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261 | Divorced Do Christians Get Remarried? | 1 Cor 6:9 | jlhetrick | 205356 | ||
Dan- well put, I agree with everything you wrote brother, except your interpretation of Matthew 19. Will you show me where the unrepentance of the adulterer is a qualifier. Matthew 19:9 (NASB) says: "And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery." It does not say except for sexual immorality where there is no repentance. Repentance, or the lack there of, of the adulterer is not included here at all. Thanks in advance, Jeff |
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262 | Divorced Do Christians Get Remarried? | 1 Cor 6:9 | jlhetrick | 205354 | ||
Brother, I think it more effective to simply reword your statement to better represent your meaning since at least two people were apparently not understanding your point. The purple jellybeans and chocolate bars analogy steers even further away from clarification I'm afraid. Not much point in continuing with this though. Would you agree it's unfruitful? And the mention of my 4.0 GPA was not to brag, it was to demonstrate how a person can graduate with nothing but A's from a higher education and still not have a good, much less, great command of his own first language. Not blaming the school. I wasn't there to become an expert in (or is it at) English :-) Had my wife, who is much smarter than I will ever be, read most of my papers and trust me, there was plenty of red on most of them. God bless and thanks for working through this with me. Jeff |
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263 | Divorced Do Christians Get Remarried? | 1 Cor 6:9 | jlhetrick | 205344 | ||
Tamara- I believe the important thing here is that you have apparently searched both the Scripture and the counsel of spiritual leaders and, apparently, arrived a a conclusion. That is to be applauded. In the end, if you are convinced that something is sinful, then I believe Scripture teaches us that for you, it would be sinful. It is important to seek God's truth and strive to live up to the standard He has called us by His grace. It is also important to never allowing ourselves to take a legalistic approach to living the Christian life. It is interesting that immediately after Paul mentioned that adulterers (among others) will not inherit God's Kingdom (1Cor 6:9) he said “Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is helpful. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be brought under the control of anything." "1 Corinthians 6:12 (HCSB) Also see 1Cor chapter 8 beginning with verse 1 and read on. Hope this adds something helpful, God bless, Jeff |
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264 | Divorced Do Christians Get Remarried? | 1 Cor 6:9 | jlhetrick | 205342 | ||
Hello John, I thought that was probably the problem, comma's or something. Thanks for clarifying. By the way, I did not add the words "(one that has not been)" They were yours, I simply quoted you. As for edumacation, I graduated from graduate school with a 4.0 and still can't spell and I have very poor grammar skills myself. You got me thinking... were they just trying to get rid of me? God bless, Jeff |
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265 | Divorced Do Christians Get Remarried? | 1 Cor 6:9 | jlhetrick | 205328 | ||
John, I'm following lookinforacity on this one but not you. I'm thinking it's a matter of context that's missing from your context. Either that or, you really do mean to say it is not ok to "remarry" somone who is a "widow". Since Scripture clearly allows a widow to remarry I (and lookinfor.. as I understand him/her) don't understand why your saying, and I paraphrase, "remarry... one that has not been......widowed." "...one that has not been married or widowed..." Why not the widowed? That person is free to remarry as specifically taught by Scripture 1Cor 7:39. Reread your quote. I believe it's simply a grammar issue that threw us off. Thanks and God bless, Jeff |
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266 | Apollinarianism | John 1:1 | jlhetrick | 205311 | ||
Wow- now I'll have a name to put on it when I see it posted. Thanks for the post. |
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267 | Just out of curiosity. | Phil 1:23 | jlhetrick | 205262 | ||
Thank you for those words of wisdom Val, Jeff |
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268 | Just out of curiosity. | Phil 1:23 | jlhetrick | 205261 | ||
Hello Jim- NO, not what I'm saying. Thanks for the question. As Paul does, the "milk" and "meat" are alagories. We are born spiritually dead. When we are saved we are sealed, given the Holy Spirit in our hearts, a promise from God 2Cor 1:22. That promise can be found in Phil 1:6 The Scripture says we are "called..with a holy calling". What is that calling? Matthew 5:16 says we are to let our "light shine before men" that they might "see our good works" that those works might "glorify" God. Eph 2:10 says that we are "created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them". When we are saved we are "called...for good works" and those works were "prepared" by God "beforehand". What are those works????? A better question in this context might be...where do we find out those works? Of course the answer is found in only one place. Scripture! So while salvation is of God and God alone, he purposes that we glorify Him through works that He has prepared for us. In other words, we're not called to a "stagnate" life as Christians, therefore, Paul's calling to move beyond the milk. 2Tim 2:15, knowing what we can know as God reveals Himself in His word and "becoming" workmen as He carries out His plan through us. Phil 1:6 speaks to the work of our being sanctified by God. That is a process and while it is fully of God, there is sumbission and participation from us. In referencing the "milk" and the "meat" Paul was not saying there is a process of gaining or losing salvation. He was speaking to their irresponsible response to God having saved them. Understanding this, in my opinion, helps in understanding how God's sovereignty and man's free will coexist. God does the saving (all by Himself) and He does the sanctifying (all by Himself) and we, the saved, participate in the process. Hope this helps clarify my position and I'm sorry if it's a bit knotted up; I am at lunch and only have a short time before I have to get back at it. God bless, Jeff |
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269 | An interesting discussion/question | Romans | jlhetrick | 205191 | ||
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270 | ... | 2 Tim 2:15 | jlhetrick | 205190 | ||
Missing your point again- sorry! |
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271 | Does God want us to belong to one church | Bible general Archive 4 | jlhetrick | 205188 | ||
Clarifying Note (I hope) In my above note where I reference 1Cor. 11:13 I was mistaken. I intended to reference 1Cor. 11:3 Thank you to Tamara for brining attention to my post so that I could clarify it. God bless and sorry for any confusion, Jeff |
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272 | Does God want us to belong to one church | Bible general Archive 4 | jlhetrick | 205187 | ||
Tamara- disregard my last post to your last post. I should have gone back and been more careful to read my own post before responding to you. Now I'm confused :-) In the post you responded to I had a typo. I pointed to 1Cor 11:13 but meant 1Cor 11:3. Hope this clears it up; but if not please ask further so I can make my position clear. thanks for pointing out my folly, Jeff |
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273 | Does God want us to belong to one church | Bible general Archive 4 | jlhetrick | 205184 | ||
Nope, not at all what you are to understand. Not even sure how you arrived at that conclusion from my post. If you are more specific as to what part of what I said lead you so far off I will do my best to rearrange my words for better clarification. I don't mean for her to do anything other than arrive at an answer from the Scripture I pointed to. Hope I didn't confuse her as well. God bless, Jeff |
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274 | An interesting discussion/question | Romans | jlhetrick | 205182 | ||
Friend- maybe this will make a point and maybe not. You wrote: "If Joe Shmo said the sky is blue but Joe was a sinner would that mean the sky is not blue?" Actually, the sky is not blue, bear with me; it simply appears blue because of how malecules scatter the light. And so it appears orange or red at sunset because we are at a different angle and the light is scattered differently (or something scientific like that). My point in this post is that God's word is truth but some have a wrong interpretation of it. Far worse than that are those who have added false teachings to it. Understanding color as we see it is scientifically discerned. Understanding God's word is Spiritually discerned. Your "sharing the footsteps" of jamison as you declared, might be putting the horse before the cart. He mentioned the Book of Morman and that Mormans believe the "exact same thing" regarding justification and salvation. Well, jamison is simply wrong. They do not at all believe the "exact same thing". Study this for yourself. I work with a practicing Morman of a very famous family from the Morman church. She assures me that what the Holy Bible teaches about justification and salvation is not "exactly" what they believe. They add what a certain man who liked to play with Earth Stones added. But study that for yourself if you care to. Besides, that's only half of the issue. The teachings of a lost cult might have an agreement on some point with Christianity. Not an issue. The issue is with the many (although there need only be one) contradictions their teachings have with essential doctrine, specifically regarding who God is, who man is in relation, and the nature of justification, sanctification, and salvation as taught in Scripture. You'd do better not to align yourself with others so quickly if I may suggest. In all honesty, just looking out for you. Jeff God Bless, Jeff |
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275 | kiv Grt Commission of JC, how we see it | OT general | jlhetrick | 205172 | ||
chesshores- please forgive my inability to follow you. Will you be so kind as to reword your question more specifically for me? I've read your question multiple times but still not quite sure what your asking. Again, forgive my not understanding the essense of your question. God bless, Jeff |
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276 | clarify ground rules, q incl midway | Bible general Archive 4 | jlhetrick | 205168 | ||
chesshores- your offering a lot of explanation for others in your "first" post here but I fear I miss the point. I'll have to start with giving you the benefit of doubt and hope that your not actually one or both of the previous "former users". I'm not acusing you, but can't imagine why you would go through so much to "qualify" yourself; you know, expaining having the same ISP and ISP address as two users who's accounts were "terminated". I am further troubled by your self-proclaimed level of higher maturity and knowledge. As a member here I have some concerns and questions about your post but don't intend to ask or go further than I have. This is a bible study forum. Did you have a bible study question or input? God bless, Jeff |
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277 | Just out of curiosity. | Phil 1:23 | jlhetrick | 205154 | ||
Val, having observed you on the forum for some time I know you to be a disciplined student, able to evaluate verses related to their immediate and wider, biblical context. Becuase we know that paul never tired of teaching, speaking of the beginning, "elementary teaching about the Christ" and we have the language there of "milk" and "meat" I believe we're dealing with a lecture form of 2Timothy 2:15. The babe grows into a child by the milk and then must consume the protein of the meat to grow into maturity. Otherwise there will be a failure to thrive leading to a premature death. We build on a foundation (milk) and finish the house (meat). Interesting (to me) analogy: At a place not too far from where I live and work someone began to build a fairly large, multiple unit storage facility. They completed the foundation and even had part of the framing up. Rumor has it that they ran out of money and could not finish the work. In time, the strong, New Mexico winds toppled the unattended structure. Today, you can not see the foundation that has been covered by the blowing sands. Had they been in possession of, or known where to access the needed money (meat) the structure would have been finished and serving it's purpose today (assumable). Praise God that He has saved us and furthermore, gave us some capacity to know Him even beyond that through the teaching of His word as the Spirit leads us. Hope this is a helpful starting piont. Jeff |
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278 | Spices and the Sabbath | Luke 1:2 | jlhetrick | 205148 | ||
Bravo brother Tim- Thank you sir for clearing that up. Jeff |
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279 | If a person hurts you and ask forgivenes | Bible general Archive 4 | jlhetrick | 205147 | ||
Katielee- welcome to the forum! The Bible clearly teaches that salvation is through faith in Christ alone, so, you can discount anyone's saying that not having a relationship with anyone other than Christ Himself will result in your going to Hell. As a general and very practicle rule, which I will abide by here, we do not address specific relationship issues/conflicts here on the forum. It's not the purpose of the forum, nor could we hope to fully understand all parties involved in a way that would make even gereral advise safe to give. With that said, perhaps meditating on this scripture will be helpful. Matthew 18:21-35. We, each of us, do well to continually remember our own position before God, Eph. 2:5. God Bless, Jeff |
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280 | Does God want us to belong to one church | Bible general Archive 4 | jlhetrick | 205069 | ||
Sissy- some good responses from others already; allow me to add a little. You didn't mention if your husband is saved, so there is assumption here that can be corrected as needed. If your husband is saved then 1Cor 11:13 would apply. I'm not interpreting this to imply that the saved husband should be jerking his family from church to church but that doesn't seem to be your situation. I'm understanding that your husband currently has you steady in a Bible teaching church, just a different one from the one you were attending. I see no problem. Tamara does a good job of pointing to some practical reasons for commitment to a single local church body, most importantly, in my opinion, the accountability issue. Still, there are lots of reasons people change churches (such as job relocation, etc.) Changing to one that your saved husband leads you to (assuming he's saved and the church is teaching sound doctrine) is as good a reason as any in my opinion, and again, keeping with 1Cor. 11:13. The husband is called as the spiritual leader under Christ's leadership. Some are offended by this while others, husbands, abuse it with attempts to impose a control over their wives and families that is not justified. Since you have been in church consistently, you may be the one to lead your husband to Christ, (this assuming he is not saved) or to encourage him in the Word as he seeks the Lord's truth. See 1Cor 7:14-17 for some reference and then read the entire books of 1 and 2 Corinthians for greater understanding. Hope this helps; welcome to the forum! Jeff |
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