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Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Author: TruthInGod Ordered by Verse |
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1 | How is Holy Spirit imbued? | Not Specified | TruthInGod | 193769 | ||
I see in the Bible that there were instances where people had not yet recieved the Holy Spirit but they had confessed Jesus as Lord...(Acts 8:15-17) and they had even been baptized! My question is this...is there elsewhere in the Bible that states you can recieve the Holy Spirit without laying on of hands? In acts, I always see only the Apostles imbuing the Holy Spirit... |
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2 | Where is the harsh love in our churches? | Not Specified | TruthInGod | 194121 | ||
1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that does not occur even among pagans: A man has his father's wife. 2And you are proud! Shouldn't you rather have been filled with grief and have put out of your fellowship the man who did this? 3Even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. And I have already passed judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present. 4When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present, 5hand this man over to Satan, so that the sinful nature[a] may be destroyed and his spirit saved on the day of the Lord. What would happen if we did this? For every person we know that openly sinned we booted from the church? In my opinion, our church numbers would dwindle, maybe we wouldn't have 12,000 churches in one city, but with what we had we would produce 100 times as much fruit of the spirit! First we approach this sinner, one on one. If they repent, then great! If not, we get a couple more members. If they still do not repent, then we bring forth the whole church! (I apologize, I cannot recall exactly where these instructions are written in the Bible, someone help me?) However, here Paul has already passed judgement! Don't you think we ought to do the same? For one who proudly walks through the doors of a church, who professes to be a Christian yet rebelliously and openly sins, we ought to sadly boot them out so that they might be ashamed. Am I the only one that thinks to show our love we must also be very harsh, if the situation calls for it!? To sit there and say, "I love the Lord!" but not do His will is obscene, you are practicing faith without works, which is impossible. Paul hadn't even met this man and passed judgement. How can we do any less? Even if it is our own child? Do we love our children more than the Lord God? |
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3 | Where is the harsh love in our churches? | Bible general Archive 3 | TruthInGod | 194128 | ||
1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that does not occur even among pagans: A man has his father's wife. 2And you are proud! Shouldn't you rather have been filled with grief and have put out of your fellowship the man who did this? 3Even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. And I have already passed judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present. 4When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present, 5hand this man over to Satan, so that the sinful nature[a] may be destroyed and his spirit saved on the day of the Lord. What would happen if we did this? For every person we know that openly sinned we booted from the church? In my opinion, our church numbers would dwindle, maybe we wouldn't have 12,000 churches in one city, but with what we had we would produce 100 times as much fruit of the spirit! First we approach this sinner, one on one. If they repent, then great! If not, we get a couple more members. If they still do not repent, then we bring forth the whole church! (I apologize, I cannot recall exactly where these instructions are written in the Bible, someone help me?) However, here Paul has already passed judgement! Don't you think we ought to do the same? For one who proudly walks through the doors of a church, who professes to be a Christian yet rebelliously and openly sins, we ought to sadly boot them out so that they might be ashamed. Am I the only one that thinks to show our love we must also be very harsh, if the situation calls for it!? To sit there and say, "I love the Lord!" but not do His will is obscene, you are practicing faith without works, which is impossible. Paul hadn't even met this man and passed judgement. How can we do any less? Even if it is our own child? Do we love our children more than the Lord God? |
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4 | witness to neighbors about Jesus Christ? | NT general Archive 1 | TruthInGod | 193774 | ||
Crank up "Jesus Freak" on your stereo!!! I'm just kidding, please do not heed that advice! However, think of it this way. There are some people living next to you that are inside a ring of fire that is constantly pressing in on them. Time is of the essence always, this world will not lead them in the right direction, it will just let them burn! So therefore I say consult the Spirit first, and be bold about whatever it is you do! I tend to lean more to blatant, open honesty myself...but I do not wish to hinder the Spirit in your decision. Ask yourself, when did Jesus ever just say "Let them come to me because they see that I do good, and then I will proclaim the message to them." No, he lived a good life and those in need he proclaimed the gospel to. I've seen it work both ways, but what if today you invite them over for dinner, showing your kindness, and tomarrow they die? You had today to proclaim it to them, but you didn't! Just be very, very careful in your decision, and do not stifle the spirit. Bold proclomation may be exactly what they need. Not, "Turn to Jesus or burn in hell!" but "There is a loving God who sent His son." --Your brother in Christ |
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5 | Explain Heb. 10:26 | NT general Archive 1 | TruthInGod | 193775 | ||
The advice I give to anyone who asks about these passages, as with anything pertaining to salvation, is to sit down and pray to God for wisdom. Clear out any other things you've been told by anyone else, and just look solely to God for the answer. Ask yourself this question. Is God a God of confusion? He is not, He will lead you in the right direction! However, know that this is what I believe God spoke to me through this passage in Hebrews. Others will without a doubt tell you something different on this board. Take into account what they say, and compare it to the Bible and what God shows you. If you read all of Hebrews, you see the thrust of the message is about Jesus Christ's high authority, and how He was the perfect sacrifice. Then, periodically you see warnings against falling away. This passage is one of them. I think the author goes to great lengths to describe vividly someone who has salvation, but has turned it away. Just like the Israelites had the promise, the salvation, of the Promised Land, but rebelled. If you are in doubt that they are speaking to someone who is saved, read verse 29....which says this... "How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that HAS SANCTIFIED HIM." Let's see, the new covenant that has sanctified me, that is the covenant of Jesus Christ. If I haven't accepted it, I haven't been sanctified, I haven't been saved. Therefore, the passage speaks about a Christian who is saved, but through a life of active rebellion turns away the living God. Now then, can Christ's sacrifice still save you? Well, it is impossible for a person to be brought back to repentance, because if it were possible Christ would have to be re-crucified. What does that say to me? Since Christ is the sole authority of giving people the ability to have a repentive heart, he wouldn't give it to someone who had with finality turned Him away. However, to the one whom He still offers a chance, He reminds them of repentance, and His son's sacrifice. Do I believe in the fallen Christian? Yes I do. |
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6 | Is salvation, forever, can it be lost? | Acts 16:31 | TruthInGod | 193762 | ||
Honestly, every individual that is able needs to read the Bible for themselves, and determine the answer for this question. Pray to God for wisdom, and He will give it. I would never refer you to someone else, because many authors twist what the Bible says around to fit what they want it to say, even though they claim they do not! They bring passages out of context to prove their message, but in order for the Bible to be the Truth, the whole Bible has to make sense! How did the people in the old testament, who disobeyed God's commands, escape judgement? They didn't! This is the EXACT thrust of what Hebrews is saying, and the author goes to great lengths to show how someone who is rebellious, whether professing the faith or not, if they turn away from God He will judge them! The author starts the book by pointing out the supremacy of Christ, so that we can see how much more we will be punished if we disobey this blessing bestowed upon us! Nearly every single book in the new testament is laced with a warning not to fall away. Read the Bible and know that God is all that matters, and not what someone else has tried to tell you! I could go through a whole slew of verses that directly indicate that your salvation is in jeapordy if you disregard the salvation that has been given to you. Most of these verses are RIGHT AFTER the verses that many people cling to who claim that salvation is forever aside from what you do. I say these things not to discourage, but to strengthen the faith in the truth. If people really paid attention to the warnings of the Bible, we'd see a radically different Christian society today. I'm just now coming to realize it! By the way, I believe that peace is for those who are devoted to God's will. Yes, you can only be saved by Jesus Christ, because He was the only sacrifice. However, Romans points out that we have an obligation to the Spirit, to do what is right in the eyes of the Lord! You say to me, we cannot live without sin! I say to you, we will always have sin in that our bodies are sinful, but by the Spirit we must DAILY put to death the misdeeds of the flesh! Peace is not for the heart that turns away from the living God in active rebellion. Peace is not for the one who says, "If I continue in sin, will God still love me." No, only judgement. Will you stumble, yes. Perhaps you may go through a state of rebellion. David did, but God still loved him. But shape up, leave sin behind lest you become a slave again! Read Hebrews 6: 4-6 Hebrews 2: 1-4 And even Jesus, the ultimate sacrifice alludes to it in John 15: 1-8 However, God is God, and I only have limited wisdom. Does it bring me peace to think that I might lose my salvation? Not worldy peace, but a peace of calm assurance of knowing if I die doing what is right, then I am a testimony for God. But it gives me no peace to live in sin. |
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7 | Is salvation, forever, can it be lost? | Acts 16:31 | TruthInGod | 193763 | ||
Well let's see here, then you dismiss everything Hebrews says in Chapter 6 as being people who weren't really saved, correct? What about hebrews chapter 2? Let's see, he's speaking to a church, he must not be speaking to people who know about salvation, or that have professed it... What does Jesus mean when he speaks of being the vine in John 15? For we know if we are "in jesus" then we are saved, correct? Whom does this judgement refer to then? Those who are a part of the vine of Jesus but are adulturers and thieves and liars and never truly been saved? It refers to Christians who aren't doing the will of God, doesn't it? In order for God's truth to be God's truth the whole Bible has to work doesn't it? Do we get off easy simply because we look back to Christ's sacrifice, while the people of the old testament had it hard because they only looked forward to Christ's sacrifice? This is the very thrust of Hebrews! God's message then was binding, God's message now is binding. Christ says he didn't come to abolish the law but to fulfill it! No more sacrifices have to be made to atone for sin because Jesus was the whole point of what those sacrifices represented! However, God's character still remains in that Jesus commanded us to love one another! Guess what...you can't love someone and commit adultry with them, or lie or steal from them! These are the best ways I know how to explain it. When you read the Bible, I believe your physical body should tremble with fear, for it is sinful! Paul says to examine yourselves with fear and trembling... Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, 13for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose. You have to ask yourself, if you're once saved always saved, why does the Bible constantly warn you not to sin? For Paul says this: 24Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. 25Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. 26Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air. 27No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize. When I sit down and read the Bible, this is the message I see portrayed. I post to this board in essence to test what I believe has been given me of God. If you should prove me wrong, that I have wrongfully interpreted, then so be it, I will change my thought to match that of God! Likewise, I would expect only the same from any of you! --Your brother in Christ |
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8 | DOES GOING 2 CHURCH SAVE U? | Acts 16:31 | TruthInGod | 193764 | ||
My dear friend, if you don't make it to church on a Sunday you are not condemned to go to Hell...it sounds like you are a little bitter about this situation, huh? Lol! First of all, we need to understand that Church in the bible doesn't reference a building or a special place but a body of 'believers' Go here: http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/dictionaries/ Look up church, and find church in the list. It will help you define what a church really is. However, the Bible does counsel us to meet together as believers, for our own benifit. Nowhere, that I know of, does it say that if we don't meet together we can't be saved! However, active rebellion against the spirit in you, if it is leading you to go to church, is never a good thing! (Hebrews 10) 25Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. Sometimes people say some pretty horrible things, and sometimes people interpret what people say wrongfully. Always take into consideration that perhaps you misunderstood, unless it was very obviously stated! If that is the case, then forgive! |
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9 | DOES GOING 2 CHURCH SAVE U? | Acts 16:31 | TruthInGod | 193765 | ||
My dear friend, if you don't make it to church on a Sunday you are not condemned to go to Hell...it sounds like you are a little bitter about this situation, huh? Lol! First of all, we need to understand that Church in the bible doesn't reference a building or a special place but a body of 'believers' Go here: http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/dictionaries/ Look up church, and find church in the list. It will help you define what a church really is. However, the Bible does counsel us to meet together as believers, for our own benifit. Nowhere, that I know of, does it say that if we don't meet together we can't be saved! However, active rebellion against the spirit in you, if it is leading you to go to church, is never a good thing! (Hebrews 10) 25Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. Sometimes people say some pretty horrible things, and sometimes people interpret what people say wrongfully. Always take into consideration that perhaps you misunderstood, unless it was very obviously stated! If that is the case, then forgive! |
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10 | How is Holy Spirit imbued? | Rom 8:9 | TruthInGod | 193772 | ||
I see in the Bible that there were instances where people had not yet recieved the Holy Spirit but they had confessed Jesus as Lord...(Acts 8:15-17) and they had even been baptized! My question is this...is there elsewhere in the Bible that states you can recieve the Holy Spirit without laying on of hands? In acts, I always see only the Apostles imbuing the Holy Spirit... |
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11 | Christians living together outside of ma | 1 Corinthians | TruthInGod | 194120 | ||
I have to say this, PutGodFirst. I believe, from the information you've given, that with such an outright rebellion from your child that he is doing wrong. Are you doing wrong by showing your disapproval? I don't think so. For Paul says to the Corinthians to expel thy immoral brother! However, I also have to take this into account. I believe it to be true of most Christians, but I will not say for all because I do believe in the rare Christian who truly does abstain from outright rebellious sin. I have had outright open rebellion against God in my life. Yes adultry, yes drugs, yes lying. Perhaps you will desregard my message because of that? I hope not. The point I have to make is this...if my in-laws had refrained from my wedding because of my adultry, I would have been hurt. But because I have the Spirit of God I would have seen that they were only doing what God asked. If your son wanted to give everything to God and truly do his will, he would submit to what you have asked, and that is seperate housing accomodations. I asked for my wife's hand in marriage, and listened when they said to wait another year. Instead, he has tried to justify himself with lies. So what if he's not actually sinning and adulterating, the impression he gives says otherwise, and is thus disregarding the Lord! People say that what you're doing isn't showing love. However, the rebellious child in the old testament was to be put to death. I suppose God didn't show love? The openly rebellious "Christian" in the new church is to be booted out and excommunicated. I think we try to look at only the ooshy gooshy love song part of God's love, and try to forget that love has to be fair, just, and even harsh sometimes. However, if your son does repent after being married, I believe your relationship should return to normal. |
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