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81 | will Jesus take away from you? | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 122976 | ||
Ultimately, I would have to say that this parable reflected Jesus' basic attitude toward all possessions we might come to own. Count it all as trash as Paul did and look forward to storing up treasures in Heaven. Luke 12:16 And He told them a parable, saying, "The land of a rich man was very productive. 17 "And he began reasoning to himself, saying, 'What shall I do, since I have no place to store my crops?' 18 "Then he said, 'This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19 'And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years to come; take your ease, eat, drink and be merry."' 20 "But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your soul is required of you; and now who will own what you have prepared?' 21 "So is the man who stores up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God." This basic attitude should prevail regardless of the origin of our gain in this life, whether from our hard work or someone else's. Hope this helps and God bless. --Rowdy |
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82 | About Premillenialism... | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 122978 | ||
And yet in stark contrast, we see from the Hebrews writer, most likely Apostle Paul Heb 9:26 Otherwise, He would have needed to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now once at the consummation of the ages He has been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. 27 And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment, 28 so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him. Since we have this clear language in verse 27 in contrast to the figurative language of the Bible, I have to put my vote in with the clear guidance. Sorry about not noticing your note earlier and responding; this one completely went over me. God bless. --Rowdy |
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83 | Age of Miracles - Past or Present | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 123131 | ||
I guess you can see from this and the previous posts of mine on this subject, I didn't include examples of tongues as you describe because I don't see the second description in the NT. It seems pretty clear that each time these miraculous powers were used, it was an obvious demonstration of supernatural power, something that was so extraordinary that the news "rang around the world." I would be the last person in the world to put an absolute "no way" on this kind of activity which would be sorta like putting God in a box. But I do want to be a "doubting Thomas" just as the Bible depicts and question these kind of claims of miracles. I'd have to see the evidence myself as so many people honestly and sincerely believe in them with a great amount of niavete. There again, I'm also thankful that this issue, miracles in this modern age or not, is NOT linked to our salvation. I'm thankful our Father only expects us to obey Him and become a christian. I would urge you to keep an open mind and be cautious in this area. God bless you, dear friend and thanks for your response. --Rowdy |
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84 | Age of Miracles - Past or Present | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 123138 | ||
Generally, I would like to agree with you in my usual devotion to maintaining an open mind but when I check my Bible again and again, I can only come up with these two same methods of gaining such miraculous power: from the Holy Ghost and from the laying on of the Apostles' hands. Those were the ONLY ways of getting this power as clearly shown throughout the NT. So I must be as you've already noticed very much prejuidiced against this kind of activity. But thanks again for your post. God bless. --Rowdy |
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85 | Age of Miracles - Past or Present | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 125844 | ||
I must admit, I don't know how to answer your questions. They do seem to apply to the discussion, but I'm not sure how anyone could answer. Maybe you could help me out by attempting an answer yourself. Please give them a shot. I'd also be interested in seeing your direct answer to my post or question. I'll keep watching. Thanks and God bless. Rowdy |
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86 | Age of Miracles - Past or Present | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 125879 | ||
By the way, Welcome to the Forum, it's always good to see newcomers. I have to agree with you, this is one of the toughest verses in the Bible and one of the most controversial. I guess like it's been stated by many in past, it all comes to a point as to the meaning of just is "that which is Perfect." In my opinion, that discussion is pretty well cited on the Forum and you've seen my opinion. My question to you here would be, What do we use as a "yardstick" to measure these modern day miracles, speaking in tongues, faith healing and all other miraculous powers? Naturally, most everyone responds with "Well of course, silly, we should use the Bible" but I'd like to nail it down to specifics. How would you descibe a modern day miracle so we could be assured that it truly does come from God and not as a figment of someone's imagination? God does expect us to test the spirits to see if they really are the real McCoy. Take for example, speaking in tongues, how do we determine if it is truly is a God given gift, a miraculous power? God bless. Rowdy |
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87 | Age of Miracles - Past or Present | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 125880 | ||
Can you please describe the most spectaculor of these miracles that you've performed. Give us details and the number of witnesses. I'd truly like to see a miracle in my lifetime. Please do respond with those details. Thanks and God bless. Rowdy | ||||||
88 | Age of Miracles - Past or Present | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 126084 | ||
I've stated it a couple of times on the Forum but it bears repeating. I do believe very strongly in the age of miracles. We're living in that age at this very moment and probably will continue to do so until the Day of Judgment. What am I saying, you ask? I'm saying I believe very strongly that only God or the Godhead practice miracles and impart them directly to the receipient here on earth, usually at the behest of someone praying. I'm only trying to inspire folks to comply with the Bible and "test the spirits in everything," most especially when people claim to have some miraculous power. The only possible standard God's people would use in testing the spirits would be the Word of God. So with speaking in tongues, are all the listeners able to understand like as done on the day at Pentacost? Did these folks speaking EVER have an ocassion to learn the language or was it truly bestowed on them in a supernatural manner? Miraculous healing must be more than healing of backpains and headaches. Are severed body parts restored? Are there lepers healed with new-born skin? Are those born crippled able to leap for joy immediately after being healed? Are those born blind able to see perfectly and immediately after being healed? Is life restored to a person after several hours/days after true, complete, clinical death? And of course, all of these miracles of healing must be done without any assistance from modern medicine or equipment of any kind. So, you see, I'm just advocating evaluating the miralces in today's world by the same standard that we see portrayed in the Bible. Now I know one classic response is that the quality or level of healing or hearing/understanding miraculous speech is dependent on the spiritual maturity of the recipient BUT that is simply NOT the Biblical way to look at the subject. Never, not even once in all the Bible, did the spiritual condition of the recipient ever impede the execution or the quality of the miracle in the Bible. True enough, the maturity of the disciples before Christ's death prevented their being effective as they readily admitted but not after His resurrection. At any rate, I must insist as we all should, we must look at this matter carefully and make certain the miracles of today truly do come from God because if they come from any other source, they should be ignored as non-existent. Why am I so insistent on this point? I'm glad you ask. Again, throughout the NT, there was only two instances where christians manifested miraculous powers WITHOUT the gift of "the laying on of the Apostles hands," in Acts 2 and Acts 10. We all know Acts 2 was when the church was established and Acts 10 was the endowment of power to Cornelius and his household for the single express purpose of impressing on Apostle Peter and the rest of the Apostles that the Gospel was for the whole world and not just for the Jews. So, the conclusion is that only the Apostles and those on whom they "laid their hands" manifested these miraculous powers. Further, we can conclude that since none of these folks are here living any longer, there can be no one with such God given powers. Any such miraculous powers must be from another source. However in an effort to maintain an open mind, I would like to witness an actual miracle at some point in my lifetime. So if you know of anyone who can actually perform miracles like those described above, I'd certainly like to hear about it. Hope this helps. God bless. Rowdy |
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89 | Age of Miracles - Past or Present | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 126090 | ||
I have to apologize. I re-read my post and I guess I wasn't perfectly clear. What I meant to say is that I do believe in miracles from God in today's world but he dispenses them at His discretion, probably with some subtlety but directly to the recipients. You have probably heard of the person who goes to the doctor and gets the proverbial and horrible final briefing from that doctor about his having terminal cancer and he's got a short time to live, maybe a few months. Six months later, he shows back in the doctor's office and low and behold the cancer is in complete remission and now it looks like the person will live for several years. That's a pretty clear miracle. Or the person that walks away from a car accident when the car looks like a crumpled up paper wad. Yes, my friend, we do live in an age of miracles but directly from God to the recipient, no human 3rd party intervening or channeling God's power like in the first century with Apostles. I'm saying that God wants us to graduate from this love affair with this physcial world and learn to prefer His Spiritual World BUT to wait for His calling us Home to get away from this world. We must re-read 1 Cor 13 and learn to prefer love, God like love, unconditional love for our fellow man and for our God and Father and we should do so in preference to the other Spiritual Gifts that God bestows on us. I'm convinced that he never meant for man to be able to dispense these kinds of miracles after the Apostles died along with those on whom they laid their hands. Otherwise, in this world of extreme spiritual immaturity, people would end up worshipping such beings like they tried in the first century. No, our God wants us to come to Him, based on our faith and not on what we see and experience. If we were to actually experience a miracle at the hands of a mere man like the first century then it lessons our faith and our dependence on Him. I hope this clears up this misunderstanding. God bless. Rowdy |
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90 | Scriptural Support? | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 126433 | ||
As I've stated many, many times the OT is an incredibly valuable document for all the reasons I've stated previously and a whole lot more. The main reasons why the OT is obsolete and the NT takes its place is the difference mainly between its form of worship, method of salvation through Jesus the Perfect Sacrifice and the fact we as christians can now approach God the Father directly through Jesus instead of going through another man (Levite Priest). I would never discard my treasured OT for its incredible insight into the mind of God and His amazing amount of patience and love He showed to His beloved Jewish children. But again as I've stated before, there are many (millions in fact, throughout the world) of faithful christians who see this contrast the same way as I do. Yes, Jesus fulfilled the OT by living the perfect, sinless life and then died the perfect sinless Sacrifice for you and me so that we could go Home to our Father after the ending of this world. My main scriptural support would come from the Book of Hebrews which clearly demonstrates and explains the superiority of Christianity over the whole of Judiasm and again in the Book of Romans, Chapter 8:1-4 God bless. Rowdy |
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91 | Age of Miracles - Past or Present | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 127348 | ||
I must apologize in taking so long to respond to your post. Back to the subject at hand. I must admit you make a good point and I should also say my statement quoted above was a little extreme. I guess from a certain point of view the lack of faith on these folks did factor into Jesus' decision not to perform miracles in their midst. But I should also say that at least the most important point of this whole discussion is that Jesus CHOSE not to perform these miracles because of their lack of faith. I would say in this instance, Christ chose "not to throw pearls to swine." So in the ultimate analysis, the net effect is the same: as far as we in this modern age (dispensation), miracles are still NOT impeded by our lack of faith or the lack of anyone's faith. The big difference should be our solid belief in Christ and His Word and our using His Word to "test the spirits" and evaluate these "miracles" in contrast to those in God's Word. But again, in a spirit of open mindedness, I would love to witness a miracle performed by a human being before the end of my life. So if you hear about such a miracle, meeting the qualifications as I've cited in my previous post, this thread, post no 126084, I'd be most interested in hearing about it. God bless, dear friend. Rowdy |
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92 | Age of Miracles - Past or Present | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 127510 | ||
I just noticed it's been more than two weeks since my last post/request to you. Do you not plan to respond? But I also just noticed you haven't posted to anyone else Jul 11th; I do hope you haven't given up on this Forum. It really is a good thing to share with Bible students. I sincerely do want to hear about your triumphs and victories. Please share with us. God bless. Rowdy |
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93 | Order of occurance | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 128350 | ||
I appreciate your response but please understand God's Plan of Salvation is a process with a two-way street. Jesus lovingly invites us to become part of His family but we must comply with His Last Will and Testament as depicted throughout Romans and Hebrews. Yes, I agree with you, all those other words as mentioned in your post above are certainly valid BUT those are characteristics or actions that are performed by God on a continuous basis as described in 1 John 1. WHEREAS the steps to Salvation as I've outlined in my statement, Hear the Gospel, Believe in the Lord Jesus as the Son of God, Repent of your sins (turn one's life around), Confess the Name of Jesus as our Lord and Savior, Be Baptized for the remission of our sins; these are specific actions in the Bible that WE must do to accept God's Gift of Salvation just like it was done in the first century. As I mentioned before, I realize different people interpret God's Word differently so we're not ALL going to agree. But I just felt compelled to contribute to the total picture and make it as complete as the Bible portrays. God bless you in starting a good discussion. Rowdy |
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94 | Order of occurance | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 128815 | ||
Sorry but that was one of my main points with my previous statement. At least as I understand God's Word, in order for us to be a New Creature in Christ, we must be born again in water and in Spirit as cited in John 3:5. We receive that Gift of being born again upon being immersed in baptism for the remission of our sins as cited in all the verses cited with my previous post. In God's eyes, we're either for Him or against Him. We're either born again into the family of God or we're still in our sins. God's Word is clear on this subject, again in my opinion. This is what real and genuine regeneration is all about. We must remember that God can only regenrate/transform us after He adds us to His Family. Thanks for your response. God bless. Rowdy |
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95 | Order of occurance | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 128897 | ||
It's difficult to say. I would have to say it's a little of both because you're coupling our act of being "born again" which is certainly passive and God's act of regeneration which is certainly active on His part. A person could compare this to the process of making a clay pot. God is the Potter. If we'll allow ourselves to be submitted completely to His Will, we realize our weak, feeble attempt at being a good person is comparable to a very poor, sorry looking clay pot, not even worthy of being put on a shelf. But God takes that sorry excuse of a clay pot and completely reduces it to a new lump of fresh new clay. He then proceeds to mold us over the entire balance of our lives into a fine clay pot, covering all of our inherent defects with His Son's blood. Thus we're put on the shelf of the world to show God's light in our lives and attract more clay pots to do similarly and submit themselves to God's Masterhood. So you can see, we have very, very little to do in this process thus we should see ourselves as being passive. However, God takes a very active role in this process as He molds us, guides us and helps us through the troublesome periods in our lives. He does this mostly through His Word but also with the Holy Spirit that lives within us as His children. One more point, we can draw from this illustration or analogy. Sometimes, when the devil lusts for our soul and we give in to his temptations, that could be compared to another blemish or a crack in our clay pot. We must see ourselves in need of repenting to God and ask for His forgiveness AND His aid in repairing that crack so as to ward off the devil's temptations. This is can also be seen as that refining process as described in Rev 3. Sometimes that refining process can be quite painful but it's well worth the end result. I hope this is clear to you. I'd be interested in your response. God bless. Rowdy |
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96 | Is astrology forbidden? | Bible general Archive 1 | Rowdy | 112465 | ||
I'm not certain as to what position you're taking: for or against astrology, zodiac, etc. Please elaborate. Thanks and God bless. | ||||||
97 | Is astrology forbidden? | Bible general Archive 1 | Rowdy | 113593 | ||
I also thank you very heartily. As you and Mammophs may have noticed, I'm not very good about research. I've studied the Bible most of my life but I do like to discuss God's Word and His Will with His children, including myself. I am always grateful for those around me who have a talent for research and know who to take advantage of resources to their maximum effect such as you've done above. If there's one thing I've learned over my lifetime of world travel, I have learned to appreciate the tremendous good through teamwork and diversity in God's world. I pray for God's richest blessing on you and everyone else on the Forum. |
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98 | Is creamation right? | Bible general Archive 1 | Rowdy | 119909 | ||
This subject has been discussed before, at least to some detail. I really believe it's a very, very personal decision but my position is pretty well summed up on Post No 110464. You can insert it into the Quick Search on the upper right corner of your screen. God bless. --Rowdy |
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99 | What does OT mean | OT general | Rowdy | 117829 | ||
You can get a little more balance on this subject by reading some of my posts by inserting these numbers in the Quick Search to the right of your screen. 117709, 117588, 117554 and 117549 I don't really understand this facination with the OT. A thorough study of the whole Bible clearly leaves the serious Bible student with the solid conclusion that the OT was most definitely applicable BEFORE the cross but now in this dispensation the NT with Christ's words and those of His Apostles are in charge. Hope this helps and God bless. --Rowdy |
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100 | who was cain's wife parents | OT general | Rowdy | 122841 | ||
Good response, Ed. I guess this must be the most asked question of all time. God bless you for your patience. --Rowdy | ||||||
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