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Results from: Answers On or After: Thu 12/31/70 Author: loavesnfish Ordered by Date |
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1 | Jesus' response to John's beheading? | Matt 14:13 | loavesnfish | 239204 | ||
I always wondered about that myself. It appears that this is an example of the unselfishness of Jesus. loavesnfish |
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2 | matt.1-17 14 generations? I see 13 for | Matt 1:17 | loavesnfish | 239143 | ||
mamooww, This is a royal line of succession. Mary is the thirteenth "generation" of the third set of fourteen here. She was adopted under Joseph as a collateral line descended form Solomon's brother Nathan as Luke shows. She was not adopted as Joseph's daughter, but she had to be brought into the legal line as the next generation to protect the rights of Jesus from any other children Joseph might have had or might later have. Mary was the only human parent of Jesus, so the fact that she was a woman was irrelevant. This odd fact is quickly explained as Matthew gives the account of the virgin birth. Just because she was married to Joseph does not make her legally part of his generation, no matter how close or far apart their ages. loavesnfishes |
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3 | How many generations betw Exodus-Solomon | Matt 1:17 | loavesnfish | 239134 | ||
Zor, If you are still interested in the answer to this question, you ought to be told that you are misunderstanding Matthew's genealogy. Although it is in Matthew's gospel and is called a genealogy, it is actually a royal line of succession, constructed and edited by the scribes. Matthew merely copied it and added Mary and Jesus. Matthew merely observed the 14 generations (read 'reigns'). He commented on them because 14 is an allusion to the messiah, and occurs three times here (two or three witnesses). The generations involved do not represent numbers of years, so they are not relevant to your construct. loavesnfishes |
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4 | Why is the # 14 important? | Matt 1:17 | loavesnfish | 239131 | ||
Greetings mmjames, If you still care about the number 14, you will find it associated throughout the Bible with deliverance. In the context of Matthew 1:17 it stands for the Deliverer of all deliverers, the Messiah of Israel. It appears three times as a witness (two or three witnesses) of Jesus being the Messiah. Hope that helps! loavesnfishes |
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5 | High handed sins | Num 15:30 | loavesnfish | 232358 | ||
Perhaps there are no commentaries because it is so clear that it doesn't need explanation. | ||||||
6 | continued pursuit, or saving faith | Bible general Archive 4 | loavesnfish | 232342 | ||
Dear Beja, Salvation is IN CHRIST, not ouside of Him somewhwere, and we are sealed in Him by the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 4:30). So it is not a thing to be lost, but a Person we are in continually. Hebrews 11:6 is speaking of how to please Him: by faith. When we walk in a way which does not please Him, we don't change the status of our salvation, because we are still in Christ and remain justified. That is a final accomplishment. If we do what pleases God, He shows His appreciation for our love and service by rewarding us. We please Him and He rewards us. Salvation is NOT a reward, but a GIFT (Ephesians 2:4-10). So these rewards are in addition to salvation. This "hall of faith" in Hebrews 11 was meant to refresh them from their discouragement when they were under heavy persecution. In Christ, loavesnfish |
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7 | continued pursuit, or saving faith | Bible general Archive 4 | loavesnfish | 232341 | ||
Dear Beja, Salvation is IN CHRIST, not ouside of Him somewhwere, and we are sealed in Him by the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 4:30). So it is not a thing to be lost, but a Person we are in continually. Hebrews 11:6 is speaking of how to please Him: by faith. When we walk in a way which does not please Him, we don't change the status of our salvation, because we are still in Christ and remain justified. That is a final accomplishment. If we do what pleases God, He shows His appreciation for our love and service by rewarding us. We please Him and He rewards us. Salvation is NOT a reward, but a GIFT (Ephesians 2:4-10). So these rewards are in addition to salvation. This "hall of faith" in Hebrews 11 was meant to refresh them from their discouragement when they were under heavy persecution. |
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8 | Heb6:4-6 Loosing salvation or what? | Heb 6:4 | loavesnfish | 232340 | ||
Dear Beja, You have been so helpful with my questions that I decided to try to answer some of yours in thanks. These verses are a stumblingblock for many people because they focus too narrowly and miss the greater context. The book of Hebrews, as you know, was written to people steeped in Mosaic teaching and customs who held the Law as the very highest expression of how man should relate to God. The author of Hebrews is trying to get them to see that Jesus (Yeshua to them) and faith in Him as a result of grace is so much higher even than the Law, that everything else should be viewed as below it. So any departure from grace and faith in Jesus in behavior was a fall to a lower level which is no longer efficacious for salvation or knowing God. In other words, there is no more going back to what they once knew, because Christ has superceded it. In 6:1-3 the author talks about pressing on to maturity, then verses 4-6, which you are concerned about, emphasize what is NOT the way to maturity: retuning to the Law, etc. at the lower level which they previously left behind. Verses 4-8 are what would THEORETICALLY happen to someone who does that, but Judas Iscariot is the only one it might fit, because Jesus stopped keeping him in order to fulfill the Scripture (John 17:12). Jesus guards and keeps ALL who truly come to Him and no one snatches them out of the Father's hand, as you know. So, what the author is really doing here is showing a picture (recrucifying Christ) of how appalling it is in God's eyes to return to the Law etc. The author wants to shake them up emotionally by the contrast to set them free from their old ideas which could lead them astray. The teaching method is very much like that of Matthew 5:29 where the shock value helps carry the seriousness of the message. I hope that helps. In Christ, loavesnfish |
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9 | How can the plagues affect the animals | Ex 9:6 | loavesnfish | 232332 | ||
As verse 6 states, all the cattle of the Egyptians DID die, but there were cattle left which belonged to the sons of Israel. The Egyptians begged, bought or stole some of those, which then became Egyptian cattle (verse 19). How the animals were transferred is less important than the fact that the Egyptians were still trying to get around God's judgments. To prevent them from doing that again, God sent hail which would kill any people, animals or plants outside (verse 25). This included not just livestock, but also wild animals which they could possibly hunt for food as the word "beasts" shows. Verses 20-21 indicate that some of the Egyptians took the warning seriously and got their animals inside with them despite what Pharoah wanted. This act of faith saved them. The warning of God was an opportunity for faith to anyone who listened, not just His people. | ||||||
10 | People who pray for bad things for you? | Rom 12:14 | loavesnfish | 232308 | ||
Romans 12:14 gives the attitude we should have when anyone "prays" bad things for us--which is a form of persecution--bless them and do not curse in return. Also 1 Corinthians 4:12 applies. Romans 8:31-35 shows that anything pronounced against someone in Christ has to go before God first. Since He is the one who answers prayer, he simply says "no" to such prayers. The key here is to make sure you are pleasing God by the motives in your own heart and your own actions and entrust the situation to Him to deal with on your behalf. That is what Jesus did on the cross (1Peter 2:23; Matthew 27:39 and Mark 15:32). Christians are to behave like Jesus, so they don't revile or revile back. | ||||||
11 | Was Jesus a Nazarite? | Numbers | loavesnfish | 232232 | ||
Jesus was not a Nazirite, but John the Baptist was (Luke 1:15 and Numbers 6:2-4) and John was also a priest (Luke 1:5-6, 13 and Leviticus 10:9). Jesus was called a Nazarene because He lived in Nazareth. |
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12 | name of one of sauls concubines? | 2 Sam 21:8 | loavesnfish | 232231 | ||
IISamuel 21:8 records that Rizpah, lost her own two sons (whom Saul had fathered) to pay for Saul's genocide against the Gibeonites. In verse 10 she spread sackcloth over their bodies and kept the birds and the animals away. Is that who you mean? | ||||||
13 | marry for sake of child? | Matt 19:8 | loavesnfish | 232222 | ||
Matthew 19:8-9 contains the short answer to your question: yes, it is wrong to "give up" on any marriage under any circumstances except adultery. Hardness of heart is not an excuse before God. He expects us to change our attitudes, seek Him and repent of sin, including our hardness of heart (see Hebrews 3:15 and 1 John 1:9). No matter what the reason was for getting married, once one is married, one becomes married for life in the eyes of God. In Malachi 2:16 divorce is equated with treachery. However, God knows our weaknesses (Psalm 103:14 and James 1:14) and is compassionate toward us in our struggles (1 Peter 5:7). If we commit ourselves to doing what pleases Him, we can expect Him to take a bad situation and transform it (2 Corinthians 5:17). If we give up, we lose the chance to see Him do a miracle. (See also 1 Corinthians 7:1-6 and Proverbs 5:18 and 18:22 and Ephesians 5:22-33.) Also, from a human standpoint, if the child is still alive, so is your reason to stay married. Divorce is a much poorer situation for raising a child, not to mention the damage to the child from having a home ripped apart. |
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14 | Does prophecy for Dan be fulifilled? | John 8:50 | loavesnfish | 232095 | ||
In Genesis 49:16-17, Dan is represented as a judge, i.e. deliverer, of Israel despite the fact that Dan was never a very populous tribe. An adder strikes directly at what it can reach and depends on its poison rather than constriction to kill whatever is threatening it. The adder does not leave its position to strike like a lion would, but waits vigilantly for the enemy to come within striking distance. Then even a very large, powerful enemy like a horse, which could easily destroy the adder by stepping on it, is destroyed instead. So Dan defends both himself and his brethren in warfare. This is NOT related to the anti-idolatry verses of Isaiah 42:16-17 which contrasts those who trust in God with those who trust in idols, or 42:1 which is speaking of one who brings judgment by his law (verse 4) without warfare. John 8:50 specifies one "who seeks" which the adder does not do, so this does not refer to Dan either. Christians would say that Jesus is the messiah as portrayed in Isaiah 42 and that Jesus referred to the Father in John 8:50, who was previously mentioned in verses 47 and 49. Does that help? | ||||||
15 | biblical significance of Emmaus Road | Luke 24:16 | loavesnfish | 232048 | ||
Luke 24:16, and 25-27 in the story of the two disciples on the Emmaus Road, even though they were discussing recent events, it was not resulting in faith. When Jesus appeared, their sight was somehow restricted so that they didn't recognize Him. This gave Him the opportunity to speak to them about the scriptures. Romans 10:17 would seem to apply here as Jesus seeks to revive their faith. Verses 30-31 indicate that their faith revived when they saw His ACTION in breaking the bread. He had asked the disciples to do this very thing in order to remember Him by it (Luke 22:19) and they did. Faith removed the hindrance to sight and they recognized Him. Faith is not just wishful thinking, but a true inner renewal which changes our ability to perceive God in daily life. | ||||||
16 | what is inspirational about this story | Bible general Archive 4 | loavesnfish | 232017 | ||
Notice that verse 21 says that Lazarus longed to be fed with mere crumbs even though the rich man gave him nothing. In verse 23 Lazarus is "in the bosom" of Abraham. This is an idiomatic expression which means that someone is an honored guest at a dinner or feast, just as the apostle John who had this position at the last supper (John 13:23). In this position, reclining at the table as they did in those days, the guest was near enough to the host for intimate conversation and the host's personal attention. Lazarus, who had been abused, excluded and starved to death by a lesser man in an unjust world, was now the honored guest of a man whom the listeners considered to be one of the greatest who ever lived. That God concerns Himself with the love of the overlooked and forgotten should be inspirational to anyone, don't you think? Also, it could be inspirational to think about how none of us has to share the fate of that rich man because we have the Bible to correct us and show us how God thinks! We can change. | ||||||
17 | Matt 5.29 (for eg) vs grace? | NT general | loavesnfish | 232016 | ||
1John 1:9 is the scripture which will help you. If you have received Christ as your Savior, you don't have to feel as though something unfair is being asked of you, because God is just and He loves you. Jesus sometimes used shock value to get people out of legalistic thinking so that they could have real faith. Obviously, an eye or a hand is only a tool for the inner thoughts of a person. Jesus wanted the people he talked to to think about their motives as well as their behaviors, NOT cut away body parts. They had become used to thinking that perfect behavior was what made them right with God. So, He told them how shockingly impossible it was to try to be right with God that way. Remember that in those days no one sat and took notes or recorded speeches. They just had to remember what the speaker said. Saying something outrageous was one way to help people remember what they had heard, so it was a commonly used teaching method. I hope that helps. |
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18 | Is The Quote In The Bible? Where? | Deut 23:18 | loavesnfish | 232015 | ||
The person who attributed this quotation to the Bible was simply wrong, just like those who think "Cleanliness is next to godliness" is from the Bible. It's ignorance of the Bible. It may be an adage based on a misinterpretation. | ||||||