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741 | How do you view Rev 2:1-7 | Rev 2:1 | Emmaus | 126934 | ||
followinghim, "Points to Ponder The Meaning of Seven" "Revelation makes repeated reference to the number seven. For example, in Revelation 2-3, we find seven letters to the seven churches from "him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands" (2:1) and who has "the seven Spirits of God" (3:1). Then, further on, we find seven seals, seven trumpets, seven bowls and, according to some scholars, seven symbolic persons emphasized in the book: a woman, a dragon, a man child, Michael the Archangel, the beast in the sea, the beast in the earth, and the Lamb. Other scholars note that there are seven blessings pronounced by our Lord in Revelation. Why the emphasis on seven? Because the number seven points to covenant. The way you make a covenant is to swear an oath. If you have a promise, you have a contract. But when you sanctify the promise with an oath, you have a covenant. When you swear an oath and take on God's name, you are, in Hebrew, "sevening" yourself. For the Hebrew verb meaning "to swear an oath" comes from the Hebrew noun for "seven." Thus, it is not surprising to discover that the number seven was an essential element of oath ceremonies. Therefore, it is highly arguable that the number seven signifies the covenant relationship between God and his people. This explains not only the sevenfold blessing of Christ upon his church in the book of Revelation, it also explains why there is a sevenfold curse symbolized by the trumpets, seals, and bowls as well. When God made a covenant with Israel through Moses, he warned in Leviticus 26 of sevenfold vengeance if the covenant was broken. For to put yourself under oath is to put yourself under a curse if you break the oath. To be under oath is to be under divine judgment, since you have attached God's own holy name to your testimony. Therefore to lie or break the oath is to profane God's name. It is then against this background of covenant blessing and curse that the letters to the churches (and the rest of Revelation) must be read." Catholic Scripture Study Copyright www.catholicexchange.com |
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742 | Where is God? | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 126922 | ||
Schoolman, I understand your situation well. I think at some point we have to stop knocking and asking and starting looking and listening for God in every situation. We have to look around us and say. Where is God in this situation and what is is He trying to say to me or teach me or ask me to do? I have found that helpful for the application of the Christian life in me. I also recommend praying the Psalms. You can't get too much of them. If you time is limited focus in prayer on the Gospels and Psalm in equal measure. Knowing God is not so much a head thing or an intellectual exercise as it is an exercise of the heart. I hope this helps you some. Emmaus |
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743 | Do portals exist between heaven n earth? | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 126640 | ||
Ok you guys, stop paternizing me. Emmaus |
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744 | God the Son as a confession of faith | Rom 9:5 | Emmaus | 126631 | ||
Leslie N, Indeed , Jesus apears to have been praying the opening lines of Psalm 22, which is very descriptive of his passion. Emmaus |
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745 | God the Son as a confession of faith | Rom 9:5 | Emmaus | 126627 | ||
Leslie N, "when you say Jesus is God, then did God the Father die on the cross?. There is only 1 God" Death is defined as the separation of the body and soul. Our soul is an immortal spirit and as such cannot "die". in th same way Jesus suffered death in the separation of his body and soul. 624 "By the grace of God" Jesus tasted death "for every one".(Heb 2:9) In his plan of salvation, God ordained that his Son should not only "die for our sins"(1 Cor 15:3) but should also "taste death", experience the condition of death, the separation of his soul from his body, between the time he expired on the cross and the time he was raised from the dead. The state of the dead Christ is the mystery of the tomb and the descent into hell. It is the mystery of Holy Saturday, when Christ, lying in the tomb,(Cf. Jn 19:42) reveals God's great sabbath rest (Cf. Heb 4:7-9) after the fulfillment(Cf. Jn 19:30) of man's salvation, which brings peace to the whole universe.(Cf Col 1:18-20) "Christ's stay in the tomb constitutes the real link between his passible state before Easter and his glorious and risen state today. The same person of the "Living One" can say, "I died, and behold I am alive for evermore":(Rev 1:18) God [the Son] did not impede death from separating his soul from his body according to the necessary order of nature, but has reunited them to one another in the Resurrection, so that he himself might be, in his person, the meeting point for death and life, by arresting in himself the decomposition of nature produced by death and so becoming the source of reunion for the separated parts.(St. Gregory of Nyssa, Orat. catech. 16: PG 45, 52D) Since the "Author of life" who was killed (Acts 3:15)is the same "living one [who has] risen",(Lk 24:5-6) the divine person of the Son of God necessarily continued to possess his human soul and body, separated from each other by death: By the fact that at Christ's death his soul was separated from his flesh, his one person is not itself divided into two persons; for the human body and soul of Christ have existed in the same way from the beginning of his earthly existence, in the divine person of the Word; and in death, although separated from each other, both remained with one and the same person of the Word.(St. John Damascene, De fide orth. 3, 27: PG 94, 1098A) "You will not let your Holy One see corruption" Christ's death was a real death in that it put an end to his earthly human existence. But because of the union which the person of the Son retained with his body, his was not a mortal corpse like others, for "it was not possible for death to hold him" (Acts 2:24) and therefore "divine power preserved Christ's body from corruption."(St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III, 51, 3) Both of these statements can be said of Christ: "He was cut off out of the land of the living",(Isa 53:8) and "My flesh will dwell in hope. For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor let your Holy One see corruption."(Acts 2:26-27; cf. Ps 16:9-10) Jesus' Resurrection "on the third day" was the sign of this, also because bodily decay was held to begin on the fourth day after death.(Cf. 1 Cor 15:4; Lk 24:46; Mt 12:40; Jon 2:1; Hos 6:2; cf. Jn 11:39)" http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p122a4p3.htm Emmaus |
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746 | God the Son as a confession of faith | Rom 9:5 | Emmaus | 126615 | ||
Leslie N, I remember your post on the Westminster Confession. Do you understand the point I was making about how "God is Jesus" without further expalnation sounds to some ears? I know that grammatically it si the same as "Jesus is God" but nevertheless the pharasing stikes a different chord to many who hear it. People are used to hearing "Jesus is God" or "Jesu id the Son of God" as an assertion of the Divinity of Jesus. "God is Jesus" rightly or wrongly triggers a different reflex. Emmaus |
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747 | God the Son as a confession of faith | Rom 9:5 | Emmaus | 126612 | ||
Leslie N, This is just my gut reaction, but I suspect the reason you are meeting resistance to "God is Jesus" is becasue it has the ring of the "Jesus Only" theology of certain non Trinitarian Pentecostals. It seems to leave out the Father and the Holy Spirit, whether or not that is your intent. I presume that was not your intent. Jesus is the name of God Incarnate. Christ is his title. It means "annointed". It refers to his office of preist, prophet and king. It is the Greek tranlation of Messiah. Jesus is the Incarnation of the Son, the Second Person of the holy Trinity. He is one Divine Person who has taken on a human nature in addition to his divine nature. Emmaus |
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748 | thanks Emmaus and DocTrinsograce!... | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 126606 | ||
You are welcome. | ||||||
749 | Do portals exist between heaven n earth? | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 126604 | ||
This is not a biblical concept. Its sounds like some New Age or cult concept. | ||||||
750 | Definitions, please? | Matt 18:6 | Emmaus | 126597 | ||
Stultis, This is now a restricted thread. I will respect that. Do an MSN search on Darwinian materialism and what you come up with will also indicate its synonyms. I think we have already had more than enough "explanations" of 1 Cor 6:15-16 thank you. I think I will pass. Emmaus |
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751 | What does Genesis 3:24 mean? | Gen 3:24 | Emmaus | 126517 | ||
sessopan, Her is what St. Ireanaus said on this passage. "Wherefore also He drove him out of Paradise, and removed him far from the tree of life, not because He envied him the tree of life, as some venture to assert, but because He pitied him, [and did not desire] that he should continue a sinner for ever, nor that the sin which surrounded him should be immortal, and evil interminable and irremediable. But He set a bound to his [state of] sin, by interposing death, and thus causing sin to cease, putting an end to it by the dissolution of the flesh, which should take place in the earth, so that man, ceasing at length to live to sin, and dying to it, might begin to live to God." Then God sent a Redeemer, his Son. http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0103323.htm Emmaus |
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752 | Is my assessment of them wrong? | Matt 18:6 | Emmaus | 126507 | ||
This definition of sex equals marriage is the biggest scam proposed since the sexual revolution with the pill. In fact it is directly tied to it. Men told women that now they were in control their biology and destiny. All they had to do was take the pill. Then they said, "now that you don't have to worry about getting pregnant, you really have no good reason to say no to sex with me before we get married. Besides, marriage is just a piece of paper. Who needs that, we have sex. Ooops! I mean we have love. Don't cry, we'll get married later when we can afford it and all that." Many women bought the into that scam, so the ones that didn't had to compete with women who were giving themselves away without any committment. And we ended up with less marriage, weaker families, more divorce in the marriages we do have and a broken down society where we actually murder up to a third of our children to cover up the evidence (children conceived without committment and "by accident") that the whole scam is a lie. The truth is that men sold women a bill of goods in the sixties. Men got what they wanted without having to make a committment of any kind. And if the woman gets pregnant well, that's her own fault. Then she is pressured to have an abortion or face the shame or hardship of having a child without a husband and all the social and financial hardship that entails. They call that "choice." Marriage is a personal and commual committment acknowledged and witnessed in a community ceremony, even if just at a courthouse, because the abscence of marriage or the failure of it has serious social consequences. So it is more than just sex between two people. Sex equals marriage, as recently proposed by Theo-Minor and seconded by Stultis on this forum is nothing more than Darwinian materialism dressed up in a few Bible verses to cover its nakedness. Emmaus |
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753 | should I avoid the appearance of evil? | Matt 18:6 | Emmaus | 126457 | ||
kalos, It is interesting to note that at time when secular governments have abondoned the recognition of "common law marriage" let alone tarditional Christian marriage, we have people in the Church venue adopting and advocating the idea. Has the church become a Las Vegas wedding (and baptism)chapel that people can rent if and when they feel in the mood, with the right to feel aggrieved if the chapel is not open for business on their terms. What is the difference between a contact and a covenant? Committment to the other party and the community, because the community is also effected by the success or failure of the marriage and family. A contact is an exchange of goods and services, like protituiton (a cash based system)or living in sin which is more based on a semi-long term barter system. A covenant is a mutal irrevocable giving of the entire self without any reservation, which has blessings and curses associated with the keeping or failing to keep the covenant. Marriage is a covenant. All one has to do is look at our society to see the obvious ill effects of the absence or breakdown of marriage on the whole community. Common Sense 101. It (common sense) existed even before the Bible. Emmaus |
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754 | Do Ghost's exist? | Luke 24:39 | Emmaus | 126438 | ||
Theo-Minor, Careful there. All that food for thought, especially about the Assumption of Moses, is getting you very close to the Catholic doctrine on the Assumption of Mary. And scripture doesn't even mention Mary's death. ;-) But I am not doing there, you seach out my previous post on the subject in the archives if you like. Emmaus |
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755 | justme | Gen 1:1 | Emmaus | 126434 | ||
Justme, Glad to hear from you. Keeping you in my prayers. Emmaus |
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756 | Do Ghost's exist? | Luke 24:39 | Emmaus | 126420 | ||
PhilJ, Corrected spelling version. "Sleep" is a biblical euphemism for death. But the appearance of Elijah and Moses with Jesus on the mount of Transfiguration would indicate they were not "sleeping" in the sense of being unconscious. See also the saints in heaven in Rev 5:8; 6:9-11; 20:4. Only Seventh Day Adventists and the Jehovah Witnesses hold to the teaching of "soul sleep." The Sheol or Hades, the abode of the dead to which I referred to in my previous post, was divided into two sections, one for the righteous (a pleasant place called "the bossom of Abraham") and another for the unrighteous (decribed as a place of torment" for the rich man). See the story of Lazarus and the rich man in Luke 16:19-31. Emmaus |
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757 | Do Ghost's exist? | Luke 24:39 | Emmaus | 126409 | ||
PhilJ, "Sleep" is a biblical euphemism for death. Butthe appearance of Elijah and Moses with Jesus on the mount of Transfiguration would instigate they were not "sleeping" or unconscious. See also the saints in heave in Rev 5:8; 6:9-11; 20:4. Only Seventh Day Adventists and the Jehovah Witnesses hold to the teaching of "soul sleep." Emmaus |
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758 | reference to praying for the dead | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 126407 | ||
"Can someone tell me if there is reference to praying for the dead in the Bible." There is in Catholic bibles in 2 Macabees 12:42 -46 "Turning to supplication, they prayed that the sinful deed might be fully blotted out. The noble Judas warned the soldiers to keep themselves free from sin, for they had seen with their own eyes what had happened because of the sin of those who had fallen. He then took up a collection among all his soldiers, amounting to two thousand silver drachmas, which he sent to Jerusalem to provide for an expiatory sacrifice. In doing this he acted in a very excellent and noble way, inasmuch as he had the resurrection of the dead in view; for if he were not expecting the fallen to rise again, it would have been useless and foolish to pray for them in death. But if he did this with a view to the splendid reward that awaits those who had gone to rest in godliness, it was a holy and pious thought. Thus he made atonement for the dead that they might be freed from this sin." The Jews still pray for their dead. Emmaus |
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759 | Emmaus read note to question LSmith | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 126403 | ||
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760 | should I avoid the appearance of evil? | Matt 18:6 | Emmaus | 126400 | ||
Lillian, I think you gave good and honest advice. Emmaus |
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