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21 | Put St Mark 12:1-12 in laymens terms ? | NT general Archive 1 | Greg Martin | 40428 | ||
God sent the prophets but the keepers of the Law and the Temple stoned them all, each one of them. Then He sent His Son and they brutalized Him and killed Him. Therefore God gave the Church to the gentiles. (or at least to those who were not teachers of the Law and pharisees) Jesus became the Capstone, or Cornerstone of the Church. |
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22 | Put St Mark 12:1-12 in laymens terms ? | NT general Archive 1 | Greg Martin | 40624 | ||
Where'd I get that information from? The Bible. Figuratively stoned. Or are you harping on a single word, "all", taking me more literally than you do the Bible? Luke 13:34 "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!" The keepers of the Law are the keepers of the field. They were entrusted with the Father's property. When He sent the messengers (prophets) they killed them. (Don't get all semantical about the use of the word stoned or all - just because I didn't write a thousand words to explain it.) So the Father sent the Son. They were more brutal with Him than with the messengers. They killed Him also. 9 "Therefore what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the vinedressers, and give the vineyard to others. The Temple was destroyed, the Pharisees and teachers of the Law were utterly cast out, and the Kingdom given to others, mostly gentiles. In my post I said "Therefore God gave the Church to the gentiles. (or at least to those who were not teachers of the Law and Pharisees)" So I made exception for the Jewish believers. You seem to have a chip on your shoulder about ethnicity, race and color. No one ever mentioned those. What is in your heart that you would come from such a perspective? Why do you rage at me and say for the most part what I have already said? You said “It has nothing to do with race, creed, color or national origin” That you include "creed" in that list, is absolutely ridiculous! Creed is a belief. Then you rail on about those who believe are saved. This is true. So why do you say it has nothing to do with creed? Are you parroting some liberal, humanist line or do you not know what is the meaning of the word creed, or both? Main Entry: creed Pronunciation: 'krEd Function: noun Etymology: Middle English crede, from Old English crEda, from Latin credo (first word of the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds), from credere to believe, trust, entrust; akin to Old Irish cretid he believes, Sanskrit srad-dadhAti Date: before 12th century 1 : a brief authoritative formula of religious belief 2 : a set of fundamental beliefs; also : a guiding principle But the fact remains. Israel was blinded in part and the Church given to the gentiles. Read Rom 11. Their branch was taken out. We were grafted in. Don’t be proud of it, you may be taken out just as easily. This is the summary of Rom 11. See also Isa 52:15 Rom 11:7 What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded. Rom 11:25 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. |
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23 | Put St Mark 12:1-12 in laymens terms ? | NT general Archive 1 | Greg Martin | 40638 | ||
approximately the difference between a horse. | ||||||
24 | Did Jesus claim to be God? | NT general Archive 1 | Greg Martin | 40885 | ||
John 20:28 And Thomas answered and said to Him, "My Lord and my God!" 29 Jesus said to him, "Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed." |
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25 | How did | Genesis | Greg Martin | 35624 | ||
It was fruit of the Tree of knowledge of good and evil. Gen 2:9,17; 3:3 No one knows what kind of fruit it was. It is most likely that it no longer exists because God barred the way to the garden so man could not eat of the tree of life(Gen 3:23,24) and the curse makes the ground produce thorns and thistles (3:18). So it appears that all the trees in the garden no longer exist. What did Satan use? PRIDE. He appealed to Eve's pride and tried to get her to commit his sin, overthrowing God. (Gen 3:5) |
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26 | Earth was without form, and void. | Gen 1:1 | Greg Martin | 35903 | ||
You wouldn't believe what I wrote and lost. Maybe God doesn't want you to know. You would have been shaken or confused or both. The Bible says what it means and means what it says. God created and it was formless and void. THEN God said and it was. God said and it was. God said and it was. God said and it was. God said and it was. Then He fashioned man with His hands. |
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27 | The bible is a work of fiction - discuss | Gen 1:1 | Greg Martin | 35904 | ||
Doesn't make you a bad person. It just makes you like the rest of us. On your way to Hell unless there's some way you can pay your debt to God. But how do you pay an infinite debt? How do you clean yourself with your filthy rags? It's like the man who breaks his neighbor's property and spends all day fixing it. He works hard, very hard. But at the end of the day he can't fix it. So because he worked hard trying to fix the thing he broke, he knocks on his neighbor's door and demands to be let in and fed supper because he worked hard. You say it angers you that belief should stop people from being together. Get over it. When God gets to your heart there is nothing more important. You say "I have a genuine interest in knowing why people beleive. Admittidly this is for slightly selfish reasons" Then you never will. You have to lose your pride first. Do you understand that Timothy McVeigh may get to heaven and you will not? If he bent his knee in utter broken humility before God, he will. Your pride prevents you. You ask why we believe. I don't believe. I know. Your girlfriend doesn't believe either. She knows. You can too. Quit washing yourself with oily rags and muddy hands. |
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28 | who did cain marry? | Gen 1:1 | Greg Martin | 39238 | ||
You ask "is it possible that what Genesis is saying is that Adam and Eve are the first people God made, but not the only people God made." No. This can not possibly be whatsoever. Romans 5:12 "Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned" If God had created more than one man, there would be family lines not inheriting Adam's sin. If there existed families not inheriting Adam's sin, then it would be possible for them to get to heaven by living sinless lives. If it were possible for them to get to heaven this way, they would not need Christ. If there were those not needing Christ, then He died in vain, and God is a butcher. Not only that, but there would be those who get to heaven by works, having no need for grace. Further, you would have no excuse, and no recourse. |
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29 | who did cain marry? | Gen 1:1 | Greg Martin | 39240 | ||
Oh, yes. Sons of Adam - preferred by nine out of ten patients who chew gum (as opposed to whatever else you might do with gum) Guess that makes us all members of The Adams Family. |
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30 | who did cain marry? | Gen 1:1 | Greg Martin | 39373 | ||
You're missing it. The plan of salvation can only work if all decended from Adam. If it were any other way, God would have a different plan of salvation. But He does not. He gave us this one and only plan. If there existed other Men created from God's hand, they would not be related to Adam. Even science agrees we have all decended from one mother. If there existed families not related to Adam there would exist people who did not inherit sin. If they did not inherit sin, it would be possible for them to live a sinless life and go to heaven, spotless, blameless, and pure. If this were so they would not need Christ. If they did not need Christ to get to heaven, then we have no excuse, God was a butcher, and Christ died for nothing. Not only that, it would be entirely our choice by works to get to heaven. But further, you would not know if you had the choice or not. You would not know if you decended from Adam or a sinless father. You'd be in a crap-shoot for your eternal life. You are right, though, in saying "One hypothesis does have as much validity as the others" - CRAP! They have the validity of DUNG! The TRUTH, however, surpasses them all. Either the Bible is true and trustworthy or it isn't. Make your choice and live and die by it. If Genesis is not trustworthy, then it becomes a crap-shoot as to what's true and what's not. Pick and choose the parts of the Bible to believe. And if that's the case, you might as well close your book and go home, because it's all a lie. Romans 5:12 "Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned" Through ***one man*** |
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31 | who did cain marry? | Gen 1:1 | Greg Martin | 39393 | ||
Are those kind of words called for? I believe that they were, or I would not have used them. There is no course jestering going on here. I'm deadly serious. And if you can care that little about a man's soul that you can't shock him out of his sleep, maybe you should remain silent, because that's the effect you have. This subject maybe "useless" to you, but it is extremely important to one who questions the Bible, and even to the plan of salvation. It is of vital importance to understand and defend the Genesis account, secondary only to the plan of salvation itself. If doubt occurs in Genesis, then why not in Romans? If you can go to heaven by being good, then why should I try so hard to be "Christian"? The answers are - there would be no reason. None whatsoever. We have been given a plan of salvation that only works if the Genesis account is true. If it is not, then the whole Bible falls apart. Your lack of concern over this topic, portrays a lack of concern about major Bible doctrines, and what's more a lack of concern for your fellow man. If this topic is "useless" to you, why are you in on it? |
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32 | who did cain marry? | Gen 1:1 | Greg Martin | 39520 | ||
No not Hank, but the original poser of the question. Whom Cain married is not major Bible doctrine, that we all descended from Adam is. The question "Who did Cain marry" is not curiosity about Cain's wife. It is a challenge to the origin of Man. Shock was not a good choice of words (and at least two argue that my original choice of words was also not good) Be that as it may. I noted that Hank was right in saying that those theories are all as good as the others. I expounded on that using exactly what I thought they were worth. On the farm we used that word all the time, and the spring in a cow barn is exactly what I was thinking. The argument was that God created more than just Adam and Eve. This would totally negate the doctrine of original sin. It would, taken to it's extent, lead to the conclusion that either Christ died in vain, or at least that not everyone needs Christ. This is a serious matter and not to be taken lightly. And BTW neither you nor I can save anyone. Only God can do that. But if someone questioning the veracity of the Bible can know in strong terms what he is flirting with, well, label me with Isaiah's disease, and I'll suffer the coal. |
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33 | who did cain marry? | Gen 1:1 | Greg Martin | 39554 | ||
Yes, you are right. I did misunderstand what you were trying to say. You were offering information on yet another false theory and stated that it was as equally nonsensical as the others. I thought you were offering it as a plausible scenerio. So really, if you remove the words "You missed it" then the rest of what I wrote, though not pertaining to you directly, is what I mean to say to any who would believe such a scheme. So don't take it personally. Be a duck. Let it roll off your back. BTW, there is no way to edit a post on this forum, as there is on every other one I've ever seen. Once you say "Go" there's no chance to think better of it. So while all my life being around animals, the word in question is not thought of as "course", but as in Romans 14, though it is not an offense to me (or apparently anyone I personally know - I took a poll after the reaction I got here) but nevertheless, it is to at least two here and so it shall not be used again. |
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34 | Earth was without form, and void. | Gen 1:1 | Greg Martin | 40163 | ||
Genesis, Jeremiah use Tohu and Bohu, Isaiah uses baqaq and balaq. So I am uneasy about that reference. However, I must say, this is extremely interesting and has thrown me for quite a loop. I'll have to do quite a bit of study and prayer over this one. I question whether Jeremiah is literal or an allusion. But I make no judgment now. I take Gen 1:1-2 to mean that God created the universe and it was tohu (confusion) and bohu (emptiness), before He brought it out of the "imaginary" realm and into the three dimensional "real" realm. If it was empty how could it be confusion? There was clearly a disorganized something that was nothing. When taken with the word rachaph (shake, move, flutter). The Spirit of God fluttered is translated half as "hovered" and half as "moved" How can hover be the same as move? When it is flutter! The motion of flutter is the sinusoidal wave which is described in terms of sin x is equal to (exp(ix) - exp(-ix))/2i all waves have imaginary component. In the imaginary, velocities must necessarily exceed the speed of light, c, as this can only be when in 1/(1-(v**2/c**2))**0.5) v is greater than c. Thus all was created in it's seed as electromagnetic waves, and we know there is nothing in our universe but waves. So when God said "Let there be light" He spoke the Creation from the imaginary into the real. That is He made it cross the line from the imaginary to the real space, as we define it. This could lead one to understand the imaginary as the spirit, and that pervading all of the real. So Jeremiah 23:24 God fills the heaven and earth and John 4:24 God is Spirit. It also explains the "apparent age" of the stars. Some day I'll explain all that...I don't have time right now, especially with so many necessary symbols so arbitrarily and unnecessarily prohibited. |
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35 | How old is the earth scripturally? | Gen 1:1 | Greg Martin | 40166 | ||
Side note. Guess what year Methuselah died? The year of the flood! |
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36 | Earth was without form, and void. | Gen 1:1 | Greg Martin | 40295 | ||
Absolutely. If He demanded us to know He'd have told us. (Just as He kept the secret of the Western World from the earth until the time of His choosing) But even Engineers love the Word of God! It is our nature to seek out what is there and understand why. I don't suggest accountants and farmers do such study! Proverbs 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, But the glory of kings is to search out a matter. |
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37 | Earth was without form, and void. | Gen 1:1 | Greg Martin | 40296 | ||
Just be glad I lost the one I tried to post before! | ||||||
38 | Book, chapter and verse? | Gen 1:26 | Greg Martin | 44894 | ||
John 8:44 These are excellent questions LadyK. I don't think I can answer in the context of your Genesis question. Had you not asked this question first, I believe I could have answered your question. But when put in the light of your creation question, I confess my inadequacy. Jesus said in John 8 that Satan is the father of lies and a murderer from the beginning. So those abiding in lies (not believing in our Lord and Savior) are sons of the father of lies. Jesus also said (John 10:4) "And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice." and (John 10:27) "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me." So clearly those who don't believe do not know His voice - that is they can not comprehend the light (John 1:5) or know the truth. the lie lives in them and so they are sons of the father of lies. In the context of your original question, I don't know how to answer. When we are born again we are born of the Spirit, and the Spirit lives in us. In this sense we are sons of our Father, and are created in His image. We know that Paul tells us the Christ also lives in us. If Christ, then also the Father. It's the "from birth" part that gives me trouble. |
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39 | Did Jesus pre-exist before his birth? | Gen 1:26 | Greg Martin | 44895 | ||
Also John 8:58 Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM." And John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. |
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40 | Go or Come to Noah to Enter Ark | Gen 7:1 | Greg Martin | 34156 | ||
The answer is that God said "bo" From Strong's bow' (bo) a primitive root; TWOT - 212; v AV - come 1435, bring 487, ... in 233, enter 125, go 123, carry 17, ...down 23, pass 13, ...out 12, misc 109; 2577 1) to go in, enter, come, go, come in 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to enter, come in 1a2) to come 1a2a) to come with 1a2b) to come upon, fall or light upon, attack (enemy) 1a2c) to come to pass 1a3) to attain to 1a4) to be enumerated 1a5) to go 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to lead in 1b2) to carry in 1b3) to bring in, cause to come in, gather, cause to come, bring near, bring against, bring upon 1b4) to bring to pass 1c) (Hophal) 1c1) to be brought, brought in 1c2) to be introduced, be put Matthew Henry says: "God does not bid him go into the ark, but come into it, implying that God would go with him, would lead him into it, accompany him in it, and in due time bring him safely out of it. Note, Wherever we are, it is very desirable to have the presence of God with us, for this is all in all to the comfort of every condition. It was this that made Noah’s ark, which was a prison, to be to him not only a refuge, but a palace" |
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