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101 | Am I getting this right??? | Bible general Archive 1 | Reformer Joe | 67924 | ||
Hey again! You wrote: "If I have this right, when someone says that some are predestined and some are not. What you are saying is that God has known from the beginning who would chose to follow him and who would not." Well, some of us here are saying that God has chosen from the beginning, from all of us who have earned hell, those He would save. That is the essence of the disagreement. You also wrote: "What I had a problem with is some of the post that eluded that there are some that are not capable of chosing Christ even if they wanted to." Oh, no one here is saying that. No one who holds to a biblical view of predestination believes that God turns away those who want to be saved, or that he brings anyone kicking and screaming into His household. At the starting point, NO ONE wants to be saved on God's terms. We are all by nature children of wrath, as Ephesians 2:3 says. So, all unsaved people, every last one of them, WANTS to reject the gospel. And they will get what they want. However, those whom God has chosen for salvation are persuaded supernaturally so that they WANT to repent and trust in Jesus Christ. And these, in turn get what THEY want. The God who predestines changes the minds of His chosen people at some point in the course of their lives so that they freely come to the Cross. All the rest will willingly reject the Cross. I think I have used up my "Calvinist quota" for this month in these two posts, so I will point you to a more thorough explanation of the Reformed position and let you evaluate the arguments for yourself. Even if you end up disagreeing with the position, it is good to have it straight what you are disagreeing with. http://www.desiringgod.org/library/topics/doctrines_grace/tulip.html Feel free to email me off-list if you have any specific questions, too! --Joe! |
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102 | Only 144,000 to asend to heaven? | Rev 7:9 | Reformer Joe | 67679 | ||
Revelation is a hard book to tackle, as it contains very symbolic prophecy. The 144,000 (whether that is a literal number or a figurative one) is talking about the Jewish people (the twelve tribes). For a preview of what is going to happen to all believers in Jesus Christ, I recommend reading 1 Corinthians 15. It is a much more concrete depiction of the universal resurrection at the end of the age. I am delighted to hear that you have been attending church! Perhaps you could share a little bit of that with us by making a profile and telling us your background and where you are going now. --Joe! |
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103 | Is God's will prosperity/healing always? | Rom 8:28 | Reformer Joe | 67564 | ||
A God who does not get what He wants because of the decisions of human beings not to "receive it" would be a very weak God indeed. We do not "unlock" God's power. If God's true desire is for people to possess material wealth, then someone had better explain that to faithful Christians in the poorest Third World countries how they are living out of God's will. People should have explained to Paul that rather than collecting offerings from richer churches to help poorer churches, that he should have smiled and told the poorer churches to "claim their blessing." And all those great people of faith in church history who died of diseases! If only some "enlightened" Christian from the 21st century had told them it didn't have to be that way! It is indeed God's will that poverty be relieved -- by means of Christians (Acts 20:35; Romans 15:26; Galatians 2:10; James 2:2-6,16). The Christian life is not to be one of accumulation of wealth (Matthew 16:26; Matthew 19:21; Luke 12:33), but one of generosity (1 Timothy 6:17-19). And health is not guaranteed. Timothy was instructed to treat his ailment rather than to claim deliverance from it (1 Timothy 5:23). Epaphroditus recovered from his sickness which almost led to death. Did he not know to name it and claim it before it got that bad? Maybe Paul didn;t instruct him in the faith well enough (Philippians 2:25-27). The bottom line is that the prosperity gospel is not biblical, nor was it taught at all in church history until the 20th century. Did all of God's great preachers and teachers for 1900 years just miss this teaching which is so central to much of materialistic American evangelicalism today? I think not. --Joe! |
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104 | Does God help those that help themselves | John 15:5 | Reformer Joe | 67554 | ||
That's because it is not there. "He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, But he who walks wisely will be delivered." --Proverbs 28:26 --Joe! |
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105 | Immaculate Conception, mary, how? | 1 John 1:8 | Reformer Joe | 67378 | ||
Yes. It is not taught in Scripture, is part of Roman Catholic tradition, and is not true. --Joe! |
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106 | god owes us salvation by our works? | Titus 3:5 | Reformer Joe | 67330 | ||
No, we have earned hell by our deeds (Romans 6:23). Salvation is a gift of God (Romans 3:23-24; Romans 6:23; Ephesians 2:8-9). --Joe! |
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107 | What is the people sin? | NT general Archive 1 | Reformer Joe | 67265 | ||
You wrote: "God created lucifer that become an opposser of Him. This person satan tempted man and fell. Is this look like we are a victim here, being created is not our request, but if you are been created you have the chance of being tormented in hell if you dont follow God's commandments." A couple of points to clarify: 1. No one MADE Adam and Eve sin. Nor are we victims when we sin. We sin because we want to sin. 2. If the way to stay out of hell is by following God's commandments, then we are all going to hell (Romans 3:23). You wrote: " It is God created everything, nobody requested Him to do all this things. If He did not created the man no one will suffer now or after life." You are correct that no one asked God to create them (a logical impossibility, in any case). God is the sovereign ruler of all things and does what He wills. "But our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases." --Psalm 115:3 "Whatever the LORD pleases, He does, In heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps." --Psalm 135:6 'You will say to me then, "Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?" On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, "Why did you make me like this," will it? Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use? What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory, even us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles.' --Romans 9:19-24 You wrote: "So what is my sin, He created me but I did not requested Him to create me. Why do I have to suffer, it is not my idea to be created." Again, it does not make sense to say, "I didn't ask to be created." If you were able to ask such a thing, that would mean that you already existed. Secondly, what makes you think that God, the Creator, needs your permission (part of the creation) to do anything? As for your sin, it is the same as mine, and you mentioned it already. We rebel against the sovereign King of the universe, not doing what He tells us to do and doing what He tells us not to do. That is the definition of sin, and its wages are death (Romans 6:23). The good news is that the God who judges us guilty is also the God who was pleased to send His Son Jesus Christ to live the perfect life that we do not live, to pay the penalty of the sin of all those who trust in Him by means of His death on the Cross, and to rise again to demonstrate that that penalty is paid and that all Christians, like Christ himself, will be raised to newness of life. So God is not just the author of life; He is the author of salvation as well. --Joe! |
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108 | Submit . . . unless it hurts? | Eph 5:33 | Reformer Joe | 66559 | ||
You wrote: 'Maybe you all can help me with this. If I remember correctly, Job "submitted" to the Lord, saying, "Though He slay me, yet will I serve Him." If he didn't say that, please correct me (or tell me who did say it.) Or, if that wasn't submission, what is submission?' Job did say that, and we can call it submission. One needs to remember that God is sinless and that there was purpose in suffering for Job. A husband is a human being, and for one sinful human being to mistreat another is against God's law. "Please help me see where scripture relieves a wife of the resposibility under God to submit to her husband because it pains, injures, or even kills her. Isn't a husband (or wife) to submit to the Lord that way?" It is the responsibility of the church to look after the well-being of its members and to discipline sinners (which would include the husband if he is a professing Christian). It is the responsibility of the state to punish evildoers, and they have been given authority by God to do so (Romans 13). The wife should never keep silent about her husband's sin in this area, because there are God-ordained means for protecting her from a sinning husband and bringing him to repentance. --Joe! |
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109 | Where in Scripture is sin defined? | 1 John 3:4 | Reformer Joe | 66529 | ||
Many things in Scripture are identified as sin, and the word "sin" itself comes from an archery term which means "to miss the mark." One thing that all of the passages regarding sin have in common is that they speak in reference to God's law, the moral commandments that He has given to His people. Simply put, every example of sin is either not doing what God commands or doing what God forbids. That includes our thoughts, words, and actions. --Joe! |
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110 | Did God actually die on the cross? | Gen 22:8 | Reformer Joe | 66372 | ||
God the Father did not die on the Cross, if that is what you are asking. I would go a step further than that and say that it was Jesus' human nature that died on the Cross. The church throughout its history has imterpreted the Bible to say that Son of God became human by taking on a second nature. Therefore, the person Jesus Christ has two natures, one human and one divine. Jesus shares the same divine nature with God the Father and God the Holy Spirit, so I understand this to mean that the divine nature is immortal and imperishable. The human nature (the one he shares with is and was made like us in all ways, excpet without sin) was created, depends on God for its existence and survival, got tired and hungry and thirsty and weak, and obviously was perishable. So yes, the Lamb is God and man both, but I would disagree that the "God" nature died on the Cross. --Joe! |
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111 | Didn't God give man freedom of choice? | Romans | Reformer Joe | 66341 | ||
Teacher: That is an excellent question. The differences between the Reformed and Arminian positions have been well-debated here. I recommend that you try a quick search on the right using the terms "free will" or "predestination" or "elect." You will find enough posts to choke up just about any server on earth. I waould also recommend Jonathan Edwards' work entitled "Freedom of the Will": http://www.ccel.org/e/edwards/will/home.html --Joe! |
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112 | Does God REQUIRE new believer to divorce | 1 Cor 7:24 | Reformer Joe | 66181 | ||
One other thing: In the Law of Moses, God even insisted that if someone divorced his wife and she remarried, that he COULD NOT re-marry her. The new Christians should stay married. "When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house, and she leaves his house and goes and becomes another man's wife, and if the latter husband turns against her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took her to be his wife, then her former husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her again to be his wife, since she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the LORD, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance." --Deuteronomy 24:1-4 --Joe! |
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113 | Does God REQUIRE new believer to divorce | 1 Cor 7:24 | Reformer Joe | 66180 | ||
You are not only not required to not get divorced; you are required to stay married. It is a complicated situation after divorce and remarriage occurs, but the fact is that the new Christian had already broken his covenant vows to their previous three marriages. Repentance is in order, for sure, but one cannot reasonably undo what has been already done in such a situation. The godly thing to do is to glorify God in one's present marriage, to honor one's vows. Also realize that such a scenario is not a new one. John 4 tells us how Jesus interacted with a Samaritan woman who had been married multiple times. And check out the verse at the top and read it in its context. --Joe! |
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114 | What does God say about lesbians? | 1 Cor 6:9 | Reformer Joe | 66084 | ||
Here is what God says: "For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh." --Genesis 2:24 "For the WRATH OF GOD is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this reason God gave them over to DEGRADING PASSIONS; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error." --Romans 1:18-27 "Or do you not know that the unrighteous WILL NOT INHERIT TEH KINGDOM OF GOD? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor HOMOSEXUALS, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. Such WERE some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God. --1 Corinthians 6:9-11 "just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire." --Jude 7 "Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent, because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead." --Acts 17:30-31 "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus; whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed; for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus." --Romans 3:23-26 "But we know that the Law is good, if one uses it lawfully, realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous person, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers and immoral men and homosexuals and kidnappers and liars and perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching," --1 Timothy 1:8-10 |
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115 | Why doesn?t God just show himself to tho | Mark 11:22 | Reformer Joe | 66054 | ||
First of all, we in our sinful states do not really want to see God in our present condition. Take a look at how it affects Isaiah in Isaiah 6, or John seeing the glorified Christ in Revelation 1. Look at Genesis 3 to see the response of Adam and Eve after they first sinned against God. God is infinite in his holiness, and that is why the Bible tells us athat no one can look on God and live (Exodus 33:20). Anyone who says, "God, show yourself," really doesn't have a good grasp of what he is really asking for. Secondly, God has revealed Himself in the grandeur of nature (Romans 1:18 ff.), in the moral sense He has given to human beings (Romans 2), and especially to His people in various ways throughout human history, culminating in His becoming flesh and living among us (John 1:14). Christians are right because they embrace what is true. Do I know objectively, 100 percent beyond a shadow of a doubt that I am right? Nope. Is there another, more reasonable explanation for everything? Nope, not as far as I can see. Do you know of any reason I am wrong? --Joe! |
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116 | does Jesus judge or not? | John 5:22 | Reformer Joe | 65904 | ||
Jesus WILL come again to judge. --Joe! |
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117 | When do Mark and Luke join Jesus? | Matt 10:2 | Reformer Joe | 65811 | ||
Mark and Luke were not among the twelve apostles. Mark traveled with Paul and tradition holds that he was also a disciple of Peter, and may have been a follower of Jesus but not one of the apostles. Luke traveled with Paul and undoubtedly was in contact with other key figures in the first-century church. --Joe! |
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118 | firstborn from among the dead | Col 1:18 | Reformer Joe | 65019 | ||
They all died again. Jesus was the first one to be bodily raised to life eternal. --Joe! |
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119 | Believing in the Bible | 2 Tim 3:16 | Reformer Joe | 64979 | ||
Well, you can begin by asking them WHY they don't believe the Bible. Ultimately, it is the Holy Spirit who convinces people both of the truth of the message and the need to trust Jesus Christ. In my experience, however, most people who say they don't believe in the Bible haven't the slightest idea what is contained in its pages. --Joe! |
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120 | Jews rqrd to follow the law in the O.T. | Gal 3:24 | Reformer Joe | 64784 | ||
We are commanded to obey the moral law of God as well. We are saved by faith, but that faith will result in works which correspond to the moral guidelines Moses gave the Israelites as well. The Jews were never saved by following the commandments. The moral law taught them how God's covenant people should live, and apply to us as well. The Holy Spirit also uses the law to convict people regarding their sin. The sacrificial law pointed to the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. The ceremonial cleanliness and dietary laws distinguished Israel from the nations around them and do not apply to Gentiles at all. "For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith." --Romans 4:13 --Joe! |
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