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1 | Can I remarry and be forgiven by god | Luke 7:47 | Hank | 72647 | ||
gmsmith: Having been active on this forum for almost two years, I've witnessed many questions pertaining to specific personal problems, usually marital, and from them and their answers have drawn two conclusions: [1] That since this site is purported to be a Bible study forum and not an advice column such as a "Dear Abby," such questions generally don't fall within the purview of the purpose of this forum; and [2] that since few of the participants of this forum meet even the minimum qualifications of a marital counselor, the questioner is well advised to seek qualified counsel elsewhere, within the framework of his own community. Therefore, please be assured that I wrote my post with these points in mind, and it was thus not directed to you personally or to the content of your post, which, by the way, I never even read. So may I kindly enjoin you to refrain from taking personal offense of a post that was directed to the questioner in the hope that she may find solution to her dilemma from sources more cognizant of her specific situation and better qualified to lend her aid than she is likely to find on this or any other web site. As a parting thought, if you should care to perform a long and arduous search on these "advice" questions that are part of the archives of this forum, you may find, in reading some of the answers, that they do indeed fall into the category of bad and terribly misleading advice. I'm keenly aware of your newness to this forum and would thus ask that you broaden your knowledge of its content and dynamics in an effort to view with more objectivity what some of the more experienced users say and thus equip yourself the better to understand why they say what they do. I do trust that this background sketch I am offering will be fruitful in ameliorating the offense that you initially took of my post. Your offense was, I assure you, unfounded. --Hank | ||||||
2 | Can I remarry and be forgiven by god | Luke 7:47 | gmsmith101 | 72702 | ||
Dear Brother Hank, I'm here to tell you that I'm qualified to answer this lady's question. First of all, all I said was the following: 1. God forgives sin. 2. Your family needs counseling. Not only am I, an ordained minister, a Bible teacher and family counselor, qualified to give this dear lady this answer, but but so is any other brother or sister in Christ. The answer comes straight from Scripture: We are to seek Godly counsel. We are forgiven by God's grace. I did not offer her any other "advice." I think you need to search yourself, Brother Hank. And incidentally, whether I post here once or a thousand times, that does not qualify me any less than any other brother or sister. |
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3 | Can I remarry and be forgiven by god | Luke 7:47 | Hank | 72708 | ||
gmsmith, Unlike you, I being neither an ordained minister nor a family counselor and only a rather poor excuse for a Bible teacher, I humbly bow to your erudition. If the Lord lets me live until March 4, I will turn 68, and if I have learned anything at all worthwhile in my life so far it surely must be that wisdom consists not only in knowing what I know and am qualified to do, but in knowing what I don't know and am not qualified to do. Family counseling on the internet is one of those things that I know not to do. --Hank | ||||||
4 | Can I remarry and be forgiven by god | Luke 7:47 | gmsmith101 | 72728 | ||
Brother Hank, I have never intended to start a battle. This is ridiculous. I never intended any disrespect to you. I merely wanted to point out that my answer WAS an appropriate response to the lady's question, which was if God could forgive her sin. Was my answer biblically incorrect? No, it was not. I advised her to seek Godly counsel. I told her she should confess her sins to God. (In fact, she asked about remarriage, and I told her she shouldn't be thinking about that right now.) None of these things were wrong. Yet it appears that my advice to her was considered misleading. I don't understand why this was considered inappropriate. Is it because you don't know me? | ||||||