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241 | Four Missionary Journeys? | 2 Tim 1:1 | bowler | 206987 | ||
Rolff I am still confused as I read through this branch. We have here maybe there was no fourth missionary journey. Maybe the fourth missionary journey happened after Paul got arrested in Acts and it was on his way to Rome while being shipwrecked. Maybe it was after the first imprisonment ended in about the end of 62 A.D. to the beginning of 63 A.D., where there was about a 3 to 5 year gap without a Biblical record of what he did other than the letters themselves, before he went to prison for the final time in about 66 A.D. to 68 A.D. Judging from the content of the letters he wrote after getting out of prison alone, I would not be certain what happened for sure, although my trusty NASB has decided it is certain that there was one. Looking at the journey being shipwrecked on the way to Rome the first time it is hard on the brain to think that while under arrest and perhaps only hitting the island of Miletus that this is when he was on a fourth journey writting letters that did not get written until he got out of prison... No one purported that that is just my brain. The NASB makes the ascertion that his "fourth" missionary journey took place in between the two prison terms, which makes more sense. There is lack of letters saying where abouts he was in the interim there and that he was making visits to the churches as being a more definitive barrometer to say there was a fourth journey during that time. Which is why I will stay confused. But I encourage everyone else to be sure :-).! blessings abound, bowler |
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242 | Question on interpretation | 2 Tim 2:15 | bowler | 206971 | ||
tachminite It is still the same two rules being broken as the last three posts you made. For the answer about what defense Christians might have given to pagans in Rome, and for a clue about how the rules were broken, I did give you an answer. Please go back and read again. blessings abound, bowler |
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243 | Speculation? | 2 Tim 2:23 | bowler | 206754 | ||
What in your estimation consititutes ingnorant and foolish speculations? Does this only apply to ideas that don't have any basis in scriptures, or is it more than that? blessings abound, bowler |
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244 | Speculation? | 2 Tim 2:23 | bowler | 206784 | ||
beja Thank you for your response. Am I to understand that where Paul was speaking of of not passing judgment on him in terms of regarding Apollos above Paul and then Paul says, "I have figuratively applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that in us you may learn not to exceed what is written, so that no one will become arrogant in behalf of one against another", that you are taking an alternate application? Not a misinterpretation, I don't mean that at all, but from the original interpretation, a secondary application? Exceed what was written then as what was written about everything in scripture, and not as what was written about not judging Paul or Apollos? I can see you mean the former and not the latter. I like brain twisters but not everyone finds profit in that because they can't find an application in real life for the answers. There is no such thing as a scripture that does not have a current application that can be derived at from a literal interpretation. Which is why I like the brain teasers, to try to find out what that is going to be, all scripture is profitable, you just have to understand how for each one. Scripture has a lot of parts to what it takes to undertand it. Some things in scripture have that they are specific things God has done that have parts as to how it works according to what God has outlined. And some scriptures have different things that God has incorporated into what He has done that each break down into the rules He laid out for each part of each of the major things that went into His one decision. The actual scripture proscribing some particular thing to do about something God has insitituted does not always contain every single aspect of every single thing that God has outlined in scriptures as the parts of how the thing He is doing works, but the elements are in scripture in various other places directly outlined as having exactly to do with the single thing and how God operates its parts. I agree with you whole heartedly that going beyond what scripture actually says about something is going beyond "what is written". But, I think it is important to see what the whole canon of scriptures is saying about how all the parts of the major "thing" that are outlined in scripture work together to form how the "thing" actually works according to scripture. blessings abound, bowler |
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245 | Speculation? | 2 Tim 2:23 | bowler | 206842 | ||
Beja Thank you for a gracefull reply. I would not be interested in a debate as if we disagree either. You owe me nothing, but I sincerely thank you. I do see what you mean by your taking the text back a pace, I do see how it fits what you meant, I really do. I appreciate the time you took to get back to me. Thank you again. blessings abound, bowler |
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246 | Why is love philandros not agapao? | Titus 2:4 | bowler | 206975 | ||
Searcher What you are asking made me think about how verse 5 goes on to say for the wives to be subject to their own husbands. Is it possible that within the context of the marriage relationship Paul intends for the wife to love her husband in all senses? As in 1 Corinthians 7:3, 4? As that is part of marital love it might, I say might, be why Paul says "philandros" rather than "sophronizo"? As to the children and the husband both the word "philandros" makes me think of an intimate personal love full of affection, rather than the godly "agapao" love that comes from the strength which God supplies by the power of the Holy Spirit, but which does not imply "brotherly affection". I could be very wrong, I don't claim to be right. These are just my thoughts based on trying to understand how Paul views marriage in the various passages he writes about it in. blessings abound, bowler |
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247 | Why is love philandros not agapao? | Titus 2:4 | bowler | 206984 | ||
Immanuelsown I completely agree with you about this! What Searcher was asking about though was why "philandros" and not "agapao"? Not making an arugment with you at all as I agree whole heartedly with what you are saying. First let me apologize to you and to Searcher and to everyone else too. I think I said before I don't know everything and that I am a worthless son. This time I flubbed it major league, I didn't stop to look up every bit of it. The word "philandros" only appears once in the NT in this passage and means specifically wifely love for a husband. The word for women to love their children is "philoteknos" and only appears once in the NT this passage and means specifically love for your children. I completely flubbed applying the "agapaos" and "phileo" concept to this passage, I was dead wrong. Sorry for the mix up, next time I will look it all up first like I usually do before I post anything. blessings abound, bowler |
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248 | Compare Christ and Melchizedek | Hebrews | bowler | 206519 | ||
Junikkits I woould say that there are actually more similarities between them then differences! Hebrews chapter 7 speaks at length about how Mechizedek'a priesthood and Christs priesthood - Here are some interesting facts - They are both of the same priesthood. Christ's priesthood arose from Melchizedek's. Melchizedek had no anscestors' no genealogy, no beginning and no end and remains a priest perpetually like Jesus. Both were high priests. The both bear the name, "king of righteousness" and "king of Salem". Some say Melchezidek was Jesus come early in a theophany because no one could possibly be without beginning or end and be a perpetual priest except Jesus. Differences - Melchizedek mysteriously appeared from nowhere and dissappeared to nowhere, but Jesus was born and died and rose again. Melchizedek accepted tithes which Jesus did not do. You see only two differences and five similarities there, so they were more alike then not. blessings abound, bowler |
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249 | Is this important to me today? | Hebrews | bowler | 207039 | ||
catfish 3 Doc makes some very excellent points there. I would like to add one. 1 Peter 2:5 you also, as living stones, are being built as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices accpetable to God through Jesus Christ. Where once there was an Aaronic priesthood and only some could be priests to God under the order of Aaron, now there is a new order of Jesus Christ as the high priest according to the order of Melchizedek. We are all, as believers part of this priesthood under Jesus Christ, a ministering priesthood as a spiritual house offering up sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. Hebrews 13:15 Just a worthless son. blessings abound, bowler |
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250 | hebrews 9:27 | Hebrews | bowler | 207775 | ||
son of god Genesis 5:24 Ehoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him. The text says Enoch walked - the word can also mean behaved and passed away. The text says Enoch was not - the word can also mean not exist. The text says God took him - the word took can also mean carry away or fetch. The text could possibly mean that Enoch behaved with God and passed away because God carried him away, fetched him. But Hebrews is not unclear like that, Hebrews says this; Hebrews 11:5 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death; AND HE WAS NOT FOUND BECAUSE GOD TOOK HIM UP; for he obtained the witness that before his being taken up he was pleasing to God. According to the Bible Enoch was no longer found because he did not taste death. That would mean that it appears Enoch was an exeption to Hebrews 9:27. 2 Kings 2:11, 12 As they were going along and talking, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire and horses of fire which separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind to heaven. Elisha saw it and cried out, "My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!" And he saw Elijah no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes and tore them in two pieces. The text says Elijah ascended into heaven, was taken away, and was seen no more. This is another example of an exception that it appears God made to Hebrews 9:27. But did He really make an exception? Maybe not. Luke 9:30, 31 And behold, two men were talking with Him; and they were Moses and Elijah, who, appearing in glory, were speaking of His departure which He was about to accomplish at Jerusalem. Notice that Moses and Elijah appeared in a state of glory, they had been glorified to a certain degree. 1 Corinthians 15:40 There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is one, and the glory of the earthly is another. I do believe it is safe to say that when one goes to heaven there is a heavenly body that gets put on. 1 Corinthians 15:50 Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Somehow it is not possible for flesh and blood to be in heaven, and there are fleshly bodies and heavenly bodies. 1 Corinthians 15:51-53 Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but WE WIIL ALL be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. Somewhere in there we will all be changed at the last trump, all the dead flesh will put on the imperishable new heavenly body. There is no reason to think that Enoch and Elijah will be left out of that because somehow there is no way for their flesh bodies to be in heaven as flesh bodies, some change must have taken place we are not told about. Otherwise these other scriptures cannot apply to ALL, as in "we all will be changed". Elijah, Enoch, and Moses still have to be changed one more time, they need their immortal bodies to endure eternal life, that requires this - 1 Corinthians 15:35-38 You fool! That which you sow does not come to life unless it dies; and that which you sow, you do not sow the body which is to be, but a bare grain, perhaps of wheat or of something else. But God gives it a body just as He wished, and to each of the seeds a body of its own. Since this text is true that in order for there to be eternal life, there must first be the death of the flesh, that must apply to everyone. Jesus is the type for us, if He had to die, if His flesh had to die to go to eternal life, then so do all of us, no exceptions. On that basis alone it seems as if Enoch and Elijah had to have lost their flesh unto death in some sort of quick transition that we don't understand. The Brenton Bible says this - And Enoch was well-pleasing to God, and was not found, because God translated him. According to this translation God changed him. blessings abound, bowler |
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251 | Heb6:4-6 Loosing salvation or what? | Heb 6:4 | bowler | 207721 | ||
Beja, I have read about half this branch and will take the time to reply to you tommorrow sometime first after church. I will address you regarding the criteria in your original question and how you broke that down again and again later through the thread. I promise to read the whole thread first. I plan to give you two scenarios, perhaps, most likely in different posts; one of how it means to some that you can lose your salvation, and a second one giving you a new alternative the the IF/THEN "problem". I promise to take the time to be careful to address your concerns as best I can, as I can see everyone most diligently did also do. I would like to add my two cents. Hebrews 5:11 Concering him we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. blessings abound, bowler |
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252 | Heb6:4-6 Loosing salvation or what? | Heb 6:4 | bowler | 207726 | ||
Doc I read a lot through the hats issue, but if you have it could you please provide a branch number for this issue of hats as "Yes, it is easier to discuss the practice of gender dependent hat wearing than it is to deal with the whole question of submission in chapter 11". I read a lot about hats before posting beja with an intention to reply to him for the first time on his issue here. I could not seem to find a discussion centering on what you mention here. Could you help me out?:-) John 14:16 I will ask the Father, and He will give another Helper, that He may be with you forever. blessings abound, bowler |
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253 | Heb6:4-6 Loosing salvation or what? | Heb 6:4 | bowler | 207738 | ||
Beja Oh my Jesus, I meant no such barb to you, having truly, as I said, I have not yet had a chance to read the whole "thread" as you call it. I am truly dissapointed about this I really had something constructive to say to you, and not in the way of telling you that you "do not truly believe in once saved, always saved", and not in the way of "getting you to see the truth" either. I am highly dissapointed, I must say by the content of your post here, but not at all in you, or any one else, but that somehow a purely exegetical question asked on the grounds of using critical forms to deduce a satisfying conclusion somehow digressed from your seeming intent into something, I don't know. I truly apologoze to you and anyone I may have inadvertantly offended, I have not as yet read all of the "thread". I simply choose some notes and answers to read and a very few of your repplies to try to see the jist of what got discussed. I have been gone for three days and had not at all seen this until I got back late last night from our annual church retreat. I am sorry myself, again, to see this post, you had very valid grammatical and historical concerns about this text and made it clear in the beginning your intent; that this was not about whether or not you believe the truth, because you do, but that it was about "getting to the heart of the true context", which I wanted to discuss with you today! I may actually have an answer for that! Alas! I will read the whole thread to try and understand what happened. But, I will respect your wishes and leave off posting at all about it with you, and for that matter with anyone else out of respect. I would like you to consider, just so you may know that I meant no barb to you, post number 207418, as to my intent in wanting to post to you. I would also like to know is there some way off line from here we could communicate about this? I also believe the same thing you do about this passage and have a valid Bible study concern for getting the context first in order to try to see what a passage is really talking about, and based on that have one solution for you. I also have another site for you where you could discuss things like this on the level you have been trying to do, where exegesis in an orthodox sense of that term is the point of all discussions. 2 Timothy 2:15 Be diligent to present yourself approved of God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth. Ephesians 4:3 Being diligent to preserve the unity of the body in the Spirit in the bond of peace. blessings abound, bowler |
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254 | Heb6:4-6 Loosing salvation or what? | Heb 6:4 | bowler | 207743 | ||
Beja I rushed back in the house because I just realized what you might have thought the barb was!!!! My little verse in signing off on that last note I posted you goes to "context"! It was not meant as anything but a clue to you. I will read the whole thing including Tim Moran's "solution". blessings abound, bowler |
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255 | What Parts Makes Covenant Work? | Heb 9:16 | bowler | 206751 | ||
What constitutes the elements of a covenant? Not just who is in it, and not who made covenants in the first place, but what are the differing parts of how a covenant works as God has laid it out from the OT to the NT to now? blessings abound, bowler |
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256 | What Parts Makes Covenant Work? | Heb 9:16 | bowler | 206813 | ||
Steve Thank you. I would wonder if a Biblical source might contain Biblical explanation of Biblical concepts. Webster's? I am not out to disparage your efforts to find a source, I myself before and asking the question found absolutely, not one source for what constitutes the parts of what makes up a covenant. I had two posts looking at this concept of what elements, or rules comprise a covenant, this general one and the specific one about marriage. Those are some interesting elements you found though, food for thought - Mutual consent A written agreement as a contract God's commands, prohibitions, promises, obedience As you have outlined it would be that mutual consent is required as a written agreement of contract to obtain the promises of God or between church parties with the vairous prohibitions and obedience to the covenant. Thank you. blessings abound, bowler |
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257 | How to convince someone to go to church | Heb 10:25 | bowler | 207263 | ||
crazycatcm I only have a couple of questions - Is this person really saved? If they are saved, did they ever crack open their Bibles at home and study God's word on their own, or when they came to church where they just bench warmers? I would ask my friend nice versions of these two questions. They are key - if you are not saved, why would you bother to come? If you are saved, but you are not into God's word, there is a major problem with your concept of what it means to be a Christian and how you walk with Him. There is usually one big reason that the majority of people have as to why the don't go to church - they are not saved. The next big reason people don't go to church who are saved is they have no viable working relationship with Christ, it is dead in the water, it is not active faith. People who are saved generally hunger for God, they want to do everything possible to get next to Him and to worship Him. People go to church for all kinds of reasons, but the primary one should be to worship God with the saints. Every other consideration pales next to this one because we are the body of Christ and we should be together as one worshipping Him. If that is not important to one who claims they are a Christian, you have to wonder what they think being a Christian means they should "do" about being one. Some people are home bound, others make excuses about "what is wrong" with the church, others just don't seem to make time for God in any area of their lives. We are not fruit inspectors, but they may not be saved. Hebrews 3:13 But encourage one another day after day, a long as it is still called "Today". Just a worthless son. blessings abound, bowler |
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258 | Does God Condone War Now? | Heb 11:33 | bowler | 208041 | ||
Seeing as how these men all qonquered kingdoms at either the commands of God, or in an effort to keep Israel intact as the choosen people of God, how is it that we are saying that war is all right today? God has not come and commanded us directly to fight anyone now? I see a lot of "problems" all ready with what I have asked, but that is okay, because the whole thing is a "problematic". Some don't see it that way, they see it as cut and dry - as that God allows or endorses war to save countries from destruction today, they use Romans 13, they use a lot of scriptures, many of which have more to do with submitting to evil governments than the "preservation" of "good ones", as if there are any nations that God does not now consider to be evil. The New Jerusalem is not here yet, the millenium has not come yet, there are no "good nations" yet in my estimation, there are worse ones and better ones, but not "good ones". blessings abound, bowler |
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259 | Does God Condone War Now? | Heb 11:33 | bowler | 208056 | ||
Doc Post number 192637 - Okay Doc I will drop it. I really was not interested in making others feel that there service to their country was or is not appreciated. Other people's way of life seems to get to be the point of every thing discussed here lately. What happened to Bible study for the sake of understanding the Bible? I am not suggesting that you are trying to put me in my place. What I am suggesting is that people step back and stop assuming that every single question has been asked on the basis of WHAT CHRISTIANS SHOULD BE DOING. There are other focuses to have as a reason to study the Bible, like what the Bible is saying on its own before we derive an interpretation of what to do, like what the Bible means in its parts on a given subject as separate from arguments that one or the other part is "right", or Biblical passages that are in them selves theologically or grammatically "problematic". The Bible was not just given to us to know what to do, that is a narrow view of the Bible and Bible study. When others, not saying you, decide that the only thing a person should be doing is to find out what the applicaiton of a given text is, they are limiting the participation of others by pushing their view that that is all the Bible is for. As well the gracious hosts of this forum describe it as an "expository repository". I don't think that everyone is aware from the tone of their posts, not in refuting "erroneous" views, but in "ignoring the context of questions", that "expository" means to study the Bible line by line to get at the author's intent in writing his audience. The author having an intent in writing comes before that author's intent of "what people should do" they are not the same thing. It is not right that we cannot all disccus every aspect of the Bible in all its complexity. The Bible is not a simple child's primer with instructions on how to live - there are treasures there, depths to plumb, mysteries to unfold, things to understand by the grace of God to uplift the soul and to bring men to the repentance of Jesus Christ. I will leave off the question I had since your post at the end, although I do not presuppose that is all you meant for me to get out of it, tells the other person you posted to cease and desist (paraphrasing). blessings abound, bowler |
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260 | Isaiah Sawn In Two? | Heb 11:37 | bowler | 206755 | ||
I have heard that Isaih was sawn in two and would like to know what the source of that is from? Thank you. blessings abound, bowler |
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