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1 | Reconciling 1 Tim 2:4 with Rom 8:29 | 1 Tim 2:4 | Pemican | 96623 | ||
Radioman2 I'm not sure this is exactly what you are looking for but the passage that comes to mind is Romans 1:18-20, and passages like Psalm 19:1. Also there is John 16:8-11 about the convicting ministry of the Holy Spirit in the souls of men. Pemican |
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2 | Scripture references RE:fortune tellers | Lev 19:31 | Pemican | 92668 | ||
Here are a few passages against false prophets, mediums, sorcery etc. There are others of course. Ex 22:18 Lev 19:31 Lev 20:27 Deut 18:10-14 2 Kgs 21:4-7 Isa 8:19 Ezk 13:17-23 Acts 16:16-18 Gal 5:19-20 Pemican |
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3 | What is the time of the tribulation? | Bible general Archive 1 | Pemican | 72206 | ||
The seven year length of the Tribulation is derived from Daniel's prophecy of the 70 weeks. (Dan 9:24-27) These are 70 weeks of years or 490 years. 69 of these weeks or 483 years have already been completed historically in the age of Israel. But the Church Age interrupted the Age of Israel and the last 7 years has yet to be completed. When the Church is removed at the rapture the Age of Israel resumes and Daniel's prophecies will be completed. I might throw in that the Tribulation is also known as "the time of Jacob's trouble" (Israel). It centers around Israel and the Jews not the Church. David I understand your frustration. You want to see the proof and you are right to insist on it. But it makes people like me hesitate before posting anything at all. We know we are opening a can of worms, and the questions never end. Thirty years ago I was like you. Lots of questions and confusion and no one seemed to know the answers. But I found a pastor who really knew his stuff. He studied and taught from the Greek and Hebrew every night of the week. He explained the meaning in the original languages, in the context of the passage and the historical and cultural context as well. Those who faithfully listened to his ministry learned systematic theology sitting in the pew. Find yourself a great pastor and when you find him be a faithful learner. Great pastors are rare, but they do exist. This is what it means to be a true disciple (student) of Christ. Pemican |
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4 | Before or after the return of Christ? | 1 Thess 4:16 | Pemican | 72194 | ||
David 24597, It looks like you are getting the rapture of the church, the second advent, and other things mixed up. I am not going to take the time to prove and document every point I make here, (believe me it would take a book), but will just give you a brief summary of future events as I have been taught and believe to be correct. Here is my view. The next prophetical event in history is the rapture of the church. Christ does not touch the ground but we are taken up to meet Him in the air. When this will occur, no one knows. It could be soon or a thousand years from now. Soon after the rapture of the church the tribulation occurs. The church is delivered from the tribulation, "the wrath to come", Rom. 5:9, 1 Thes. 1:10, 1 Thes. 5:9. While the tribulation is taking place on the earth, the church is being evaluated for rewards in Heaven at the Judgment Seat of Christ. At the end of the tribulation the second advent of Christ occurs (the Church returns with Him). This time He touches ground at the Mount of Olives and destroys those who are attacking the City of Jerusalem. Next is the Baptism of Fire in which all unbelievers are cast off the earth along with the demons, and Satan is bound and imprisoned until the end of the millennium. Only believers in Christ remain on the earth to begin the millennium. (This is a direct parallel to what occurred at Noah's Flood, where humanity was so corrupt that only eight believers remained and were delivered to start the next civilization.) With Satan and the demonic realm out of the way, Christ reigns over the earth. The curse of the Fall is removed from mankind and nature, and perfect environment (like the Garden of Eden) is restored. The lion lies down with the lamb, no more war, long life spans, no poverty, no hunger, no disease etc. At the end of the millennium Satan is freed. He immediately organizes a revolt against Christ. By this time the population of the earth is made up of both believers and unbelievers. The unbelievers join Satan's revolt. But Christ puts it down. Then comes the Great White Throne Judgment of all unbelievers. (Satan and the fallen angels (demons) were tried, condemned and sentenced to the Lake of Fire before the creation of the human race. The sentence was not carried out at that time but postponed). Satan, the fallen angels, all unbelievers are cast into the Lake of Fire for all eternity. God destroys the existing universe and creates a new heavens and a new earth, and the eternal state begins. Here are a few millennial passages you might like to read: Isa. 35:1-10 Isa. 65:18-25 Zech. 9:9-10 Rev. 20:1-10 Pemican |
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5 | What is the time of the tribulation? | Bible general Archive 1 | Pemican | 72181 | ||
The Tribulation is a seven year period in which the wrath of God is poured out on mankind. It is the worst period of all of human history in terms of suffering, death, war, famine, disease etc., especially the last three and a half years. But it is also a period of unprecedented evangelism. Angels become visible and make proclamations to mankind. Moses and Elijah are brought back to preach. God sends out 144,00 Jewish evangelists over the face of the earth to preach the gospel. The Second Advent of Christ ends the Tribulation just prior to the end of the seven years. Then the baptism of fire occurs in which Christ removes all unbelievers from the face of the earth so that only believers remain to repopulate the earth for the Millennium. When will this occur? No one knows. Do not be misled by those who claim to know when the Tribulation or the Second Advent will occur. So many have tried and failed in the past it is unbelievable. I am sure even now there are lots of people who say they know. But here is what the Bible says about the time, (specifically the time of the Second Advent): "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone." Matt 24:36 Pemican |
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6 | Is the milenium literal or figurative? | Revelation | Pemican | 72179 | ||
The Millennium is literal. The fact that both the Tribulation and the Millennium are still future literal events gives assurance that mankind will not destroy itself by the use of nuclear or biological weapons. These prophesied events will occur; God is the sovereign executive of human history, and He keeps His promises. The Bible contains many prophecies that have already been fulfilled such as those about the birth of Christ. There is no reason not to take millennial prophecies just as literally. Here are a few millennial passages you might like to read: Isa. 35:1-10 Isa. 65:18-25 Zech. 9:9-10 Rev. 20:1-10 Pemican |
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7 | What do the leters to 7 churches mean | Revelation | Pemican | 72177 | ||
The seven letters are letters to seven literal churches that existed at the time of writing (about 96 AD). Some people see them as allegorical but I do not see any reason not to take them at face value: seven letters to seven existing churches. Explaining their meaning would take quite a while and I will not attempt to explain them in any detail. Each letter includes a salutation, description, appraisal, condemnation or criticism, exhortation and warning, and a promise and assurance. Two exceptions are the churches at Philadelphia and Smyrna. They receive no criticism. Here is a brief characterization of each church: Ephesus ........ the indifferent church Smyrna ......... the suffering church Pergamum ..... the carnal church Thyatira ......... the apostate church Sardis ........... the dead church Philadelphia ... the victorious church Laodicea ....... the lukewarm church Pemican |
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8 | Before or after the return of Christ? | 1 Thess 4:16 | Pemican | 72171 | ||
The millennium occurs after the return of Christ. This is a period of 1000 years in which Christ rules the earth. It will be a time of perfect environment, perfect justice, prosperity, long life, no war, (except for a Satanic revolution at the end), among other things. Pemican | ||||||
9 | A mental Affair | 1 John 1:9 | Pemican | 71557 | ||
jeniahall, you are correct that mental adultery is a sin, and there is no justifying it. But God knew that even though we believed in Christ we would still have a sin nature in our mortal bodies and gave us the promise of 1 John 1:9. When we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive us every time because Christ has already paid for those sins. He also forgives us (cleanses) of sins we have forgotten about or are not even aware are sins. This is not a license to sin, but a license to be filled with the Spirit and continue living the spiritual life as new creatures in Christ. All of us have our weaknesses in the area of sin. Mine are not necessarily of the same type as yours. But they are still sins and we all need forgiveness and all need to regularly use this promise in our daily lives. It is best to be quick to confess sin to God and spend as much of our lives as possible filled with the Spirit. Confession of sin, means to name your sin to God. There is no emotional connotation to this word. You do not have to make some emotional promise to God that you will never do it again. (Who do we think we are kidding?) You need only name your sin to God and you are forgiven. Remember, none of this has ever depended upon us. Our salvation is by grace. Our Christian walk is by grace as well. In His Grace, Pemican | ||||||
10 | LEAVING YOUR CHURCH | 2 Pet 3:18 | Pemican | 71555 | ||
LUVONJESUS, If you are not getting solid Bible teaching at your present church and you want more, it's time to move on. The purpose of the church is to bring believers to spiritual maturity. Very few churches actually do this. They have a lot of programs, they have a lot of social activity, everyone is so busy they don't even know they are still spiritual babies. There is no reason to feel guilty. Instead I congratulate you on having the desire to grow . It takes time, it takes listening consistently to a faithful teacher of the word to grow up. Look for a ministry where the emphasis is on the systematic teaching of Bible doctrine. Especially someone who studies and teaches from the original languages of Scripture. Getting back to the original Greek and Hebrew, the cultural and historical context, is the only way to really understand the meaning of a passage. Ask God to guide you to such a teacher. In His Grace, Pemican | ||||||
11 | Can I come home again, or apostate? | Luke 15:24 | Pemican | 61022 | ||
rextar and prayon, Actually I latched on to Paul's name as the author of Hebrews by mistake. I was focusing on the other issues and forgot for the moment that the author of Hebrews is uncertain. I have never actually heard a definitive proof that Paul was the author. Pemican |
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12 | Can I come home again, or apostate? | Luke 15:24 | Pemican | 61005 | ||
GJH, I would just like to add to the many good comments about your question and concern. First, once a person believes in Christ he cannot lose his salvation. There are many promises in Scripture that verify that one need only believe in Christ for eternal life. The work of salvation is the work of God not of men. There is nothing any man can do to undo the perfect work of salvation, which God accomplished through Christ. When you believed in Christ as a teenager, you were eternally and irrevocably saved. This does not mean that from the point salvation on we always do and say the right thing. On the contrary, we all do and say many wrong things because we all have a sin nature. And, as newly saved individuals we have a great deal to learn about the Bible, about sin, and about the Christian way of life. Many people have doubts, go off in the wrong direction, even deny Christ, but they cannot lose their salvation once they have believed. What we can lose is eternal rewards in Heaven. Every believer will stand before the judgment seat of Christ to be evaluated, not for salvation, which is a settled issue, but for eternal rewards. A few thoughts on the passage Hebrews 6:4-6, which I hope you find helpful. This passage has been a source of much controversy and there have been many interpretations of its' meaning. I offer the following interpretation which is quite different from the impression you have of it. 1. The passage Heb 5:11 - 6:12 is a parentheses. Paul breaks off from his discussion of the high priesthood of Christ to reprimand believers for being "dull of hearing" (5:11) and concludes his reprimand in 6:12 with the same word but translated as "sluggish". So read this passage as a unit of thought, an interruption from the main discourse. 2. Paul is anxious for these sluggish believers to move on to spiritual maturity and leave behind the basic teachings (6:1). 3. Then in 6:4 he discusses a special group of Jewish believers, (yes they are saved), who have gone back to the practice of animal sacrifices in the temple. This is what is being referred to in 6:6 when it says "they again crucify to themselves the Son God and put Him to open shame." This is something they were continuing to do as if the ultimate sacrifice of Christ on the cross was not good enough. This is the great shame they are committing. What an insult to Christ! Sacrificing animals was only a foreshadowing, a teaching aid to instruct man in the need for God's solution. The one sacrifice that was acceptable to God, His only begotten Son, had been made on the cross for the sins of the whole world, once for all. 4. You can understand Paul's frustration at this point in the main discussion where he is proving the superiority of Christ as High Priest. So many proofs! And yet this group of believers in their ignorance, (dull of hearing), and by their actions are putting Christ to public shame in the temple. 5. The word "repentance" in 6:6 simply means to change ones mind. People often read something super spiritual into this word, but it just mean to change your mind. It was impossible to get these believers to change their minds about their error as long as they continued to sacrifice animals. 6. Verses 6:7 and 6:8 concerns divine discipline to these believers whose production is worthless. This is discipline not the loss of salvation. Remember, as children of God we come under His personal disciplinary attention, but we are always his children. 7. Paul concludes the parentheses with encouragement to continue to the goal of "inheriting the promises" (6:12). Inheritance refers to rewards for good production in contrast to the shameful and worthless production previously discussed. In His Grace, Pemican |
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13 | restoration of a common language | Heb 8:11 | Pemican | 60968 | ||
abbub3, This may be the passage you are thinking of. I don't recall anything in Scripture about everyone speaking the same language (except for the antediluvian civilization). We do know that people in the millennium will be divided by nations. This tends to imply that different cultures and languages will continue to exist. After all, the people who begin the millennium are believers in Christ from every nation of the world. In eternity there still seems to be nations (Rev 22:2). But it will be a whole new ball game at that point, with unimaginable differences. Hebrews 8:11 "And they shall not teach everyone his fellow citizen, And everyone his brother, saying 'Know the Lord,' For all shall know Me, From the least to the greatest of them." (The author of Hebrews quoted this from Jeremiah 31:34) Pemican |
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14 | What does Revelation 3:14-22 mean? | Rev 3:14 | Pemican | 42494 | ||
jendaddie, a few thoughts on the passage (Rev 3:14-22). The three categories of people in the passage are all believer in Christ. (The letter is written to a church of believers not to unbelievers). The hot believers are active believers who are pursuing the plan of God and are receptive to the teaching of the Word. The cold believers are just the opposite but they are not deluded about themselves and know they are cold. God can reach the cold believer through discipline. The lukewarm believer is self deluded, as per verse 17, and does not respond to either the Word of God, (the easy way), or to divine discipline, (the hard way), and is therefore unusable and unreachable by God. Compare this passage with Matthew 12:30. Verse 20 is a well-known verse, frequently quoted as a salvation invitation to the unbeliever. It is not! This passage is an invitation to the believer to return to fellowship with the Lord. The unbeliever is found nowhere in the context of the passage. Pemican |
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15 | CDBJ, could you clarify this good post? | Bible general Archive 1 | Pemican | 18282 | ||
Bill, I will let CDBJ explain his own post. I have not been following this series of posts to any great extent so I am not sure if I am on topic or not but will interject my perspective to expand on CDBJ's post. When God originally created Adam, He was made with three parts: body, soul and spirit. He had no old sin nature, and he was created perfect (the only way God could do it). With the body he related to the physical world, with the soul he related to Eve and mankind, with the spirit he related to God. Originally Adam had unbroken fellowship with God through his human spirit. I' not sure if it is correct to say he was indwelt by the Holy Spirit, I tend to think this is inaccurate and unnecessary at that time because he had no sin nature. As God warned, Adam died when he ate of the fruit, but this was spiritual death (the death of his human spirit) and separation from God and it was instantaneous at the moment he sinned. He died physically many years later, the separation of the soul from the body. As a result of his sin at the Fall Adam acquired the sin nature as a part of his body, and all the progeny of Adam (except the humanity of Jesus) are born spiritually dead with a sin nature in their bodies. (The scripture hints at this repeatedly with such synonyms for the sin nature as "the flesh", "the old man", and "this body of corruption". There is also a biological mechanism and explanation for this as well.) The sin nature is passed on from father to child physically throughout the generations. The birth of Jesus is the one exception in human history because He had no human father and was born free of the sin nature, and therefore was the only true member of the human race to be qualified to be the Lamb without spot or blemish. At the new birth, the believer acquires a human spirit from God and once again has three parts to his being. With our human spirit and in the filling of the Holy Spirit (to control the sin nature) we have fellowship with God. The sin nature, however, is still intact in the body and is a source of trouble all the days of our lives in this "body of corruption". At the rapture the dead in Christ are raised and, along with living believers, are changed and given a new incorruptible and immortal body, leaving behind forever our mortal bodies where the sin nature resides. In His Grace, Pemican |
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16 | No Rules, Just Right! | Ps 34:8 | Pemican | 16977 | ||
Yes, CDBJ, it came out of Houston, along with most of what I know about the Bible. In His Grace, Pemican |
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17 | The Lord is Righteous | Ps 34:8 | Pemican | 16966 | ||
I think I already answered your question as best I can. It boils down to the fact that God does not possess righteousness; He is righteousness. Perhaps someone else can add to this. If you are looking for a "unified theory" of righteousness, what comes to mind is Matt. 7:12 the "Golden Rule" passage. But I will address one other thing. When God gives a command it is not necessarily a test of righteousness. In this situation, disobedience to the command would be a sin, but only the sin of disobedience. Many times God gave commands for other purposes, such as to teach a principle. When God commanded animal sacrifices, performing the sacrifice did not pay for sin and make one righteous. It taught the principle of the need for a payment for sin which could only be fulfilled by Christ. In His Grace, Pemican |
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18 | No Rules, Just Right! | Ps 34:8 | Pemican | 16834 | ||
I think the answer to your question has to start with an understanding of the essence of God. The essence or character of God consists of His attributes of sovereignty, righteousness, justice, love, eternal life, omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience, immutability and voracity. (A lot of time could be spent explaining any one of these attributes but for now I will assume you have some understanding of them or can look them up.) The "rules", as you put it, that God follows relate to the fact that He will not and cannot violate His own essence. To do so would be an inconsistency and imperfection, and therefore He would not be God. He will not bend His righteousness and let any sin go uncondemned and unjudged, for instance. His immutability guarantees this as well as the fact that none of His other attributes can change. As the Creator of all things, the One who has always existed unsustained by anything outside of Himself, He has absolute rights over His own creation to establish the "rules" of righteousness as a reflection of and consistent with who He is. When you start to think about how big God is as the one who created and sustains the universe as well as all forms of life, space, and time, it is clear that God has been free to do an awful lot within the bounds of His essence, as it pleased Him to do. In His Grace, Pemican |
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19 | Theologin's point of view on Hell? | Matt 25:41 | Pemican | 14496 | ||
I agree with Steve, and would only add that theologians come in all shapes and sizes. Some accept the Scriptures as authoritative and are doing their best to "rightly divide the word of truth", and others are antagonistic to the Bible and come up with all sorts of weird, illogical, humanistic views and perversions of Scripture. In His Grace, Pemican |
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20 | Did God make mankind to show His love? | Deut 29:29 | Pemican | 14291 | ||
The short answer to this is that God created mankind to resolve the angelic conflict, (a very lengthy subject). God's motivation and purpose is never irrelevant. Knowing why we exist, seeing the big picture, helps us to put our lives in perspective, and know that we are not irrelevant either. After man was created and fell, God was motivated by his love to save mankind. But God's righteousness and justice had to be satisfied, so sin was judged in Christ on the cross. People always want to emphasis the love of God but God's love does not function independently of the other characteristics of His essence. Justice and righteousness must be satisfied as well. It is only because they were satisfied that we can have a relationship with God at all, apart from being the subjects of condemnation and judgment. A part of God's essence is His immutability, or unchangeableness, which guarantees consistency in the function of His essence and character. In His Grace, Pemican |
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