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21 | Please explain the big words! | Bible general Archive 2 | following him | 132286 | ||
Good Morning Tim; Actually Hemenutics is a "small" word for interpretation. Hemenutics only has 10 letters while interpretaion has 14. :-) Blessing to you Aaron |
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22 | Is the rapture biblically supported? | 1 Thess 4:17 | following him | 132210 | ||
Hello Kalos; I'm not sure that the discourse by Jesus in Luke 17:26-30 is refering to the rapture. I am not going to be a stickler about this but could it not be refering to Israel's flight into the wilderness to be hidden for 3 1/2 years. If the Beast enters the temple at the half way point of the trib. and set himself up as God, this would be the signal for the Jews to flee Jerusalem those who remain would be caught and destroyed by the beast those who left would be saved (the remnant) |
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23 | Cor 13:13 And now abideth faith, hope... | Bible general Archive 2 | following him | 132194 | ||
Charity is the word used by the King James Version of the Bible which was writen in 1611. The original word in the manuscripts is agape. Today we translate it as love in 1611 they translated it charity. Both words refer to the same thing. The verse you are refering to about adding or deleting a word from the Bible is Rev 22:18-19 "I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues which are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book." This verse is specifically talking about changing words in this particular book i.e. the Book of Revelation not the rest of the Bible. although I believe the same applies. However in this case the word was not changed. It is still agape (love/charity) and refers to the same now as it did then. |
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24 | Denounce militant Islam? | Matt 5:44 | following him | 132188 | ||
Hello Alienresident; Just a quick question. In a nation where the people are free to chose their leader is it realy God who selects the leader or does man? Where the people have the right to select their leader I believe that the authority is not in the individual but in the office the person holds. The person we have placed in that office recieves and excersises the authority that God gives to that office or position. If we have the right to put a person of our chosing in a position where they can excersise the authority that God gives to that position. I would say that we should excersise our right to put the person we believe would be less likely to abuse that authority. And if we have the opertunity to put a person in there who would excersise it in a Godly way so much the better. |
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25 | What is your opinion on this? | Gal 5:6 | following him | 132177 | ||
Tim; It also seems to me that all of Paul's references to circumscision was toward adult male gentile converts in regards to thier salvation. It was not directed toward infants that have no concept of salvation by works or grace. Just a thought. Blessing to you Aaron |
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26 | is it wrong to wear fine clothing | 1 Tim 2:9 | following him | 132154 | ||
Brother EdB: This is a perfect example of what John was talking about. I've always believed that we are not witnessing to the world when we simply say "Jesus loves you!" It is truth, but in many cases it is just words until they see it practically touch their real day to day lives. Although these verses speak specifically of believers, I believe they can be applied to our actions toward unbelievers also. 1 John 3:16-18 We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him? Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth." Blessing to you and your church Aaron |
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27 | Naming our Daughter question | 2 Chr 3:1 | following him | 131989 | ||
Hello wshiner; Elizabeth is an old biblical name but has many current derivatives that are nice. It means dedicated to God. Blessing to you Aaron |
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28 | Integrity | Num 12:7 | following him | 131987 | ||
Hello Praise be to God; Although there are a great many people to chose from I would select king David. He was a man after God's own heart. The aspect of integrety that I find most admirable about him is that when he screwed up he didn't hide from it nor deny it. But instead confessed, repented and accepted the responsiblity for his actions. Integrity does not mean being holy or sinless it involves how we lead our lives in our successes and failures. Blessing to you Aaron |
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29 | isaiah6:1 | OT general | following him | 131630 | ||
There is none that I know of. King Uzziah did right in the sight of God. This reference to King Uzziah is just a time indicator of when Isaiah received the vision. Blessing to you Aaron |
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30 | is tounges a sign of holyghost | Bible general Archive 2 | following him | 131628 | ||
Absolutly not. It is a sign not "THE" sign. Blessing to you Aaron |
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31 | Denounce militant Islam? | Matt 5:44 | following him | 131621 | ||
Hello Norrie; If they kill me because I wont convert. Then I guess I will be in good company, i.e. Paul, Peter, Ignatius, Polycarp, and millions of other Christians who died because they would not bow their knee to anyone but God. The odd thing is that it was and is in this type of persecution that Christianity flurished and grew. This is a historical fact. And a current one taking place in areas like China. In every age there seems to be one group or another that is the main source of terrorism. The Pharisees and religious leaders (see Acts), Ganguis Khan, Attila the Hun, Rome, Hitler etc. Truely there is nothing new under the sun. We live in an age where it is the Muslems for the most part. Nothing has changed except the technology they use to do their evil. But if they come for you, will you bow your knee to their god or as they execute you will you say, "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do." |
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32 | Denounce militant Islam? | Matt 5:44 | following him | 131618 | ||
Hello Norrie We are to hate all evil or is it just the evil done by terrorists. Does that refer to your neighbor who not being a Christians does bad things? Or do we love the sinner and hate the sin. You say, “They are behind every terrorist action anywhere in the world today.” I take it you are refering to Muslems. There are many other terrorist around the world today that are not Muslems I'm sure you have heard of the IRA in Ireland? Or do you count those gang members here who rule their neighborhoods and communities by terror, intimidation and violence if their will is opposed? Do take into account the school yard bully that does the same thing, as he rules the playground by threats intimidation and violence upon those smaller and weaker than himself (the innocent and weak)? We tend to think only those not of our nationality as terrorists. Are we to hate all these as well or do we love, them pray for them and try to reach them? I do not condone any of the actions of any of these different types of terrorists. But Jesus does call us to love them because He want them saved. 1 Tim 2:4 "who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth." Aaron |
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33 | Studying beyond reading | Bible general Archive 2 | following him | 131609 | ||
Hello Jo; Country Girl hinted at it, but you must be at least 18 yrs. to participate on this forum. I say this not to discourage you from coming on but just so that you are aware of the rules. But besides that someone on this forum mention a Bible software site e-sword.net where you can download for free, software to use in your study. I am using it now and have been very impressed by it. If you want to dig deeper into the Bible try looking into why we Christians believe what we believe. Do some topical studies. Find out what the Bible teaches concerning: The Trinity, salvation by faith vs works, what it means to be a new creature (2 Cor 5:17), select a topic that is being discussed here on the forum and do your own study on it. Just a few suggestions Blessing to you Aaron |
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34 | What is willing? | Matt 8:2 | following him | 131505 | ||
Hello CDBJ; I looked up the commentary you suggested; and it did indeed; help clarify things. Thanks Blessing to you Aaron |
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35 | What is willing? | Matt 8:2 | following him | 131504 | ||
Hello Tim; yes it does help thank you. Although I must have crossed my references because somehow I thought that the term in 1 Tim 2:4 was another word for desire. I cant recall at the moment what it was but it meant desire but not followed up by action. I think the word started with a "B". And I'm not sure where I got it either. I'll have to go back through my notes and find it. I certainly do appriciate your help. Blessing to you Aaron |
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36 | They were not born again at time of marr | Bible general Archive 2 | following him | 131503 | ||
Hello Moey; Glory Bound is correct about the vows before God. They are still married in the sight of God. However your comments about "The Catholic church is not the true church..." has coaught my attention. Although I am not a catholic, I was raised one, I grew up in a catholic church that seemed to be dead spiritually. However since giving My life to Christ, I has since come across catholics who attend other catholic churches in my area that are very much alive spiritually. And at the same time come across protestant or non-denominational churches that are dead spiritually. My supervisor at work is a catholic and when we talk the conversation aways (by his doing) turns to Christ and worshiping Him. Emmaus who is on this forum is a catholic and has on different occasions brought a great deal of insight to questions I've had. I have come to have a great deal of respect for him. I would suggest that you reevaluate you opinion that "The Catholic church is not the true church..." In the denominational and the non-denomination churches there are bad churches, OK curches, good churches and great churches. If you have had a bad experience in one please dont judge all the rest based on that one. Aaron |
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37 | More quotable paragraph breaks for NASB? | Bible general Archive 2 | following him | 131281 | ||
Hello Reighnskye; Years ago I was involve in Intervarsity Christian Fellowship at the college I attended. While there I went to a week long retreat to Catelina Island off the coast of california with them. There the particular program I was involved in was a study of the first half of the book of Mark. We spent about 5 days for 6-7 hour per day doing nothing but studying those first eight chapters. What you might be interested in was the method we used to do the study. They call it a Manuscript study. They used the NIV though but it will work with any version. They took the first eight chapters and took all the chapter breaks and verse divsion out and ran all the sentances together separated only by the punctuation which they left in. Then during the study we as a classs after reading the manuscript decided where to put paragraph breaks. We then would go through highlighting and circling repeated words or phrases then connecting the repeated words together to see how the sections of manuscript were connected. By locating repeated words we began to see what was important to the writer. It helped to discover context and the ideas the writeer wanted to get across. There were other thing we looked for as well but needless to say I was so impressed by what we discovered in the scripture that this became my primary way of studying ever since. Realise though that even using this method some paragraghs will be more than 4 verses. If you want more information you can probably contact Intervarsity Christain Fellowship and ask them about it. If you want to contact me personally about it my e-mail address is; aerberich@ev1.net Blessing to you Aaron |
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38 | What is willing? | Matt 8:2 | following him | 131203 | ||
Hello Tim Moran; I have a question for you concerning a particular word in Matt 8:2 “And a leper came to Him and bowed down before Him, and said, "Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean." The word is “willing” I have looked into it but would like an experts view of it. It is the word “Thelo”. My understanding of it is that this word does not simply mean “ desire, want to etc.” because it is so closly tied to the actual performing of the desire. In other words the desire and the performing of it cannot be seperated. They are almost the same thing in regard to this word. The reason this is significant to me is I wonder if the leper had the view of Jesus that the centurian had concerning Jesus’ authority. It seems to me that the leper knew who Jesus was and when he asked Jesus to cleanse him, he was basically saying “your will cannot but be accomplished, so if that is your will it will happen.” And what is the differenece between this word “Willing” and the word “will” in 1 John 5:14 “This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.” Blessing to you brother Aaron |
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39 | Does God plunge mortals into ignorance? | Obad 1:8 | following him | 131197 | ||
Hello Reighnskye; You last stated: ”I guess what I'm trying to get at (or conversely understand better myself) is that an adult's rejection of the gospel is largely made via one's own earthly mind and mortal level of understanding.” ”Indeed all wisdom originates from God, both spiritual and earthly. Nonetheless, I personally tend to view the large majority of supposed conversions and/or rejections of the gospel as being made according to the earthly type of knowledge, wherein the volition is somewhat compromised due to lack of spiritual awareness.” You are right. It needs to be. God created us to be not only spiritual but physical as well. All of God’s dealings with man have occurred in the real physical world both in the OT and in the NT. His death was physical, so was His resurrection. His resurrected body was spiritual but also physical. His plan is to redeem creation (physical). When he originally created the world, including us, it was physical, “And behold it was very good” It is very difficult for people even Christians to understand the spiritual or eternity. So God reveals Himself physically (Jesus). And we respond according to the physical revelation. Our choice to follow Christ is based upon His interaction with us here in the real world; The question is whether we go beyond that to actually have a relationship with the Father Who is Spirit. Another factor influencing conversions/ or rejections of the gospel is how we Christians relate to each other. John 13:35 "By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another." How we love each other will determine if they see Christ or not. ”It is my personal perspective that the majority of religious conversions and/or rejections of the gospel are done on a shallow level of earthly psuedo-consciousness, thereby largely lacking any degree of eternal impact.” I would have to sadly agree with you here. It seems so few people who convert actually go further than what is commonly called “Fire insurance” level Christianity. They don’t grow into a real relationship with the living God and Creator, Jesus Christ that He originally created us for. I appreciate your posts. They have been quite refreshing and thought provoking. Thank you. Blessing to you Aaron |
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40 | Does God judge nations directly? | Obad 1:2 | following him | 131195 | ||
Hello DocTrinsograce; Please forgive my barging in on this discussion but I would like to add my 1 cent. This is a topic of great interest to me. I agree with much of what you stated. I’ve read many of your posts and have appreciated them greatly. I come to have a lot of respect for your views. “The Bible is a message from God. Many things have happened to human beings since our first parents came into being. Yet, of all those things, God specifically chose only a small set of events to record. I am certain that each of these events actually took place, and yet they reflect the truth on many different levels. A God like ours can arrange these things without any trouble at all. Thus, a statement of Isaiah, for example, can be a message to the people of his own time, to the people of a few generations later, to the people of the time of the Advent, as well as to us today.” About this next one I have a question. ”On the other hand, one has to be careful of not over spiritualizing things. If we don't have the explicit authority from scripture to spiritualize a narrative, we must not presume on the scriptures themselves. We can speculate, as long as we firmly understand that that is what we are doing. Speculation should never be the basis for determining doctrine.” What is “Explicit authority (from scripture) to spiritualize a narrative”? I don’t believe you mean that the scripture has to actually say “It’s OK to spiritualize here” but who determines what can be spiritualized and what cant? If you look in Matt 2:15 “He remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet: "OUT OF EGYPT I CALLED MY SON." The context of Hosea 11:1 which Matt quotes is clearly regarding Israel yet Matthew (inspired by the Holy Spirit) spiritualizes it to refer to Jesus. In Gen 22 regarding Abraham sacrificing his son, the real context is God testing Abraham’s faith yet everyone I know spiritualizes this to be a prefiguration or similitude (I love that word “similitude”) of God the Father sacrificing Jesus. Yet I don’t know of any scripture that indicates it can be or has been spiritualized in this way by any of the apostles or disciples. Perhaps you know of one? So who is to determine which scriptures can be spiritualized or interpreted as a prefiguration or similitude? Have you ever given a scripture to a group of people and then asked, ”What this does this scripture mean?” How many different answers did you get? I’ve gotten several. Does it mean there are all wrong? It depends on how the Lord is using that particular scripture to influence that person. I myself have received “revelation” about myself or the way God deals with me or situations from scriptures that are not related to the context of what I was revealed. I do not regard such “revelations” as being the interpretation of the scripture though, just something God is dealing with me personally about nor would I teach it. I would agree with you concerning the example of the preacher you heard. The context of the passage does not lead itself to his conclusion. However, I can not say the Holy spirit has reveal to him something that is not true. The idea that the gospel has been given to the gentiles after the Jews (for the most part) rejected it is solid. It just isn’t supported by the scripture he used. Again the danger would be if he insisted that this was the real context and meaning of that scripture. This is perhaps one of the main reasons churches split. Because someone gets a personal revelation from God from a particular scripture, and instead of taking it as God dealing with something in their own life they claim it as the real interpretation. A “New revelation for the church.” When nobody sees what he sees he leaves trying to take as many with him as possible. Interestingly enough the “New revelation “ usually become the main doctrine of the new church that is established, sometimes to the exclusion of real foundational doctrines. I have no problem with spiritualizing scripture as long as it is being rightly divided, i.e. rightly assigned to “personal revelation” or God dealing with you on a personal level and not to true context and doctrine. I hope I’ve explained myself well enough to be understood. Although I think I confused myself. Blessing to you Aaron |
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