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121 | How did Nephilims come into existance? | Bible general Archive 1 | Jensen | 26962 | ||
Dear Thomas....You wrote..."I believe this scripture leads me to believe that Satans fallen angels had relations with mortal women"...While you may believe that this scripture leads you to believe...Nonetheless, there is no such proof. Furthermore, you may be watching too much TBN :-)This is the kind of carp they spread. God Bless....Jensen |
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122 | Humble birth | Luke 2:7 | Jensen | 26881 | ||
Hello SRN...There may be no significance beyond the historical fact. If you will permit me to offer an opinion....As you probably know, not everything in the Bible has to have a secret meaning, just waiting to be uncovered after 2000 years. There are no codes, no numerologies, no Gnostic secrets. Except in those secrets that we discover about ourselves, the Bible speaks plainly in large measure. We do not know for sure, from any source, where Jesus was born; stable or cave? The Bible says "manger" in the verses you gave. Our traditions have placed the birth in a stable....But not the facts! If we were certain, well then you might have a good question. I know people who have slept in their cars and trucks because the Inn was full. Holiday Inn of course.:) Sometimes a stable is just a stable. God Bless....Jensen |
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123 | WHEN DID SATAN TAKE KEYS OF HEAVEN | Rev 1:18 | Jensen | 26875 | ||
Dear Swiggy...Welcome to the Forum :-) I am really interested in the question you pose. I would like to know who some of your favorite writers, speakers or ministers are. Any names I might recognize. Thanks for any help you can give. God Bless....Jensen |
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124 | Correcting the translation | Col 2:16 | Jensen | 26078 | ||
Dear djconklin....I have been following this thread with some amusement and I believe that 100 of 121 posts (as of 12/8/01) that deal with a single verse is a lost cause. You may know the technicalities of this verse so well that you have unlearned the clear teaching of most of the other verses. I do not mean this as an attack at all. But you are so hung up on this verse, I believe because you are realizing that all of your work on it has come to naught, that you keep beating the drum as well as around the bush. Good people at this site have asked simple questions of clarification yet you answer as if you did not read their questions at all. Like a politician :-) The fact that you have a (vanity) web page does not give you the last word. Anyone can have a web page and say anything, truth or fiction. It was a lot of work to do. But what is the point? God Bless....Jensen |
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125 | How did Nephilims come into existance? | Bible general Archive 1 | Jensen | 26074 | ||
Dear wjohn......You may have heard of two sub-Saharan tribes. The Pygmies and the Watusies. The former averaging less than 5 feet in height while the latter averaging well over 6 feet tall. The Nephilim were a genetic sub-group just like all sub-groups since we all came through Adam, then Noah. God Bless....Jensen |
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126 | When did the catholic church go wrong? | Bible general Archive 1 | Jensen | 26070 | ||
Dear Emmaus.........With all due respect indeed.....but the doctrine is Galatians 3:28 "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." If the first Pope taught through his actions that there was indeed a difference between Jew and Greek, that would be doctrinal. The doctrine of the seperation of Jew from everyone else. Would it not? God Bless....Jensen |
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127 | When did the catholic church go wrong? | Bible general Archive 1 | Jensen | 25873 | ||
The Roman Catholic Church teaches that Peter was the first Pope. Therefore the first error was by the first Pope. Paul opposed Peter on doctrine. Paul was correct, the Pope was in error. GAL 2:11 When Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was clearly in the wrong. 12 Before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group. 13 The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray. Technically, this was where the Catholic Church made the first error. But it was corrected. Let us pray that the other errors will be corrected soon. By His Grace.....Jensen |
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128 | Gen. l:26,27 | Gen 1:1 | Jensen | 22963 | ||
Dear Jepson..Welcome to the Forum:) In the beggining there was only one blood type. That type was "very good" but, like everything else, it has decayed. Just as we have dozens and dozens of dog types that, we all would agree, came from a single "kind." And you wrote, "Why not each race have its own blood type?" ... the answer is the same as for blood. There was only one race, the human race that is now undergoing decay similar to the blood type and the rest of creation. And you wrote...". Why not each language group have its own?" ...the language you speak of is a social skill and is not a result of biology. When God dispersed the people from Babel they were still related bio-logically but no longer related socially. So the blood could still be the same type. The way we view our origins will affect the way we live our lives. The world is decieved by the theory of evolution and it effects the thinking of many Christians. We are not evolving different blood types for the improvement of the human species, we are witnessing the decay as a result of Adam's sin. Praise God, we have a Savior. God Bless....Jensen |
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129 | unaffordable annulllment-How to? | Bible general Archive 1 | Jensen | 22809 | ||
Dear Tim...I agree with most of what you wrote... You wrote... "There is an alternative translation which goes like this ......She does not become GUILTY of adultery but the INNOCENT PARTY of adultery if you will." ....but that is the way I understood the passage so that I'm not sure of what you mean by "alternative translation", unless you meant the word(s) themselves. But I understand that divorce under those circumstances was devastating for women. But the more important devestation was a sin against the law. Nothing has changed, except that the social status, the secondary devestation if you will, has lessened for women in Post-Christian America. But the sin is still paramount. You wrote... "Do we forbid him from re-marrying? I know preachers who would indeed do this but on what scriptural authority I do not know." ....but you gave the Sciptural authority above (Mt 5:32) so I mis-understand your point. But it may be related to an annulement which, as you know, is a judicial pronouncement declaring a marriage invalid. The "judge" is the church. The church relys on Scripture, not on the ever changing socio-economic status of believers. Divorce should be difficult. Half of the people in our churches have been divorced, the same percentage as the general population of unbelievers. How then are we to be different from the population of non-believers if not to make the desolution of a marriage vow Scriptural? We can't go by popular acceptance of the fact. My mom would always ask me "Would you jump off a bridge just because everyone else did" to illustrate how we must sometimes act independent of the herd. As Christians must act. Please do not think I judge divorce to be beyond the pale. I, like you, think that divorce should not happen in a Bible believing Christian home. But when it does, it should be by an annulument of His church, not our secular courts, which is of secondary importance. On this issue, the Roman Church has it right :-) God Bless....Jensen |
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130 | unaffordable annulllment-How to? | Bible general Archive 1 | Jensen | 22611 | ||
Dear Tim...Your answer sounds like an answer "from a Catholic"....or Ex-Catholic :-) Please do not be a stumbling block. You may rationalize all you want but the Bible is clear. If you were not a Christian when you were married then it should not matter, what matters is if you were a Christian when married and went against the words of Jesus to receive a divorce. If free consent is lacking a marriage may be declared null and void. The remarriage of persons divorced from a living, lawful spouse controvenes the plan and the law of God as taught by Christ. There is no gray area here. It is very Biblical and should be taken very seriously. The Catholic Church did not put words in the mouth of Jesus. It is sad that many Protestant Churches do. Irreconcilabe differences indeed! None the less, Christians who divorce are not seperated from His church and should/must still live a Christian life. If you were married in the presence of God, in His church, you are obligated to keep His commands as surly as those in Exodus 20. If you have to choose between what some Christians say about divorce and what Jesus said Himself, then you put your faith in the wrong position. There simply is no choice. Like it or not. :-) God Bless....Jensen |
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131 | what was taken from the angel? | Job 20:4 | Jensen | 22115 | ||
Dear Ruth30...Could these verses help. There seems to be no connection between and with the words in your question. Angel, sweet, taste, bitter, and stomach do not appear close to each other in the Bible except for the following.... JOB 20:4 "Surely you know how it has been from of old, ever since man was placed on the earth, JOB 20:12 "Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue, JOB 20:13 though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth, JOB 20:14 yet his food will turn sour in his stomach; it will become the venom of serpents within him. God Bless....Jensen |
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132 | Does not tithing disqualify leadership? | Mal 3:10 | Jensen | 22041 | ||
You wrote to ask... "So here is the real issue at hand - should we be disqualified from leadership because we have given more to the Lord at ABC Ministry and less to the Lord at the local church?" ...and I would like to offer my view. I do not tithe. I give money (Time and Talent also) to bring people closer to our Lord; believers and non-believers alike. I know that when I expend my resources I am blessed beyond my understanding. It feels real good! And I learn so much about my own walk with our Lord that I wonder. Do I do this for others or for myself? I am a cheerful giver. And at the same time I have become a leader in my own right, by His image. If it were insisted that I pay the membership fee of a "local" church, I would most certainly be unable to do what I do with my remaining offering. Yet everyone agrees that I provide a good study of the first 11 chapters of the Bible from a scientific point of view. It is evangelistic but also serves to strenghten belief in the Bible as it is written. So what to do? :-) Am I called to church leadership? Hardly. Am I called to be a leader in His church. Cheerfully!! God Bless....Jensen |
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133 | are there innocent victims in the bible | Bible general Archive 1 | Jensen | 21957 | ||
Dear Jordan...Sin is responsible for all death and destruction. Sin is the reason that innocent people had to die. Sin is why bad things happen to good people. Except for the work of the Cross, none of us are innocent. Here are a couple of Biblical characters that considered themselves innocent in both the legal and the moral sense. MT 27:24 When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. "I am innocent of this man's blood," he said. "It is your responsibility!" JER 26:12 Then Jeremiah said to all the officials and all the people: "The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and this city all the things you have heard. 13 Now reform your ways and your actions and obey the LORD your God. Then the LORD will relent and not bring the disaster he has pronounced against you. 14 As for me, I am in your hands; do with me whatever you think is good and right. 15 Be assured, however, that if you put me to death, you will bring the guilt of innocent blood on yourselves and on this city and on those who live in it, for in truth the LORD has sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing." God Bless....Jensen |
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134 | Does not tithing disqualify leadership? | Mal 3:10 | Jensen | 21950 | ||
Dear Mommapbs....Please consider this view... AM 4:5 Burn leavened bread as a thank offering and brag about your freewill offerings-- boast about them, you Israelites, for this is what you love to do," declares the Sovereign LORD. I would not worry too much about what other Christians, leaders or not, do about freewill offerings. If there is no hypocrisy on the part of the leader, if the leader does not tithe while encouraging others to do so, then why disqualify the leader? There are plenty of New Testament guidelines for leaders (cf. 1 and 2Timothy, Titus) but tithing is not one of them. You may want to consider... MT 7:3 "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, "Let me take the speck out of your eye," when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye." God Bless....Jensen |
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135 | unaffordable annulllment-How to? | Bible general Archive 1 | Jensen | 21949 | ||
Dear Anglo38-LL...There are scripture verses that cover most, if not all, areas of our lives. We can disagree on those ares where the Bible is not exhaustive. For example EX 20:13 "You shall not murder." is pretty clear. Most orthodox Christians would agree that there are clear directives, or guidelines, for when a marriage may be discharged by means of a divorce. Those reasons are given by Jesus in MT 5:31 "It has been said, "Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce." 32 But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery." Since the term "divorce" is commonly understood today to be a legal term, the word annulement may be better suited and substituted in the verse above because Jesus was addressing the things that are God's and not the things that are Cesar's. This is also the position of the Roman church. If two people were married in the sight of God, in His church, there are issues they must consider that bear directly on their walk with the Lord. I understand that a person may go through a "church wedding" and not yet be saved. I was one of the many who did just that. But I believe today, since being saved, that God did indeed here our prayers and the prayers of others on that day, that my marriage be blessed by Him. To better help answer the question perhaps you would consider providing more details. What, exactly, is it that you can not afford? Are you speaking of financial issues or issues relating to the person's relationship with God. The time elapsed since a legal divorce may be irrelevant since we are studying the Bible for answers. However there is an issue of estrangement. The Bible will answer "what should they do?" and this Forum may help with the answer if provided a little more detail. God Bless....Jensen |
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136 | What was/is a temple prostitute? | Gen 38:21 | Jensen | 21319 | ||
Dear Tim...If you have time...Would you please review my post to EdB above and see if I am on the wrong track. God Bless....Jensen |
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137 | Part 2...Temple Prostitutes? | Gen 38:21 | Jensen | 21318 | ||
Part 2....Temple Prostitutes.... And it was not just one tribe but several tribes that played a prominent role in the corruption……were prostitutes employed by temples throughout? HOS 5:5 Israel's arrogance testifies against them; the Israelites, even Ephraim, stumble in their sin; Judah also stumbles with them. 13 "When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his sores, then Ephraim turned to Assyria, and sent to the great king for help. But he is not able to cure you, not able to heal your sores. 14 For I will be like a lion to Ephraim, like a great lion to Judah. I will tear them to pieces and go away; I will carry them off, with no one to rescue them. HOS 6:7 Like Adam, they have broken the covenant-- they were unfaithful to me there. 8:11 "Though Ephraim built many altars for sin offerings, these have become altars for sinning. 13:1 When Ephraim spoke, men trembled; he was exalted in Israel. But he became guilty of Baal worship and died. Yet the Lord is compassionate…(c.700 bc.)….. 2 CHR 30:18 Although most of the many people who came from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun had not purified themselves, yet they ate the Passover, contrary to what was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, "May the LORD, who is good, pardon everyone 19 who sets his heart on seeking God--the LORD, the God of his fathers--even if he is not clean according to the rules of the sanctuary." 20 And the LORD heard Hezekiah and healed the people. And again in Jeremiah (7-6 century bc.) JER 31:20 “Is not Ephraim my dear son….. …..I have great compassion for him," declares the LORD. May I conclude from the evidence that God's people did indeed employ and utilize temple or shrine prostitutes? There are lessons either way I think. Since this is for study purposes only I am open to new Scriptural based insight and interpretation. God Bless....Jensen |
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138 | Did God's own use temple prostitutes? | Gen 38:21 | Jensen | 21317 | ||
Part 1. Biblical Support for Temple Prostitutes being used by Israel et. al. Dear EdB. Well you certainly have kept me busy. Thank you. I have always been curious and concerned with corporate sin. That is to say that an entire church can be guilty of sin because the church leaders can and do lead people into it. The modern day example may be the carnival set up on the grounds of a Christian church that awards questionble prizes that are at least stumbling blocks to believers and non-believers alike. An example from antiquity may be temple prostitutes. You have done a great job in educating me. However, you seemed to say that God's chosen people had not engaged in the practice. You wrote "Check the timing, this is from Genesis before the temple of God was established. It was also before “organized woship” of God was introduced." That is what put me on the study from a different perspective. You asked that I "check the timing." In other words...Check the Chronology. So I did. And here is what I found. It is rather lenghty but I would appreciate your review and response, as well as that of anyone who follows this thread. My position will be that God's chosen people employed Temple Prostitutes. Here is my argument. Tamar (c. 16 century bc.) may not have been a shrine prostitute, but Judah knew full well what a shrine prostitute was…. GE 38:20 Meanwhile Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite in order to get his pledge back from the woman, but he did not find her. 21 He asked the men who lived there, "Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?" "There hasn't been any shrine prostitute here," they said. The Law is given concerning prostitution through Moses (c. 13 century bc.).. LEV 21:9 " If a priest's daughter defiles herself by becoming a prostitute, she disgraces her father; she must be burned in the fire." Becoming a Shrine Prostitute, or Temple Prostitute was no exception….. DT 23:17 No Israelite man or woman is to become a shrine prostitute. 18 You must not bring the earnings of a female prostitute or of a male prostitute into the house of the LORD your God to pay any vow, because the LORD your God detests them both. Israel had priests and a place to worship, a temple or house of the Lord. Samuel, a book that records Hannah (Samuel’s mother c.11 century bc.), being in the area of the Lord’s temple. 1SAM 1:9 Once when they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh, Hannah stood up. Now Eli the priest was sitting on a chair by the doorpost of the LORD's temple. But Solomon (970-31 bc.) would build the temple “for the Name of the LORD” but it was not the first temple. 1KI 3:1 Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt and married his daughter. He brought her to the City of David until he finished building his palace and the temple of the LORD, and the wall around Jerusalem. 2 The people, however, were still sacrificing at the high places, because a temple had not yet been built for the Name of the LORD. 3 Solomon showed his love for the LORD by walking according to the statutes of his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places. …..but, still, Israel was familiar with the concept. And the Lord would hold it against them as recorded in Hosea (c. 8 century bc.) HOS 6:10 I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel. There Ephraim is given to prostitution and Israel is defiled. Yet, these people return to their shameful ways (c. 8 century bc)…But does this indicate temple or shrine prostitutes? HOS 4:17 Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone! 18 Even when their drinks are gone, they continue their prostitution; their rulers dearly love shameful ways. 5:3 I know all about Ephraim; Israel is not hidden from me. Ephraim, you have now turned to prostitution; Israel is corrupt. 6:10 I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel. There Ephraim is given to prostitution and Israel is defiled. |
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139 | meaning of numbers in the bible | NT general Archive 1 | Jensen | 21245 | ||
Dear Kindest..Welcome to the Forum :).... There is some discussion of numbers in the Bible, hidden meanings and such, that may be accessed by utilizing the "Quick Search" located in the top right section of this page. Just type in the word numerology. But EdB gave the bottom line answer. God Bless...Jensen |
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140 | What was/is a temple prostitute? | Gen 38:21 | Jensen | 21244 | ||
Dear EdB...Thanks for your answer. I still have some confusion that I know you can address. It is my understanding, according to your post, that temple prostitutes were common to several religions. (They even exist today in certain sects located in California.) My concern is only with the kingdoms of Israel and/or Judah. 1)Your answer seems to indicate that Israel did not employ (no pun) temple prostitutes. But Hosea seems to indicate that Israel did utilize them. If you can clear this point up I would be grateful. 2)Do you know if the prostitutes worked for the temple directly. Did the temple or shrine play the same role as a modern day pimp? Did the temple keep all the money paid to the prostitute, and was there, to your knowledge, a part of the temple or temple grounds that was set aside for such service? 3) Were those who paid for the prostitute members of the same cult, or could anyone employ them with the proceeds going to the temple. (As an aside...There is a carnival set up on the grounds of a Christian church near where I live. Some of the prizes awarded include soft pornography and strong alcoholic drink. The proceeds from the carnival support the church. Curious!) God Bless....Jensen |
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