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1 | Biblical basis : Mind, body, spirit? | Matt 22:37 | Timla6 | 92377 | ||
A good question, one that has me searching my own heart and mind. Now the body of course is the flesh. Then, I believe is the spirit, which is contrary to the flesh, as we are told in Gal 5:17, " For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. Then there is the mind, which gives us the power to choose between catering to the flesh or the spirit. This is our command center. Some say the soul and the spirit are the same,or the soul and the mind are the same. I am not sure of this. Here is some commentary on Matt 22:37 from Matthew Henry, "To love him with all our heart, and soul, and mind. Some make these to signify one and the same thing, to love him with all our powers; others distinguish them; the heart, soul, and mind, are the will, affections, and understanding; or the vital, sensitive, and intellectual faculties." We are told in Rom 8:13, "For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live." Notice that the word Spirit is capitalized, which signifies the Holy Spirit. We are unable to motify our flesh by ourselves, but only with the help of the Spirit. God Bless, Tim P.S. If this will be of help, I was in the parking lot after church service today and a man said to me that we are three parts; Body, Mind and Spirit. Therefore we cannot deny that God is three parts, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. |
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2 | Who is the Bride of Christ? | Revelation | Timla6 | 79959 | ||
Thank you again Emmaus, and others on this forum for giving my study of God's word a more vertical profile in my learning curve. May He bless you all, in the name of His begotten Son Jesus. |
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3 | destroy 1/3 of the population? | Rev 12:4 | Timla6 | 79958 | ||
Sorry, Emmaus, I was referring to a war at the beginning of the tribulation period, if I am not mistaken. | ||||||
4 | Who is the Bride of Christ? | Revelation | Timla6 | 79936 | ||
Hi prayon, I started studying this thread when I came upon your post claiming that Jesus called the church His bride. I can find no scriptures to support this, can you please clarify, which verse, or which translation? God Bless, Tim |
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5 | WHOS THE NEW BRIDE | Rev 1:1 | Timla6 | 79465 | ||
RC Thank you for your kind response you obviously put much thought and effort into your posts. Thanks to Emmaus, for his doctrine, of a Catholic nature, which states in part, "by doing so they signified that all who eat the one broken bread, Christ, enter into communion with him and form but one body in him." My humble feelings on this, is we would be shortchanging ourselves by thinking we could be considered less than the body, -which a bride would be, someone else, to be joined at a future time... By definition would not a bride be apart from the body? Here is another extraction from Emmaus's post, please pardon the lack of context, "also provides key insights to help us see the Mass, not as a dead ritual, but as the earthly liturgy reflecting the heavenly liturgy, which comes to culmination in the marriage feast of the Lamb as described by St. John in the book of Revelation." The scriptural description follows here, Rev 19:7-9, 7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. 8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. 9 And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed [are] they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God. Here we have a description of the bride, how she appeared; in fine linen, clean and white, clothed in the robes of Christ’s righteousness. Therefore, the whole collective body of all those who partake of this feast is the bride; The Lamb’s wife, which are those who are called to partake of the eating and drinking into one body and blood, are not mere guests, but blend themselves as one into the betrothed party, the mystical body of Christ. Call me Berean-istic, but I choose not to interpret God's word according to my pre-conceived notions, or assumptions. When you say that the Old Covenant was His wife, then the New Covenant is indeed His bride, sorry, I do not follow this if-then logic. No one can choose God's bride except God. Again, I thank you both for your input. But as for me, I choose to remain in the body of Christ as is claimed by scripture and the bride will be one with the body on the Lord's day. Praise Him. Your eternal brother, Tim |
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6 | Searching for the truth | Rev 1:1 | Timla6 | 79195 | ||
Hi RC Actually I am surprised to hear you refer to the church as the bride of Christ. Mark 2:19 states the "guests of the bridegroom(NIV), "sons of the bridechamber (ASV),(YLT)(DARBY) "children of the bridechamber (KJV) Just because the Bridegroom was to be taken away from them, does that make us the bride? I can find no verses in the KJV or any other translation that has words "Bride , Christ" in the same verse. But there are 14 instances where the term is used as a metaphor, such as, "as a bride adorneth [herself] with her jewels." Isa 61:10 (KJV) Rev 21:2 does suggest to us that The holy city will be the bride, "And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband." (another metaphor) There is however 4 verses in the KJV New Testament that have an exact phrase match to Body of Christ. Rom 7:4 1 Cor 10:16 1 Cor 12:27 Eph 4:12 and, if you would allow me to respectfully question you, could you please tell me how we can be the body of Christ as well as the bride? I am modestly troubled by this expression of the church being the bride. When a man gives a woman an engagement ring, does that make her a bride? Since scripture is telling us that we (the church) are the Body of Christ, I cannot understand a relationship outside of marriage where we are the body and simultaneously the bride. Thank you for your views, God Bless, Tim |
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