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501 | Is History Reliable? | 1 Tim 2:11 | Lionstrong | 9689 | ||
Hello Nolan, What I meant to say is what did you mean by your statement: "I believe that the question is not "Is Scripture historically reliable?"; the question is: "Is history reliable based upon Scripture?" |
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502 | Predetermined or Free Will | Luke 8:13 | Lionstrong | 9686 | ||
Hello KM, What do you mean by fatalistic, and how do you understand JV's comments to be fatalistic? Or if not JV's, who's comments are fatalistic and how are they such? |
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503 | Can a believer lose his salvation? | Luke 8:13 | Lionstrong | 9684 | ||
John 10:27 "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; 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. 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." Hello KM, Will those to whom Jesus gives eternal life ever perish? |
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504 | A Hostile Environment | Eph 6:12 | Lionstrong | 9592 | ||
A meditation "(O)ur struggle is not against flesh and blood": In the contemporary vernacular, we live in a hostile environment. "(T)horns and thistles it shall grow for you"(Gen 3): It's been this way since the Fall. "I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves"(Mat 10): Christ himself sends us out into such an environment. "Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful."(Jn 14): But even in such a fearful environment, it is possible for God's people to have peace. "(W)e also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance; and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope; and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us."(Rom 5): We can not only have peace in such an environment, we can also exhault! "(D)eliver us from evil."(Mat 6) "The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed, and will bring me safely to His heavenly kingdom."(2 Tim 4): We can pray for and expect the Lord's protection in this hostile environment. "Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?...For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Rom 8): Amen! |
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505 | Is God so shortsighted? | 1 Tim 2:11 | Lionstrong | 9567 | ||
Greetings, Ed, A couple of quotes from the Confession: Chapter 1. "VII. All things in Scripture are not alike plain in themselves, nor alike clear unto all: Yet those things which are necessary to be known, believed, and observed for salvation, are so clearly propounded, and opened in some place of Scripture or other, that not only the learned, but the unlearned, in a due use of the ordinary means , may attain unto a sufficient understanding of them.... "IX. The infallible rule of interpretation of Scripture is the Scripture itself: and therefore, when there is a question about the true and full sense of any Scripture (which is not maifold, but one), it must be searched and known by other places that speak more clearly." I agree with these statements and therefore believe that anyone can pick up a Bible in their own language and read it and understand enough of it to be saved. Further, no outside source is necessary to gain a sufficient understanding of what God has inspired. He knew when He inspired it that His church (OT and NT) would need it and use it until judgement day. So what it teaches as our rule of faith and obedience is universal. Outside sources can be used, but the only infallible rule of interpretation of Scripture is Scripture itself. |
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506 | Who cannot believe in the Trinity? | Matt 28:19 | Lionstrong | 9419 | ||
Greetings, Webp, .................. There are a lot of good Scripture given in the StudyBible Forum in support of the doctrine of the trinity. Do a search of the word trinity in the upper right box and you'll find them. This subject has been much discussed already. You may find some new objections to your view if you'll do this search. |
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507 | Learning from Suffering | Heb 5:8 | Lionstrong | 8914 | ||
Meditations on Sanctification He Learned from Things He Suffered This is our example of growing in obedience! As a true man Christ was ignorant, that is, he could learn because he didn't know everything, and he could learn to obey God more. Now, for me it is a move from disobeying more and obeying less to disobeying less and obeying more; for Christ, from obedience to more obedience. If the Sinless had to learn odedience from the things he suffered, how much more saved sinners!? |
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508 | Our Father | Matt 6:9 | Lionstrong | 8912 | ||
Meditations on the Lord's Prayer "Our Father" The first thing I'm reminded of when I come to God is our relationship. I'm a creature, but I don't come to Him as that. I'm a man, a fallen one, but I don't come to him as that. Jesus reminds me that on the basis of his shed blood for me I come to his Father as my own. I come as a son to his own father. Before anything else, the relationship is first. This is how the Lord himself teaches us how to come to our Almighty Creator God in prayer,... as family, as belonging to the household, with the expectancy of being heard, because we belong. The Father is our Father who loves us and as a father is pleased to hear us. Not only am I reminded by this the Lord's instruction on prayer that I come to God the Father as my own father, but that I am received into his presence as his own son. "...but as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become children of God." "No one comes to the Father but through Me." As a son; this truth is the truth, the attitude if you will, that I have in mind as I think and pray about the petitions in this prayer. The only basis or means by which anyone comes to the Father is the person and work of Christ. |
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509 | Is some truth relative? | John 14:17 | Lionstrong | 8862 | ||
Hello, Nolan, I'll take your response as a "yes." You misunderstood my first answer to your question, then. I was not contrasting absolute truth and relativistic truth. I was saying that because the nature of truth is absolute, there is NO SUCH THING as relative truth. "Relative" can not be an adjective modifying "truth", because the two terms are contradictory, like a square circle. Our culture believes that there's such a thing as relative truth, but one can find no support in the Bible for such a notion. All truth, if it is truth, is absolute. Peace. |
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510 | First evidence of currency used? | Gen 23:16 | Lionstrong | 8860 | ||
Good day, Nolan, The Bible does not say, as far as I know, that the Canaanite system was feudal. Israel's system wasn't feudal when they had a monarchy, at least. An extra-biblical source may or may not be true. At any rate, from the biblical context of this exchange no feudal system can be deduced. Be that as it may, I don't think that Ephron was anxious to give the land away. I think that by this time Abraham had gained the respect (and fear maybe) of the locals. He was wealthy and productive; maybe known as a prophet of the Almighty (20:7) and able to effectively command and army against the combined armies of five local despots. I think their offer of the land as a gift was out of their genuine high regard for the "friend of God." I don't think they were blowing smoke when they said, "Hear us, my lord, you are a mighty prince among us; bury your dead in the choicest of our graves." |
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511 | What is Christianity? | Acts | Lionstrong | 8352 | ||
Greetings, Hank, ................ The Bible is a body of knowledge. That body of knowledge is Christianity. One may be contented with short warm fuzzy phrases. But if one wants a fuller summary of Christianity he should read the Westminster Confession of Faith. |
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512 | After Salvation, What? | Luke 9:23 | Lionstrong | 8209 | ||
One of my favorites, Joe: ................. Titus 2:11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, Titus 2:12 instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age, Titus 2:13 looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus, Titus 2:14 who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds. |
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513 | Paul's extra-biblical teaching inerrant? | 2 Tim 3:16 | Lionstrong | 8129 | ||
Greetings, Steve; ................... If you mean that Paul taught no other doctrines except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified (1 Cor 2:2 ), then I agree with you, Steve. If you mean that he may have taught some strange doctrine that is foreign to Scripture, then we need to reexamine Acts 20:27. |
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514 | Light and Stars | Gen 1:16 | Lionstrong | 8127 | ||
Greetings, Ray, ............... And since light when used metaphorically usually means truth or knowledge, what do you think light means in Matt. 5:16? (I posted this question on that verse.) |
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515 | What did light look like, I wonder. | Gen 1:4 | Lionstrong | 7991 | ||
Yes, Nolan, but even now it's wonderful to contemplate it! The evolutionists wonder at the "big bang" which never happened. We can wonder at our true beginning. He spoke and it was! | ||||||
516 | Post-flood genetic pool | Gen 9:19 | Lionstrong | 7989 | ||
Greetings, Pete; Good observations. Thanks for your reply. |
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517 | Red, and yellow, black, white, and blue? | Gen 9:19 | Lionstrong | 7988 | ||
Greetings, Nolan; Thanks for your follow-up. ............. At least Eve was similar enough for Adam to recognize her as one of his kind. Other than that, God might have made her with very different features. (I hate to use this term because there's only one, ... the human) But Eve could have looked like what we today mistakenly call a different race, although she too, like Adam, would have the entire gene pool. ................ Anthropology? Yes, and because Scripture is true, scientist can use what God has revealed about the human race as a presuppositional foundation for their research. Just as Christian geologists have looked at the present state of the earth from the perspective of a world-wide catastrophe, anthropologists can look at the diversity of peoples and cultures from perspective of the source of this diversity, the families of Noah's son's. ............. And just because they start from the Bible does not mean that their guesses will be right, but starting from the truth will give them a better chance than starting from materialistic or naturalistic presuppositions. |
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518 | The Christian and the Law of God | NT general Archive 1 | Lionstrong | 7823 | ||
Chris, greetings: God's people in this dispensation (we can use dispensation without being dispensational :)) are still under the Law of God as summarized in the Ten Commandments. The principle of interpretation is, if God hasn't changed it, it's still in effect. I've seen in your other posting on a related subject the verses you've referenced which abolish ceremonial laws given to the Old Testament people of God (although you've applied it to all the OT laws). So, there's no need to show you what you already believe. If God has abolished all OT laws, then there no need to prove that he's abolished some. However, there is a need to prove by Scripture that he has not abolished all. Much more can, and probably will and should been sighted to support this position from Scripture, but what does it for me is the Gospel. .......... You see, the Gospel teaches that we should " deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus, who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds. (Titus 2:12-14) (You notice it says lawless?) Without the law, righteous living makes no sense, because sin is lawlessness. (1 John 3:4) So, without the law sin makes no sense. Sin is defined by the law. Why is it wrong to worship idols, to blaspheme, to murder and steal, to be unbelieving, if it isn't a violation of Christ's moral commands? ............... One believer defined sin as whatever is not of faith (Rom. 14:23), but faithlessness is an instance of sin, not its definition. Paul says whatever is not of faith is sin, not sin is whatever is not of faith. I hope you see the difference, Chris. One member of the forum did not understand that a grammatical statement using "is" not the same as a mathematical equation using "is." ................ So, if we are called and chosen to be holy, to not live in sin, and if sin is lawlessness, then the Law is still operative. |
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519 | The Christian and the Law of God | NT general Archive 1 | Lionstrong | 7786 | ||
I started a thread under "Covenants and Dispensation" where I'll attempt to give an answer, Charis. | ||||||
520 | Must Christians keep the Sabbath today? | Ex 20:8 | Lionstrong | 7738 | ||
You're right, Sam. There is THE Sabbath of Ex. 20 and there are other sabbaths of the Jewish calendar given by God, such as the Day of Atonement of Lev. 16. | ||||||
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