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921 | Three times Paul says his gospel was a m | Rom 16:25 | jlhetrick | 240015 | ||
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922 | Am I in the relationship God wants me in | 1 Corinthians | jlhetrick | 153518 | ||
Hi James, This is a very serious issue both in your Life as well as Angela's. Any advise you get from the forum should be only considered and not the basis for your decision. If you are in church, talk to your pastor and/or an elder in the church for guidance. You have already acknowledged that your sexual relationship outside of marriage was (is?) sinful. I would say plainly that this must stop if you are to be in the will of God. Refer to 1 Corinthians chapter one, read the whole chapter. This will give a lot of insight regarding God's expectations regarding man and woman and marriage. There are other references elswhere in this chapter and other chapters/books of the bible. Regarding the continuous fighting. First let me say that you can not pray for and expect God to bless a sinful relationship. It might be possible that much of the contention is because God is not putting His peace on a relationship between two professing Christians because there is sexual imorality involved. Remember, we are all sinners. Sin alone isn't the issue. It's the continuing life-style of sin without true repentance that grieves God. You can have a significant-other relationship with Angela without marrying or until married, however, it must be within the boundaries taught in scripture. God can bless such a relationship. One more thing. Where there is divisiveness and contention in any relationship I think it's important to keep one primary verse in mind as the man in the relationship: 1Pe 3:7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered. Although you are not married, the idea of "giving honor" to the woman is still applicable. If you love her, you should treat her with honor. Ask the Lord to change you first and behave differently toward her. You may be very surprised by her response though it may be slow in coming. Hope this is helpful Jeff |
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923 | should females pastor | 1 Corinthians | jlhetrick | 178392 | ||
Hello drkbrown, I'm first of all curious as to why you would quote from Scripture and then declare to be true something that is very different from what is plainly written. Over time, however, I have seen this behavior to be a trend of those who desire to make the Scriptures say what they need them to say in order to accomodate something in their life. You write: "I know in 1 Timothy 2:11-12 it states, "let a woman learn in silence with all submission. And I do not permit a woman to teach or have authority over a man, but to be in silence" Well that is exactly the point. You know it says that and so does anyone who takes the time to read it. What troubles me is that immediately after quoting Scripture you set out to rebuke it, and by using other Scripture of all things. The Bible is God's word, there are no contradictions in it. When your thoughts, feelings, opinions, and maybe even behaviors do not line up with the clear, plainly stated word of God, the work is to change your thoughts, feelings, opinions, and behaviors; not attempt to justify them by citing other Scripture that might appear to contradict. Again, there are no contradictions in God's word. When other passages may appear to not agree with something else; we need to ask why. Therein will be the focus of study. Instead though, we have some standing up boldly and declaring with an authoratative YES, while at the same time acknowledging, or at least having revealed to them, God's clear NO. Are you seeing the problem here? A hint from your own argument. You argyue that Paul's reference to women praying or prophesying "just shows that woman played an active role in ministry even then." OK, they played an active role; but does it show that they held the equivalent position as today's pastor???????????????????????????????????? Sincerely and God bless, Jeff |
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924 | should females pastor | 1 Corinthians | jlhetrick | 178736 | ||
Hello Doc2, Your argument here, while well intended I am sure, is an old one that does not stand against the test of Scripture. The first time I heard your argument was sitting in church and the pastor declared it as truth. In a nut-shell, he argued that the reason Paul taught that women couldn't teach or have "authority" was due to the cultural norms and values. Actually, I put it to rest for some years after that until that very pastor was run off from the church and the church was taken over by a woman who proclaimed herself the new pastor. It was then that I took a closer look at what the Scriptures have to say about it. Start with your own argument in the post I am responding to and then consider what Paul actually said. consider the folling verse. 1 Timothy 2:11-14 (NASB95) 2:11 A woman must quietly receive instruction with entire submissiveness. 12 But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet. 13 For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve. 14 And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression." Notice that Paul doesn't even give mention to cultural norms or customs; not even as a side item. He points only to the beginning; the intention of God. The way God ordained it way back in the third chapter of Genisis. Hopefully, we will allow doctrine and truth to be established by God's word and not by notions and ideas that better conform to the way we wish or want things to be. We don't have to understand it, we don't have to agree with it, and it certainly doesn't have to be politically correct. If it's God's will, we need to accept it. Hope this is helpful, God bless, Jeff |
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925 | Women Preachers? Yes or No? | 1 Cor 1:1 | jlhetrick | 178287 | ||
Hey glory2, I'm not saying your wrong my friend, but quoting from Galatians 3:28 doesn't come close to making the argument. Be careful not to jerk a portion of a verse out and attempt to qualify an entire belief on it. Go back and read the verse within the context of the verses before and after it. What is the focus of the passage? Is it the roles of individuals? Or is it the work of faith? If Galatians 3:28 is teaching that there are no distinctions to be made between the roles and functions of males and females what would be the consequences of that? I can think of one right off. A strong argument to justify homosexuality. Then of course we would have to throw out all of what the NT teaches about how a man is to love his wife and how a wife is to be subject to her husband. We should never attempt to use Scripture to support our beliefs. Better, we should ensure that it is Scripture that establishes what we believe. Christ's love, Jeff |
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926 | Women Preachers? Yes or No? | 1 Cor 1:1 | jlhetrick | 178296 | ||
hey SJ, thanks for he passage; but was there a point to your post. Jeff |
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927 | Women Preachers? Yes or No? | 1 Cor 1:1 | jlhetrick | 178297 | ||
Hello SJ, Welcome to the forum. We would appreciate, when you have time, if you would include some information in your user profile so that we might know something about you. regarding your statement: "It doesn't say let women keep silent in the churches is says "your women" so men this verse is meant for you with wives, not all women and not when it comes to speaking the word of God read the verse before hand." Is that your opinion? Or is your statement something that can be supported by Scripture. Might I refer you back to an earlier post of mine to glory2. On the forum we make every effort to qualify our positions with Scripture and to state opinion as such. If we declare something and then don't support it with biblical truth, a less learned reader might read it and be left believing something untrue. Respectfully requested, Jeff |
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928 | Women Preachers? Yes or No? | 1 Cor 1:1 | jlhetrick | 178332 | ||
glory2, I fear you have made this a personal issue and/or chosen not to respond to my point. In the meantime you insinuated that I like to argue, do not do what Jesus commands, and use my energy for theological debate. Thanks for the vote of confidence. Moving on, I will respond as briefly as possible. Dealing first with the passage in Galatians let me just say; It is my belief that this passage is not at all disregarding the individuality of persons (God saves individuals not groups). Nor is it disregarding the distinct differences between races and nationalities; nor the distinct differences and roles/expectations of males and females. Instead, it is declaring the work of faith; that faith is not resistant to race, ethnicity, nationality, male, or female. I pray that you will consider the passage further and discern this for yourself. Regarding your thoughts on the 1Timothy passage I have some comments as well. You wrote: "In this passage the word "woman" in the greek ..(Look it up for your self) also means "wife" and in context it is saying ...do not usurp your husbands authority." Lets look closer friend. A closer look always requires the consideration of context. We start with your assumption that the proper translation for the Greek word "gune" found in this passage is "wife". How did you arrive at that? It's true that the word "can" be translated "wife". But it also can be translated "woman" and "women". Since it is obvious that neither of us are Greek scholars, how do we handle this? A first approach might be to look at how the true scholars have translated the word. In every bible translation I referred to (eight in all) the scholars translated the word to "woman" and "women". Never "wife". Why do you think they did that? Might I suggest "context". In other words, are the unmarried women in the church of 1Tim. liberated from the rest of the commands in this passage? Are they at liberty to adorn themselves in a way that is not modest; or to present boastfully proud and intoxicated while sporting themselves in broided hair, gold, pearls and other costly array? With this question in mind, it becomes much less likely that the passage was/is speaking to married women only. Am I absolutely sure of this? No. but the context certainly makes it more likely. It also rules out the possibility that you are absolutely right. Whick, I might add, is the very reason this very issue (and passage) has been debated for decades to include on this forum. I hope I was more to the point and less offensive. More importantly, I hope we have demonstrated how responsible debate can contribute to serious bible study. An important position to take is to never declare what the Scriptures don't; and never take a position that is or appears to be in opposition to the Scriptures as they are plainly presented. God bless, Jeff |
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929 | Women Preachers? Yes or No? | 1 Cor 1:1 | jlhetrick | 178341 | ||
thank you brother. I was hoping I was making sense. God bless you, jeff |
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930 | Women Preachers? Yes or No? | 1 Cor 1:1 | jlhetrick | 178382 | ||
glory2, I'm not sure how to procede due to the fact that you continue to derail the dialogue and go off on tangents. Even still you have not answered or attempted to respond to the text of Scripture itself. Even still you continue to qualify your position with your opinion. You wrote: "Paul warns that the carnal mind is emnity with God. What do you suppose carnal is? May I suggest reasonings and logical thought." I'm not even sure where you are coming from with that. It most certainly was not a very "logical" conclusion to draw. Does Scripture teach that logical thought and reasoning are carnal? You "suggest" that they are. You continue to present feelings and opinion as though they amount to something. You will find, if you study the word of God and the true meaning of carnality that our own feelings, thoughts, opinions, etc. is where the carnal mind is rooted. I would provide you with some study here regarding your concept of the carnal mind but I fear you are not considering my posts responsibly and instead prefer to argue your point; even when presented with specific, clearly stated Scripture that contradicts you. But I will give you a starting point. consider the following verse: "Come now, and let us REASON together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." (KJV)(emphasis added) WOW! glory2. It appears that God himself expects us to use reason. You might be well informed to realize that God created us with the ability to use logic and reasoning. In fact, I might suggest to you that it is through our ability to process information logically and make reasonable decisions regarding it that the very same Holy Spirit you and I both rely on works. If we begin to depend on our feelings and opinions to hear from God, we will end up very far from the mark; no matter how aggressive we might attempt to justify where we have landed. I might offer an example of this by quoting you again. "I think the Lord would rather have one Katherine Kuhlman than a thousand scholars." Wow Glory2; you sure seem to believe you have a handle on God and what he does or doesn't prefer. But you don't know that. It may be that God prefers a single scholar, who has comitted his/her life to the things of God, making every effort to rightly divide the word of truth- over one thousand feeling chasers. No my friend, we can not discredit what God has given us to facilitate our knowing Him and what He himself tells us to use. I pray you repent of your way of thinking in this area. You wrote: "If God can not use men to reach out to the lost and demonstrate His love, power, healing and deliverence He will use whoever is willing" Was Saul willing on the road to Damascus? A word of caution about your above statement. Never assume for a moment that the Lord will contradict His own word in order to accomplish anything. I appologize to you and other readers for continuing on as I did. My hope is to help you to see the error in your approach to biblical studies and encourage you to be more responsible in your handling of God's word. I would still be interested to read what you have to say (if anything) regarding my previous post. I have found that staying focused on the topic is more productive. Sincerely, and God bless, Jeff |
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931 | sharing our faith to unbelievers so hard | 1 Cor 1:18 | jlhetrick | 199597 | ||
Dear Gunnie- You couldn't be more mistaken. I believe the most important thing that we adults must do before we ever attempt to be the teachers of our youth is to first understand Scripture ourselves. Doc quoted to you exactly what you seem to be not understanding based on your posts. That is, Romans 10:17. Faith doesn't come from hearing the current teen slang. I mean come on man. s'up wit dat line a thanken anyways. For reals man. I have a 22 year old too, as well as a 17 and 23 year old so "I'm feelin you on that". You write that "the words themselves (refering to Scripture) have no meaning to someone who is not in the faith" failing to acknowledge (after Doc gave it to you) that the ONLY possible way of receiving that faith is through the hearing of those words; that is, the word of God. Not the slang of any particular generations youth. First and foremost we NEVER attempt to "define the words in a way outside the bible". What would than mean anyway? Are you suggesting that the current time and cultural perspectives dictate the meaning of the words of Scripture? Of course not, and I hope that's not your meaning. You write, "quote the bible to them and you will not get anywhere". Your just totally and complete wrong sir/ma'am. I might add that Hillsong may produce music that is biblically acurate and doctrinally sound in many cases, but their lyrics are certainly not inspired so that argument has no relevence strictly speaking. You ask "how can you hear the word of the Lord if you cannot understnd it". 2Chronicels 1:10 would be an excellent place to start your study to answer that question. I would not argue that your intentions are less than honorable but this may be an example of Romans 10:2 I sincerely hope that you will consider these things honestly before continuing to teach others, perhaps especially the young ones. Sincerely and God bless, Jeff |
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932 | Is salvation an ongoing event | 1 Cor 1:23 | jlhetrick | 172181 | ||
Hello Bereaniam, Consider the verse in the context it is presented. Continue to read paying particular attention to vs 23 and 24. Here, Paul is pointing out how the truth of Christ is received. That is, to those who are perishing, it is foolishness. "Being saved" here refers to those who are called (vs 24). This verse taken in context, is focusing on God's power (see again vs 18). So, when Jesus said "it is finished" (John 19:30). What He meant was, It is finished. Along these lines, also consider Sanctification. This IS a thing of ongoing process. Sanctification- God setting the believer apart for Himself: positionally at salvation, progressively throughout life, and ultimately when the believer arrives in His presence in heaven (67). (from Basic Theology, Copyright © 1986, 1999 by Charles C. Ryrie.) Will wait together for the understanding of others. Hope this helps, Jeff |
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933 | Is salvation an ongoing event | 1 Cor 1:23 | jlhetrick | 172190 | ||
Lionheart, Agreed, as you say, "the ongoing process is our relationship and walk with God. Hopefully it's growing and maturing on a daily basis." Exactly right. This is the process of sanctification. Thanks, Jeff |
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934 | What is done in darkness comes to light? | 1 Cor 4:5 | jlhetrick | 153289 | ||
Greetings ELHARDENED, Try this link for free bible study software from e-sword. It's free and has lots of features including capability of searching entire text of bible in different versions and lots of other study helps. Finding bible verses will be quick and easy. Also download the "treasury of Scripture Knowledge" feature which will give you a "treasure" of cross-reference verses. http://www.e-sword.net/ Hopes this helps, Jeff |
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935 | Does sin prove one is not a believer? | 1 Cor 6:9 | jlhetrick | 157829 | ||
Hi BradK, Thanks for putting that issue back into proper perspective. Jeff |
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936 | Does sin prove one is not a believer? | 1 Cor 6:9 | jlhetrick | 157830 | ||
Hi Takeupyoursword, You answer your own question within the question. The verse starts out with “do you not know that the ‘unrighteous’ and wrongdoers..” Your thought is correct regarding God’s own righteousness. Once saved, you are no longer one of the “unrighteous” nor are you a “wrongdoer” as it is presented here. Read Romans 7:15-20 carefully to get a good explanation from Paul of how and why a Christian is still capable of sinning. Notice to the obvious struggle Paul has with his own sin. The bible teaches that though we may continue to sin, we are no longer “slaves” to sin. See Romans 6:12-14. Rom 6:12-14 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13 Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. 14 For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace. NIV Before being saved, we were under the law and slaves to sin, we followed it’s tempting. After we are saved, we have the power and authority through Christ to resist temptation because sin no longer holds any authority over us. The struggle continues because we have the sin nature still in our bodies. The difference is, now we feel conviction from God, have remorse for our sin. But the guilt of that sin is no longer credited to us as Paul points out in Romans 7:20 Rom 7:20 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. NIV If one claims to be saved but lives a life dominated by sin, the question is, is he/she truly saved. Only God can answer that of another. But if you are saved, you are saved. There is nothing you or I can do to undo the greatest miracle ever accomplished by God, that is salvation. Hope this helps, Jeff |
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937 | 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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938 | 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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939 | 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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940 | 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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