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401 | Should Christian men wear a beard? | 1 Chr 19:5 | Hank | 190794 | ||
Jeff, some years ago I met a man, a total stranger, who could have passed for my twin brother. He was as shocked to see me as I him. And I have it on good authority that the shock of seeing in me what he actually looked like was so acute that the poor man has been in therapy for years. :-) --Hank | ||||||
402 | Interpreting Revelation | Revelation | Hank | 190594 | ||
Thank you, RC. I appreciate your fine attitude exemplified by your willingness to follow Forum guidelines closely. --Hank | ||||||
403 | Interpreting Revelation | Revelation | Hank | 190589 | ||
RC - Just to "clear the decks" so to speak, there are four statements with which every registrant acknowledges agreement every time he submits a post. The first of those four statements is, "This post is biblically based and WHENEVER POSSIBLE (emphasis mine), I have included Bible references to support it." This applies to every post and to every registrant who enters a post. Since this is a web site dedicated to Bible study, it goes without saying that users are expected to support their theological/doctrinal positions with adequate scriptural proof without being asked. The Forum has changed somewhat since your former association with it several years ago, and you may find that the guidelines are more closely observed. Things tended to get a bit loosey-goosey back when the Forum was young, but measures have been taken to make this a more orderly Forum, a better-behaved one, and, it is hoped, one that is more useful and trustworthy. --Hank | ||||||
404 | Where was jesus norn | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 190561 | ||
Duplicate question, previously answered. | ||||||
405 | Baptismal records? | 1 Cor 1:16 | Hank | 190528 | ||
Thomas 8 - In reference to the phrase in 1 Corinthians 1:16 in which Paul says, "beyond that I do not know whether I baptized any other," you asked whether that statement indicated Paul did not keep a records of his baptisms. Evidently he didn't. The sense of the context appears to indicate that not only did Paul not keep baptismal records, but he baptized very few. He mentions in verse 14 that he baptized Crispus and Gaius and in verse 16 that he baptized the household of Stephanas, but has no recollection of baptizing any one else. The theme of this opening segment of Paul's first letter to the church in Corinth is not baptism per se but divisions in the church. One has to read the entire discourse on divisions in the church, 1 Corinthians 1:10 - 4:21 to get the proper perspective. ....... One other comment before I go, Paul said in verse 17, "For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel." This statement by the apostle, coupled with his assertion in verse 14, "I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius," is indicative that Paul did not consider baptism necessary for salvation. If he had, why then would he be thanking God that he didn't baptize but a very few of the saints in the church at Corinth? Now to reiterate his words in verse 17, "Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel." What is this gospel? The gospel of Christ, the gospel of grace, the good news that by grace we have been saved through faith, and that not of ourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that none of us may boast (cf. Ephesians 2:8,9). It is the glorious news that "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life" (John 3:16). It is the proclamation that "God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8). --Hank | ||||||
406 | where is the verse you have not because | James 4:2 | Hank | 190519 | ||
That would be James 4:2, Sabrina. Thanks for your question and welcome to Lockman's Study Bible Forum. --Hank | ||||||
407 | does God intend for us to pay tithes | Malachi | Hank | 190502 | ||
Bill - That God is immutable is a given that His true followers accept -- indeed MUST accept -- because it is clearly taught in His word, the Scriptures. Centuries before the incarnation of God's son, Jesus, we read the account in Genesis wherein we are told that He issued a command to a man who found grace in the eyes of the Lord, to build a sea-worthy ship on dry ground. God even gave detailed instructions for building this big boat, which the Bible calls an ark. Were this command and these instructions meant only for the man named Noah, or should they be applied to all faithful men and their families in every age who find grace in the eyes of the Lord? ...... There was a nation which in olden times God chose unto himself to be his peculiar people, a nation that would become known as God's chosen people, the nation Israel. Unto this people God set down certain laws pertaining to their conduct -- their relationship with God (including the observance of the tithe), their relationship with other nations and even among themselves, how they should treat one another. ....... God is immutable. He does not change. Therefore, why shouldn't God's people today (1) build arks (2) pay their tithes and (3) otherwise observe all the other aspects of the Law, just as it was laid down to Israel in the Old Testament? ...... Something is wrong with our intrepretation of what the Bible means by God's immutability when we assume that God cannot and does not have the sovereign right (or ability) to deal with His creation as he pleases. The Bible supports no such assumption as this, that God is locked in a box or that, by His being immutable, He has painted Himself in a corner. It's always wise to go back to the fundamentals and make doubly sure that one is "rightly dividing the word of truth" (See 2 Timothy 2:15). The subject of the immutability of God leads us into deep theological waters that are quite over my head and to some degree, I suspect, over the heads of all mortal men. But it is certain we err to think that God's immutable nature precludes Him from dealing with His people in various ways at different times of human history. "God who at sundry times and in divers [diverse] manners spoke in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken to us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds" (Hebrews 1:1,2, KJV). ...... As regarding tithing in the New Testament, it simply isn't there, it is not taught that Christians should observe the Old Testament tithe. Christian giving is taught, however, as evidenced by 1 Corinthians 16:2, "Upon the first days of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there by no gatherings [collections] when I come." For further details on giving, see 2 Corinthians, Chapters 8 and 9. --Hank | ||||||
408 | Thanks for the answer | Acts 1:9 | Hank | 190417 | ||
johnboy - In other words, you are saying that the biblical account of Jesus' ascension is a lie, is that your position? You seem perfectly willing to accept "first-hand accounts" of witnesses to your birth but refuse to accept the accounts of eyewitnesses to Christ's ascension. Aren't you attempting to apply a double standard here, johnboy? By the way, how old are you? Your musings on this subject appear as though they are coming from someone who still has some moisture behind his ears, someone who thinks he knows all the answers but, alas, hasn't heard nearly all the questions yet. Again, what is your age, if you please? --Hank | ||||||
409 | Nolen Keck is R U here still | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 190380 | ||
RC - Nolan (Makarios) Keck rarely makes an appearance on SBF these days. Nolan got married and is now the father of a little girl. I'll e-mail Nolan and tell him you asked about him. --Hank | ||||||
410 | How Trinity of God is working? | Gal 4:6 | Hank | 190358 | ||
RC, I indeed remember you well and have often wondered what happened to you. Actually, you logged on to the Forum a few days before me back in the early part of 2001. You spoke of having a serious illness back then; I do hope you experienced a good recovery and are doing well now. It's good to have you back after more than four years' absence. Why did you change your user name from RCSCROLL to RC Scrolls -- did you get married? :-) --Hank | ||||||
411 | Properly Interpreting the Bible | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 190274 | ||
Wise words from Dr. Cooper on a topic that needs to be kept simmering on our front burner as we read and study Scripture, both in our private study and our community study on this Forum. One wonders and feels constrained to ask himself why so many insist on approaching God's word as if He wrote it in some sort of code to which only a privileged few hold the key. No sooner do some pick up the Bible and read Genesis 1:1 until Presto! they see a place where they can insert a theory (Gap Theory) between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. Then someone comes along and writes a whole book about the imaginary events that occurred between these two opening verses of Scripture. And with this sort of wild eisegesis, things get worse and worse, the theories wilder and wilder, all the way to the end of the Book of Revelation. How much easier the Bible is to understand simply by following what 2 Timothy 2:15 commands! --Hank | ||||||
412 | Thanks for the answer | Acts 1:9 | Hank | 190240 | ||
johnboy36: Then suppose you tell us how Jesus has managed to hover in the clouds a few feet off the ground for nearly 2,000 years. Sonny boy, we're talking about the Son of God here, not a Space Cadet from Nazareth. You may not be willing to accept the biblical account of Christ's ascension. That is up to you. But then we on Study Bible Forum are not willing to accept all this far-out hogwash about clouds and water vapor and Jesus having hardly been able to leave the earth at all. Please stick to Scripture; human theories and speculations are not acceptable on SBF. Are you a child? --Hank | ||||||
413 | What happened when Jesus assended? | Acts 1:9 | Hank | 190187 | ||
We're in luck, Steve! I just discovered that our respective answers, since the question was asked in duplicate, showed up on different threads, your answer to enlighten one and mine to confound the other. :-) --Hank | ||||||
414 | What happened when Jesus assended? | Acts 1:9 | Hank | 190179 | ||
johnboy36 - When you learn what the following scriptural passages teach, you will know as much detail as the Bible provides of the ascension of Christ. See Mark 16:19,20; Luke 24:50-53; and Acts 1:4-11. Not one of your questions can be answered biblically except possibly the first: "What happened when Jesus ascended into heaven?" In Acts 4:9 Luke tells us simply that "He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their (the apostles') sight." --Hank | ||||||
415 | tithe in new testament | 1 Cor 16:2 | Hank | 190161 | ||
Modise - Thanks for your question; welcome to Study Bible Forum. A quotation follows: "Tithing is an Old Testament concept. The New Testament nowhere commands or even recommends that Christians submit to a legalistic tithe system. Paul states that believers should set aside a portion of their income in order to support the church (1 Corinthians 16:1:2)." To read more of the article of which the foregoing is a small segment, please go to http://www.gotquestions.org/tithing-Christian.html --Hank | ||||||
416 | What happens when you refuse God? | Jon 1:3 | Hank | 190158 | ||
Dear Gillyhaz - In 1833 a young man, having come to a turning point in his spiritual life, sat on the deck of a ship and wrote a poem which was later set to music. The young man was John Henry Newman and his poem became the beloved hymn, "Lead, Kindly Light." Here is the second stanza of that hymn: "I was not ever thus, nor prayed that Thou shouldst lead me on; I loved to choose and see my path; but now lead Thou me on. I loved the garish day, and spite of fears, pride ruled my will: remember not past years." ....... Some 18 centuries before Newman wrote his poem, a zealous Pharisee from Tarsus was bent on wiping Christians off the face of the earth. Years later this man, Saul of Tarsus, became known as Paul the Apostle of Jesus Christ. He may well have had his deeds as persecutor of Jesus Christ and His church in mind when he wrote, "forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 3:13,14). ....... A thousand or so years before the time of Paul, a king in Jerusalem lamented, "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." Wearily he had searched for happiness in human wisdom and found it not; in wealth and found it unfulfilling; in pleasure and found it empty and ephermeal. This disillusioned man, this king named Sololmon, had it all yet had nothing. "Vanity of vanities" he said over and over, "all is vanity." At long last his "mid-life crisis" led him back to his senses, back to his roots, back to God. He summed it all up on these well-known words, "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments; for this is the whole duty of man" (Ecclestiastes 12:13). ...... Solomon's father, King David, did not always live within the will of God by any means. He committed adultery with the wife of one of his soldiers, then had the soldier slain. David paid the heavy price of bloodguiltiness for his sins, as his penitence in Psalm 51 clearly shows. He laments that his sin is ever before him and asks God to purge him with hyssop, to wash him so that he shall be whiter than snow, to restore unto him the joy of salvation. ....... If you had been a bystander at the time of Jesus' arrest and trial, and had heard a man in the crowd deny ever having anything to do with the accused -- deny it, in fact, three times -- you would never expect to read these words with which this turn-coat opened one of his epistles a few years later: "Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ" (2 Peter 1:1). ...... These men -- Paul, Solomon, David, Peter -- had all at some point in their lives "stepped outside the will of God" -- to borrow your phrase. So also have most of us. But the Bible's message rings clear: "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9). And having been forgiven and cleansed, we should join with Paul in "forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before." ....... I doubt that you have "completely missed out." Trust in God and pray that He will yet use you as an instrument to His glory. --Hank | ||||||
417 | Why the NKJV over the NASB ? | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 190152 | ||
Cheri - I know of no cogent reason on earth why your newly acquired NASB could not co-exist in perfect harmony with your King James Bible. Mine have lived side by side on my bookshelf for years, and to my knowledge they are the best of friends. I've never known them to misbehave, or treat one another unkindly, or ever to have a serious disagreement between themselves. Each has his own unique way of expressing himself, the venerable King James Bible tending to wax more eloquent perhaps but with no more fidelity to the text than the New American Standard Bible. Both have a high view of Scripture and both do justice to the ancient manuscripts which they prize so highly. Both have taken great pains to render into the English tongue a transparency of the ancient Scriptures. I hope you enjoy your NASB! --Hank | ||||||
418 | Baptism in the Holy Spirit | 1 Cor 12:13 | Hank | 190147 | ||
Dear BornoftheSpirit: Thanks for your question and welcome to SBF. The Holy Spirit is the supernatural and sovereign agent in regeneration; He therefore baptizes ALL believers into the body of Christ (1 Corinthians 12:13). I emphasize the word "all" in the phrase "all believers" because the baptism of the Holy Spirit comes to all believers instantaneously and concurrently with their regeneration . It is not something that comes along later or something that must be sought or prayed for in order to receive it. Moreover, it has absolutely nothing to do with "speaking in tongues" (glossolalia). ...... You ask how this affects one's personal relationship with God. I'm not quite sure of the precise thrust of your question, but I will respond by saying that the baptism of the Holy Spirit comes only to regenerate believers, bona fide followers of Christ, and not to anyone else. ..... The Holy Spirit indwells born-again believers, instructing them, sanctifying them and empowering them for a life of Christian service in the world today and seals them unto the day of redemption (Ephesians 1:13; 2 Corinthians 3:6; Romans 8:9-11). The baptism of the Holy Spirit is not some kind of ecstatic experience; it is not a "feeling" but a fact based solidly upon the word of God. --Hank | ||||||
419 | Why the NKJV over the NASB ? | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 190143 | ||
Cheri, you can find a selection of NASB's at americanbiblesales.com at a discount and often at real bargain prices for their (slightly) damaged volumes. I'd recommend the single-column side-reference edition. I noticed they have a selection of these Bibles in genuine leather that are slightly damaged for about 17 dollars, and calfskins that list for 150 dollars for around 44 dollars. You might want to check it out. --Hank | ||||||
420 | Why the NKJV over the NASB ? | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 190111 | ||
Justme - Your calling me "wise one in Arkansas" reminds me of a cartoon I saw several years ago in the "New Yorker." Two adult owls were talking, and one said to the other, "How's you son coming on, wise wise?" ...... By heaping lavish praise upon the NASB, I hope I didn't inadvertently paint myself into a corner and look like the world's foremost hypocrite if I ventured to say something very good about the King James Bible too. In my judgment we do ourselves a distinct disservice to lay this venerable old masterpiece quietly away in some dark, obscure corner of our bookshelf to gather dust, keeping it only because we lack the courage to put it in the trash heap. It was by reading the King James Bible that school kids a few generations ago learned to read English -- and what a treasure trove of beautiful and majestic English it was, and is still. When contemporary readers of English skip over the King James Bible and land on some modern paraphrased version, they not only do themselves ill by choosing to remain ignorant of one of the supreme masterpieces of English literature, but they do themselves no favor by substituting a literal translation -- the KJV is, after all, among the most literal of translations -- for the cheap substitute of a paraphrase. ...... Here's a sample from a segment of one of the loveliest of the Psalms, the 23rd, in two versions. First, the KJV: "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me: thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." ...... Now, here's the same passage in a modern version, the New Century Version, "Even if I walk through a very dark valley, I will not be afraid, because you are with me, your rod and your walking stick comfort me." ...... Is this a better rendition? No, I affirm it is far inferior to the King James. Is this clearer than the King James? Not to me it isn't. Does the locution of this modern version lift and inspire like the King James does? Not for me it doesn't. ...... But I'll have to admit that I learned from the New Century Version that God hobbles around Heaven with a walking stick! How absurd! --Hank | ||||||
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