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1 | Earth's fate | Bible general | Lionstrong | 243614 | ||
God did not create science. If you want know what God created consult Genesis Chapter One. If you want to have a proper view of science to learn why its nature prevents it from ever discovering truth, I recommend "The Philosophy of Science and Belief in God" by Gordon H. Clark. http://www.trinitylectures.org/philosophy-of-science-and-belief-in-god-the-book-p-200.html | ||||||
2 | 1 Chr 10:14 contradicts 1 Sam 28:6 | 1 Sam 15:11 | Lionstrong | 243491 | ||
Luke 18:1   Now He [the Lord Jesus] was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and not to lose heart, I think the passage can be looked at in two ways to understand them as not contradictory. In the first place in both records Saul inquires of a medium. To inquire of a medium is not to inquire of the Lord. Saul did not inquire of the Lord when he inquired of a medium. The second way to look at it is that Saul did not persevere in prayer. He asked of the Lord once and then went to a medium. Samuel, Saul's mentor, is an example of persevering in prayer, He said, “Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by ceasing to pray for you; but I will instruct you in the good and right way. (1 Sam. 12:23 ) Also, Samuel kept grieving before the Lord in prayer for the wayward Saul until the Lord in essence told him to stop. 1 Sam. 16:1 says,   "Now the LORD said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel?" So, (1) Saul did not inquire of the Lord in terms of persevering in prayer, and (2) Saul did not inquire of the Lord in that he chose inquiring of a medium after one failed attempt of inquiring of the Lord. |
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3 | Free will, or ? | Rom 9:16 | Lionstrong | 243487 | ||
Part of the problem of free will discussions is the lack of definition. I recommend Dr. Gordon H. Clark's writing on the subject. Free will was written about in a chapter of his book "Religion, Reason and Revelation," but is now published as a separate work entitled "God and Evil The Problem Solved." ( http://www.trinitylectures.org/god-and-evil-the-problem-solved-p-86.html ) He gives definitions of the key terms and puts the issue of free will in its historical/theological context. | ||||||
4 | Hyper calvinism and Backsliding? | Bible general | Lionstrong | 243362 | ||
"5. The most wise, righteous, and gracious God doth oftentimes leave, for a season, his own children to manifold temptations, and the corruption of their own hearts, to chastise them for their former sins, or to discover unto them the hidden strength of corruption and de- ceitfulness of their hearts, that they may be humbled;t and, to raise them to a more close and constant dependence for their support upon himself, and to make them more watchful against all future occasions of sin, and for sundry other just and holy ends." from the Westminster Confession of Faith (http://www.pcaac.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/WCFScriptureProofs.pdf) chapter 5, section 5. a Calvinist confession. This supports the notion of backsliding, if by backsliding you mean a Christian falling into grievous sins for a time, and not losing his salvation. (See also the Confession's chapter on Sanctification.) King David (2 Sam 11) and Apostle Peter (Gal 2) are good examples of backsliding. |
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5 | family in heaven | Rev 21:4 | Lionstrong | 243361 | ||
Luke 16:27 “And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, that you send him to my father’s house — for I have five brothers — in order that he may awarn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’ Matt. 17:3 And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him. Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here; if You wish, I will make three tabernacles here, one for You, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah.†I think that it's unreasonable to think that we WON'T recognize our relatives in heaven. If the rich man in hades remembered his brothers and Peter recognized Moses and Elijah (his ancestral kinsmen) without ever having met them, why wouldn't we recognize our family? |
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6 | How old is the earth scripturally? | Gen 1:1 | Lionstrong | 239269 | ||
The earth is seven days old. Plus several thousand years between then and now. "By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done." Gen. 2:2 The point is that the Bible is God's revelation of all we need to know for life and godliness. So, although we can get a ballpark estimate of the age of the heavens and the earth from the Bible, the real point is not how old it is but what's its source, how did it come to be. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." The writer of Hebrews says, "By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible." Heb 11:3 The point is that "what is" has NOT always been in some form or another (i.e., "Big Bang"). God commanded the universe into existence. The Psalmist says, "By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, And by the breath of His mouth all their host.... For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast." Ps 33:6,9 Therefore, "Let all the earth fear the LORD; Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him." Ps 33:8 |
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7 | Still confused | John 8:44 | Lionstrong | 236701 | ||
With regard to the proposition, "the knowledge we have of good and evil came from sin." I would ask you to consider the propositions, "The knowledge of good and evil came by means of a sin, not that God wouldn't have given man that knowledge had he not fallen." Who knows if God would have lifted the ban on the tree after man's probation was over. If God didn't want His people to know good and evil why does he encourage mature discernment of good and evil? Heb. 5:14 My point is that the knowledge of good and evil did not come FROM sin. Given the nature of sin, how can anything good come from it? The knowledge of good and evil came from eating the fruit of the tree. What came from the sin of doing what was forbidden with regard to that tree was death. "For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Rom. 6:23 |
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8 | Still confused | John 8:44 | Lionstrong | 236700 | ||
With regard to Satan, he wasn't interested in Eve knowing the truth. His purpose was to trick her into believing a lie to get her to eat of the forbidden tree. His use of the truth was only a means to an end. You might find C. S. Lewis' book Perelandra interesting. It's a novel based on the temptation of Eve. |
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9 | Still confused | John 8:44 | Lionstrong | 236698 | ||
Heb 5:14. "But sold food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil. If you read Proverbs, Nathan, you know it's not true that God didn't want us to know good and evil. But look again at the passage: Gen. 3:6, "When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, ..." All that the fruit of the tree offered was good, namely food, beauty, wisdom. It wasn't that what was offered was bad, it was the MEANS by which she chose to acquire those things. Eve was tricked into disobeying God to acquire those good things. On this side of the Fall, God wants His people to have those good things, but it must be acquired His way, not our way. Prov 14:12 says, "There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death." These good things must be acquire by God's grace alone through Christ Jesus alone. "...Christ Himself, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." Col 2:2,3 |
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10 | Is this what you mean? | John 8:44 | Lionstrong | 236696 | ||
You're right on, Nathan. God said, "...but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die." Gen. 2:17 Satan lied, "You surely will not die! For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil. Gen. 3:4,5 Satan deceived Eve into believing a lie. His argument contained truth in order to trick her into believing the lie. His argument contained two premises and one conclusion. Both premises were true, but his conclusion did not validly follow from the premises. Their eyes being opened and becoming like God were true premises, but they do not validly imply that they would not die. His deceptive argument contained truth because the Scripture says, "Then the eyes of both of them were opened..." Gen. 3:7 And God Himself says, "Behold the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil;..." Gen. 3:22 Satan is a very crafty liar! |
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11 | Falling to Temptation is Being Deceived | James 1:14 | Lionstrong | 229455 | ||
Perhaps Lundgaard does not mean that to be tempted is to be deceived but that to yield to temptation is to be deceived. The statement that "to be tempted and to be deceived are the same thing" is false, because Christ was not deceived though he was "tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin." Heb 4:15. I understand that Scripture teaches that sin is deceitful: Rom 7:11, "for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me," but I find nowhere it saying that temptation is deceitful or to be tempted is to be deceived. Adam sinned (and plunged us into ruin) but he was not deceived. 1 Tim 2:14, "And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression." Eve was deceived but was Adam tempted? If he was tempted we have another example of temptation without deception. |
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12 | the farher,son,holy spirit? | 1 Tim 6:16 | Lionstrong | 229195 | ||
The Father, Son and Holy Spirit are not three names of three parts of God. God does not speak of himself as having parts. The Bible says that there is only one true and living God. Is 45:22, "Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; For I am God, and there is no other.” But while the God says that he is the one and only God, you also see in Scripture that the one God is more than one “person.” Here is an interesting verse that illustrates what I’m saying: "Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: 'I am the first and I am the last, And there is no God besides Me.” (Is 44:6) You’ll notice that two persons are speaking, the Lord AND his Redeemer. And the two of them speak as one God saying, “I am the first and I am the last, And there is no God beside Me.” In the Bible God does not give us a complete explanation of how in one sense He is one and how in another sense He is three, but if we keep in mind that He is NOT one in the same sense that He is three, then we will see that this is not a contradiction in Scripture and that we are not talking nonsense. So, God is NOT one God and three gods, and it never says such nonsense in Scripture. There is a one-ness of God and there is a three-ness of the one God. We all belong to some family. The John Smith family is one family, but in the one family there are, say, five persons. So, the Smith family is one in one sense and five in another sense. They are one AND they are five, but not in the same sense. Do you see my point? In Scripture God is one and God is three, but not in the same sense. And the word we use to capture the oneness and three-ness of God is Trinity. He is the triune God, “God in three Persons, blessed Trinity!” 2 Cor. 13:14, “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God [the Fater], and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.” |
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13 | god's mercy why is there hell | John 3:16 | Lionstrong | 229188 | ||
Rev 7:9, “After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands; …” One can turn the question around: If God is just and will not leave the guilty unpunished (Exodus 34:7), why will there be so many saved (unpunished) people in heaven? The real question is: How can a just God let any sinner go free? How can He be just and then turn around and justify a sinner? How can God be just AND merciful? There is a rational, logical answer. The Bible is not irrational. First, God does not have to show mercy, but He does have to be just as Abraham recognized. "Shall not the Judge of all the earth deal justly?" (Gen 18:25) Mercy on God's part is a prerogative not an obligation. God owes mercy to no one. He says, "I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOM I HAVE MERCY, AND I WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON WHOM I HAVE COMPASSION." (Rom 9:15) But even though mercy is God’s prerogative, the question remains, how can He let a sinner go free and still be just? How can a just God punish some sinners and let other sinners off, and still be a just God? The answer is that God the Son, sent by the Father who so loved the world, took the believing sinner’s place and received the punishment due the sinner for sin (death). So, sin does not go unpunished and God remains just even as he in abundant mercy justifies sinners. Rom 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, Rom 3:24 being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus; Rom 3:25 whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed; Rom 3:26 for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. |
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14 | What does the word"believe"involve | John 3:16 | Lionstrong | 226823 | ||
Rom 3:28 For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law. Some people complicate and obscure the meaning of believe with a lot of religious mumbo jumbo. What they wind up doing is making “believe” either incomprehensible or turning it into works so that instead of being justified by believing (faith) one is justified by works. But there is no special biblical meaning to the word believe (translated “faith” when used in its noun form). The only difference in the Bible is the OBJECT of what one believes. But the meaning of the word believe is the same whether the object is the Gospel of the Lord Jesus or a message in a letter from your friend. But because the salvation of God is of free grace (Rom 6:23), people are tempted to make believing as hard as possible while trying not to make it appear that one is contributing some of his own efforts towards his salvation. No, to believe means what many religious people hate. They call it “easy believism.” To believe means to mentally accent to an understood statement. It is to agree, to accept that a proposition, a message, a statement is true. It’s as simple as that, and it must be that way because of the nature of our sin, the holiness and justice of God, and the person work of Christ. The thoroughness of our corruption in sin makes us incapable of rendering anything acceptable to God towards our salvation. The holiness and justice of God make it impossible for any of our good efforts to remove His just wrath and punishment for our sins. And the person and work of Christ makes any contribution on our part superfluous and insulting to His life, crucifixion, and resurrection. Any contribution from our polluted selves would make a mockery of the truth that “Jesus paid it all, all to him I owe.” So, to believe is easy. But if one wants to make believing the Gospel hard, all we need to realized is that it is impossible for a sinner, dead in his sin (Eph 2) to believe the Gospel. To believe the Gospel is a gift from God. "For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;" Eph 2:8 |
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15 | what is the subject of the four gospels? | 2 Tim 2:15 | Lionstrong | 226822 | ||
Mark 1:1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God John 20:30 Therefore many other signs Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; John 20:31 but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name. The subject of the four gospels is the gospel of Jesus Christ, namely, who He is and the good news of what He did to save His people from sin and the wrath of God and to give them eternal life. |
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16 | What is Man Psalm 8:4 | Rom 9:11 | Lionstrong | 224439 | ||
While there is nothing in man that merits God's favor, that is not David's point in this psalm. David is awed by how great God has made man. God has made man "a little lower" than Himself and given him rule over all the earth and all it contains. The secular environmentalist's view of man and our environment is wrong, seeing man as equal with nature. Man is great because God made man in His image and gave him the rule over the rest of His creation. Gen 1:25-31, "God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good. Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth." Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food"; and it was so. God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. |
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17 | did jesus keep the law | NT general | Lionstrong | 224435 | ||
Yes, Jesus kept the law. The law of God alone tells us what sin is. So, that Jesus never sinned means that He never broke God's law. Heb 4:15, "For we do not have a high priest [Jesus] who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin." Because He had no sin of His own, He could and did died for the sins of the believer. 2 Cor 5:21, "He [the Father] made Him [Jesus] who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." Jesus took the believer's sin and gave us his righteousness. Again, sin means to not keep God's law. 1 John 3:4, "Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness." |
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18 | how do you explain to someone that does | 2 Cor 4:6 | Lionstrong | 224337 | ||
The contents of the Bible ARE facts and reason. They are not irrational nonsense. And biblical faith is not a blind irrational leap in the dark. If you meant what you said about explaining the truth of the Bible, then it's a matter of God giving you grace and wisdom to do the explaining. But if what you really meant was, "How do I get him to BELIEVE the truth of God's word?" then give up. You can't get anyone to believe the Bible because faith is the gift of God. Eph 2:8, "For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;" What we do is explain the truth of God's word and then ask the Lord to cause them to believe His truth that we've explained to them. An unbeliever is not an unbeliever because he does not understand the facts revealed in the Bible (of course he must understand them). He is an unbeliever because he does not BELIEVE the facts of the Gospel. Faith (believing) in Christ is the gift of God. Ps 65:4 How blessed is the one whom You choose and bring near to You To dwell in Your courts. |
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19 | Is it bibical for a church to require? | John 8:7 | Lionstrong | 224336 | ||
She's committed no sin against the church. So, she does not need to ask for their forgiveness. If a believer sins against another believer, the issue may come before the church if it's not resolved soon enough, but even then it's not a matter of the offender asking the church's forgiveness but of the church exercising discipline. See context of Mat. 18:17. Matt 18:17 "If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector." | ||||||
20 | Faith a gift? | Eph 2:8 | Lionstrong | 219417 | ||
The Amplified version is wrong on this point. The "this" refers to what comes immediately before it, "faith" and not to salvation. So, Paul is saying that we are saved by grace through faith and that this faith is a gift from God. Just because believing (faith) is a mental "action" does not mean it can't be a gift from God. Repentance, too, is an action, but it is a gift of God's grace as well. Acts 11:18 When they heard this, they quieted down and glorified God, saying, "Well then, God has granted to the Gentiles also the repentance that leads to life." 2 Tim 2:25 with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth, So, Huron, I agree with your understanding of this verse. |
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