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241 | Birth place of Cain and Abel | Gen 4:1 | azurelaw | 188594 | ||
Well said, brother Steve. A reminder to all of us (of course I count myself in) that we must be very careful on what we read on the websites especially when we are quoting the materials. Shalom Azure |
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242 | God's Regard for Cain's Offering? | Gen 4:5 | azurelaw | 206011 | ||
Dear Brother Lionheart, While I agree with you, something interests me and makes me ponder when I read on the verses. I wonder what was Cain thinking and expecting when he made the sacrifice. Apart from the conventional teaching (which I agree whole heartedly as well), what was in Cain's heart that made his offerings not acceptable to God? Could he be taking it for granted (that's why he was angry when God rejected) that God would accept him? His self-rightousness? What do you think? Gen 4:5 but for Cain and for his offering He had no regard. So Cain became very angry and his countenance fell. Gen 4:6 Then the LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen? Gen 4:7 "If you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it." Shalom Azure |
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243 | Why did God reject Cain's offering | Gen 4:5 | azurelaw | 236288 | ||
Dear Susan, I am afraid that the Bible did not mention specifically this (your answer) is the reason. From the context of scripture, the failure seems not about what was sacrificed but more on Cain's heart. Shalom Azure |
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244 | Why did God reject Cain's offering | Gen 4:5 | azurelaw | 236292 | ||
Dear Susan, Thank you for your response. If your reasoning sounds (i.e. God rejected Cain's offering because it was the produce from cursed ground), how would you understand Leviticus chapter 2 concerning God's law on grain offering? If you reasoning correct, God should have forbidden Israelite to make any offering from the ground. Shalom Azure |
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245 | Burying our dead | Gen 4:10 | azurelaw | 190847 | ||
Dear Brother Jeff, Before my departure in the next couple of hours, may I encourage you not to be disappointed (I sense a bit of it). When I made my reply, I was sure you must have a reason for the question. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and I think it is a good thing that you alert us on the issue. Not many people possess a good alertness like you. This morning, when I was enjoying my moment with God, He gave me these verses: Heb 3:12-13 Take care, brethren, .... But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called "Today," so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. Keep going, dear brother. :-) Shalom Azure |
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246 | The offspring of Adam's | Gen 5:1 | azurelaw | 215647 | ||
Thanks Steve. I had that bad experience before :-( I learnt the lesson :-) If I am going to make it long, I will do it on a word file first and copy and paste after I finish the writing. Thank you for your input. Very much appreciated. Concerning the controversy on the sons of God (Gen 6:2), I sure know it has not been settled. However, from my own study, I would lean more onto viewing them (the sons of God) being the line of Seth instead of angels. Nevertheless, I would not be dogmatic about this :-) Shalom Azure |
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247 | The offspring of Adam's | Gen 5:1 | azurelaw | 215648 | ||
Thank you, Brother Doc. That is helpful. Shalom Azure |
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248 | The offspring of Adam's | Gen 5:1 | azurelaw | 215667 | ||
Thank you, brother :-) Azure |
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249 | Who are the "sons of God" in Genesis 6? | Gen 6:2 | azurelaw | 189159 | ||
Dear brothers and gentlemen, May I suggest you go to post no. 3864 for the captioned subject and within the thread, there are a number of posts that are good enough for you to spend the whole day. After you have drawn your conclusion, I would be glad to be informed of. :) Shalom Azure |
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250 | angel do not marry, but falling angels. | Gen 6:4 | azurelaw | 199469 | ||
Dear rev eugene, Welcome to the forum. Could you please cite supporting scripture in reference to your notion that the sons of God are the fallen angels (if I understand you correctly)? "... the sons of God saw the daughters of men--By the former is meant the family of Seth, who were professedly religious; by the latter, the descendants of apostate Cain. Mixed marriages between parties of opposite principles and practice were necessarily sources of extensive corruption. The women, religious themselves, would as wives and mothers exert an influence fatal to the existence of religion in their household, and consequently the people of that later age sank to the lowest depravity." - Jamieson Faussett Brown Shalom Azure |
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251 | How did God repopulate water creatures? | Gen 6:7 | azurelaw | 198359 | ||
Dear Ready, Gen 1:2 The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the WATERS. Gen 1:9 Then God said, "Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear"; and it was so. Gen 1:10 God called THE DRY LAND EARTH, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good. Gen 7:4 ...and I will blot out from the FACE OF THE LAND every living thing that I have made." Gen 7:34 Thus He blotted out every living thing that was upon the FACE OF THE LAND, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky... So, base on the scriptures above, it does not support that the creatures in water were destroyed. This is just my 2 cents. I am open to biblical correction. Shalom Azure |
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252 | Is procreation a command or a blessing | Gen 9:1 | azurelaw | 198887 | ||
Dear Cheri, Thanks for your response. Our discussion has nothing to do with her situation or mine. This sister is a single, devoted christian. She raised the issue for the reason of that she has encountered with people (christians or non-christians) struggling with the issue of divorce. She strongly feels that part of the reason people are so resentful to Christianity is that christians hold a very conservative position (only accept divorce under adultery) on the issue and appear to be unloving towards the suffering party of a couple by disregarding factors such as impotence, unable to fulfill the vow, staying together could obviously bring them more hurt and destruction ... Finally, she asked what constitute to marriage. If a man and a woman chose to live together, commit solely to each other, not having any children at all and civil responsibilities not affected, ect. what is the need for signing that paper? We did not have enough time to finish our conversation as we were having a quick breakfast (about 15 min) last Sunday. I do not fully agree with what she briefly said. I hope I could be well prepared and find the chance for a longer talk with her. Shalom Azure |
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253 | Is procreation a command or a blessing | Gen 9:1 | azurelaw | 198910 | ||
Dear Nick, Thank you for pointing me to that. I was just too sleepy and did not read my Chinese Bible carefully enough last night (my time). You are right - God SAID to Adam and Eve to be fruitful. Shalom Azure |
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254 | First rain and first rainbow | Gen 9:13 | azurelaw | 183124 | ||
Thanks, Mark for your answer. It helps. I also bear the same view as yours. By the way, it also mentioned that a river flow out of Eden; could it be possible that the water source of the river came from rain? (of course this is only my guessing) Shalom Azure |
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255 | confused about Noahs son | Gen 9:22 | azurelaw | 209625 | ||
Dear Rick, I see WOS has given you sound biblical reply. Please understand that the context of Gen 9:22 does not support your argument in association with Lev 20:11, 20. Shalom Azure |
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256 | Ham, Noah drinking wine | Gen 9:22 | azurelaw | 233304 | ||
Dear EdB, First let me explain that I do not endorse drunkenness nor nakedness. They are, as Bible says, foolish and wrong indeed. But here, in this narrative of the Noah's time - ancient history where there was no 10 commandments or the Torah, was drunkenness and nakedness regarded wrong AT THAT TIME? Or are we using our standard to access what actually not there? Note that God has explicitly given certain commands (Gen 9:6), but nothing about drunkenness or nakedness. I always find this narrative interesting. As modern people, we do know drunkenness is foolish and nakedness is wrong. But when I put myself in the time of Noah and considering the Bible is silent on this by then, I believe the focus is more on Ham's wicked behaviour toward his father's nakedness. Shalom Azure |
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257 | Ham, Noah drinking wine | Gen 9:22 | azurelaw | 233306 | ||
Thank you for the quick response:-) Azure |
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258 | witnessing to church going homosexuals | Gen 9:25 | azurelaw | 202904 | ||
Dear jeremy, Welcome to the forum. First of all, I want to state that I am not against a person who is homo but I am against homoseuality. We should love homos the way as other unbelieving people. Modern days, even within the christian circles, we exercise love in the way that we are blind to the truth. That is a sad and dangerous thing. Both are needed. You said: It is time we made another adjustment... Adjustment of what? Are not the churches nowadays endorse marriage of homos? Isn't it a significant sign that we have compromised too much? Shalom Azure |
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259 | witnessing to church going homosexuals | Gen 9:25 | azurelaw | 202906 | ||
Dear Quvmoh, Welcome to the forum and glad to see you post here. Thank you for addressing the concern so aptly to the point. Hope you stay around, learn and share with us. Shalom Azure |
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260 | HOW DO YOU KNOW HE NOT A BELIEVER | Gen 11:6 | azurelaw | 200379 | ||
Dear Irene, You said: WHY EVERY TIME I GIVE MY ANSWER OR ? TO THE FORUM YOU PEOPLE TAKE IT IN STRIFE ... I read of your above accusation in several of your posts. Kindly please be assured that no one on the forum intends to give you a hard time. I am a Chinese living in a Chinese society (you might want to check on my profile for knowing me more). English is definitely not my native language. People around me usually don't speak English though most of them can. So, when I post on the forum, I will try my best to keep my message as clear as I can. At the same time, I would also consider at least 2 measures within the communication : 1/ Misunderstanding can always happen, an open mind for questions or even challenges with biblical ground should be anticiapted. 2/ You said it correctly, no one knows everything, we are here to learn. Therefore, through learning and interaction with one another, we can also be corrected. That's why I am not only anticipating challenging questions but also embrace them so that I can study His Word more diligently (2 Tim 2:15). I see quite a number of your posts with the statement "...IN THE BIBLE ITS SAYS I DONT REMEBER WHERE BUT IT SAY...". Like you, I always forget the exact verse but just can remember the general idea. However, only grasping the idea vaguely is not enough and could be misleading too, we have to search the Bible and study the verse within its context for its correct meaning. Remember when satan tempted Jesus in the wilderness, he also quoted scriptures (Mat 4:1-11), but out of its context. What a good demonstration it is to us that taking scripture out of the context is a remarkable tool used by satan to lead us astray! I hold high respect to see how you expressed your love towards our Lord in your profile. You are very much welcome to study with us together on the forum. We also show our love to one another and toward our Saviour when we handle His Word rightly. Shalom Azure |
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