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141 | Help me please I am so alone | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 36582 | ||
Katie, I am going to make a rather radical suggestion to you and I hope you will not be offended. I suppose if you are working two jobs and cannot get off on Sundays that you may be off some other day of the week and be able to have an hour to yourself. If that is so you may wish to look for Catholic Church in your area and go to a weekday Mass where the scripture is read and preached. I am not suggesting you become a Catholic only that a weekday Mass may provide the scripture and human contact you are need if you cannot find a church of you own during the week. You need not do anything that makes you uncomfortable or take communion, but you should be fed by the prayer of worship and the scripture. I am a Catholic, but have gone to Baptist churchs when in need of Christian companionship and prayer and my own was unavailable. Emmaus |
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142 | Raven and John Reformed, Baptism? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 36613 | ||
Hank, Yes, we do view the sacraments as salvific in that they are encounters with Christ. Baptism is is called a sacrament of the dead because it conveys the grace of God which bring us from spiritual death to new life in Christ. In the old Baltimore cathecism a sacrament is defined as "a sign instituted by God to give grace." It is not just a symbol but a symbol that effects what it symbolizes by the action of God's grace. Another example that makes this explicitly clear is the Annointing of the Sick and Confession is in James 5:14-16 14: Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; 15: and the prayer of faith will save the sick man, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. 16: Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power in its effects. It is important to note that it is the work of God and his grace through the sacraments that saves us not our work in the sacrament. We are to be disposed by prayer and repentence to receive God's grace. And even that disposition is a work of grace. Emmaus |
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143 | Raven and John Reformed, Baptism? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 36771 | ||
Hank, Sometimes our exchanges get me thinking a little goofy. How's this: "conceived again by faith, born again through baptism by water and the spirit to live again by good works in Christ." Maybe I can start a new denomination. Nah, this will never fly. ;-) Emmaus |
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144 | Raven and John Reformed, Baptism? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 37014 | ||
Raven, You have done an admirable job on this thread. You certainly have more endurance than me. I fear the issue will never resolve with any convincing the other. I will end only by referring to that great Epistle of faith, Romans: "through him we have received the apsoltleship, to bring about the obedience of faith, for the sake of his name among the Gentiles." Romans 1:5 and "but now manifested through the prophetic writings and. accodring to the command of the eternal God, made known to all tha nations, to bring about the obedience of faith, to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ be glory forevere and ever. Amen." Romans 16:26-27 And a few other verse to consider in this matter. Matt. 28:18-20 18: And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19: Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20: teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age." Col 2:11-12 11: In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of flesh in the circumcision of Christ; 12: and you were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. Ex 4:24-26 24: At a lodging place on the way the LORD met him and sought to kill him. 25: Then Zippo'rah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin, and touched Moses' feet with it, and said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!" 26: So he let him alone. Then it was that she said, "You are a bridegroom of blood," because of the circumcision. Romans 6:3-4 3: Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4: We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. Emmaus |
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145 | so, you're saying that they go to hell? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 37878 | ||
Magnum, I would be interested in any primary sources you can cite about Constantine creating holidays. Emmaus |
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146 | Mathew 16:18--what is the "rock"? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 41942 | ||
Tim, I have heard the Petros / Petra argument before, but I am surprised you have raised it since it has been debunked and discarded even by Protestant scripture scholars. It does not hold up in a varieties of ways, The most obvious of which is the original Aramaic where Kepha is doers not have the gender problem that the Greek translation has bvecause a man's name in Greek must be masculine while petra is feminine. It comes down to this: Peter equals Kepha equals Rock. to say that the rock is anything or anyone other tha Simon Peter is to do violence to the text. Your other references are all in completely different contexts. Just two well known Protestant commentary references on the matter that should be easy to check out.There are others. "In Aramaic "Peter" and Rock are the same word; in Greek (here), they are cognate terms that were used interchageably by this period. For the idea of a person as the foundation on which something is built, cf Isaiah 51:1-2; Ephesians 2:20 (the promise is made to Peter because Peter was the one who confessed Jesus v 16), Craig Keener The IVP (Intervarsity Press) Bible Background Commentary New Testament, 1993, page 90. "Although it is true that petros and petra can mean "stone' and "rock" respectively in earlier Greek, the distinction is largely confined to poetry. Moreover the underlying Aramaic is in this case unquestionable; and most probably kepha was used in both clause (you are kepha and on thia kepha), since the word was used both for a name and "rock.' The Peshitta (written in Syriac, a language cognate with Aramaic) makes no distinction between the words in the two clauses.The Greek makes the distinction between petros and petra simply because it is trying to preserve the pun, and in Greek the feminine petra could not very weel serve as a masculine name." The Expositor's Bible Commentary, Volume 8, page 368, Zondervan 1984 Emmaus |
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147 | Why would someone get rebaptised? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 41944 | ||
Tim, Could I get you to go along with me on the same arrangement next time I go to Confession? :-) Emmaus |
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148 | Mathew 16:18--what is the "rock"? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 41971 | ||
Tim, So are are of the opinion that Jesus was speaking Greek all during his ministry or just at this partiticular time convenient for your position? Emmaus |
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149 | Mathew 16:18--what is the "rock"? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 41973 | ||
Tim, So are you of the opinion that Jesus was speaking Greek all during his ministry or just at this partiticular time convenient for your position? Emmaus |
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150 | Why would someone get rebaptised? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 41975 | ||
CDBJ, A number of people on the forum seem to care or the question would not have come up. Many seem to think the Word of God is open to interpretation. Otherwise why are there all those denominations and churches you don't care about? Emmaus |
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151 | Why would someone get rebaptised? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 42198 | ||
CDBJ and Joe, In the context of your ongoing conversation, what are your thoughts on this passage? Especially the last part of the passage. "To the rest I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband is consecrated through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is consecrated through her husband. Otherwise, your children would be unclean, but as it is they are holy." 1 Cor 7:12-14 Emmaus |
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152 | Why would someone get rebaptised? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 42318 | ||
Joe, As far as I know there is no official Catholic position on this passage. I agree it is challenging. I certainly do not have any definitive answer. One might assume (although you have already been chastised for that) the children were baptized. But where does that leave the unbelieving spouse? What leaps to my mind is "they become one flesh" which leads to some other questions, some of which have already bee touched on regarding the relationship between circumcision in the OT (only for males) and baptism in the NT (for all) and becoming a member of the Covenant Community or the People of God. Paul addresses some as he continues in 1 Cor. This was not a question for which I had already formulated a pat answer. The question just came to my mind as I was follwing your exchange. Emmaus |
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153 | Pretribulation or slightly after ? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 43114 | ||
"Emmaus can attest" I do attest that Joe has not yet poped, but he is doing an admirable job of defending those "grave cloths of tradition" received from the apostles. Emmaus |
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154 | How did sin originate | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 44574 | ||
Tim, Congregationalist, How about a short prayer excerpt to break the dogmatic deadlock? "O happy fault, O necessary sin of Adam, which gained for us so great a Redeemer!" from the Exsultet, sung at the Easter Vigil. Emmaus |
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155 | How did sin originate | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 44707 | ||
Hello Tim, I am glad you liked it. The whole prayer, from which I quoted only two lines, is truly beautiful. The deadlock I was was refering to was the entire thread. Your post just happened to be the last one posted before I wrote. :-) Emmaus |
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156 | Is Hades then Purgatory? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 46507 | ||
whyn, Hades is the abode of the dead in ancient mythology. It is the term used when we refer to Christ "descening in hell," more accurately translated Hades. Not the same as the hell of the dammed, but more like a place for the the dead, good and evil, with separate compartment as in the the parable of Lazarus and the rich man. Purgatory for Catholic Christians like me, (I am not a pagan) is a place or state of "purgation" or final cleansing of any remanining attachment to sin so that we are completely pure and fit to enter God's presence. This final cleansing is a work of God's comsuming or firey love. More like the ante chamber to heaven than hell. Only those destined for heaven pass through the final purification. It will cease to exist after the final jusdgement when only Heaven and Hell will remain. This of course is the Catholic view and not accepted by other Christians. But it is not a pagan view, opinions to the contrary not withstanding. Emmaus |
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157 | What about early male puberty? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 46509 | ||
Hank, Your response is the classic standard of least my parents' and my ages. Kind of goes along with the old question, "If all your friends jumped off the bridge would you do it too?" Emmaus |
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158 | after death, right then, what? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 46969 | ||
jpangilinan, It was the breath of God that gave man his life, not the earth from which God created his body. Gen 2:7 7: then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. The breath of God, the spirit or soul of man, does not die. And the Resurrection of the body is the promise of Jesus' Resurrection. 1Cor 15:12-19 12: Now if Christ is preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13: But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised; 14: if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. 15: We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified of God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. 16: For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised. 17: If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. 18: Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19: If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all men most to be pitied. Jesus was not unconcious in the spirit when he died, but alive in another realm where he preached to the inprisoned spirits of the dead. 1 Peter 3:18-4:6. 18: For Christ also died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit; 19: in which he went and preached to the spirits in prison, 20: who formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water.... Emmaus |
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159 | 2 followups, masturbation and 1Cor7:2-5 | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 47228 | ||
Binyah, You said in your post to Makarios: "Masturbation does not have to include lust. It can act as a release mechanism to keep one from lusting." One might reasoanbly ask what exactly the "release mechanism" of masturbation is releasing if not the tension of lust? Kind of like the alcoholic who hopes to slake his thirst (lust) for alcohol by taking a drink. It just doesn't work, it actually worsens the problem, rather than solving it. Kind of like biting that forbidden fruit to be like God. We can't eat enough forbidden fruit to satisfy our lust in that area. We are still gourging ourselves, attempting to satisfy all manner of disordered appetites without satisfaction. And that does not even address or explore the obvious reality that masturbation is the conterfeit of the real self giving sexual expression God has ordained for men and women and uses as an illustration of the relationship between Christ and the Church. I shudder to think how one might try to fit mastrubation into that analogy of faith. Emmaus |
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160 | after death, right then, what? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 47518 | ||
Johnny, I think you will have to take up your questions with Jesus, since He was the person who preached the most about hell of all the people in the bible. I think that means we are supposed to take it seriously and that it is real. Justness (fairness)and justice are management issues. I am in sales. Emmaus |
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