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1 | What about the thief on the cross? | 1 Pet 3:21 | jrcannon | 5368 | ||
I am not so sure that I like this format as I am not sure what you are referring to. Are you referring to what I said or the level just above me? If you are referring to what I said, don't take what I said wrong, I was just merely asking some questions to have a better idea, but it is still about simple faith, but don't that wrong, because I believe you still have to demonstrate that faith. | ||||||
2 | Why do we not keep the 7th day Sabbath | Col 2:16 | jrcannon | 2653 | ||
Why is it continued to be insisted that the Sabbath was changed to Sunday? It has not been changed to Sunday. Sunday, the first day has its own meaning and purpose. Be careful of your usage of Acts 21 that you do not take it out of context or give it meaning that it doesn't have. Why did they shave their heads? What was the point? If they were trying to reach their Jewish brothers, but those brotheres believed that they were not keeping the law, would they have listened to their message? Of course not, Paul wanted the message to be understood. Not that he was preaching rebellion to the mosaic law and traditions, but the fulfillment of the law. Those he was trying to reach would have never received him if he didn't keep the law. Remember what he said in 1 Corinthians 9:20? | ||||||
3 | Do you have to be baptized to be saved? | 1 Pet 3:21 | jrcannon | 2605 | ||
But what about those places that it is part of the condition for salvation? The most widely used scripture for the baptism requirement is Acts 2:38. It is undeniable that baptism is a requirement for forgiveness of sin in that scripture. I am with you in most of the references, but we can not pick and choose what we like and leave out the rest. 1 Peter 3:21 makes it abundantly clear that baptism saves, and it is baptism by water. There is not one example of someone, after pentecost, being saved without baptism. So, I am curious, how do you explain 1 Pet 3:21, Acts 2:38, John 3:3-, the numerous examples of baptism immediately after hearing the Gospel? | ||||||
4 | Why do we not keep the 7th day Sabbath | Col 2:16 | jrcannon | 2584 | ||
You are right, we are on the same page now, but to clarify, everything we have been talking about up until now was about a Christian. About the motives and desires of a Christian, not an unbeliever. We began talking about you and what you are doing now, after your convertion. A whole different set of circumstances encompass a non-believer, but don't fool yourself, God still doesn't "need" to work in the hearts of anyone, there has to be an initial move on our part. You said it yourself, that God was in your head, but not in your heart. God may have nudged you in his direction, but I am sure it was you that made the first step. And it could have been a simple as asking "God are you really out there?" The father didn't go out to find the son in the story of the prodigal, but when he saw him on the road, he ran to meet him. The decision is ours and he is ready and willing to receive us. Anything other than this is a denile of the very thing that makes us special, more special than any of God's other creations, a free will. | ||||||
5 | Why do we not keep the 7th day Sabbath | Col 2:16 | jrcannon | 2511 | ||
I understand what you are saying. I know exactly what you are saying when you say "You can not spread the gospel of Jesus Christ if you do not know it." I am a missionary (literally, not just because I am a christian, it is what I do for a living) and so I share with people daily from the Word. But it is more than just knowing his word, it is more than just living his word. It is feeling his word so that it dwells within you. I never meant to imply that God does not desire a relationship with us, quite the contrary. He loves us deeply and so desires us to be with him. However, while he does desire these things, he does not half to have them. There is a very real difference between the words need and want. God does not need, but he does want. I think we might be just touching the main point here in our conversation, and that real point is love. Faith and love in many instances are one in the same. Because we love God we have faith in him and our faith that God is who he is almost demands that we love him because of everything he has done for us. Remember James as he spoke about faith and works. He said that faith without works is dead (2:17) and a little further on he says that a person is justified by his works and not by faith alone. He talks about how faith produces action and that is why we do the things we do. Replace the word faith, with love and maybe you begin to see my point. It is not our faith alone that produce the works that we do. It is not our faith alone that causes us to study God's word, it is our love. I love God with all of my heart and I like to think of him as that father running toward his son and receiving him with open arms as we read in the story of the prodigal son. I don't do the things I do because I am ordained to do them. I don't do them because that is what God expects. I do them out of the pure love that I have for him. It stimulates my actions. Ain't no rock going to cry in my place, as long as I'm alive I will glorify his name. Not because he deserves it, not because I should do it, not because of any other reason, other than love. And that really was Jesus' message wasn't it? The greatest command is left up to our own will. Love the lord your God with all your heart. He can't make me do it, but then again he doesn't need to does he? | ||||||
6 | Why do we not keep the 7th day Sabbath | Col 2:16 | jrcannon | 2351 | ||
Just to be clear on this, you wrote that you are also aware that "God does need our study times, services, etc." Do you mean that He needs us to do these things or are you stating that you realize that he does not need us to do these things? If God "needs" us to do these things I am curious as to where I might find that in the scriptures, especially in light of Acts 17:24-25? Further, your quotation of 2 Tim. 2:15 only shows our need for study, not God's. The decision to have an intimate relationship with God is entirely ours. | ||||||
7 | Why do we not keep the 7th day Sabbath | Col 2:16 | jrcannon | 2230 | ||
It may help you to do some research into the literary devices used by Luke when he was writing in Acts. I do not contest your "tithing of your time," however, that, I do not believe, is the purpose for meeting on the "first day." I do not believe that Sunday is the new sabbath. I don't think it has much to do with the sabbath at all. I think if you do some investigation into Luke's style of writing and exactly what he was referring to in his devices, you will come to a better understanding of what Sunday is all about. Worship is to be done 7 days a week, which I am sure you will agree with, and is not just something done on Sunday. Further, "offering your time" or "tithing your time" for different thing is okay, but be careful that you do not fall into the trap of thinking that all of these things you do are for God. God doesn't need your Bible study time, he wrote the book, that time is for you, it is something you need, like water. Prayer services are the same. Sunday worship is the same. These time were not designed for God, he doesn't need them, but we do. Never should we forget just how wretched we are and how much we are in need of his grace. | ||||||