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481 | The heavens are part of this creation | Gen 1:8 | Lionstrong | 13186 | ||
In v. 1 it reads God created the heavens. In this verse I note that God called the firmament (NKJV) or expanse heaven. In v. 1 heaven is plural and in v. 8 it's singular. In v. 8 is the naming of the physical (visible) heaven. Just as God created all things in the visible world, that is, in heaven and earth, He also created all things in the invisible world, that is, in one of the other heavens. God created the heavens in the beginning. Although the focus (as is with the rest of Scripture) is on Man and his environment, the invisible world (one of the other heavens) was created in the beginning too, not before the beginning. In the Scripture God directs our attention to our own practical interests, Man and his environment. (I'll never finish re-reading the Bible at this rate!) The focus, therefore, is on the creation of Man and his environment, and not on the creation of the other heavens and not on the creation of the other heavens and the creatures that inhabit them (although it is mentioned here to inform us of its origin). But again the heavens and all they contain were also made "In the beginning." In other words, the unseen world of the other heavens are part of this creation, not a part of a supposed first creation which was destroyed. V. 9 strengthens this notion of one creation by using the plural, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered in to one place..." |
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482 | I CAME TO FULFILL THE LAW | Matt 5:17 | Lionstrong | 12555 | ||
"I don't believe that we have to obey the Law of Moses now. Instead, as born again believers, we obey the Law that is written on our hearts by the Holy Spirit." Dear Yitzhak, If this is the law believers are to obey (the law that's in our hearts) it is subjective. It results in "every man doing what's right in his own eyes." For all practical purposes this veiw of the law is antinomian. Peace, Lionstrong |
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483 | What is the gospel? | Bible general Archive 1 | Lionstrong | 12551 | ||
Dear Sas, "love each other in our own world-where we live work and play" is not the gospel according to the Bible. According to the Bible, this is the gospel: 1 Cor 15:1 Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, 1 Cor 15:2 by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. 1 Cor 15:3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 1 Cor 15:4 and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, As you see, Sas, the gospel is not our about our experience at all. If the gospel is about anyone's experience, it's about Christ's experience, his sacrificial obedience unto death for the salvation of believers. As wonderful as our experience of Christ might be and our life in him, it is not and cannot substitute for the finished work of Christ on the cross in real space-time history. This is the gospel of our salvation. Peace, Lionstrong |
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484 | Define Faith. | Heb 11:1 | Lionstrong | 12550 | ||
Like Paul's description of the nature of love in his letter to the Corinthians, the passage in Hebrews is about the nature of faith. It is not a definition of faith just a Paul's description was not a definition of love. First, one somewhat confusing issue is English. It's easier to see in Greek. Faith is the noun form of the verb believe. So faith is either the act of believing or the object of what is believed. To believe means to accept as true an understood proposition (statement). And saving faith is to accept as true the understood propositions of God as revealed in the Scriptures concerning the redemptive work of Christ. Acts 16:30 and after he brought them out, he said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" Acts 16:31 They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household." Peace, Lionstrong |
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485 | What is the gospel? | Bible general Archive 1 | Lionstrong | 12400 | ||
"love each other in our own world-where we live work and play." Dear Sas, Is your comment an answer to the original question, "What is the gospel"? Or is it an answer to the post above it "How can one experience Christ"? |
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486 | What commands imply gambling a sin? | NT general Archive 1 | Lionstrong | 12233 | ||
" No there is no commandment saying that gambling is a sin but there is scripture that say's that if a man should eat then he must work. Read 2 Thessalonians 3:7-12. If you go to the casino and win a million dollars is that a blessing, you did not earn it by the sweat of your brow." Dear Deacon, Yes, winning a million dollars CAN (I said CAN) be a blessing. And earning a living by the sweat of my brow, as you remember, is a curse. Gen 3:17 Then to Adam He said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat from it'; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it All the days of your life. Gen 3:18 "Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field; Gen 3:19 By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return." And read 2 Thess 3:10 again, Deacon. You've misquoted it. "For even when we were with you, we used to give you this order: if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either." It does not say a person MUST work, it says that if a one is not WILLING to work. Peace, Lionstrong |
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487 | Will keeping Law yield eternal life? | Lev 18:5 | Lionstrong | 12103 | ||
Dear Steve, What does your qoute mean with respect to my comments to Glory? Are you saying that a man is justified by faith AND the works of the law? | ||||||
488 | Will keeping Law yield eternal life? | Lev 18:5 | Lionstrong | 11711 | ||
"So, keeping the law, for the right motive (faith and love for the Lord)would gain them eternal (life)." Glory Rom 3:20 "because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin." Paul Dear Glory, Unfortunately words are the only things we have to communicate with in the forum. And although you add the phrase "for the right motive (faith and love for the Lord)," your words are still that one gains eternal life by keeping the law. And this is directly opposed to what the Scripture teaches, that "a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law." Rom. 3:28. Your wording says eternal life is by faith AND keeping the law. Peace. Lionstrong |
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489 | Will keeping Law yield eternal life? | Lev 18:5 | Lionstrong | 11607 | ||
Rom 3:20 because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin. Dear Glory, I think this Scripture is clear. God never gave the Law as a means to attain eternal life. No saint, before or after Christ was justified by keeping the Law. All receive eternal life just as Abraham did... by faith, not by works of the Law. Peace, Lionstrong |
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490 | Did God Create Man Mortal? | Gen 1:26 | Lionstrong | 10244 | ||
Hello JV, I would agree with this to mean death of the whole man, body and soul, but some members of the forum would still only see this as appliying only to spiritual death. ............ In addition, as I have stated before, I disagree with this notion that Adam knew the meaning of death only by experience. Adam was created with language, and therefore understood the command of God and His threatened consequece for disobedience --apart from experience -- (Gen. 2:16,17). Was there sufficent time between creation and the command for Adam to experience the death of plant or animal? |
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491 | Don't sweat the small stuff? | NT general Archive 1 | Lionstrong | 9927 | ||
Dear Prayon, ............ I thought it was clear, but perhaps it wasn't. ......................... I was RESTATING the position of the person I was responding to. I was NOT stating my OWN position. ................ I then went on to ask a question based on the implications of such a position. ................. Please, don't hesitate to ask, if you need further clarification. |
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492 | Did God Create Man Mortal? | Gen 1:26 | Lionstrong | 9916 | ||
Part Two 2. Man’s mortality. No, God did not create man mortal. Man as created would have lived forever, body and soul. A. God threatened death for DISOBEDIENCE. He did NOT threaten death for obedience. Man was not going to die unless he disobeyed. When man sinned God pronounced the sentence of death, which brings us to my next point. B. The mention of physical death in the curse was not in passing. This was also given as a reason for concluding that man was created mortal. Gen. 3:17-19 “Then to Adam He said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat from it'; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it All the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field; By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return." As you see, God tells man his end (Till you return to the ground). He then gives a reason for that particular end (For you are dust), and then He repeats that end (And to dust you shall return). So it’s not “in passing.” The curse has two parts: misery (consisting of a cursed earth and hard labor), and death. Death was initiated on the day Adam sinned and culminated when he returned to the ground from which he was taken. “(T)he body is dead because of sin” (Rom. 8:10), not because of the absence of the Tree of Life. In the Curse, God was not simply stating facts about the future of man; He was pronouncing a sentence. “(B)ecause you listened… cursed…” So God wasn’t describing the “natural” course of events; this is a judgement, and this judgement included physical death. 3. Sin’s penalty. Finally, are the wages of sin spiritual death only? Or rather, was God’s threat of death for disobedience spiritual only instead of body and soul? To answer this one must realize that the truths in Scripture form a system of truth. No truth stands in isolation from the other truths of Scripture. They are tied together, and one statement has implications and effects on the rest of the system. So it is the case on this issue. If the curse was only spiritual death, this has implications in other areas; the most significant of which is the Gospel, and substitutionary work of Christ. Christ took our place before the bar of God’s justice. The penalty for sin, which should have rightly fallen on His people, fell on Him. So the substitutionary death of Christ proves the spiritual-only view of death wrong and the whole man (body and soul) right. For if sin’s penalty was spiritual death only, then Christ substitutionary death would have needed to be spiritual only. It would have been sufficient for him to be separated from the Father in our place to satisfy the curse. But his Father forsaking Him AND His death on the cross proves that the death God threatened was of the whole man body and soul, and not the spirit only. “For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit.” 1 Pet. 3:18. You probably noticed that I didn’t answer the question as to why God made the Tree of Life. It really wasn’t my purpose to suggest why God made the Tree of Life. My purpose was to show that it WASN’T made because of some supposed mortality of man. I think the discussion on the Tree of Life is a legitimate one, but the answer for its purpose must be found in some other solution than the mortality of man. |
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493 | What is Christianity? | Acts | Lionstrong | 9852 | ||
Dear KM, Read what I was responding to. I hope you'll understand. |
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494 | Don't sweat the small stuff? | NT general Archive 1 | Lionstrong | 9851 | ||
Dear Hank, I thought it was clear, but perhaps it wasn't. ......................... I was restating the position of the person I was responding to. I was not stating my own position. ................ I then went on to ask a question based on the implications of such a position. ................. Please, don't hesitate to ask, if you need further clarification. |
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495 | Don't sweat the small stuff? | NT general Archive 1 | Lionstrong | 9849 | ||
Dear, Prayon, ............ Please read what I was responding to. I hope you'll understand. |
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496 | Result of sin physical or spiritual? | Gen 3:22 | Lionstrong | 9734 | ||
"Plus, if the Tree of Life was to grant eternal life, that means Adam and Eve would of been condemned forever ... judged at that point. " ............... Hi, Steve, ........................ Thanks for continuing this dialog on the issue of sin and death. I enjoy it, and think it important. Sorry if I misunderstood you on the Tree of Life and condemnation. I got it from your qoute above. ............. I'll deal with one point only because I have to leave for work shortly. Heb 9:27: Only if you apply your assumption about physical death can this verse be understood your way. However this verse applies to man AFTER the Fall only, because "through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned" Rom 5:12 If Adam had not sinned death would not be part of man's experience. "For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive." 1 Cor 15:22 I also think that your notion of God's curse of death being only spiritural makes the physical death of Christ unecessary. But it was necessary because the curse of death was on the whole man, body and soul. ................. Thanks again for your interest in this subject. |
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497 | Don't sweat the small stuff? | NT general Archive 1 | Lionstrong | 9726 | ||
Hi, Hank, ............... Read what I was responding to. I hope you'll understand. |
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498 | Result of sin physical or spiritual? | Gen 3:22 | Lionstrong | 9722 | ||
Hello Steve, Thanks for your thoughts. Your response contain some assumption that I do not believe to be true. First, it assumes man would have died bodily if he had not sinned. Second, it assumes that man gains knowledge by experience, rather than it being given by God. Third, which is the point at hand, it assumes that death does not apply to the whole man, body and soul. God created man a rational being with the capability for there to be communication between God and man. In other words, man did not learn language by experience; he was created with it. So man understood the words God spoke to him. Also even if the Tree of Life could impart eternal life, it does not imply that not eating it would result in the condemnation of Adam. For one, God made no such threat. The threat of death was only for eating the Tree of Knowledge, not for not eating the Tree of Life. |
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499 | Don't sweat the small stuff? | NT general Archive 1 | Lionstrong | 9721 | ||
Thanks, Hank I would like to know Jim D's response to my question. |
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500 | Can a believer lose his salvation? | Luke 8:13 | Lionstrong | 9697 | ||
"1 Cor 9:27 but I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified." (not a reference to salvation) John 10:28 and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. 12 John 10:29 "My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. Hi KM, When Jesus said "no one" did he mean "almost no one?" |
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