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301 | Why can't I speak in tongues yet ? | Acts | Tamara Brewington | 204272 | ||
I just saw that you are completely new, welcome to the forum! Trick, once your question had been answered go back to the primary page, click on your answered question and scroll to the very bottom of the page. There you will see all the people who picked up what is called the thread who did not chose to answer you, but answered each other about their notes to your posted questions. You may be surprised once in a while what you find out in this manner. It can be enlightening in more ways than one. Once you are there, click on each user name and it will take you to their personal profile which has been left there in order for you to know a little bit about them. You may need to go in and click on your own name in a question you have posted and and fill in your personal profile so people will know a little bit about you too. Be sure when you click on someones name to click on to their stats up to the right and go into where it says questions asked, or notes answered, etc. This will give you an excellent idea what they are doing in here, what they believe, a little about what they are about. When you want to comment on anything you see any where, in a thread, in a note, in a posted question be sure to select note, the person whose name you see will get your note. Hardly anyone was willing to school me I had to learn the hard way. God Bless, Tamara |
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302 | Why can't I speak in tongues yet ? | Acts | Tamara Brewington | 204274 | ||
Oh my dear Azure, it was a little while of asking before anyone stepped up to the plate and I had stumble around a bit at first. Didn't mean to belittle your help or Lionheart's help either. And didn't I say hardly anyone, which of course means someone did! I have had a realy hard row to hoe in here Azure, I think you know this, my first help from you though I remember well, an admonition on how to post a note, if I remember correctly... If you will remember no one answered me so soon that I did not continue to stumble a bit which is what I meant. Have I ruffled feathers again Azure? I am trying so hard prayfuly not to do that anymore... To every old timer who sees this post, forgive me if I have offended you by saying that hardly anyone was willing to school me, but it took a while before anyone did and that is the truth. God bless Azure and the other old timers. |
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303 | Why can't I speak in tongues yet ? | Acts | Tamara Brewington | 204290 | ||
Thanks Hank! Lionheart told me to guard my heart! I will be praying aout that... I had to laugh for a while after learning how to follow a thread... I saw that sometimes the old timers hunker down into a serious back and forth study and sometimes digress into heartfelt obvious chatter! I was laughing so hard after being told that my posts were like unto chatter with the fact that at that time I kept including exploration into the scriptures that folks sent in reply to questions... Go figure I later gave up trying to believe that some would be addressing the scriptures in my questions and did not include scriptures or contexts at all. And in those cases did not even bother to try to answer folks back on their notes because I was discouraged. I think I need to guard my heart in more ways than one... I will endeavor to reach out to others in continued sincerity and also go back to including contexts and scriptures without too much brevity as this makes it hard for others to understand what exactly is the context of the questions, which is what we are supposed to be doing here as part of following guidlines... As I pointed out to Azure, I said hardly received help, not didn't receive any. I will continue to ask for help. God, bless, have a good Sunday, gotta go, late for first Sunday, Tamara |
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304 | Why can't I speak in tongues yet ? | Acts | Tamara Brewington | 204301 | ||
Oh My John, so very patient with me, forgive me as I chatter a bit here. LOL. I just thought of the scripture that keeps floating back to me in here I Corinthians 13... I was laughing at hats (oops there is that nasty word again) flying through the air at the rapture myself though (so much for so called unwarranted humor...). I take myself and others way too seriously sometimes, oops here comes another scripture in the middle of my chatter;Romans 12:3 For through the peace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith. The hatchet was buried between me and everybody as soon as I got on my knees the other day to ask forgiveness in my part of all of it before forgiving everyone else. You know what? Let me tell you something about the dreaded issue of hats and the issue of being a computer twit to wit, they ain't half as important as the love of Christ bewtween us all. I am a novice a new jack whose life got ruined worse than it was the day I woke up from a comma and decided, since He commanded me to live and go back out and bring Him fruit, to go do just that. On fire for the Lord, scriptures are my life, without them I have no anchor, through the blurr of a ruined mind they were there, they proved themselves to be absolutely solid. John as soon as you were answering me back again, I was sooo relieved that you were willing to teach me some more. I have a great pastor/teacher and a good church family, but there are plenty good teachers around in the body of Christ and when you find some gems that have been polished for a while you just want to soak up every word... You weren't harping John, you are being more than patient with me, so are Val and Lionheart and Azure and Hank and Searcher and Cheri and the others. I get impatient about the word, I need to chillax as my son likes to say, Mom chillax. There is time in God, I am saved, let God work things out, we are all one giant organism spread from China to the USA and beyond. I notice you end your posts with Shalom, not judging. There are so many denominations with different doctrines and I try not to judge others if they actually believe in the blood of Jesus for forgiveness of sin, I believe they are saved. Some might not agree because of the Jesus plus theory, you know, Jesus plus baptism, Jesus plus a priest, Jesus plus works, Jesus plus the law, Jesus plus add nauseum. But I had the priveledge of having a Cathholic doctor who asked me if I believed in the blood of Jesus to forgive sins after waking up out of that comma. And he was asking because I was dying and I told him I was a child of the most high God and what Jesus told me while I was under. He said then ask Him for a miracle or you will die soon, I don't care what denomination you are go pray on the blood. 40 days and 40 nights later I was miraculously healed and out of there after praying something the Holy Spirit spoke into my heart. I have a high and healthy respect for the blood of Jesus to save from sin and His stripes to heal from deathly illness. I don't care that the doctor was Catholic and I believe since he believes first and foremost in the blood of Jesus that he is going to heaven. I got to be a Baptist quite by accident and after learning a bit more than I knew decided I agreed with the basic tenents of that denomination and stayed. But I have fellowshipped with my brother's church, Church of Christ and had a very good time (both types of that denomination, with and without music, my brother switched around a bit). I am saying all this by way of leaning on the blood above tradition (there goes that aspect of the dreaded subject again) or denomination. I think that each denomination has a lot right and a few things all wrong including mine because we ain't God and we can't get it right in our present state. What is graceful about you, (whoops I have been chatting!) John, is the love of Christ in you towards me and the ability to put up with my crap and teach me at the same time. That's grace. Thanks for everything and your prayers too, God Bless, the hat lady |
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305 | Help! Unclean vs clean meat? | Acts | Tamara Brewington | 204921 | ||
Dear LRP 2008, I came Johnny come lately to this question here, but let me help you out a little bit more here; Romans 14:1 - 11,13 - 23 Now accept the one who is weak in faith, but not for the purposes of passing judgment on his opinions. One person has faith that he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats vegetables only. The one who eats is not to regard with contempt the one who does not eat,and the one who does not eat, is not to judge the one who eats, for God accepted him. Who are you to judge the servant of another? To his own master he stands or falls; and he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person regards one day above another, another regardds every day alike. Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind. He who observes the day, observes it for the Lord, and he who eats, does to for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God. For not one of us lives for himself, and not one dies for himself; for if we live, we live for the Lord, or if we die, we die for the Lord; therefore whether we live or die, we are the Lord's. For to this end Christ die and lived again, that He might be Lord both of the dead and the living. But why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you regard your brother with contempt? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God. Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather determine this - not to put an obstacle or a stumbling block in a brother's way. I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but to him who thinks anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. For if because of food your brother is hurt, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy with your food him for whom Christ died. Therefore do not let what is for you a good thing be spoken of as evil; for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. for he who in this way serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men. So then we pursue the things which make for peace and the building up of one another. Do not tear down the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are clean, but they are evil for the man who eats and gives offense. It is good not to eat meat or to drink wine, or to do anythign by which your brother stumbles. The faith which you have, have as your own conviction before God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves. But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and whatever is not from faith is from sin. I think this clears it up; Paul says all things indeed are clean, but don't make someone else stumble in their weak faith if they see meant as unclean and eat only vegetables, have your faith to your self as long as your meat eating does not offend your brother you do well, but if your meat eating offends them, don't make them stumble, you stop being stronger in faith than your brother. So then if your mother-in-law won't be eating meat anymore her faith is unto God and she shall stand, and as long as she is not offended that you keep eating meat you stand strong in your stronger faith than hers and you keep eating meat and you shall stand to God in your faith because the kingdom is not eating and drinking but righteousness and peace. God Bless God's day to you, Tamara |
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306 | Help! Unclean vs clean meat? | Acts | Tamara Brewington | 205577 | ||
Dear Colt 045, I do believe there is a simple very simple answer to your question once one is willing to set aside the issue of whether or not it was in the origanal text... And then I will tell you about the places in your Bible where a text was not found in all manuscripts that make up your Bilble and try to exlain to you how it is that things get put in the Bible in the frist place so that you can see that men don't add or take away a part of a text, but that some manuscripts contain some things and some don't. But that is not the problem here with the verse you are interested in. You have to consider that when Jesus was speaking when Peter was near, He never said the words, "(Thus He declared all foods clean.)", or else they would be in red! What is going on here is that the writer, Mark added in words later to illustrate the meaning of what Jesus actually was saying to Mark's readers. This is an excersize in grammar- taking the parts of the grammar of the text and breaking it down into its harmonious parts and then putting it back together to make better sense of what the text means. So, Mark quoted Jesus, the red part, and then Mark made a comment to his readers summing up what Jesus just said; that food going in cannot defile a man, and then Mark takes what he learned their and states that because of what Jesus was saying before Jesus meant that all foods were clean. How many times did the disciples hear what Jesus said and not understand it? More than once! More than twice? Yup! They understood most of it later, when the they were teaching it and writing it! We can't assume Peter understood it when it was spoken based on his actions later can we? No, in fact we can conclude that he did not understand it at all... By the time we get to Acts 10, Peter is still practicing Judaism at the same time as all the Jewish Christians; they went to temple, they went to synagogue, they ate kosher food, they stayed away from the Gentiles, they considered themselvs Jews who believed in Jesus. The word Christian and the concept of being separate from Jews are two different things. They were first called Christians at Antioch by folks in that city and it was not a compliment. There was great division between Jews who were Christians and Gentiles who were Christians over food for a while, they did not eat together, they did not eat the same thing. When Peter got to that vision he did not go out and start eating any old thing, he understood all people can be made clean by God even Gentiles. Peter took a long time before he went and ate anything unclean and then when the Judean Jews came to Galatia, he backed right up and stopped eating Gentile food, and he and Paul fought about it. Now to the question of texts and what are in orginal texts and what are in copies, which make up our Bible. This is an area called textual criticisim; There are two sets of manuscripts used for the construction of the New Testament. The Latter Texts and The Earlier Texts. The Latter Texts were used to write the King James Bible, the very first one. These manuscripts were copies of the original texts written by the original authors and those are called the original autographs. These orginal autographs are gone now, they were around in the first century when they were written and then copied many, many, many times. Altogether there are upwards of 5,300 Greek manuscript fragaments which are portions of the New Testament used to construct the New Testament into one whole canon. The Latter texts were all discovered first, but they were not the oldest copies, they were the youngest copies - and from this we get the King James Bible. The Earlier Texts, the earlier manuscripts are more in number and contain less differences in textual content per passage and contain less copyist errors. From these Earlier Texts which are more reliable manuscripts and higher in number and which are older manuscripts we get the NASB, NIV, ESV, TNIV, NRSV, NASU, NAB, NJB, GNB, REB, which were all written in the last century or so. Our dear translators have a wonderful guide at the beginning of the NASB describing Explanation of General Format, but they left out one very important thing, the use of brackets in the all Bibles written in the last century or so. They talk about notes, cross referrences, paragraphs, quotation marks, and so on, even asterisks. Here is why everyone has brackets all over their Bible and it is the only reason. Where ever you see brakets, like in Mark 16:9-20 and the after note, it is because a set of manuscripts referrenced by the body of translators of your particular Bible came accross a situation where one set of manuscripts leave out that part of the verse, but the other manuscripts contain that part of the verse. Make sure to understand this only refers to brackets and not to parenthesis. Hope this clears it all up for you, God Bless, Tamara |
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307 | Help! Unclean vs clean meat? | Acts | Tamara Brewington | 205578 | ||
Dear Steve, I believe if you want to be removed to the Forum you could try the link provided to make a complaint about a user and tell them you want to be unregistered. I tried once to ask a question using another link that supposedly was there to contact them, I had a question, they wrote me back that that link could not be used to communicate with them about concerns and to use the other link, it was not about anyone else, but about myself. But this part of your post is a head scratcher! You want to be removed, but didn't stop posting! ARgh? There is a feature in here you can use per post after you press preview follow up on the preview page you have the option of choosing to not receive an email back to your post, this works per note, per answer! Does this help any? God Bless, Tamar |
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308 | Full of the Holy Spirit full time? | Acts 1:1 | Tamara Brewington | 204141 | ||
Was anyone in the Bible full of the Holy Spirit all of the time, anybody know? | ||||||
309 | Full of the Holy Spirit full time? | Acts 1:1 | Tamara Brewington | 204142 | ||
Was anyone in the Bible full of the Holy Spirit all of the time, anybody know? | ||||||
310 | Mathias a real apostle qualifications? | Acts 1:1 | Tamara Brewington | 204143 | ||
Was Mathias in Acts realy an apostle and what are the qualifications of being an apostle? | ||||||
311 | Mathias a real apostle qualifications? | Acts 1:1 | Tamara Brewington | 204169 | ||
Dear Kemmy, 1)By those qualifications then people can be apostles today. 2)Is that what you mean for me to understand? God bless, Tamara |
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312 | Full of the Holy Spirit full time? | Acts 1:1 | Tamara Brewington | 204342 | ||
Dear Doc, I have been studying this again and here is what I found out; Only three people are said to have been full of the Holy Spirit. As Christians we have the ability to act by the power of the devil, or the Holy Spirit. We have the seal of the Holy Spirit as the promise of salvation, but we have not yet reached the final state of glory in which we will constantly operate under the power of the Holy Spirit as Jesus did. We need to be given doses of the Holy Spirit's power even though we already have Him as we are being moved from glory to glory. I believe based on the testimony of the three men, that they always acted under the power of the Holy Spirit and did not waver, did not have instances where the power of Satan moved through them: Barnabas, Stephen and Jesus Christ with the key is that the word full #4134, complete/full is only used only of these three in referrence to having the power of the Holy Spirit, or just the Holy Spirit - Acts 6:5,8 and Acts 7:55 for Stephen Acts 11:22 - 24 for Barnabas Luke 4:1 for Jesus Christ. What do you think? God Bless the hat lady. |
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313 | Was Judas forordained to betray Jesus? | Acts 1:16 | Tamara Brewington | 204160 | ||
Was Judas forordained to do what He did by God, in other words in being chosen and being forknown as the one to betray Jesus by, was he forordained to do what he did in the same way that believers are forordained and forknown? | ||||||
314 | Was Judas forordained to betray Jesus? | Acts 1:16 | Tamara Brewington | 204170 | ||
Thanks John, God Bless, Tamara | ||||||
315 | When and where was the Pentecost? | Acts 2:1 | Tamara Brewington | 203983 | ||
Dear Sam, Penetcost took place in Jerusalem in a house, probably a big house, because Acts 1:12-15 says there were over 120 person gathered who were waiting. Then Acts 2:1-12 says they were still gathered in a house when the Holy Spirit fell. To add to that what happened was loud because they had to be heard outside as the text says that men hearing the sound came a crowd from outside came together where they were 120 or so were gathered inside. It is possible the whole shebang moved outside but the text doesn't say, but 120 plus is a whole lot to have in somebodies house in the first place and then that men from every nation under heaven showed up, well you get the idea... God Bless, Tamara | ||||||
316 | When and where was the Pentecost? | Acts 2:1 | Tamara Brewington | 204052 | ||
Thanks for teaching me Sam! God Bless, Tamara | ||||||
317 | When and where was the Pentecost? | Acts 2:1 | Tamara Brewington | 204055 | ||
OK Mike I am so confused by how this site appears to work! Help a gal out... How were you able to answer for Sam? I answered Sam and then you answered me? Good night I don't mind a bit, but perhaps this has to do with threads? Which I cannot seem to find? Tamara | ||||||
318 | When and where was the Pentecost? | Acts 2:1 | Tamara Brewington | 204060 | ||
Azure you are the frist person willing to help me figure this out. Yeah, first Sam did answer me, then Mike answered me back regarding something I had written to Sam... You clear up things just fine... Tamara | ||||||
319 | When and where was the Pentecost? | Acts 2:1 | Tamara Brewington | 204063 | ||
Mike, you ain't intruding guy it's an open forum... Tam | ||||||
320 | Pentacost | Acts 2:1 | Tamara Brewington | 204080 | ||
This is Tamara, try to remember, as I kept getting it wrong myself, to post things like this as a note, rather than a question, or else it ends up turning up in unaswered questions. God bless, Tamara | ||||||
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