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1 | Why must people be 18 to share ideas? | John 19:17 | Sir Pent | 128422 | ||
Lockman Question...................................................... Hi Hank, Wow, I missed that requirement when I initially came to the forum. Thankfully, it does not apply to me (having just turned 28), but I am unclear as to what reason the Lockman Foundation would have to require people to be 18 years old to share their thoughts on the Bible. Do you know what their reasoning is on this matter? |
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2 | "All things belong to you" means what? | 1 Cor 3:21 | Sir Pent | 127772 | ||
In this verse and the next, Paul says that "all things belong to you". He seems to be refering to the Corinthian church. What does he mean by all things belong to the Corinthian church? | ||||||
3 | Did you follow my referral? | Rom 1:27 | Sir Pent | 116911 | ||
Did you follow my referral?........................................ Good to see you're still around Ptgard05, In my post that you responded to I recommended that you type in the number 15780 into the "Quick Search" box at the top right corner of the screen. It appears that you have not done that, since you didn't respond to any of the ideas in that thread. I really think that you would benefit from doing the search to find that thread and then reading all of the posts that are there. It was a great discussion about whether we can trust the Bible that we have on our bookshelves today to still contain God's words and not just man's words. I think that if you consider what is contained in that thread, it may help you to regain some confidence that you seem to be lacking in the scriptures and your understanding of them without knowing the original languages, etc. Would you be willing to read what is there? |
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4 | Do people's claims cause you to question | Rom 1:27 | Sir Pent | 116908 | ||
My response to your question...................................... Good to see you are still here Ptgard05, You asked how many adulterers claim to be born that way. I would answer that there are a large number, although they don't phrase it that way. There are probably more people committing adultery who claim that they can't help themselves than there are people who practice homosexuality that claim that they can't help themselves. The point is that there are always going to be people who claim that they can't help doing something that the Bible says is sin. Does this cause you to believe that the Bible doesn't mean what it says? |
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5 | Does the Holy Spirit work differently? | Bible general Archive 2 | Sir Pent | 114998 | ||
How does the Holy Spirit work differently then and now? There seems to be 3 main schools of thought regarding the working of the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament believers as compared to the New Testament believers. I would appreciate your input on this subject. 1. The Holy Spirit came “on” people of the OT, and comes “in” people of the NT and now. 2. The Holy Spirit came temporarily to people of the OT, and comes permanently to people of the NT and now. 3. The Holy Spirit came to small numbers of people in the OT, and comes to all believers in the NT and now. What do you all think? |
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6 | Can anyone else answer this question? | Joel 2:28 | Sir Pent | 113356 | ||
Can anyone else answer this question? I appreciate that Johnny at least tried, but just saying that God's timing is perfect doesn't really answer the question. Doesn't anyone out there have any thoughts on this issue. Why did God's perfect timing dictate that He wait so long to send the Holy Spirit? |
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7 | Why did God wait to send the Holy Spirit | Joel 2:28 | Sir Pent | 113288 | ||
Why did God wait so long to send the Holy Spirit? I have been thinking lately about why God waited so long to send the Holy Spirit. Some people believe the Earth to be millions of years old. And even if you believe in a young Earth like myself, the world is at least 6000 years old. Yet God has only sent the Holy Spirit to be in people's lives for the last 2000 years. Before that, there were probably less than 50 people (ie. Old Testament prophets and judges) out of millions of people around to world who had that privilege. Since we know that God wanted to give the Holy Spirit to people. And we know that He could have done it at any time. Why did He wait so long? |
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8 | I would like more information | Heb 13:4 | Sir Pent | 112456 | ||
I would like more info......................... Welcome to the forum Monkman :) Before I respond to your post, I would like to know more about you. Do you consider yourself to be a Christian? Do you consider the Bible to be authoritative for your life? |
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9 | I'm still looking for the answer | Phil 1:14 | Sir Pent | 86331 | ||
Hi Prazn, I don't think that I've talked with you before, and it's been a long time since I've written here on the forum. Thanks for trying to answer my question, but I think I need some more help. Your answer was basically that Christians don't need to fear because God is on our side. I agree with that, but the verse is talking about something different. It says that the Christians had less fear becuase Paul was in jail, not becuase of their faith in God. That is why I am confused. How could Paul being imprisoned make them more confident to share the gospel? |
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10 | Why does Paul's imprisonment lessen fear | Phil 1:14 | Sir Pent | 86323 | ||
Why would the fact that that one of the greatest leaders of the early church (Paul) was in jail encourage other Christians to share their own faith with less fear? This seems to be the opposite effect from what I would expect. | ||||||
11 | Do we display consistency to the world? | Matt 11:7 | Sir Pent | 60093 | ||
Hypothetical Situations ...................................... I would like to discuss a few hypothetical situations between two hypothetical forum members named Tom and Jerry. ...................................... 1. Tom submits a post interpreting a single verse of scripture. Jerry AGREES with the interpretation and compliments Tom on such a profound thought. 2. Tom submits a post interpreting a single verse of scripture. Jerry DISAGREES with the interpretation and rebukes Tom for failing to look at the overall context of the passage which clearly shows that Tom is totally wrong. ...................................... 3. Tom submits a post interpreting a single verse in the context of several paragraphs preceeding and following it. Jerry AGREES with the interpretation and compliments Tom on such a profound thought. 4. Tom submits a post interpreting a single verse in the context of several paragraphs preceeding and following it. Jerry DISAGREES with the interpretation and rebukes Tom for going through mental gymnastics to change the clear meaning in the verse itself. Jerry reminds silly Tom that he has to look at the totality of scripture to get a full understanding of God’s message. ...................................... 5. Tom submits a post interpreting a single verse in the context of several paragraphs preceeding and following it, and within a framework that incorporates the entirety of scripture. Jerry AGREES with the interpretation and compliments Tom on such a profound thought and such thorough research. 6. Tom submits a post interpreting a single verse in the context of several paragraphs preceeding and following it, and within a framework that incorporates the entirety of scripture. Jerry DISAGREES with the interpretation and rebukes Tom for stretching scripture to the point of no return just so that it will fit into Tom’s flawed theology. ...................................... Granted, these are completely theoretical situations, and would never happen on this forum. However, they probably happen on other forums, and I’m interested in why everyone thinks that they would happen at those other places. |
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12 | Forgiveness of What? | Acts 13:38 | Sir Pent | 23359 | ||
Forgiveness of What? .......................... There have been multiple discussions on this forum about whether a person who commits some sin or breaks some requirement in the Bible deserves permanent punishment of any sort. The basic line of reasoning that most people seem to support is that if the person is truly sorry for the wrong doing, and has changed, then they should be treated in all respects as if it had never occurred. Is this a Biblical perspective of forgiveness? |
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13 | How to know God just from seeing nature? | Rom 1:20 | Sir Pent | 22206 | ||
Finding God in Nature, part 1 How can this verse be true? How can someone be responsible to know "God's divine nature" based only on nature? I will try to answer this in a series of posts, as I have many thoughts on this. First a little background about myself. I am a research scientist, and therefore, have spent a lot of time studying the world around me and the scientific theories about the universe. The result of this study has been that I believe that just examining nature around us "shows" us who God is. Notice that I don't say "proves". It is been my experience that nothing can actually be "proven". In life, we must make choices about what we "believe". And it is most logical to choose to believe what is more likely than what is less likely. For instance, the theory of gravity has never been actually "proven". However, our vast experience of seeing effects indicating its presence (ie. seeing balls drop, etc.) and its ability to fit into other scientific theories make it a much more logical to believe in gravity, than to disbelieve it. Therefore, we live our lives based on it being true (ie. we don't jump off tall buildings, thinking that we won't fall). Similarly, I have found that on every issue where we must choose what we believe, one option is more reasonable than any others. Therefore, in this series of posts I will try to explain why I find Christianity to be the most logical choice of belief. |
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14 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21147 | ||
Dear Forumites, I think that there has been a slight frustration building for quite some time regarding our forum here. Reformer Joe has recently articulated it well. There are many threads which are either of minimal value (see Kalos' questionable question post), or which leave little room for discussion (like where is such-and-such). Then there are the neverending discussions on issues such as Calvinism vs. Arminianism (with the recent additionof Amyraldianism). While these are still threads that need to be addressed on the forum, I believe that some of the most regular members (especially who have been here for a while) could lose interest. I wonder if this partially explains a trend that I discovered while looking at the history of the forum. There are some members who have been here forever like Kalos, Charis, and Hank. However, there are also many people who are very active and supportive for a time and then just kind of disappear. Some of these RCScroll, RElderCascade, Brent Douglass, Xapis, Heir of God, KBurgee, Melchizedekau, Reformedreader, Jim, InHzsvc, and GMsmith101. And there's also our most prolific poster Nolan Keck, who has been on sabatical for over a month. I think that it is worth addressing to discover a way that we could continue to improve the forum so that people will want to stay. Their experience and valuable input is sorely missed when they leave. What does everyone think? For those of you who have been here a long time, do you remember why some people left? Why have you stayed? Are people really frustrated, or do I interpret Reformer Joe and others incorrectly? |
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15 | What does dying once mean figuratively? | Heb 9:27 | Sir Pent | 21135 | ||
Dear Forumites, In keeping with the idea that all verses are literal until proven figurative by contradiction with other scriptures, I have a qeustion about Hebrews 9:27. The literal meaning is obviously contradicted by people such as Lazarus, Jairus' daughter and Dorcus. They all died once, were resurrected, and then died a second time. So what are we to take this verse to mean? |
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16 | Amyraldianism, a 3rd choice or not? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 20325 | ||
I have recently been introduced to a new perspective regarding salvation and free will. It is called the "Amyraldian" perspective, and a good description of it can be found at http://members.aol.com/briangord/amyrad.htm It sounds like the basic idea is that Arminias was theoretically right and Calvin was practically right. A summary quote would be that "Christ died sufficiently for all but efficiently only for the elect." My question is how is this possible? The word "sufficient" means "enough to meet the needs". Therefore, if Christ's sacrifice was enough to meet the needs of sinners to gain salvation, then nothing more could be required. Conversely, if salvation requires both Christ's sacrifice AND being elected, then the sacrifice alone is not sufficient. It seems that this belief has an inherrant contradiction within itself. Does anyone have any ideas on this? |
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17 | Genesis Creation, a practical example? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 19627 | ||
I agree that we probably could not come up with a method that would work 100 percent of the time. However, I think that a process that could tell 95 percent of the time would be good enough for me. I like your ideas of combining things, however, let's take a look at a specific example and see how it would apply. Genesis as a book would I guess fall under your category of Gospel (historical narrative), and therefore we would assume that it was literal unless noted otherwise. Then if we look at the Creation story, we discover that it is written in the form of ancient poetry, and doesn't make a lot of sense literally. It would seem that this method would tell us that it was meant to be figurative, yet you and I both believe it is literal. How do we reconcile this? |
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18 | How can we tell figurative from literal? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 19550 | ||
Dear Forum Members, An interesting question has arisen on the forum recently in multiple posts, which I would like to address directly. We would all agree that it is possible to interpret one part of scripture figuratively and another literally. The question is, "What are the criteria that can be consistently applied to tell the difference?" This is something that creeps into many different threads. It impacts how we interpret the creation story in Genesis, and the end of the world in Revelation. It even affects whether we believe that there was a certain number of soldiers, years, etc, or whether those numbers are figurative to mean something else. |
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19 | How can we tell figurative from literal? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 19549 | ||
Dear Forum Members, An interesting question has arisen on the forum recently in multiple posts, which I would like to address directly. We would all agree that it is possible to interpret one part of scripture figuratively and another literally. The question is, "What are the criteria that can be consistently applied to tell the difference?" This is something that creeps into many different threads. It impacts how we interpret the creation story in Genesis, and the end of the world in Revelation. It even affects whether we believe that there was a certain number of soldiers, years, etc, or whether those numbers are figurative to mean something else. |
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20 | Possible Lockman Forum Improvement #4 | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 18278 | ||
Possible Lockman Forum Improvement #4 In the ever continuing mission to make this Lockman Study Bible Forum the best it could possibly be, I have one more suggestion that has come to my attention. In case you are looking for a pattern, Improvement Posts #1 and #3 depended on changes that Lockman could make. Improvement Posts #2 and #4 depend upon changes that we members could make ourselves. This new sugestion is that we make the beginnings of posts to be more descriptive and standardized. This would make it possible to tell more clearly how ideas have been expressed, when looking at the thread as a whole. If you like this idea, do you have any ideas as to how it might be accomplished? What kinds of things could we use on a regular basis that would be helpful in this way? Possibly labels such as: Further Support Contrary View Personal Note Also possibly stating the basis of the idea: Bible Commentary Link Logic These could be combined: Contrary View, Bible Further Support, Logic These are just ideas, what do you all think? |
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