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1 | What was avg life span for Joshuas time | Bible general Archive 4 | biblicalman | 227546 | ||
all the males who were of fighting age died thus all under 60. life expectancy on the whole was much less. there is no reason for thinking israelites had a shorter life span | ||||||
2 | jewish priests dying behind tabernacle | Bible general Archive 4 | biblicalman | 227639 | ||
This is a late Jewish tradition. The idea behind it is that because when the High Priest entered the Holy of Holies on the Day of Atonement there would be no way of recovering his body if he died while in the Holy of Holies (no one else was allowed to enter), a way had to be provided to solve the problem. We do not know if it was ever carried out in practise. It was into the Holy of Holies behind the Veil not behind the Tabernacle, and it was when the bell ceased ringing that they would know that he was dead. | ||||||
3 | what is ark | Bible general Archive 4 | biblicalman | 228014 | ||
the angels who watched over the ark were called cherubim compare Ezek 1. if u mean an archangel then that means a leading angel Michael was an archangel see Jude 9. |
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4 | Herod and Pilate Letters non-canonical? | Bible general Archive 4 | biblicalman | 228383 | ||
Hi The so-called letters of Herod and Pilate were unknown to the early church for over 500 years. The British Museum has a copy in Syriac dated 7th century AD. Their accuracy can be assessed by the fact that according to the letters Herod thought that his daughter's name was Herodias. Herodias was in fact the name of his wife. Best wishes |
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5 | ... | Bible general Archive 4 | biblicalman | 228524 | ||
Jehovah is not God's Name. It is impossible Hebrew. God's Name was YHWH. And we are not sure how it was pronounced. In order that people reading the text might not pronounce the sacred Name the vowels of adonai (Lord) were added to the four consonant. It was pronouncing this in ignorance that produced the corrupt name Jehovah which is impossible in Hebrew. As no one knows how the Name of God should be pronounced, and as Jesus chose not to enlighten us (demonstrating that He did not see it as important) it would clearly not be possible for us to use it today because we would not be sure that what we were pronouncing was His Name. |
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6 | Question about upcoming projects? | Bible general Archive 4 | biblicalman | 228700 | ||
While it is not for me to tell Lockman's what to do I suspect that they will not produce such a Bible based on inferior texts. There are continuing discoveries of early papyrus texts which underline quite definitely that the Byzantine text is a late text. There is not reslly a debate about that. You should read an up to date book on textual criticism written by genuine textual scholars, not by people seeking to sustain an unsustainable theory who do not actually study the texts concerned. Best wishes |
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7 | were old testiments years same as today | Bible general Archive 4 | biblicalman | 228842 | ||
hi welcome to the forum the ancients tended to see time in periods of the moon from new moon to new moon (28-29 days). 12 moon periods made up a year. but every three years or so they would add in an intercalary moon period so as to keep the seasons in sync. often when making calculations they would see a moon period as being 30 days. But this was only a covenience. Thus forty two moon periods would be seen as 1260 days even though in fact being somewhat less. There is, however, slight evidence of a 365 day year in Palestine. But it was not common. Most people stuck to the method I have outlined above, and that was the basis on which life went on. (Most people could not calculate, or count beyond ten) Best wishes |
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8 | Dose the bible note angels by gender? | Bible general Archive 4 | biblicalman | 228871 | ||
Hi Etta, Welcome to the forum. The Bible actually says nothing about gender in angels, but always speaks of them as 'he'. What we do know is that they neither marry nor are given in marriage (Matt 22.30). But as they are spirit beings that is not surprising. It does, however, suggest that they do not spcifically split up into couples (except when acting as witnesses). However, we would be unwise to dogmatise over what they can do when they come in the form of men. Clearly good angels would be true to their status. But some believe that the 'angels who kept not their first estate' (Jude 6) were fallen angels who consorted with women in the time of Noah. That is not impossible, for in the Old Testament 'sons of the elohim (God)' always refers to angels. They may even have been cases of demonic intercourse. This woud explain why God had to destroy all of mankind because their women had become tainted. Best wishes |
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9 | Other Names for Jesus | Bible general Archive 4 | biblicalman | 228951 | ||
hi Aileen Jesus has so many names because He is so great and complex that one name is not sufficient to describe Him. Jesus means 'Yah is salvation'; Immanu-el means 'God is with us'; Christ means God's anointed One; LORD means that He is YHWH (Phil 2.9-11), and Lord over our lives; Son of Man links Him wtih Daniel's prophecy in 7.13-14, and also bring out that He is truly human; Son of God means that He is of the same nature as the Father, and so we could go on. Best wishes. |
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10 | Can a marraige be saved after adultry? | Bible general Archive 4 | biblicalman | 228969 | ||
Ho Kimommy, welcome to the forum. I agree with Ed that you should seek out some spiritual person whom you can trust that you can discuss this with. Are you sure that you are not reading your feeling of guilt into your husband's behaviour? If he was only speaking to another woman that is not necessarily something to get suspicious about. Are you sure that your suspicions are well grounded? Your very feeling of guilt might be bringing strains into your marriage. If your husband specifically forgave you then he should stand by his commitment. It would seem to me that having made the decision not to see your adultery as a grounds for divorce God would see him as bound by that decision. For God forgives us as we forgive. And once He has forgiven He does not change His mind. I am presuming that you are both committed Christians? Presumably you have not discussed this with your husband? Perhaps that is something that you ought to do. At least you would then know where you stood. And he may well be shocked that you still doubt him. May God help you to be wise.. |
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11 | cremation according to the bible? | Bible general Archive 4 | biblicalman | 228973 | ||
Hi floyd, welcome to the forum. The Bible says nothing about cremation, and in Old Testament days many bodies were burned with fire during the destruction of cities. It will not affect their resurrection. But burial was always looked on as the method disposing of dead bodies. It could therefore be argued that this is testimony to the resurrection. In the end it is open to individual choice. Best wishes. |
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12 | OT Parallels | Bible general Archive 4 | biblicalman | 228975 | ||
hi well clearly chronicles can be seen as paralleling kings ezra can be seen as paralleling nehemiah exodus, leviticus and deuteronomy can be seen as parallels best wishes |
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13 | Dreams ... Genesis-Revelation | Bible general Archive 4 | biblicalman | 228988 | ||
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14 | Are we Under Mosiac Law? or Jesus Law? | Bible general Archive 4 | biblicalman | 229004 | ||
We are under the Law of Christ. Basically this is summed up in 'you shall love the Lord your God with heart, soul, mind and strength and your neighbour as yourself' (Galatians 5.14 6.2). Jesus reinterpreted the Mosaic Law in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7). We seek to live it out in Christ's strength because we are counted as righteous in God's eyes through the cross and through the blood of Christ. If we are true Christians the Law of Moses can no more condemn us, because it was fulfilled on our behalf by Jesus Christ. Through Him we have been given the gift of righteousnss. His righteusness has been set to our account (Rom 3.24-25). But the whole law (Old and New Testaments) is like a mirror into which we can look and see what kind of people we are, so that we can then let Christ put us right (James 1.22-25) and live it out in order to please Him.. |
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15 | islam/Christians | Bible general Archive 4 | biblicalman | 229042 | ||
Theoretically, if they followed the teaching of Muhammad Muslims would welcome Christians as the people of the word and would acknowledge the Gospels. Muhammad accepted the Gospels of his day as the word of God, and bade his people to welcome Christians and Jews and not interfere with them. Although they were required to pay a poll tax. In practise Muslims make the excuse that the Gospels have been interfered with and that they can no longer be relied on (even though we have papyri and MS from long before the ones accepted by Muhammad). They have to do this because the Gospels contradict the Hadith (Islamic later tradition). As the Gospels as we have them were accepted by Muhammad this is clearly s deliberate refusal to follow what Muhammad and the Quran taught. But that does not seem to worry them. In theory they believe the Quran. In practise they put the Hadith (later traditions) above the Quran. They also believe that Jesus was the Messiah, but refuse to believe that He died on the cross. The latter on the authority, not of the Quran, but of the Hadith, which says that somehow Judas replaced Jesus on the cross, Jesus being raised to Heaven. The Quran is vague on the subject of the cross and never hints at any part played by Judas. The Hadith also teach that Jesus is coming back again, but will die in battle fighting for Islam. They also reject the fact that Jesus was the son of God (i.e. the son of Allah and Mariam). But that was because Muhammad had a very strange view about the Triunity of God. He had only met heretical Christians and believed that in Christian eyes the Trinity was composed of Allah, Mariam (Mary) and Isa (Jesus). Thus Muhammad never rejected the Trinity as we know it. (He also mixed up Mariam, Moses' sister, and Mary). In fact the Quran exalts Jesus well above Muhammad. It states that He was virginally born, was able to argue and dispute from birth, and turned clay birds into living birds. And that finally He was exalted to Heaven without dying. It is clear from all this last that its ideas are based on the later heretical so-called gospels. |
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16 | jesus...2year old-30.where was he? | Bible general Archive 4 | biblicalman | 229178 | ||
Hi, Welcome to the forum We know that as an infant He was taken to Egypt by His family and remained there for some time. Later He returned with them to Nazareth. We do know what is important in Jesus childhood, that He 'grew and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom and the grace of God was upon Him' (Luke 2.40), and that 'He increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man' (Luke 2.52). We also know that when He was twelve He demonstrated His knowledge of the Scriptures and ability to ask searching questions even from the great Scribes (Luke 2.42-50). And also that, when the other children were enjoying a riotous holiday at the Feast, He saw the Temple as the place for Him to be, interesting Himself in 'the things of His Father'. But the Gospels were not 'a life-story of Jesus'. They were a presentation of Jesus, revealing Who He was and what He had come to do. Best wishes |
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17 | Did Jesus exist? No writings at His time | Bible general Archive 4 | biblicalman | 229180 | ||
Hi Welcome to the forum, You can always find scholars who will support any outlandish position. You must remember that many scholars are militant atheists. But there are very few scholars who deny the actual existence of Jesus (even atheistic ones) for very good reasons. If you get rid of Jesus you then have to explain the source of the greatest moral teaching that the world has ever known, a teaching admired by men of all religions, and who it was who totally exposed the weaknesses of the teaching of the scribes in the way that we find in the Gospels. These are facts because we can still read and appreciate them today. You have to explain the source of some of the most beautiful parables known to man. You have to explain who it was who gave answers to questions that previously no one had been able to answer. And when four reliable men testify as to who it was, you have to acknowledge that they must be right. They were not clever enough to have invented it No one of the day ever denied the historicity of the man spoken of in the Gospels, not even the Rabbis after the fall of Jerusalem. Furthermore your date of 'forty years' after the death of Jesus as the date for the Gospels is probably an exaggerated one. There are good grounds for thinking that they were written earlier. And certainly we know that Paul's letters were written earlier, and that he testified to Jesus within ten years of His death. It is not really surprising that books were not written immediately. The Apostles and their followers were busy reaching the world for Christ, and books were difficult to write with the material available, and would require long abstinence from active service. And then they had to be copied individually, an arduous task, and even then they would reach few hands (they were very expensive). But the living voice could go anywhere and immediately be heard by many, and could be recognised to be that of an eyewitness. The Gospels were written when the large churches looked for people who could write down what was known about Jesus, much of which had been memorised as men had listened to the Apostles. Matthew and John had been there, and we should remember that Matthew was used to recording things in writing and had no doubt done so while listening to Jesus. Mark wrote down what he had learned fom Peter. Luke had every opportunity to consult eyewitesses especially during the years he spent in Palestine with Paul. So the existence of Jesus is not really in doubt. If you are feeling shaken, read the Gospels. And ask yourself, was this the One Who was coming as prophesied by the Old Testament, or should we look for another? And my advice is to remember that anyone can wrte what they like in wikipedia. What it says is only as reliable as the person who wrote it. And you do not know who that was. |
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18 | what is the rapture, what should i do? | Bible general Archive 4 | biblicalman | 229309 | ||
Hi, What is called today 'the Rapture' refers to the taking away of living Christians, to be united with those who have just been raised from the dead, to be ever with the Lord. It is described in 1 Thessalonioans 4.13 ff and 1 Corinthians 15.52. As far as Christians are concerned that will be the end of time. it is only what follows (if anything other than the new Heaven and the new earth - 2 Peter 3.13) that causes problems. What should you do? Be sure that you are ready to meet the Lord at any time, for he will come unexpectedly. Thus you should rid your life of all known sin, you should openly confess Christ before others, and you should read and study His word and continue constantly in prayer. Those things are far more important than spending a lot of time on eschatological theories and interpretations on which there is such wide diversitirtes of opinions. Best wishes. |
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19 | what is important about 40 | Bible general Archive 4 | biblicalman | 229493 | ||
Hi Peggy, Welcome to the forum. Numbers are regularly used in the Bible to convey ideas rather than in order to indicate exact amounts. Thus both Isaac and Esau were 'forty yars old' when they married. The idea is probably that they were seen to have reached maturity. If you look at ages in Genesis you will be surpirsed how many end in 0, 5, or 7 (in those days 5 was the base number, not ten, and 7 was seen as a divine number. It is clear that the number forty is often connected with God's judgments. The rain came at the Flood for forty days and forty nights. Goliath challenged Israel for forty days. The children of Israel wandered in the wilderness for forty years (although strictly for thirty eight years, as the first two years included the wait at Sinai, and the journey from Egypt. But it is thought of in terms of forty years). The maximum number of stripes that could be given were forty. Israel was delivered into the hands of the Philistines for forty years. Forty is also seen as a period of waiting on God or similar. Moses went into the mount for forty days and forty nights. Elijah fled to Horeb taking forty days. Jesus Himself was tempted for forty days and forty nights. It is quite possible that in some cases it simply indicates 'a little over a month'. In Judges the land regularly 'has rest for forty years', probably indicatiing 'for a generation'. In one case it is eighty years (twice forty). Eli judged Israel for forty years. Ishbosheth began to reign when he was forty years old. Both David and Solomon reigned over Israel for forty years. These are probably round numbers (note how these were all within a comparatively short period). Thus the number does appear to be important to God, as representing His activity. Best wishes |
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20 | Do God hear/answer prayers of unsaved? | Bible general Archive 4 | biblicalman | 229521 | ||
Hi Joe, Welcome to the forum. While agreeing with all that has been said, I am always a little hesitant about telling God what He must do. The Scripture reveals His usual practise, and that is that God does not hear the prayers of those living complacently in sin, or treating Him lightly. But when unsaved men begin to seek Him I think He may well begin to hear their prayers. Consider the people of Nineveh when Jonah preached to them. God heard their prayers and spared Nineveh. Or consider the people of Israel, who time and again when they were in a period of backsliding prayed in times of need and God delivered them, e.g. when Jerusalem was spared from the Assyrians. In both cases God heard their prayers as part of the proocess of bringing them to Himself. Of course I accept that we do not know at what point such people are 'saved', thus it may come under the heading of responding in salvation. All I am saying is that we should beware of discouraging people from praying,as long as their prayers are genuine, while at the same time warning against glib prayers. Such praying may be part of the process whereby He is wooing them to Himself. Best wishes |
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