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1 | The actual date of the birth of Jesus? | Not Specified | MWLaine | 163802 | ||
I would like to ask a question concerning the actual birth date of Jesus versus the celebrated date of the birth of Jesus (December 25th, every year). Why was December 25th chosen as the day we celebrate? Luke chapter 2 speaks of the time of the birth of Jesus to coincide with the 1st census commanded by Caeser Augustus while Quirinius was governor of Syria. While on site in Bethlehem Mary gave birth to Jesus. Can we zero in on the date approximately? Or, is this date a rough estimate or completely off the mark? |
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2 | Will Christians be judged at our death? | Not Specified | MWLaine | 176975 | ||
A question my wife was asking me last night as we drove home from Lexington Kentucky after seeing our niece get Baptized. "Being reborn at salvation means that our sins are forgiven. So at the end of our days on earth are we judged? And does Jesus stand in our defense to declare us as one of his own thus protecting us from Gods Judgement?(Imputed Rigteousness) Or are we Judged by God at our death for sins we have committed since our re-birth after accepting the gift of grace?". My wife believes we will be judged but I believe we have taken on the righteousness of Christ, through believing in him, and thus are seen to be pure and spotless as Jesus himself. | ||||||
3 | Is the end at hand? | Not Specified | MWLaine | 179537 | ||
Is there any evidence concerning the end times that people will experience visions and dreams that give spiritual credence to the approach of the Lord Jesus. I had a vision while praying the other moring that I was standing in a field with a scythe in hand, other laborers where present and I heard a voice say..."the harvest is complete". This troubled me greatly because I do not know it to be true as there are so many extremely lost souls all around me. I feel a need that we Christians need to re-double our efforts to collect those souls that are being lost. Has anyone else experienced anything similar? | ||||||
4 | Mans appropriate relation to animals? | Not Specified | MWLaine | 187293 | ||
Are there any references in the bible concerning man and appropriate relationships with animals? I have two brothers and one sister that keep cats and dogs living in their homes which create, for me, a problem with visiting them as I find the idea of cohabitation with animals in the home repulsive because of all the shed hair, fleas, and nasty excretions being left on rugs. In terms of groups like PETA I think they are Idol Worshippers of beasts. When I see someone give a tongue kiss to a dog I consider it repulsive beastiality. Are there any references to people keeping pets in the Old or New Testament that justifies the way people treat animals, nowadays? MWLaine |
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5 | Is the culmination of days upon us? | Not Specified | MWLaine | 210583 | ||
I want to ask a question of my fellow Christian brethren... If media or people in general started to refer to a political candidate as "The Messiah" and that political candidate professes to be a Christian don't most of you think that a saved Christian would find the suggestion extremely repugnant? And if people were refering to any one of you as "The Messiah" would you not set the record straight, immediately? How is it possible that Jeremiah Wright should be given a pass at the filth he spews from the pulpit? Should the 20-year association of a pastor to his congregant Obama be shrugged off and assumed to have no affect on the character of Obama, who aspires to the office of president? Shouldn't the community of Christians stand up and condemn Wright and his entire congregation including Obama? Is there anyone here on this site who has not been questioning what they are seeing in regards to one Barack Hussein Obama? I know I have...but regardless the outcome of tomorrows elections I pray that Gods plan unfolds and we who profess to love Jesus are able to play a part in what I consider evidence of the culmination of the game. I ask God to strengthen each and everyone of you who believe in Jesus and the pray that your mouth is opened freely to snatch as many as possible from the fate of eternal damnation. Amen. |
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6 | How to determine demonic posession? | Not Specified | MWLaine | 221474 | ||
I wonder about demons or Satan himself possessing a man who posts at the Ray Comfort blog site? This man loves to screed in the form of hateful attacks on fellow Christian bloggers and extreme blashphemy against God. It makes me wonder...as he posts under the name Bullhorn Twotails. Does anyone know about how to determine demonic posession? |
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7 | Is Ishmael the father is Islam? | Not Specified | MWLaine | 229218 | ||
In this a prophetic verse talking about Hagar's child Ishmael, I wonder if the angel talking to Hagar is prophesying the Muslim nation. The bloody borders of Islam are well known today and it is very well known that Ishmael figures in very prominently into the Hajj. Gen 16:12 "He will be a wild donkey of a man, His hand will be against everyone, And everyone's hand will be against him; And he will live to the east of all his brothers." Even though Arabs and Jews spring from the origin of Abraham they are brothers fighting and killing each other daily over Canaan. Such a sin as not waiting on God for a child has resulted in the catalyst for contention between brothers that has been easy picking from Satan himself who is the head of Islam. Ahmadinejad who is professing to destroy Israel when he has sufficient strength of nuclear power appears to be that "Wild Donkey". Any thoughts? |
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8 | Is the culmination of days upon us? | Bible general Archive 4 | MWLaine | 210584 | ||
I want to ask a question of my fellow Christian brethren... If media or people in general started to refer to a political candidate as "The Messiah" and that political candidate professes to be a Christian don't most of you think that a saved Christian would find the suggestion extremely repugnant? And if people were refering to any one of you as "The Messiah" would you not set the record straight, immediately? How is it possible that Jeremiah Wright should be given a pass at the filth he spews from the pulpit? Should the 20-year association of a pastor to his congregant Obama be shrugged off and assumed to have no affect on the character of Obama, who aspires to the office of president? Shouldn't the community of Christians stand up and condemn Wright and his entire congregation including Obama? Is there anyone here on this site who has not been questioning what they are seeing in regards to one Barack Hussein Obama? I know I have...but regardless the outcome of tomorrows elections I pray that Gods plan unfolds and we who profess to love Jesus are able to play a part in what I consider evidence of the culmination of the game. I ask God to strengthen each and everyone of you who believe in Jesus and the pray that your mouth is opened freely to snatch as many as possible from the fate of eternal damnation. Amen. |
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9 | ... | Bible general Archive 3 | MWLaine | 181267 | ||
To KumKum, I see you have a demon that needs to be exercised. Jesus commanded all demons that he found inhabiting men, such as Legion, and these same demons knew Jesus and shook with fear. They knew the Lord of Lords was more powerful then their master Satan and they knew Jesus was about to cast them into the outer darkness before their time so they begged that he let them go into a herd of swine(pigs). The Lord Jesus said "Begone", to Legion, and they left and entered the swine. I say, to the demon inhabiting KumKum, begone in the name of the Lord Jesus the Nazarene, the Messiah, the Lord of Lords, the Son of God, the Most High who is the redeemer of all men. Leave the writer KumKum in peace that he might find redemption through Christ. KumKum begin a right relationship with the Lord Jesus through repentance for your sins and putting all your faith into believing that Jesus died on the cross for your sins, but then rose again from death to defeat death for men caused by sin. In particular Jesus's resurrection defeated the plans that Satan has for your destruction after your death when you stand in judgement before a Righteous and Holy God. If you will believe in Jesus now as your Savior you can avoid the Lake of Fire. If not you are doomed for eternity as is the demon(s) who now posses you. Repent and be saved. See Matthew 8:28-34 to get a right understanding that your demons are no match for the Son of God. |
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10 | I NEED A TRUE FRIEND THAT IS A CHRISTIAN | Bible general Archive 3 | MWLaine | 181269 | ||
To MommieSadie, The Word of God is companionship and should be examined for its richness in the Bible. Read the Book of Love which is John(New Testament) as many times as it takes to have a breakthrough that speaks directly into your heart. Find a good commentary book like "The MacArthur New Testament Commentary Matthew 1-7" to read a true expounding of Jesus' Sermon on The Mount. Let this great expositor John MacArthur help enrich the bible for you that you can see deeper into the Word of God and start to feel the love that exists in Gods Word for you. I would suggest you go to a local large vibrant Holy Spirit filled church that has lots of resources to help you in every way that you need help. Let your local fellow Christian believers shower upon you the Grace of God through their loving and caring actions for you, and with you. But, you must take a step like a baby taking her first faltering step. Take one day at a time and ask for help at your local church. Realize that it may take years to get where you will be a strong enough Christian to realize God has been with you all along. If you have ever listened to a Sermon that caused the hairs on the back of your neck to raise then it is an indication that the Holy Spirit is bearing witness with your consience that the words you are hearing are true. Right now, read this and feel the hair on your neck raise...We who are reading your words feel your pain and want to point you to Jesus who can heal your hurting heart. Know that God will come to you like he came to many of us...in a still small voice and say to you also..."You are a lost lamb". Repent and atone for your sins and put your faith in Jesus that you will find salvation. Also, to protect yourself from making further bad choices that might make your life an even bigger mess do not publish your home address on the internet. There are dangerous people who would love to exploit your vulnerabilities and you do not need further damage caused by someone you thought was a Christian. In the name of Christ I pray for His peace to come to you and bring you everlasting peace through salvation. Love you, MWLaine |
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11 | I NEED A TRUE FRIEND THAT IS A CHRISTIAN | Bible general Archive 3 | MWLaine | 181345 | ||
How to respond??? Thank you and Doc for your concern. Witness of Scripture is how the Holy Spirit leads my mind to remember and zero in on a piece of scripture that is pertinent to the situation being mulled over. These revelations can cause many different emotions when the truth is revealed so that the sinner realizes they are in need of a cleansing repentance to God Almighty. Did not God give man the gift of emotion? Maybe so we could love God and our neighbor? Maybe so we could recognize our need to be Poor in Spirit? Or, Maybe so we could be Mournful over our sin? Or, Maybe so we can get riled-up(hunger and thirst for righteousness) at our perception of injustice? Or, Maybe so we can take pity upon a poor soul whose screamed out plea of "I NEED A TRUE FRIEND THAT IS A CHRISTIAN" can be responded to in love? Or, maybe so we can respond in peace to our brother whose rebuke is well intentioned? I don't know anything I am not a theology major I simply read and love Gods Word. And on this occasion I was simply perusing past written questions and replies and the Holy Spirit led me to respond to MommieSadie with encouragement. I want MommieSadie to know that God experiences do occur and I always have an emotional response to having been given the gift of being able to logically string together the sequences of events to some of the miracles I have witnessed. We are all sinners of which I am the worst. Mea Culpa and Lighten up Brothers, MWLaine PS: Jeff the Holy Spirit was bearing witness with your spirit that you should not have been watching whatever scary movie you were watching. |
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12 | I NEED A TRUE FRIEND THAT IS A CHRISTIAN | Bible general Archive 3 | MWLaine | 181346 | ||
How to respond??? Thank you Doc for your concern. I am clueless as to what you mean "to teach that experiences can lead us to right conclusions about the work of God." I don't think I alluded to that at all in my encouragment of MommieSadie but you must think so. Also, I am not knowing why you feel the need to use a subtle threat about the terms of use in Lockman's SBF but I am sure you might wish to enlighten me. Nevertheless when I find a wounded man(or woman) lying in the road I feel a compulsion to take care of that person. Maybe a review of the tale of the good Samaritan would be in order for your future Study Bible Forum. As in Proverbs does the wise man accept rebuke? Yes he does!!! But did you give me anything I could gnaw on? NOPE. Also your use of "We in the forum" must make you believe I am not included as one who believes in the supreme authority of the Scriptures. Pure hubris. Be careful...Prov 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before stumbling. Now if you were David, and knowing that I have just thrown a stone at you, would you have your soldier kill me? Yours in Christ, MWLaine |
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13 | I NEED A TRUE FRIEND THAT IS A CHRISTIAN | Bible general Archive 3 | MWLaine | 182079 | ||
Jeff, Sorry for being away so long I have been under duress remodeling the Master Bathroom. Ugh!!! Alright! I am hearing you when you say that truth is not foretold by some reaction we have to words spoken, or read. We have a reaction to words and ideas because they attach themselves to us via our God given gifts of empathy and imagination. Our minds can put us into the story of a Sermon so that we can get the flavor of the experiences of the stories being told in the bible. The way we respond to these stories is akin to having a heart to heart, open line, discussion with God. If an expositer, standing at the podium preaching the Sermon, is being true to his/her calling then the words being spoken are true and are intermingled with scripture from the bible. This makes the story come alive, so much so, that we might cry when we hear an expositor put more words on some simple truth like..."Pilate sent Jesus to be scourged". Matt 27:26 Then he released Barabbas for them; but after having Jesus scourged, he handed Him over to be crucified. 3 Mark 15:15 Wishing to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas for them, and after having Jesus scourged, he handed Him over to be crucified. 4 Luke 18:33 and after they have scourged Him, they will kill Him; and the third day He will rise again." 5 John 19:1 Pilate then took Jesus and scourged Him. How simple a word is scourged. It takes a story teller to bring to life the magnitude of the whipping that the Roman soldiers gave Jesus. In Mel Gibsons movie "The Passion of The Christ" we got a feel for that magnitude. Audiences worldwide got choked-up and wept when watching that scene. And to think that 5-minute scene, in the movie, came from a little word... scourge. So knowing that a Sermon is an exposition of scripture, and knowing that our minds, if fed by daily bible reading, have scripture in storage areas that can be recalled, do we not then believe that the Holy Spirit can remind and guide our thinking to create connections between historical fact, from the bible, and current situations we are undergoing? Many times when that connection is made in my mind I feel a tingling sensation which I describe as "the hair on the back of my neck raising", or God-pimples. I know the difference, but you are right in correcting me, in regards to alluding to the idea that all hair raising events are God moments. But, never forget that Jesus taught as one having authority, not like the scribes or Pharisees. In this I mean that he taught in the way of parables which are for the express purpose of engaging the audiences minds and emotion so that the truth of what was being said could more easily be discerned or digested. These parables are part of what so confused the Pharisees. They could not easily cross compare the words of Jesus to their Jewish Religious texts. This made them call Jesus a false teacher or Beelzebub himself. All because he did not stay within their narrow textual boundaries. Guess what? The regular Joe on the street understood Jesus and could disern from Jesus' life, his truths, his parables, and his miracles that he was the Christ. And he/she was generally "un-edjoomacated". Truth is I think we are nearly saying the same thing??? Only in a different way. I don't mind at all being corrected because there is always the authority of Gods Word to tell me that in consulation a wise man is glad to take. You have been heard. Yours in Christ, Mark W Laine |
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14 | noah fed the animals what? | Gen 2:21 | MWLaine | 232204 | ||
Some would say food that was right for those animals that were not in a hibernation state. Bears and squirrels, frogs and turtles hibernate...that we know of. There are many others also that do the same. Would we assume this to have potential to be a mammalian and reptilian capability. Thus by extension would we not assume that God could supernaturally command the animals to sleep. God caused Adam to fall into a deep sleep. My kids lapse into sleep while driving. | ||||||
15 | ? bruise him on the heel | Gen 3:15 | MWLaine | 177316 | ||
Something of interest to you. When the verse speaks of..."her seed" we recognize a prophecy of the virgin birth. Men are generally spoken of as having seed and not women. The person spoken of in He shall bruise you on the head speaks of Jesus defeating Satan, but he shall bruise you on the heel speaks of Satans role in bringing Jesus to the cross. The resurrection of Jesus and what it means to those who repent and believe in Jesus will continually frustrate and confound the evil one. Yeah!!! | ||||||
16 | did Enoch die | Gen 5:24 | MWLaine | 229817 | ||
Gen 5:24 Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him. Heb 11:5 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death; AND HE WAS NOT FOUND BECAUSE GOD TOOK HIM UP; for he obtained the witness that before his being taken up he was pleasing to God. Gods written word is truth. Sounds to me like Enoch was taken. Was it rapture? You be the judge. Rapture noun, verb tense tured, turing. noun 1. ecstatic joy or delight; joyful ecstasy. 2. Often, raptures. an utterance or expression of ecstatic delight. 3. the carrying of a person to another place or sphere of existence. 4. the Rapture, Theology . the experience, anticipated by some fundamentalist Christians, of meeting Christ midway in the air upon his return to earth. 5. Archaic . the act of carrying off. |
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17 | Is Ishmael the father is Islam? | Gen 21:21 | MWLaine | 229219 | ||
In this a prophetic verse talking about Hagar's child Ishmael, I wonder if the angel talking to Hagar is prophesying the Muslim nation. The bloody borders of Islam are well known today and it is very well known that Ishmael figures in very prominently into the Hajj. Gen 16:12 "He will be a wild donkey of a man, His hand will be against everyone, And everyone's hand will be against him; And he will live to the east of all his brothers." Even though Arabs and Jews spring from the origin of Abraham they are brothers fighting and killing each other daily over Canaan. Such a sin as not waiting on God for a child has resulted in the catalyst for contention between brothers that has been easy picking from Satan himself who is the head of Islam. Ahmadinejad who is professing to destroy Israel when he has sufficient strength of nuclear power appears to be that "Wild Donkey". Any thoughts? |
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18 | Is Ishmael the father of Islam? | Gen 21:21 | MWLaine | 229286 | ||
Gen 16:12 "He will be a wild donkey of a man, His hand will be against everyone, And everyone's hand will be against him; And he will live to the east of all his brothers." Examination of this prohecy concerning Ishmael would be coherent to what we are seeing concerning the Muslim/Islamic world which will not live peacefully with its internal or external neighbors. Infidels, Christians and Jews...Buddhists and Hindu, have the hand of Jihad against them. And it appears that the Qu'ran trumps up the relationship between Ishmael and Abraham, to be something greater than what I can find it to be other than animous, in order to lend credibility to Islam to be anything more than that of a plaintiff "Me Too" inclusionary cry from the elder son of Abraham. Therefore I take this to be a prophecy of Islam as we see it today with the head being in Mecca to the east. The Muslim Faithful all bow to the east in prayer towards Mecca to further solidify my thoughts on this verse. I can only conclude that Ishmael is the legitimate father of Islam because of the root sin in which Abraham did not wait on God to fulfill His promise. Can I be dissuaded? |
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19 | What kind of bush was it when god spoke | Ex 3:2 | MWLaine | 179552 | ||
Doc, Cool bush. Literally. I did see a mistake in your naming the type of wood Noah used as Acacia but was called out as Gopher wood as in.... Gen 6:14 "Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch. Not knowing what Gopher Wood is I think it may be a play on words. Because the Ark was so big, Noah was continually saying to his sons "Go Fer Wood". ;) What say ye? Sorry for posting so long after the fact but I was just perusing and thought it might be a fun post. "Jocularity" as Father Mulcahe used to quip on Mash. Also, I saw a Christian documentary on a potential ark resting place in Iran at a place called the saddle of Solomon. Very interesting find providing valued archealogical evidence proving the existence of Noah. Of course the scientific community rejects the theory but I was very intrigued as to what was discovered and photographed. Since then it appears the material this team brought back was verified to be actual petrified wood. Regardless it is decent evidence that might be used in arguing the Christian belief in the Bible as the absolute truth and inerrant Word of Yahweh. Of course even the miracles of Jesus will not persuade the unbeliever but it is exciting to be able to make the statement that the Ark has been found and now rests at coordinates, such and such. Someday in heaven I am gonna ask Noah what Gopher Wood was or is? Assuming that the size of the ark did not consume it all for the sake of construction. Yours in Christ, MWLaine |
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20 | What kind of bush was it when god spoke | Ex 3:2 | MWLaine | 179612 | ||
Doc, Oh!!! The ark of the covenant. In that case...I recall construction of the box called for acacia wood. Ex 37:1 Now Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood; its length was two and a half cubits, and its width one and a half cubits, and its height one and a half cubits; Having read many of your posts I should have known you had something specific in mind. I stand corrected. Amen. MWLaine |
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