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721 | Does this verse refer to purgatory? | 2 Pet 2:9 | Norrie | 13824 | ||
It refers to hell. Think of hell as jail and Lake of Fire as prison, you go to jail before you go to prison. :) | ||||||
722 | who is pure from sin | 1 John 1:9 | Norrie | 38075 | ||
I just went back a few posts to see what ya'll were talking about. Isn't what you're referring to is a sin lifestyle? OK, when we are reborn, our flesh is not immediately saved, that is a continual process accd to Rom 12:2, right? So can a person be saved and still be a lifestyle such as homosexuality? Adultery? Drug or alcohol addiction? Promiscious sex? If a person still has any of these sins dominating their life, are they saved still but have a stronghold that needs to be broken or what? When you are reborn, hopefully all your vices will go away but that is not necessarily the case, is it? Anybody can answer. |
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723 | who is pure from sin | 1 John 1:9 | Norrie | 38081 | ||
I'm on a forum w/many gays who claim to be Christians. I guess that's a matter between them and God? But there are some that say things like David and Jonathan were lovers and shoot down all the verses that condemn homosexuality, in other words they just pervert the Gospel. But then there are some that really sound sincere, just maybe misguided, actually believe it's natural and are monogamous. So I got to wondering about them, which led to thinking about me too. I know when I first got saved, I had so many things wrong w/me that it took a long time to be delivered from them. I didn't quite understand repentance either. So I've always wondered, did I get saved then or later, it always bugs me. I know even while I was still doing things that were considered sin like pot smoking, which I didn't see was all that wrong, just illegal, or drinking, was I saved or not and why is their sin worse than mine? I decided I won't say anybody's not saved but the ones that are in your face and into serious scripture perverting, those I seriously doubt. How much time can you spend defending your sin and still be a Christian? I confess I'm powerless over eating, esp. sweets but I've still not got delivered. Pray for me! |
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724 | who is pure from sin | 1 John 1:9 | Norrie | 38145 | ||
So if someone exchanges the truth for a lie, no matter how saved they profess to be, it can't be so? | ||||||
725 | An Arminian Consensus in the Forum? | 1 John 2:2 | Norrie | 19295 | ||
I never heard of Calvin/Armenian before I got on this forum, but are you asking true/false questions here? * Christ's death PROVIDES forgiveness for all men. (I don't have it, but I can get it, if I want it. It's there for the asking.) TRUE * Christ's death RESULTS in the forgivenss of all men. (All have the forgiveness of sin.) TRUE * Christ's death results in the forgiveness of every man of all sins except one. (Christ didn't die for that one sin.) FALSE *Christ's death results in the forgiveness of all men, but they will still go to hell if they don't believe in Christ. (This makes forgiveness of no value. I'm forgiven but going to hell for not accepting Christ.) TRUE |
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726 | What does baptism consist? | 1 John 5:6 | Norrie | 23276 | ||
Baptism is what you do in obedience to God's Word to acknowledge that you are a professing follower of Jesus Christ. It just signifies you being reborn, it doesn't cause it. :) Only if you accepted Jesus as Savior causes you to be reborn. A Bible teacher brought this up last week. You know how there's the ongoing discussion about sprinkling or immersion? He said don't let it cause a division between different denom, don't start a fight w/your different denom friends, but when Phillip met the enouch in the desert and talked w/him, when they came to a body of water, the enouch wanted to be baptized. Now if sprinkling was OK, they wouldn't have been crossing a desert w/o water so if sprinkling was acceptable, why'd they wait to get to a body of water? That just shows immersion is the way to baptize. :) |
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727 | Are we not judged by how we vote? | 2 John 1:11 | Norrie | 71895 | ||
"In heaven there will be no Republicans, Democrats, Conservatives, or Independents. " I noticed you left out Liberals. :) It will be easier for a liberal to go thru the eye of a need than to enter into Heaven. |
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728 | Are we not judged by how we vote? | 2 John 1:11 | Norrie | 71896 | ||
"In heaven there will be no Republicans, Democrats, Conservatives, or Independents. " I noticed you left out Liberals. :) It will be easier for a liberal to go thru the eye of a needle than to enter into Heaven. |
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729 | I agree, but I also have a question | Revelation | Norrie | 18756 | ||
Seventh Day Adventists. | ||||||
730 | what about the K J V | Rev 3:10 | Norrie | 24962 | ||
I'm reading a book called Puritans and the Puritans used a Geneva translation of the Bible, they didn't trust KJV because of his immorality. | ||||||
731 | what about the K J V | Rev 3:10 | Norrie | 24992 | ||
Oh, I thought the Pope painted the Sistine Chapel! :) You mean he didnt??? I knew KJ didn't translate the Bible, in fact one of the comments one of the men made in the book was can't God use a foolish or evil man to bring about his ways? |
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732 | what about the K J V | Rev 3:10 | Norrie | 25015 | ||
I did get that from this book. It is just an historical novel but you get a lot of truth in them. :) Seems the Church of England was a bad as RCC trying to stop the Word. Why do you think they came here? :) | ||||||
733 | GOD CAST SATAN FROM HEAVEN? | Rev 12:4 | Norrie | 95280 | ||
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/dinosaurs/gap.html Excellent article on Gap theory and why it cannot be true. |
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734 | GOD CAST SATAN FROM HEAVEN? | Rev 12:4 | Norrie | 95317 | ||
Check out that site again and read some of the dinosaur articles. There could have been dinosaurs back then, after all, they are just overgrown reptiles. Remember before the atmospheric/climatic changes at flood, people lived 900 years...so could a lizard and they never stop growing...:) Levithan in Job is supposed to be a dinosaur. I believe dinosaurs existed, just 4400-6000 yrs ago, not millions and millions. :) Noah could have brought some on ark but they didn't make it afterwards, who knows. After all, the large animals, he prob brought babies. Full grown elephants take up more room than babies. :) | ||||||
735 | Please explain Revelation 14:12 ? | Rev 14:1 | Norrie | 83935 | ||
Please explain Revelation 14:12 according to what you understand that verse to mean. Who is it talking about, and isn't it contradictory? |
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736 | Please explain Revelation 14:12 ? | Rev 14:1 | Norrie | 83986 | ||
I'm kinda doing this as an intermediary. A friend is asking this so I thought I'd get some good replies. :) Here's her answer: There seems to be a contradiction, but I think it is not a real contradiction, I will see what you or others think.... Revelation 14:1-5 does show the saints of God who were faithful to the Lamb of God just before Jesus comes, following Him whithersoever He goes. The seal of God is in their foreheads (compare to Revelation 7:1-10), which seal has the name of God, His office and territory. That is what a seal is. This seal shows that they are God's. This seal means that they worship God, and do not receive the mark of the Beast, or worship the Beast, etc. (See: Revelation 13:16-18) The message that they proclaimed was a pure message (they are virgins) described in Revelation 14:6-11. Then verse 12 says, "Here is the patience of the saints, here are they who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." These saints lived before the second coming of Jesus Christ which is depicted in verses 14-20. They gave the final warning about worshipping the beast. They are redeemed from the earth, they along with some who must be raised from the dead (verse 13), and taken to heaven with Jesus at His second coming, where we find them in verses 1-5. So what is the contradiction? This is my question: How can the saints of God both keep the commandments of God and have the faith of Jesus? Does that mean that they are saved because they have corresponding good works that match their faith? And these good works are keeping the commandments of God? Are they spiritual Jews which keep the Law of God (which is spiritual) (see the reference to the 144,000 being from every tribe of Israel--Revelation 7:1-10)? i.e., the 144,000 represent the Christian church at the end of time, since they believe in Christ, which is made up of both Jews and Gentiles. It seems that faith and works must go together. Their actions testify to their faith, they keep all the commandments of God, including how to worship Him. Another verse is that found in the KJV, Revelation 22:14. "Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city." Outside are the disobedient ones, those who break the commandments. (verse 15) Since the first four commandments of the Ten Commandments tell us how to worship God, then I would think that Christians at the end of time will keep holy the seventh-day Sabbath, while the rest of the world will be worshipping the beast on his popular day of worship, on which he deceives the whole world. What do you or others on this group think? It is interesting that the fourth commandment contains the name of God, His office, and his territory: The Lord God, who made heaven and earth and things under the earth (water)., etc. It is similar to the Presidential Seal of the USA. They belong totally to God. |
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737 | Please explain Revelation 14:12 ? | Rev 14:1 | Norrie | 83999 | ||
Emmaus and Radioman, Thank you for your responses, I'll pass them on and any followups. I'll save that link too, I know I'll prob need that too. :) Norrie |
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738 | Please explain Revelation 14:12 ? | Rev 14:1 | Norrie | 84256 | ||
Her reply: I am sorry, it does seem like I did spiritualize away the 144,000 to mean all professed Christians at the end of time. I really didn't mean to do that. This is what I do mean: The 144,000 are a literal number, that I agree with totally. I know that Gideon had his 300 men whom God separated out, and then God told Elijah that He had 7,000 who had not bowed the knee to Baal among the children of Israel. So I fully believe that God has a literal 144,000 who believe the whole truth of the Bible, who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, as Revelation 14:12 points out. They will be separated out because they keep the whole Law, including keeping holy the seventh day of the week, apart from the rest of the world who keep Sunday in the final battle between God and Satan, and represent the church of God as a whole from the beginning of time, because they are the first-fruits of the earth unto God and unto the Lamb. I believe that they will be those alive at the second coming of Jesus Christ, as Paul said would be caught up together with the resurrected righteous to meet Christ in the air. They are represented as 12,000 from each tribe of Israel. That shows that they are the church, if you consider that "twelve" is representative of the church in the Bible--there were 12 sons of Israel (Jacob), and there were 12 disciples, even after Judas hung himself, Matthias was chosen to replace him. When the church was tented around the sanctuary in the wilderness for 40 years, it was separated into twelve groups, and there were leaders from every group. Each group had its own standard or flag to separate them from the others. So they formed a perfect square around the sanctuary that Moses built. This pointed forward to the church at the end of time, which "gathers" around the sanctuary truth of Jesus as our Mediator in heaven. So the 144,000 will also believe the sanctuary message of the Bible, that the Old Testament services were kindergarten illustrations to us of what work Christ has done and is doing to save us from our sins. Christ wants to put away sin totally, and the sanctuary shows what Christ is doing in heaven to put an end to all sin, that it will finally be destroyed, root and branch, so to speak. Hopefully none of us will be destroyed with it. To be part of this final last day group requires the faith of Jesus, which faith is trusting the Father even unto death. Just like Noah, these righteous ones will be ridiculed and made fun of. Just like Jesus, a death decree will be against them to destroy them (Revelation 13:15), but they will not be destroyed. They must face all kinds of abuse, and be tried to the utmost, can you imagine? but Jesus will come the second time, and then will be fulfilled Revelation 1:7, and deliver all the faithful to His Father's house that has many mansions.. The Ten Commandments was given to Christ's church from the beginning of time. It is the everlasting covenant, and Israel as a nation failed to keep that covenant, but Christ came and kept it, showing that we could keep it. It is New because we have Christ, His word, and the Holy Spirit and everything possibly given to the church to bring the church into the kingdom. But God has an adversary to keep the church from the whole light of truth, and he comes in as a roaring lion to tell us that the Ten Commandments have been nailed to the cross. God is going to prove to everyone, His law is from everlasting, just as He is from everlasting. As long as there is God, there is the Law of love written on two tables in the heavenly sanctuary. Satan knows this because he used to reside in heaven next to God's throne as the covering cherub. The angels know it and they are trying to work and minister to the saints. The Holy Spirit is God who dwells in us, the Spirit sent from Jesus who is omnipotent. That power is given to us to prepare ourselves and others for His kingdom before it is forever too late. Matthew 28:18-20. Part 1 |
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739 | Please explain Revelation 14:12 ? | Rev 14:1 | Norrie | 84257 | ||
Her reply part 2: If you are a Christian and had not known that the seventh day of the week is actually the seventh-day of the week and not the first day, God will not hold you accountable for that lack of knowledge if you had no opportunity to know it. Today, God has given the Sabbath truth to Christians, but most of them say, no it is Jewish, it ended at the cross, Christ kept it and then destroyed it at His cross, so it is not part of the New Covenant for Christians. Is that really so? Matthew 5:17-19 indicates the opposite. He did away with the Levitical ceremonies at the cross, but not His Law summed up in the Ten Principles of the Ten Commandments. If that is so, then there is no sin, for there is no law. And you can do as you please and still gain heaven. We have the law of love now. All you need to do is love one another. The Gentiles do that, brothers and sisters! There are those Christians who say that the Holy Spirit was not available until Pentecost. But Christ was led of the Spirit and so were the prophets of old. Moses had wished that all of could be prophets.... I wonder if he was frustrated or what. David prayed that the Holy Spirit would not be taken from him, but would be restored to him, when he realized his great sin against God. But now, the saying is, that The Old Testament itself is done away with, that all we need is the New Testament, or else, no, all you need is the Holy Spirit, and it supercedes the Bible today. That is like saying, if you believe the Bible and follow it, you are not receiving the Spirit of God. Now how can that be? You all are confusing me very much as to what you all believe. I am not claiming to know more than the rest of you, you all seem to be pretty intelligent as far as that goes. :) But I am praying for you all and hope that you intelligently see what I see. And I am sorry that I have gotten carried away this time. God knows the reason why I have done this. Blessings to you, Shelley |
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740 | "Babylon the Mother of False Religions" | Rev 17:5 | Norrie | 76236 | ||
Is golly a bad word too? I think that's being a tad legalistic. There are people who truly used to curse (I was one) and when you say things like gee is violating 10 commandments and offensive when we used to really violate the 10 commandments and were truly offensive before, it makes like a why bother attuitude, esp. if someone is a new Christian or maybe even just thinking about it. I sincerely believe Jesus is more forgiving than you in that catagory. | ||||||
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