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Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Author: djconklin Ordered by Verse |
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1 | John used the Book of Enoch? | Not Specified | djconklin | 67047 | ||
Does anyone know of any online commentaries on the book of Revelation? Or, would you happen to know of any support for the claim that John used the Book of Enoch? |
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2 | When did the catholic church go wrong? | Bible general Archive 1 | djconklin | 25962 | ||
"If you can believe it I met a Senior High School teacher that was bragging that he had never read a complete book!" Ed, I had somewhat a similar experience. When I finished the seminary and came home my sister handed me a book about women's ordination and wanted to know what I thought about it. She said that both her and the elder of the church had read it. So, I glanced through it and looked it over carefully--how do two people manage to read a book and never underline or highlight anything, make no notes in the margins, and never even bend the binding on a paperback book? When I pointed that out to her she admitted that she had only glanced through it--and this from one who has an MBA and is now working on a masters in another field! She should know better! |
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3 | did the wine from the water make you dr | Bible general Archive 1 | djconklin | 28266 | ||
Grape juice can be preserved if it is dipped into well water and held there. Ancient people knew what to do to preserve grape juice and other products (tho' obviously not as well as refrigerators and freezers of today): "Columella, a renowned agriculturalist who lived in the first century A.D. In his treatise On Agriculture and Trees, Columella discusses at great length the various methods used by different people to preserve such produce as lettuce, onions, apples, pears, berries, plums, figs, olives, unfermented grape juice and fermented wine." from Bacchicocchi's book about wine in the Bible (http://www.biblicalperspectives.com/books/wine_in_the_bible/3.html). To fully answer the original question one must understand the culture of the day and what was meant by "the good wine" of John 2:10. |
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4 | What about those who never heard of JC ? | Bible general Archive 1 | djconklin | 30937 | ||
The only way people can and will be saved is through Jesus Christ. That is the message of Scripture. The Bible does not attribute any magical properties to the name of Jesus. On your next trip to the library do a search for the book entitled Through No Fault of Their Own? I highly recommend that everyone read it. | ||||||
5 | How many authors wrote the Bible? | Bible general Archive 1 | djconklin | 30938 | ||
About 35-40; for some books we quite simply do not know who wrote it. For instance, tradition says that Moses wrote the book of Job. | ||||||
6 | Who is Israel? | Bible general Archive 1 | djconklin | 30939 | ||
The Christian church is now spiritual Israel. So we can claim all the promises that wre made to the physical Israel--expect the answer to also be spiritual in nature, in the sense that we will not physically possess the land of Israel in this world--that will be in the world to come! | ||||||
7 | which bible translation is true? | Bible general Archive 1 | djconklin | 32074 | ||
I had a prof who when we turned to our Bibles he read straight from the Greek text and translated as he went--just about as fast as we could read in English. He told us that if we practiced 15 minutes a day we could keep our Greek up. | ||||||
8 | which bible translation is true? | Bible general Archive 1 | djconklin | 32077 | ||
Those who have studied the various translations say that there's only about 50 texts in which there is any major difference and none of them affect any doctrine. | ||||||
9 | which bible translation is true? | Bible general Archive 1 | djconklin | 32198 | ||
Has it been a long time since you were taught Greek? Or, are you like me and the ol' bod just can't keep up anymore! | ||||||
10 | The ol' bod is too slow! :-) | Bible general Archive 1 | djconklin | 32224 | ||
And weak and takes too long to recoup! | ||||||
11 | "And Cain knew his wife..." | OT general | djconklin | 25861 | ||
We can also note that part of the "curse" placed on Eve as result of her sin was that the pain of child-bearing would "increase" ("greatly multiply" in Gen 3:16 (KJV))--how could the pain "increase" if she had never given birth before? | ||||||
12 | "And Cain knew his wife..." | OT general | djconklin | 25981 | ||
"I interpret this verse as saying (God speaking), "The pain that I had originally intended for women to experience during child bearing will increase.."" Aren't there ways of saying that? I just worked with what the text said. |
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13 | You shall not Murder, then told too?? | OT general | djconklin | 30941 | ||
In context, Jesus was telling his disciples that if they lacked faith in His ability to provide for their needs then they should buy a sword and thus use it to take what they needed--note that none of them ever did such a thing. | ||||||
14 | How was books in KJV compiled? | OT general | djconklin | 30942 | ||
Madhu, I know of no incident reflecting confusion over the books of the Bible during the time of Christ or during the apostolic era. They recognized which were the books that God had ordained for us and which were not. |
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15 | You shall not Murder, then told too?? | OT general | djconklin | 31366 | ||
Think about it: how could two swords (whatever length) be enough for 12 disciples? And what would they be used for? | ||||||
16 | You shall not Murder, then told too?? | OT general | djconklin | 31623 | ||
If they were 12 "strong men" with two swords then why would they hide as they did after the death of Jesus? The Zealots were much better armed and they took on the Romans. Given the context about going out and being supplied by faith divine grace woould provide them with the necessary provisions it is far more likely that Jesus was basically saying that if you don't have faith then with the sword you could take what ever you thought you would need. I forget which commentary I read that in. Perhaps if you looked you'd find it (I just got up from a half sleep after a 16 hour shift so I'm still brain-dead here.). | ||||||
17 | You shall not Murder, then told too?? | OT general | djconklin | 31876 | ||
"I will remain adamant, however, that our Lord would not, and even could not, advocate the sin of breaking both the 6th and the 8th commandments in the taking of "necessities" by force with a sword." Jesus wasn't advocating anything like that. Unfortunately, the disciples (as usual) misinterpreted what He meant. The passage has nothing to do with self-defense and given that the disciples split up sometime after the Ascension 2 sowrds would hardly have afforded adequate protection against anyone who was deteremined to rob or attack any of them--note that virtually all labor back then (except for Luke the physician and Matthew the tax collector) was manual labor--so virtually all males were phiscally fit (no couch potatoes!) |
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18 | You shall not Murder, then told too?? | OT general | djconklin | 31920 | ||
You didn't read closely what I wrote--note the word "if". If one lacks faith then one isn't a believer right? Whatever is not of faith is sin? From what we are given in the account there were only two swords amongst all of the 12 disciples. |
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19 | what was the origine of sunday worship? | NT general Archive 1 | djconklin | 27914 | ||
Paul said even in his day that devil was already at work trying to corrupt the church--witness the troubles he had just with the Judaizers! Others can show specific quotes from Justin Martyr, etc. on how they viewed the Sabbath issue--which is very relevant for it shows how iniquity was at work within the church at a very early time. It appears from all of the available evidence that 1) the Sabbath was kept by most Christians down till at least the 5th century, and 2) that Sunday keeping came in at least as early as 135 A.D. as a way of dstinguishing Christians from the Jews (see Justin, etc.) during one of the Jewish revolts. It was the practice generally of the Eastern Churches; and some churches of the West ... For in the Church of Millaine ; ... it seemes the Saturday was held in a farre esteeme ... Not that the Easterne Churches, or any of the rest which observed that day were inclined to Iudaisme ; but that they came together on the Sabbath day, to worship Iesus Christ the Lord of the Sabbath (Dr. Peter Heylyn History of the Sabbath, London 1636, Part 2, para. 5, pp. 73-74; original spelling retained). If you study the history of the Christian church in Ireland and Ethiopia you'll find that they kept the Sabbath (until the RCC found out about it). Sidonius says that under Theodoric the Goth in 454-526: It is a fact that it was formerly the custom in the East to keep the Sabbath in the same manner as the Lord's day and to hold sacred assemblies: while on the other hand, the people of the West, contending for the Lord's day have neglected the celebration of the Sabbath (Apollinaris Sidonii Epistolææ, lib. 1,2; Migne, 57). Reading canon 26 of the Council of Elvira (c. 305), it appears that the Church in Spain had kept the Sabbath. The Sabbath-keeping Churches in Persia underwent forty years of persecution under Shapur II, from 335-375 specifically, because they were Sabbath-keeping. They despise our sun-god. Did not Zoroaster, the sainted founder of our divine beliefs, institute Sunday one thousand years ago in honour of the sun and supplant the Sabbath of the Old Testament. Yet these Christians have divine services on Saturday (O'Leary The Syriac Church and Fathers, pp. 83-84, requoted Truth Triumphant p. 170). This persecution was mirrored in the west by the Council of Laodicea (c. 366). Hefele notes: Canon 16 - The Gospels along with other Scripture be read on the Sabbath (cf. also canons 49 and 51, Bacchiocchi, fn. 15, p. 217). Canon 29 - Christians must not Judaize by resting on the Sabbath, but must work on that day honouring rather the Lord's day by resting, if possible, as Christians. However if any shall be found judaizing, let them be anathema for Christ (Mansi, II, pp. 569-570, see also Hefele Councils, Vol. 2, b. 6). Socrates the Historian (writing in the late 4th century (305-438)) says: Such is the difference in the churches on the subject of fasts. Nor is there less variation in regard to religious assemblies. For although almost all Churches throughout the world celebrate the sacred mysteries on the sabbath of every week, yet the Christians of Alexandria and Rome, on account of some ancient tradition, have ceased to do this (Socrates, Ecclesiastical History, Bk 5, Ch. 22, p. 289). @ http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-02/TOC.htm and Salaminius Hermias Sozomen (died probably in 447 or 448): "Assemblies are not held in all churches on the same time or manner. The people of Constantinople, and almost everywhere, assemble together on the Sabbath, as well as on the first day of the week, which custom is never observed at Rome or at Alexandria." Ecclesiastical History, Book 7, chapter 19 @ http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-02/TOC.htm The Sabbath was observed into the fifth century by Christianity (Lyman Coleman Ancient Christianity Exemplified, Ch. 26, Sec. 2, p. 527). Certainly, as at the time of Jerome (420), the devoutest Christians did ordinary work on Sunday (Dr. White, bishop of Ely, Treatise of the Sabbath Day, p. 219). Augustine of Hippo, a devout Sunday keeper, attested that the Sabbath was observed in the greater part of the Christian world (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (NPNF), First Series, Vol. 1, pp. 353-354) and deplored the fact that in two neighbouring Churches in Africa, one observed the seventh day Sabbath, while another fasted on it (Peter Heylyn, op. cit., p. 416). The Churches generally held the Sabbath for some time. The ancient Christians were very careful in the observation of Saturday, or the seventh day ... It is plain that all the Oriental churches, and the greatest part of the world, observed the Sabbath as a festival ... Athanasius likewise tells us that they held religious assemblies on the Sabbath, not because they were infected with Judaism, but to worship Jesus, the Lord of the Sabbath, Epiphanius says the same (Antiquities of the Christian Church, Vol. II, Bk. xx, Ch. 3, Sec 1, 66. 1137,1136). |
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20 | WHO WROTE THE GOSPLES? THE APOSLES? | NT general Archive 1 | djconklin | 28260 | ||
The tradition of the authorship of the Gospels has a sound historical basis. For more details see a short study (The Dating and Authorship of the Synoptic Gospels) at http://biblestudy.iwarp.com/ | ||||||
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