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201 | It's never effort-free with God! | 1 Thess 5:23 | New Creature | 135276 | ||
Dalcent; I don't see any the verses you listed as being in reference to sanctification. To sanctify means commonly to make holy, that is, to separate from the world and consecrate to God. I do believe in a positional sanctification and also in a sanctification that is a continious on-going process in the life of every believer in which we co-operate with the Holy Spirit. That is, we have a passive role in our progressive sanctification. I think you are trying to stretch the verses you listed to imply something more than what they actually say. Nevertheless, your entitled to your view on this. It's just that I believe you need better supporting text than what you have provided in order to convince me of any post-death sanctification. New Creature |
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202 | It's never effort-free with God! | 1 Thess 5:23 | New Creature | 135122 | ||
Dalcent you asked: "is there scripture conclusively proving God doesn’t sanctify in the after life." To which I counter with: Can you provide any Scripture that would indicate that "sanctifcation is continued in the individual in the after life? |
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203 | Born of the water means? | John 3:5 | New Creature | 134289 | ||
John 3:6 That which is BORN OF THE FLESH IS FLESH; and that which is BORN OF THE SPIRIT IS SPIRIT BORN OF THE FLESH equals natural physical birth BORN OF THE SPIRIT equals spiritual birth In the discourse between Jesus and Nicodemus, Jesus is speaking about "birth" That is why the word "born" is used 8 times in John 3:3-8 Now we all know what a birth is. If Jesus intended anything other that "birth" He certainly would have said as much. The fact is that in John 3, Jesus was making a contrast between two births, the natural and the physical. See John Morans comments on this thread as well. Blessings New Creature |
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204 | Born of the water means? | John 3:5 | New Creature | 134212 | ||
In my personal view, "born of the water" as in John 3:5 refers to our natural physical birth. Our earthly mothers carried us around in a watery womb, until the water broke and we came forth. "born of the water" appears to be physical birth, while "born of the Spirit" seems to be in reference to a supernatural spiritual birth which God performs on those who are spiritually dead. P.S. I believe John Moran did ans excellent job explaining this phrase for you. Blessings New Creature |
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205 | Baptism or No? Our Forefathers said... | Eph 4:9 | New Creature | 134097 | ||
Rowdy; I have read your posts, and just thought that I would pass along to you, what I heard Alistair Begg recently said concerning "baptism" He said; Our baptism portrays what Christ Jesus performed. And concerning regeneration he said: Our regeneration is totally the work of God alone. There is nothing we can submit to, to bring about our own regeneration. We can't say "excuse me, could you please regenerate me." I realize you will disagree with that, but I just wanted you to consider what he had to say on this. We can ask to be baptised, but we cannot ask or request, or submit to anything which could possibly bring about our own regeneration. We remain passive in regeneration. Since we are dead in tresspasses and sin (Eph 2), we do not even recognize our need to be baptized. Those who are in a spiritually dead state, cannot submit to something or even make the initial move towards salvation, unless they have first been made alive spiritually. It is at this point that they can recognize their need. And only then. Just my widows mite worth Blessings New Creature |
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206 | Evolution vs. Creation in Today's World | Bible general Archive 2 | New Creature | 133340 | ||
On a similar note: “There are only two possibilities as to how life arose. One is spontaneous generation arising to evolution. The other is a supernatural, creative act of God. There is no third possibility. Spontaneous generation that life arose from non-living matter was scientifically disproved long ago by Louis Pasteur and others. That leaves us with only one possible conclusion – that life arose as a supernatural, creative act of God.” I will not accept that philosophically, because I do not want to believe in God. Therefore, I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation arising to evolution.” Dr. George Wald, professor emeritus of biology at Harvard University and Nobel Prize winner in 1971, as he wrote in Scientific American magazine “I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning. For myself, as no doubt for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality, because it interfered with our sexual freedom. We objected to the political and economic system, because it was unjust. The supporters of these systems claim that in some way they embodied the meaning – a Christian meaning, they insisted – of the world. There was one admirably simple method of confusing these people and at the same time justify ourselves in our political and erotic revolt. We could deny that the world had any meaning whatsoever.” Humanist and Atheist Aldous Huxley from his book, “Ends and Means” Dobzhansky frequently was quoted as saying; “We know evolution is true, even though we don’t know how it works, and have never seen it happen.” “To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, ….. and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.” (Darwin) |
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207 | Can obedience produce the new birth? | 1 Cor 13:8 | New Creature | 133061 | ||
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208 | Can obedience produce the new birth? | 1 Cor 13:8 | New Creature | 133059 | ||
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209 | Can obedience produce the new birth? | 1 Cor 13:8 | New Creature | 132939 | ||
Country Girl says: "Similarly a human being can about God's Word and respond in a very reasonable manner and simply obey His commands and become His child for the rest of his/her life. Clearly most people would agree No Miracle there." Not only are you incorrect of your undersatnding of the new birth, your entirely missing the point. The new birth which is recorded in the Bible, is a supernatural act of God upon a individual dead in trespasses and sin. Your also mistaken to say that obedience produces the new birth. The new birth is God actuated. Are you attempting to say that being born again is not Biblical? If thats the case then you should reveiew the following Scriptures 1 Pet. 1:3 NASB Blessed be the GOD and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has CAUSED US TO BE BORN AGAIN to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, BORN, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but OF GOD. John 1:13 EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN of water and OF THE SPIRIT, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. John 3:5 John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT is spirit. |
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210 | Are miracles for today? | 1 Cor 13:8 | New Creature | 132902 | ||
THE MIRACLE OF NEW BIRTH "I watched a hairy caterpillar crawling on the ground. It slowly inched its way along, not making any sound. To me it looked quite ugly, and I thought, "I'd hate to be A worm-like creature such as that, who crawls painstakingly." But as I watched, it slowly found a limb, and held on tight, And spun a silk cocoon that kept it safely out of sight. And then one day it struggled to break free so it could fly, And I beheld a butterfly that rose up to the sky. Its beauty was spectacular, and now its wings could soar, For days of crawling in the dirt were gone forevermore. I pondered on the wonder of that glorious new birth, And thought of how the Lord looks down upon our sin-sick earth. We must resemble lowly worms who wallow in our sin, But that is why Christ came to earth, to save the souls of men. He wraps us in His loving arms, and writes our names above, And we become new creatures, born again by His great love. And someday we will leave this earth, and with our wings we'll fly With beautiful new bodies to our mansions in the sky. For God has wrought a miracle in those He chose to be His holy bride, to reign with Him through all eternity." By: Betty Jo Mings http://www.geocities.com/sharing_treasures/miracle_of_new_birth.html |
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211 | Are miracles for today? | 1 Cor 13:8 | New Creature | 132896 | ||
By the way, each time God takes a wife abuser, a drunkard, or a drug addict, and changes them into a born again child of God, that is a miracle, and an awesome display of God's power to change lives. When the child of God looks into the word of God, and sees the Son of God, he is changed into the image of God for the glory of God. Praise God for his life giving power. |
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212 | Are miracles for today? | 1 Cor 13:8 | New Creature | 132894 | ||
The new birth is something only God can bring about. The birth I am talking about is not a physical birth, but rather a spiritual birth. The new birth involves bringing to life that which was previously dead. Only God can raise the dead. And that is exactly what He accomplishes when someone becomes born-again. Therefore to say that each new birth is not a supernatural miraculous event in an individual, is to not give God the credit for this display of His power. This is not a downgrade as you suppose. Eph 2:1 ¶ And you hath he made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins; |
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213 | Are miracles for today? | 1 Cor 13:8 | New Creature | 132859 | ||
Each time a person becomes a born-again child of God, thats one of the greatest miracles that still occurs each and every day. Yes miracles still occur today That is just one example |
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214 | Jesus is God? | Matt 3:17 | New Creature | 132858 | ||
These two verses should suffice. There are plenty of others. John 14:9 Jesus saith ...... he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? Matthew 1:23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. |
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215 | Santification | Rom 12:2 | New Creature | 132857 | ||
Sanctification is a continious ongoing process in the life of the believer. It is the process in which the believer is being transformed, and conformed on a daily basis, more and more into Christ's likeness. Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. |
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216 | How can I show the Bible is truth? | John 14:6 | New Creature | 132574 | ||
winged; you asked; "how can I prove the Bible is truth to someone who does not believe it?" One individual said this is how he once proved the Bible is true to a unbeliever. He said, An unbeliever once said to me; "If you can prove one verse of your Bible is true, then I will believe it. I grabbed hold of his nose and began wringing it back and forth until it started bleeding. Then he asked me what I was doing. I told him, you said that if I could prove one verse in the Bible you would believe it. The verse I was just proving to you to be true was: Proverbs 30:33 For the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, And THE WRINGING OF THE NOSE BRINGETH FORTH BLOOD; So the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife. Please don't use this method to prove the Bible is true. New Creature |
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217 | Titus 3:5 and washing of regeneration | Titus 3:5 | New Creature | 132551 | ||
Dalcent; You probably are much more educated than I am. However I will attempt to individually answer your questions, and give my personal view or understanding concerning them. "What is your theory as to why Protestantism is so fragmented?" 1) Splitting hairs over doctrine brings division. Especially over non-essentials to salvation. We even see division in 1 Cor. I do however believe that correct doctrine, especially on the essentials is of utmost important. We need to beware of false teachers. (2 Pet. 2:1; Matt. 7:15; Acts 20:28-30) 2) Men following the teaching of other faliable men while failing to trust the Holy Spirit's guidance in Scripture. etc. etc. "who is the head of the body of Christ (1 Cor 12)?" Christ is the head of the church: (Eph. 5:23; Col. 1:18) "Look how Calvinists and Arminianists tear into each other doctrines. Why do, say half of, these Christians not possess the correct biblical interpretation, viz. they don't get led into Truth. Perhaps the theory you espouse contains some truth but isn't quite the full picture." When we follow faliable men we are bound to come away with faliable men's interpretation. We need to compare what men say in light of what Scripture says. When Scripture proves men in error we should side with Scripture "When you study scripture how much of your comprehension is coloured by your pastor's fallible preaching." I know you will be amazed at my answer here, but I would personally have to say that while I have learned much though the teaching of godly men, at no time do I ever consider any of the Pastor's or teachers as being infaliable. I have yet to find the perfect teacher, Pastor, etc. None of us agree all the time. We do however agree that Scripture alone is the final authority, not any church, denomination, teacher, or Pastor, or leader. Being human we are all faliable. I have found that we do have agreement on the essentials of our faith. "Why do evangelicals always offer convolted explanations as to why Catholics are wrong to interpret the Bible literally" I don't have an answer for the majority on this. I will provide a personal answer on this as I see the Catholic church. I am not even sure what I am about to say is totally accurate. 1) I have been to Catholic weddings where the priest has told couples getting married, that since they were baptized as infants they can be assured of eternal life. Many times the couples whom I knew very well personally, never displayed any interest in spiritual things in their entire life. I cannot accept the fact of guarantee of eternal life based upon the decision parents to have their infants baptized. I have seen the same thing mentioned by catholic Priests at the funerals of drunks and others who never in their adulthood desire to step foot in the door of a church, or desire to read God's word. 2) Catholic friends of mine tell me their Priest tells them they shouldn't read the Bible, because they will not be able to understand it. And so they don't read the Bible for theirselves. 3) I see an over-emphasis on praying to Mary. I have yet to find where Scripture tells us we are to pray to Mary. 4) Five of my neighbors are Catholic. One told me that they are now taking two separate offerings weekly. The first offering is their regualr weekly offering. The second offering is taken to pay for lawyers of priests within the organization who have committed sexual abuse with young boys. I personally believe that those who committ such crimes should be sent to jail, and removed from priesthood. "Where the Bible says "So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves." They deny both sides of the sentence: claiming obviously Jesus is being metaphorical about his blood being true/real flesh and then assert he doesn't mean you will have no life in you either. And, we are called unscriptural!" I am not an expert on that subject. So I will not at this time comment on it. "Why is the Bride of Christ getting the small " It has always been small. Jesus calls it the "little flock" elesewhere Scripture refers to it as the "remnant" and in Matthew 7:13-14 we see that narrow is the way and FEW there be which find it. It's not the many but rather the few. The many travel on the broad way that leads to destruction "Scriptures does teach the Church is the pillar and bullwark of truth, not the Bible." Scripture also teaches that God's word is true. And that all Scripture is God breathed. '...the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.' Amen New Creature |
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218 | Titus 3:5 and washing of regeneration | Titus 3:5 | New Creature | 132544 | ||
Dalcent; The following two web-sites have alot of historical works. http://www.ccel.org/ http://www.torreys.org/bible/ Perhaps you are already familar with them New Creature |
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219 | Titus 3:5 and washing of regeneration | Titus 3:5 | New Creature | 132540 | ||
Are you attempting to say that the Catholic history of selling indulgences is myth? Why then did Martin Luther and other individuals who were once part of the Cathloic faith themselves, report and personally obsrerve them? Was Luther and other respected men making all that up? Why did Luther risk his life, if that was untrue? Who is historically being lied to? Who has the most to gain or lose by lying? |
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220 | Titus 3:5 and washing of regeneration | Titus 3:5 | New Creature | 132537 | ||
Dalcent; What I attempted to point out was the fact that the church, (any church) is filled with faliable men, therefore the church is not the final authority on Scripture. The fact that the Cathloic church has previously been wrong in the past is proof of the possibility of error in the present. I used Luther as an example in comparrison. I myself respect Luther for his role in the Reformation Period, but that in no way means that I am 100 per-cent in agreement with him either. I can only say that I personally am 100 per-cent in agreement with Scripture as led by the Holy Spirit as I prayerfully study God's word and trust that the Holy Spirit, who alone is called the "Spirit of Truth" is capable of guiding us individually and corperately into all truth. New Creature |
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