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101 | Widows and remarriage | 1 Cor 7:39 | Tamara Brewington | 203716 | ||
A widow is allowed to marry any free Christian, but not a divorced person... She is free to remarry, but he isn't.. Refer to Mathew 19:9 where it says that whoever marries a divorced person commits adultery. And see Mark 10:11 where it says that whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. The issue is not whether a widow can remarry, of course you could, the issue is whether or not a divorced person could remarry and no they can't. | ||||||
102 | Widows and remarriage | 1 Cor 7:39 | Tamara Brewington | 203717 | ||
A widow is allowed to marry any free Christian, but not a divorced person... She is free to remarry, but he isn't.. Refer to Mathew 19:9 where it says that whoever marries a divorced person commits adultery. And see Mark 10:11 where it says that whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. The issue is not whether a widow can remarry, of course you could, the issue is whether or not a divorced person could remarry and no they can't. | ||||||
103 | gifts of Spirit in Heaven | 1 Cor 12:1 | Tamara Brewington | 203922 | ||
According to some the gifts will cease except for faith, hope, love. See I Corinthians 13:8-13. This theory states that the perfect will come when Jesus comes back and puts us in a state of perfection and that all the gifts except those three will pass away. Another theory is that the believers who are glorified and changed at the rapture will be coming back to earth to rule with Christ and will be still using the gifts. But they says that even though they will know fully all things as soon as Christ knows them I Corinthians 13:12(which would kind of negate the need to have the gifts?). God Bless, Tamara | ||||||
104 | Which One IsThe Correct Way of Baptism? | 1 Cor 12:13 | Tamara Brewington | 203721 | ||
Not one of these scriptures says to be baptized more than once by water and every one is baptized automatically by the spirit, see Ephesians 1:13,14 for proof. The idea of infant batism stems from the erroneous belief that people get saved by the act of baptism apart from first believing in Christ (Methodist, Presbyterians)because of Acts 2:38 where it says to repent and be baptized for forgiveness of sins. So they believe that the act of Baptism does the trick rather than a true profession of faith in Chrsit. The idea of full immersion stems from dying down into the grave like Jesus and coming up out of the grave and rising from the dead like Jesus and usually the words, "baptized into the death and resurrection of Jesus" are used at a full immersion baptism. Kinda hard to go down into death while you get sprinkled... And kinda strange that getting sprinkled could have the power to save without going down into death fully and rising from the dead fully, which is one reason why the Church of Christ refuses to baptize young children(besides that children can't confess Christ which they do believe has preliminary power leading to salvation by baptism), but they do believe the dunk in the water does the saving... | ||||||
105 | One Body In Christ. | 1 Cor 12:17 | Tamara Brewington | 205859 | ||
But earnestly desire the greater gifts. | ||||||
106 | what does I cor 12 : 24 mean | 1 Cor 12:24 | Tamara Brewington | 205971 | ||
Dear hrnaval, Welcome to the forum! You have to go back a pace there and see verses 22 and 23; On the contrary, it is much truer that the members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary; and those members of the body which we deem less honorable, on these we bestow more abundant honor, and our less presentable members become much more presentable. There was a situation in Corinth of exalting one type of gift above another type of gift and Paul is using the analogy of the parts of the body to say that each part is necessary to the growth and well being of the other part in the use of the gifts. Then he starts talking about in verses 22 and 23 about answering the pride he is seeing by stating those gifts in the body that do not appear to be so very appealing, as tongues happened to appear so appealing to them, should be given more respect because they are so very needful. A good example would be this, they were exalting tongues above all other gifts, the other gifts would be those in the list in verse 28 - apostles, pastor teachers, prophets, healings, helps, adminstrations, and in that list Paul list them in order of importance. Note how tongues is at the bottom of the list, but the Corinthians have exalted that above teaching and pastoring and prophecy (which Paul calls a superior gift in chapter 14). So he says in verse 22 that the gifts which appear to be weaker than the outward gift of tongues are more needful to the body. And in verse 23 those gifts that are not being exalted like tongues should have more adundant honor bestowed on them. When we come to verse 24 Paul is saying that the more presentable gift of tongues has no need of being made more presentable, but that God has arranged the gifts so that more honor is to be given to the other gifts which build up the body of Christ which are not yet being honored, so that the gifts that are not being regarded as honorable will be given greater honor than they were before. Hope this helps, God's Day To You, Tamara |
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107 | what about doing the work Jesus did ? | 1 Cor 12:28 | Tamara Brewington | 205528 | ||
Dear John, Well hhhhmmmmm. That depends doesn't it? On whether or not those gifts could be said to still be operating in the church today for one. And if not, on what scriptural basis would we say not? I also believe yes they are still operating, in fact I would broaden the scope to indclude every gift except Apostle as operating to day... Why not? The rest of the gifts could all be used to edify if we use Paul's description of how to use em in chapters 12-14 reading really particularly and carefully about the instructions about the specific way the body functions and how some of them more contraversial gifts ought to operate... But back to the narrower scope you have given here. People are still sick and still being demon possesed... So since there is a need out there for the gift why would there not still be there where with all to use the gifts in question to deliver from captivity? That is why I mentioned being an apostle, there is no more need to pant the first church, the original church got planted as the begining of all churches, so that gift did not need to continue on and besides Jesus was giving that one out personally, at least to the recognized ultimate 12 by Acts 9. It would follow then that since there is a need for casting out demons (just go to Africa and check out those Animists they need a lot of help with this, my pastor went there and saw some very strange stuff) that the gift is still operating because it is still needed... And people are still sick so there is still a need for laying on of hands on the sick... What none of us like is the charlatons who misuse the guise of these gifts and go around doing the works of the devil in the name of Jesus and making a bundle of money. Which is why so many Evangelicals have rejected these gifts along with tongues and prophecy, because they have been misused and abused... A whole lot of Christians actually do believe that people in the NT who were demon possesed were only mentally ill and that modern medicine would have resolved the issues. Like the boy with epilipsy and even the demoniac strange as that may sound. I think James gives us a pretty good example of the laying on of hands for the sick by the anointing of oil. Some don't beileve in this because they don't see the point of getting anyone smeared with oil as conferring any healing, but only the confessing of sins to the elders and the prayers of the elders. Penticostals are still using and practicing this scripture though... Although they use the oil for a number of things that I am not so sure are scriptural exactly the way they are doing it. The disciples were laying hands on the sick and healing them (Hebrews 6:2) and ordaining folks to office by laying on hands. I dunno John I heartily agree with you, but i wonder what the others here think? It would be good to get someone who disagrees in order to see the scriptures that would go with that viewpoint I say. That is why I love differences of exegesis, it can bring other light to a subject... I bet most everyone else is at work or so... God's Beautiful Day To You, Tamara |
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108 | what about doing the work Jesus did ? | 1 Cor 12:28 | Tamara Brewington | 205541 | ||
Sorry there I called you John! But I hope to hear back from you about it all! Tamara |
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109 | psychic vs prophet difference | 1 Cor 14:3 | Tamara Brewington | 205717 | ||
Dear Believer53, By the way welcome to the Forum! I Corinthians 14:3 But one who prophesies speaks to men for edification and exhortation and consolation. We need to be carelful to have a Biblical understanding of what constituted as prophecy in the first century church here. What kind of information a prophet such as Paul was describing is a bit different than what you are sort of describing as bing a Christian and "knowing things". Prophecy is not simply a matter of "knowing things". Prophecy is about knowing "certain things", not all things. Paul is qulifiying the scope of the gift here; 1)edification - information that builds up the body of Christ that would concern everyone in the body and also separately as an edification to the body of Christ of the conviction of an unbeliever because the secrets of his heart are exposed in the congregation - see verses 24 and 25 for this part, most miss this part as part of the possilities of the use of the gift in the equation of it being valid at all today. 2)exohortation - the clarion call to use sound doctrine to address life issues and Christian practice - see II Timothy 3:16 3)consolation - the use of godly knowledge to provide comfort in distress. All of these things are done by the prophet with knowledge provided by the Holy Spirit to the prophet. A good example would be Agabus the prophet in Acts 11:27-30 who predicted a famine and the need for the congregation to send relief for the brethren in Judea. The famine did indeed occur as a recorded historical event and the relief was sent in time to provide much needed help. Do you see how this edified the body? It is not about being not doomed if you are a Christian if you know stuff and doomed as an unbeliever if you know stuff. Most self proclaimed psychics claim they are hearing from God because they believe they are practicing white magic, which presupposes that God has some dead good spirits hanging around to wait to speak to the living as "guides" in order to give life intructions to the "lost". This is a Babylonian and Egyptian practice of pagan idol worship that included "spirit guides" - there is nothing new under the sun dear... Have you ever seen Oprah? Well you aren't missing anything if you didn't, she has on a whole lot of new age teachers of vairous beliefs. She has had on a bunch of folks who will claim that they are hearing from God to tell you your business. That is being psychic, to tell you something to edify only you, not the whole body of Christ or to convict you to worship God. Do you see the difference now? God's Day To You, Tamara |
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110 | what is the realy massage of christ? | 1 Cor 15:3 | Tamara Brewington | 203741 | ||
The message that Christ proclaimed was repent of your sins for the kingdom of God is in your midst(meaning He was in their midst)and to belive that Jesus was God. Christ is a revelation of God's existence and that revelation was progressive starting with the prophecies of Him comming in the Old Testament and progressing to His advent on earth and then the revelation of Christ progressed after He was rejected and killed and then rose from the dead. Then the message of salvation progressed to that, Jesus is the Lord God, He died and rose again on the third day for our sins and if you believe this in your heart and confess it with your mouth, you will be saved, see Romans 10:9,10 to see what you have to do to be saved, which I stated here. All you have to do is repent and believe in Jesus and you are a Christian, there is nothing good you can do to earn salvation, by grace you are saved and that not of yourselves, you are saved by faith alone, by grace alone. | ||||||
111 | Matthew vs Mark | 2 Cor 4:3 | Tamara Brewington | 203752 | ||
In both accounts Jesus fulfills 350 prophecies from the Old Testament that came true about the place and exact time of His birth, about him being the deliverer and Immanuel (God is with us), about the miracles He preformed, about the circumstance of His death, burial, and resurrection. Mathew wrote about the coming of the kingdom of God in Jesus, Mark wrote about the diety of Jesus as God. Principle of interpretation; Each writer wrote to a different audience from a different point of view. Question, if you heard from two different people what happened at a party would they tell the same stories with the same details? No, niether do these writers. For instance take the end account where in Mathew, Mark, Luke and John; there are two angels and then one angel at the tomb, and there is one woman, two women and a bunch of women at the tomb, then the angel sat on the stone, there was one inside, there was one outside, there were two inside, and on and on. Principle of interpretation; just because only one angel is mentioned in one account and two in another does not mean there weren't two there, it means one writer was only interested in writing about the particular angel that spoke, and all the women were there, but the writer only mentioned the one who was spoken to. You have to think carefuly to reconcile the different accounts but it can be done because scripture is inerrant and cannot contradict itself. | ||||||
112 | Progressive Revelation | Eph 1:10 | Tamara Brewington | 204719 | ||
Progressive Revelation is the revealance to man of God through various forms. Progressive Revelation is not the gradual evolving development of history. Progressive Revelation builds upon latter revelations being built on the earlier revelations. One example is the sacrifices required by God in the OT resulting in the final sacrifice of Christ. Another is the General Revelation of what God has created as a witness to man that God is and then the Special Revelation of miraculous manifestations of God to man with Christ being the most special and ending with the Bible. A next form are the seven dispensations. Another form are the prophetic revelations from the OT resulting in Christ Jesus as the final revelations. Progressive revelation was first coined as a phrase by the Dispensational Camp. But the concept has been around since Paul wrote Romans where you find the first example of what a General Revelation is in chapter 1 and then Special Revelation as Christ in chapters 3-6. The concept of this then appeared in a certain form in the Epistle of Barnabas. Then elements appeared in the Dialogue of Tryphos by Justin Martyr. Elements appear in the writtings of the following church fathers as varying forms of Dispensationalism; Justin Martyr (A.D. 110-165) Iranaeus (A.D. 130-200) Clement of Alexandria (A.D. 150-220) Augustine (A.D. 354-430) The next persons to show elements of Progressive Revelation where; Joachin of Fiore Pierot Poiret John Edwards The persons who coined the term and see Progressive Revelation as only the seven dispensations; Charles Ryrie Isac Watts John Darby C.I.Scoffield The term has been much abused since the advent of dispensationalism. Systematic theologians see Progressive Revelation as the total of all the forms mentioned above and not just as Dispensationalism. There are scriptures which speaks of dispensations where a word in Greek means dispensation; Ephesians 1:10 with a view to an administration (dispensation) suitable to the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on earth. Ephesians 3:9 and to bring to light what is the administration (dispensation) of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God who created all things. Hope this helps Tamara |
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113 | Baptiam of the Holy Spirit | Eph 1:13 | Tamara Brewington | 205762 | ||
Dear dscott1, This has been a very hot topic around here lately on various posts, but I will not get into how to go about looking up all those post right now. I will leave that for someone else to do who like pointing people to posts as a answer (no offense anyone please, go ahead and give this person the numbers for the threads, I don't have time to look them all up). Ephesians 1:13 In Him, you also, alfter listening to the message of the truth, the gosepl of your salvation - having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise. This verse according to Paul means that as soon as you believe you receive the Holy Spirit. This is the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and it happens at the momentof belief. Let's take Mark 16:17 - These signs will accompany those who have believed; in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues. This passage is in brackets because there is a discrepancy as to whether or not it actually belongs in the NT at all according to the translators. I however believe in the essence of what the passage is saying as elements of it can be found to be said of Jesus elsewhere and this text does not contradict the whole counsel of scripture, rather it falls in line with it, which is why the translator keep leaving it in. I believe it is safe to say that all of these things did happen in Acts except the part about being poisoned. Okay, now lets' deal with Acts. Acts has been used for a very long time to uphold the belief that when one believes in Jesus there is to be a baptism of the Holy Spirit that is evidenced solely by the speaking in tongues because of the history of pneumatic infusion in Acts. However there are other schools of thought about how the Holy Spirit give evidence of Himself in the believer. There is also a discrepancy to whether or not He necessarily must give a visible evidence of any kind that He is in the believer at or near the moment of belief. Jesus sent the disciples to witness to groups of people as a commission in Acts. In Acts you will find that four groups of people received the visible sign of speaking in tongues when the apostles either preached to them, and or laid hands on them after preaching to them. In fact there were groups of people that got preached to who did not receive the Holy Spirit until the apostles showed up to do this very thing - like those who heard Philip and were baptized, yet did not yet have the Holy Spirit. The four groups are the Jews in 2 who were of the promises, the Samaritans in 8 who believed in the right God the wrong way, the Gentiles in 10 who needed to hear about who God truly was, those who only had the repentance and baptism of John in 19. Each of these four groups had to be brought into the body of Christ by the apostles and when each of thes four groups got brought in the evidence came that had received the Holy Spirit by the speaking of tongues. After Acts you do not see this same sort of activity pervasively happening because all the types of people that there are on the earth that could be brought into the body of Christ fit into these four groups and are all ready included as a group in the body of Christ, this is true even today. Either you are a Jew, or you believe in the right God the wrong way, or you are a Gentile, or you have only repented of sins and been baptized in water but you have not believed in the Christ and recieved the Holy Spirit at the moment of belief with or without evidence. There is not one group or indvidual today that would not fit in one of these four groups just as it was true then. There are instances in Acts like at the end of 2 where it does not say that there was evidence of tongues just becuase they now believed. Does not Paul say in I Corinthians 12 that not all have tongues do they, etc., but one and the same Spirit distributes the gifts severaly as He will and we are all baptized by the Spirit into the body of Christ, but not all have the same function. How then is it that tongues is the only or primary evidence that one has received the Holy Spirit when according to Paul it is not? I do not find scriptural support for the belief that the gift has passed away any where in the Bible, nor do I find any evidence in the Bible that any other gift has passed away except being an apsotle. Paul states clearly that he is the very last apostle. This is not a popular belief amonsgt confessig Evangelicals because so many of the charismatice gifts have abused and misused and misrepresented in the churches. This does not mean that these gifts don't exist for real, it means that they have misused. God's Day To you and welcome Minister dscott1, God's Day To You, Tamara |
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114 | Just out of curiosity. | Phil 1:23 | Tamara Brewington | 205113 | ||
Dear Lionheart, Quote from Millard J. Erickson, Introduction to Theology, pg. 378, par. 2; "One veiw which over the years has had considerable popularity is termed, "soul sleep". This is the idea that the soul, during the period between death and resurrection, reposes in a state of unconcsiousness. In the sixteenth century, many Anabaptists and Socinians apprently subscribed to this veiw. A similar position is taken today by the Seventh Day Adventists. In the case of Adventists, however, the phrase "soul sleep" is some what misleading. Hoekema suggests instead "soul extinction," in the Adventist view one does not fall asleep at death, but actually becomes completely nonexistent, nothing surviving." This then is an invention of the Anabaptists and Socinian in the sixteenth century that purported that the soul actually sleeps as a function of a bipartite (division of man as soul and body) entity, where the body disintegrates and the soul goes to sleep on some spiritual plane. This veiw got adopted and changed by the Jehovah's Witnesses, as that man is one entity without two parts, and that man's one essence being his mind and body, cease to exist at death altogether. The soul is not actually sleeping, it is gone with the mind that disentegrated. In this view of soul sleep God is so powerfull that He will raise everything that disintegrated from the dead. This veiw got adopted by the Seventh Day Adventists, who believe that the soul and body are two parts together and that the body disentegrates, but that the soul actually sleeps. God is so powerfull that He will wake the souls from the dead and reunite them to their bodies which God is so powerfull to reunite from disintegration. This view got adopted and changed by the Mormons and they believe that the body disintegrates and that the soul goes to sleep, then only the soul will be raised from the dead and receive a new spiritual body to replace the old flesh and that in this process a person becomes a god, just like Jesus and God were once men and died and received new spiritual eternal god bodies before us. God's day to you, Tamara God's Day to you, Tamara |
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115 | 3 brothers descendants changed | Col 1:16 | Tamara Brewington | 205662 | ||
Dear du, Colossians 1:16 For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and the on the earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities - all things have been created through Him and by Him and for Him. We have to just trust that Jesus made everything including the that He is responsible for the nations the tongues the colors and the cultures. I was looking for two things I could not find, one that Ham was black due to a curse which I had heard before, but I cannot find in, and two that God created man with the blood of all the nations whithin him, but those are not quite the right words and I cannot find it becuase that is not quite the right phrase - perhaps if Pastor Moran is still awake he will know where this is... God's Day to YOu, tamara |
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116 | dead in christ shall rise first | 1 Thess 4:16 | Tamara Brewington | 203707 | ||
This means physical; the dead are already in heaven in spirit because II Corinthians 5:8 says, that Paul would rather be absent from the body and at home with Christ. What happens at the rapture is that the dead bodies will rise and be changed and reunited with the spirits of the saved who will be meeting them in the air with Christ. And then the live saints will be caught up into the air and changed as well. Try seeing the whole thing in context, see verses 15 and 17 to get the picture in full. | ||||||
117 | Is it a person or a thing that restrains | 2 Thess 2:6 | Tamara Brewington | 203737 | ||
This is the Holy Spirit doing the restraining. I can't find it right now, but in Revelation the Holy Spirit is removed from the earth at the beginning of the Great Tribulation and men become exceedingly evil and the Anti-Christ mentioned II Thessalonians 2:6 will have full power on the earth. | ||||||
118 | Apology to Lockman and Users | 1 Timothy | Tamara Brewington | 204847 | ||
I aplogize | ||||||
119 | Apology to Lockman and Users | 1 Timothy | Tamara Brewington | 204849 | ||
I aplogize | ||||||
120 | Why so some people treat pastors poorly? | 1 Tim 5:19 | Tamara Brewington | 203747 | ||
I Timothy 5:17-19 is the scripture, but remember they are no more special than any other part of the body and they are to held accountable to the body of Christ they are in. I did not see where it says not to attack the man of God, but check out David and Saul in I Samuel 24 and how David was reluctant to reach out his hand to harm God's former anointed even though God said, go ahead kill him if you will... | ||||||
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