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1 | revelation, inspiration, illumination | Bible general Archive 4 | Rolff | 207253 | ||
I agree with the previous post, that people will make the words say what they want them to say out of ignorance or purpose. But a quick and dirty definition of the three words from a Conservative Protestant theology would be as follows Revelation is from God. The Bible is God's revealed will. (We could mention the Book of Revelation, which is the Apocalypse, or unveiling of the future. Revelation means unveiling.) Inspiration is the method God used to share his revealed will to the authors of Scripture. Illumination is where we are at. As we read God's Word the Spirit of God illuminates our minds to his Word. When we turn on a light the room is illuminated. As we read Scripture the Holy Spirit illuminates our minds. Hope this helps |
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2 | Clarification needed, Justme | Bible general Archive 4 | Rolff | 207751 | ||
Senator Joe Biden's stated religion is Roman Catholic. Justme wasn't pushing a political agenda he/she asked us to pray. I see nothing in the rules to forbid prayer on this forum. Seems to me Justme was right on the money reminding us to remember the following passage: "First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, for kings and all who are in authority, in order that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity." 1 Timothy 2:1-2 |
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3 | explain baptism into moses | Bible general Archive 4 | Rolff | 216385 | ||
I was intrigued by your question. A quick search of my concordance came up "dry" on Moses and Baptism. I looked up “baptized into Moses” with no results. Even a quick scan of all references to Baptism came up as a dead end. Would you be so kind as to include a biblical reference to guide this writer? Thanks. |
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4 | explain baptism into moses | Bible general Archive 4 | Rolff | 216397 | ||
1CO 10:1 For I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all [pas, all or every]under the cloud, and all [pas, all or every] passed through the sea; 10:2 and all [pas, all or every] were baptized [dip or sink] into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 10:3 and all pas, all or every] ate the same spiritual food; 10:4 and all [pas, all or every] drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ. I must confess I have not seen this passage before although I have read 1 Corinthians many times and my trusty electronic concordance was unable to pull it out. This is one of the reasons I enjoy viewing this Forum. The original question was, “scripture states that we were baptized into Moses explain and was it considered wet or dry.” I believe the answer is in the text above. Some date the Exodus including Moses around 1444 BC, most of the Christians in both Saul called Paul’s time and ours did not pass under the cloud or thru the sea in a literal sense. Therefore it must be a spiritual or dry baptism. This is stated concretely in verse 10:4. On 2/29/2004 the following was posted in this Forum regarding 1 Cor 10:2… Subject: Baptism a warning about overconfidence Note: xxx, I won't explain. But your response is exactly what I hoped to get from all parties to the baptism controversies here on the forum. More thinking, less posting would be good. Emmaus Blessings, I hope I answered your question on wet or dry. |
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5 | how does Pauls three journeys correlate | NT general | Rolff | 228393 | ||
You have asked a question that is too large for this venue. The three Missionary Journey's of Paul are found in Acts The first Journey is Acts found in Chapter 13 and 14. The second journey is found in 15:36 to 18:22 and the third journey is in 18:23 to 20:38. If you hear about a fourth journey, it is Paul's trip to Rome. Most of what you ask is in this text of Scripture. Ie. Ephesis is Ephesians. Philippi is to the Philippians. But Galatia is a provence like a state. It included cities in the Biblical text including Antioch, Iconium and Lycnonia. I would like to suggest you garner a copy of THE LIVE AND EPISTLES OF ST. PAUL by Conybeare and Howson for the classic on the topic. |
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6 | Who was Cain's wife? | Genesis | Rolff | 207235 | ||
God only tells us things we need to know and apparently God didn’t think we needed to know Cain’s wife. Adam and Eve, Adam means man or mankind and all through the Old Testament when you see a man did this or that…the Hebrew word equivelant to Adam. Eve was the mother of all living. Adam and Eve’s job was to have children. They had at least three boys and we assume they had many children. As late as Abraham and Sarah, brothers and sisters were marrying each other (Genesis 20:2, circa 2000 BCE.) It is assumed Cain married one of his sisters. |
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7 | What date was Adam and Eve created? | Genesis | Rolff | 242695 | ||
Bishop Usher put a Creation date of 4004 BC, he had it down to the hour if not the minute. This was the date for over 200 years and the one I grew up memorizing. Smarter minds than mine found his numbers lacking and some rounded the date to 4000 BC or BCE. ... I am a grandfather, more than once I have called my grandson, my son. His father is no longer living and it is a term of endearment. There are places you can study in the genealogies where they skip several generations, possibly only mentioning important or famous members of the line. Can you imagine if every name for 4000 years were mentioned in scripture? It would take many pages of the Bible just to list them. ... Since we were not there, and since the Bible does not say, some put a date of no earlier than 10,000 BC. Our job today is to be like Jesus Christ. This creation date is one of the questions we will have to ask God in eternity. | ||||||
8 | Person that went to heaven without dying | Gen 5:21 | Rolff | 229882 | ||
Thank you for your quesion. There are two persons in the Old Testament that may not have died. GEN 5:21 Enoch lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Methuselah. 22 Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he became the father of Methuselah, and he had other sons and daughters. 23 So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. 24 Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him. Elijah may not have died...2Ki 2:12 Elisha saw it and cried out, "My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!" And he saw Elijah no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes and tore them in two pieces. (NAS95) |
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9 | Whence cometh the races? | Gen 11:7 | Rolff | 223395 | ||
I got interested in this question when I was not Chinese, but dating a Chinese. First, we don't know the answer to this question because it is not listed in scripture. Races may as you suggested have changed when God changed the languages. They may have woken up under the shadow of the tower and said, "Uh, you speak funny and look funny." and separated. Second, it could be related to geography, while there are many exceptions, light skinned people seem to be farther north and darker skinned people seem to be native to warmer climates. Third, it could be that before car and airplane travel closer relatives married and created the diversity of homo sapiens that add to our kind because God created that diversity in our genes. | ||||||
10 | Problem sharing our faith? | Ex 20:1 | Rolff | 211871 | ||
Dear kamschoolgrad, Your question in part, “Well, we all know how preposterous it would be for such a story to be true, yet this is exactly what the god of the Christian bible did. Deuteronomy 5:17, "Thou shall not kill." Deuteronomy 13:9, "but you shall surely kill him." When are the people of the real world going to realize that although some of the bible stories may be historically truthful, most of them are fairy tales that can't be taken seriously?" Mahalo, actually, this is one of the best reasons for donating the King James to the library of antiquities. I love the KJV, but it is a foreign language to 21st Century readers. Thou shalt (not even in my word-processing spell-check dictionary) not kill is not a good translation for 21st Century readers. Second, your question is about definitions. In Exodus 20:13, Deut 5:17 both read, "You shall not murder." NASB. The language the Old Testament was written in, Hebrew uses the same word in both verses, ratsach, which is murder. The same Hebrew word is used six times in the Old Testament, let’s look briefly at them. EXO 20:13 ¶ "You shall not murder. DEU 5:17 ¶' You shall not murder. PSA 62:3 ¶ How long will you assail a man, That you may murder him, all of you, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence? PSA 94:6 They slay the widow and the stranger, And murder the orphans. JER 7:9 "Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and offer sacrifices to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known, HOS 4:2 There is swearing, deception, murder, stealing, and adultery. They employ violence, so that bloodshed follows bloodshed. HOS 6:9 And as raiders wait for a man, So a band of priests murder on the way to Shechem; Surely they have committed crime. Regarding murder, Miriam Webster’s Online Dictionary states: “The crime of unlawfully killing a person especially with malice or forethought.” There were six cities of Refuge, given by God to protect the person that took the life of another without intent. The example that is used is if the ax head comes off while chopping an tree and another dies. The one living could run to one of the cities of refuge until the high priest died and then go home. Numbers 13:35f . A person died, but the life of the one taking the life was saved by God’s decree because it was accidental. War as horrendous as it is, is not forbidden in the Bible. War is not murder. Accidental killing, be it by car, stupidity or accident is not murder. Murder is a drive-by shooter taking the life of a friend of mine. Murder is intentionally taking a weapon and using it until it removes the life of another. In Deuteronomy 13:9 kill means kill. The Hebrew word is harag according to my Hebrew lexicon means kill. Miriam Webster’s Online Dictionary states, “transitive verb, to deprive of life : cause the death of “ Quell is from the same etymological root. Capital punishment is not murder. Which begs to your question; If one takes the life of another, Deuteronomy 5:17 that person should be put to death Deuteronomy 13:9. [When I was a boy there was little murder because the murderer was a dead man in short order. He did not want to die, so he didn’t take the life of another. The more lenient we get on murderers the more murder occurs. The Bible never talks about prison, but it does tell us to remove the murderer from among the living.] Aloha, Rolff |
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11 | Murder vs Killing | Ex 20:1 | Rolff | 211885 | ||
kamschoolgrad, There are many sides to God. My father used to kid my mother about the husband that needed to hug, chalk and hug some more before chalking because his wife was so fat. In many ways, that is the way to look at God. In fact, that is how theologians look at God. We take what we call attributes and only look at one part at a time of the total of what God is, because we can't see all of him at one time. If we could understand God, He would not be God. I am not sure anyone can answer your question completely as it is in the heart of God. But the substance, when one peels off all the layers of God: is love. God is love, 1 John 4:8. God's love makes him love, at the fall this is what we lost. We do things and ask, what is in it for me? God not only made us when He did not need to but he gave his son to die for people that didn’t like him, because God is who He is. I might die for another, but I wouldn't give my children for another...that is how much He loved you and us. But there is another side of God after the chalk mark. God is a God of absolute purity that expects us to love Him. He is a jealous God. EXO 20:5 "You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, We can say this is unfair, but God makes the rules and he says that is the way it is. God's holiness demands holy. MAT 5:48 "Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. [Some translations use mature, which helps me sleep at night.] When I first read the article you wrote in your question, my first thought was this is immoral person. I am 2200 miles and five hours by air from Maui but I have heard Dawson McAllister and Josh McDowell both mention that people that have hidden sin need to disprove God to prove they are OK. If there is a God then they need to repent, which they have no intention of doing—so they say there is no God or he is a bad God, as the author of the article was trying to prove. You will not win this argument by argument. You will win it by ... love. God loved so much he died...talk about an oxymoron. Your husband needs to 1 Thessalonians 4:11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; Aloha, don dba Rolff |
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12 | Harmony between two thoughts. Joshua 7 | Josh 7:1 | Rolff | 211853 | ||
You are thinking as a western civilization person. I can't for the life of me understand why because the king died the country ran and lost the battle. After all it wasn't me and sorry it was him not me, but why loose the battle over one man no matter what his title. This story is in the history books of the Bible. In the Old Testament and to a great degree today in Asia it is group mentality. When one dies, all is lost. The group pays for the sin of the individual. Your question assumes they were inocent, there is nothing either way to assume Achan's doomed relatives were guilty or inocent. If my wife brings something large like a brick of gold and a closet full of clothes into the house, I and my children would know. These relatives proably knew about the sin and did nothing to expose the sin after all they were rich while the gold was under the floor. We as individuals are not to punish the children for the parents sin. It is a different perspective. Something to chew on while I run to church this fine California morning. |
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13 | Consititues Faith as Opposed to David? | 1 Sam 27:1 | Rolff | 208214 | ||
Bowler, I am exhausted. It has been a long weekend of working for the Kingdom. Let me pose a question. In Acts 4:19 Peter and John disagree with the rulers and disobey the rulers direct command. Peter was let out of jail in Acts 12, when it was clear he was to be beheaed the next morning. I'm sure if I wasn't so tired I could think of many other examples of people that followed God's law over man's law. Men will die, God's law will last forever. There are times we need to lose our heads for the Kingdom. There are times a wife should say, this far and no farther to her husband, when he expects her to be a swinger or other true perversion. I have wondered about Vashti for years. This was a modest woman who didn't want to do a strip tease in front of a bunch of drunk men. She paid a heavy price for disobeing her husband the King. Not sure I answered you question, but I hope I brought more ideas to your plate as you ruminate on this question. |
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14 | Why is Jeremiah as the weeping prophet | Jer 18:6 | Rolff | 209284 | ||
Jeremiah's message to Judah was to repent. If they didn’t' repent they would be punished. The next book in our Canon is Lamentations. This book was also written by Jeremiah after the fall if Judah. I believe Jeremiah was much like several preachers today. They see the corruption, speak the right words but no few are listening. The nation is determined to destroy itself in greed and corruption. JER 6:10 To whom shall I speak and give warning, That they may hear? Behold, their ears are closed, And they cannot listen. Behold, the word of the Lord has become a reproach to them; They have no delight in it. JER 6:17 "And I set watchmen over you, saying, 'Listen to the sound of the trumpet!' But they said, 'We will not listen.' JER 7:26 "Yet they did not listen to Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck; they did evil more than their fathers. JER 7:27 ¶ "And you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you; and you shall call to them, but they will not answer you. This is four verses in two chapters; there are 46 of verses like this in 52 chapters. Conclusion: Everyone wants to be appreciated, Jeremiah was not appreciated and even spent a time in the septic tank where he was slated to die--but he was rescued. He could "see" the downfall of his nation and watched his beloved nation fall but no one would listen to his message. Both and more were reasons he was called the weeping prophet. |
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15 | Ezekiel's Vision and Type of Angels? | Ezek 1:6 | Rolff | 207321 | ||
Question: What kind of angels are those, are they the same as the angels in Revelation and what are they called? First, angel means messenger. In the Apocalypse (Revelation) John calls the seven pastors of the seven churches angels (1:20.) Messengers can be men or supernatural beings, but they are all messengers. Second, while there is nothing wrong with your question. It reminds me of the President visiting a hotel and the news media interviewing the maids instead of the President. Our focus should be on Jesus not his messengers. Colossians 2:18 passes along this concept. “Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind,” Third, a close read of Scripture gives many different forms of Spirit beings, for lack of a better word. Both Ephesians and Colossians give four separate and distinct spiritual groupings. EPH 6:12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. COL 1:16 For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities-- all things have been created by Him and for Him. Paul in Romans 8:38 mentions angels and principalities and possibly powers as being separate spiritual groupings. “For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,” We know there are angels, archangels, seraphs, cherubs as four groupings of spirit beings. Fourth, A being that has a wingspan two times it’s height is probably a Cherub. A. Seraphs have six wings. Isaiah 6:2 “Seraphim stood above Him, each having six wings; with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.” B. Cherubs have wings. Exodus 25:20 “And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.” C. Cherubs can fly. Psalm 18:10, “And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. “ D. Ezekiel 1 and 10 are a view of the throne room of YHWH. (10:4) and the beings are probably Cherubs (Cherubim is a Hebrew plural and Cherubims is an English plural, plural.) E. Revelation 4:8 And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within; and day and night they do not cease to say, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come." The six winged spirit beings match Seraphs as we understand the question. F. There is much we don’t understand about spirit beings and I am far more interested in the One Speaking in Ezekiel 1:26-28 and between the lamp-stands in Revelation 1. Daniel 7, also has about the same view of what I see as my Savior. |
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16 | Nebuchadnezzar's 7 period absence | Dan 4:32 | Rolff | 207017 | ||
Interesting question. I am not aware of anywhere it states in scripture who replaced Nebuchadnezzar during this time of insanity. Adam Clark's commentary states the following: Verse 26. "No new king was set up; Evil-merodach his son was regent during his father's insanity." |
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17 | what is God telling us in the book of J? | Nah 1:1 | Rolff | 207233 | ||
The Book of Jonah is trying to tell us several things. First, a prophet doesn’t have to be anything but willing to do God’s will. Jonah was a melancholy personality that didn’t want the Assyrians [Iraq] to be saved. Jonah was looking forward to the destruction of Assyrians; this is true in Jonah’s first and last behaviors. God moved circumstances to get his servant to obey God’s will. God shows God’s “own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” Or in the case of the Assyrians, God saved them out of His goodness. While God changed his mind because of the revival with Jonah as the unwilling evangelist, Nahum is the newspaper 150 years later showing the utter destruction of Nineveh. |
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18 | What happend to Jonah? | Nah 1:1 | Rolff | 207240 | ||
Your question is unknown but I can answer as a man with the same mindset. Melancholy personalities tend to be perfectionists and thinkers; they are party poopers that can always see the worst in mankind and the most negative future. When things don’t go the way they want, they ask for death—“because things are going to get worse anyway.” Elijah was most likely a melancholy personality. God did not kill Elijah as he asked in 1 Kings 19:4, but used him for many years as his servant before taking him up in a chariot only to be seen hundreds of years later as part of the Transfiguration in Matthew 17:3. [Jonah and Elijah probably knew each other and worked together. See 2 Kings 10:17 and 2 Kings 14:25, word of mouth says the servant in 1 Kings 18:43 was Jonah.] The book of Jonah is not a finished book. There are no nice ending to Jonah. Chapter four is half-way through a narrative about a gourd—God interrupts—and the book is over with us wanting more. God does not choose to give an ending to this book. I personally believe God doesn’t answer these stupid depressed prayers. He did not give Elijah his request in 1 Kings 19. He has never given me my request and I doubt He gave Jonah his request of death. Jonah had to learn to live with God’s goodness and hopefully, sitting there on the side of the cliff listening to happy people in Nineveh, with a withered gourd, he learned that God is good. God is good all the time. |
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19 | Information needed. | Matt 1:17 | Rolff | 207221 | ||
I wondered if this info would add to the mix. The 14x14x14 generations in Matthew are a mnemonic to help generations of people without paper, pen or computer--that needed to know their genealogy. Have you looked at 1 Chronicles 1-9 for a fuller list of begat’s? Abraham is usually dated around 1950 BCE. ISBE gives a date post 2000 BC. This would be 1900 more or less years between Abram and Jesus. |
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20 | to whom should we pray/ | Matt 6:9 | Rolff | 212831 | ||
"Our Father in heaven, holy is your name..." | ||||||
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