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Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Author: Katherine Ordered by Verse |
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1 | Did Hannah make a deal with God? | Not Specified | Katherine | 36984 | ||
I have spent a lot of time recently reading the story of Hannah. I have read her prayer for Samuel, and I have read her song from when she delivered Samuel to Eli. I don't believe that Hannah made a "deal" with God, but the wording of her prayer gave me that idea at first. I have spent a lot of time reading the books that precede this story in an attempt to understand what her spiritual heritage would have been, hoping to understand what she meant, not what I read in a translation of a text written down long after the fact. I need some perspective on this. Who can help? | ||||||
2 | Did Hannah make a deal with God? | Not Specified | Katherine | 36985 | ||
I have spent a lot of time recently reading the story of Hannah. I have read her prayer for Samuel, and I have read her song from when she delivered Samuel to Eli. I don't believe that Hannah made a "deal" with God, but the wording of her prayer gave me that idea at first. I have spent a lot of time reading the books that precede this story in an attempt to understand what her spiritual heritage would have been, hoping to understand what she meant, not what I read in a translation of a text written down long after the fact. I need some perspective on this. Who can help? | ||||||
3 | Kingdom of God Spiritual or Phisical? | Bible general Archive 1 | Katherine | 36922 | ||
I think your phrase "attitude of the heart" is a very good description. The condition of our hearts produces our actions in the physical world, and our actions can produce changes in the physical world. What we do because we love the Lord really does have an effect in the physical realm. Look at Mother Teresa, for example. Yet none of us, not even Mother Teresa, can make the world over. If the kingdom were physical, NASA could photograph it from some satellite, and all of us would be fighting to get in. Instead, the kingdom is within, fighting our worst impulses in an attempt to get out. Katherine |
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4 | Kingdom of God Spiritual or Phisical? | Bible general Archive 1 | Katherine | 36975 | ||
The thoroughness of your scholarship is admirable. I agree with your conclusion that the kingdom so referred to is a physical one. However, that kingdom is the kingdom which will exist in the new heaven and the new earth. When Jesus talked about the kingdom of heaven being within us, he was certainly talking about our hearts, and the fact that it can live in our hearts is one of the surest verifications we have of the reality of that physical kingdom that is yet to come. | ||||||
5 | Kingdom of God Spiritual or Phisical? | Bible general Archive 1 | Katherine | 37380 | ||
Like you, I am trying to learn more about the spiritual kingdom. My own most recent revelation is a better understanding of God's right to be in charge. In a moment when terrible things were happening, I was asking, how could God let this happen? Everyone I know has had moments like this, and I think that the World Trade Center attack was a moment when lots of people asked that question. Asking the question is not a bad thing if it means we really want to be enlightened, but it is a very bad thing if we are actually saying, "God, you messed up when you let this happen." My moment of revelation came when I read in the book of Job about his experience. At the end of the book, he confesses that he had tried to put himself on God's throne and judge God. I realized then that when I question God's wisdom, that is exactly what I am doing. I won't try to tell you that I am cured of doing that, but I do try to be alert to the signs that I am feeling that way. God is God, no matter what I think or feel, and to be part of his kingdom is to submit to his authority and his right to that authority. I know I have a lot to learn in that regard, but God has graciously given me the opportunity to grow. Katherine |
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6 | Mom died Angry with God | Bible general Archive 1 | Katherine | 50148 | ||
I am sorry you are faced with such a challenge. When you love someone who is going through such an experience, it is hard to know what is the right thing to do. You need to nurture your own faith and be a spiritual guide in the upbringing of your son. You want your boyfriend back in the same relationship with you and with God that he had before his mother died. You are all in my prayers as you deal with the problems. I will share with you that my mother's death had a tremendous impact on me, because she was very angry with me at the time of her death. Her anger had no justification, which made it much harder for me to deal with. It took almost three years for me to come to grips with my attitude. It didn't happen until I made an intense commitment to figure out what my relationship to my mother was all about, and the first step I made was to lay my own anger and resentment, not my mother's anger, on God's altar to be burned. I had to learn that my attitude could not be justified by her attitude. You can't preach at your boyfriend about his attitude, but you can keep the faith yourself and keep lifting him up to the Lord. As you talk to the Lord, be listening as well, for him to guide your words and actions toward your boyfriend. The Holy Spirit is a guide who can be trusted. God keep all of you safe. |
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7 | What year did Jesus die? | Bible general Archive 1 | Katherine | 51131 | ||
I don't think we have a much better idea of a date for Jesus' death than we have for his birth. I am curious to know what prompted your question. | ||||||
8 | What year did Jesus die? | Bible general Archive 1 | Katherine | 51255 | ||
That is interesting. Is this book fiction or non-fiction? Having exact dates would let you link other events to the events of Jesus' life, but I don't think that even the best Biblical research will give you anything you can be sure of. I would be wary of any very assertive dating. We can guess within 5-10 years, but we have to recognize that the Biblical revelation is not focused on placing events in human time so much as it is focused on describing those events from an eternal perspective. I hope you enjoy the experience of writing your book. I have been working on one for the past year, and it is a real exercise in spiritual growth. | ||||||
9 | a different spirit ? | Num 14:24 | Katherine | 51129 | ||
I imagine the text here refers to the evidence that Caleb had faith in God's promise about the land even though the others who saw it with him, except for Joshua, were overwhelmed by the prospect of trying to take it away from the people living there. They all thought the land was as good as God said it was, but only Caleb and Joshua believed that God could deliver it to them. Forty years later, after Moses' death, Caleb and Joshua not only entered the land but fought for and took possession of their own inheritances. Caleb's spirit was in tune with God's spirit, and that made him different from the rest of the people. | ||||||
10 | Did Hannah make a deal with God? | 1 Sam 1:11 | Katherine | 36987 | ||
I have spent a lot of time recently reading the story of Hannah. I have read her prayer for Samuel, and I have read her song from when she delivered Samuel to Eli. I don't believe that Hannah made a "deal" with God, but the wording of her prayer gave me that idea at first. I have spent a lot of time reading the books that precede this story in an attempt to understand what her spiritual heritage would have been, hoping to understand what she meant, not what I read in a translation of a text written down long after the fact. I need some perspective on this. Who can help? | ||||||
11 | Did Hannah make a deal with God? | 1 Sam 1:11 | Katherine | 36995 | ||
I have spent a lot of time recently reading the story of Hannah. I have read her prayer for Samuel, and I have read her song from when she delivered Samuel to Eli. I don't believe that Hannah made a "deal" with God, but the wording of her prayer gave me that idea at first. I have spent a lot of time reading the books that precede this story in an attempt to understand what her spiritual heritage would have been, hoping to understand what she meant, not what I read in a translation of a text written down long after the fact. I need some perspective on this. Who can help? | ||||||
12 | How did Hannah decide to give up Samuel? | 1 Sam 1:11 | Katherine | 36991 | ||
Your comments are helpful in gaining perspective on her prayer. I am curious, however, how she came to see that giving up the gift she yearned for was the thing to do. I have tried to imagine what teaching she would have received that led her to this astonishing act. I can't find anything in the stories that precede her life that models such a choice. I did find the references where God claimed all the firstborn and required redemption for them. Is that part of the explanation? Or is it even bigger, referring to God's constant reminder that everything we receive is already his? Who taught her? Her mother? Priestly readings? | ||||||
13 | the paradox of forgiveness and judgement | Ps 62:12 | Katherine | 49932 | ||
I am struggling just a bit with the notion of repayment according to what we do, since our forgiveness through Jesus' sacrifice is complete. How can both things be true? | ||||||
14 | the paradox of forgiveness and judgement | Ps 62:12 | Katherine | 50085 | ||
I think this perspective is very helpful. I hadn't thought of the issue quite this way before. The notion of an apparent paradox that really is not a paradox gives me a better direction to continue my study. Thank you very much. Katherine |
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