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3921 | God repented | Rom 1:18 | Hank | 21057 | ||
Joe, being a self-proclaimed "mere Christian" and constitutionally shy about immersing more than a toe, and then only tentatively, into the deep waters of High Theology, I find myself easily in agreement with some of your views of the Reformed faith and equally as easily out of agreement with some of the others, and as often as not without in either case quite knowing why. I consider it not to be a key issue of salvation whether one sides with the Reformed or the Armenian views on election. Either communion can, and does, summon up an impressive body of Scripture to use in the defense of its stand on the issue. I've heard it argued that the Bible does, in fact, teach both views. Perhaps it does, but I am pitifully unqualified to make that call. I think, Joe, and please do not feel offended, that the subject, having had a most generous share of the lime-light, might have its cause served better if, at least for a season, it were allowed repose within the memory banks of the forum. Perhaps it may be my attention deficit disorder that prohibts my being able to focus so long and with continued rapt interest and zeal on this topic. You bring to this forum an enviably high level of solid biblical scholarship and I assuredly make neither an effort to discredit you nor to thwart in any way your continued fine contributions to it. I'm simply asking you to consider, for a season at least, a slight shift of focus to other topics. Yours in Christ Jesus, Hank. | ||||||
3922 | Is salvation taught in Luke9:23-26 | Luke 9:23 | Hank | 21052 | ||
Tim, and now our good friend Kalos is being so wonderfully flattering that he puts me in the league with you, so now I'm blushing. But blushing comes easy to us Arkansas rednecks. We walk around with a permanent semi-blush anyway. It's part of our heritage. God bless both you guys. --Hank | ||||||
3923 | Unbaptized children | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 21046 | ||
Good post, retxar. Good post, retxar. Good post, retxar. This trio is intentional, because it seems much in the vogue on this forum to say the same things over and over, and even then, there are some who just don't get it :-) ...... Yes, Jesus saves. Water doesn't. My thoughts go back a couple of years ago to an evening worship service at the church I belong to during which several believers were baptized (immersed). The building happens to located less than a mile from the Arkansas river, which is no small stream of water. My pastor, commenting on the rather large volume of water in our baptistry (both the sanctuary and the baptisry are large), noted that even if we could channel the Arkansas river to flow through our building, even that amount of water would not be able to wash away a single sin or save a single soul. How true, indeed. But the blood of our Lord shed on the old rugged cross is sufficient to wash away every sin and save every sinner who comes by faith to the Lord Jesus. --Hank | ||||||
3924 | Is salvation taught in Luke9:23-26 | Luke 9:23 | Hank | 21039 | ||
Dear Tim, I was quite sure that you didn't intend to open up this old can of worms any more than I and truly did not intend to leave you with any suggestion of the sort. Your answer was an excellent one and presented both views succinctly and accurately, and in the most unbiased manner possible. From where I sit, your posts are a fitting model for fairness, accuracy and gentle treatment of even the hottest and most controversial issues that come before this forum. It would serve us all well to review your posts from time to time, when those of us, especially I, who tend on occasion to become frustrated and allow harshness and abrasiveness to replace the spirit of Christian love and compassion. It's long been a source of joy to me to have you on the forum and I always relish the opportunity to share ideas with you. Yours in Christ Jesus. --Hank | ||||||
3925 | The Genealogy of Christ | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 21025 | ||
The genealogy of Christ is clearly given in Scripture and has been firmly woven into the fabric of orthodox Christian thought for centuries. So why are we making such a to-do about it on this forum? All the while I've labored under the assumption that it has long since been laid to rest. Perhaps I'm all wrong and accordingly confess my ineptitude to second guess this forum. --Hank | ||||||
3926 | Is salvation taught in Luke9:23-26 | Luke 9:23 | Hank | 21023 | ||
Tim, while I have no wish whatever to unleash the election-free will issue into yet another full-blown debate, I nevertheless go on record as saying that, to my mind, the passage here (and corresponding passages in the other Gospels) make a poor case for the Calvinists' stand on election. Accordingly, I join you in holding to your option one, i.e., that in this passage Jesus is issuing an invitation to "anyone (who) wishes to come after Me." (verse 23). Jesus did, after all, "elect" to issue the invitation to "anyone.".... But I, Hank, do not hereby issue a blanket invitation to re-open this debate. I've read both sides of the issue that have been presented over and over on this forum about which I have myself heretofore been largely silent. But I do affirm, as I've stated before, that Jesus always said what He meant and meant what He said and certainly does so in these passages, using plain language that is abundantly clear. There are, admittedly, other texts in Scripture that one might use in support of the doctrine of election, but this hardly seems to be one of them. But, of course, this comes from one who is a mere Christian and not a theologian, and is not to say that a theologian can't be a Christian too, although in reading the ideas of some of these modern theologians, I've wondered where exactly they're coming from. --Hank | ||||||
3927 | Who dose not belive in the TERM Trinity? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 20982 | ||
Kalos, may I add a small note to your post, which stands well enough of itself and really needs no additional garnish? ..... The Lord Jesus was, in His few years on earth, a paradigm for living life than which no better one has ever been set. But the kind of life He led was, if I may so characterize it, eclipsed by the kind of death He died and the purpose for which He died. All other founders of world religions -- Muhammad, Buddha, Confucius -- all of them were born to live. Only Christ and Christ alone was born to die. It is only He whose death was foretold centuries before He was born of the virgin. And, unlike the founders of other religions who offer salvation through works performed according to their teachings, Christ alone gives salvation by his atoning death on the cross. So in His life on earth He gave us an example for living our life on earth, but it is in His death that He gives us life eternal in heaven with Him. --Hank | ||||||
3928 | Chapter Break | Gen 2:4 | Hank | 20942 | ||
Lionstrong, you may be right, although I'm perfectly content to leave the chapter-verse scheme as is. After all, does it matter all that much? I don't think it does and neither, I would guess, do you. Have a good day. --Hank | ||||||
3929 | Looking for verses on Spiritual Gifts | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 20931 | ||
Nolan Keck, all I can say about your promised return to the forum is, it's about time! We can't keep paying you your salary forever, you know. You simply must get back to work. Blessings, dear friend. --Hank | ||||||
3930 | Is it okay for women to wear pants? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 20929 | ||
Indeed, Radioman, the Bible is silent on any number of specific issues to which we frequently are called upon to address as we lead our daily lives. The Bible is not to be viewed, and was never meant to be viewed, as a detailed do-it-yourself manual. It doesn't, for example, speak with precision to every minute detail of our lives in the manner that an auto-shop manual treats of every minutiae of a car. Yet, there are those whose apparent expectation is that it does, and an unrealistic expectation of this sort is most unwise, because it can easily lead one to reading into Scripture what Scripture does not say and to drawing an inference when there is no realistic inference to be drawn...... To my knowledge God has never endorsed nor condemned any specific brand of toothpaste, nor for that matter, ever told us we must brush our teeth three times a day and see our dentist twice a year. He has given us a Book to point us in the direction to salvation and righteous living and a brain to point us in the direction to work and the grocery store. If we are lost on the road of life, the Bible can show us how to find true Life. If we are lost on the road to New York, a map can do a better job of showing us how to find it. If we use the Bible as if it were a Rand McNally map .... well, enough said. --Hank | ||||||
3931 | Contrary View........ | Gen 2:2 | Hank | 20917 | ||
Jensen, I like your post and concur with your conclusions. Of even greater importance than your view on the chapter-verse scheme, with which, by the way, I agree, is your refutation of the "different creation order" idea that crops up now and then because the passage is not being read with full understanding. With your view on that issue I also agree fully. --Hank | ||||||
3932 | Is it okay for women to wear pants? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 20913 | ||
kdblessed00, I have no problem agreeing with your views on apparel. The question is more a matter of decorum than anything else. It is ludicrous for a woman to wear her finest dress to the beach and her bathing suit to church. Of immensely greater moment, it seems to me, is what we "wear" inside our heads and hearts, not on the outside of them....... I think that no woman (or man) who truly knows the Lord will have any problem with knowing how to dress properly and modestly for any given occasion. Now, being able to afford the proper attire is something else again, and I'm unprepared to address that issue. This is, after all, a Study Bible Forum, not Economics 101 :-) --Hank | ||||||
3933 | Location of original bible text | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 20912 | ||
Hello, Goofy. This is not a response to the content of your post, although it was good, far from being goofy, and I enjoyed reading it. It is, first of all, a welcome from an old forum veteran to a you, a new user. And, secondly, a word of thanks for the enormous public service you are performing in allowing us to vent our frustrations by calling a fellow user "goofy" and being able to get away with it. We have our differences on the forum, often pointed ones, but we also have fun and fellowship with one another and, on rare occasions, actually learn something :-) Anyway, welcome aboard, Goofy, and may you find the content of at least some of the posts you read and perhaps interact with not imprinted with the characteristics your user name calls to mind. I pray God grant you grace and wisdom to strengthen and edify us and we you. --Hank | ||||||
3934 | Reformed and Arminian Gospel Preaching | Rom 1:18 | Hank | 20829 | ||
Schwartzkm, it would indeed make a great deal of differece if you and I were not included among the "some." --Hank | ||||||
3935 | Who dose not belive in the TERM Trinity? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 20827 | ||
Ed, I believe the problem that mincc has, and for that matter, that we all of us have, in our attempts both to understand and explain the concept of the Trinity is, quite simply, we are unable to do either. Not fully, not adequately, not definitively. The reason I say this is that, in our efforts to grapple with the concept of the triune attributes of God we are attempting to deal with a concept that is far beyond the scope of the finite human mind. God is transcendent. There is no one else or nothing else in all the universe with whom or with which to compare Him. Our understanding of the Trinity is, at the very best, pale, dim, and woefully inadequate. But the Bible does indeed confirm the doctrine of the triune nature of God and thus this doctrine constitues a cardinal tenet of orthodox Christianity, which has long considered any other view as being heretical. ... In summation, it's impossible to describe the Trinity as being something like this or similar to that. The best anyone can do is to say that there is one God in three Persons. The Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God. There is a distinction between the Persons so that the Father is not the Son, the Father is not the Spirit, and the Son is not the Spirit. The Holy Spirit is not to be envisioned as a mere force or influence; thus the Spirit is never to be referred to as an "it" but as He. My observations are admittedly limited and may not clear the water any, but they are the best I can offer. --Hank | ||||||
3936 | Who is Lucifer/ why was heson of morning | Isaiah | Hank | 20818 | ||
Right you are, CDBJ, and Scripture backs you up solidly, or should I say you solidly stand on the right side of what Scripture teaches? The devil is not bound, is not a resident of heaven, but does indeed walk about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. Any deviant hypothesis about the status of the devil is altogether unscriptural, insupportable, and purely conjectural. --Hank | ||||||
3937 | What dose Jesus mean by Ye are gods. | Ps 82:6 | Hank | 20807 | ||
Sad it is, too, Sir Pent, what you say about putting us forum experts out of business, coming at a time when unemployment in general is on the rise and the classifieds hardly ever list an opening for forum experts. We may indeed be forced (horrid thought!) to reading and studying the Bible at home for ourselves, following the principles of Bible study Kalos has so generously provided. If every user currently active on the forum spent at least as much time doing this for 30 days as he now spends on the forum, and then logged back on, wouldn't it be interesting to see what the forum might look like 30 days hence? Inept though my gift of prophecy is, I will go on record as prophesying that this will never happen. Not on this forum. --Hank | ||||||
3938 | Scripture relating to U.S.A. | Jeremiah | Hank | 20803 | ||
The only way I can agree with any, I say any, interpretations that the United States is mentioned in Scripture is in the most general terms possible, i.e., that this piece of earth that is currently called the United States of America has not always been called by that name, and the time may come when it will be called something else, but it is nevertheless a part of planet earth. In this broadest of possible senses, God is indeed King of all the earth and that of course includes what is now known as the U.S.A...... The attempt to find in Scripture anything more specific is an exercise in absolute futility. The search through biblical prophecy to find the Twin Towers disaster of 9/11 is ridiculous. The present-day prophets of doom who claim to have some esoteric insight into biblical prophecy do, many of them, make a good living pandering to the fears and gullibility of their disciples. I know of no other topic in all the Bible that has been so abused and misused as this. Not so long ago I talked to a minister, a sound and learned servant of Christ, who told me he had spent twenty years in making a special study of the book of Revelation. He readily admitted two things. First, that he in all this time felt he had only begun to scratch the surface of the truths to be found in this book. And, second, that the book presents incredible challenges to proper interpretation and in the hands of the undiscerning can be twisted to "support" any number of unbiblical and crackpot theories. --Hank | ||||||
3939 | Reformed and Arminian Gospel Preaching | Rom 1:18 | Hank | 20781 | ||
Yes, I understand somewhat better your position, Lionstrong, and thanks for a prompt reply. In your former terse statement, the one I responded to, I thought you were jesting. I really did. My background is in the Reformed tradition, although I never quite considered myself a five-point Calvinist but certainly do believe the Bible teaches the absolute sovereignty of God. Oh, but the hour is late and, feeling disinclined to add anything more to this thread that is already bulging at the seams, I bid you good-bye for now and part with every good wish for your peace in Christ Jesus. --Hank | ||||||
3940 | Reformed and Arminian Gospel Preaching | Rom 1:18 | Hank | 20772 | ||
Really, Lionstrong? Are you seriously submitting this post as a summary statement of Reformed theology? --Hank | ||||||
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