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Results from: Answers On or After: Thu 12/31/70 Author: Simchat Torah Ordered by Date |
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1 | Why do JWs tell you what to think? | Acts 1:1 | Simchat Torah | 55937 | ||
Shalom kalos; I do not believe that the Watchtower organization is unique to this fact. Every church denomination tells you what to think and do. If one belongs to a denomination that teaches adult baptism, will they baptize your infant child becuase you believe it is right to do so? What happens if your church doesnt believe in speaking in tounges and you start speaking in tounges during the service? Just my thoughts on this, I see no difference between the Jehovah's witness and Christian denominations. Shalom Simchat Torah |
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2 | Early Church Fictional or Fact? | Acts 2:46 | Simchat Torah | 55846 | ||
Shalom Paradigm; While our congregation desires to meet these criteria it is a little difficult. One of the criteria is that they "continued daily in the Temple", since the Temple is not standing today, this one would be a little hard :-). But one day it will be restored and we can once again meet "daily in the Temple". shalom Simchat Torah |
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3 | God created satan, did he create evil ? | Is 45:7 | Simchat Torah | 53423 | ||
Shalom seeker; Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. Shalom Simchat Torah |
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4 | What in the Bible made you a non-christi | 1 Cor 9:25 | Simchat Torah | 53413 | ||
Shalom John, Taking a break from packing :-). I was born and raised in the Lutheran church, my father was a minister. Unlike other horror stories you hear about Pastors kids, I loved my childhood and our church. Some of my fondest memories growing up was helping my dad write his sermons. I never missed a service, taught Sunday school at the age of 15, even entertained ideas of becoming a minister. When I met my wife she was attending an Assembly of God chuch and I started going with her. I found that they believed things differently than I did, though I knew church doctrine very well, I did not know the Bible or the, why’s, to what I believed. Since I did not know which doctrines were correct, I started studying the Bible earnestly, not to prove that the Lutherans were right (I believe that when you set out to prove a doctrine, you will succeed), but to find the truth in these. This study lasted for over five years of very serious searching and studying. Through this study, I started noticing a lot of similarities between the Old and New Testaments. Whenever came across one of these similarities I wrote it down. After 5 years, I had a very large list of similarities and decided it was time to study them. After a year of studying these I discovered that Jesus taught and lived Torah and that his disciples did as well, I found that the Torah is Eternal, for all of God’s people. At this point, I could believed that I must have made an error in my studies because no one does Torah except for the Jews. I began searching for the error but I could not find one. About a year later, Jewish friend of mine invited me to the Synagogue to a learn Hebrew class, he knew that I was searching out the Hebrew language. While there, one of the synagogue members approached me, covertly and invited me to their messianic group. You would be surprised how many believers of Yeshua there are in the synagogues, they are waiting for the right time to make themselves known. To soon and they will be kicked out, There Rabbi was when it was found that he started sounding messianic. At this group of Messianics I found out that there was a large number of Jews and gentiles living according to Torah and the movement is growing larger by the day. Now I knew that what I found in the bible was true. That is my story in a nutshell :-) Shalom Simchat Torah |
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5 | Greetings Simchat Torah | 1 Cor 9:25 | Simchat Torah | 53391 | ||
Shalom 2nd Samuel. No problem at all. Yes, I believe Yeshua/Jesus to be the son of God, the Messiah, and God. My sole reason for using the term Prophet is that it is the only Old Testament title given to the coming deliverer (Dt 18:5) The idea of a coming Messiah was formed by the Phrisees/Rabbis between the Old Testament and New Testament times. They developed an extensive belief system in a coming Messiah. When Yeshua came he fulfilled the role of the prophet as promised to Israel as well as the Messiah as understood by the Rabbis. Shalom Simchat Torah |
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6 | was paul married? | NT general Archive 1 | Simchat Torah | 53274 | ||
Shalom Imgladimsaved; I have read from some reliable sources in Israel that a prerquisite for being a Pharisee in the first century was a complete observance of the commands of God as found in the Torah. As the first command is "be fruitful and multiply" a prerequisite to being a pharisee that you have been married and raised children. Since Paul claimed to be a Pharisee (Acts 23:6), according to this view, he had to have been married. He may have become a widow prior to his ministry. Shalom and thank you Simchat Torah |
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7 | Extra-Biblical source for understanding? | NT general Archive 1 | Simchat Torah | 53272 | ||
Shalom; I thought that some of you might be interested in the answer about the "feast of dedication" (john 10:22), that I asked above as I dont think many are familiar with this. The Hebrew word for dedication is Hanuckah, I'll bet most of you didnt know that Hanuckah was in the Bible :-). It is a celebration of the Maccabees revolt against the Greeks and the taking back of the Temple and its dedication after being cleansed from its desicration (sacrfices of swine done by the Greeks). Even Yeshua celebrated Hanuckah :-) Shalom Simchat Torah |
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8 | dead bury the dead? | NT general Archive 1 | Simchat Torah | 53068 | ||
Shalom Christian7; This passage really bothered me for a long time until I found the cultural significance of it. We must always remember that they lived in a different time and in a different culture and they knew things that we do not. Traditional burials were different than our own. When someone died, they were taken into the crypt and layed on a shelf. This was the first burial. The second burial is a practice adopted from the pagans. It was believed that the god "Mot" (a Canaanite god, which is a Hebrew and Canaanite word meaning "death") ate the flesh off the body leaving the bones. On the one year aniversary of the death of the deceased, in a type of pagan ceremony, the bones were gathered together and placed in the osturary, this is the second burial. Yeshua (Jesus) is most likely talking about the second burial and saying that it would be better to follow him than to take part in this pagan ceremony. I hope this helps. Shalom Simchat Torah |
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9 | When was the book of Job written? | Job | Simchat Torah | 53061 | ||
Shalom Slave2God; There are many theories about when it was written but no absolute answers. Based on the type of Hebrew language used (very archaic) I believe the book to have been composed during the days of Abraham or possibly even earlier. Shalom Simchat Torah |
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10 | what does this word mean?in Hebrew | Bible general Archive 1 | Simchat Torah | 53060 | ||
Shalom; This word is a type of musical accent. The same word is used for a balance (Strong's #5541) which is used to weigh objects, the lighter object goes up. The word is also related to other words that have the meaning of to lift up. From this we gather that selah, when used as a musical accent, is the lifting up (in a musical way) of the end of the verse. The Psalms were originally songs. Simchat Torah |
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11 | Sheol -- Hell? or pit? | Bible general Archive 1 | Simchat Torah | 53059 | ||
Shalom Radar; The Hebrew word she'ol comes from the root sha'al which means "unknown" and is used to identify a question and would be translated as "he asked". The word she'ol literally means "the place of the unknown". While our western minds continually attempt to explain the unknown, the ancient Hebrew (eastern) mind did not concern itself with the unknown. They understood that what was beyond death was unknown and left it at that. The Greek (western) mind attempts to explain what is beyond death with such concepts as "hell", "heaven", etc. Simchat Torah |
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12 | What does Proverbs 11:22 mean? | Proverbs | Simchat Torah | 53058 | ||
Shalom Irbroyals; "Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman who shows no discretion." The verse is a common form of Hebrew poetry called parellelism. The Gold Ring, a beautiful ornament, is compared to a beautiful woman. The Pig's snout (nose) is compared to a lack of discretion (one whose actions are not considered resulting in a lack of morality). Just as the beauty of the Gold ring is lost by being placed on a pig, the beauty of a woman is lost by her actions of immorality. Simchat Torah |
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13 | Was theophilus a minister | Acts 1:1 | Simchat Torah | 53056 | ||
Shalom; The book of Acts was written by the Apostle Luke, Here and in his Gospel (Luke 1:3) he identifies Theophilus as the recipient to both the book of Luke and the book of Acts. There is nothing more known about Theophilus, other than he was a close friend of Luke. Luke does identify him as the "most excellent" as does Paul to Felix and Festus, both of which were Roman leaders. Theophilus then, may be a Roman leader as well. Shalom Simchat Torah |
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14 | is the rapture time soon? | Matt 24:36 | Simchat Torah | 53051 | ||
Shalom; If one wishes to call the "one will be taken" found in Matthew 24:40 as the "rapture", then you DO NOT want to be a part of the rapture. Read Matthew 24:36-42. This passage is saying that JUST AS in the days of Noah, one will be "taken" and the other "left". The context of the passage is clear, the one "taken" (in the days of Noah) is the one who was "taken" away by the flood (verse 39). The only ones "left" were Noah and his family. Also, when the Son of Man comes, one will be taken (literally killed as seen in the pouring out of the wrath in Revelation just as it was in the days of Noah). In summary, the wicked are "taken", the righteous are "left". Shalom, Simchat Torah |
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