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141 | finding my calling | Rom 12:1 | greentwiga | 141246 | ||
I went to a missionary training program. One dear man had felt called to missions for years. In the Afternoon, we went out to preach on the streets. Everyone hated to be paired with him. We all knew he was wrong for missions. The hired help - the one who bought the food and other deacon type activities saw his Jewel. As a result he worked for years in the home office with the computer enabling others to go out. 1) Try a variety of Christian activities. 2) keep asking others what they see. 3) Expect that later in your Christian life God will reveal a greater gift. 4) Look at what you do when left alone. Read Rom 12:1-2 Being transformed by the renewing of your mind lets you test and approve the will of God. 5) tell God what you want to do and ask him to straighten you out. (Try changing the direction of a parked car.) He changes the direction of people who are moving and listening. Prov 3:5-6 | ||||||
142 | Romans 2:14-15 commonly mutilated? | 1 Cor 2:14 | greentwiga | 140717 | ||
Dear Reighnskye I prefer to keep Rom 2 in context. The closest context is Rom 3. Rom 2 then seems like a straw dog of Paul's. Paul theorizes that All who obey the law will be saved. Rom 2:10,13,16. In that passage, he talks of the theoretical Gentile that obeys the law written on his heart. Then in Rom 3:9 he begins. All are under sin. There is not one righteous. 20 no one will be declared righteous by observing the law. 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. I believe that Paul is showing God to be righteous by showing that everyone equally had the chance to be saved by obeying the law revealed to them and all equally failed. Therefore, we all need the grace offered because Jesus died on the cross, and we need to send missionaries to the whole world. Yes, those who take Rom 2 out of context preach a salvation by works. Greentwiga |
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143 | Romans 2:14-15 commonly mutilated? | 1 Cor 2:14 | greentwiga | 140811 | ||
True, you are following the general context and getting to the final argument. I was following the specific context. Just looking at the general context leaves one with two contridictory ideas on salvation. I was just supplementing your arguments on Rom 6-8 and 12-15 with Rom 3. This leaves us with just the one way of salvation. In Rom 2-3 Paul mentions the phrase, "I am just using a human argument" which might be also applicable for much of Rom 2. Keep preaching the Gospel. It is the only way to God. Greentwiga |
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144 | greentwiga, How can she remarry? | 1 Cor 7:11 | greentwiga | 144100 | ||
There is a fine balance described in these verses. When a woman becomes a widow, she is free (from the law) and can remarry. In verses 12-13 etc, when the unbeliever leaves, the believer in not bound (same construction as the widow) and can therefore remarry. When a spouse commits adultery, the marriage covenant is broken, so the person is free to remarry without committing adultery. In all other cases, a Christian who leaves and remarries commits adultery. So in verse 10-11, we have a situation that simply states, if you leave, remain unmarried or else be reconciled. Though no reasons are given, remember earlier verses that say do not stop having sex with your spouse except for a (short) period of time. If you choose to leave, you can force your spouse to get so desperate that adultery is committed. In this case, if there was insufficient reason, after the spouse commits adultery, you remarry, you also commit adultery. Now, let's say you are in a dangerous situation, and you leave and say when you get truly cured, I will return. There is a clear willingness. The spouse can seek healing, or move on to another. Adultery can be committed after the divorce. (See Jesus' teachings.) That is why for verses 10-11 I focus on having sufficient reasons to leave (Alcohol, drugs, Child or spousal abuse, etc.) If your apparent Christian spouse divorces you, and you are willing to be healed, but they remarry, adultery is committed, and you are free. The whole balancing act is not to blame another for your faults, or to deliberately force the other to commit adultery to justify yourself. God is not fooled. I was in this situation. My Christian spouse filed for divorce. I fought and slowly won the battle to stay single and remain celibate. My spouse remarried, and then I was free. After a time of healing, I was ready to remarry. I stayed obedient to God's word no matter how much it hurt to think of never remarrying again. Praise our wonderful God. He gave me a truly Godly spouse this time. greentwiga |
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145 | What if willfully return to a sinning li | Eph 1:11 | greentwiga | 141275 | ||
Being saved is not going through the Romans road and praying the prayer of repentance. Many people do it for ungodly reasons. People have prayed it to please parents, get a spouse, of for business reasons. God looks and knows. Only those whom He chooses, who receive the Holy Spirit are saved. All 25 signs in 1 John will show up. Paul says that if people leave, it was a sign that they were never saved. A prodigal son will return to the Father. A prodigal pig will return to the mire. It is very difficult to discern between the two. Even Pastors have done the whole thing under their own strength and were never saved. Don't be fooled, God is not mocked. Salvetion is not a free ticket that allows you to sin as much as you want. When God's love fills your heart, how can you sin? Greentwiga |
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146 | What are our duties as man and wife | Eph 5:1 | greentwiga | 142051 | ||
Marriage: Simple The women is to be subject to the man but the man is to die daily for the woman. The man's command is harder to obey. 1 Cor 7, Eph 5:22 plus. Divorce: Many people discuss divorce with only a partial use of scriptures. Scripture is very clear on when people can get divorced and when they can get remarried but to see it, one needs to see all the relevant scriptures. There are three situations that allow for remarriage. Another question is around the nonChristian. Finally we need to look to see when one is allowed to separate but not remarry. There are two basic scriptural ideas about marriage that one should always remember. Matt 19:5-6 and Mark 10:7-9, in a discussion on divorce, Jesus says, “the two will become one flesh…. Therefore, what God has joined together, let man not separate.” In Mal 2:16 “I hate Divorce says the Lord.” So marriage is meant to be forever, and divorce is horrible. With that in mind, lets look at separation first. The Grounds for Separation Look at I Cor 7:10-11 “A wife must not separate from her husband. But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband.” Here we see allowances for extreme situations. When a partner is dangerous due to drugs, violence or a similar reason, God allows for escape from danger to protect the person or the children, but insists the person remain single in hope that healing would occur and the marriage could be renewed. Many use these types of events to say that the marriage covenant is broken and therefore justify being free to remarry. Though God hurts with them, He says it is only grounds to separate and stay single. There are very clear conditions for remarriage. The grounds for Remarriage First, there is a condition where nonChristians were divorced and remarried before salvation. If the person remarries and then becomes a Christian, the scripture does not clearly address this situation. I Cor 7:20 says, “Each one should remain in the situation which he was in when God called him.” This seems to allow the person to remain in the second marriage in peace. It would be wrong to force a second divorce on top of the first. I have heard of Christian pastors doing just that. If you are remarried when you become a Christian, stay remarried in peace. Second is a reason that everyone agrees allows a married person to get remarried. Rom 7:2-3 “a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage…and is not an adulteress even though she marries another man.” No one disputes that a widow is free to remarry. She is released from the marriage covenant. This also applies to a widower. I cut it in half to fit Greentwiga |
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147 | What are our duties as man and wife | Eph 5:1 | greentwiga | 142052 | ||
Here is the second half Next is the classical reason for Divorce. Matt 5:32, 19:9 says, “I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness…” Here Jesus clarifies a debate. Deut 24:1-4 allows divorce if the man finds something indecent. Rabbi Hillel said that could mean she burnt his dinner. Rabbi Shammai said it meant only marital unfaithfulness. Jesus statement is in the category of Rabbi Shammai. Though you hear many excuses to justify divorce, because action X or Y is an act of unfaithfulness, those actions are not unfaithfulness. Marital unfaithfulness only means sex with another after marriage. See Jer 3:6 plus The except clearly states that if a person divorces for another reason, then if the partner remarries adultery is committed. If the person remarries, adultery is committed. Some try to say that means if people remarry for any reason then adultery is committed. God put the word except in. He did it for a reason. It is clear “If a man divorces for any reason EXCEPT DIVORCE and remarries, he commits adultery. This is a warning that we do not force scriptures to say what we believe, but we change our beliefs to fit scripture. One important point is when adultery occurs. We all know that to come home and discover adultery is grounds for divorce. Notice that in Matt 5:32, Mark 10:11-12, Luke 16:18, the divorce occurs first, and then the Adultery. Even if a legal marriage occurs, it is still adultery. Therefore if a person is innocent and the partner divorces them, and the partner remaries, adultery is committed. In this case, the person is now free to remarry. Now, one cannot divorce another and then sit and wait for them to commit adultery. That is entrapment. In Matt, the person is condemned for having caused the other to commit adultery. Here, the person files for divorce and waits. If after the partner commits adultery, the person feels free and remarries, it is still adultery. The only exception is the one I mentioned. When one person is willing to remain faithful, but the partner chooses divorce. If the person stays single in hopes of reconciliation, but the partner remarries, the faithful person is then free to remarry. So your partner can commit adultery, and either can file for divorce, or the unfaithful partner can file for divorce and then commit adultery. In either case the faithful partner is free to remarry after both divorce and adultery. Focus again on 1 Cor 7:3-6. Withdrawing sex until the partner is desperate and commits adultery to justify yourself is wrong. This is just another form of forbidden entrapment. Though the partner sinned, the entrapper will still sin by getting married. Abstinence must be mutual and only for a short time. This goes along with the Old Testament passage (Deut 24:4) on divorce. Here, if a man divorces hie wife, she remarries, and the second husband also divorces her, the first husband is forbidden to remarry her. If on remarriage one is forbidden to marry the exspouse ever again, it is silly to insist the person could not marry anyone else. Thus, the exception for adultery. Even here, the divorce is optional, one can choose to forgive. Also see Deut 22:13-19 Here, a man falsely accuses a woman of sexual sin in order to justify divorce. This man is forbidden to divorce her ever! Again, trying to manipulate the system is forbidden. The person can’t file for divorce and wait for the other to commit adultery. The person can’t withhold sex and wait for adultery. The person can’t falsely accuse the partner of adultery. There are only two ways. The partner can commit adultery, and the person can file for divorce and get remarried. The partner can file for divorce. If the partner is the first to either have sex or get remarried, the person is free to remarry. Fourth, Paul adds a new reason. In I Cor 7:15 “If the unbeliever leaves” We have three situations, two unbelievers married, two believers married, and now a believer married to an unbeliever. The believer cannot leave except for adultery, but the unbeliever is not constrained by Christian rules. “A believing man or woman is not bound in such circumstances; God has called us to live in peace.” To understand the meaning, notice the parallel to when the widow is released, and the believer is not bound, i.e. to the law. This has to mean something different than the case in the same passage where one has to remain single or be reconciled. One situation allows for staying single but not being free to remarry, and the other allows the person to remarry. Greentwiga |
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148 | What are our duties as man and wife | Eph 5:1 | greentwiga | 142060 | ||
That long two letter response covers those things. It is a study that came out of my divorce. To sum it up, being widowed, adultery in the spouse, and a nonbeliever choosing to leave is the only grounds for divorce and being free to remarry. Physical Abuse, Emotional destruction, withdrawl of sex, and drugs have all been stated as giving a person the freedom to divorce and remarry. When my apparently believing spouse chose to leave, I had a terrible battle. I had a high sex drive and God said you must stay single. The verse is 1 Cor 10-11. If you need to get divorced, you must remain unmarried of get reconciled. I had to stay single. I cried, I prayed, I hurt, and God said, My grace is sufficient. Then she committed adultery, and I was free to remarry. I slowly looked, and finally 10 years after the divorce (9 after the adultery) I found a pearl of great price and married her. Read both halves carefully, and you should find a complete analysis of each divorce verse. needless to say, Physical or emotional abuse, or severe alcoholism that interferes with the ability to financially take care of the children is grounds to get divorced and stay single only. If you remarried without meeting the Biblical standards, divorce the new spouse to remarry the old, one disobeys the old Testament that forbids one to remarry the old spouse. Ask forgiveness and move on. Stay married to the new spouse. Your loving brother in Christ greentwiga |
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149 | What are our duties as man and wife | Eph 5:1 | greentwiga | 142061 | ||
Now, I hate porn with a passion. But, It is not fornication. If it was, the woman would be married to him without knowing it. Remember the passage where one who goes to a prostitute is one flesh with her? Jesus, though, did make a point in Matt 5:28 A man who looks at a woman lustfully (porn is included) has comitted adultery with her in his heart. Not physically, so no grounds for divorce and remarriage (not maritial unfaithfulness a couple of verses later), but his sin in God's eyes is just as bad. Notice, I am trying to walk a careful line. I hold marriage as sacred, I want people in danger to be able to leave, and I want to guard against easy justification of divorce. Many people don't want to get healed. They would rather blame the other, even manipulate them into a hard place to feel justified in getting divorce. Thus I do not want to say just looking at porn sites would be grounds for divorce. Greentwiga |
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150 | What are our duties as man and wife | Eph 5:1 | greentwiga | 142069 | ||
You are so sweet. They way I look at what you say is that there are many applications. God shows us things that help us to see what to do. When you read the chapter on marriage in 1 Cor 7, you might need a different application, though we read exactly the same words. Is that what you were saying? Greentwiga |
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151 | What are our duties as man and wife | Eph 5:1 | greentwiga | 142075 | ||
Whew, such a lot to say. First, are you a child of God? I know you are. Does he love you even more than you love your owhn family? Is he giving you the best, and teaching you? Absolutely. Therefore relax. Sometimes when thisngs were tough, I had to repeat words like this as a mantra. It helps me overcome self doubt. We can help each other understand, but each has a choice. You can choose to listen to God, or your own selfish interests. We know the truth, but blind ourselves. See Rom 12:1-2 on how when we give ourselves to God, we know his will. Here you instinctively knew that though the church needs discipline, just like in II Cor, being too harsh can destroy a mans walk with God. I had a daughter who dropped out of High school. She knew that I disapproved of whet she was doing. Nevertheless, I kept contacting her and loving her. She is now in college. Keep believing in that new creation that you are. God don't make no junk. In answering your questions, we must look at what is usually ignored. Does God give cultural or time period statements in the passage. For example, Paul says tht because of the times (the persecution) that people should not marry. Another time he says that he wishes that all men were like him. This could mean he naturally had a low sex drive, or that he had the victory over needing sex. Compare those statements to the one about every man should marry. All statements have to be true, so I Cor 7:2 can't be strictly interpreted as all men must marry. In 1 Cor 7:9, we compare that to Matt 5:28 where burning in lust is adultery in the mind. Yes, it is better to be single in times of trouble, but it is better to marry that to burn, or worse, committ immorality. Remember, back then, there were people teaching that marriage was evil. We must reject all such worldly things. Paul saying, relax. Single is good, marriage is good. It does not say "If ones mate deserts him". It says if an unbeliever leaves. Let's say you are emotionally abusive (I know you are not) and your husband realizes he will commit suicide if he doesn't leave. He, a believing Christian leaves to save his life, but stays single and prays for you. You though claim righteousness, because you always blame others rather than listen to God and repent. You claim abandonment and remarry. God is not fooled by such people, but it goes on all the time. If the unbeliever can't stand the new righteous you that no longer joins him in the "gentile" ways and leaves, you are free to remarry. Notice the difference the spouse leaves because of your sin or because of your righteousness. Only the second frees you to remarry. I believe that Paul's and Jesus' teachings on Marriage perfectly mesh. Adultery breaks the marriage contract. There is no marriage, unless you choose to forgive. Thus you can divorce. The unbeliever is not under God's law in the way that the jew or Christian is. You must keep your covenants because God demands it. If an unbeliever leaves, the covenant is broken, but if he chooses to stay, do like Paul says and stay. In both cases, the Christian stays if at all possible, but if the partner ends the marriage in these situations, you are free to remarry. I see no contridiction. You had the heart to stay. Compare the sentance structure of loosed to widows. One is no longer under bondage but free to remarry. The other is loosed and free to remarry. the sentances are identical with two words of similar ideas used. Compare Ephesians and Colossians. Two identical books, but the passages are written with the same construction but different words. Thus, if widows are free to remarry (and they are) then when unbelievers leave, the spouse is free to remarry. Greentwiga |
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152 | What are our duties as man and wife | Eph 5:1 | greentwiga | 142088 | ||
Did you know that this site allows you to write a small personal profile? I have one, if you need some counsel. I won't say things to tickle your ears, that is things that you want to hear, if they are against scripture. Though I had to spend 10 years single, I have been truly blessed with a Godly woman this time. God gives great joy to those who wait on his will and timing. As for your pastor, people who truly listen to the word will say similar things. greentwiga |
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153 | What are our duties as man and wife | Eph 5:1 | greentwiga | 142097 | ||
That is why I stressed my love for my wife, my pearl of great price. Greentwiga |
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154 | What are our duties as man and wife | Eph 5:1 | greentwiga | 142105 | ||
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155 | What are our duties as man and wife | Eph 5:1 | greentwiga | 142128 | ||
Caps off?, used 0 not O (zero not oh) in 2001? | ||||||
156 | That they are enemies of the cross | Philippians | greentwiga | 140937 | ||
There are two possibilities, the unsaved and "Christians" living against God's word. Phil 1:17,2:3, 3:2 all focus on so called Christians who cause God to be rejected by nonChristians. We should weep for those people. Greentwiga |
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157 | Explain share in the glory of our Lord | 2 Thess 2:14 | greentwiga | 143028 | ||
Always look at the context. Paul is talking about suffering and deception. He is now making an appeal to stand firm. He refers back to their salvation. Now he refers to the future in heaven, the glory of the Lord. This brings to mind how he got his glory. Jesus preached the truth. Then he was faced with intense suffering. He prayed so hard to prepare himself, that he sweated drops of blood. Then he went to the cross and bore our sins and was separated from the Father, his true suffering. Research on share in the New Testament. We are to share in his sufferings and stand firm. How many can't even preach the Gospel because of mild verbal rejection. People have preached the Gospel during intense physical persecution. Stand firm so you might have great joy at his coming and not have your works burned up. | ||||||
158 | 1 Timothy 4:3 is it taking about food or | 1 Tim 4:3 | greentwiga | 141527 | ||
It is simply talking about meat from cows, etc. Remember, back then was a huge problem with legalism. Various people would advocate living by various laws with some sort of logical justification. It was not only the Jewish law, but other systems. Some would say you can't eat meat because it was sacrificed to demons, or it would give the appearance of that. Instead of focusing on being free to go anywhere, and eat with anyone, to preach the Gospel. people had legalism lock themselves away from preaching the simple gospel. Can you imagine how much time one would have to spend preaching against getting married? This would be a message driving unsaved away. The bodily discipline of no marraige and not eating meat would be held in highest honor, but Paul says it is of little value, spiritual discipline is the real value. this verse helps show that it is meat being talked about. Greentwiga |
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159 | tramping on the blood of Christ | Hebrews | greentwiga | 141607 | ||
Try Heb 6:4-6 and Heb 10:26-31. Be careful, though. The language could mean either Christians or people who are examining God but haven't accepted Jesus. There are many who pretend to accept Jesus, and it might mean these. Thus one would not want to develop a doctrine of losing salvation from these verses. Greentwiga |
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160 | Please explain James 1:2 | James | greentwiga | 141167 | ||
One of the greatest verses. Jesus faced the crown of thorns mocking whipping till his back was bloody, having nails driven through his hands and feet and the long agony burning fiery pain of struggling to breatheby pulling himsef up by the nails. He then bore our sins and was separated from God. For the joy set before him, that of being ressurected, having paid for our sins and now able to offer us forgiveness, cleansing and abundant eternal life. We are also called to suffer trials. We suffer for preaching the Gospel. This is great joy to be given this priveledge. The joy is seeing the result, others saved. Suffering for our own sins, even a heart attack for not controlling outr own appetite is not this. Suffering the effects of the world in bondage, whether a tsunami, or cancer can build character, but is not a trial by persecution. Though much of James discusses various sinful was of behaving, he returns to the subject in James 5:10. Here he discusses suffering for preaching the word. Though we should count all innocent suffering as useful, count it Joy to suffer for leading others to God. I did not succeed to well at times, but God does bless and I rejoiced over the results. Salvation of others is pure joy. greentwiga |
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