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1 | Is limited atonement needed in Calvinism | Bible general Archive 4 | bowler | 206216 | ||
achoo4 John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. Note that, "that whoever believes in Him shall not persish". God loved the whole world, but only those who believe do not perish. 1 John 2:1, 2 My little children, I am writing these things so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world. Note that; the Advocate is for the saved, the unsaved cannot avail themselves of the Advocate because they have not accepted Him. "He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only but also for those of the whole world." John 1:12 - John says as many as received Him, not all but to many. Mathew 22:14 - Jesus says many are called but few are chosen. John 6:37 - Jesus says all that the Father has will come, it does not say all will come it says the ones who will come. Acts 13:48 - Luke says that as many as had been appointed by God to eternal life believed. 1 Tim 4:10 - Yes God died for all men, especially for believers. Romans 9:22 What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? He died for all of them, but not all will be saved. 1 John 2:2, Only the saved have an advocate with the Father, the unsaved have not partaken of the heavenly grace to avail themselves of the privelege of forgivenss of sins until they repent to Jesus and call Him Lord. Limited Atonement is definitely necessary to Calvinism. And Arminianism has that Unlimited Atonement it necessary to it. The problem with Limited Atonement as that is taught in Calvinism is that God does say in the Bible without a doubt in the Greek that Jesus died for the whole world, for the sins of the whole world, as a propitiation, and that He desires for all men to be saved. There is another way to look at the process of salvation; you can have Unlimited Atonement without veiwing that the way Arminians do, as that God willed that all be saved, but that He does not save some because they chose to reject Him. That Arminian belief poses a major problem with the sovereignty of God; it says that God chooses us because we choose Him, which is Biblically backwards, wrong, and erroneous. Another way to view Unlimited atonement outside of Arminianism is to see that while God did indeed have Jesus die for the sins of all people, the whole world, God only decides to save some based on His choice and His choice alone, and by His choosing He sends the Holy Spirit to work on the unbeliever of His choice to choose God by their own free choice once they have been convicted of sin by the Holy Spirit. This allows for the fact that man has a limited ability to have free choice, like a bird which has the ability to be free to fly, but has a broken wing and cannot fly though it be free, it must be healed, and then be able to choose to fly. This is neither Arminianism, nor Calvinism, both schools of thought which take one set of scriptures to make a point, or system, without balancing the other scripture which bear on the problem. However, it is much safer to adhere to the majority of Calvinism as it comes closer to a true interpretation of scripture than does Arminianism which trods heavily upon the sovereignty of God. The scriptures state over and over again that God's will is that many will be saved and not all. So then we cannot confuse God's desire that all men be saved, and that God sent Jesus to die for all men, with God's will that only some of all Jesus died for will be saved. blessing abound, bowler |
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2 | Following Jesus | Bible general Archive 4 | bowler | 206433 | ||
NightJay0044 First things first as they say! You need a church home first, because you repented of your sins and took the salvation of Jesus Christ. This is your Minnesota Yellow Pages on line, you will find your county in here and start searching for a church - http://www.superpages.com/yellowpages/C-Churches/S-MN/ The Bible says in Hebrews 10:25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near. The church is a body of believers and each believer has a function as a member of the body of Christ - there is the pastor teacher who is there to teach you about Christ and the Bible and to lead you as a member of the body. The Bible says in 2 Timothy 2:5 that the believer is like an athelete who must compete according to the rules. You have to start from the beginning in your walk of faith in obedience to the rules Jesus and the aposltes have laid down in the Bible. Acts 2:38 says repent and be baptized. Baptism is a symbol of your dying to sin and rising to be a new man in Christ - being reborn, a symbol of that you were born again. You go down into the water as a symbol of Christ's death and going down into the grave, and you come up out of the water as a symbol of Christ rising from the dead to erase your sins. That is why it is a symbol, very important. There are churches that do not believe it is just a symbol, they believe that it is the actual taking away of sins by getting baptized in the water. I would say based on this that you should be baptized again and would like you to think about what baptism means and decide for yourself, now that you are a grown man, if being sprinkled with water as an infant qualifies as the symbol of going down into Jesus death and coming back up as the symbol of being born again. Baptism is not a requirement of being saved, but it is a requirement of being true to the commands for a believer in the Bible. But you have to be in a church as a prospective member intending to remain with them in order to do so. You can witness the simple gospel of salvation to anyone, anytime - we are all called to do this. Try memorizing Romans 10:9, 10 as part of your witnessing in order to give the lost the most basic information about how to get saved after you tell them why they need to be saved, that they are sinners. You may find that this is something you will have to do on your own, not all churches are busy going out in groups doing this, although some do. The expectation is that everyone will do this in their everyday lives when they meet or talk to people, strangers or those you know, doesn't matter. If this is very important to you, it might be a consideration in choosing a church home. You asked what Jesus wants you to do? I think He is already leading you as you seem to be thinking about getting a church home and of spreading His word, doing His work. Jesus wants us all to do lots of things the best way to find out what is to read the whole New Testament and as you go through make a list of the things you see Jesus and the apostles telling every believer to do. I will help you out here, but don't take this as a short cut okay? You have to be held responsible for having a personal relationship with Christ from your side through prayer, fellowship, worship, and study. You can continue that right now by studying. John 15:12, Mathew 22:37-40, 1 John 3:16-19, 1, John 2:15-17, James 1:5-13, Titus 2:1-15, 2 Timothy 2:15, 2 Timothy 3:16, 17, 2 Thessaolonians 3:6-13, 1 Thessalonians 5:12-21, 2 Corinthians 13:5-8, Mathew 28:19, 20 There is so much more there about what to be doing to follow Christ, but it is up to you to go study and to go to a permanent church to learn what it all is, to follow Christ. That is a life time's worth of study and Christian growth my brother, you will never stop finding out what Jesus requires of you by living out His words. Here is another one for you to ponder about what the disciples of Jesus did or did not do about gathering together and going to "church" - try studying the Bible to find out when the church started and what they did or did not do about gathering togther, as what they did is the model for why there is a church and why we go there. Here is a clue for you to help you out - go get a Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, which you can get at any major books store for 20 dollars (its huge and its worth the expense) and start looking up single words about that last issue I mentioned, like disciple, gathered, church, house, temple, preached, teaching, laid hands on. This tool works by showing you every verse of the Bible where the word appears. See what you find out about what was really going on about evangelizing and going to "church". Amen brother, welcome to the body of Christ! blessings abound, bowler |
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3 | What is holines | Bible general Archive 4 | bowler | 206549 | ||
flow Saint are "called out ones", we are called out of the evil world and the Holy Spirit works on us and makes us holy. Ephesians 5:26 so that He might sanctify her, having washed her by the washing of the word, that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. God is busy washing us with the word, His holy word, and this cleans us up, by the power of the Holy Spirit. If you want to be holy, be washed clean by studying and applying the word of God to your life with much prayer and God will complete a good work, which He started in you to make you holy in His sight. blessings abound, bowler |
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4 | difrence between old and new testament | Bible general Archive 4 | bowler | 206555 | ||
Hennie That is a very big question. The Old Testament is a lot of things. It is the whole history of the begnning of mankind with God. It is the history of the begnning of the fall of man. It is the history of the first Gentiles, the first Israelites, the first Hebrews, and the first Jews, which last three are not quite all the same thing, although each flows from the other. It is the history of the Gentiles, the first Israelite Patriarchs, the Iraelites as captives and freed, as wandering and finding the promised land, as under Judges then under kings, as both faithful to God and as rebellious. It is the history of the genealogy of Jesus. It is the history of the Law and the Prophets. It is the history of the major prophets and the minor prophets. It is the history of God revealing Himself in creation and by miraculous revelation so that everyone would choose to worship Him and be saved by faith. It is the history of the Jews and their relationship with God. The New Testament is the history of Jesus Christ and the Genitile and Jewish world receiving the offer of salvation. It is the history of the birth and life of the first century church. It is the revelaion of Jesus Christ as God. It is the revelation of the meaning of history from the time of Jesus to the the end times of the earth. It is the fulfillment of OT prophecy of the coming and work of Jesus Christ. It is the history of the change from the old covenants in the OT to the one new covenant in the NT of salvation by Jesus blood. It is the final revelation as sctipture from God to bring people everywhere to salvation in Jesus Christ. We live according to the NT because it contains the message of salvation and a model of how to live in that new salvation and we live according to the specifications in the the new covenant not according to the specifications of the old covenants. The old covenants required the ability to uphold every part of the law, which man could not do. If you are guilty of one law, you are quilty of all law, therefore you cannot be saved by the law. You are saved apart from the law by faith alone, by grace alone, and not by any works. Read Romans 3 through 8 to understand this part about how we are saved. Read Hebrews 11 to understand that no one ever got saved in the OT or the NT without faith, it was always by faith, that did not happen only in the NT. But as Hebrews 11 says, we have obtained what promises those in the OT did not receive. They were promised better things than what they received, yet we have received what they were promised - they received approval by faith, but we have been given better promises. They did not have Jesus as their advocate in heaven interceding for them for every sin as a high priest. They did not have Jesus as their king and enter directly into His kingdom at the moment of belief. They did not have Jesus as their prophet and receive the promises He prohesied that we receive. They are still saved, but we have been saved under a better more effective covenant and that is why we live by the NT and not the OT. Why go backwards to attain that which has not the power to save and to justify and to sanctify and glorify as what Jesus has given us? There is no longer any need to live as if we were under old covenants which do not have the power to save, or to justify, or to sanctify, or to glorify. We are free indeed, free in Christ, we have the liberty of Christ and no longer have the condemnation of the law, we are no longer waiting for the prophecies of salvation to come true, they are here. Live according to Christ Jesus, purpose to know nothing eccept Christ and Him crucified. You need nothing else, the old has passed away, the new is here, drink it, eat it, here is His body and blood. Take the new covenant and leave off the old. blessings abound, bowler |
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5 | What is considered work on the Sabbath? | Bible general Archive 4 | bowler | 206707 | ||
doclinda2 stJohn is absolutely right. Colossians 2:16 Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day - things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; the the substance belongs to Christ. Romans 14:5, 6a One person regards one day above another, another regards every day alike. Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind. He who observes the day, observes it for the Lord. We are no longer under the covenant of the Law, we are under the new covenant of grace in the blood of Christ Jesus. There is liberty in Christ. A good book to read on this aspect of being free from the Law is all of Galatians especially chapters 3-5. According to Paul you are not dishonoring God by gardening or whatever else on Saturday. Another way of looking at this thing about the law is to try to understand that there were the Ten Commandments and then about 600 more laws in the OT to be keeping. No one could keep them all, and if you fell in one, you fell in them all and were automatically guilty of all. But now, righteousness has been put to our account with God by the blood of Jesus, fulfilling the whole requirement of keeping the whole Law. So keep on worshipping, praising, meditating, and honoring Him to His glory and don't worry about keeping laws. blessings abound, bowler |
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6 | To jehovah the earth belong | Bible general Archive 4 | bowler | 206713 | ||
chisenga Your question is a bit unclear there. Perhaps you are asking about the Sabbath Day? Or maybe you mean Sunday the "Lord's Day"? Or maybe you are aksing about the Great and Terrible Day of the Lord when the Lord will take back the earth? Please be more specific so someone may understand you and help you. 1 Corinthians 12:25 So that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. blessings abound, bowler |
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7 | Phonetic meaning of Welcome | Bible general Archive 4 | bowler | 207070 | ||
seirra I do believe I have seen this done before. However, the way you are going about it is backwards, as one usually starts with a verse, and then takes the first letters of key word and makes a single word that typifies the whol verse (these are rare finds). I can not think of even one off the top of my head. Some of the instances in which I have seen what you are talking about being done actually are not from Bible verses, but from Bible concepts. Like "Faith" - Forsaken All I Trust In Him. What you are interested in is Bible accronyms, you might try googling it. Just a worthless son. blessings abound, bowler |
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8 | when you die. when do you go to heaven | Bible general Archive 4 | bowler | 207115 | ||
ljcarr I would like to add my one cent. 2 Corinthians 5:8 We are of good courage, I say, and prefer to rather to be ansent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. Philippians 1:23 But I am hard pressed from both directions, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, for that is very much better. I could be very wrong but it seems to me that Paul is not only saying where he wishes to be, he implies that as soon as we are gone from here we are with the Lord. Just a worthless son. blessings abound, bowler |
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9 | Looking for Bible as Literature Resource | Bible general Archive 4 | bowler | 207264 | ||
Admonit Doc made a really excellent choice there. I have another one I purchased just the other day by the exact same authors - "How to Read the Bible Book by Book", by Gordon D. Fee, and Douglass Stuart. The one Doc reccommended does get into quite a bit of information about what types of literature there are in the Bible and how to interpret them. The second book, which is actually meant as a follow up companion of the first book, gets into the content of each book, contains overviews of each, and a quick walk through of the sections of each book identfying key concepts for each. The first book is really important, but the two of them used together might make a very good frame work for disucussing the "genre" of each book of the Bible. You have the types of literature in the first book. Then you have each Bible book in condensed form in the second book, with major sections outlined as to type of content, which the students could use to "identify" what types of genre each book of the Bible falls under on their own, or in class. Interesting stuff you are doing! I admire teachers who are interested in dividing the word of God, even in a secular setting, such as your self! Just a worthless son. blessings abound, bowler |
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10 | Still punishable today | NT general | bowler | 206210 | ||
topper Romans 8:1 Therefore there is not no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Romans 3:28 For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law. John 3:18 He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Your sins are forgiven, your eternal dues for sin have been paid and you will not undergo eternal punishment. Your sins are no longer to be punished. But the effects of your sin to you and others does not get erased; if you kill someone, God forbid, you still go to jail and undergo an earthly punishment and the person you killed is still dead. However, there is the judgment for the believer of the deeds they did, whether good or bad. 2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. 1 Corinthians 3:12, 13, 14, 15 Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each man's work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man's work. If any man's work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward. If any man's work is burned up he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. According to these verses the believer will undergo a judgment at the "bema seat" of Christ and there the good deeds and the bad deeds done in the body will be either burned up, or rewarded, but the believer will be saved regardless of the outcome. blessins abound, bowler |
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11 | Were the disciples saved, Born Again? | NT general | bowler | 206215 | ||
Immanuelsown Question - how could it be possible for the disciples to go out and do the works of Jesus if they were not already saved? It takes the power of God to perform healings, cast out demons, perform the miracles, which the twelve, and then the seventy, were sent out to do, and did accomplish. Many will want to argue or dispute that the disciples were saved before Jesus went on to the cross. But how would it be possible for them to to do the works of God without the power to do so? All people are either in the kingdom of the devil, or in the kingdom of Jesus. All people either operate by the power of the devil, or by the power of Jesus. Once you believe in Jesus and get saved you come out of the kingdom of Satan, no longer held and operating by its power and are in the kingdom of Jesus, of God. Jesus says to Nicodemus in John 3:5 Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." How does one become born again? One is born again of the water and the Spirit. You have to be naturaly born first and then spiritualy born second in order to be "born again". John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. Ephesisans 1:13 In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation - having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise. According to Paul as soon as you hear the message of your salvation, and you believe, you receive the Holy Spirit. Jesus said you have to be born of water and of the Spirit in order to be born again. Some confuse the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost to confer power to witness the gospel and to start the church with the activity of the Holy Spirit to save souls. The term "born again" that Jesus uses is Jesus saying, you were born once through your mother's womb (by water), now you have to be "born again" a second time by the Spirit to enter the kingdom of God. Not everyone agrees that water here refers to the water of the womb because of Acts 2:38, but one is not saved by being baptized, so it is unlikely that Jesus was referring to being baptized by water to be saved. It is also unlikely because Jesus did not come to baptize with water, He came to baptize with the Holy Spirit. John 13:10 Jesus said to him, "He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you." This was to signify that Judas was unclean, but that the rest were clean. Many take this to mean that the disciples were clean of sin, saved, born again. blessings abound, bowler |
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12 | difference between the two Marys | NT general | bowler | 207041 | ||
Athila Mary the mother of Jesus - Luke 1:26-38 - Mary was a virgin visisted by the Holy Spirit who conceived in her Jesus and was from Nazareth. Mary the Magdalene - Luke 8:2 and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and sicknesses; Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out. The two Mary's - Mathew 27:56 Among them was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother (Salome) of the the sons of Zebedee. There is a third and a fourth Mary - John 11:1, 2 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha, It was the Mary who annointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. John 19:25 Therefore the soldiers did these things. But standing by the cross of Jesus were His mother, and His mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. Jesus had brothers and sisters- Mathew 13:55 - Is this not the carpenters son? Is this not His mother called Mary, and His brothers, James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? And not His sisters, are they not all with us? Just a worthless son. blessings abound, bowler |
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13 | questions for use in leading bible study | Genesis | bowler | 206312 | ||
klowry Wouldn't you need to have a scripture or passage in mind first? Your question can't realy be answered without first choosing a scripture can it? The questions should all come from the scritpure or passage. A good little book to study about how to lead a Bible Study is John Stott's, "Christ Basic Christianity", published by InterVarsity Press. This book contains six examples of how to lead a small group Bible Study. You need to be led by the Holy Spirit in order to lead one though. On pages 45 through 49 are guildelines for leaders. Here are some of them - Christ Basic Christianity, by John Stott, pages 45 through 49 - Ask God to help you understand and apply the passage. Get an overview of the passage at hand in order to explore the issues. Be ready for "open questions". Meditate and relect on the verses and consider how you would respond to questions. Don't skip over application questions. Here is something else to consider about forming the questions - The basic English questions of any type of writing or reading - Who is in the passage? What is going on in the passage? How is the event happening? Where is the event taking place? Why is this event taking place? And one extra question - Why does this matter? You can come up with plenty of questions if you just start there, more than ten. But you need to pick that passage first or you won't have any questions at all and the questions will be different from passage to passage. 2 Timothy 2:15 Be diligent to present yourself approved of God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth. blessings abound, bowler |
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14 | What are these verses telling us? | Gen 6:2 | bowler | 207187 | ||
Mr. Rhoades No offense to you at all, this is a good question. I have seen many fight over this question so I am not going to offer an opinion here as if it is my view point. I refuse to say which one I believe in as I am not here to push my views or be judged, or censured for what I believe in. I need to include verses one and five to do this. Veiw One - 1) Men still lived a long time, Lamech the father of Noah lived 595 years in chapter 5. Daughters were born to these men who lived a long time. 2) The Sons of God refers to the sons of Seth, as Sons of Seth was referred to as the godly line who called upon God in chapter 4. Or it refers to the sons of the kings, as the Sons of God, who wished to build up harems. 3) These Sons of God which ever human group they were took wives for themselves. They had to be human because angels do not procreate or have sex or have the organs to do so. 4) The Nephilim - in Hebrew means bully, giant, tyrant - whoever the fathers were the offspring of all of these marriages were big bad men. They are called "mighty men who were of old, men of renown" - it is thought that they did great physical feats, perhaps in battle as well as other unknown things. 5) These men were so bad and there were so many of them that they contributed greatly to the depravity of all the men on the earth and the wickedness of men was great - every thought of the heart was evil continually, so God decided to destroy men. View Two - 1) Men were "going forth and multiplying" and daughters were born to them. 2) The term Sons of God is Ben Elohim and appears in other places in the OT to refer to angels like in Job. In Job it is said that the angels were "presenting themselves to God" - as in they were going up to where God is in heaven to report to Him or to worship Him. 3) Three Angels appeared to Abraham and they ate bread, so it is said all three took on human form, and one of them was a theophany of Jesus. So it is possible for angels to take on human form. 4) Jude 1:6, 7 the angels did not keep their proper domain and abandoned their proper abode - they both left heaven and transformed to human form. And because of what they did in that state they are kept in eternal bonds until judgment day. 5) Just as Sodom and Gomorrah indulged in gross immorality and "went after strange flesh", these rebellious angels did the same exact thing according to Jude - they procreated with the wrong species or kind. Where the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah went men after men as "strange flesh", so the angels went outside their proper domain and "went after strange flesh" with women. Now some Evangelicals believe these angels were "possessing" men. Some believe they were real angels in human real human form because the Bible does not say that humans were possessed, and the Bible does not specifically say angels cannot procreate if they were to take on human form. 6) It is possible that the Greek and Roman myths of the Titans have some element of truth in them as these "mighty men of old, men of renown" that got woshipped later after the Greeks and Romans heard about them as "stories" they heard but never saw. Think flood, these mighty men all perished and the whole thing was never repeated. 7) The deeds of these Nephilim, these giants were very evil and very great, they had superhuman like abilities perhaps in war and physical feats. They contributed so greatly to evil on the earht and there were so many of them that in addition to the sins of all the men which was continually evil thoughts from the heart God decided to destroy men. These are two views I personally have heard preached from various pulpits and on the Evangelical radio stations by some very popular conservative and reformed Evangelicals who believe they are practicing Sola Scriptura. I will not get into the problems each of these veiws presents. Just a worthless son. blessings abound, bowler |
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15 | Honoring your Father | Gen 29:19 | bowler | 206438 | ||
krystyk We have a few instances in the Bible of the father of the bride literaly giving the bride away to the groom by way of making an agreement with the groom or the groom's father to do so and according to Deuteronomy included a dowery. A woman was property of her husband and was being given as property by her father to her future husband to become his property. But of course we do not see women as "property being given away as property" anymore. We see a happy father "giving away" a happy bride to a happy groom as being a father's right to give his blessing to the prospective groom that the fahter is entrusting the bride to the groom and for the bride as that her father has blessed her to have his permission (the traditional view) to go be married to the groom. That may very well be what also happened in Biblcial times. What we don't have is a lot of records of how ceremonies were conducted by families to marry their children and how that was conducted in the OT or the NT, IN THE BIBLE. I have seen mothers giving away daughters when the father was either absent from the family, or dead. I have seen the grandfather take the dead father's place as head of the family. I have seen the step-father taking place of the estranged father. I have seen the Uncle from the mother's or father's side take the place of the absent or dead father. I have seen the bride walk the aisle alone. I have seen the brother of the bride walk the bride. Everyone today considers it an honor to be walking the bride down the aisle no matter who gets to do it, although most prefer to see the father honored by being the one to be asked or expected to do it. We can say this about it all in Exodus 20:12 Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you. To be obedient to the Lord your God and get the blessing, why not honor your father in this and receive the promise of a prolonged life. I would say however that the verse applies to a life long commitment to honor your parents and no one should make empty gestures out of tradition at the last minute. You only have one father though no matter how it went, God gave you only one to honor as your father. blessings to you if you are getting married, if you believe just make sure it is to a believer as the Bible says to do, it will go better. blessings abound, bowler |
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16 | jews,gentiles,ethninticity??? | Gen 29:35 | bowler | 206247 | ||
believer32315 This link should help you out it is short but comprehensive about Jews, Hebrews, Israelites, and Gentiles, apparently Jews, Israelites, and Hebrews are not all quite the same thing, to hard to explain, see the site. http://www.keyway.ca/htm2005/20050219.htm Cush was most likely the first Ethiopian and perhaps dark, son of Ham, founder of the Cushites. Found that looking on the web, but this is not a quote. Somewhere in Acts is a verse, I can't remember where of something about the blood of the nations as coming from one man Adam, or such. blessings abound, bowler |
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17 | why did god choose levites | Ex 32:29 | bowler | 206431 | ||
son of god Aaron himself was a Levite - Exodus 4:14 The the anger of the Lord burned against Moses, and He said, "Is there not your brother Aaron the Levite?" Moses and Aaron were both Levites, they were brothers. Aaron, in fact not only made the golden calf with his own hands, but ordered a feast be made for the next day, and may have offered peace offerings to it as Israels' priest. But when Moses came back down the mountain he lied to Moses and told Moses that the people entreated Aaoron to make them a golden calf and that Aaron merely told them to give him their gold, but that the golden calf jumped out of the fire by itself fully made for the people to worshiip. Then Moses says, whoever is for the Lord, come to me! And the Levites came, so it seems that unlike Aaron the Levite the rest of the Levites may have had nothing to do with the whole affair. In Exodus you have the Levites being appointed by God to work in the tabernacle and take it down and set it up in Exodus 1:49-51. Then there is in Exodus 2:5, 6 the Lord telling Moses to bring the Levites near and to set them before Aaron the priest to serve him, and to perform the duties for him and the whole congregation to do the service of the tabernacle. This is the second time that that service of any Levites is mentioned by the Lord as priests other than Aaron. The first time after just Aaron is in Exodus 29:9, 10, the Lord tells Moses to gird Aaron and his sons and bind caps on them and they shall have the priesthood. God foreordains everything, and everything is in His plan, He chose the Levites before they were born in that sense. It seems like at first the Levites choosen, being Moses and Aaron is because of Moses heart is toward the salvation of Israel from Egypt and Aaron is chosen as Moses mouth piece. Later it seems as if, as you say, the Levites as a group appear to be for the Lord, and apparently, although we can't be sure, did not worship the gloden calf, even though Aaron played a part there. I would be hard put to make a parellel between a holy Jesus who drank no wine and Aaron who made a golden calf, ordered a feast for worshipping it, and then may have done the offerings for it as Israel's priest. Since men are all sinners it would seem more likely that the Lord chose some to be holy and be His priests, rather than that they did not sin. Genesis 49:5-7, states that the Levi and Simeon were bloody and that their soul would not enter Israel's council, not their glory be in the assembly, and cursed be their anger, and scatter them in Israel. It seems very unlikely that this is any prophecy about the whole tribe of Levi, it seems more about Levi himself and says nothing about being priests. The only thing that could be said that relates to the whole tribe of Israel would be that the sons of Levi would have no inheritance in Israel because of Levi's sin. Over and over we have that the Lord gives the sons of Levi no inheritance because they are priests and their inheritance has to come from the gifts to them as their inheritance. They were appointed cities and land surrouding cities to graze their flocks and were appointed rulers over cities of refuge with land around those. blessinsg abound, bowler |
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18 | safety precaution for house building | Lev 14:34 | bowler | 206681 | ||
martha hendricks Leviticus 14:34-57 tells us of the placing of a mark of leprousy on a house to see if it will spread. Then what follows are a long set of instructions for how to deal with leprousy infecting a house and what to do about it. That is the only one I found. blessings abound, bowler |
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19 | nehemiah 1:9 | Neh 1:9 | bowler | 207113 | ||
b.j. I found something that relates for you. Deuteronomy 30:3, 4 then the Lord your God will restore you from captivity, and have compassion on you, and will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you. If your outcasts area at the ends of the earth, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you back. Mark 13:27 And then He will send forth the angels, and will gather together His elect from the four winds, from the farthest end of the earth to the farthes end of heaven. Between the two verses I think we might just have what Nehemiah is talking about in 1:9. Just a worlthless son. blessings abound, bowler |
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20 | who said if I perish I perish and who di | Esth 4:16 | bowler | 206532 | ||
steeler This is from Esther "Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Susa, and fast for me; do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maidens also will fast in the same way. And thus I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish." blessings abound, bowler |
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