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Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Author: flinkywood Ordered by Verse |
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221 | God is not the author of evil. | Job | flinkywood | 99135 | ||
Steve, I'm also in process of reading Lewis. I remember early on, after 9-11, that Bin Laden said (I paraphrase), "The difference between George Bush and me is that he loves life, and I love death." It makes no sense that anyone would want to join that club. Colin. |
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222 | God is not the author of evil. | Job | flinkywood | 99197 | ||
Steve, This sounds cool, but it's heavy sailing, could you Cliff's Notes it a little, with a bullet or two? Colin. |
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223 | God is not the author of evil. | Job | flinkywood | 99200 | ||
John, An analogy, I'll even make it out of time to simulate God's eternal perpsective. Andy Bathgate takes a giant slapshot from the blue line, but the shot is headed wide of the post. Suddenly, Tipper Gore skates into the goalie box and tips the puck, mid-air, into the crease. Goal, Tipper, with an assist from Bathgate! God preordained the goal, but since the shot was errant, He interceded by helping Tipper make proper contact. God made what might not have happened happen. It's God who actually deserves the assist. By using our weakness and our strenghts, our hits and misses, God orchestrates all to His purpose (we know that He guides and is intimately acquainted with all our ways - Psalm 139). Somehow, somehow God works all things together for good for those who love Him and are called according to His purpose (Rom 8,28). Bathgate gets a thrill, Tipper gets a chill, and God gets the glory - and nobody feels like a puppet. God predordains the goal, but we take the shot. It's happens all through the scriptures. N'est pas? Colin |
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224 | God is not the author of evil. | Job | flinkywood | 99217 | ||
Hank, You remember Andy, the NY Ranger who invented the slapshot. Tipper, of course, you know. Colin |
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225 | Who is they in Job 22:28?. | Job 22:23 | flinkywood | 135791 | ||
Pdcarn, a quibble and a question. The citation on iherited sin is from Romans 5:12, not v.5:5. Is Paul contradicting himself when he writes in v.12, "and so death spread to all men, because all sinned--" and in v.14, "Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam..."? Colin |
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226 | Who is they in Job 22:28?. | Job 22:23 | flinkywood | 135845 | ||
Thanks, Pdcaran. Why did Adam disobey a direct command from God? Colin |
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227 | Who is they in Job 22:28?. | Job 22:23 | flinkywood | 135850 | ||
Pdcaran, why do you think Adam acquiesced? Colin |
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228 | Who is they in Job 22:28?. | Job 22:23 | flinkywood | 135862 | ||
Pdcaran, thanks for the great reply. Is it Biblically possible that Adam might have been weighing spiritual death against physical death? Colin |
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229 | Who is they in Job 22:28?. | Job 22:23 | flinkywood | 135867 | ||
Pdcaran, In a sense the serpent didn't lie when he said to Eve, "You surely will not die!" Both Adam and Eve ate, with no apparent argument. If you've ever watched husband and wife doubles, that does not compute. I personally would not forfeit eternal life for knowledge, so what could have possessed this couple to chuck it all for a taste? Colin |
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230 | Who is they in Job 22:28?. | Job 22:23 | flinkywood | 135872 | ||
Pdcaran, thanks a million for your attention to my question. I've learned from your responses. Doubles is tennis played 2 per side. Colin |
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231 | Who is they in Job 22:28?. | Job 22:23 | flinkywood | 135895 | ||
Pdcaran, Good observations. 2 questions, 1) Where did Jesus cite Genesis to show Jewish leaders that their oral traditions had exceeded the written word? 2) Is B.C.E the same as A.D.? Colin |
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232 | Who is they in Job 22:28?. | Job 22:23 | flinkywood | 135922 | ||
Pdcaran, Thanks, for the first answer, I'll follow-up on that later. Do you prefer C.E. or A.D.? If so, why? Colin |
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233 | Who is they in Job 22:28?. | Job 22:23 | flinkywood | 135984 | ||
Pdcaran, Why do you prefer C.E. to A.D.? Colin |
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234 | "Begotten Son..." in Psalm 2:7? | Ps 2:7 | flinkywood | 29102 | ||
Why does God tell David that "Today I have begotten you?" I'm asking in relation to John 3:16, "...His only begotten Son." I notice also that psalm 2:7 puts son (David?) in uppercase. Why? | ||||||
235 | "Begotten Son..." in Psalm 2:7? | Ps 2:7 | flinkywood | 29644 | ||
Thanks, Nolan. Christ is unique. | ||||||
236 | ideas of psalm 32 support paul's argumen | Ps 32:1 | flinkywood | 116392 | ||
M-May, Emmaus has hit the nail on the head. I'd like to expand a bit. In Rom 4:3 Paul cites Genesis 15.6, “Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness.” This “credit” occurs while Abram is a gentile, his righteousness deriving from his simple trust in what God has said. This credit also comes after many long years of Abram’s faithful perseverance under the whips and scorns of circumstance following God’s command that he up sticks and hit the trail from Ur. Perseverance in faith against all nastiness resulted in righteousness for Abraham, all this, while he was still, double-underline, a gentile—and before the Moral Law, no less. Major point. More to the point, however: “If you, Judaizer, think you get your ticket punched just cause God punched your daddy’s, think again. If you’re not imitating him, you’re not from him. It’s not by blood, but by faith. In fact (as Paul will demonstrate in Romans 9), if it’s by blood, you’re no different from the Arabs, who also descend from your father through Esau.” “Hey, wait a minute. We got the works of the law—circumcision, the feast days, the sacrifices; God said as long as we burn it, we earn it. The Arabs don’t have anything like our righteous-making technology.” Please click on Psalm 32, which is all about divine forgiveness, and which conspicuously lacks any mention of animal sacrifice in relation to same. The speaker, an abject sinner, is so shriveled by conviction of his own guilt that his body wastes away and he groans all day long. “How blessed,” he says “is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.” Divine forgiveness comes to this soul-sufferer only after he acknowledges his sin to God; does not hide his iniquity, and confesses his transgression to the Lord (V.5). He has not burned a thing because, and Paul knows whereof he quotes, “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.” (Psalm 51:17). Circumcision, the covenantal seal, is of the heart, not of the flesh — and it is directly related to our contrition. Paul has embedded “righteousness” in chapter 4 as part of his theme of salvation (a parallel theme to Psalm 32), but take a look back to V. 3:10-11: is it absolutely true that, “…none is righteous, not even one…there is none who understands…none who seeks for God” (Ch 3:10-11)? Does Paul believe that this verse applies universally? These verses, which Paul has taken from Psalm 14, are followed immediately in the Psalm by: “Do all the workers of wickedness not know, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And do not call upon the Lord? There they are in great dread, For God is with the righteous generation.” (Psalm 14:4-5). It is not the case that “none is righteous” (Simeon in Luke 2 is a prime example). Paul seems to deliberately tie contrition to forgiveness to righteousness to salvation in order to lay the groundwork for the tidal wave which will occur in Chapter 9. With these OT citations Paul evokes for the reader the real implication of Psalms 14 and 32: that God is with, and has always been with, the generation whose righteousness comes not through circumcision or observance of the Levitical laws, but though Abraham-like, obedient faith. This seems to be Paul’s purpose in specifically applying Psalm 32 here in Romans 4. Colin |
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237 | ideas of psalm 32 support paul's argumen | Ps 32:1 | flinkywood | 116480 | ||
M-May, Where I wrote "Esau" in my first post, please read Ishmael. My mind was on Romans 9:12-13: "it was said to her, "THE OLDER WILL SERVE THE YOUNGER." Just as it is written, "JACOB I LOVED, BUT ESAU I HATED." Colin |
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238 | heal me oh Lord | Ps 41:3 | flinkywood | 140653 | ||
Shariff, My friend Hugh told me Psalm 41 consoled him in his long fight against cancer: "How blessed is he who considers the helpless; The LORD will deliver him in a day of trouble. The LORD will protect him and keep him alive, And he shall be called blessed upon the earth; And do not give him over to the desire of his enemies. The LORD will sustain him upon his sickbed; In his illness, You restore him to health. (Psa 41:1-3 NASB) Colin |
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239 | WHERE TO FIND ALL THE NAMES OF GOD | Ps 83:18 | flinkywood | 75391 | ||
Truthfinder, A little while back I asked you to compare Abraham's faith to God's; you never responded to that particular question. To wit: whereas the JW's state that Jesus is really the archangel Michael, a creation, and whereas Abraham was ready to sacrifice his own son, while God, on the other hand, according to JW, sent down a proxy creation, not even His own blood; therefore, who has greater faith, Abraham, the father of Issaac, or God, the... but He can't be father to an angel, can He? Can you answer both these? I also understand that the JW's don't believe in hell. If there ain't no hell, what's Jesus saving us from? It's the pointless sacrifice of an angel, which probably nails the JW position on Jesus' true identity: God's too big to waste His own blood on a cross. |
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240 | WHERE TO FIND ALL THE NAMES OF GOD | Ps 83:18 | flinkywood | 76315 | ||
Truthfinder, this is a re-posting of what I asked you twice over the last 8 months, for which I haven't received your reply: A little while back I asked you to compare Abraham's faith to God's; you never responded to that particular question. To wit: Whereas the JW's state that Jesus is really the archangel Michael, a creation, and whereas Abraham was poised to sacrifice his own son, and God only a proxy creation (Michael-Jesus), not even so much as His own flesh and blood, who, therefore, has greater faith, Abraham, the father of Issac, or God, the father of...Michael the archangel?" Is Michael the real Son of God? Does Abraham have more faith than God? I also understand the JW's don't believe in hell, which is particularly handy when you don't believe in Jesus. If there ain't no hell, then what's Jesus-Michael saving us from? It's the pointless sacrifice of an angel, which probably nails the JW position on Jesus' true identity right to the wood: God's not fool enough to waste His blood on us. What a mess this JW thing is. The subject is faith and whether you got it, whether you got Jesus. Ask Jesus Himself who He is. All your Pharisitical JW word whacking is bloodless jive. |
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