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21 | Questions to ask while Reading the Word | Neh 8:18 | sonofmom | 243218 | ||
Thank you for an awesome concurring testimony. | ||||||
22 | Questions to ask while Reading the Word | Neh 8:18 | sonofmom | 243221 | ||
Thank you Doc, Your answer blesses me richly. And, I did look up your info in #157835. I look forward to further learning in this forum. I have also told many others about the forum, but not sure how they continued. Son |
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23 | Questions to ask while Reading the Word | Neh 8:18 | sonofmom | 243231 | ||
Thank you again Doc. If there is one thing I need most, it is prayer. I will reciprocate, of course. |
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24 | can a person be born evil | Ps 51:5 | sonofmom | 223141 | ||
Hello poorbobbie, Not only CAN we be born evil, we are taught by Scripture that we ARE born evil. Romans 5:12 relates to us, "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. So we have an inherited sin nature, this I'm sure you know. If I may elaborate, we do not have a sin nature because we sin, but we do sin because we have a sin nature. In other words, look at a horse thief. He does not become a horse thief once he steals a horse, but he steals a horse because he is a horse thief. There is no way anybody can steal a horse if they are not a horse thief, and: There is no way we can sin if we do not have a sin nature within ourselves, (which we do have). As it is written (cf Rom 3:10), There is none righteous, no, not one This is the reason why Father God sent His only begotten Son to suffer and die. There is no other reason why a father would want to see his own son tortured to death, but for the greater good of us all. |
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25 | did Romans crucify thieves | Matt 27:38 | sonofmom | 222453 | ||
Thanks Brad, I had someone telling me that historically Romans did not crucify for the crime of thievery, and I was just wondering if there was any truth to his banter. Blessings son |
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26 | God can't die or look on sin! | Matt 27:46 | sonofmom | 225431 | ||
What we are being taught here is reconciliation. Since God is willing to be reconciled to us, therefore, to be reconciled to God should be our top priority. To learn thru God's Word the very length that God has travelled, in order to promote a relationship with us, is unimaginable in my mind. Christ was perfectly pure, or He would have been an imperfect Mediator. The sacrifice He offered was to be made sin. He was not made a sinner, but an object of sin, a sin-offering, and the sacrifice for sin. This is where the design of the hypostatic union is employed, -a perfect plan with a perfect outcome. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God (John 1:1) And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us,... ... full of grace and truth. (1:12 ) If I may suggest to you that the Word of God was, during those hours of darkness, in the same place as He was during the three days prior to the resurrection, -and during the eternity past- before the Word was made into flesh. The Word was with God. And the humanity of Jesus, who had never committed sin, was laid aside to suffer the wrath of God for our sin. |
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27 | A High View of Scripture | Luke 24:32 | sonofmom | 240381 | ||
Thank you very much for posting this. | ||||||
28 | Free in Christ | John 8:31 | sonofmom | 240334 | ||
Thank you, Doc, very much. I am in a class to become a church member, and the leading pastor had said, we were free from sin. I corrected him, saying we are not free from sin, but free from the law of sin and death. (Rom 8) I am not sure if I want to join this church now, as the pastor accused me of being prideful, and again, as I was discussing the practice of infant baptism. I am not in favor of it, the pastor is not in favor either, but he will erform it if the parents want it. I am now thinking this is a compromise on the part of the denomination, and may want to continue shopping for a church home. |
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29 | Free in Christ | John 8:31 | sonofmom | 240336 | ||
Thank you for your reply, I agree that it is a good thing to have member classes, and I will look into the references you mentioned later tonight. The perfectionism thing scares me, as I thought my wife and I have finally found a church home, and she likes it so much, but we have been to ten churches in the last several years and cannot seem to find a good fit. I realize that no church will be perfect, so I am trying to decide the true depth of the issues where we differ, to see whether they would actually be divisive enough to leave this church, because I know my wife would think not. Yet she also understands that I need to lead my house down the correct path. We have been married only 4 years, and each have children over 30 yrs so it is not a huge issue, but, since my last post, I found the affirmations of this church's denomination, and it maybe actually deeper than what I originally thought. I would like to paste a section of this for your perusal, and if you could be so kind as to post your opinion in the next day or so, I will be exceeding grateful. Lord bless you, and yours. Following, are the 6 affirmations of faith, and then, a paragraph that caught my abrupt attention: We affirm the centrality of the word of God. We affirm the necessity of the new birth. We affirm a commitment to the whole mission of the church. We affirm the church as a fellowship of believers. We affirm a conscious dependence on the Holy Spirit. We affirm the reality of freedom in Christ. The Evangelical Covenant Church celebrates two divinely ordained sacraments, baptism and the Lord’s Supper. Recognizing the reality of freedom in Christ, and in conscious dependence on the work of the Holy Spirit, we practice both the baptism of infants and believer baptism. The Evangelical Covenant Church embraces this freedom in Christ as a gift that preserves personal conviction, yet guards against an individualism that disregards the centrality of the Word of God and the mutual responsibilities and disciplines of the spiritual community. |
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30 | Free in Christ | John 8:31 | sonofmom | 240339 | ||
Azure, Thank you for your helping heart in this matter. We do use the Apostles Creed, the Nicene Creed and etc. I checked briefly into the Church's beliefs before attending, and have been there for a while before being prompted towards becoming a member. However the first member meeting did send up a red flag, when I was told that they actually do perform infant baptism, if the parents prefer that method, however the pastor told me that he instructs the parents that baptism has nothing to do towards salvation. This did not convince me, as I feel that infant baptism leans more towards cultic behavior. That is when pastor Mike started talking about "Freedom in Christ" which started to send up more red flags, but then as I pondered this, I thought that maybe I was being too harsh and decided to consult with this forum |
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31 | Free in Christ | John 8:31 | sonofmom | 240340 | ||
Additionally, the affirmations of this church do actually mention the Word of God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit, as well as the mission of the Church, fellowship and the new birth. What they do not mention is the inerrancy of the Word, or infallibility and I will be questioning this at the next meeting, since all I have heard is talk about the centrality of the Word, but then there is the infant baptism (only if parents request it) and there is no biblical basis for that. | ||||||
32 | Free in Christ | John 8:31 | sonofmom | 240359 | ||
Thank you again, Doc, for an awesome answer. Now I would like to share the answer that was brought before me in the middle of the night, this one is from God's inspired Word. I am still feeling things out, as I have thought about not becoming a member and still attending, as I have seen others do in the past, and I also told the pastor, that the Church I came from did not even allow people to become members, because we all already are the Church, so there is no need to become a member of one. Anyway, I was led to Romans 14, in context, 37 verses continuing on into chapter 15. 1 Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters. 2 One man's faith allows him to eat everything, but another man, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. 3 The man who eats everything must not look down on him who does not, and the man who does not eat everything must not condemn the man who does, for God has accepted him. I really like the pastor, yet there are some things I do not like about how the church is run, or administered. When I arrived, I saw a large repair project underway that was expensive, but I did not understand how the basement walls were having problems with hydrostatic pressure when the church sits atop the highest hill for miles, and I thought I would have done things way different if I had gotten there earlier. But the faith in the Holy Spirit is strong, at first glance I thought I detected a strong presence of the Spirit in the teachings from the pulpit. Yet mentioning the Spirit does not guaranty truth, we all know. Anyone is welcome to chime in here, and I look forward to Doc's wisdom as well, but I am getting a small voice telling me that I may have been put there to build my faith as I see God work in people that are not totally correct in dividing His Word. |
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33 | Free in Christ | John 8:31 | sonofmom | 240366 | ||
Very understandable, Doc. Your words ring true and clear. I have a desire to do as my heart tells me, which is to follow God's heart. This includes acquiring all the tools necessary for the journey, and you have helped me greatly. May the Lord bless you for all that you do, in all you do. Son |
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34 | Tired of quotes that devalues others. | 2 Tim 4:3 | sonofmom | 243180 | ||
Hi EdB, it seems a far stretch to use the Catholic Church and sols scriptura in the same question. The RCC claims to be co-equal in authority with Scripture, until there is a conflict, and then Tradition takes center stage and Scripture is demoted. One case in point of course, is purgatory, which denies the sufficiency of Christ's blood to save us from our sin. |
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35 | Tired of quotes that devalues others. | 2 Tim 4:3 | sonofmom | 243183 | ||
Thank you for your reply, as you say your argument is with the Application of Sola Scriptura? May we correct that to say the "Proper" application of sola scriptura? I am in disagreement with your last statement as saying, "each man can decide for himself what scripture is saying. That, my brother in Christ is exactly why we use disciplined hermeneutics. If proper interpretation is not studiously applied, then we have each reader interpreting for themselves and there are as many interpretations as we have individual readers. |
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36 | Tired of quotes that devalues others. | 2 Tim 4:3 | sonofmom | 243184 | ||
EdB, you say both churches support theology that is in conflict with the other. I agree. But are they both in conflict with the Bible? We must decide who is the authority in this discussion at the outset or proceed nowhere. To mention the Catholic Church for contrast is no different than mentioning Mormons or any other so called Christian sect that does not properly accept Scripture as infallible truth. Yes, the Catholics, by the Christian definition of a cult is exactly that because they claim to have their own interpretation, which is privately held, and they also worship a different Jesus than the one recorded in Scripture. The RCC claim is that Christ's work on the cross is ongoing, where the Bible proclaims that Christ died once for all. That is why Catholics have their 'crucifix' and in Protestant denpms there is an empty cross. Yes, the mass claims authority to transform a wafer into the actual body of Christ and re-sacrifice Him everyday around the world. This is nowhere biblically supported. |
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37 | Tired of quotes that devalues others. | 2 Tim 4:3 | sonofmom | 243188 | ||
I do look around, and I do enjoy studying how denominations differ. There are three Abrahamic religions and many beliefs that are otherwise. But that is why I do not belong to a denomination. I do not try to decipher between dogmatisms and which should be divisive and which are not. There is infant baptism, and there is sprinkling or immersion, and then we have Freedom in Christ. So where does it all lead and when will it end? Ha. Don't we all know there are Calvinists and Dispensationalism and this will never be resolved by debate or collusion. I find the answer in the end of the "love chapter" as then we will know as we are known and all that is imperfect will vanish. Study to show thyself approved and may God bless you abundantly as you pursue Him. Son |
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38 | Tired of quotes that devalues others. | 2 Tim 4:3 | sonofmom | 243191 | ||
Correct. The differences will not be ironed out in our life on earth. Fact is, not that, "Differences in theology have raged since the Reformation" Because they existed before then and will continue until the Son of Man says that is enough. What is the source of all the disagreement? Human pride. In Galatians 5 we see sins of the flesh listed, and among them is heresy. Why does heresy belong on the list? Because its source is pride. Take the pride of the human heart out of the equation and many other problems are solved as well. |
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39 | Tired of quotes that devalues others. | 2 Tim 4:3 | sonofmom | 243193 | ||
Thank you for you response, it seems as we are in complete agreement but to answer your question, No, it never makes sense to post quotes that are mocking or belittling to anyone's beliefs. It fosters negativity over all else. It can only be disruptive and is not in line w/the will of God. |
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40 | Tired of quotes that devalues others. | 2 Tim 4:3 | sonofmom | 243194 | ||
Thank you for you response, it seems as we are in complete agreement but to answer your question, No, it never makes sense to post quotes that are mocking or belittling to anyone's beliefs. It fosters negativity over all else. It can only be disruptive and is not in line w/the will of God. |
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