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6761 | Should Benny throw the Holy Spirit? | 1 John 4:1 | Hank | 2909 | ||
"Beloved, do not believe every spirt, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world." I've seen Benny Hinn in action a couple of times and a few others of his stripe on occasion. I receive more nourishment from eating a hamburger. Ever read "Elmer Gantry"? Biblical? You'll have to make that decision for yourself, I'm afraid. I've long since made mine. | ||||||
6762 | Should Benny throw the Holy Spirit? | 1 John 4:1 | Hank | 5854 | ||
JVH, thanks for sharing this additional information on Hinn, whom many already view as a fake, quack, and charlatan. --Hank | ||||||
6763 | Does God love everything? | 1 John 4:8 | Hank | 97285 | ||
Terrifel - God does not love sin, and the common denominator of all sin is disobedience of God. It's trite but true: God loves the sinner but hates the sin. Fallen celestial beings, including Satan, are of God's creation and were not always fallen. Is it going too far afield to postulate that God loved His celestial beings at least up until the time they fell on account of disobedience, and very possibly afterward? Did God cease to love Adam and Eve in the wake of their disobedience? It's perhaps presumptuous and rather academic to speculate on whether God hates Satan now. The Bible is clear that Satan is at enmity with God and as a consequence of his blatant disobedience will be cast into eternal hell. ..... God loves all mankind (John 3:16) and it is not His will that any should perish (2 Peter 3:9), but that doesn't mean that unrepentent, unregenerate sinners will inherit eternal life. They too will spend eternity in hell. God in His grace has made the only provision there is for man's salvation. By faith in His Son, Christ Jesus, we may find redemption through the shed blood of Christ on the cross. This is the only life boat that man has that can rescue him from eternal damnation. Not good works. Not friends and family. Not the Red Cross or FEMA. Nothing can, nothing but the blood of Jesus. --Hank | ||||||
6764 | Does God love everything? | 1 John 4:8 | Hank | 97286 | ||
flinkywood - "Condemned" may imply not so much the absence of God's love as it does the wrath of His righteous judgment for disobedience. --Hank | ||||||
6765 | Does God love everything? | 1 John 4:8 | Hank | 97355 | ||
Tim - Hard-core evangelism indeed. Yes, Tim, it would be that, and very different from preaching to the choir, that's for sure. But, dear brother, if you feel that God calls you to this ministry, please go. He will make a way where there seems to be no way. My belief and prayer for you and your family is that God will make you an instrument to His glory. --Hank | ||||||
6766 | Why did God Provide us with Free Will | 1 John 4:16 | Hank | 175651 | ||
Dear Mr., Mrs., or Miss Grasshopper - You have given us a dictionary definition of free will. Can you now provide a biblical definition or example? --Hank | ||||||
6767 | Why are our nude bodys shamefull? | 1 John 5:3 | Hank | 119380 | ||
Shadow: __"I have read the Bible and find all these rules set for us, and I don't know why they are there."__ ....... I am not trying to be cute or curt when I say that they are there because the all-wise sovereign God put them there. You say in your heart you can't work out why homosexuality and having multiple sex partners are wrong. Again, God's word says explicitly that they are wrong. He calls homosexuality perversion, promiscuity fornication, and both sin. So the issue boils down to this: do you trust God or what you can work out in your heart? Look at what Jesus says about the human heart: "For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, deeds of coveting and wickedness, as well as deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride and foolishness. All these evil things proceed from within and defile the man." [Mark 2:21-23]. After reading this, would you say that Jesus credits the human heart with any merit whatever to be a reliable moral compass? ...... Are you a regenerated (born again) follower of Jesus Christ? If you are, friend, why are you apparently having such a problem believing and accepting as authoritative the word of Him whom you profess as your Lord and Savior? --Hank | ||||||
6768 | Overcoming Addiction thru scripture | 1 John 5:4 | Hank | 56399 | ||
Hello, Sufficient Grace. Your question attracted my attention initially when I read that you are a part of the prayer ministry at the church you attend. So am I at First Baptist Church of my home city. Since it is a large church, we are able to staff it with volunteer members 24/7. Each member of the team chooses his hour during the week, and thus someone is engaged in prayer every hour of every day the year round..... If I had your assignment, I believe I'd key in on the word "faith" in 1 John 5:4 and build my talk around what the Bible says about the power of faith -- remember what Jesus said about having faith the size of a mustard seed? We are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Surely He who is able to save us by faith alone in Him alone is able to free us from addictions as well -- if we are willing to believe and trust in His power to deliver us from them. I'd look up in a concordance the words "faith" and "believe or belief" and proceed to build my case on the solid ground of what Scripture says about faith and the power of an unswerving and abiding faith in God the Father and in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I would emphasize that you are not talking about having faith in faith (that's humanism), but faith in the power of Almighty God to lead and direct our lives and rescue us from the prison of drug addiction. --Hank | ||||||
6769 | Who is this One (or one)? | 1 John 5:6 | Hank | 96311 | ||
Godman - You shouted, "GO TO SCHOOL AND LEARN HOW TO SPEAK ENGLISH." -- Perhaps others of us need to go to charm school and learn how to speak politely. --Hank | ||||||
6770 | Who is this One (or one)? | 1 John 5:6 | Hank | 96326 | ||
Darcy - The distinguished "Oxford don" who advised another user to go to school and learn how to speak English, in the post he made immediately before he issued his advice he did a fair job of butchering the king's English himself, to wit: ......"a waist of time" ..... "their is so many wims (sic) of doctrine" ...... "peoples own selvs" ..... "corecting people" ..... "if they wont listen" ...... Moral: Those who live in glass houses .... (you know the rest of the story!) :-) --Hank | ||||||
6771 | Who is this One (or one)? | 1 John 5:6 | Hank | 96330 | ||
Ray - When "that" is used as a relative pronoun, it can refer to a person regardless of gender, or to a thing or an idea. In the construction, "It is the Spirit that," the pronoun "that" no more indicates that the Spirit is an "it" than it does that the Spirit is a "he" or a "she." In other words, one must seek clarification of gender from the immediate or a broader context of Scripture. Has any light been shed? :-) Very cordially, --Hank | ||||||
6772 | Who is this One (or one)? | 1 John 5:6 | Hank | 96370 | ||
Hello again, Ray - For a backwoodsy Arkansas Razorback, I get by in English tolerably well I suppose. I have an exiguous knowledge of Latin, German and French -- just enough to be highly deficient in them. But Greek has always been Greek to me. I'm at the mercy of translators and find it most handy to have Tim Moran around. He works cheap, too, by the way :-) --Hank | ||||||
6773 | What does baptism consist? | 1 John 5:6 | Hank | 113705 | ||
Arrow1: "Things have gotten harder" you say? Why, it wouldn't surprise me if before you know it, we'll be required to go dip seven times in the Jordan just to keep from losing our salvation, even though it is a gift of God by grace. :) --Hank | ||||||
6774 | baptism important ,why the delay? | 1 John 5:6 | Hank | 113730 | ||
Arrow1: Given: That baptism is a command of the Lord Jesus Christ and should not be taken lightly or put on the back burner. That said, I think we are reducing this whole argument to a point of sheer absurdity when we nit-pick about exactly how long it should be after the believer is saved until he submits to water baptism. I've never personally known of anyone taking a brand new believer down to the creek or to a swimming pool and baptizing him on the spot, although there is no law against it and no particular reason why it couldn't be done. I do agree that some churches and some Christians have waxed lax in regard to baptism. Being a direct command of our Lord, it has never been an option for a follower of Christ. But there are other commands of our Lord too. What would you say to the notion that we put baptism on hold for a while and address a few other biblical topics for a change? By the way, if you would still like to read more about baptism, just type in the word in Search and you will have enough additional reading material on baptism to do you at least until a week from Thursday :-) --Hank | ||||||
6775 | What does baptism consist? | 1 John 5:6 | Hank | 113732 | ||
Hey, brush off the chip and smile. Lighten up! Please re-read my answer. Didn't you notice the -- :-) -- little funny face? Maybe the whole Forum is coming down with a case of baptismal battle fatigue! --Hank | ||||||
6776 | put 1Jn 5:7 BACK where it belongs! | 1 John 5:7 | Hank | 98543 | ||
justanotherchristian - While your concern is understandable, perhaps its to the credit of the NASB translators to acknowledge their marginal notation on 1 John 5:8: "A few late mss. add...in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one. And there are three that testify on earth, the Spirit..." ..... The NKJV, although it includes the disputed passage in the text, carries this note in the margin: "NU, M omit the words from 'in heaven' (v.7) through 'on earth' (v.8.) Only 4 or 5 very late mss. contain these words in Greek." ..... The annotation on this verse in the Believer's Study Bible (Nelson), which uses the NKJV text, reads as follows: "The words from 'in heaven' (v.7) through 'on earth' (v.8) are only found in a few Greek manuscripts, none dating earlier than the fourteenth century. Furthermore, the passage is not quoted by any of the Greek church fathers. The textual data suggest that these words were absent from the original letter." ..... My comment: This verse is not crucial to the doctrine of the Trinity, because Scripture provides ample support elsewhere in passages that are free of textual dispute. If this verse in John's epistle were the key verse in all Scripture to support the doctrine of the Trinity, and this verse in serious question of being spurious, then Trinitarians would be hard pressed to prove their doctrine. But, of course, this is not the case. ..... This much we know: The verse is not in conflict with any other part of Scripture. But, at the same time, it does suffer from weak textual support. In both cases, I believe the NKJV translators were justified in including it in the text, because it appeared in the manuscript from which they were translating and, conversely, so were the NASB translators justified in omitting it, because it did not appear in the manuscript they were following. Additionally, also in both cases, the translators were careful to note in the margin the reasons for handling it as they did. In neither case do I feel that the NKJV or the NASB translators were tampering with the text but were, on the contrary, being as honest and as forthright as is humanly possible to render into English a work as transparent of the manuscripts as their scholarship and language skills could afford. --Hank | ||||||
6777 | put 1Jn 5:7 BACK where it belongs! | 1 John 5:7 | Hank | 98548 | ||
justanotherchristian - Do you seriously believe the Comma Johanneum poses a grave threat to the authenticity of all Scripture? I fail to see how it does. I can't agree with Riplinger about the conspiracy of "New Age" translators to pervert and emasculate Holy Writ. That's being rather too reactionary in my view. --Hank | ||||||
6778 | Why would you include 1 John 5:7? | 1 John 5:7 | Hank | 98585 | ||
Ray - As I see it, the issue is not to "get out of that period of intellectual stagnation (i.e. the Dark Ages) AND DETERMINE THAT the whole passage should be included in the Scriptures." It is rather to examine the best manuscripts extant AND DETERMINE WHETHER the passage is genuine and should be included in the Scriptures. To a large extent this has been done and the passage has received weak and questionable manuscript support, support that clearly falls beneath the high standards of authenticity that have been used by creditable biblical scholars for centuries. --Hank | ||||||
6779 | Why would you include 1 John 5:7? | 1 John 5:7 | Hank | 98642 | ||
justanotherchristian - Of course, the warning in Revelation 22 applies to the adding to and the taking from the inspired words. Therefore, the question before you is this: Is the inclusion of 1 John 5:7 adding to Scripture or is the exclusion of it taking from Scripture? At all events, the choice should not be made arbitrarily or without good reason, don't you think? --Hank | ||||||
6780 | Why would you include 1 John 5:7? | 1 John 5:7 | Hank | 98647 | ||
Radioman - It's rather like this little man who keeps pestering me. Last night I saw upon the stair a little man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. O, how I wish he'd go away! --Hank | ||||||
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