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1 | baptism | Acts 19:3 | retxar | 170104 | ||
Only in some man's list of do's and don'ts, not in the Bible. | ||||||
2 | What is spiritual baptism? | Acts 1:5 | retxar | 169970 | ||
That's what Jesus said (Acts 1:5), so you can be assured you are correct! These words of Jesus were fulfilled in Act 2:4. | ||||||
3 | Meaning of "Praying with our Spirit" | 1 Cor 14:15 | retxar | 93950 | ||
I think what the churches you are referring to are saying is that scripture simply refers to praying in tongues as praying in the spirit. This is exactly what Paul said and taught, so I don’t see how this could be considered wrong. As you have said 1Co 14:14 says ‘if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays’ How hard is that to understand? Just read what it says and then read it again for the interpretation! Here is a verse by verse commentary by David Guzik that is an honest interpretation of what Paul said without all the twisting and squirming that some commentators must resort to in order to get things to fit in with a pre-conceived theology. (1Co 14:14) My spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful: speaking in tongues is communication with God on a spiritual level, by-passing our understanding. My understanding does not benefit when I speak in tongues (is unfruitful), but my spirit prays. (1Co 14:15) Paul gladly proclaims: I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with the understanding. I will sing with the spirit, I will also sing with the understanding. Paul will use the gift of tongues, both in prayer and in song, and he will use it often. (1Co 14:16) Otherwise, if you bless with the spirit, how will he who occupies the place of the uninformed say "Amen" at your giving of thanks: if no one understands my blessing of the Lord, if no one understands my thanks to God, they can’t say "Amen" with me. When I am gathered together with other believers, I can’t just do my own thing and say, "Well, it blesses me." I must have a concern for others also. (1Co 14:17) You indeed give thanks well, but the other is not edified: Paul is completely consistent in his emphasis on tongues being directed to God. Just in these verses, he points out what we do with the gift of tongues: we pray, we sing, we bless, and we give thanks. All of these we do unto the Lord, not unto man with the gift of tongues. (1Co 14:18) So, Paul saw great value in the gift of tongues for his own devotional life before the Lord: I thank my God I speak with tongues more than you all. Yet, when he gathered with other Christians, his concern was to be a blessing, not with getting a blessing. (1Co 14:19) Yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding . . . than ten thousand words in a tongue. Therefore, Paul’s use of tongues was pretty much focused in his devotional life with the Lord. God bless! retxar |
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4 | Are those drawn 2 Christ raised to life? | Rev 13:8 | retxar | 88493 | ||
John 6:44 simply says that all who come to Jesus are drawn to Him by God. It should be easy to see that the one who was drawn, the one who came, and the one who will be raised up, is all talking about the same person. Jesus saves! retxar |
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5 | Does the Bible address living together? | Heb 13:4 | retxar | 88487 | ||
Jesus addressed the issue with the women at the well in John 4. Jewish tradition and the law condemned the practice of living together. Jesus used the issue to convict this women's conscience in a non-condemning and courteous way in order for her to realize her need for a savior and to be receptive of the living water Jesus was offering her. Her sin was convicted internally not externally. Notice that Jesus did not condemn her of her sin, only offered her the forgiveness for it and the power over it. Too many times we try to bring people up to a certain level of morality to meet Jesus when He is willing to meet them where they are at and raise them up Himself! retxar |
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6 | should you have extra marital affairs? | Rom 13:9 | retxar | 87633 | ||
Are you serious? When a man and women enter into a sexual relationship with each other they enter into a covenant contract with each other that is binding for life and one that God only honors in the confines of marriage. Don’t mess with the things God has ordained! retxar 1Co 7:2 Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. |
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7 | John 20:22 does it represent salvation | John 20:22 | retxar | 73350 | ||
John 17:1 Jesus spoke these words and lifted up His eyes to Heaven and said, Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son so that Your Son also may glorify You The “hour” Jesus was glorified was when he arose. retxar |
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8 | Pastor Preaching in a Mad way!!!!!! | Bible general Archive 1 | retxar | 72387 | ||
Mae, From many of your post, there seems to be a lot of strife between you and the pastor and others in leadership at your church. Why is this? Do you first discuss these matters with those involved as Mat 18:15 would command you to do? Please don't get your feelings hurt by me asking, I just sense a lot of anger and hurt feelings in your post and nothing will ever be resolved with these issues unless you work it out with those involved. in Christ Love retxar |
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9 | David, A man after God's heart | Acts 13:22 | retxar | 69988 | ||
Acts 13:22, 1Sam 13:14 | ||||||
10 | Pentecost | Lev 23:15 | retxar | 69645 | ||
Pentecost was 50 days from Passover (Lev 23:15-16) , which was on a sabbath (Saturday). Since 50 days is 7 weeks plus one day, Pentecost is on a Sunday. retxar |
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11 | Are christians sinners or not? | Rom 3:23 | retxar | 69160 | ||
Eph 2:19 says Christians are no longer sinners but saints, so I have to disagree with you and say that Christians are NOT sinners. It is true, as you say, that we still commit sin after we become Christians, but we do not practice sin. Sin will always hurts us, grieve the Holy Spirit living within us, and cause our heart to ache under His conviction until we repent. If we do practice sin and have no remorse, we do not meet the biblical definition of a Christian (1Jo 3:2, 1Jo 3:9, 1Jo 2:4, 1Jo 4:8, 1Jo 5:18). However, that does not mean that we do not have struggles (Romans 7), but it does mean we don’t have to live there (Romans 8). There is a big difference between committing a sin out of weakness of the flesh, verses being one who practices sin, and thus IS a sinner. Let me offer this illustration that may help: When I was at Wal-Mart last night a guy came in the sporting goods department looking at the fishing poles. He asked the guy behind the counter if he was a fisherman, because he wanted to go fishing, and needed some advice from someone who knew the sport. He happily left with his new gear with plans to go fishing. When this same guy hits the water and comes back into Wal-Mart in a few days for some more supplies, he will still not be a fishermen, just a guy who has been fishing. If he continues practicing fishing, he will eventually become known as a fisherman, but if he does not continue practicing the sport of fishing on a regular basis, he is just a guy who goes fishing now and then, not a fisherman. We sin, but we do not practice sin, so thus, we are not sinners. We are Christians doing battle with the flesh and losing out periodically because we try to do the fighting ourselves, and do not utilize the Holy Spirit living within us. This was not a perfect illustration, but I hope you see the point I am trying to make. For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh! (2Co 10:3) retxar |
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12 | Churches | Phil 3:3 | retxar | 69158 | ||
One difference is church government. Baptist are more of a congregational run fellowship where major decisions are voted on by the congregation and they also determine church policy. The Presbyterians are more of a Elder run fellowship where the board of Elders make the major decisions and determine church policy. retxar |
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13 | John8:24 and John8:57-58 | John 8:24 | retxar | 69052 | ||
Jesus was NOT BORN before Abraham, He has existed from eternity! The statement Jesus made when He said He was the great I AM (John 8:24,28,58), means He is the eternal, self existent One, He has no beginning, He has forever existed as God from eternity past and will exist as God forever and ever! I have always thought that the “he” the translators added to John 8:24,28 should not be there and takes a little bit of the “teeth” out of what Jesus was really declaring to the Pharisees. They knew exactly what He was saying, as they wanted to stone Him to death for it! Jesus declaration that He was the great I AM was the same thing Moses heard from God at the burning bush (Exo 3:14). Some believe, as I, that Moses encounter with God at the burning bush was a OT visit from Jesus; God with us and in the flesh (John 1:18). “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (John 1:1) retxar |
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14 | What is Pentecost a Revelation of ...??? | Lev 23:16 | retxar | 68935 | ||
Pentecost (from the word pentekostos, meaning 50th) took place 50 days after Passover (Lev 23:15-21) and was the Jewish feast of the first fruits of the wheat harvest (Num 28:26). Jewish tradition teaches that Moses received the Law on the day Pentecost. So on the same day Israel received the Law in the OT, the Church received God’s grace in all it’s fullness in the NT, and thus the church was born! retxar |
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15 | What is the Bible's take on sacriments? | Acts 13:38 | retxar | 68467 | ||
God did not institute baptism and communion for the forgiveness of sins, in the sense that "for the forgiveness of sins” means that this is the means in which the forgiveness of sins is obtained, but rather in the sense that “for” means “because of” the forgiveness of sins. Example: I take as aspirin “for a headache”, not to obtain a headache, but “because of” the headache. retxar |
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16 | Will we grieve for those not in heaven | Rev 21:4 | retxar | 68241 | ||
Rev 21:4 "And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away." I heard the powerful testimony of a dear sweet lady once that had lost her father. She had the assurance from the pastor, family, and friends, that he had given his life to Christ. However, she knew that her father was not as fired up for Jesus as she was. To her, anyone who had received what she had received form the Lord should be as anxious to tell others about Him as she was, but she knew that this was just not the way it was with her father. She said she was not going to worry about anything and she was going to accept the assurance of the pastor and others testimony that her dad was saved. She said that when the devil tried to give her the fearful thoughts that she may get to heaven one day and her father not be there, she knew that Jesus WOULD be there and everything would be alright anyway! There shall be no sorrow there! retxar |
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17 | Why does Abram call Lot brother | Bible general Archive 1 | retxar | 68171 | ||
The KJV thanslates brother as "brethren", which gives most people a better sense of "kin-folk" as CDBJ has correctly explained to you the meaning is here. I call people "bro" all the time, bro. I would never take someone seriously if they questioned me to explain as to why I thought they were my natural brother, so I think that it should be ovbious that whoever is demannding an answer from you on this is only trying to shut you down. If we try to answer all the scoffers questions that have such an obvious answer as this, we will have a long road ahead to try to answer all the petty things they can bring up. You are not obligated to do that. We should pray that God would always give us the gift of discernment when we feel we must answer a "scoffer" (Pro24:4). We are never obligated to answer "scoffers" who's only intent is to shut us down. Jesus gave us an example of this in Luke 20:2-8. Jesus always answered true seekers, as He did Thomas in John 20, but He always used discernment in answering scoffers. We need to pray for that same discernment. A good test to discern between a scoffer and a true seeker is to ask the question; "Is the answer to this question what is keeping you from coming to Jesus?" retxar |
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18 | Answer or not? Proverbs 26:4,5 | Prov 26:4 | retxar | 68034 | ||
M.Henry had some insightful words to share for Pro 26:4-5. Maybe this will shed some light! See here the noble security of the scripture-style, which seems to contradict itself, but really does not. Wise men have need to be directed how to deal with fools; and they have never more need of wisdom than in dealing with such, to know when to keep silence and when to speak, for there may be a time for both. 1. In some cases a wise man will not set his wit to that of a fool so far as to answer him according to his folly “If he boast of himself, do not answer him by boasting of thyself. If he rail and talk passionately, do not thou rail and talk passionately too. If he tell one great lie, do not thou tell another to match it. If he calumniate thy friends, do not thou calumniate his. If he banter, do not answer him in his own language, lest thou be like him, even thou, who knowest better things, who hast more sense, and hast been better taught.” 2. Yet, in other cases, a wise man will use his wisdom for the conviction of a fool, when, by taking notice of what he says, there may be hopes of doing good, or at least preventing further, mischief, either to himself or others. “If thou have reason to think that thy silence will be deemed an evidence of the weakness of thy cause, or of thy own weakness, in such a case answer him, and let it be an answer ad hominem - to the man, beat him at his own weapons, and that will be an answer ad rem - to the point, or as good as one. If he offer any thing that looks like an argument, an answer that, and suit thy answer to his case. If he think, because thou dost not answer him, that what he says is unanswerable, then give him an answer, lest he be wise in his own conceit and boast of a victory.” For (Luk_7:35) Wisdom's children must justify her. From Matthew Henry's Commentary on the whole Bible. retxar |
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19 | John used the Book of Enoch? | 2 Tim 3:16 | retxar | 67112 | ||
Several good commentaries are available at http://www.blueletterbible.org/ retxar |
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20 | Pre update NASB | Bible general Archive 1 | retxar | 67000 | ||
The Thompson Chain-Reference by Kirkbride, as John has said is available in '77 NASB. AMG Publishers' Key Word study bible is also available in '77 NASB. I am not familiar with the Key Word bible but I have a Thompson's in NKJV and if I only had one bible, that would be it! The only NASB study bible I have is a 77 Ryrie. I like it and have saw no reason to upgrade to the 95 version. The Thee's and Thou's in the 77NASB are there to show reverence to the Lord when scripture addresses Deity. This is commendable, but the original purpose in Renaissance English (KJV) was to differentiate between 2nd person singular (thee/thou/thy) and second person plural (ye/you/your). Sometimes this can shed light on scripture that we would not otherwise know unless we were a Greek/Hebrew scholar. Example: Luke 22:31-32 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you (all the disciples, not just Peter alone), that he may sift you (the disciples) as wheat: But I have prayed for thee (Peter in particular), that thy faith (Peter's faith) fail not: and when thou (Peter) art converted, strengthen thy brethren (Peter's brethren). See what I mean! Hey, I know this is more than you asked for, but it's all free here at www.studybibleforum.com! WELCOME ABOARD! retxar |
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