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821 | What does Luke 14:26 mean for christians | 2 Cor 5:17 | Rowdy | 119615 | ||
This subject has been discussed quite a bit in the past. If you'll insert the words, hate, mother, father into the Quick Search, you'll get a tremendous wealth of information on it. Emannus has some good words of wisdom which are really superior to my own post but mine was 111259. God bless. --Rowdy |
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822 | Can Christian's support Caesar's wars? | 2 Cor 10:3 | Rowdy | 118347 | ||
I can only cite the fact that Cornelius was a christian while being a centurian (as portrayed in Acts 10) in the Roman Army so apparently they weren't all bad. As you can see in my profile, I've been a christian since I was 13 and I joined the US Air Force at 21, served 18 years. All that time, I've had my ups and downs with the Lord but I've always gone to worship and attended faithfully with my family. It was during my assignment to Okinawa, Japan where I served as a deacon. So in my estimation, most Americans don't have a problem with a christian serving in the military. I know there's a controversy about this subject but I've never understood it. In both the OT and NT, the Lord endorsed military becoming a member of God's people. It does come with some challenges but they're not as rough as some of the civilian jobs I've seen and known about. God bless. --Rowdy |
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823 | Can Christian's support Caesar's wars? | 2 Cor 10:3 | Rowdy | 118362 | ||
Well done! Amen. --Rowdy |
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824 | Simple analogy to understand the Trinity | 2 Cor 13:14 | Rowdy | 120877 | ||
I'm not a scientifically inclined person by any stretch but I do appreciate knowing this additional information about water. I thought I would also remind everyone of the obvious and that is that water covers up about 78 percent of this planet's surface AND it's one of the only natural elements that upon freezing is lighter than it natural liquid state. Isn't it wonderful that our Lord created our world with all these characteristics of water AND chose this same substance to be symbolic to the burial of His Son for us as christians in baptism? Kinda neat, huh? I think so. Science is a wonderful thing and God bless. --Rowdy |
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825 | Simple analogy to understand the Trinity | 2 Cor 13:14 | Rowdy | 120952 | ||
I think you're correct if I can remember my high school chemistry course; of course I just barely passed. I'm just thankful to God didn't put me in a job where I would need that knowledge. ...I guess you did notice I issued a disclaimer, saying "I wasn't a scientist by any stretch." But I'll thank you just the same and I do that most sincerely. Again, as I've mentioned before,thank God for teamwork. It's the only thing from this earth that helps me know that I've got a Home waiting for me in Heaven. God bless you, dear friend. --Rowdy |
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826 | Simple analogy to understand the Trinity | 2 Cor 13:14 | Rowdy | 120977 | ||
Sir Pent, I have to agree. It does give one some concern to spell out your name BUT I've never been one to be superstitous. So God will protect me and I'm praying He'll protect you from the implications of such a name. I guess I have to pray for the same thing concerning my own nickname. Now on to the discussion at hand. Isn't the water's ability to do this floating in ice form somehow related to how the molecules expand and trap the oxygen inside making it lighter than the water underneath? I'm probably all mixed up since I don't know my science very well. I'm just glad it works that in God's creation. Amen? God bless. --Rowdy |
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827 | Simple analogy to understand the Trinity | 2 Cor 13:14 | Rowdy | 121040 | ||
Thanks a million. It's good that you're able to explain this highly technical and scientific process in common terms understandable by us laymen. God bless, dear friend. --Rowdy |
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828 | where Paul studied after his conversion? | Gal 1:12 | Rowdy | 112386 | ||
Just for your future reference, I think you'll find the gateway website to be particularly useful since you have access to the internet. It has many of the more popular versions and a good search engine. It'll help you find those passages in the Bible as long as you can remember one or more of the key words. It quite often recalls dozens of different scriptures with the same word(s) but then you just "shop" through them all until you find the particular one for which you're looking. It's great. God bless. | ||||||
829 | Was the church embarassed? Come see. | Gal 2:11 | Rowdy | 114616 | ||
I've got what I consider to be a tough question. Let me set it up for you to see. Most everyone knows the story of Cornelius in Acts 10 and the fact that Peter reiterates the story to his fellow Jews in Acts 11. I'm sure a few of you but maybe not all might know about the time one Apostle "chewed out" another Apostle, "opposed him to his face." Check out the story in Gal 2:11-21 from Paul himself. Yes, Paul opposed Peter in this touchy subject, set him straight and reminded of what he supposedly learned as cited in Acts 10 and 11. Now, my question: Where was the Holy Spirit if He was supposed to "dwelling in" the Apostles, including Peter? Why did He allow Peter to make this big goof and maybe even "embarass" the church at that time? As I'm sure this confrontation between Apostles caused quite a stir. Another minor question: Why did Paul see fit to spread this "gossip" to the brethren in Galatia if he discourages gossiping elsewhere as in 1 Tim 5:13? Please respond to both if you can. And of course, cite scriptures in support of your answers to these questions. |
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830 | Was the church embarassed? Come see. | Gal 2:11 | Rowdy | 114674 | ||
I appreciate your response. Although I think you're very, very close to my position, I'd like to see other responses from the rest of the group. What'd ya say, gang? Let us hear from you. Thanks and God bless you all. |
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831 | Was the church embarassed? Come see. | Gal 2:11 | Rowdy | 118158 | ||
I'd almost forgotten about this post of mine... Well, my little question only got you two to respond so I'll give you my chop on the matter. EdB and Parable: I was striving to solicit your response/answer to the deeper question but maybe it wasn't clear. Both Paul and Peter were inspired by the same Holy Spirit and yet this happened and to me this seem a "biggie" as it surely should have embarrassed the church, especially those gathered at this time. So my question is: Why would the Holy Spirit allow such an infraction to go on with Peter in spite of his realization that God had placed His seal of approval on the whole Gentile nation being added to the body of Christ as cited earlier in Acts 10 and 11? I'm drawing another conclusion here so beware. In my mind the only reason why the Holy Spirit allowed this confrontation to display itself was to make a point for all time, for all of us throughout the world. Yes, the Holy Spirit descended on Cornelius and his household but you know us humans. Most of us like yours truly like to go back to the School of Hard Knocks. Me, I'm working on my PhD. The Holy Spirit had to make certain that all of us got the point. He wants the whole world to know that ALL of mankind knows we're all entitled to go to Heaven. God's Plan of Salvation is for every living human since the ressurrection of our Lord. Sometimes, we see this kind of special emphasis in other places. For example: we see Paul and Barnabas split up on their missionary journey because of Mark's immaturity. Paul takes Silas and Barnabas goes with Mark. My point is the Bible shows all the good AND bad of the major characters of the Bible. Everyone gets the same treatment. The second point is that even we christians can disagree now and again on a minor point but we still MUST maintain the harmony in the body for which our Lord prayed His last prayer on earth. I would be remiss if I failed to mention Paul's accepting Mark back into his closest circle with 2 Tim 4:11 Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, because he is helpful to me in my ministry. This also answers (at least in my mind) why Paul told the story in Galations. Well, what do you think? Am I all wet? God bless. --Rowdy |
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832 | Do we have to earn grace? | Gal 2:21 | Rowdy | 118192 | ||
Just to give this thread some balance, let's not forget what James says in James 2:14 What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and be filled," and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? 17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself. 18 But someone may well say, "You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works." 19 You believe that God is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder. Also from Jesus Himself in Matt 7:15 "Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. 16By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. 19Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them. 21"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' 23Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!' So you see it's a balancing act. Yes most definitely we're ALL hopelessly lost without grace, you can count on it BUT our Lord expects to see us show up on Judgment day with fruit of our labors in His vineyard. Works in this scenario is another word for fruit, call it proof of the spirit that lives within us. If we don't have works in our favor, how can we prove to our Lord we are His? In other words, if a 1st century judge persecuting christians comes knocking on our door, will you and I be found guilty like those martyrs of long ago? Yes, tough call, I agree. God bless. --Rowdy |
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833 | Do we have to earn grace? | Gal 2:21 | Rowdy | 118215 | ||
Sometimes it's difficult to follow these threads as they develop and spread out but it looks like you're questioning BradK's comment. IF, however, you're questioning my comment, please confirm and I'll try to clarify with more scriptures and more examples. Thanks and God bless. --Rowdy | ||||||
834 | Do we have to earn grace? | Gal 2:21 | Rowdy | 118232 | ||
Kalos, I agree there's absolute NO way that any of us can earn salvation. It's a gift. But we do need to take James seriously and do our best to honor that gift by sharing God's light and His good news throughout the world as we're doing on this Forum. I just wanted to emphasize James' words "Faith without works is a dead faith." Thanks for the excellent post. God bless. --Rowdy | ||||||
835 | Do we have to earn grace? | Gal 2:21 | Rowdy | 118233 | ||
Very, very well put. That's an outstanding analogy. God bless you, dear friend. --Rowdy | ||||||
836 | Do we have to earn grace? | Gal 2:21 | Rowdy | 118246 | ||
I think you've gotten most of my thoughts on the subject but I did think of one more item. To me it all boils down to attitude. We dare NOT think we can approach God with the attitude that "We've earned that salvation." That's a plan sure to fail. We must put our faith in God's grace and His Plan of Salvation. BUT we must also feel compelled to honor that grace by "taking up our cross," acting like and behaving like we've got a Father up there watching us. Like EdB said, if we're christians we need be clothed with Christ, so we'll feel comfortable in Heaven because we've been wearing Christ-like attributes all our life. God bless you for starting and stimulating a good thread of discussion. I wish I could. --Rowdy |
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837 | Do we have to earn grace? | Gal 2:21 | Rowdy | 118363 | ||
It's been a struggle but I'm glad you and I fianlly found something we could agree on. Bless you, dear friend. --Rowdy | ||||||
838 | God is one | Gal 4:4 | Rowdy | 121724 | ||
Norm, I gotta admit Hank is quite right. As I see it, you're out on a very dangerous limb here. Your statement appears to NOT be a typo but you appear to be serious. Please tell us you were ill that day and made bad call. Your statement as it is, sounds completely luny. I do hope you'll reconsider. God bless. --Rowdy | ||||||
839 | Where is the authority for christmas...? | Gal 4:9 | Rowdy | 114516 | ||
I've copied from Paul's letter to the Galatians as follows: Gal4:8 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods. 9But now that you know God--or rather are known by God--how is it that you are turning back to those weak and miserable principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again? 10You are observing special days and months and seasons and years! 11I fear for you, that somehow I have wasted my efforts on you. 12I plead with you, brothers, become like me, for I became like you. You have done me no wrong. Throughout the NT, the only day that we as christians are to pay any really significant amount of attention to is the first day of every week; we call it Sunday. All other days in our life as christians should pale in significance. Now, don't get me wrong. As I indicated earlier in a previous post on this thread, I think it's OK to celebrate Christmas with our friends, family and loved ones. But we MUST as christians keep this in perspective. After all, it's pretty much a fact of history, this habit of celebrating this date and some of the associated activities all started as a pagan festival. As with so many of the activities of our lives as Americans, moderation is the key, especially when the Bible is silent on a particular subject as in this case. BUT we MUST make certain that our liberties in this area don't hurt people or restrict others in celebrating their liberties. The most important item we're supposed to learn about Christianity is to learn what real genuine love of God is all about and practice that unconditional love as much as possible. God bless you all. |
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840 | Church requirements for helping others? | Gal 6:10 | Rowdy | 121205 | ||
I've been reading your original question and most of the responses which have been pretty good advice. If you'll take some advice from this old man, I'd suggest that you allow all these words settle into your mind and try to mellow out. Yes, I have to agree with you, most kids in America seem to not know what good manners are all about; they also seem to suffer from a lack of responsibility and respect for their elders. But when you've lived a few more years after your own kids break your heart a couple of times with some big mistakes, kids who you thought were raised with more sense than that, you'll grow a little more mellow. I used to be quite the strong believer in discipline but nowadays I don't know what I'd do what with the fact you can land in jail if you spank your kids in public, something I did when it was needed. Thankfully, our world even here in America comes and goes in cycles and hopefully the pendulum is swinging back toward God. (I pray that it does.) Meanwhile, I can only cite the fact in our congregation, we're having similar problems with unruly kids and neglegent parents so we talk about it at men's meetings and resolve to strive for improvement. Yes, God expects us to grow, even us grown-ups but it's amazing He's so patient, kind and willing to let us do this growing up at our speed. He still forgives us even when we mess up our lives something just awful. So the least we can do is forgive our fellow man when they let their kids go and be kids for a little while longer. I would recommend that you go back and re-read 1 Cor 13 and remember all the mistakes and stupid things you've done in your life, maybe even thank your parents for not killing you like they may have been tempted. If in your case, the kids really are getting out of hand, I can only suggest your bringing it up somehow in discussions with the whole congregation BUT with the kind of love as cited in that 1 Cor 13. Hopefully, you'll win some friends who will agree with you, especially if it's as bad as you say it is. But you'll also run into some hardheads who love to spoil kids a little too much. Remind them of 1 Cor 14:40 which really should apply to almost everything in our lives. Well, I've said enough, probably more than enough but God bless you in your struggle to grow and mature in Christ. --Rowdy |
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