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21 | When was Quirinius governor of Syria? | Luke 2:2 | Rainbow Maker | 40061 | ||
Article by JAMES ORR in the entry under Jesus Christ in the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, in Parsons, 1992-1999 (1) THE CENSUS OF QUIRINIUS. The emperor Augustus had given orders for a general enrollment throughout the empire (the fact of periodical enrollments in the empire is well established by Professor W.M. Ramsay in his Was Christ Born at Bethlehem?), and this is stated to have been given effect to in Judea when Quirinius was governor of Syria (Lk 2:1, 2). The difficulties connected with the enrollment or census here mentioned are discussed in the article QUIRINIUS. It is known that Quirinius did conduct a census in Judea in 6 AD (compare Acts 5:37), but the census at Christ’s birth is distinguished from this by Luke as “the first enrollment.” The difficulty was largely removed when it was ascertained, as it has been to the satisfaction of most scholars, that Quirinius was twice governor of Syria—first, after Herod’s death, 4-1 BC, and again in 6-11 AD. The probability is that the census was begun under Varus, the immediate predecessor of Quirinius—or even earlier under Saturninus—but was delayed in its application to Judea, then under Herod’s jurisdiction, and was completed by Quirinius, with whose name it is officially connected. That the enrollment was made by each one going to his own city (verse 3) is explained by the fact that the census was not made according to the Roman method, but, as befitted a dependent kingdom, in accordance with Jewish usages (compare Ramsay) Andy Rainbow maker |
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22 | The letter "J" didn't exist until 500ad | Bible general Archive 1 | Rainbow Maker | 39891 | ||
Now I haven't done any research yet but consider the following: These names now begin with "J" because the "J" is from the English not the original. 1. If at all possible try to view manuscripts pre 500 AD to see what is the case, I believe we will find a "Y" or the equivalent Hebrew letter and an "I" for the Greek. 2. Depending upon what current translation you are using some use "J" while some use"Y", for instance the NACB sometimes uses a "Y" and sometimes a "J". I wish this Bible was on a search engine since I cannot remember a reference off the top of my head, though we had one at Bible Study last Wednesday week in the New Jerusalem. I've done a word search on Joshua, the reference is Ex. 17: 14 and the Hebrew word for Joshua is Yehoshua. I've also done one on Jesus, one reference is Matt. 1:6 and the Greek is Iêsous; of Heb.[3091]Yehoshua. Jesus or Joshua. I would be interested to hear more. andy Rainbow Maker |
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23 | Why God told the Jews to Divorce. | Ezra 10:10 | Rainbow Maker | 39887 | ||
thank you farout, That goes without saying though I respect the necesity for exactness so as to avoid misunderstanding. Andy Rainbow Maker |
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24 | A Study of John's Gospel. | John 1:1 | Rainbow Maker | 39875 | ||
Hi Cynthia, I am glad you are joining me: 4:The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. In the beginning was Jesus, the Word,he was with God in the beginning and this Jesus was/is God Himself. This Word, Jesus entered into this world of time and came to live with humanity/Israelites. The incarnation is so crucial, that we have someone who came to share our humanity so that He might pay the penalty for our sins by dying in our place. A God could not do this, only the God man Jesus was qualified. We shall speak about these qualities or qualifications later on. During His lifetime here with us Jesus showed His glory to us, a glory that is of the only one who has ever come from the Father and this glory is full of grace and truth. During his life here with us and I think John is refering both to Jesus' life in Israel as well as his life among humans.. Jesus demonstrated to us that He shares in the glory of God. Here is the next verse for you. The next sequence after this verse, begins the ministry of John the Baptist. John 1:5 The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. Cynthia, I am going to take this as the verses come unless I need clarification then we can both do some research. Your brother in Christ Andy |
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25 | Is God with us at all times? | Matt 28:20 | Rainbow Maker | 39770 | ||
How I like the quote from Jeremiah and also Paul speaking to the Corinthian Christians in 1 Cor 3:3 for you are still fleshly. For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking like mere men? Walking like mere men and drinking milk is somewhere all Christians must begin. Though even until the day we die we will be flesh but not merely so for the Spirit of him who raised Jesus Christ from the dead will give life to our mortal bodies too. Our bodies are Temples of the Holy Spirit and because they are so we inherit the Kingdom through this potentiality the Potentiality of the Spirit which in us makes us far more than flesh and blood. Andy |
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26 | what the meaning of John 20 :1-8 ? | John | Rainbow Maker | 39767 | ||
Yes the resurrection is very real even though there are four Gospel versions of it and other versions in the Epistles. Jesus' death for our sins was a free gift unto eternal life, for as many as believe he gave power to be sons and daughters of God. "Rom 8:14 For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God." If we have accepted God's free gift of salvation and have received the gift of the holy Spirit and are being led by that then we are sons and daughters of God. Andy Rainbow maker |
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27 | what the meaning of John 20 :1-8 ? | John | Rainbow Maker | 39752 | ||
Precicely, oh, by the way I thought I would let you know it is 3.00pm Thursday 21 st here in NSW. It seems strange speaking to people in the past. I love that especial reading of the Resurrection story becasue it makes everyonr seem so real just like us. Rainbow Maker |
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28 | A Study of John's Gospel. | Not Specified | Rainbow Maker | 39747 | ||
Would any of you like to join me in a verse by verse study of the Gospel of John? This is my favourite Gospel of all and I would like to see what others have to say concerning it. Rainbow Maker |
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29 | A Study of John's Gospel. | John 1:1 | Rainbow Maker | 39792 | ||
Would any of you like to join me in a verse by verse study of the Gospel of John? This is my favourite Gospel of all and I would like to see what others have to say concerning it. Rainbow Maker |
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30 | Why Jesus live Lazarus die after raised | John | Rainbow Maker | 39746 | ||
I have read both answers to the original question and would like to concur that thisa is a very thourough answer and that yes it is the point which Jesus was making to Martha. Rainbow Maker |
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31 | Why have J W's changed John 1:1 | John | Rainbow Maker | 39745 | ||
Rev 18:13 says "and wine3631 and olive1637 oil1637 and fine4585 flour4585 and wheat4621 and cattle2934 and sheep4263b, and cargoes of horses2462 and chariots4480 and 2slaves4983 and 3Ahuman444 lives5590.' in the NASB version as well as in the New American catholic Bible. 5590 refers back to psyche or soul. So some protestant Bibles also use this translation. Rainbow Maker |
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32 | what the meaning of John 20 :1-8 ? | John | Rainbow Maker | 39744 | ||
Yes Patricia seeing is believing though remember that after doubting Thomas put his finger into Jesus' side Jesus said more blessed are they who believe who have never seen. John 20:29 in the New American Catholic Bible says "Jesus then said to him (Thomas)'you became a believer because you saw me blest are they who have not seen and have believed'" Rainbow Maker |
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33 | what the meaning of John 20 :1-8 ? | John | Rainbow Maker | 39740 | ||
John 20:9 For as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead. This is the verse which follows and is the key. Jesus has risen from the dead and Mary magdalen was among the first to find the empty tomb. She went and told Peter and John that the tomb was empty and that she thought someone had stolen Jesus' body. Peter entered the tomb first followed by John who when he entered the tomb remembered that Jesus had said that he would rise again from the dead. That is why the tomb was empty. Rainbow Maker. |
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34 | Is God with us at all times? | Matt 28:20 | Rainbow Maker | 39738 | ||
Genesis 3:8 says"They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden." This verse tells us that Adam and Eve were physcally aware of the Lord's presence with them in the Garden. Matt 28:20says "teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." This verse in Matthew is where Jesus tells us that he will always be with us. This being with us is not a being which has the physical presence heard by Adam and Eve in the Garden. It is something we believe because He told us so. Yes I believe that though God was with Adam and Eve when they disobeyed Him and ate the fruit that He asked them because He had to hear their confession in real time. That is he had to hear them say so in just the same way as they heard Him coming to them in the garden. God is never ever absent because through Jesus He told us He is always with us. Rainbow maker |
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35 | What is a Christian? | Luke 9:32 | Rainbow Maker | 39735 | ||
1 Acts 11:26 and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. And for an entire year they met with the church and taught considerable numbers; and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch. Christians are disciples of Jesus Christ and we christians were first called so at Antioch. Rainbow Maker |
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36 | Why God told the Jews to Divorce. | Ezra 10:10 | Rainbow Maker | 39526 | ||
Subject: "God commanded the Jews to divorce" Ezra 10:10-11 ESV And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, "You have broken faith and married foreign women, and so increased the guilt of Israel. Now then make confession to the LORD, the God of your fathers and do his will. Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives." Note In Ezra 10:10-11 "God actually commanded the Jews to divorce by separating from these idolatrous wives. ... Though God hates divorce, there are times when it is the lesser of the evils and would prevent a future and even greater spiritual catastrophe." MacArthur Study Bible, Word Publishing, 1997 Again: Ezra 9:2 "For they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has intermingled with the peoples of the lands; indeed, the hands of the princes and the rulers have been foremost in this unfaithfulness." When cross referenced with : - Deut 7:1 "When the LORD your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you, Deut 7:2 and when the LORD your God delivers them before you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them. Deut 7:3 "Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor shall you take their daughters for your sons. Deut 7:4 "For they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods; then the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you and He will quickly destroy you. Deut 7:5 "But thus you shall do to them: you shall tear down their altars, and smash their sacred pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire. Deut 7:6 "For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.NASB AND Ex 34:15 otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they would play the harlot with their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone might invite you to eat of his sacrifice, We are dealing with separate events in the History of Israel when it was in the best interest of the people, firstly when entering Palestine and secondly when returning there after the captivity in Babylon, not to intermarry with the nations. Note: 10:6-44 All the returned exiles gathered in Jerusalem to hear Ezra’s rebuke and prescription for the problem of mixed marriage of Jew to non-Jew. The men are to separate themselves from the peoples of the land which in later centuries became a Jewish technical term for non-Israelite residents in the land and from foreign wives. Thus the pattern was set for strict ethnic purity to be observed by those who see themselves as God’s covenant people. The rule was applied to Jewish officials, priests, Levites, and the people of Israel in general. Note: Accordingly, the wives and children of the returning Jews who had intermarried were to be sent away. Cambridge Annotated Study Bible NRSV With Apocrypha Edited By Howard Clark Kee Parsons Technology, Inc. Cedar Rapids, Iowa Weeping, in this case, is good, but reforming is better. As to being unequally yoked with unbelievers, such marriages, it is certain, are sinful, and ought not to be made; but now they are not null, as they were before the gospel did away the separation between Jews and Gentiles. Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary On The Whole Bible By Matthew Henry Yes God did tell the Jews to divorce their foreign wives and to send them home with the children because the purity of the Jewish faith was paramount. The Exodus reference suggests the strong influence a wife might have on her family. Rainbow Maker |
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37 | OT Gentile Conversion | Is 56:3 | Rainbow Maker | 39523 | ||
Someone who wished to become an Israelite was called a Proselyte. Here is an article which explains it. 1. GER IN THE OLD TESTAMENT: No difficulties were put in the way of those strangers who wished to settle down in the land of Israel. All strangers, the third generation of Egyptians and Edomites included, and only Ammonites and Moabites excluded, could enter “the congregation of God” without circumcision and without the obligation to keep the ceremonial law. ‘The stranger within the gate’ was free to eat meat which was prohibited to the Israelite (Dt 14:21). If, however, the stranger wished to take part in the Passover, a feast permeated with national ideals, he must be circumcised. The keeping of the Sabbath and other feasts was regarded rather as a privilege than as a duty (Ex 23:12; Dt 16:11, 14); but according to Lev 16:29 the was obliged to keep the fast of Atonement. He was forbidden on pain of death to blaspheme (Lev 24:16) or to offer children to Molech (Lev 20:2). If he desired to bring a burnt offering, the same law applied to him as to the Israelites (Lev 17:8; 22:18). Though the law of circumcision was not forced upon the , it seems that the Mosaic Law endeavored to bring him nearer to the cult of Israel, not from any proselytizing motives, but in order to preserve theocracy from admixture of foreign elements, which would speedily have proved fatal to its existence. Though the God of Israel, when He is thought of only as such, ceases to be God; though Israel was chosen before all nations for all nations; though Israel had been again and again reminded that the Messiah would bring a blessing to all nations; and though there were instances of pagans coming to believe in Yahweh, yet it did not belong to the economy of Old Testament religion to spread the knowledge of God directly among the Gentiles (the Book of Jonah is an exception to this). There was certainly no active propagandism. Though we read in Neh 10:28 of those who “separated themselves from the peoples of the lands unto the law of God” (compare Isa 56:3, “the foreigner, that hath joined himself to Yahweh”—the only and exact description of a proselyte proper in the Old Testament), the spirit of exclusiveness prevailed; the doubtful elements were separated (Ezr 4:3): mixed marriages were prohibited by the chiefs, and were afterward disapproved of by the people (Ezr 9; 10; Neh 13:23 ff). Direct proselytism did not begin till about a century later. The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia in Parsons Technology 1992 -1989 Rainbow Maker |
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38 | Soul destroyed? or Eternal suffering? | Matt 10:28 | Rainbow Maker | 39313 | ||
Thanks Ray, Child of the King, I shall take my time in future rather than compose on line. Rainbow Maker |
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39 | Soul destroyed? or Eternal suffering? | Matt 10:28 | Rainbow Maker | 39269 | ||
Matthew 10:28 "Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. AMPLIFIED Matthew 10:28 And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; but rather be afraid of Him who can destroy both soul and body in hell (Gehenna). Thank you for your excellent research, I have spent some time following your search. I am certainly not intending to be flipent (oh for a spell check) but consider that the Scriptures tell us a great deal about the power, might, love of our God what if the following: - "Rather fear Him who is able to destroy both body and soul in hell." speaks of the power of God to do if He would though does not tell us that He necessary will. I too am not quick to speak for the annihilation of most of the unbelieving. I am also not so presumptious as to assume that just because I count myself as a believer that he will not say to me "Depart from me 'I never knew you." Matt. 7:23 my paraphrase. Rainbow Maker |
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40 | Annulment equates to Biblical divorce? | 1 Cor 7:15 | Rainbow Maker | 39268 | ||
1 Matt 5:31 "It was said, 'Whoever sends his wife away, let him give her a certificate of divorce'(apostasion a certificate of divorce ); compared with 2 Matt 5:32 but I say to you that everyone who divorces(apoluô which means to set free,or to release.) his wife, except for the reason of unchastity, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery. The dictionary meanings here are not terribly useful. Chôrizô is the word used in the Corinthians passage meaning to separate or divide. The Corinthians passage is more contemporary than the Gospel and we find it in the context of the lived reality of the Christian experience. There seem to be a variety of graduated meanings for divorce whereas an annulment from the Latin ad plus nullus and Funk and wagnalls dictionary(1981, page 26) means to put an end to, especially in the case of marriage. My simple understanding of divorce has come to me while I was sojourning in the Catholic Church. On the one hand while Catholics may obtain a civil divorce they are still considered to be married and have in fact obtained just a legal separation. In order for one or both to remarry other people they must go to the Marriage tribunal and provide witnesses from when they first married in order to prove that theirs was a non sacramental union. They must prove either that one or both of them were not practicing catholics at the time or that some other anomally was preexisting which should have made marriage impossible. Everyone can get a civil divorce at some cost though not everyone who desires one can get their marriage annulled. For some of my Catholic friends an adulterous/bigamus civil marriage or marriage in another church was what they had to settle for in absentia adnullus. This combined with the knowledge that God can forgive anything if we ask forgiveness. It is my belief that an Annulment is more than a Biblical divorce since in order for anyone to remarry they must be in the state as if they never were married to begin with. The Corinthian case is a very good pointer towards the fact that our current social conditions, whatever they are, in whatever country ought to bring us to do as they did and to examen the circumstances. lets think about: - 1 Cor 7:17 Only, as the Lord has assigned to each one, as God has called each, in this manner let him walk. And so I direct in all the churches. 1 Cor 7:18 Was any man called when he was already circumcised? He is not to become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? He is not to be circumcised. 1 Cor 7:19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but what matters is the keeping of the commandments of God. Rainbow Maker |
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