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1 | When does regeneration take place ? | 1 Pet 3:20 | BrettOrlando | 230118 | ||
Hi Paul. Well by regeneration, I assume you are saying saved from the coming wrath to the disobedient. I think it is important to read the Bible enough to ask "what is God trying to do here?" He wanted to create people that would CHOOSE to become like him which is unconditionally loving. Jesus spoke of this kind of love for those who hurt us in Matthew 5. We saw in the Garden of Eden that God will not put up with his creation that thinks they have a better way of doing things. It's not that he doesn't want to, he cannot. Since only goodness and love comes from God, his people must follow him. Throughout the Old Testament, we see God giving detailed instructions of how he wanted something carried out, e.g. Noah's Ark, Solomon's temple, the Ark of the Covenant construction, and many healings where maybe someone had to wash in a specific body of water or do a certain thing to get rid of their leprosy, etc. Living a life "in Christ" and obeying his teachings (John 14:23-24; John 15:9-10) is his plan to transform us reversing the process sin's residual damage (unholiness) has left behind, i.e. to make us loving to the undeserving and unselfish. No one knows better than the designer of all things. Sin does more than send a message of rebellion to God. It leaves behind a digressing spiritual condition. It makes us more selfish and unlike God, the more we partake in it. As for how we get into the body of Christ, Jesus told us in Matthew 28:18-20 that all his servants (disciples) are to be baptized. We see in 1 Peter 3:20-21 that is the time you make your pledge to make your covenant commitment to Christ. It tells us that the water symbolizes BAPTISM and saves us just like the water saved Noah and his family. Now what is BAPTISM? Paul tells us in Romans 6:1-4 that is dying and being resurrected with Christ. We go down in the water pledging to die from then on to our selves take up our cross and follow Christ (Luke 9:23-26 and 14:25-31) and then come up out of the water to live the new life. Born again according to John 3:3-5. Other passages on it Galatians 3:26-27, Colossians 2:12, Titus 3:3-5. Much like Jesus was transfigured on the mountain where Peter, James and John witnessed, his disciples will be transfigured when he comes back to get them (1 Corinthians 15:52). Maybe this is what you mean by regeneration. Paul's letters spend a lot of time instructing and encouraging people to leave the life of slavery in sin we have been freed (don't go back to Egypt). It is a mental taking up your cross, relying on the Holy Spiriit's instructions in His word (2 Peter 1:20-21), and praying for God's help for the rest of your life. The more selfless deeds we do to other disciples and those we don't know or have hurt us, the more we will become more like Christ. His sermons on the mount (Matt 5,6,7) and plain (Luke 6) see his basic teachings. | ||||||
2 | Is it wrong to call one on earth Father? | Bible general Archive 4 | BrettOrlando | 230114 | ||
Hi all: My personal belief is that Jesus doesn't have a problem with us referring to our biological fathers, since he commands us to honor them. Also in Luke 11:11 he speaks to the fathers referring to them as such. I believe the passage is referring to church leaders. I find it interesting that in Mark 10:29-31, he promises rewards for putting him first over a long list of family members including fathers, but in the list of spiritual family members that we will receive in this life on earth in return for our sacrifice, he mentions all except for Fathers. Ever notice that? Take a look. Moreover in another "family" passage, Mark 3:35, where his biological family thought he was out of his mind (apparently early in his ministry), he calls anyone who follows him to be his true mothers, brothers, and sisters, BUT not Father. | ||||||
3 | Is it wrong to call one on earth Father? | Bible general Archive 4 | BrettOrlando | 230113 | ||
Hi all: My personal belief is that Jesus doesn't have a problem with us referring to our biological fathers, since he commands us to honor them. Also in Luke 11:11 he speaks to the fathers referring to them as such. I believe the passage is referring to church leaders. I find it interesting that in Mark 10:29-31, he promises rewards for putting him first over a long list of family members including fathers, but in the list of spiritual family members that we will receive in this life on earth in return for our sacrifice, he mentions all except for Fathers. Ever notice that? Take a look. Moreover in another "family" passage, Mark 3:35, where his biological family thought he was out of his mind (apparently early in his ministry), he calls anyone who follows him to be his true mothers, brothers, and sisters, BUT not Father. | ||||||
4 | Can a priest forgive sins? | John 20:23 | BrettOrlando | 230112 | ||
I will have to partially and respectfully disagree. See my post to ID 230111 ; another question about John 20:21-23. As for 2 Corinthians 5:18-20, Paul spoke of the ministry of reconciliation. Being reconciled (i.e. rebuild the broken relationship bridge) to God requires we become holy (hebrews 12:14; Matthew 5:48). As I look closely at the Gospels, what Jesus taught about him establishing his kingdom and making disciples, I see Jesus came to teach us to live a different kind of life, a selfless life, by obeying his teachings. This changes our hearts and behaviors reversing the damage our selfishness has done. Quite simply, we are selfish by nature. We do not "Love one another as we love ourself" (Matt 19:19, 22:39, Mark 12:31,33, Luke 10:27, Romans 13:9, Galatians 5:14, James 2:8). Jesus lived a selfless life and calls us to do the same showing ourselves to be his disciples (1 John 2:3-6). As for Matthew 18:18, I encourage you to look closer. This is often taken out of context. From verse 15 to 19, Jesus is talking about reconciliation again just as Paul did above, but instead of with God, it is with each other. When a problem exists between brothers in Christ, they must reconcile first. Bind and loosening is the relationship between the two of you with eternal consequences. Verse 19 is saying that when two or more reconcile and are in harmony, then his Holy Spirit will be with them. This is shown in 1 Corinthians 13 where unity is shown with these characteristics. All love and unity come from God, hatred and division is not (1 Corinthians 1:10-17). | ||||||
5 | if you retain sins, you didnt forgive | John 20:23 | BrettOrlando | 230111 | ||
The NIV for John 20:23 says "If you forgive anyone's sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, then they are not forgiven." This is Jesus' departing words to his 12 Apostles. I feel he gave them some authority he had, that we do not have in this life, which is to judge. I see Peter exercise this authority to keep the church pure from those with evil motives like in Acts 5, Ananias and Sapphira died for lying. Then after Simon the Sorcerer made his pledge to Jesus in baptism in Acts 8, Peter told Simon he had no part in the God's kingdom (1 Peter 3:20-21). I am sure there are others. Jesus was given all authority from the Father (Matt 28:18) so apparently he could empower others. | ||||||
6 | What was nehemiah's job? | Bible general Archive 4 | BrettOrlando | 230110 | ||
Let me give you some historical background before I answer this. You may know that the Northern Kingdom of Israel fell to Assyria in about 722 BC. There were 19 kings and they either reigned wickedly or in their end, became wicked, but some started out good. As for Judah, there were 19 kings too. About half were good. Judah fell in about 586 BC to Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia. About 50 years later the combined kingdom of Medes and Persia, Medo-Persia, defeated Babylonia and became the reigning world power. Persian King Cyrus had faith in Judah's God and so let many Jews return to Jerusalem to rebuild the Temple. A jew in the king's service named Zerubabbel was sent to be its Governor. Then about 460 BC, the next king of Medo-Persia sent Ezra as a priest to call the Jews back to the Law of Moses. Nehemiah was cupbearer to King Artaxerxes of Persia. He was later sent to Jerusalem, asfter pleading to do so, to call the people to rebuild the great wall around Jerusalem. He called the rich to stop exhorting their poorer brothers. He soon became governor there. This was about 440 BC. | ||||||
7 | Prophet of the Northern Kingdom? | 1 Kings | BrettOrlando | 230108 | ||
A few months ago, I went on a STUDY journey to learn more about the prophets in the old testament. I found it like peeling an onion, I uncovered a need to learn more about the Kings in the divided Kingdom (post Solomon 930 BC) in order to really learn about them. I found that although both 1 and 2 Kings, and 2 Chronicles have documented most of the information about the kings, that 1 and 2 Kings emphasizes Israel (North) and 2 Chronicles emphasizes Judah (South). Of course after Israel falls, in 2 Kings the remainder is Judah. 1 Chronicles is a parallel account of the life of David just like 1 and 2 Samuel. You will find Amos, Hosea, Elijah, Elisha, were some to the Northern kingdom. As you read 1 and 2 Kings, you will see other oral prophets, seers, and unnamed prophets showed up on the scene through the generations too. Isaiah (740 BC) and Micah (historians disagree when?) spoke to both Israel and Judah. Shortly after Isaiah's term, the Northern Kingdom fell to the reigning world power Assyria (722 BC). Now Ninevah was, the capitol of Assyria, and so God sent Jonah (790 BC) and Nahum (663 BC) to preach and warn the Assyrians to repent. You will find God sent warnings to Israel's enemies through many of the prophets, Obadiah to Edom, Jeremiah to Judah warned most or all of the enemies, and others too. I will stop here. I encourage you to dig in yourself. The rewards to grasp the rest of scripture is inexplicable. There message quite often condemned the people for ignoring Moses directive to take care of the poor, orphan, and widows, feed the hungry, and be hospitable to the alien. If you know the New Testament, this should sound familiar? Remember 2 Chronicles 16:9 that tells us God's eyes scan the earth looking to strengthen those whose hearts are completely devoted to his commands/teachings. | ||||||