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201	bible say anything re: dinosaurs?	Bible general Archive 3	Hank	189193
	mikie - Since this question has been addressed scores of times on Study Bible Forum, your best course would be to use Search at the right of this page and type in the key word, dinosaur. You probably will enjoy reading some articles on the subject at icr.org. This is the web site for the Institute for Creation Research. Use their search engine to find what you're looking for. --Hank
202	What is a "BLOG"?	Bible general Archive 3	Hank	189191
	cottonjunior - Sorry. This Forum does not respond to questions having nothing to do with the Bible. --Hank
203	do you think tarot cards are a sin?	1 Sam 15:23	Hank	189169
	Tarot cards are not a sin. The sin is determined by how they are used. They can be used, for example, to play certain card games which are merely social pastimes. Or they can be used for divination, which Scripture condemns as a sinful practice. See Lev. 19:26; Deut. 18:10; 1 Sam. 15:23; 2 Kings 17:17; Ezek. 13:9
204	Comforting verse for non-believers	Psalm	Hank	189128
	Dear Sister Azure - My heart goes out to you in the loss of a dear friend, to the friend's husband in the loss of his wife, and to the two young sons in the loss of their mother. It is a tragic loss and made even more poignant because the family does not know Christ. ...... It's easy to find in Scripture words of comfort, solace and blessed hope for the family of a loved one who died in the Lord, but not so for the unregenerate. The only suggestion I could make, dear sister, is to speak to the bereaved family through the words of our Lord, who in Matthew 11: 28-30 issued the great invitation, as follows: "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light" (King James Bible). I pray that God will speak to this family through His blessed, inspired and inerrant word, and that they thereby will be drawn to His Son, the Savior. --Hank
205	oral sex	Song of Solomon	Hank	189125
	gordonb1667 - Welcome to SBF and thanks for your inquiry. It is not an improper question, but the Bible does not address every possible expression of sexual love between a husband and wife, including oral sex. You may wish to read the article at the following link. It is as good a treatment of the subject from a conservative Christian perspective as I've come across. Go to http://www.gotquestions.org/sexually-allowed.html ..... I do hope it proves useful to you. --Hank
206	I want to know if I have to give my thit	2 Cor 9:7	Hank	189116
	Dear Marbella - What a joy to have another new-born Christian on SBF. Please don't worry about your command of English. You'll do fine, and we'll help you in every way possible. Others on the Forum struggle with English too. Particularly me. You see, my handicap is that I live in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas where English is frequently spoken poorly and written very rarely. :-) ..... Now let's talk a little about this business of tithing. Tithing is a requirement in the Bible, but it is only a requirement of the law given to Israel All Israelites were to give ten per cent (that's what "tithe" means) of everything, of earnings and crops, to the Tabernacle or Temple. Please see Lev. 27:30; Num. 18:26; Deut. 14:24; 2 Chron. 31:5. ..... The New Testament does not specify the giving of a percentage of income. It says instead that the Christian should give "in keeping with his income" (1 Cor. 16:2). The Christian's guide to giving is laid down in the ninth chapter of 2 Corinthians. While I strongly recommend the reading and study of the entire chapter, here I will quote only 2 Cor. 9:7: "Each man must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver." ...... My heart goes out to you in Christian love, young believer. Pray, study God's word, enter joyfully into the fellowship of the saints, and may your light so shine among men that they may see your good work and glorify your Father in heaven. That you may be blessed by this Forum and be a blessing to it is my prayer. Agape. --Hank
207	What is the church falling away from?	James 1:2	Hank	189087
	M. Royal - When you said "it has been said" you said essentially nothing. One could say of many things, "it has been said" -- and prove absolutely nothing. ..... "It has been said" .... that the earth is flat .... that reindeer can fly .... that handling toads causes warts .... that the sky is falling. On Study Bible Forum posters are expected to back up their "it has been saids" with "thus saith the Lord." If this is too much trouble for you, please continue to use the forum, but as a reader only. --Hank
208	More info - Should I leave my church	Luke 18:8	Hank	189028
	Thence12 - From your sketch, it appears as though your church isn't a basket case in any sense! It is not reasonable to expect perfection in any body composed of imperfect human beings. The elder you mentioned may well be taking the lead only because no one else is willing to. Why don't you pray for God's wisdom and for His strength, then roll up your sleeves and get to work! You might be pleasantly surprised at how many sluggish members your example could help mobilize to action too. If you think you have problems and your church has problems, review what the apostles faced in the first century. Pray, be of good cheer, go to work, and see what happens! --Hank
209	what does the bible say about suicide	Bible general Archive 3	Hank	188983
	Meshack - Since this is one of the most frequently asked questions on Study Bible Forum, you are directed to use the Search engine and type in the key word, suicide, in the box. You will then be able to browse through many posts upon this subject. --Hank
210	INTIMENT RELATIONSHIP	John 3:18	Hank	188981
	Young woman, you need to read and study your Bible, learn what the word of God says, pay attention to it and, most important of all, OBEY it! ..... You say that you have the Lord and Savior in your life and at the same time admit to living a life of fornication (sexual immorality), but it is impossible to live a Christ-centered life and a life of fornication. You are trying to put Jesus to the test, but it simply won't work. Scripture says, "You shall not put the Lord your God to the test" (Matthew 4:7). ..... You can't play games with God! Please ponder these solemn words from the book of Romans: "What shall we say then? Are we to continue to sin so that grace may increase? May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore, we have been buried with him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life" (Romans 6:1-4). ..... If you are indeed a born-again Christian, living in immorality is not walking in newness of life as a child of God. Yes, God will forgive your sin, but you must repent of it and turn to Him. To repent means a great deal more than merely to say you're sorry. It means quitting the sin and fleeing from immorality. May God be with you and give you strength to overcome. --Hank
211	Conditional organs donation	Matt 7:12	Hank	188952
	Hello, Sister Azure - Steve and WOS certainly have come straight to the heart of the matter with their answers and I do not presume to be able to improve on them. ...... I wish merely to make a small comment and observation. The Gospel record of Jesus shows Him ministering freely and lovingly to the sinner, the poor, the lame, the blind, the mute, the sick, the leper -- the outcasts and dregs of society. Surely there is a lesson in Jesus' ministry to be learned for ours. He reached out to minister to the multitudes, whoever they were and wherever they were. ....... And another example not so far removed from your question about putting restrictions on organ donations comes to mind. More than once I've been exposed to the following line of reasoning concerning the giving of money to the church for its work. It goes something like this: "I don't give very much (or any) these days because I don't approve of...." (and here the list can include anything from the color of the pews to the cost of the pastor's shoes). The idea is the same, whether we're contemplating the donation of bodily organs to those in need or money to support the church, it really isn't selfless giving when we give grudgingly, or out of an ascetic, gloomy sense of duty and obligation, or insist on attaching all kinds of strings and conditions to it. Scripture says that God loves a cheerful giver (2 Corintians 9:7), and how interesting it is that the Greek word "hilaron" rendered "cheerful" is the very same word from which we get the English word "hilarious." Giving is not hilarious in the sense of being a joke, to be sure. But the passage suggests that God loves a giver with a heart that embraces giving with joy and enthusiasm and finds it a delightful experience. Hence, God loves a cheerful giver. ..... And I can't let go of this topic without a personal note. It was Christmas years ago and one of my sons was 10 years old. He gave me a handsome book bound in leather that he knew I'd dreamed of owning for some time. It was an expensive book, and I wondered how David had raised so much money. I asked my wife whether she had financed our son's Christmas shopping. She said that she had not. It was after Christmas when I finally found out that this little boy, this loving son, had sold some of his coin collection in order to buy me the book. But never in my life have I seen more joy in the eyes of a human being than David had in his that Christmas morning when I opened his gift to me. David died in 1989, three months before his 21st birthday, at the hands of a drunken driver, but I never read those sacred words from 1 Corinthians 9:7, "God loves a cheerful giver" without thinking of that blessed Christmas when David so cheerfully gave me the leather book. It makes it so easy for me to see why God loves a cheerful giver. --Hank
212	Mediator	Heb 4:16	Hank	188917
	Christian 2003 - Nowhere does the Bible instruct believers in Christ to pray to anyone other than God. ....... Moreover, the Bible does not teach, encourage, or even mention, that believers should ask saints in heaven, Mary or anyone else, to be their "intercessors" before God. ....... What Scripture does teach however, and that quite clearly, is that believers can "come boldly (confidently) unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace in time of need" (Hebrews 4:16, KJV). ....... Believers have no need of a priest on earth or Mary and the saints in heaven to mediate for them, "for there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus" (1 Timothy 2:15). When the Bible says there is one mediator, it stands to reason that it means one mediator. And if it means one mediator, then earthly priests and Mary and the other heavenly saints are excluded. They are in no sense mediators. There can't be more than one mediator if there is only one mediator. That seems plain enough for a child to understand. ........ Believers have no need at all for Mary and the saints to intercede for them before the Father, even if they were willing and able, and Scripture does not confirm either possibility. In Hebrews 7:25, speaking of Christ Jesus, the writer says, "He is able to save completely those who come to God through Him, because He always lives to intercede for them." ...... What blessed assurance the follower of Christ has! In Christ, and in Him alone, the regenerate believer has a Savior, a High Priest, a Mediator, and an Intercessor. --Hank
213	ecclesiaster 9v18	Eccl 9:8	Hank	188914
	Katherine - The verse you have in mind is Eccl. 9:8, not 9:18 as in your question. Possibly the term "white garments" in this verse is best understood to symbolize purity. This verse falls contextually within a sub-section of Ecclesiastes (9:7-10) in which Solomon lays down some principles for living. .... In reference to white garments, please cf. Revelation 3:4 and 7:14 and the verses that surround them in order to understand them in proper context. --Hank
214	Asking many to pray for us?	Eph 6:18	Hank	188877
	justme - First of all, let's look at what prayer is not. Scripture no where teaches that prayer is an exercise whereby we try to bend God's will to fit our own. Neither does Scripture intimate that the more of us who "gang up" on God in prayer, the better the chances to talk Him into doing what we want done. Prayer is not talking God into doing something He ordinarily would not want to do, or trying to convince Him to do our will instead of doing His will. Notice that Christ's model prayer (Matthew 6:9-13) begins with "Our Father," and right away we learn that we must be children of God in order to pray effectively. And in that opening segment of the prayer, we are told to pray, "Thy will be done." ....... The best way I know to answer your question about whether it is just as effective for a believer to pray for himself as it is for many believers pray for him is not by launching out on some high-winded philosophical foolishness, but to ask you a question. Why did the apostle Paul begin and end so many of his letters by assuring the churches that he prayed for them and asking them to pray for him? ....... Christianity is inextricably tied with community, with the church, the body of Christ. Even the model prayer begins with "Our Father" and not "My Father." That brand new organism of the first century, that young church that we are introduced to in Acts 2, did four things. (1) continued in the apostles' doctrine, (2) in fellowship, (3) in the breaking of bread, and (4) in prayers. See Acts 2:42. ....... The Christian is not a man or woman who shuts the door and practices his faith in seclusion, having no fellowship with the saints, praying only by and for himself, although this is not meant to exclude private prayer and Bible study by any means. The believer is part of a larger organism, the church, the body of Christ. Or, to use the analogy our Lord himself provided, we are the branches, He is the vine. ...... There are many things about prayer that in my half a century and more as a Christian I have not been able to fathom. But this I do know. We are commanded to pray for others. And so often did Paul ask the churches to "pray on my behalf" (Ephesians 6:19), who am I to balk at that? I figure that if a mighty man of God like Paul needed the prayers of the saints, oh, so much more do I. ....... There are so many more aspects of prayer than what little I've said here. I pray that other saints on the Forum will touch on some of them in this thread. We can't write enough about this incomparable privilege of prayer that the believer has been afforded by the grace of God. What a pity that the weak vessels that we are so often neglect to pray as we ought, whether we are congregated in corporate worship or sit alone in our private room. ...... I don't usually quote secular works on this Forum, but here is one on prayer that I've known since I was a child and have always liked. "More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of" (Alfred, Lord Tennyson). --Hank
215	what is her significance in the Bible?	Bible general Archive 3	Hank	188738
	Minor to major, depending on who you have in mind.
216	Where can I find "sea of forgetfulness"	Mic 7:19	Hank	188574
	us - You may be thinking of a song called "Sea of Forgetfulness" with lyrics by Helen Baylor. Micah 7:19, as Steve pointed out, is probably the closest match to be found in Scripture. But see Hebrews 8:12. --Hank
217	Define "happiness" based on the Bible	Lam 3:17	Hank	188570
	00123 - C. S. Lewis looked upon happiness as being by and large something fleeting and ephemeral, easily obtained even from a jug of wine, but short lived. He drew a distinction between happiness and joy, saying that joy -- and by this he meant the joy that is peculiar to the follower of Christ -- comes from the inner core of one's being and continues throughout life, untouched by exterior circumstances. ..... Here's a challenging exercise that will help anyone who is willing to pursue it diligently to attain a deeper understanding of what these words happiness and joy mean as they are used in Scripture. Go to the Get Bible Text engine on the right column of this page. First, type in the word happiness and presss Search. You will get 4 references. Next, enter the word happy and press Search. You will get 14 references. Finally, enter the word joy and press Search. You will get a whopping 230 references. ....... I believe that anyone who will exert the effort to perform this exercise as indicated, who will read all the references in context, will come away with a richer understanding of what these words mean in biblical usage. It does call for a little toil, but, after all, there is no royal road to learning, not even to learning the Bible. But being able rightly to handle the word of truth is a command. See 2 Timothy 2:15
218	Is it ok to sell books or eat in church.	John 2:16	Hank	188499
	Hi, mega. Thanks for your question. The context of this account and of a similiar one in the Synoptics suggests that the animal merchants and the money changers were giving full vent to their greed, engaging in what we call today "price gouging" at the expense of the Jewish pilgrims who had come to Jerusalem to celebrate Passover. It was this deplorable activity that brought down the wrath of our Lord upon these mercenaries. Whether your ladies' group breakfast and book table rises to the level of that which Jesus condemned is for you to decide, but I hardly think it does. I am a member of a very conservative church and it is not unusual for it to offer Bibles and certain other "religious" books for sale from time to time, often at a reduced price. If anyone wants a Bible and hasn't the money to pay for it, we give it to them. I wouldn't call that price gouging! --Hank
219	How to recieve all annointing	1 Cor 12:13	Hank	188498
	Dear Cast - Since the word "anointing" has been used in various ways with different nuances attached to it, I have no way of knowing precisely what you have in mind when you use the phrase, "all of the annointing (sic) of the holy spirit" (sic). ...... The Bible teaches that the Holy Spirt is the supernatural and sovereign agent in regeneration (being saved, being born again). He baptizes all believers into the church, the body of Christ (1 Cor. 12:13). Additionally, the Holy Spirit indwells all regenerate believers, empowers them for service and seals them unto the day of redemption. See Romans 8:9-11; 2 Corinthians 3:6; Ephesians 1:13. ...... The Bible teaches that the Holy Spirit is the administrator of spiritual gifts to the church, redeeming the lost and building up believers in what Scripture calls "most holy faith" (see Jude 20). Additional references: John 16:13,14; Acts 1:8; 1 Cor. 12:4-11; 2 Cor. 13:18. --Hank
220	need to find a verse about thoughts	Matt 15:19	Hank	188479
	Dear Whiz - Jesus said, "Those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart, and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies" (Matthew 15:18,19,KJV) .... This may not be a perfect match to your question, but perhaps it's close enough to help. Welcome to SBF. --Hank

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