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Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Author: Gunnie Ordered by Verse |
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1 | Explain Trinity Father Son, Holy Ghost | Is 1:1 | Gunnie | 199587 | ||
Hello A dear old lady I know, when asked by myself to explain the Trinity replied 'Its an egg'. With some trepidation I asked her to explain further , her reply was ' an eggs an egg and it cannot be anything else.' Having to plead ignorance to what she meant she says 'you accept an egg as being an egg. accept God in the same way. An egg is the yolk, the white and the shell, three components forming one overall object. God is the same in terms of Father, Son and Holy Spirit'. This picture shows perfectly how 3 things can exist as one and had no basis on doctrine, theology or the Bible and is always the image I visualise when I get bogged down with the concept |
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2 | God's decree on His elects - oppression | Jer 50:33 | Gunnie | 199581 | ||
Hello Azure As we saw God's power at the time of Moses controlling Pharoah, and as seen in the control of Ballam the false prophet; God controls the enemies of Gods people. Throughout the Old Testament we see God using other Nations to bring His people into line when they wander from the true path. The book of Ezekiel is a good example of Babylon being used by God and the eventual exodus led by Ezra. Historically we see that ALL opressors of Israel meet the death of their nation if they opress God's people. Canaanites, Hittites, Assyria, Babylonians and Nazis. We see from The Bible and History that its best to be on Gods side be it Jew in the OT or Christian in the NT. As detailed in Jeremiah 31:31 and its fulfilment in Jesus we as 'Elects' will not be oppressed or persecuted in God's Kingdom. Do you not feel that the more we are alienated for our belief in God, the more our faith is strengthened. |
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3 | sharing our faith to unbelievers so hard | 1 Cor 1:18 | Gunnie | 199582 | ||
As C.S Lewis puts it 'nothing annoys me more than seeing a group of people swapping ignorance' Since I first heard of God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit I read the bible to see the truth. Alas I found nothing in 27 years of reading the bible again and again that persuaded me to believe. True christians say you must have faith and here is where I agree with Jesusman. Faith is a Christian concept that lay people cannot understand, It is 'Churchese' as discussed in Jesusmans posts and to describe faith to someone without it, verges on the supernatural. I have attended many churches in my life and heard many pastors, preachers and vicars describe God’s love and the joys of being part of the ‘family’, It was something I wanted to have, but I could not invest my life in a book without evidence. Any time I have tried to discuss God and belief with church members they use ‘churchese’. A man can’t live on bread alone. I decided to carry out my own research into historians of the time such as Josephus. It was here I found mention of Jesus and what he was doing, as seen from an outsider’s viewpoint. After numerous history books, written at that time, were digested, I came to accept that Jesus existed –as a person. Here I went back to the Bible. My next obstacle was the validity of the Bible, particularly the New Testament. Was it a historical account? Or a novel?. Again Historical records mention the treatment of some of the followers of Jesus and also other events detailed about rulers mentioned within the Bible. I will not go into my studies of the other ‘Gospels’ not included in the Bible, needless to say after a few years reading I accepted the validity of the Gospels to a certain extent. The resurrection was my next difficulty and Psychology of the human mind as well as history provided my acceptance in the truth of resurrection. At no time in History has anyone under torture, which results in death, stuck to any lie. If the disciples were lying about seeing the risen Jesus then the truth would have come out. My wife bought me a book by Lee Strobel for Christmas past and he has investigated this far better than my feeble efforts. At the age of 40 I accepted God into my life, not through faith alone but through common sense language, History, Archaeology and Science. Through these I developed faith. Jesusman was not lowering the importance in the Bible in any of his posts, he was saying that You have faith, Its easy for you to accept Gods word as truth or as 2 timothy ‘God breathed’, not everyone you will speak to will have your benefit. They are like the disciples failing to understand the parables of Jesus. He had to explain in a language they understood. Why is it difficult for people answering the post of Jesusman to accept that sometimes the word has to be translated for the common man. In a day when reading is not something the young do, the slang used by the young is not understood by the old, is it not acceptable to put the word of God into their language – like Jesus did. The Message is a Bible written in everyday language. Will we see the hypocrites who persecuted Jesusman burning this version in open air revivals due to it not being in King James english. Jesusman has gone the way of Jesus persecuted by the ‘true believers’ for preaching an alternate view. He was not saying we should change the meaning of the Word just the words themselves. Our language is so colourful with the number of words which can be used to describe the same thing without altering the meaning. Long live the Message. |
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4 | sharing our faith to unbelievers so hard | 1 Cor 1:18 | Gunnie | 199585 | ||
Thanks Doc You answered in the same way that I was critical of. By quoting biblical text. I accept, now that I have 'faith', everything you write. However the point was that the words themselves have no meaning to someone who is not in the faith. The vocabulary used is fine, but try defining the words in a way 'outside of the bible', and much more in keeping with the youth who wil be the christian of tomorrow. My daughter, aged 22, has friends who come round to visit. They dont say Hello. How are you Mr Hope? the say 'Yo! s'up?' They talk of work and other people and say 'they were dissing me'' I told them to chill' which I had to ask for a meaning for and was met with vacant looks. My daughter says her friends boss was being 'disrespectful' and they told him to 'calm down'. Quote the bible to them and you will not get anywhere. You have to talk to them in a way they will understand. This is why I have the greatest respect for Youth Ministry. Tim Hughes wrote 'Here I am to Worship' a song which has the line 'I'll never know how much it cost to see my sin upon that cross' colleagues who have been unfortunate enough to be in my car whilst I have Hillsong on make no sense from this, but you and I do. Jeremiah 5:21'....who have ears but do not hear'(NIV) how can you hear the word of the Lord if you cannot understand it. |
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