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581 | Cup Passed? | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 118113 | ||
Very well put! --Rowdy | ||||||
582 | When were Cornelius and comapny saved? | 1 Pet 3:21 | Rowdy | 118100 | ||
Matt 28:19 "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Any serious Bible student recognizes the NT sub-divides into 2 different basic categories. The conversion of all unbelievers into christians and then their continued growth and maturity in a spiritual relationship with our Lord. A person could compare this to the process of gaining an education during the childhood phase of each human being, on through high school and/or college, and then move on to the next major phase of life, employment and a continued life of learning. The most important thing to our God is to get us in His family headed to His home in Heaven. He wants all to keep studying His Word, keep growing in faith and maturity in His love and the ways we show His love to our fellow man, just as His Son said upon His farewell to His beloved disciples. God bless. --Rowdy |
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583 | What exactly is this Unforgivable Sin? | Matt 12:32 | Rowdy | 118097 | ||
It looks as though you've missed my profile. I go into some detail about my life. Did you have some specific question? God bless. --Rowdy | ||||||
584 | Cup Passed? | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 118095 | ||
I acknowledge your questions above to which I'll have to do more homework and get back to you. But again, I ask where is your response to the original question about "Jesus' prayer to His Father to have the cup pass from Him?" God bless. --Rowdy |
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585 | Cup Passed? | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 118091 | ||
Then how do you explain how and why the Devil tempted Christ as recorded in Matt 4? I acknowledge your statement above but what I DON'T see is your response to the original question about "Why Jesus prayed for the cup to be passed from him?" God bless. --Rowdy |
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586 | Cup Passed? | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 118090 | ||
Matt 27:46 About the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, "ELI, ELI, LAMA SABACHTHANI?" that is, "MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?" So how else would you explain Jesus' statement from the cross as cited above? I acknowledge your statement but what I DON'T see is your response to the original question about "Why did Jesus pray to have the cup pass from Him?" Let's see how you handle it. God bless. --Rowdy |
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587 | Cup Passed? | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 118083 | ||
It's difficult to come up with all the reasons but I think one of them was the fact going to the cross for Jesus was going to be the first time in His existence of His being separated from His Father. Remember although this plan had been in God's mind before the fall of man in the Garden of Eden, Christ had never had the sins of the world heaped onto Him which forced God to turn His back to His own Son. Remember Christ was also 100 percent human and was maybe just a little apprehensive about going to Hell and follow His Father's perfect system of justice. If Christ was guilty of just one single impure thought for just a fleeting moment, it would be enough for the Devil to keep Him there forever. Don't you think under those kind of conditions, even the most courageous person in the world would melt and be as scared as a wild bird? I know I would be scared to death. It would be an easy thing to think that God could of thought of some other way without sacrificing His own Son. But then, we know the answer to that, don't we? God bless. --Rowdy |
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588 | book of barabus | Bible general Archive 1 | Rowdy | 118079 | ||
On a topic of this importance I thought it might be useful to cite the fact that this canonization process was very well thought out and done with tremendous care. The "Canon Fathers" felt a great amount of respect for God's Word and were very careful in deciding which writings to include in the NT. In addition to these documents on the internet, there's much more discussion on this Forum. Just punch in canon in the Quick Search and you'll see. From: www.gospelcom.net/rbc/questions/answer.php?catagory What were the standards that earned a document the right to be included in the Bible? ------------------------------------------------------------------ To gain canonical recognition, a book was expected to pass two basic tests. First, it had to have a history of ?continuous and widespread approval amongst Christians? (J. W. Wenham, Christ And The Bible). Second, it was expected to demonstrate that it had either been written by an apostle or specifically approved by the apostles. The fact that the Muratorian Canon (approximately AD 170) listed all of the books presently in the New Testament except for Hebrews, James, and the two epistles of Peter, is another demonstration of the early, broad-based support for the Canon. Another example (and many others could be given) is provided by the brilliant theologian Irenaeus who also wrote in the second century. He quoted the four Gospels extensively and included quotations from all of the New Testament books except Philemon and 3 John. Actually,the fact that a few books were received officially by the church at a later date is more a demonstration of the church?s discretion and caution than it is an indication that these books are in some way unreliable. A well-known theologian once said that the church no more created the New Testament Canon than Newton created the basic principles of physics. The earliest writings of the church fathers demonstrate their confidence in the authority of the New Testament Scriptures. God bless. --Rowdy |
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589 | What do you like about the church? | Eph 2:22 | Rowdy | 118074 | ||
I really do sincerely appreciate your opening and starting this thread of dialouge. I sense you feel that it was a failure but I think it was and is a great success. I think it helps to remember that God created all of us and He wants ALL of His creation to come home BUT he knows only a "remnant" will find the way. This concept is well established in the OT and is maintained throughout the gospel story and on into the NT with Jesus' story of the straight and narrow to Heaven and the broad way to Hell. What am I saying: I'm saying that out of all our Lord's creation, He already knows there's only going to be a small portion to make it to Heaven. If it was any other way like a majority of us made to Heaven, then it would be too much like our world instead of His world. Remember our ways are NOT like God's ways; our thoughts are NOT like God's thoughts. His foolishness is far better than our highest thoughts. Isaiah 55:8 and 1 Cor 2:20. So in any given scenario of wide discussion with the kind of variety of backgrounds as represented by this Forum, we can only expect to see a similar response as the Lord gets to His Word. You may have noticed that a few of my posts to this Forum have met with a similar spirit of negative feeling. But I (one of many I'm sure) want to encourage you to keep the faith and keep studying. You're in good company with all those persecuted in the past 4,000 years plus. God bless. --Rowdy |
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590 | What do you like about the church? | Eph 2:22 | Rowdy | 118043 | ||
Okay, I'm hoping everyone on the Forum agrees that the church is only one thing: the church is the living, breathing human beings that make up its membership. All other physical aspects of the church are be used as aids to help accomplish the mission as directed by Her Lord, our High Priest. The building, song books, different versions of the Bible, all this represents tools to help us go to Heaven. My point is with this statement is to ask you one last time...what do you like about the church? Of course, I might have missed it in an earlier post. God bless. --Rowdy |
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591 | If you rape a virgin then she must mary | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 118041 | ||
Cited for reference: Deut 22:28 "If a man finds a girl who is a virgin, who is not engaged, and seizes her and lies with her and they are discovered, 29 then the man who lay with her shall give to the girl's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall become his wife because he has violated her; he cannot divorce her all his days. I can only say in my opinion this kind of guidance falls into the same category as that which allowed a man to marry more than one woman as did Jacob AND the men their option to divorce their wife with only a certificate and no cause of any real significance. Apparently since God changed this guidance to a much more fair and just system as we have now, we can only conclude God didn't think the Israelites capable of proper judgment in this area and issued these directives in the interest of the nation as a whole. Of course, I should emphasize this is conjecture as would anyone attempting to answer such a "why" question when the Bible doesn't gave a direct answer. We all should consider ourselves blessed to live in this dispensation with a better covenant with better promises and a perfect High Priest. The only possible scripture I can think of that gives some insight into God's thinking in this Matt 19:7 They *said to Him, "Why then did Moses command to GIVE HER A CERTIFICATE OF DIVORCE AND SEND her AWAY?" 8 He *said to them, "Because of your hardness of heart Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way. 9 "And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery." Once again, I'm thankful we don't have anyone less than the perfect God, Creator of the universe to judge us on these matters. God bless. --Rowdy |
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592 | Nailed to a cross scripture? | John 20:25 | Rowdy | 117963 | ||
John 19:17 So the soldiers took charge of Jesus. Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha). 18Here they crucified him, and with him two others--one on each side and Jesus in the middle. I hope this is clear enough. Hopefully you're not insisting on a scripture that actually has the phrase "Jesus was nailed to the cross" because I could not find it. But it's a well documented fact of history that a crucifiction meant nails, one in each hand (actually wrist, but part of the hand in Hebrew culture) and one nail through the feet together. God bless. --Rowdy |
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593 | How does empty linen look like cocoon? | John 20:5 | Rowdy | 117958 | ||
I know about the "burial cloth folded up by itself" but where do you get the idea from the Bible about "linen that looks like cocoon?" Please explain. Thanks and God bless. John 20:6 Then Simon Peter, who was behind him, arrived and went into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, 7as well as the burial cloth that had been around Jesus' head. The cloth was folded up by itself, separate from the linen. 8Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. --Rowdy |
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594 | 2sam 12 vs 16 to18 | Job 19:21 | Rowdy | 117953 | ||
This child was taken away from David for his sin with Bathsheba and the subsequent killing of her husband. His sin was committed in private but God's consequences were displayed in public as cited earlier in the same chapter. We must remember we all pay for our sins in one way or another, including "reaping what we've sown." We can ask God why He does certain things as He does but we probably won't get much more of an answer than He gave to Job. We have to accept that or make ourselves very miserable. God bless. --Rowdy |
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595 | Looking for verifiable prophesies. | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 117943 | ||
The Thompson Chain Reference Bible has many such study aids in the back. I know...I've got one. One lists the prophesies of Christ and his ministry in the OT and their fulfillment in the NT. Also some helpful websites: www.ibchurchofchrist.com/prophesies_concerning_christ.htm I would have listed several others but their address contains symbols not allowed on Forum posts. But you can find them by inserting "Christ prophesies and fulfillment" in the Search Engine. God bless. --Rowdy |
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596 | What do you like about the church? | Eph 2:22 | Rowdy | 117902 | ||
I'll respond but I'm afraid I must ignore your scripture reference as it seems confusing in relation to your question. One of the most amazing things I like about the Lord's church is its amazing simplicity. Our Lord showed us the complex and difficult in the Jewish system of laws and its Temple. Yes, some things about it were simple but ultimately the OT left so many things unsaid that begged to be answered and the Jewish people didn't have the authority to fill in the blanks. Now with this dispensation, the Lord Christ our High Priest picked 12 of the best men he could find, with one possible exception. These men (most of them) were simple, humble and not very well educated. We see how incredibly humble they were in the way they directed the church in the early years. Christ gave them full authority to bind whatever they chose and to loose whatever they chose and He told them He would back them with their decisions. Their directives and commands as portrayed in the Bible are simple and to the point. They're practical and deal with the real issues of their day and are easily adaptable to our modern world and will be till the last day before that final trumpet is blown. I've lived a full life for being just 50 years old and I've seen quite a bit of this world. I've seen more than my fair share of the grief and heartache caused by mankind and our love for self and sin. We're very talented at messing up a beautiful world. But the apostles were incredibly humble and wise and did an outstanding job of getting the Lord's church off to a solid start. My main point is that this was God and His Son who gave us, His creation the opportunity to have a significant say in the details and mechanics of organizing and managing His Son's body here on earth. I'm amazed at this wonderful demonstration of love and compassion on us. Sometimes we still see mankind's love affair with idols but now they take the form of money or our job. Our idol might be our hobby, our sports whatever else we can dream of to get between us and our God. We had our chance to "dress up" the church as we saw fit through the Lord's ambassadors and they were wise enough to keep it simple. Thank God Almighty they did. The Lord's beauty and majesty is magnified in its simplicity. What do you think is best about the church? God bless. --Rowdy |
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597 | What do you like about the church? | Eph 2:22 | Rowdy | 117897 | ||
I have to agree with the spirit of Kalos' difficulty. Your question is far too vauge to be discussed intelligently on this Forum. There's a tremendous wealth of knowledge and experience represented by the Forum participants. So why don't you help us out and pinpoint the particular aspect of the church to which you're referring? I'll even say pretty please with sugar on top. Thanks and God bless. --Rowdy |
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598 | soul of unsaved people | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 117891 | ||
This subject has been discussed quite a bit. If you'll insert paradise and hades into the Quick Search at the right of your screen, you'll get far more information than you can imagine. God bless. --Rowdy | ||||||
599 | The age of accountability | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 117860 | ||
My wife and I dealt with this question with our two sons as they became teen-agers. I would say every christian parent over the past 2,000 years has dealt with this issue. Our answer which was endorsed by the leadership throughout the brotherhood with whom we worship is this: the Parent should study with the child, ask all the right questions and verify in their mind that he/she understands what they're getting into. The should understand the basic rudimentary elements of what it is to be a christian and the cost/sacrifice, how they should act. Does he at least know why Jesus died and other basic concepts? BUT if there remains some question, and the parent decides to wait on allowing the child, I would suggest an appropriate amount of time and then re-visit the topic and confirm his desire. Does the desire still burn within? Is it a real priority or was it just another phase? And finally, a person could argue to go ahead and allow the child to proceed with the basic philosophy of "better safe than sorry." After all, if the child thinks at a later date, that it wasn't really genuine or he's uncomfortable with his conversion, he can go through the process again and make it real at that later date. I'd like to think God would endorse a loving parent following their conscience in this matter if they truly studied and prayed on it. What do you think? Now, as to your question about a child that has already passed on, that we have to leave in God's hand and pray for mercy on his behalf. I do think that generally, children are safe and assured of going to Heaven but again the moment a child becomes an adult in God's eyes...that's a tough call. I'm thankful to Him that His judgments are perfect and absolutely just. God bless. --Rowdy |
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600 | A 2nd Human Error? | 2 Kin 8:26 | Rowdy | 117853 | ||
I see the contrast but don't think much about it. If this is the kind of slight discrepancies your friends/enemies are submitting to you, I don't think we have anything to worry about. Most probably, this too can be explained in the way different cultures handle their arithmetic and the many different translations the Bible has been through. My bottom line is: these kind of slight discrepancies is not going to shake my faith in God's Word, not even "one iota." God bless. --Rowdy |
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