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1 | My mom is praying to saints for | Jude 1:9 | oscar | 48126 | ||
What you mean is that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, are among the living? or that They already resurrected? or that they are the only exception to the rule? I do not understand your point. How did you made up your premises, how did you get into the conclusion. I do not ask the Saints for intercessory pray, but I cannot find any thing wrong in doing it . Further more, I try to interpret the Bible the best I can, but I do not think I own the thruth. Blessed are you that have the only thruth. |
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2 | Is Jesus God? | John 1:1 | oscar | 32859 | ||
Jonh 1:1 Can anyone show me any passages that show that Jesus is God? A friend of mine believes that Jesus is the Son of God but not God (and the Holy Spirit is the action of God but not God). I've shown him many verses but most can also be interpreted as separate individuals (for example: I baptize you in the name of the Father and in the Son, and in the Holy Spirit could be interpreted as baptizing in the name of the three separate entities.) I've also shown him the classic John 1:1 and similar verses but he interprets it at Jesus and God think alike, have the same mission, similar in nature, etc... Is there something in the Bible that very simply and cleary says that the Three are one? To me there are many verses that state this clearly, but to him, they state something completely different. Yes, Jesus is God. (Matt 10:40; Matt 11; Matt 28; John 3; 5; 6; 8; 10; 12; 14; 15; 16; 17; Acts 2; 1 Cor 1; 12; 13; Eph 4; 6; Phil 2:6; Col 1; 2; 3; 1 Thess 3; 2 Thess 2; 1 John 2; 1 John 5; Rev 20; Rev 22.) Yes, He is God. Kalos is giving you many references, all of them are good, but they could not work for a JW, because they have their own "translation", it is a poor translation, but it is theirs anyway. There is one book that they have not changed and it is the same in all translations, including theirs, Revelation. Rev 1:7 "Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him; and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen." It is obvious that we are talking about Jesus, because the Father was not ever pierced. Rev 1:8 "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty" It should be clear that the Lord said "I am the Almighty", I am the Alpha and the Omega" and the one that was "pierced", but we will continue in this. Rev 1:16 "And he has in his right hand seven starts, and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword …" There is no doubt that he is the Word, Jesus, the Son Rev 1:17 " … Fear not; I am the first and the Last:" Again the Son tells us I am God the Almighty, here He is talking. Rev 1:18 "I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive forever …" I am sure your friend will understand that the Father was not ever dead. Rev 22:12 "And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me …" I think that your friend knows that the one that is coming is the Lord, the Son, Jesus, the one that continues Rev 22:13 "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the Last" Yes, my friend He is God. Nonetheless, you will find many people that have problems to understand the Trinity, and we cannot blame them. The main reason is in the way they think, it is for them too difficult to deal with abstractions. But for you, my friend, I tell you: God could manifest Himself in the way He pleases, we insignificant mortals cannot tell you I do not want you to appear, or revel yourself as a cloud or as a new moon. He has manifested himself in three different forms: as the Father, as the Son, and, as the Holy Spirit. And He is God in each one of his manifestations, He could also manifest Himself as a talking tree, I think that we would get very afraid is such a think happens, but He could. The fact is that we know about God because of his manifestations and the Holy Trinity is the abstraction we made of His three different manifestations. We call each of this manifestations a person, because this is another abstraction of the language to represent such a manifestation, not because a person is an individual. The problem of many is that they cannot separate these two abstractions and then they think that every person of the Trinity would be an individual, this personal inhability lets them to believe that we believe in three Gods, we just have to pray for them and recommend them to take some minerals to straight up their wires, and to help them to make the right wiring. You are a very lucky man, founding a JW that is open mind. Should you convince him to use your Bible, not his, you can use all the ammunition that Kalos gave to you. In any case, if he buy the idea from Revelations, I would take Kalos as the best option for him to understand. You brother Oscar |
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3 | One God, many faiths? | Acts 4:12 | oscar | 32342 | ||
Hi Curt, I read your points; they look great and very few to add. I was studying this subject for some time and it could help to know that the Trinity of the Christians, in the inspired book of Islam, is not the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. According to Q'uram or Koran, we believe in the Father, the Son (Jesus) and Mary. I think we should try to understand that if they believe that's our Trinity, then we have to be wrong; the point is how did they get this "revelation" that does not correspond to Christian believe? On the other hand, the Arab tribes they had many gods, each one with his on stone color. Mohammed knew his god, the one of the black stone, and got his revelation from him. It is interesting to notice that while he was getting this revelation he fall to the ground in convulsions, spitting foam out of the mouth; this is very suggesting of some other power, but the power of God. It could be as it was suggested that this was B'aal, the deceiver, and we know him for long The expressions about women are also very interesting, especially if they are suppose to come from God. It is obvious that we are not dealing with a new view of the same god, but with another god, which is not, by any means God, but a false god; could it be the angel of light? Oscar |
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4 | Does Christ or the Holy Spirit give gift | Eph 4:7 | oscar | 31726 | ||
Isn't it true that the Jesus Christ, (the Son) and the Holly Spirits are two persons but only one individual? Just different manifestations of God? Oscar |
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5 | if sabath means sat(day) why we take sun | Ex 20:11 | oscar | 31529 | ||
Kalos, The way you answer this question is very unusual. It seems that you are trying to take on the role of moderator. In this case and in others cases also. This is a self-moderated forum, and if you do not want to answer a given question, we should not answer it, this forum is not something personal, neither the questions. I want to give ARISE the benefit of the doubt, and therefore the credit that he already searched for answers, but he was not satisfied with them. Why should we think that our previous discussion cover the subject in a satisfactory way for him? Why should we think we have the last word? Why should we say, "I already said"? "Oh blessed, you poor on spirit, you know the will of God" To be poor on spirit we should get rid of our pride, try to have an insight, to learn from each other, because He is on us, in the hearth of each one of us. Shouldn't we let Him manifest? These are just thoughts, not questions. God Bless you |
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6 | if sabath means sat(day) why we take sun | Ex 20:11 | oscar | 31524 | ||
Arise, Sabbath does not mean Saturday, not even in Hebrew. It is the name of the Seventh day, the day that the Lord rest after Creation. We do not take Sunday as the Sabbath. We just do not take the Sabbath anymore. The Sabbath is a day of congregation, to be kept holy; is a sign that God put between Him and His people; He says that for this sign He will recognize us. The fourth beast of Revelation, whose power was given to him by Satan, had change it, as it was writen in Daniel (will think to change laws and times). It was change based in false interpretations of the book of Acts and what the beast call traditions, for convinience, they said. Now we have a day of congregation that is not the Sabbath, neither holy, nor the Sabbath of the Lord that we are commanded to keep. The Sabbath is still the Sabbath and we should keep it holy, which does not mean we should not congregate on Sunday. It is hard for all these people that knows every thing, to understand they were not following the Law of God, but the deception of Satan. That is called pride. They will argue that the Law was abolished, which is half the true, because only the ceremonial law was abolished, but not the Eternal Law (the 10 Commandments). They will argue that God sees the hearth, not the form, this is also half true because he insist many times in keeping the Sabbath, the weekly Sabbath, no the special Sabbaths. They will argue that is enough to worshipping the Lord in any given day, as long as we all congregate, and this will substitute for the Sabbath, this is false because the Lord said "keep my Sabbath" he does not say "a Sabbath" but "my Sabbath". Who are we to change the day that the Lord made holy, and a sign and order to congregate on it. "Those who love me keep my Sabbath." Changing the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday has many connotations for the Deceiver. 1. The only way the Sabbath, the Day after creation could be the first day ofd the week is if there was no creation. 2. To desobey one of the ten Commandaments, for "good reasons", make us think that we can also find good reasons to desobey any of the other nine. 3. The Beast thinks the sign between our Lord and His people is destroyed, therefore he can better substitute the Christ. 4. If you accept his power on this you will accept his power on more. "He will deceive even the elect". The mark of the beast is a chip in the mind of short people. The mark of the beast is the way he think (mark on the head) and the way he acts (mark on the hand), because we are suppose to think with our head and act with our hands. We should try to keep the Sabbath, even if it is not the day of congregation anymore. It is holy because the Lord made it Holy. This of course are my comments, they came from the study of Exodus, Leviticus, Daniel and Revelations. They number of references is too large to put then here, but if you want to go over them then narrow your question, it will be my pleasure to go into details. We already went into a discussion about the subject and it was useless, because of pride. The point is not that the Sabbath is still the Sabbath or not. The point as I understand from your question is that we lost the holy day of the congregation, the sign of the Lord and many christians as you and me are questioning the Sunday and trying to go back to the seventh day of the week, the Sabbath of the Lord. God Bless you Oscar |
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7 | What is the meaning of Verse 1? | Gen 1:1 | oscar | 30898 | ||
Kelos, To compare Mosses Ben Maimonides with Karl, Freud and Darwin, is something that doesn't make any sense. To qualify the inspiration of such a Saga, the way you do it, show me only two things: you are brighter and more inspired than him; or, you are a fool and an ignorant. I prefer to think the first. Many scholars use Maimonides writings as a reference, he made inferences about the earth being an sphere, much before Columbus; he interpreted Creation around de 1400 as being an explosion, the same way that modern physics says "it is the only way" (the Big Bang); he was very respected by Christians and in his days the Roman Catholic Church could not burn him, because he was so respected; his work is full of references to the Pentatheuc that can give us light in many more different subject. There is no a serious Bible student that doesn't know about him. I want to believe that you have read his "Guide for the Perplex", since you already compare him with Karl, Freud and Darwin. you could surprise the world with something better, and I think we all could benefit with your contribution. From your comments it shows it could be better and more inspired than his work. If you did not read him, it will be good to do it, so you can talk with more authority. I respect Mamom, if you know who he is, and I read many of the Jews, they have the advantage of the language and the Masoretic text, and beleive me, they are the people of God also, and many of them are also Christians. Let's do not make this difference of views a personal matter. If I there is nothing to say, the best alternative is to say nothing. Maybe we should try it. The peace of our Lord be with you. Oscar |
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8 | Bible and evolution both? | Gen 1:1 | oscar | 30892 | ||
Hunk, When I said beautiful I meant brilliant, Where you said stupid, I said that it does not make any sense. I am terrible sorry I could not write in terms that you could understand better. I think we both agree, but do not think I will ever use your terms, even if you do not like my expressions. Oscar |
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9 | What is the meaning of Verse 1? | Gen 1:1 | oscar | 30891 | ||
If you find a reference to Verse 1, let me know it. I recommend you to read one of the Sagas of Jews, Mosses Ben Maimonides and you will find an inspired interpretation, that you could even love. Nonetheless, Verse 1, is enough by itself. Oscar |
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10 | Bible and evolution both? | Gen 1:1 | oscar | 30841 | ||
Theory of evolution is a beautiful theory, one of the most wonderful tells in the History of science. The problem is that some scientist want to change this theory into a scientific fact. The Bible does not support any of the claims of this theory, but we know that in order to be true it is require a great number of miracles, much more that were need for the Creation. What is important to notice is that even Darwin had doubts about his theory, and he said that there was no way that the human eye could evolve from any thing. The mutations that are positive are not found anymore, except for adaptation. I had many doubts about evolution, but I gave the evolutionist some credit until the cell, and this is many billions of years and many miracles just to get there. But anyway, the cell was there and it was reproducing itself with no problem, then against all the odds, entropy, it dream of the sex. It did not only plan to stop dividing itself with no help, but decided to separate itself in two parts, perfectly differenciated, but not once for all, for each time it fail it had to begin again. Finally this cell invented the sex, but it did not work, because there was no incentive and it had to dream on a way to create an incentive or "satisfaction", it only gave up on his older way of reproducing once he completed the transformation. Don't you think this is more beautiful than the "the sleeping beauty"? If we see the intermediate steps and missing links to get to Adam, you will see the multitude of miracles that are required, and we do not have record of them, not even the fossil record. I do not think evolution could be against Creation, it is something different that cannot go beyond of a beautiful and productive tell, more beautiful than all those tells that Disney put on the big screen, and more productive, because there are many grants that points to probe evolution. Evolution is good business and it free us from accountability, therefore there are many business that has to push on that direction. I do not think we Christians should abstain from reading it, but we should stick to the word of God. Do you beleive in Donald Duck? Yes, in some extent. Oscar |
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11 | What is the meaning of Verse 1? | Gen 1:1 | oscar | 30833 | ||
When God created the Time, he creates the space and the matter. He create them in that order, because with no time there is no space and the space was need for the matter to expand on the space. Hard to understand a Universe with no time, but there was no universe, until God create time. This is the reason why we understand that God is not a subject of time, but in Him resides the cause of time. We can go on and on, over this verse, it is very rich and it has a lot of physical meaning. With out time, there is no motion, there is no parts. That's why God is a Unity, with no parts, therefore he fills up all the space. With no space we cannot think of matter. This verse explain the creation, when God said "Lets there be light", and the logical sequence of creation. Oscar |
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12 | AntiChrist | 1 John 2:22 | oscar | 30828 | ||
Hi Sue, The beasts of Daniel 7:4-7 has a one to one correspondence with the Beast of Revelation: First beast, Babylon;second beast;Medo-Persian Empire;third beast Greece; fourth beast, the Roman Empire. The horns are the 10 provinces, at its fall.They were different tribes. Dan 7:7, Dan 7:23, Rev 13:1 The little horn is the anti-Christ, that came after three of these ten tribes get exterminated: The Ostrogods, Vandals and Eulians. Justinian eradicated them in 538. The anti-Christ does not necessarily have to be a man. It does not have people from his own, and it should subdue three kings. Dan 7:24 It will speak great heresies and blasphemies. Dan 7:25 It will be a prosecutor, a criminal. Dan 7:25 He will think to change times and Laws; Dan 7:25 The saints of the Lord will be given to its power for 1260 years. Dan 7:25 It will mix the believes of the three previous beast in only one. Rev 13:2 His power came from Satan. Rev 13:2, Rev 12:9. (Decree of Justinian in 1530) It can be a subject of worship, therefore, it is an eclesiastic power. Rev 13:4 It will have power over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations, for 1260 years Rev 13:7, Dan 7:25, Rev 13:5 At the end of the 1260 years, it will be wounded to death in 1798 when Pio VI was the Pope. Rev 3. An it will recover himself , "and his deadly wound was healed" but it lost its absolute power. When they lost all their territories but Vatican. An after this a great power will rise, but this time it will not came from the see (multitude of people), but from the earth (the opposite, a small group of people like the pilgrims) Rev 13:11 This should have after the wound, after the French Revolution. And this country will have all the power of the beast before him; Political and economical. Freedom and the thrust on God will be their foundation, but will also fall short. Rev 13:11 And it will make all people to think or act as the beast. Rev 13:16. The number of his name will "count" to 666. He is a liar. 1 John 4:22 He will deceive even the elect. Mat 24:24, Mark 13:22 The Pope is the Vicar of the Son of God. Vicar means that act in the name of, the one that substitute the Son of God. This is another sad coincidence because "anti" means "substitute" and the Son of God is the Christ. He has to be in the city of the seven mounts (Rome). Did the papacy kill Christians on the name of God, through the Jesuits or the Holy Inquisition? (Dan 7:25) Did the papacy try to change the Law? Yes: 1. "Thou should not make unto thee any graven image, …" because it was an impediment to accept Jupiter and all the pagans into the church. This commandment has disappear from the Roman Catholic Church, it was abolished by the authority given to the Pope, which does not came from God, because He already said not even a Jot of the Law will be changed. 2. "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it Holy. Six days you should labor; and do all thy work:: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God." (Exodus 20:8-10) "For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seven day, and hallowed it. The only way that the Sabbath could be in Sunday is if there was no creation. This is just a little change. Sunday is not holy at all, but all churches, including most protestant churches they celebrate on Sunday. This change is important on the calendar of Satan, because the Sabbath is a sign, for which He will recognize His people. Did the Papacy change the time? Yes, he changed the count of the time and also make the Sunday Holy, and prosecute all the people that kept the Sabbath and killed those that did not accept the change. Does he speak heresies and Blasphemies. Yes, even when it is sometimes hard to recognize them: 1. Jesus was prosecuted because he said to forgive the sins, and this is something that belong to God. Did he said a blasphemy? No. He had the power because he is God. Does the Papacy is God? 2. When the Pope talking ex-cathedra is infalible. 3. When the Roman Catholic Cathechism says that to fail to one of the commandments of the law is venial, but it is worst to fail to the commandment of the church. 4. When the Papacy can sell indulgencies. 5. When the Papacy puts what they call Tradition before scripture. Does the papacy is a liar? Yes, when it says that Salvation is in its Church, in Bible and Tradition, were he has complete control over tradition. He is a liar because it is written that the Word is all we need for salvation. We can be sure that the 666 is not a microchip, neither Bill Gates, nor the computer; it is not a Roman Catholic that in order to deceive tells us that his name also count to 666, because this is only one of the signs. We should try to have the seal of God. Sorry, I had to do it on 5000 words. Oscar |
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13 | When did creation occur? | Genesis | oscar | 30645 | ||
Man, this is a hard question. To begin, what is the meaning of world? You mean the earth or the Universe? Anyway there is no record of such a dating. The Bible says that creation took place in 6 days, and if we want to stick to the Word, then 6 days are 6 days, and each day has 24 hours. Therefore the Word says 6 days of 24 hours, or 144 hours. 144 is an special number that means completion. We could interpret Genesis as: in as many hours as were need for its completion, still 6 days. It is important to notice that those days were different in length of our days, and of course, also the hours, this is specially true when we measure the time by our own reference frame, and there was no reference frame for us before the sun and the earth existed. You will study relativity later and you will find that time is a function of the mass, therefore different system should have different time measurements depending on their own mass, and also the mass is a function of the speed. Scientists has different estimates about the origin of the Universe, when God said "let's there be light". Some of them think in a young Universe and some others prefer to believe of an older Universe. The first group believes in a creation, they base their estimate in the background radiation on the universe, the rate of expansion of the universe, and some computer simulations that takes us to the origin. The second group believes in evolution and they try to push their timelines to accommodate their own believes of evolutionary processes, but even their best estimates run short of time. We believe in a young universe and we believe that the time is a unidirectional vector that points to the future, in the non existence of the past neither of the future, but a continuos present that projects into the future. I hope this give you some light. Oscar |
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14 | WHAT WAS IT BEFORE IT " BECAME"? | Genesis | oscar | 30635 | ||
It is not said on the Bible, but if you read "The Guide for the Perplex" (Moses Ben Maimonides), you will find that it was a singular point, smaller than a mustard seed, a mathematical indetermination. This was reveled to Maimonides in the 15th century, and now we have from modern physics that theory of the Bing Bang, as the only way this could happens. This conception of the origen of the universe, also explains what is the meaning of miracle of creation; the meaning of the evening; the meaning of the morning; and the meaning of "it was good". Oscar |
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15 | My mom is praying to saints for | Jude 1:9 | oscar | 30633 | ||
Hi, It seems that we both had the same problem. My mother was Roman Catholic and she asked the Saints of the Church (Catholic), for intercessory prayers. She already pass the way, and I am sure she is saved, because she was a wonderful person, she love God with all her hearth and she beleived in Jesus and took Him as her savior. She did not read the Bible, because on her days the Roman Catholic Church discourages its grey to read the Bible. Your mother is not worshipping the Saints and you can be sure she has Faith in God and this God is your God also. She is not praying to a graven image. You can be sure of that, but you could ask her, anyway. When she "ask" the Saints for intercessory pray, she is wrong because their are dead, and they will be dead until resurrection, if what we belive is true. But God is good and He reads our hearths. Thimothy 2:1 (not a good extrapolation) There is a lot of things we think are wrong in other churches, but His is the judgment. It is true that a corrupted tree will not bring forth good fruit, you are good fruit. You should glorify your mother and if she is asking for intercession, pray with her, for her and for you. Thanks God that He blessed her with you, and He blessed you with her. Do not judge her. Read the bible with her, even her Roman Catholic Bible, for your surprise, you will find that it is not that different than the Bible you use; in essence, it is the same as our Bible. Do not condem her, take her with you over the Word you love, but show her the same dedication she is showing; be a model for her on your own faith. Do not look on the forms, but on her needs; do not look on the forms, but on her hearth. Exodus 20:12 Deuteronomy 5:16 Because, you could be trying to change her rituals by your rituals, show her your ways and if you can get a better personal connection than she can do, she will follow you. May God Bless you and make a blessing of you. Oscar |
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