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501 | is it wrong to wear fine clothing | 1 Tim 2:9 | Rowdy | 119105 | ||
Wow!! What a ministry. God bless you in your efforts. --Rowdy | ||||||
502 | where in the bible is woman/ makeup foun | 1 Tim 2:9 | Rowdy | 119088 | ||
With this topic, I would suggest "treading lightly." I must admit, I do think many American women wear too much make up. But I must give my wife praise in this area. I have never seen her wear too much make up to any function, in or out of a church setting. I've also told this to her many times. I do think that our Lord expects christian ladies to remember that they are making an appearance for Him and their beauty to Him really comes from within. Now it should also be said that men must also dress and conduct themselves with a reasonable amount of modesty. Our Lord is not one to favor one sex over the other in this area. The area where we need to and should be showing off to God is our works AND how well we conceal those works from our fellow man. God bless. --Rowdy |
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503 | is it wrong to wear fine clothing | 1 Tim 2:9 | Rowdy | 119086 | ||
I have to agree with the overall sentiment of your post. Modesty is a serious issue to which all of us, men and women should pay more attention. God most certainly does expect us to think about our appearance just as if we were able to see His Person when He joins us in our worship together. BUT also I think He's willing to be somewhat forgiving when the weather or conditions encourage many people to wear shorts; they can wear them modestly. It's wonderful that your congregation is receptive and willing to support the membership of people like this with that kind of background. I'm hoping that they've also realized the type of work they're doing is also not pleasing to their Lord. Hopefully, they can get into a training program or go to school to learn a trade or some other profession. God bless you and yours. --Rowdy |
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504 | resurrection of the dead | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 119080 | ||
Howdy! Welcome to the Forum. I assume you're asking about resurrection of the dead but you don't give us any details or scriptures. Can you give us a little more to go on? What particular aspects of the subject do you wish to discuss? You might benefit by inserting those words "resurrection dead" in the Quick Search at the right of your screen and you'll recall several posts on that subject. God bless. --Rowdy | ||||||
505 | Where did people go to when they died? | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 119078 | ||
This subject has been addressed many times before. If you'll insert the words paradise and/or hades in the Quick Search at the right of your screen, you'll get quite a huge no of posts with a wide variety of opinions. God bless. --Rowdy | ||||||
506 | and the world was void | Gen 1:2 | Rowdy | 119054 | ||
You can also submit this question to the folks at apologeticspress.com for an expert's opinion. They've got PhDs and have been studying the subject for decades. There's quite a wide variety of opinions about so basically God expects us to look at the evidence, read our Bibles and make up our minds. God bless. --Rowdy | ||||||
507 | Still Confused | OT general | Rowdy | 118979 | ||
You can insert my post no 118348 into the Quick Search and get my "chop" on this subject. You could do your search by inserting other key words in the same field to the right of your screen. Ultimately, there's not a really ideal comfortable answer that makes much sense to us as humans. What can we say? God is the sumpreme Ruler/Creator of this world and everything in it. God bless. --Rowdy |
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508 | Blasphemy against Holy Spirit | NT general Archive 1 | Rowdy | 118973 | ||
You can insert "blasphamy" into the Quick Search and get a huge amount of information/posts from the Forum as this is discussed quite often. God bless. --Rowdy | ||||||
509 | A question about the Sabbath Day | Mark 2:27 | Rowdy | 118971 | ||
I have to agree with EdB on his post but I would also add that the first four of the Ten Commandments were issued to honor God. Whereas the latter six were issued to help mankind make a better life for himself. God knows that when we follow his guidelines and commands, things just go better for us as humans. It's always been that way because God created us and He knows how we can live our lives to be complete and self-fulfilled. Hope this helps and God bless. --Rowdy | ||||||
510 | Matthew's apparent quote of Jeremiah | Jeremiah | Rowdy | 118959 | ||
Jer 19:1 This is what the LORD says: "Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take along some of the elders of the people and of the priests 2 and go out to the Valley of Ben Hinnom, near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. There proclaim the words I tell you, 3 and say, 'Hear the word of the LORD , O kings of Judah and people of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Listen! I am going to bring a disaster on this place that will make the ears of everyone who hears of it tingle. 4 For they have forsaken me and made this a place of foreign gods; they have burned sacrifices in it to gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah ever knew, and they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent. 5 They have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as offerings to Baal-something I did not command or mention, nor did it enter my mind. 6 So beware, the days are coming, declares the LORD , when people will no longer call this place Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. 7 " 'In this place I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, at the hands of those who seek their lives, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth. 8 I will devastate this city and make it an object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and will scoff because of all its wounds. 9 I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh during the stress of the siege imposed on them by the enemies who seek their lives.' 10 "Then break the jar while those who go with you are watching, 11 and say to them, 'This is what the LORD Almighty says: I will smash this nation and this city just as this potter's jar is smashed and cannot be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room. 12 This is what I will do to this place and to those who live here, declares the LORD . I will make this city like Topheth. 13 The houses in Jerusalem and those of the kings of Judah will be defiled like this place, Topheth-all the houses where they burned incense on the roofs to all the starry hosts and poured out drink offerings to other gods.' " Matthew is referring to both the passage above from Jeremiah AND to the prophecy from Zechariah. It's not presented that way in Matthew but then Matthew's peers knew their scrolls much better than you and I know our OT. Hope this helps and God bless. --Rowdy |
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511 | What does Romans 2:12 mean? | Rom 1:19 | Rowdy | 118954 | ||
I have to agree with your overall statement as indicated in several posts in response to 118406. It's interesting how many different opinions people have on this subject. I haven't figured out how they could misunderstand such a basic concept. God bless. --Rowdy PS: I'm assuming you already know how to use the Quick Search function at the right of your screen. |
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512 | i need a little more information | Eph 6:14 | Rowdy | 118933 | ||
It's always best to look at these kind of verses in context. Eph 6:10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. 14 Stand firm therefore, HAVING GIRDED YOUR LOINS WITH TRUTH, and HAVING PUT ON THE BREASTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, 15 and having shod YOUR FEET WITH THE PREPARATION OF THE GOSPEL OF PEACE; 16 in addition to all, taking up the shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17 And take THE HELMET OF SALVATION, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. So you see verse 14 is just one part of the whole armor of God. It's a good exercise to do some soul searching every once in a while throughout one's whole life to check this passage and see where our armor might be suffering and need some maintenance. (If you're curious about some of the items of armor themselves, look them up in a encyclopedia; it'll be quite interesting as they come from the era of the Roman army.) That's one reason why I like to refer to the Bible as the Perfect Maintenance Manual. Upon doing that introspection and discovering we're a little weak in one or more areas, we should study God's Word and brush up on our knowledge and wisdom in that area. IF by any chance we think we're getting fairly close to being ready to meet our Lord, then we need to check out Paul's words in Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. 25Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Hope this helps and God bless. --Rowdy |
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513 | Favoritism? | Acts 10:34 | Rowdy | 118931 | ||
I'll take a stab. God doesn't show favoitism in the traditional sense as you and I understand it. He's the Creator and we are the creation; He's the Potter and we're just the clay. However, I do see and understand what you're saying. God does seem to us to be somewhat chauvenistic as he seems to favor men over women, but that just happens to be God's order of things like His creation of the Sun and the planets going around it. As Paul says in 1 Cor 11:3 Now I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. 4 Every man who prays or prophesies with long hair dishonors his head. 5 And every woman who prays or prophesies with no covering on her head dishonors her head–she is just like one of the "shorn women." 6 If a woman has no covering, let her be for now with short hair, but since it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair shorn or shaved, she should grow it again. 7 A man ought not to have long hair since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man. and again Paul to Timothy 1 Tim 2:14 And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. Now don't misunderstand. We men had our part in messing up the good deal we all had in the Garden of Eden. It's just that the Devil knew He could tempt the woman, Eve easier that he could with Adam and he chose the sure thing in his mind. But that illustrates God order in the universe, with us humans it's man then woman. It's a functional thing like the horse before cart, nothing more. Men MUST NOT use this God's order of things to abuse or to our advantage. God developed a relationship with the Jewish nation as a result of the promise He made to Abraham but His main purpose in doing so was to introduce the Savior of the whole world, His Son. It was a natural step to start off Christianity with the converted Jews in Jerusalem. As a matter of fact, it's implied if it hadn't been for the persecution AND the conversion of Saul to Paul as the Apostle to the Gentiles, the Jews would have been delighted to have kept Christianity to themselves forever. Thanks be to God that he did use the persecution and dispersed christians out of Jerusalem to spread Christianity throughout the rest of the Gentile world, which includes you and me. Thus we see the various ways mankind messed up the church as we see in all of Paul's letters and the other epistles of the NT. I hope this helps and God bless. --Rowdy |
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514 | Are the remarried forgiven? | Matt 12:31 | Rowdy | 118930 | ||
I must disagree with you about Heaven being filled in contrast to Hell being empty. Although our God does want it that way, He knows mankind better than we know ourselves and Jesus said Matt 7:13 "Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. 14 "For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it. This concept is NOT new to the NT, it was well established in the OT. See 2 Ki 19:31, 2 Chr 36:20, Is 10:22 and Jer 31:7. Copied for reference Mi 2:12 "I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will surely bring together the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in its pasture; the place will throng with people. So you see, if the majority of mankind actually made it to Heaven, that wouldn't be such a glorious thing. That's the way we run this country and most of the world. In contrast is God's way and in His world only a minority will actually make it to Heaven. Hope to see you there. God bless. --Rowdy PS: I noticed your use of the word "excepted" in your post. I think the word you're looking for is "accepted." |
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515 | Are unbelievers in any way "saved"? | Heb 11:1 | Rowdy | 118864 | ||
Rom 2:12 All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. One last point you didn't address is the scripture above. How do you reconcile your statement with verse 12? But apparently you plan to do just that and somehow explain so I'll move on to my next question. Call me dense but can you please help walk me through Judgment Day and pretend I've lived the best life I could, was basically kind to my neighbors, etc. I was bascially a decent sort of fella and live up to my conscience. HOWEVER, I didn't know a thing about the Bible or any of the concepts of christianity, Jewish religion, nothing at all about organized religion; let's say I lived my whole entire life on a deserted island. Please explain to me the mechanics, step by step of this kind of Justice our Lord will meter out to people like the one I've just described. Remember now, my lack of knowledge of Godly concepts was through no fault of my own. This should be very, very interesting to read. I hope all Forum participants are following closely this thread of conversation. God bless. --Rowdy |
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516 | Are unbelievers in any way "saved"? | Heb 11:1 | Rowdy | 118862 | ||
I'm saying that the Book of Romans, indeed the whole Bible is written to those who know of its existance and once hearing of its existance, yes they're bound by God to the best of their ability to check it out and see if it's true. Their conscience should tell them they'd better check it just in case they might be held accountable to it. In Romans, Paul is writing to christians. He knows they will read and re-read his letter. He also knew that we modern christians (and all the ones since then) would study it and use it for reference as Peter states in 2 Pet 3:14 So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him. 15Bear in mind that our Lord's patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. 16He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction. I must reiterate again with Paul's words from Rom 2:12 All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. So you see, one can very easily sin against his conscience AND "apart from the law." When that is done AND they die in that condition, then they're held accountable to their conscience but NOT in accordance with the Law from God of any dispensation. I don't really see how I could make this any clearer. If you're still having trouble understanding my statement, try printing it and let someone else take a look. God bless. --Rowdy |
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517 | who is melchizedek? | OT general | Rowdy | 118859 | ||
This topic has been discussed many times before. If you'll insert the word in the Quick Search at the right of your screen, you get plenty of material to read. God bless. --Rowdy | ||||||
518 | Are unbelievers in any way "saved"? | Heb 11:1 | Rowdy | 118856 | ||
Please allow me to attempt some dialouge here only to try and nail down a clear understanding of your position. Are you actually trying to say you have studied this passage and concluded that God will judge that portion of the world past, present and future by Bible standards even if they've never heard of the Bible or any of its contents? Rom 1:18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. and Rom 2:1 I've re-read these scriptures and they seem to me to be in support of my statement. (It seems incredible these verses are coming from you in support of your statement.) Please let me summarize my statement: We're all endowed by God with His image as described in the first few chapters of Genesis. Now I know the "image of God" is NOT clearly and specifically described somewhere but you will agree that it must be the major differences that distinguish us from the rest of creation, right? According to the experts w/PhDs at apologeticspress.com, some of those differences are the ability to speak, think, love, hate, make intelligent choices, worship and know the difference between right and wrong AND last of all, we humans alone have a soul. Would you agree to all that? Surely, these (possibly others) make up some of that "image of God" installed in all of us. It's that conscience and our inner soul that grows within every young person which helps them reach "the age of accountabilitiy." It's the same quality that draws us instictively to worship some greater being than ourselves and that's the same quality that enables us to determine right from wrong and thus put together a working and functioning society. A society that passes laws and makes judgements when one of their own does wrong and shows extreme disdain for those laws. It's that same innate quality that God will hold up to our lives IF we live and die without knowing anything about His Word or His Son and His dying for the lost souls of the world. Surely, we can agree on this topic, can we not? I hope so, but I also pray for God's blessings on your continued study and understanding. --Rowdy |
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519 | Was Jesus a prophet | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 118852 | ||
In the sense of the word prophet meaning "mouthpiece for God" as it did in the OT, the answer is yes. Jesus was the perfect mouthpiece for since He knew His Father so well. He was then and is now in perfect synce with His Father. This is clearly shown in Matt 3:16 As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting on him. 17And a voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased." God bless. --Rowdy |
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520 | 2 co-habit or not 2 co-habit | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 118835 | ||
Dear Mr. Kane, I'm afraid I have to agree with Hank's overall sentiment. I'd like to just throw in a few more scriptures as follows Phil 4:7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 8Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things. 9Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me--put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you. 1 Thes 5:22 Avoid every kind of evil Rom 14:22 So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the man who does not condemn himself by what he approves. 23But the man who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin. After being reminded of all these verses including Hank's I don't really see how you or anyone could possibly even think about defending the actions as you're suggesting in your post. Even in a monestary, the gentlemen know better than to tempt fate and God by placing a young man and woman in such a precarious position as described in your post. A person has no right to try to influence another person to sin. Everything about your proposal flashes a danger sign so I would urge you to stop and consider the consequences. But it's your decision. I really do hope you'll let us know that you've reconsidered AND repent for even thinking you can handle such temptation. God bless. --Rowdy |
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