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Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Author: kndyah Ordered by Date |
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1 | What is 'justification'? | Rom 3:24 | kndyah | 6578 | ||
Another way to define the Latin word used in translating to the German and then English is; "set right". Theologians, IMHO, have always sought to make it appear difficult to attain salvation and we need their help to make the journey. Jesus came to show that it was easy to be saved. All you have to do is believe that He is the Son of God; and respond appropriately in your life. | ||||||
2 | What is the "eye of the needle"? | Mark 10:25 | kndyah | 6577 | ||
I agree! | ||||||
3 | What is the "eye of the needle"? | Mark 10:25 | kndyah | 6576 | ||
This line of conversation is a natural desire to understand Jesus' teachings. We, westerners, like to think that the small "escape" entrances in the Jerusalem, and other cities walls of the time, were what Jesus was talking about. He may have been, but we do not have any scriptural or popular testimony that this was so, not even Josephesus brings this up. However, there is some evidence in Apocraphal writings that Jesus was talking about a literal needle's eye. I am sorry I do not have a copy of the Apocraphal writings so I cannot give you a concrete reference. The story is that Peter was preaching and a rival preacher made a wager that Peter was wrong, but if Peter could make a Camel go through the eye of a needle then he would believe. The rival preacher then thought he would take out some theological insurance by placing a prostitute on the Camel and hung two sides of Bacon on the Camel as well. The Camel approached the needle and shrank down in size, including the Bacon and the Prostitute and easily walked through the eye of the needle. In another place another Aprochraphal writer thought that Jesus' story about the Camel was a little improbable so he wrote that it was a rope that would go through the eye of the needle easier than for a rich preson to enter heaven. |
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4 | When was the Holy Spirit first given? | Acts 2:1 | kndyah | 6490 | ||
In the first chapter of the Bible it says that God's Spirit moved upon the face of the earth. In chapter 6 "Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal ; his days will be a hundred and twenty years." The first person spoken of as having the Spirit of God in him is Joseph - Genesis 41:38 "So Pharaoh asked them, "Can we find anyone like this man, one in whom is the spirit of God ?" So in reality the Holy Spirit was first given before the flood. Specifically to your question, Jesus told His disciples during His ministry, when He sent them out on their own, that His Spirit would be with them. In your instance here in John, Jesus indicated to them again that His Spirit was available to them. Then on Pentecost, it was more powerfully demonstrated, and to more than just those refered to as His inner circle of disciples. Perhaps they needed this manifestation to have the human courage to preach and minister? |
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