speak with a priest and review your options. I know that you will be pleasantly surprised at the options available to you and at the incredible amount of support which the two of you will receive from the Catholic Church in helping you establish a new life together, in union with God. Brian |
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212 | defiant step child | Prov 22:6 | Brian.g | 121844 | ||
BeccaG Give your stepson the same unconditional love which God gives you, which is demonstrated throughout Scripture. Scriptural proofs of God's love are to numerous to be listed here. Brian |
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213 | is Jesus God ?and how can you prove it? | Isaiah | Brian.g | 86256 | ||
leonardo316 Here's some food for thought... 1. Gen 17:7 I will maintain my covenant with you and your descendants after you throughout the ages as an everlasting pact, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you 2. Isaiah 43:10-11 You are my witnesses, says the LORD, my servants whom I have chosen To know and believe in me and understand that it is I. Before me no god was formed, and after me there shall be none. It is I, I the LORD; there is no savior but me. 3. Isaiah 43:13 yes, from eternity I am He; There is none who can deliver from my hand: who can countermand what I do? 4. Matthew 17:5 While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud cast a shadow over them, then from the cloud came a voice that said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him." 5. John 10:28-30 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish. No one can take them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can take them out of the Father's hand. The Father and I are one." Brian |
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214 | Does everyone have discernment? | Is 27:11 | Brian.g | 11737 | ||
There are two types of discernment. The first being a gift from God for a selected few, in the same manner in which other natural attributes are gifts from God. Being a fine and natural athlete, musician, mathematician and so on. I knew a man who had received this gift and had the ability to accurately understand obscure issues and was often described as 'rounding third base and heading home, while everyone else was just getting to first base.' But,this man while being a good man, had little true understanding - or desire to understand God. The second discernment is also a gift, but is available for all men, through the grace of God, but you must prepare yourself in order to receive it. In this second type, we are given the ability to understand the whole meaning of the Bible, not only the words. But the depths and breadths of the meanings and how the different passages relate to each other to create a complete and total understanding of the Bible as one single text of our relationship with God and about God. You will understand that the Bible no longer becomes a collection of individual phrases, passages, stories, letters and writings. But a single, seamless living document of God. And like God, it has no beginning or end. You will understand that each individual part will be as one with the others. And that you can no longer just pick a single individual passage and use it as a sword to justify a position, because you will now understand that the full truth is in the whole relationship with God. As I said, you must prepare yourself to receive this gift from God. Before all else, pray to God for guidance in your quest for understanding. Trust that God will then be with you. First and foremost is humility. How can the Holy Spirit guide you into understanding the full depth of the meaning when you have closed the door by proclaiming that you already posses full knowledge. Trust God. Be mature and receptive enough to accept that your original interpretations or single dimensional understandings may not be the full and complete message. Trust God to be truthful with you. Be patient, God will help you understand in a manner and at a pace which He knows is best for you. Trust God. |
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215 | ... | Is 55:11 | Brian.g | 174826 | ||
Vince You are correct in your implication that formal validation comes from an exterior source. The Bible, in the truest sense, cannot validate itself. The validation of the Bible comes from faith. And faith comes from trust. In our Tradition, we have faith in, and trust, that Jesus is the word of God (Jn 1:1), and that He validated both Scripture and Himself as the word of God. We all realize that if you do not have faith and trust in God, no proof, except hard-core empirical data, will be acceptable to you. If you do have faith and trust in God, you will then have a standard (your image of God – often times seen only in the form of man, such as Jesus and the Apostles), to help you determine if the Bible measures up to what you believe God would inspire man to write and be. The New Testament, in addition to being a bit of an historical document, is also the story of a journey of men and how they traveled through life from the point in which they met Jesus, until the day in which they wrote their story of witness. Read these men’s stories with an open heart and see how their lives - their individual beings - and their relationship with God were transformed by both the written and the living word of God - this is what God desired in your reference of Isaiah 55:11 and of which Jesus prayed in John 17: 15-23 Then ask yourself one simple question: Isn’t something this good – the living and written word of God - worth even a tiny bit of faith and trust on your part, as being from, and of, God. Brian |
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216 | Can we claim Jeremiah 29:11? | Jer 29:11 | Brian.g | 194015 | ||
icwessantiago Jer 29:11 must be read within the fullness of Jer 29: 1-14, where there are two main topics: living in exile and trusting in God. When we live our lives away from God, focusing our attention on money, fame, etc, then we are in a sense living our life in exile from God, similiar to the Jewish people physically living in exile of Isreal. That is relevant to people of all times. The second part is that when you experience the fears and anguish that goes along with living in 'exile' from God, then stop and remember that God is always with us and He anxiously awaits our return. That God's love is never-ending and He always has plans for our good, and not for causing more anquish in our lives. Trust God. Come back from your exile from God. This is the same message which Jesus gave us in Matthew 6:24-34. First, man cannot serve two master. He is either in union with God, or he is in exile from God while serving another master. But, always trust that God loves you and is with you and is waiting for your return with open arms. And, not to worry about the fears and anquish of life, know and trust that God will always be there to take care of you as He does the birds in the sky. Brian |
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217 | neglecting to talk about God | Ezek 3:17 | Brian.g | 188892 | ||
Cindercat Ezekiel 3:17-19 Brian |
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218 | i just cant find it | Hos 7:8 | Brian.g | 183825 | ||
hosea 7:8 | ||||||
219 | Should we Divorce? | Mal 2:16 | Brian.g | 31292 | ||
Pricefhome I would like to offer my assistance, if I may. With that, could you answer some questions for me: 1. How long have you been married 2. How old are your children 3. Are drugs, alcohol or violence involved in your marriage or private lives for either. 4. Do you have severe financial problems 5. Do either of you suffer from real mental health problems. 6. Have either of you been or continue to be unfaithful to the other. 7. Do both or either of you have permament employment 8. What is the 12 Step Support Group you're involved with 9. What are your wifes reasons for wanting a divorce. 10. After 2 years, why hasn't she filed for a divorce. 11. Does your wife respect you and you, her. If not, why 12.Prior to joining the 'start-up' church, do you and/or your wife have any denominational history - were either of you brought up in a specific denomination, etc. 13. When you say you have not loved your wife for many years - do you mean physically or emotionally. 14. Have you ever hit or beat your wife Brian |
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220 | Should we Divorce? | Mal 2:16 | Brian.g | 31632 | ||
pricefhome You and I both understand that the Bible provides an infinite amount of guidance. You spoke in general terms in your previous posts and I believe that if you would share this information with the forum, more specific assistance can be provided. In turn, you will be able to receive even more assistance from this forum and its many caring members (most who are much more knowledgable than I am), as well as from the Bible, itself. Will you let us help you, as one Christian brother to another? Brian |
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