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3261 | Weilding the Sword of the Spirit | Eph 6:17 | Emmaus | 36201 | ||
Mommapbs, Of course the Spirit is indwelling in you. So why can't we wield the sword of the indwelling Spirit, the word of God or perhaps the Spiirt wield the sword of the word through us? Emmaus |
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3262 | A form of godliness -denying its power? | Eph 6:17 | Emmaus | 36218 | ||
Mommapbs, I doubt it is possible without being in union with and submission to the Spirit. Easier for God to wield us than us to wield God. Hard to get a grip on the handle of God. ;-) Emmaus |
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3263 | Armor of God : The Sword of the Spirit | Eph 6:17 | Emmaus | 127893 | ||
Sir Pent, Good little series on this passages. I also like to connect the Sword of the Spirit with Rev 1:16; 19:15,21. Emmaus |
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3264 | Where is background info on Phillipians? | Philippians | Emmaus | 111678 | ||
Here is a link to an Introduction to Phillipians in the NAB Bible. http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/philippians/intro.htm |
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3265 | why are they call prisoners | Philippians | Emmaus | 119887 | ||
Paul's letter to the Christians at Philippi was written while he was in a prison somewhere (Philippians 1:7, 13, 14, 17), indeed in danger of death (Philippians 1:20-23). | ||||||
3266 | How can we be sure of eternal salvation? | Phil 1:6 | Emmaus | 24135 | ||
We can be morally certain that if we persevere to the end in faith, Mark 13:13, that we will be saved since God is faithful to keep His promises. But we can not have absolute certainty without denying God's gift of our free will and our freedom to reject His gift of justification and salvation. A gift that cannot be rejected or discarded is no gift at all. See Adam and Eve in Genesis and Romans 11:22, 1 Cor 10:12 | ||||||
3267 | Jesus went to hell,first? | Phil 2:1 | Emmaus | 83801 | ||
Sammy, Everywhere that Jesus went He established his authority. So He went every where in the scriptural cosmos, earth, the region of the dead below the earth and heaven above the earth. I think Phillians 2:5-11 illustrates this. Emmaus |
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3268 | Jesus God. Grasping equality? | Phil 2:6 | Emmaus | 71082 | ||
Consider, In addition to what the others have pointed out please consider this verse: 2 Pet 1:4 For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust. The Son by partaking of our humanity has allowed us to become partakers of His Divinity. He had to be divine in order for that to even be possible. 2 Pet 1:1 Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,To those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ: Jude 1:25 to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. Emmaus |
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3269 | what is ment by grasped? | Phil 2:6 | Emmaus | 115092 | ||
Grasp: to hold tightly, to hold eagerly or greedily, to seize. | ||||||
3270 | How would Christ's mission have been.... | Phil 2:6 | Emmaus | 136019 | ||
I don't know wahat would have been different. I am not good with hypothetical questions on salvation. God's Revelation of what He actually did is difficult enough for me to grasp. It was not a question of "grasping for" an equality He did not have, but rather equality that was already in His hand (or already His), which he did not grasp (or continue to hold tightly) but loosened His grip enough to take on our humanity while subduing His glory. Emmaus |
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3271 | explain Kenosis | Phil 2:7 | Emmaus | 109484 | ||
coolmere, Kenosis "The term is from the Greek verb kenoun,... Christ "emptied himself" (Greek: heaton ekenosen), taking the form of a slave, born in the likeness of humankind. Christ emptying of Himself or His humbled state is expressed in verses 6-8, and His exaltation in verse 9-11. The passive voice of the verb at verse 7 suggests Christ being rendered powerless, ineffective, just like any slave. The point here is that Christ's free choice to live as a slave, assuming the conditions of a slave when in reality He was the king, expresses the great love God the father has placed in His mission to draw back to Him all his creation through the forgiveness of sins by the work of the cross. Christ's self emptying consisted of His free renunciation (expressed in the fact of the Incarnation), by which He renounced His being God (in the form of being God), which meant renouncing the Divine Majesty and Dominion, and therefore taking on existence as God "in the form of a servant." Exactly what one makes of "traking the form[of a servant]" is still highly contestable. Suffice it to say that it included a full and real humanity, totally integrated with His divinty." Our Sunday Visitor's Catholic Encyclopedia, Rev Peter Stravinskas OSV, copyright 1991 Emmaus |
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3272 | explain Kenosis | Phil 2:7 | Emmaus | 109502 | ||
Mommapbs, "Simplistically, when I am at home, I am a wife and a mother. When I am at school I am a teacher. Do I change who I am because of the roles I "take on?" Does this make sense?" It is important to distinguish between "form" and "substance." In your example, wife and mother are "forms." In substance you are a woman. Jeus in substance is God, who took on the "form" of a servant as opposed to the divine kingly form he word have in heaven, the "form" which he will take when he comes again. Of course I am not a theologian, so any improper formulations or errors are my responsibility alone. Emmaus |
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3273 | explain Kenosis | Phil 2:7 | Emmaus | 109538 | ||
Ray, I agree. The various translation of one phrase of the Nicene Creed are: "one in being with the Father", "one in substance with the Father", "one in essence with the Father." Emmaus |
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3274 | Work our your salvation because God.... | Phil 2:12 | Emmaus | 136020 | ||
Tan Flipper, I just read an article today that actually addresses your question. Go to the link below. If you go there today 10-27-04 you will see the article titled: What the Church Means by Merit. If you don't get this until tomorrow you may have to click on TODAY and look in the archive for the article title. Emmaus |
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3275 | Work our your salvation because God.... | Phil 2:12 | Emmaus | 136021 | ||
Tan Flipper, Ooops! I forgot the link in my previous response. Here it is. http://www.catholicexchange.com/ Emmaus |
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3276 | Why isn't this conceit? | Phil 2:16 | Emmaus | 136106 | ||
Because he is boasting about God, not about himself. | ||||||
3277 | Is the sin nature a substance or mindset | Phil 3:9 | Emmaus | 100303 | ||
Pam, I presume Joe will also answer. May I suggest that the sin nature is more related to absence of substance than a substance in and of itself. The absent substance is the the life of God (grace) within us. Emmaus |
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3278 | Is the sin nature a substance or mindset | Phil 3:9 | Emmaus | 100416 | ||
Pam, I think I misunderstood your question with my first reponse which adressed the man fallen nature before justification as a condition reflecting the absence of grace. However, upon review you seem to be asking about our old sin nature after justification as we engage in spiritual warfare, both internally and externally. I don't know if I could easily fit it into the category of "substance" or "mindset" but he following may be of interest to you. 405. "Although it is proper to each individual,[Cf. Council of Trent: DS 1513.] original SIN does not have the character of a personal fault in any of Adam's descendants. It is a deprivation of original holiness and justice, but human NATURE has not been totally corrupted: it is wounded in the natural powers proper to it, subject to ignorance, suffering and the dominion of death, and inclined to SIN - an inclination to evil that is called concupiscence'. Baptism, by imparting the life of Christ's grace, erases original SIN and turns a man back towards God, but the consequences for NATURE, weakened and inclined to evil, persist in man and summon him to spiritual battle." To view the context, please visit http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/visible4.html#ORIGINAL 407. "The doctrine of original SIN, closely connected with that of redemption by Christ, provides lucid discernment of man's situation and activity in the world. By our first parents' SIN, the devil has acquired a certain domination over man, even though man remains free. Original SIN entails 'captivity under the power of him who thenceforth had the power of death, that is, the devil'.[Council of Trent(1546): DS 1511; cf. Heb 2:14.] Ignorance of the fact that man has a wounded NATURE inclined to evil gives rise to serious errors in the areas of education, politics, social action[Cf. John Paul II, CA 25.] and morals." To view the context, please visit http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/visible4.html#ORIGINAL 412. "But why did God not prevent the first man from sinning? St. Leo the Great responds, Christ's inexpressible grace gave us blessings better than those the demon's envy had taken away.'[St. Leo the Great, Sermo 73, 4: PL 54, 396.] And St. Thomas Aquinas wrote, 'There is nothing to prevent human NATURE's being raised up to something greater, even after SIN; God permits evil in order to draw forth some greater good. Thus St. Paul says, 'Where SIN increased, grace abounded all the more'; and the Exsultet sings, 'O happy fault,. . . which gained for us so great a Redeemer!''[St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III, I, 3, ad 3; cf. Rom 5:20 .]" To view the context, please visit http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/visible4.html#DEATH 417. "Adam and Eve transmitted to their descendants human NATURE wounded by their own first SIN and hence deprived of original holiness and justice; this deprivation is called 'original SIN'." To view the context, please visit http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/visible4.html#DEATH 418. "As a result of original SIN, human NATURE is weakened in its powers, subject to ignorance, suffering and the domination of death, and inclined to SIN (this inclination is called 'concupiscence')." To view the context, please visit http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/visible4.html#DEATH 419. "'We therefore hold, with the Council of Trent, that original SIN is transmitted with human NATURE, 'by propagation, not by imitation' and that it is. . . 'proper to each'' (Paul VI, CPG # 16)." To view the context, please visit http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/visible4.html#DEATH from The Catechism of the Catholic Church Emmaus |
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3279 | Is the sin nature a substance or mindset | Phil 3:9 | Emmaus | 100419 | ||
Pam, So, our ongoing struggle here reflects our wounded human nature until the resurrection of our bodies, even while the supernatural grace of God has restored us to a supernatural life. Rom 8:23 "And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body." Emmaus |
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3280 | Phil 4:10-11What does this mean? | Phil 3:10 | Emmaus | 80214 | ||
Wheatsfields, Please see Romans 8:16-17 and 2 Cor 12:9; Col 1:24 and Matt 10:38; 16:24; Luke 14:27. He became like us so we could become like Him. Think of suffering like works. We all have to work, but there are "works of the law" done out of obligations and works of love done out of faith and love. So we all suffer, but do we suffer in futility or do we join ourselves to Christ and His redemptive suffering out of love for Him and our brothers offering ourselves as "a living sacrifice (Romans 12:1)? Emmaus |
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