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1 | Isn't God sovereign? | Bible general Archive 1 | bartay | 5744 | ||
I do not believe that God gave us free will. Free will is the motivating power that drives sin. If God gave to man, namely Adam and Eve and all prodigy after, freewill to choose, surely freewill must be another name for disobedience of God's command and law. There is no mention in scripture that man has been given freewill to do what he likes; in fact just the opposite is the case. God didn't say, you can choose to obey or not, He gave an ultimatum, if you don't obey you will die. There is no choice in that, it is a command, and was the first and only law that God implemented. It is the spiritual law. If one sees disobeying God as freewill, then obviously we have an awful lot of freewill sinners. For not only is freewill another name for disobeying God, but is also another name for sin. If one obeys, this first law God implemented for man, one has no need of any other laws, outside of that initial law. This law in the Garden was the first great law Jesus spoke of; to love God with all your heart, and have no other god's you obey; freewill makes a mockery of obedience, for it is another god which we obey, the god of self which is at enmity with God. For we are all carnal sold under sin. (Romans 7:14) Romans 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. Therefore, because the pair in the Garden did not keep God's law, they were of a carnal mind, which is at enmity with God. |
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2 | Is God responsible for evil? | Bible general Archive 1 | bartay | 5745 | ||
The responsibility for evil, or sin, does not lie with God. The true source for evil happened before the Garden, and the forming of the two who fell. There was a war in Heaven in which Lucifer, and a third of the Angels, rebelled against God's authority. Because there was no evil, or sin, up to this time, there was no law or penelty for the evil created. So if sin was in the world before the law was given, and sin is not imputed where there is no law,(Romans 5:13) then the law God implemented in the Garden must have been put in place because of original sin. How does God deal with sin? First one must repent, obey God's instructions to receive eternal life, and become one with Christ. If the pair in the Garden were of the nature of Lucifer before the law given, then the law given was to bring repentance, through obedience to God's instruction, to not eat of the tree. If they obeyed they could have eternal life by being able to eat of the tree of life. Their failure to do what God instructed, banished them from the Garden. Jesus had this same temptation in the wilderness with Satan. Satan said if you are hungry eat, by making bread out of the stones. God said to Adam do not eat from the tree. Jesus said that man must live by the word of God alone, which Adam didn't as he denied the word of God. Satan again said to Jesus, throw yourself off this high pinnacle and you will not die. The Serpent said to Eve, eat of the tree you will not die. Jesus answered, you shall not tempt the Lord thy God. Adam did tempt the Lord ignoring the consequences for disobeying the word of the Lord, in the day that you eat of it you will die. The third temptation Satan tried on Jesus was to worship him (Satan) and he would give him (Jesus) to reign supreme over all the kingdoms of the earth. The Serpent said to Eve, you will be like God, knowing good from evil. Jesus answered, you will worship the Lord your God, and only he shall you serve. Eve took the worship of self by believing she could be as God knowing good from evil, and then served Adam with the temptation of eating from the tree. |
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3 | do we have any free will? | Bible general Archive 1 | bartay | 5750 | ||
If we are sinning, we are the angels of Satan. Scripture tells us that Jesus told the Pharesees that they belonged to their father the Devil. The Pharesees were sinning because they had taken God's laws and commands and twisted them to suit their own ideals. 1John 3:8 says, He who commits sin is of the Devil; for the Devil has sinned from the beginning. The choice to sin does not have its source in the Holy Spirit. If we are taking our own willed decisions to sin then the question of do we have free will is answered. The real question should have been should we have free will. To be saved by grace through faith is determined by our obedience to God's way to receive salvation. The giving of grace, which I believe is the giving of the Spirit to live within us, evidences the love of God for us, and his love for others by our fruits of the Spirit. We cannot bring any of the fruits of the Spirit to bear through our own willed wisdom. These must be implemented by the Spirit who dwells within us, who knows the mind of the Father. Jesus said it all at Gethsemene when he called out to the Father, not my will, but thine be done. |
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4 | Church should be on Saturday, Sabbath? | Bible general Archive 1 | bartay | 58589 | ||
Colossians 2:16 ¶Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: bartay |
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5 | for today | OT general | bartay | 58587 | ||
Toungues, being a part of the Gifts given to believers for ministry must be for today or anyother day. To use the prayer language of the Holy Spirit, for we know not what to pray, is very uplifting. Romans 8:26 ¶Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. Bartay |
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6 | Were Eve's desires sinful? | Gen 3:6 | bartay | 5322 | ||
The sin the pair in the Garden committed was not so much eating of the tree, this was the end result of the sin, the sin was disobedience to God's command. Thou shalt not eat of the tree, and their disbelief in the consequences that God said would happen. They disbelieved the Lord, but believed the Serpent that they would not die, and in fact would be as great as God if they did eat. Using their own self willed wisdom, they believed the Serpent, and so rebelled against God. The only sin man can commit against God is disobedience. The other things man sees as sin are but the end result of disobedience. Jesus temptation was different because he believed God and his word, and so was not rebellious by deciding his own free willed thoughts. He in fact controlled his natural desire to save his own skin, knowing that God's word is undisputable. Not my will but thine. bartay |
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7 | Is Isaiah 14:12 relating to the fall of | Is 14:12 | bartay | 2297 | ||
King James relates this star of the morning as applying to Lucifer. Why hasn't the other versions also named this morning star as Lucifer? |
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8 | Is Lucifer Satan? | Is 14:12 | bartay | 2301 | ||
Isaiah 14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! King James relates this star of the morning as applying to Lucifer. It appears to support the theory that before the rebellion in Heaven Lucifer was the top Angel. His transgression earned him banishment from Heaven to the earth, where because of his adverse conflict with God, he was renamed Satan, or an enemy of God. There is another portion of scripture from 2 Peter 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; Jude 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Matthew 25:41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: All of these verses seem to indicate that Lucifer, who was banished to the earth with a third of the Angels, and Satan, or the Devil, are one and the same character. |
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9 | what God says about divorse/remarriage | Matt 5:31 | bartay | 2304 | ||
Matthew 5:31 It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: 5:32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery. Jesus said that there was no excuse for divorce except adultery being committed. If you both are Christians then you must believe that it is God who has joined you together and no man must put that joining asunder. Paul spoke of one other reason for divorce which is if a believer is married to an unbeliever, and the unbeliever wishes to leave the marriage then it is alright to do so. 1 Corinthians 7:11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife. 12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. 13 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him. 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. 15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace. I am quite sure that God would not have instructed your wife to obtain a divorce, and for her to say so goes against all scripture relating to marriage instituted by God. |
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10 | How do you know you have the Holy Ghost? | Acts 19:2 | bartay | 5324 | ||
It is not possible to be saved without the baptism in the Holy Spirit. Jesus said ye cannot enter the Kingdom unless you are born anew. Born of water and Spirit. The born again experience is witnessed by the fact of the Holy Spirit working in ones life to produce the fruits of the Spirit, or righteousness. If one's life has not changed from the old life, then there has been no grace extended, and without grace you haven't been saved. bartay |
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11 | How do you know you have the Holy Ghost? | Acts 19:2 | bartay | 5651 | ||
If you are still living in sin, you have not the Holy Spirit dwelling within you. For to still be a sinner and proclaiming the power of God through His Spirit living within you, is claiming the Spirit is a sinner also. To become “born anew,” is to be born into a new family, the family of God. God becomes our Father, Father in the real sense of the word; we must have a close relationship with Him as we do our own fathers, at some stage of our lives. And this relationship is the basis of, “being born again”; for to be, “saved from our sin”, (Matthew 1:21) which is what Christ came to save us from, and not, “saved in our sin”, which many believe as the truth. The sin, which Christ came to save us from is, being unable to follow God, and His ways, in our own human nature; it is not possible in our own strength to follow God, but He, God, made this possible through the relationship we become to Him, through Jesus; for we must put off of our own fleshy desires, to be self- sufficient, and instead put on the flesh of Jesus, (Galatians 3:27) which makes us rely on God completely, because it is only through this mystery of Spirit, accomplished by God for us, that is obedience to God even unto death. (Hebrews 5:7-10) For obedience is the key of a relationship with God, as Adam and Eve’s story so amply portrays it to us, so as we put to death our old man of sin in sacrifice to God, we are raised up as a new creature of God; for he who is willing to be dead to the old nature of following the Devil, is set free from the penalty of the sin of following Satan and not God. Romans 6:4-8 We were buried therefore with Him by the baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious [power] of the Father, so we too might [habitually] live and behave in newness of life. For if we have become one with Him by sharing a death like His, we shall also be [one with Him in sharing] His resurrection [by a new life lived for God]. We know that our old (unrenewed) self was nailed to the cross with Him in order that [our] body [which is the instrument] of sin might be made ineffective and inactive for evil, that we might no longer be the slaves of sin. When we put on the Lord Jesus, (Romans 13-14) we become, in the eyes of God, His only begotten Son, as we are hid in Jesus before God. (Colossians 3:3) bartay |
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12 | How do you know you have the Holy Ghost? | Acts 19:2 | bartay | 5685 | ||
You say; 1) Neither "a close relationship with Him (God)" nor our obedience can save us. We are saved by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone (Rom 3:28; Eph 2:8-9; John 5:24). (Answer) Scripture tells us that Abraham was declared righteous because he believed, and obeyed God. Abraham certainly had a close relationship with God, because God spoke to him, and Abraham obeyed him. (Romans 4:9) Romans 4:13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. God chose us, because he loved us. If this is not a close relationship that God desires from those he chooses, then I do not know what would be? Before we knew God or Jesus, God had already chosen those who would receive the grace to become sons of God. 1 John 4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. John 17:6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. Grace is the working of the Holy Spirit in ones life You say; 2) Salvation is conditioned solely on faith in Jesus Christ. Nearly 200 times faith, or belief, is stated as THE SINGLE CONDITION in the NT (John 1:12; Acts 16:31). (Answer) The faith needed, to believe in grace to save, was also given by God to those whom he chose to become sons. It is not our measure of faith that brings grace, for it to be so it would cause us to be able to boast in our own achievement of attaining grace through our own self actions. Romans 12:3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. So to believe that my self willed faith in Jesus Christ will save me is not enough. If God has not given the measure of faith to believe, then your faith is not acceptable You say; 3) A close relationship with God and obedience are the RESULT, not the CAUSE of salvation. (Answer) Are you then saying that through some endeavour of our own we can have a close relationship with God which results in salvation. There is nothing we can do to bring about a result of being saved. Shall we say then that the rich young man, who was obedient to the keeping of all the commandments, and so believed he had a close relationship with God, resulted in him being saved? No it didn’t, because the cause for salvation is following the sacrifice for salvation, Jesus Christ. Then there was the ones who believed they were prophesying, casting out demons, and doing many wonderful works, in Jesus name. The result of all their works was not salvation, but condemnation. However, according to your premise, that a close relationship and obedience should have resulted in these people attaining salvation, did not happen. To look for the result rather than the cause, is putting the cart before the horse. Matthew 7:20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. 21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. The cause for being saved has already been implemented by God, and so no result of man’s endeavour can bring it to fruition. The result of being saved, is righteousness being seen, by the fruits of the Spirit shining forth from the individual. You say; 4) The phrase "living in sin" occurs nowhere in either the KJV, ASV, RSV, NASB, or NKJV. (Answer) Living in sin was not my expression. I was just making the point that if one has been saved, it is saved from sin by Jesus Christ. (Matthew 1:21) To carry on declaring I am a sinner, but I’m saved, is a contradictory statement. If I am saved, what am I saved from if I do not believe my old life of sin has disappeared. Bartay |
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13 | Should homosexuals be ordained? | Rom 1:27 | bartay | 5753 | ||
Should a murderer be ordained? Or a thief? To ordain someone who is clearly adverse to the laws and commands of the Lord, is heritical. A former homosexual, who has repented of the past, and been reborn of the Spirit, is no longer a homosexual, and as such is no longer banned from obtaining a position in God's Church. We all at one time were as bad as a homosexual, separated from God by sin. Our repentance brought the new birth, putting to death our old man of sin, and allowing us a sonship role with God. |
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14 | Not my will? | Rom 5:6 | bartay | 5741 | ||
The predestination is a calling of God to those whom he has chosen to be called. He says, if you eat of the tree of life, and ignore the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you will live. If you decide to disregard what I am telling you, and decide that you through your own wisdom can live forever, you will die. To believe anything, or anyone, besides God, will result in eternal death. So predestination is not just being called, but believing the path the Lord directs to obtain eternal life, is the only way. To try and use self willed knowledge to obtain eternal life will bring failure. So it is thy will be done. I would rather be a eternal puppet serving the Lord, than a lost for all eternity self willed person. bartay |
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15 | So? | Rom 5:6 | bartay | 5757 | ||
The calling of God is determined through the input of the Holy Spirit. To try and reach the stage that brings salvation by any other way, or means, will not result in the fruits of the Spirit being evident in ones life. Unless a new direction is being realised within your inner, and outer man, then there is something not right with the walk you are having with Jesus Christ. Many believe, through man's teaching, that the path they are treading is the one Jesus walked, but man is more times than not wrong, and it should be your own Spirit walk which determines the truth. So though many are called, few are chosen, (Matthew 22:14) because the truth is not in them. If God is not walking the walk, and talking the talk, through the indwelling Spirit, then we are walking and talking aimlessly. |
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16 | Not my will? | Rom 5:6 | bartay | 5793 | ||
If predestination inevitably leads to regeneration, (I imagine you mean rebirth) and belief in Christ. Why then do we have the scripture that many are called but few are chosen? (Matthew 22:14)This would seem to me to be saying that all who are called, (predestined) will not be chosen because of unbelief. We also have those who come to Christ believing they were entitled to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. They said, Lord, Lord, we have prophesied, cast out demons, and done many wonderful things in your name. Jesus said, get away from me, I never knew you; depart from me you evildoers bartay |
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17 | Not my will? | Rom 5:6 | bartay | 58370 | ||
Are you then saying that if Jesus had decided to choose to not die, God's plan for the restoration of his creation would have then failed? I believe that Jesus choice was not a free will decision, it had already been decided what would prevail. Jesus always followed the Fathers commands, and to die was one of those commands. For us to follow Jesus we also must already have this direction, of not my will but yours, implanted within us. This can only be done through the Holy Spirit influencing our wills. Barry |
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18 | Not my will? | Rom 5:6 | bartay | 58585 | ||
When God formed Adam from the dust of the ground, Adam had no input into whether he was to be formed or not. This was God’s choice entirely. Adam had no free will input into the decision. When Adam was placed into the Garden, this also was God’s choice and Adam had no participation into this decision either. Adam’s sojourn in the Garden was going along splendidly it wasn’t until Eve was made from the bone and flesh of Adam that the wheels began to fall off. Eve decided, through free will thought, that God’s command was something that didn’t need to be heeded to, and so instead she obeyed the promptings of the Serpent. Again this was not a free will decision the actual thoughts for the disobedience came from the Serpent. This was the first step towards being expelled from God’s presence. The second, and final step was Adam also being coerced into using his free willed thinking to obey the woman and disobey God. The scriptures encourage us to be servants or slaves to God and his commands. Romans 6:22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. A servant does not use his own willed thoughts to serve, but does the bidding of him whom he serves. We are not only encouraged to be a servant to God but also to one another. This would seem to persuade against using free will to serve. Eve’s disobedience, in the Garden, was not a free will attempt at using her own mind to sum things up. It was a rebellious act of disobeying God, and allowing the promptings of the Devil (Serpent) to rule in her mind. She had shaken off the servitude to God and his righteousness, and instead chosen to become a servant to Satan. Romans 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? There is only two powers at war in this our world. One is God the other is Satan. Man has no free willed power to shape anything in this world, for him or for others; all influence comes from one or the other of these powers Romans 6:17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. Romans 6:18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. It would appear that so-called free will thinking is another word for rebellion against God and his word. The choice of obeying the Serpent and so disobeying God brings eternal death to those who profess the right. Our freedom in Christ is being a servant, and a servant obeys without choice. 1 Corinthians 7:22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant. Barry |
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19 | Not my will? | Rom 5:6 | bartay | 58645 | ||
There is no point carrying on with this discussion as it is very apparent that your feminest leanings will cancell out any meaningful discussion | ||||||
20 | Not my will? | Rom 5:6 | bartay | 58748 | ||
If I was wrong I apoligise. However, by the tone of your last note it certainly appeared to be gender slanted rather than holisticly human. The whole free will debate revolves around man being an independant participater in the fight between good and evil. This is not true, either we do what God wants of us or we die being a servant to Satanic law. Jesus when he was tempted by the Devil had no choice to make. Because he was from God he was naturally going to do what God wanted of him. If he did decide to make a choice it would have been to go along with the Devils' temptations. However because he didn't give in to temptation, because he was following God, there was no choice to make. If however he decided by using his own mind, rather than God's scriptures in his word, to succumb to the temptation, then he would have been sinning. Which concludes that free will thinking is sinful because it goes against God's will. |
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