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1 | Who says the Sabbath is on Sunday | Bible general Archive 2 | Country Girl | 124095 | ||
Just to let you know: this controversy has been raging for literally two thousand years, just like it's reflected here on the forum. Some adhere to the Sabbath and quote from the Bible. Others worship on the first day of week as is cited throughout the NT. All people everywhere must study thoroughly God's Word for themselves and should make up their own mind. I worship with many thousands of other christians, throughout this country and the world on Sunday to the exclusion of Saturday. But the most important thing to remember is we'll ALL answer to God as to how we obeyed His commandments. Blessings to you. Country Girl |
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2 | Who says the Sabbath is on Sunday | Bible general Archive 2 | Country Girl | 124098 | ||
As I say: we all must read God's Word and draw the proper conclusion and then answer to God for that conclusion. Blessings to you. Country Girl |
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3 | Who says the Sabbath is on Sunday | Bible general Archive 2 | Country Girl | 124187 | ||
I must admit as you have mentioned, there is no such verse that states "Thou shalt worship on the first day of the week and not on the Sabbath." But then we do have several verses that do cite the first day of the week as I have stated and we do have thousands of years of history showing christians worshiping on Sunday as being that first day of the week. So what are to do? What guidance do we follow? As it's been mentioned many times on the Forum, according to my search just now, this topic has been discussed quite a bit. But suffice it to say that the NT is the current guide for christians in this age or dispensation as compared to the OT. God has given all authority to His Son as cited in Matt 28. When a person does that search for that phrase "first day of week," you can't help but notice that the first instance is at the resurrection of our Lord and Savior. It seems pretty clear to me that christians early on were motivated in this new age of Godliness, to give a special amount of glory and recognition to their Lord and Master which was endorsed by all the Apostles and by God Himself. Remember Jesus did delagate some of His authority to the Apostles to make basic and routine decisions to this degree. After taking another objective look at all the evidence, including the words of your posts and the statements you've made, I have to say that the bottom line is very clear. God is giving as much glory and honor as possible to His Son, thus it seems perfectly logical to give prominence to the day of worship being set on the same day as Jesus' resurrection in contrast to the Sabbath as established in the previous dispensation. Sometimes on issues of this magnitude with the few scriptures we're given, one has to make some decisions/determinations based on faith and respond to "What would God think?" I think he's pleased that the vast majority of christians throughout the world worship God the Father and His Son on Sunday. Maybe we should rename it Sonday. What do you think? Would you like to draft up such a proposal and submit a petition? I for one am willing to sign it. Blessings to you. Country Girl |
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4 | Who says the Sabbath is on Sunday | Bible general Archive 2 | Country Girl | 124389 | ||
I like most of what I see in your post but the one big point about the story of the "widow's mite" was our Lord's emphasis on all of us doing what we can to comply with God's guidance. When it's clearly within our capibilities to do so, we MUST obey God and do everything we can in accordance with His Word, especially as it's cited in the NT. In the scene of the widow's giving her all, He was praising her attitude of complete devotion and submission to God's Will. So we should do likewise, do all that we can to avoid sin, avoid the influence of the world in our spiritual journey with God and instead strive to imitate Jesus with acts of kindness and love. Blessings to you. Country Girl |
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5 | Who says the Sabbath is on Sunday | Bible general Archive 2 | Country Girl | 124432 | ||
In my opinion, the most important aspect of the Bible and God's Will for us is to submit our will to His, tweak our attitude so that we're completely willing to follow our God's Guidance as cited in the NT. Of course, we need to remember that in this dispensation, God has given all authority to His Son so we must comply with the NT, especially when there's a conflict with the OT. I think Jesus was all in favor of following the Law of Moses as much as physcially possible as He showed when He healed the leper and referred him to the priest for proper handling in accordance with that Law. But as I stated, it's very important that we remember Jesus is a Perfect Reflection of His Father and as such they both put much, much more emphasis of the condition of the heart. This is evident with all the verses from Jesus about the heart of a man and his attitude to God. He even said that the scribes missed the "weightier matters" of God's Law. That is, they would strive to pick out the splinter from their brother's eye but overlook the much bigger object in their own eye. This is what has plagued mankind from the beginning. We humans tends to get complacent with our relationship with God like Cain did and we think we can hide from Him and get away with our small and minor infractions. It just isn't that way with God. ALL of our sins will be fully accounted for on Judgment Day. If any of those sins go with us to that Day without our repentance and the blood of Jesus covering them, our God just might hold us completely accountable and we'll be terribly undone. I know this is a tough subject but hopefully I'm clear. Good question. Blessings to you. Country Girl |
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6 | jehovahs witnesses | Bible general Archive 2 | Country Girl | 124798 | ||
I'm not quite certain but it SEEMS that you're saying you believe in the Deity of Christ and the fact of the Trinity, in contrast to most JWs. Can you make this clear for me and everyone else on the Forum? Are you indeed endorsing these facts above? I really look forward to a positive answer. Please let us know. Blessings to you. Country Girl |
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7 | Bibical mean for LOVE, WISDOM AND LIGHT | Bible general Archive 2 | Country Girl | 124880 | ||
By no means would I take offense as I quite agree with you. But for serious Bible students, I think we would all agree, Ecclesiastes is much deeper than Proverbs. I'm thinking after restudying the book recently in class, that Solomon wrote this book after Proverbs, maybe even in the twilight years of his life. In some respects, it's a depressing book but if we look at it knowing all of what he went through, we can gain a lot of wisdom. Thanks for the supplement. Blessings to you. Country Girl |
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8 | Can we recognize loved ones in heaven | Bible general Archive 2 | Country Girl | 124927 | ||
If I may interject at this point, I'd like to say that Norm HAS answered the question. The Bible is NOT particularly clear on this controversy. The scripture you've cited with the rich man Lazarus does seem to favor your position but it is only a parable. In seeming contrast are the scriptures from Norm which seem to say that we won't have our physical bodies in heaven. Just my opinion, but I'm thinking since the whole universe is going to go up in smoke according to Peter that Heaven is going to be a metaphysical place, that is spiritual where God's Being is going to be forever. We as christians will be there forever with him but we don't really have clear details on exactly what it's going to be like as we humans don't have any "reference points" for such a spiritual place. I think I'll wait until it happens and see what it's going to be like. This one thing I do know: it's going to be far more glorious and wonderful than anything we could possibly imagine. Blessings to you all. Country Girl |
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9 | do i have to worship loudly? | Bible general Archive 2 | Country Girl | 124928 | ||
Just to let you know there are a wide variety of opinions on this subject: faith vs. works. Just insert these words into the Quick Search or the scriptures from James, Chapter 2 and you'll see. Remember each of us has to study God's Word for our own conclusion as God expects us to stand for ourselves on Judgment Day. Hank is an excellent Bible student but we're all just human and ONLY God's Judgment is absolutely perfect. Hope this helps in your study. Blessings to you. Country Girl |
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10 | Bibical mean for LOVE, WISDOM AND LIGHT | Bible general Archive 2 | Country Girl | 124929 | ||
I agree with your assessment. Blessings to you, my friend. Country Girl | ||||||
11 | Prayers for Justme | Bible general Archive 2 | Country Girl | 125088 | ||
I just pray that God grants you a long, productive life in His service. Go with God, dear friend. Country Girl | ||||||
12 | Which one are we not going to keep? | Bible general Archive 2 | Country Girl | 125885 | ||
But then, how do you explain or reconcile Col 2:14 into this position? If the OT was good to go, why do we have the NT? What about all those animal sacrifices and the Levitcal Priesthood? You can't observe and practice Judiasm and Christianity both, can you? If so, how's it done? How come Hebrews puts the superiority of Christianity so far over that of Judiasm? I'm afraid your position has quite a few problems with it. In contrast, I must admit your citation of verses from Matthew is quite powerful until one remembers that Christ may have been speaking figuratively. I'm thinking when the Romans came in 70 AD and totally destroyed everything, including the temple and all the records of their geneology, it really was like the Lord's destroying their world. It's like as if God was saying "I'm done with you people as a nation. You won't be taking advantage of my love any longer." Anyway, that's how I've reconciled this seeming conflict. What do you think? Blessings to you, dear friend. Country Girl |
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13 | Which one are we not going to keep? | Bible general Archive 2 | Country Girl | 125886 | ||
I just remembered one more tidbit of explanation. Quoted from your post: Matthew 5:17-19 (ESV) "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. [18] For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. Here I would key in on the phrase "until all is accomplished." I've been taught to believe that this was Christ's mission: to come to the earth, live the Perfect Sinless Life and offer His body as a Sacrifice for our sins and take the OT with Him to His Grave. Thus upon accomplishing that great and noble deed, the OT no longer existed as far as God was concerned but Christ's Law of Liberty was executed in accordance with His Last Will and Testament on that day at Pentacost, Acts Chapter 2. So there's another question for you to reconcile with your position. If this is not what Christ meant with that phrase; what WAS to be accomplished and do away with the Law and the Prophets? Blessings to you. Country Girl |
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14 | Do portals exist between heaven n earth? | Bible general Archive 2 | Country Girl | 126659 | ||
Good response and I'm thinking the only one that really counts. Of course the humor was entertaining. Blessings to you all. Country Girl | ||||||
15 | How our Loving God commanded such things | Bible general Archive 2 | Country Girl | 127424 | ||
Speaking as a parent, it's difficult like you say for a child to truly love, see and understand love like the parent would prefer UNTIL the child learns to respect the parent. In the same way, we as God's children must respect Him for Who He is and What He represents then we should find it easier to love Him AND see His love for us. It's a growth process. Some folks never learn very much Godliness from this process. Others learn a tremendous amount and become great leaders in their generation of christians about them. Me, I'll settle for being somewhere in between. This is sometimes a rather difficult subject to deal with especially for those of us going through a lot of suffering, pain and anguish. We don't really want to believe that God would allow all this bad stuff happen to us, even upon reading the story of Job. That's just another Book in our Bible but to Job, his friends and family, it was a very real story and it really did happen just exactly like God tells it. So, the bottom line is: We're NOT going to get a nice, easy "comfortable" answer to questions like this. We either have to accept God's supreme sovreignty or not. We can choose to accept His Love or reject it. This is all made plain in the Books of Genesis and Job. Blessings to you. Country Girl |
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16 | How our Loving God commanded such things | Bible general Archive 2 | Country Girl | 127431 | ||
I just skimmed (and actually read a few paragraphs) of the whole article to which you refer and you are quite right. Mr. Edwards did a mastful, exquisite job of describing the situation. I especially like his emphasis on God's saving us all from falling into Hell at any minute simply "by His pleasure." Very vivid and powerful. What tremendous love and patience our God shows to us. We (the majority of this planet) reject His Son's blood as our only hope from the fall. The few of us that do accept God's saving Grace and Mercy and become His child, don't do nearly enough spreading of His Word, His Son's Gospel Message. Appreciate your adding this website to the Forum for we have certainly been blessed by it. Blessings to you. Country Girl |
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17 | Loving the Reproofs of the Word | Bible general Archive 2 | Country Girl | 127729 | ||
At least we'll be in good company. Some of David's best Psalms were written after his humbling resulting from his love affair with Bathsheba. Among my favorites: Psalms 51 and 119. Blessings to you. Country Girl |
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18 | This is a genuine Miracle!! | Bible general Archive 2 | Country Girl | 127770 | ||
Bless you, dear friend. We're all so glad to have you back and be productive for the Lord. Thanks be to God the Age of Miracles is alive and well. In Him always, Country Girl |
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19 | I'm referring to Holy Communion. | Bible general Archive 2 | Country Girl | 127878 | ||
God's Girl, I noticed you posted the same statement "I'm referring to Holy Communion" three times, all within a couple of minutes of each other, so it looks like that was a mistake on your part. Most everyone has done it at least once. Look, those on the Forum with a long history of staying there know the secret to success is being completely honest with the Forum participants. Since we are talking about discussing the truths of God's Word with God's children, it wouldn't be productive to do anything else on this particular Forum. If you wish to participate under these and the other Forum parameters, I would encourage you to do so and respond completely to the reasonable queries that have been posted for you. I really can't help if you wish to pursue some other goal(s) or an undisclosed agenda. We all however do wish God's blessings to you, regardless of your decision. Country Girl |
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20 | Faith in Dime Store Poetry | Bible general Archive 2 | Country Girl | 127879 | ||
I just read your very interesting poem but I can't see very much of a good moral to it. I can only suppose you'll enlighten us when you're ready. I'll be watching for both your wrap to this and the other responses you'll be getting. Blessings to you. Country Girl |
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