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421 | Jesus is not dead and why are so wrong | John 3:16 | EdB | 242471 | ||
Where does the word say this is not correct? Death comes from sin, Penalty of sin is death. Payment of sin is blood. Blood must be poured out. Jesus overcame death by the shedding of His blood which caused his death, but because death was overcome Jesus lived again just as every believer will one day do. The victory was secured by Jesus' blood the proof of it was His resurrection. That is why Paul said without the resurrection our faith would be in vain. You are very concerned by our bodies our tent as Paul called them. 2 Corinthians 5:6-8 (NASB) 6 Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord— 7 for we walk by faith, not by sight— 8 we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. To be absent from the body is to be present with Christ where we await the resurrection and get our glorified bodies. 1 Thessalonians 4:13 (NASB) 13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope. 1 Corinthians 15:53 (NASB) 53 For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. |
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422 | The Bible and YOU? | Bible general | EdB | 242466 | ||
Justme I usually use Bible software for personal study. This allows me to have multiple translations, dictionaries, commentaries and various original language helps. One software package included the Complete Biblical Library which ties the Lexham translation, commentaries, original language dictionaries, and assorted other helps all tied together. Excellent! |
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423 | Salvation | John 3:16 | EdB | 242460 | ||
Once again you misunderstand salvation. Lazarus was dead and made alive John 11:43. He didn't have salvation nor did it provide salvation to us. | ||||||
424 | shall not perish, but have eternal life | John 3:16 | EdB | 242459 | ||
You forget we get our perfected bodies. Bodies untouched, unaffected by sin. | ||||||
425 | How can I save myself | John 3:16 | EdB | 242458 | ||
Scripture tells us our righteousness is like filthy rags to God. We can't follow the rules totally, therefore living righteousness will not save us. We must have a savior! That savior is Jesus! | ||||||
426 | I'm confused about sin please help | John 3:16 | EdB | 242457 | ||
Before Christ sin sent us to the Lake of Fire, since Jesus paid for all sin for all people sin not longer sends us to the Lake of Fire. What sends people to the Lake of Fire today is their refusal to accept the salvation Jesus provided for them. They refuse to live as Christ commanded them to live, they continue in their sin instead of living in Christ. | ||||||
427 | Should pastors/preachers be evaluated | 1 Cor 4:4 | EdB | 242377 | ||
There is a vast difference between being accountable and being judged. Moses was told to seek the counsel of others, elders. No where in scripture has God stated that his servants are to be judged. The perfect example of man trying to judge God's servants is the Pharisees that wanted to judge John the Baptist and Jesus and to apply human understanding to God's servants. The scriptures are filled with case after case where God's man was hindered by people in the flesh that felt they knew a better way. Either the man is called of God to the task or he isn't. If he is walking in pride, arrogance or lauds himself over others isn't lead of God. However If the man is chosen of God, then who among us is qualified to question the leading of God has given the man and who appointed any one to judge god's leadership? The problem is to many leaders in the church were not selected by but are there due to things other than the leading of God. They aren't God's servants they don't answer to God they answer to those that put them in place and judge them. Many wonder why the church seems un relevant and ineffective in today's world. I believe the main reason is too much of the church is being ran as a company. With leadership chosen by human reasoning instead of prayer. Again Jesus must be the head of the church, and the pastor must be lead by Jesus not by men of power in the church. When there is more than one earthly leader you have a two head beast which is an abomination. |
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428 | Should pastors/preachers be evaluated | 1 Cor 4:4 | EdB | 242375 | ||
While I believe in accountability, as in every pastor must be accountable to someone over them. I view the pastor as the earthly leader of the church he is pastoring. And as I said before the one that evaluates or critiques is really the leader. To try to have the pastor fulfill his functionas leader but also to have an evaluation process produces a two head beast. That is unnatural. Imagine it this way, the way Jesus explained the pastor or leader of the church. Jesus used the word shepherd. Sheep don't evaluate their shepherd, they live and thrive under the shepher's leadership. The owner of the flock is the only one that evaluates the shepherd. The owner in this case is Jesus. A two headed beast is an abomination. If Christ called the pastor to the church who in the church is qualified to second guess the leading the pastor is getting from Jesus? If the pastor isn't being lead of Christ why are you in the church? Either Christ is in fact in charge or the church is dead and there is little point in worrying about something that is dead. This in effect is what Paul was saying, if he is lead of Christ who on earth should question that leadership. Now even Moses needed the counsel of elders but they didn't evaluate Moses. When the children of Israel tried to evaluate Moses God intervened and the results were not pretty. |
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429 | How can I understand the Bible? | Bible general | EdB | 242359 | ||
That website mentioned above is sponsored by the Jehovah Witnesses which have been recognized as a Cult by all other Christian Organizations. Be very careful where you go to seek info. Make sure it based on scripture and not the ideas of one man. |
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430 | what do JW and Mormons believe | Bible general Archive 4 | EdB | 242358 | ||
To suggest the doctrine of the Trinity is made of man while defending the man made religion of Jehovah Witnesses is silly. The New World Translation is a modified copy of the King James Version. The JW refuse to reveal their translators and the manuscript they claimed to use to translate from was proven to have never been in their possession, thus making it impossible to translate from it. The whole concept of the Jehovah Witness are based on the made up name of God. History shows teaches us Tyndale when translating his Bible used the tetrammaton of YHWH adding the vowels from Adoni to made the word Jehovah. The whole concept of Jehovah Witnesses is based on the ideas developed by Charles Taze Russell who was proven to be a liar in various court cases. |
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431 | Discerning the Leading of Holy Spirit | Ps 143:10 | EdB | 242299 | ||
Sadly so many refuse to allow the Holy Spirit to lead them. Instead of yielding they resist, often doing even though these 4 points are clearly evident in what the Holy Spirit is trying to do through them. Sadly many miss the leading because it does not line up with their perceived notion of how God moves. |
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432 | Judgement of believers | Matt 7:21 | EdB | 242226 | ||
CDBJ You have stated a hypothesis based on common but often rejected teaching about the millennium. I will not say you are wrong but your are making assumptions on things silent in the Bible. First your hypothesis is built on the assumption that there is a millennium as defined by man. There are many that dispute that there is a millenium as commonly defined by man. Second nowhere in scripture do we see the requirements for salvation for those the live in the millennium. We know there are some that will be deceived Rev 20:10 but we can't say if or how this effected their salvation which is unknown to us to begin with. That said I do agree that if all your assumptions are correct it would appear that there will be some righteous that will stand before the Great White Throne. A thought I had never considered before. Interesting!!!! |
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433 | Judgement of believers | Matt 7:21 | EdB | 242220 | ||
CDBJ Okay I see your question and the answer depends on your perspective of the Rapture. If you believe in the rapture, as many believe is detailed in 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18, the righteous dead would already be risen before the Occurance of what takes place in Rev 20:11-15. The righteous dead will be judged at the Bema Seat Judgment The Bible talks about the Judgment Seat of Christ--also referred to as the bema--in three places: Romans 14:10-12; 1 Corinthians 3:10--4:5; and 2 Corinthians 5:1-10. Only church-age saints will appear at that judgment, as shown in 2 Corinthians 5:10: "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ." http://www.gty.org/resources/questions/QA97/What-is-the-purpose-of-the-Judgement-Seat-of-Christ If on the other hand you do not believe in the Rapture then yes it appears that both the righteous dead and unrighteous would be at the Great White Throne. |
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434 | Judgement of believers | Matt 7:21 | EdB | 242212 | ||
Based on your last paragraph let me clarify my responses. The Great White Throne of Judgment is not for Christians (Christ followers). However there will be many believers in Christ that will be Judged there. Those that believe and become true Christians (followers of Christ) will not be there. | ||||||
435 | Judgement of believers | Matt 7:21 | EdB | 242211 | ||
The point is they think they are believers. Belief in Christ will always produce a change. No change no real salvation. Many people never see/allow that change to be manifested in their lives. They believe that they can live as the did, act as they did and do as they did and that grace has saved them. This deception is very prevalent in the church today. Where there is no expectation nothing will manifest. So while we know them as not being save they consider themselves saved and the false belief/teaching that is wide spread in the Christian community reinforces that false assumption. | ||||||
436 | Thought for the Day,Think on this | Jeremiah | EdB | 242160 | ||
Lionheart I hear you but I think in many cases our faith, because of where we live, is weak. Like the seed that fell on the rock as in Mark 4:5. Too much seed is falling on stoney ground in the America today. We have made it too easy to believe we are Christians. The faith today springs up fast but will not sustain the believer through a crisis. Faith must be built, it requires a good foundation built on the word of God, not the promise of man, which many times never gets built. Then it also needs to be tried and tested and made to grow. Faith like David had facing Goliath only can only come from testing, facing the bear and lion. David had built upon the foundation of faith within him and could stand upon it. Christians in other countries are often required to stand upon their faith every day. Their faith is constantly being built that is how they are able to stand the persecution. |
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437 | PRYING TO THE HOLY SPIRIT ? | Bible general | EdB | 242140 | ||
I think if you examine the question a little deeper you will find that Catholics do pray to the Holy Spirit. Also I know that he is our counselor and friend and as such I can understand addressing the Holy Spirit. Also there is a few worship songs where the lyrics are speaking directly to the Holy Spirit such as "Oh Holy Spirit come fill this place". I see no real problem praying to any person of the God Head but Jesus when asked by the disciples to teach them to pray addressed Our Heavenly Father (God). It could be argued that Jesus did this since He had not died or sent back the Holy Spirit at this point in time. Again we are praying to God and God is God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. As humans we are incapable of fully understanding the God Head let alone trying to separate Them. |
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438 | Who are the 24 elders in Revelation 4:4? | Rev 4:4 | EdB | 242115 | ||
While scripture doesn't fully reveal their identity, a lot of evidence points to the twelve tribal fathers of the children of Israel and the twelve Apostles. Most theologians that offer an opinion also agree that the most likely choice is the twelve sons of Jacob (who became the tribal leaders) and the Apostles. That be my opinion. |
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439 | When study what to read first | Bible general | EdB | 242102 | ||
I need to clarify what I meant when I said I tend to steer people away from John. I meant I tend to steer new Christians away from John until they get a better understanding of some of the concepts of Christianity. John 1:1 can be confusing if you don't understand the concept of God and Trinity. How much more is John 6 which theologians argue about to this day. |
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440 | When study what to read first | Bible general | EdB | 242101 | ||
I tend to steer people away from John. While John is the book of love many of the concepts appear abstract until you get better rooted in Christianity. The book of Mark is written very clearly and there isn't any confusing similes. In my opinion it is written more to the understanding of man. |
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