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1 | Reliability of the Bible? | Not Specified | LuckyCharm | 40857 | ||
Regarding Bible tampering: Someone elsewhere has put the following question to me: "The entire book of Joshua, for example, is written to justify Judah's claim to the northern territories during the political vacuum created by the collapse of Assyria. The archaeological record indicates that the various cities of Canaan did not fall at the same times, nor all at Hebrew hands. The entire book of Daniel is also false from start to finish. For a New Testament example, Paul in I Cor. says that Peter was the first to see the risen Jesus, denying that there was any such scene as women at the empty tomb: this is to undercut the Magdalenic faction among early Christians." Does anyone have any information on these objections, or suggestions for further research? Thank you, Cheryl |
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2 | Jesus according to Paul, vs. the Gospels | Not Specified | LuckyCharm | 42765 | ||
Jesus according to Paul, vs. the Gospels? The following question was posed to me elsewhere, and I was wondering whether anyone here has done any study or knows of any good sources on the subject: "My personal point of view is that the (later-written) Gospels present a version of Jesus that is developed along a certain line from the (earlier written) authentic letters of Paul. The authentic letters of Paul are consistent with a spiritual/non-historic Jesus who is the focus of a mystery religion. The Gnostics, who claim Paul's teaching as one of their primary sources, and for whom other non-canonical Gnostic gospel versions of Jesus exist, may have been the "true" christians and the canonical-gospel-following christians the heretics, but since the canonical-gospel-following christians got to write history, it was the Gnostics who were branded the heretics. Paul's letters could be interpreted to fit both (although I find them more consistent with the Gnostic view). All that said, I wouldn't recommend interpreting the writings of Paul based on the later-written and tangentially developed Gospels." Appreciate any input! --Cheryl |
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3 | "Giving over to the Lord" - destruction? | Not Specified | LuckyCharm | 44446 | ||
My NIV commentary says that for the ancient Jews, to "give something over to the Lord" meant to destroy it. Questions: 1. Was this always true? Were there other ways of giving something over to the Lord? 2. Why was destruction necessary? How did it signify giving something to the Lord? 3. In which cases was destruction considered necessary? 4. Is this still practiced in any way today? If so, how? Thanks in advance for any insight.... --Cheryl |
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4 | Arguing for the historical Jesus | Not Specified | LuckyCharm | 48457 | ||
Hello all, I came across an essay last night while researching first-century historians, preparing to rebut a non-Christian's contention that the Jesus we know and worship today was fabricated. This article seems to make the same arguments that my opponent does, all laid out nicely point by point. I unfortunately cannot see any way to answer it... I could not possibly summarize the entire piece here, but if any are willing to take the time to read it and respond, I would be immensely grateful! The essay is located at http://www.magi.com/(tilde character)oblio/jesus/jhcjp.htm Unfortunately you'll have to insert the tilde character where indicated, since this site doesn't allow it in a post.... :-( Looking forward to any response! Sincerely, --Cheryl |
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5 | Jesus experienced every kind of trial? | Not Specified | LuckyCharm | 68556 | ||
Did Jesus experience every kind of trial and temptation that we do? I seem to recall a Scripture verse that states or implies that, but am having trouble locating it. Thanks, --Cheryl |
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6 | How does Satan operate in the world? | Not Specified | LuckyCharm | 102130 | ||
How does Satan operate in the world? Can he influence events in our lives? Can he plant thoughts and impulses in our minds and hearts? Does he communicate strictly through the five senses? Looking for any Scriptural teaching on this subject... Thanks! --Cheryl |
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7 | Bearing arms as a Christian | Not Specified | LuckyCharm | 103863 | ||
As a member of the Armed Forces currently serving in Iraq, how can I, as a Christian, faithfully live out Jesus's command to love my enemies, turn the other cheek, etc., in the wake of the recent downed helicopters and other attacks? Can I in good conscience bear arms as a Christian, when Jesus on the one hand says "he who lives by the sword will die by the sword," but on the other hand the lives of my fellow soldiers and of innocent civilians may someday depend on my willingness to fight? --Cheryl |
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8 | Dying to self | Not Specified | LuckyCharm | 108892 | ||
Hello, all.... I ran across this anonymous poem at LivingSacrifice.net, and wanted to solicit feedback from other Christians. It's a beautiful poem, but isn't there also much to be said for speaking out, taking a stand against unrighteousness, etc.? Looking forward to your thoughts.... --Cheryl Living Sacrifice - A Biblical Truth As Christians, we're called to give ourselves to God as a "living sacrifice." The Apostle Paul helps us understand this truth in his letter to the believers in Rome: I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. (Romans 12:1-2) Living Sacrifice - Dying to Self So, how do we truly present ourselves to God as a living sacrifice? In a nutshell, we must die to our prior selves. This concept is wonderfully presented in this anonymous poem… When you are forgotten, neglected, or purposely set at naught, and you don't sting or hurt with the oversight, but your heart is happy being counted worthy to suffer for Christ; That is dying to self. When your good is evil spoken of, when your wishes are crossed, your advice disregarded, your opinion ridiculed, and you refuse to let anger rise in your heart or even defend yourself, but take it all in patient, loving silence; That is dying to self. When you lovingly and patiently bear any disorder, any irregularity, any annoyance; when you can stand face to face with waste, folly, extravagance, spiritual insensibility, and endure it as Jesus did; That is dying to self. When you are content with any food, and offering, any raiment, any climate, any society, any solitude, any interruption by the will of God; That is dying to self. When you never care to refer to yourself in conversation or record your own good works or itch after commendation, when you can truly love to be unknown; That is dying to self. When you can see your brother prosper and have his needs met, and can honestly rejoice with him in spirit and feel no envy, nor question God, while your own needs are far greater and you are in desperate circumstances; That is dying to self. When you can receive correction and reproof from one of less stature than yourself and can humbly submit, inwardly as well as outwardly, finding no rebellion or resentment rising up within your heart; That is dying to self. |
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9 | How does Satan operate in the world? | Bible general Archive 2 | LuckyCharm | 102181 | ||
How does Satan operate in the world? Can he influence events in our lives? Can he plant thoughts and impulses in our minds and hearts? Does he communicate strictly through the five senses? Looking for any Scriptural teaching on this subject... Thanks! --Cheryl |
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10 | So Satan can take control of us?? | Bible general Archive 2 | LuckyCharm | 102246 | ||
Thanks for the reply! So, the devil can actually "enter into" us, take complete control of us, against our will? He can fill our hearts and cause us to sin? I'd hate to think this was the case, but it is Scriptural, isn't it? --Cheryl |
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11 | Telepathic communication? | Bible general Archive 2 | LuckyCharm | 102266 | ||
Hi Makarios, and thank you for the very thorough reply! I was thinking some more about this last night, and the possibility came to mind that Satan may send thoughts our way telepathically, as it were, "flooding our airwaves" with his impulses and agendas. Whether or not we pick up on and respond to these "thought waves" depends upon our state of grace and the strength of our spiritual "armor." Does this idea seem consistent with Scripture? --Cheryl |
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12 | Please explain Mathew 21:28-32. | Bible general Archive 1 | LuckyCharm | 41032 | ||
But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first and said, ‘Son, go, work today in my vineyard.’ He answered and said, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he regretted it and went. Then he came to the second and said likewise. And he answered and said, ‘I go, sir,’ but he did not go. Which of the two did the will of his father? They said to Him, "The first." Jesus goes on to explain, "Assuredly, I say to you that tax collectors and harlots enter the kingdom of God before you. For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him; but tax collectors and harlots believed him; and when you saw it, you did not afterward relent and believe him." It seems clear that Jesus is drawing a sharp distinction between lip service and true service. Elsewhere He says, "Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven." (Matt 7:21) James echoes this principle in his letter: "But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does." James 1:22-25 Does that help? --Cheryl |
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13 | Was Satan on earth before Adam | Bible general Archive 1 | LuckyCharm | 41052 | ||
Jesusman, you say "I have never understood where the idea came from to not believe the miracles took place because they couldn't be proven by science. The very definition of "Miracle" is that it is an event which is "supernatural" or beyond nature. Science is the study of the natural. By their very definitions science and Miracles are incompatable." C.S. Lewis actually has an excellent chapter on this subject in his book, "Miracles" (chapter 7, Miracles and the Laws of Nature). "Miracle is, from the point of view of the scientist, a form of doctoring, tampering, (if you like) cheating. It introduces a new factor into the situation, namely supernatural force, which the scientist had not reckoned on... The necessary truth of the laws, far from making it impossible that miracles should occur, makes it certain that if the Supernatural is operating they must occur. For if the natural situation by itself, and the natural situation *plus* something else, yielded only the same result, it would be then that we should be faced with a lawless and unsystematic universe. The better you know that two and two make four, the better you know that two and three don't." I recommend this classic of Lewis's for anyone interested in miracles. He is an amazing writer. --Cheryl |
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14 | Where is God when I need him? | Bible general Archive 1 | LuckyCharm | 41699 | ||
Hi unsure, Your question reminds me of a poem written by a 22-year-old woman close to the Pentagon right after 9/11: ONE NATION UNDER GOD God where were you yesterday? I looked for you everywhere You were so hard to find my father came home from Bible study dropped his car keys, a bag of groceries, his Bible to the counter and looked at me "This is a crazy world," he said in a voice pained and flat I did not understand until he turned on the T.V. God did you see? the television flashed black and white footage two hijacked planes flying into New York crashing into the World Trade twin towers God where were you? when New Yorkers ran through the streets tucking their faces in their shirts and ash and smoke, death and dying all around in my America? a women on the radio said it was like confetti white confetti falling from the skies I thought of Virginia's white snows in winter the silvery fall from the skies was that what death was like? Virginia winter confetti there were men, women did you see them God? jumping from the buildings like birds with clipped wings did you hold their hands when they made the leap into your world? the Trade buildings came tumbling down like a child's wooden block tower God did you see? another hijacked plane crashed into the Pentagon and still another crash in Pennsylvania? were you sitting next to the woman who called her husband on the cell phone and said good bye did you know there were children at school studying Geometry, History - the neat type-set of grammar texts did you know some of these children came home, fatherless or motherless, changed in one day? God I tried to eat yesterday but my bowl of cereal tasted like and ash and death God I tried to sleep yesterday but my heart hurt and I kept waking to the memories of police officers pulling people from the wreckage like treasures from a buried chest brave firefighters choking on smoke and tears fighting the fires, the death Americans saving themselves, each other and then I found you God later " Attack on America" was the headline I tried to say it out loud but the words sounded strange on my lips in my America? land of the free , the 4th of July, desert storm, the America I pledged to in grade school the 50 stars I counted over and over from my desk the flag I learned to fold in Girl Scouts parades and campaign buttons, the field trips to DC museums and monuments the pride in my voice on the trip to Europe when the German man asked where I was from and I smiled back and answered "Ich bin von den Vereinigten Staaten" "one nation under God-Liberty and Justice for all" dear God this all happened in my America did you see the tears of Americans I thought I heard you crying with the country You were with us yesterday and today when we move through the debris waking from a terrible dream yesterday is a toss and tangle of sheets Mayor Guiliani is on the screen his face is drawn like a dark curtain his shaking hand is squeezed by another leader and he speaks sadly but proudly insists we go back to life live as normal as possible eat at restaurants, drink coffee at cafes talk, walk the streets holding hands but also pray, give blood pull the last of the living from the rubble God this happened in my America but so did the saving, the prayer services the candlelight vigils the long line to donate blood the officers giving their lives You were with us yesterday God you are with us today and I need to feel you, remember the saving in my America because my dad said this is a crazy world and I'm only 22 God learning to put trust in a world I can't always trust for now I'll put my trust in you and my trust in America because this is still my America my waving flag of the stars and stripes, my promised freedom God I see you so clearly today You are holding my America crying for my America opening your hands You set my America free because we are ready to fly on our own because God was with us yesterday and God lives in America today --Kirsten Porter God be with you today, unsure -- He is Emmanuel. Peace, --Cheryl |
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15 | "Giving over to the Lord" - destruction? | Bible general Archive 1 | LuckyCharm | 44547 | ||
My NIV commentary says that for the ancient Jews, to "give something over to the Lord" meant to destroy it. Questions: 1. Was this always true? Were there other ways of giving something over to the Lord? 2. Why was destruction necessary? How did it signify giving something to the Lord? 3. In which cases was destruction considered necessary? 4. Is this still practiced in any way today? If so, how? Thanks in advance for any insight.... --Cheryl |
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16 | can divorse be stoped by refuseing | Bible general Archive 1 | LuckyCharm | 44493 | ||
I don't have an answer (I would be guessing), but I do have a question: Why would you want to continue being married to a woman who no longer loves you? Is it because you don't believe in divorce, or are you hoping her love will be rekindled if you stay together? Peace, --Cheryl |
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17 | "Giving over to the Lord" - destruction? | Bible general Archive 1 | LuckyCharm | 44594 | ||
Thanks for your reply, Searcher. That comment wasn't in the Bible itself, but in the notes (I was reading the Life Application Bible). And now I can't find it again... But since we're on the subject, what *do* you believe it means to give a situation or an object or a question over to the Lord? Does it mean to not do anything about it? And in the case of sacrifices, don't they involve some sort of destruction, in the case of the OT laws? What about fasting? (I realize I'm wandering all over the board here, but to me there's a common denominator in all of these questions.) Why would it please God to have us give up a legitimate good for a time, for His "sake"? What does that do for Him, if such a question can even be asked? Thanks, --Cheryl |
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18 | Hurtone, how are you? Feeling better? | Bible general Archive 1 | LuckyCharm | 44896 | ||
I was thinking about him myself, today. He seems to have disappeared from the board...... Hurtone, I know you're going through a lot of pain right now, but there are people here who genuinely care about you! Write us and let us know how you're doing, okay? --Cheryl |
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19 | Sites for the classical gospel songs?? | Bible general Archive 1 | LuckyCharm | 48852 | ||
How about this one? http://www.freefind.com/find.html?id-1830046*pageid-r*mode-ALL*query-*sitemap-Hymn!List (You'll have to replace all the hyphens with equal signs, the exclamation point with a plus sign, and the asterisks with ampersands) |
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20 | Any way allow me to listen to them? | Bible general Archive 1 | LuckyCharm | 49083 | ||
I'm not really sure about MP3, Wang. I think these are all in MIDI format, with lyrics to go along with them. You might want to do an Internet search on "Christian music" and "MP3" as search terms. Hope this helps! --Cheryl |
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