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41 | Has the enemy caused confusion? | Col 1:16 | bronx hulk | 92628 | ||
Good point Your brother, Sal |
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42 | Aviano? | Gen 3:1 | bronx hulk | 92404 | ||
Tim, You wouldn't happen to be the same Tim Moran that pastored at Aviano Baptist would you? Sal |
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43 | Denominations is shameful? | 1 Cor 3:4 | bronx hulk | 92403 | ||
Joyce, I am deeply saddened by your situation in reading all of the correspondance. However, I am joyful that you are still standing for God. Do not let go of your faith for any reason or anyone. Eternal life is more important than this one. May I humbly question that there might be a deeper issue separating you and your husband than religion? Were there problems before your conversion? If someone truly loves someone, they should be willing to go through anything with them. It sounds like your husband is looking for an excuse to be angry with you. I could be 100 percent wrong here, but that's what it sounds like to me. Please tell me if I am out of line and getting too much into your personal business. I truly care and wish to help in any way I can. Your attempt to rectify the situation shows me of your maturity and wisdom. It sounds like you are doing everything right. But like it says in 1Corin7:15 "But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace." Your brother in Christ, Sal |
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44 | what do eagerly,constantly,waiting mean | Heb 9:28 | bronx hulk | 92402 | ||
I think you are 100 percent right Tammy. The Word definately says that we must serve him with our all and do what the Word says. Most notably in Rom 8, James 1 and 2. If we are just playing with this thing, we disgust God (Rev 3:15,16). The entire Word of God supports this doctrine. God bless. Your brother, Sal |
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45 | How is unity possible in diversity? | John 17:11 | bronx hulk | 92401 | ||
Wow, Sounds like you have a real situation on your hand. The best advice I can give you is this: Get to know God as best as you can. Through Him, you will gain wisdom to handle your situation. If you can become the best Christian you can, your husband might see the change in you and follow suit. There is no guarantees to this. Read 1 corin 7. Pay particular attention to verses 13-15. I suggest you get counseling from your pastor on the correct way to handle this. It will take much time and patience. In the meantime, do not try to convince your husband with words. Let your life do the talking. If you need someone to talk to, I will be available. You can email me @ salvatore.capaccio@aviano.af.mil I will pray for you. Your brother, Sal |
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46 | Has the enemy caused confusion? | Not Specified | bronx hulk | 92397 | ||
To the saints of God, I have a serious question that I would like to throw out there. I have been back and forth with a few of you on various topics and I have seen some of you "debate" issues with each other. It seems that even though we all speak english, there is a language barrier between us. I noticed that I have been in agreeance with a couple of you, but it would seem like we're arguing. It's like we are both arguing, trying to prove the same point, but with different words. I use the word argue for a lack of a better term. I would never argue with a child of God over the Word. Then there are issues where we do disagree completely. I give the recent topic I've been discussing with Radioman2. "Did God create evil?" We are in complete disagreement with each other. Not to say we don't receive each other as brothers. We are mature enough to look past any disagreements and love each other as God's children! My question(s) are these: Phil 2:2 says "Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one ACCORD, of one mind." Why can't we do that? I attribute some of our confusion between each other to the different bible translations out there. Where in one bible it states something and another it would seem contradicted. I give an example of scripture: Rom 8:1 between the KJV and the NIV. The NIV leaves out the part that says " who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." That is a very important satement that is left out. It says that you must walk after the Spirit if you do not want condemnation. Here's part 2 to my question: Do you think that all the different bible translations are a work of the devil? Since God is not the author of confusion (1 corin 14:33) and we seem to be confused, can God be responsible for causing man to translate the bible many times? Or have we allowed the enemy to creep in and cause confusion? I myself do not find this so far fetched since the devil is after the children of God. What better way can he attack us by disrupting the Word itself? Should we as a church consider doing research to find which translation is the most accurate and approve that as the Holy Word of God? Your brother in Christ, Sal |
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47 | Has the enemy caused confusion? | Col 1:16 | bronx hulk | 92418 | ||
To the saints of God, I have a serious question that I would like to throw out there. I have been back and forth with a few of you on various topics and I have seen some of you "debate" issues with each other. It seems that even though we all speak english, there is a language barrier between us. I noticed that I have been in agreeance with a couple of you, but it would seem like we're arguing. It's like we are both arguing, trying to prove the same point, but with different words. I use the word argue for a lack of a better term. I would never argue with a child of God over the Word. Then there are issues where we do disagree completely. I give the recent topic I've been discussing with Radioman2. "Did God create evil?" We are in complete disagreement with each other. Not to say we don't receive each other as brothers. We are mature enough to look past any disagreements and love each other as God's children! My question(s) are these: Phil 2:2 says "Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one ACCORD, of one mind." Why can't we do that? I attribute some of our confusion between each other to the different bible translations out there. Where in one bible it states something and another it would seem contradicted. I give an example of scripture: Rom 8:1 between the KJV and the NIV. The NIV leaves out the part that says " who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." That is a very important satement that is left out. It says that you must walk after the Spirit if you do not want condemnation. Here's part 2 to my question: Do you think that all the different bible translations are a work of the devil? Since God is not the author of confusion (1 corin 14:33) and we seem to be confused, can God be responsible for causing man to translate the bible many times? Or have we allowed the enemy to creep in and cause confusion? I myself do not find this so far fetched since the devil is after the children of God. What better way can he attack us by disrupting the Word itself? Should we as a church consider doing research to find which translation is the most accurate and approve that as the Holy Word of God? Your brother in Christ, Sal |
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48 | Who created evil? | Gen 3:1 | bronx hulk | 92329 | ||
RM2, I hear what you're saying. But I haven't found anything else that disputes that verse. I looked at the ones you listed and I couldn't see how they dealt with this topic. I did look in humbleness, not trying to automatically dismiss them because of what I've received for myself. Honestly, how could you argue against Is 45:7? Are we to assume that it doesn't mean what it says? You are right in saying that if I stick to one translation, it will be hard to be convinced otherwise. How many bibles are we supposed to use to get the translation that we feel is right? Everything in the KJV makes perfect sense to me and I've never found a contradiction. Are you not also doing the same thing by using your translation? So with that being said, let's put that aside. Can you comment on the other things I said in the last post? I'm really interested in what you have to say regarding the understandings I gave. I don't take things personally. I only want to find out the truth. I'm not in this for myself, but for God. So I'm not offended. I hope you are not either. All that matters to me is that our hearts are in it for God. That seems like the case to me. This topic does not "hinge on salvation" so it doesn't matter who is right here. I think this is a way to really search the scriptures deeper. You have already made me do that greatly. So your comments have helped me for sure. That's why I would like to see what you have regarding the other comments I made. If you don't want to go any further, that's fine. I'm having a great time studying this with you. God bless always, Sal |
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49 | How is unity possible in diversity? | John 17:11 | bronx hulk | 92315 | ||
Hello Joyce, My personal view on this is that if others want to view us as close minded, that's their problem. Our faith must testify that there is no other way to the Father but by Jesus. If we compromise that, we would be lying to anyone we speak to. The unity that we need to have is revealed in Phil 2:2 "Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one ACCORD, of one mind". Meaning that we need to work together so that there are no divisions in understanding within the church. Now granted. This day and age there are so many denominations of Christianity, never mind other religions, it is confusing. How can we be on one accord given this situation? The baptists do not believe in speaking in tongues. Other churches use tongues as their sole doctrine. Some believe that once you give your life to Christ, you are automatically going to heaven. Others believe you must earn eternal life through works. Who is right? My honest belief is that if you are using the Holy Spirit to interperet Gods Word and you are humble to receive what is written, we all should be on one accord. Since God is not the author of confusion (1 corin 14:33). However that is not so, which tells me that we have allowed our pride and other various things distort our understandings of Gods holy Word. So how can we deal with this? In reading John 3:1-8, it tells us that we must be BORN AGAIN to enter the kingdom of heaven. It doesn't say to be baptist, charismatic, pentecostal, etc. It says BORN AGAIN. To me, that means that you must change your life to become that new creature with your HEART sold out to serving God. So what I do is I try to look into the heart of the individual. Is their heart one that loves God and believes that Jesus is His son and died for our sins? Are they trying with all their spirit to serve the Lord? If the answer to both of those questions is yes, then I will receive them as my brother or sister and let God make the judgement on their soul's place in eternity. We need to use WISDOM in dealing with each others differences. Without wisdom, we will not be able to look past things that do not matter. As far as other people belonging to other religions are concerned, my view is this: Jesus said in John 6:44 "No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me DRAW him: and I will raise him up at the last day." So if God is not drawing or calling someone, you cannot witness to them. Also in John 10, it talks about how Christ's sheep know His voice. If someone is being called of God and they are one of His, then when they hear the Word of God, they will recognize it as truth and follow it without question. If they are not one of God's sheep, we can preach the Word to them all day and it won't do any good. Remember that there were people who did not receive Jesus' words as truth. Now if there were people that Jesus Himself couldn't reach, what makes us think that everyone we talk to should believe our words as truth? Fact is, not everyone is called of God. And that's the bottom line. Hope that clears stuff up. Let me know. Yours in Christ, Sal |
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50 | Who created evil? | Gen 3:1 | bronx hulk | 92309 | ||
I think the problem I'm having understanding this is I'm not defining evil the same way as you and RM2. When God said He created evil, I think that means that He created Lucifer knowing full well that Lucifer would rise up against Him. Now I could be wrong about this, but doesn't it say somewhere in the word that God created the Angels to serve Him? That they don't have a choice in the matter? Heb 1:6 maybe? If He did that, then how could have Lucifer risen up against Him? The only explanation I could give is that He created Lucifer to do exactly what he did. Hence, created evil. Do you see where I'm hung up on this whole thing? Just like God created Pharoah just so He could use Pharoah to display his power Rom 9:17. Wasn't Pharaoh evil? Did not God create him for His good purpose? Now I'm not saying by any means that God is evil or immoral for doing that. God is God and can do what He wants. Our small minds cannot question His motives or reasons. We cannot or must not. We must accept what He does and that is that. That's why I'm fully comfortable in saying that God could have created evil while still being holy and perfect. God murdered, God destroyed, God tortured (plagues on Egypt). God has done many things that would seem wrong if you look at it from a carnal mind. Like I said in the beginning. It might just be the way we are defining evil that is separating our understandings. What do you think? And thank you for taking the time to study this issue with me. With the love of Christ, Sal |
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51 | Was Paul single or married? | 1 Cor 7:8 | bronx hulk | 92215 | ||
I agree. The website is where I could order stuff from. So I can get books mailed to me through them. Thanks again, Sal P.S. I'll be back in the states as of Sep 2004. Thats when my tour here ends. :o( |
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52 | Who created evil? | Gen 3:1 | bronx hulk | 92214 | ||
Radioman, You have some very interesting points here. I'd like to interject something not in a debating sense, but to see what your views are. In order for me to get your full answer, I'll need to give you how I view this. So it might sound like I'm attacking your understandings, but please brother, do not take it that way. I need to come to you with my full understanding so I can get yours. I hope you understand that. Here's what I've received from God on this matter: As you said the KJV in Is 45:7 states that "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create EVIL: I the LORD do all these things." To me that very clearly says that God created evil. As for your understanding given about sin. I agree whole heartedly on what you said. However, I don't think that sin and evil are the same thing. Sin is a transgression of the law. Evil (to me) is a state of being. i.e. Satan is evil. Further example: I sin and get drunk. Was I being evil? Did I have an evil heart? Not from how I view evil. Would I be evil if I delibrately tempted my brother into getting drunk, just so he would transgress? Yes, that would be evil. You quoted James 1:13 and 1 John 1:5. I don't feel that these scriptures override Is 45:7. They are simply giving a description of God. "Cannot be tempted by evil and does not tempt anyone" only means that evil has no power over Him and that He Himself will not try to get someone to transgress by tempting them. However, Evil, His creation, would tempt someone. "In Him there is no darkness" Still does not prove that He couldn't create evil. This just tells me that He Himself is not evil, but still could create it to serve His purpose. 1 Corin 14:33 says God is not the author of confusion. Again, I would have to say that Evil and Confusion are not the same. Evil is perfectly understandable if you gain enough wisdom. I'm not confused by evil or evil motives at all. They make perfect sense to me when I look at them from a spiritual mind. Not being the author of confusion means that God would not try to do anything that would be contradictary by any means. For example, put something in the Word that contradicts something else in the Word. Like saying that Jesus was a jew in one scripture and a muslim in another. Calamity is a form of confusion as far as I'm concerned. So how could you say the NAS bible's translation of IS 45:7 is any clearer? To me, that's a contradiction in scripture. How could He create calamity, but yet not be the author of confusion? I'm not going to get into different bible translations now, maybe at another time. Evil serves God, that is for sure. If Evil tempts people and God does not, the God would need something to do His "dirty work" so to speak. Consider this: God could have created us to be like robots to serve Him. But He didn't because He wanted our choice to serve Him be proof that we love Him. If there was no tempter (evil) then we wouldn't be faced with choices to serve Him or serve sin. Or sin wouldn't have a driver or method of pressure, if that makes sense to you. So God needed evil for His eternal plan. And as far as Genesis goes and "God saw that it was good"... That was the earth. The heaven mentioned is the atmosphere here all the way to outer space. Not the heaven where God is. That is a different heaven. God's Heaven was already created by this time. So was evil. So yes, the earth that He created WAS good. I still don't think that overrides IS 45:7. He created alot of good things. But He also created evil, just not in Gen 1. |
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53 | How was Joshua born? | Josh 24:15 | bronx hulk | 92205 | ||
This is great! I'm dying over here. Ken, I think Hank was joking like you were. Son of NONE meaning not even a mother or a father. I hope no one is offended by all this. Please saints. This is really funny, no one get angry with each other. The problem with written jokes is that you can't see the persons face or hear their tone of voice. No one meant any harm in their speech from what I'm reading. I needed a good laugh. Sal |
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54 | Was Paul single or married? | 1 Cor 7:8 | bronx hulk | 92198 | ||
Hey Hank, How would that work? I'm up for it. Dollars are good only in a few places. Now that the lire is gone, it's all Euro. I'm not sure if we should correspond like this on here. You can email me at salvatore.capaccio@aviano.af.mil Il tuo fratello in Gesu' Salvatore |
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55 | To the Lords servants | Matt 25:35 | bronx hulk | 92194 | ||
This is for Curtman and Burning bush... Thanks again for your help and servants hearts. May the Lord bless you for your willingness to serve! It's hearts like yours that will keep the Church strong. Be ye blessed my brothers, Sal |
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56 | Was Paul single or married? | 1 Cor 7:8 | bronx hulk | 92193 | ||
Curtman, Thank you so much for your willingness to serve!! It really is a blessing to know that a complete stranger is willing to do stuff for me. Burning bush gave me a website to go to. I think I'll check it out. It should have all the materials I would need. I'll keep you in mind if I can't find anything I'm looking for. By the way, if you want anything from Italy let me know. I can get my hands on some pretty good chocolate and coffee. Your brother, Sal |
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57 | Was Paul single or married? | 1 Cor 7:8 | bronx hulk | 92192 | ||
I'll check it out, Thanks Sal |
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58 | who/what are the twelve tribes? | Gen 35:22 | bronx hulk | 92101 | ||
The twelve tribes of Israel were the nations spawned from the 12 sons of Jacob who was later renamed Israel by God. That is the simple answer. Someone smarter than me can tell you about how they will all be judged seperately by 12 Apostles who will be seated in the throne room with God. It gets interesting. There are some who say that we all, as Christians, belong to one of those tribes from a spiritual standpoint. I don't know much about that stuff, though. Sal |
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59 | Wo hardend Pharoh's Heart | Rom 9:1 | bronx hulk | 92072 | ||
Oh yeah, By the way, did the other stuff I said make sense? Sal |
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60 | Was Paul single or married? | 1 Cor 7:8 | bronx hulk | 92071 | ||
I wish I had a Christian book store. I live in Italy. No such animal here. I don't even have a Christian radio station :o( |
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