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101 | Matt Ch 9: Making Dead Girl Arise | Matthew | biblicalman | 228922 | ||
Hi Jesus often used the term 'sleep' to indicate death (see John 11.11-14). He did not want the crowds to know that He was going to raise the dead. But the three disciples who went in with Him and the girl's father and mother knew that she was dead (Matt 9.18; Mark 5.35). We know of 3 cases where Jesus raised the dead, Jairus daughter,the widow of Nain's son (Luke 7) and Lazarus (John 11). Best wishes |
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102 | Matt Chap 6 - Repeating yor prayers | Matthew | biblicalman | 228944 | ||
Hi Aileen, This means that we do not need to concentrate our prayers on every day needs but can leave those with our Father in Heaven. Instead what we should be praying about is the extension of the Kingly Rule of Heaven. 'Seek first His Kingly Rule and His righteousness, and all these thingss will be added to you.' Thus in the Lord's prayer we are to pray first of all for God's holy Name to be hallowed among men, for God's Kingly Rule to be established amongst men, and for His will to be done on earth as it is in Heaven. These are to be our first concern. Once we have prayed for those we can ask God to meet our minimum needs, (our daily bread), to forgive us for our continual sins, to enable us to avoid temptation, and to deliver us from the Evil One. You will note that these latter are mainly concerned with our spiritual welfare. It is a reminder that we are to look, not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are unseen (2 Corinthians 4.18). We may certainly pray in a similar way daily, but we must ensure that it does not become routine. Best wishes |
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103 | Pharisees and Saducees | Matthew | biblicalman | 229135 | ||
Hi Aileen, The Sadducees were mainly chief priests and priests and their adherents. They mainly died out with the destruction of the Temple. The Pharisees continued on in the Rabbis and their adherents, and to that extent survive today. Best wishes |
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104 | when will tribulation/rapture occur | Matthew | biblicalman | 229465 | ||
Hi, While not wanting to raise contention I feel that I must add to Searcher's list that there are many who believe that there will be no 'Great Tribulation Period' prior to Christ's coming. There will of course be tribulation in places, but many do not see a seven year (or three and a half) year period as Scriptural. But as Searcher says, for anyone who wants to read more about it there are plenty of past answers on the forum which can be consulted. I agree with him that it has been discussed sufficiently. |
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105 | Who are the 3 women in the linage of Chr | Matt 1:18 | biblicalman | 229385 | ||
Hi Lonna, Welcome to the Forum. There are in fact five women in the lineage of Christ in Matthew 1. These are Tamar (v.3), wife of a wicked man whom God slew; Rahab the Canaanite (v.5); Ruth the Moabitess (v.5); 'her of Uriah', the adulteress (v.6), and Mary the Galilean (v.16). But in spite of their 'tainted' lineage all were accepted by God through faith and were privileged to be ancestresses of the Messiah. Best wishes. |
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106 | Gods forgiveness | Matt 5:24 | biblicalman | 229751 | ||
hi genesis3 welcome to the forum, When we came to Christ, asking Him to become our Saviour, we received total forgiveness for all our sins. This must be seen as distinguished from receiving forgiveness for daily sins. (He that is bathed needs not but to wash his feet - John 13.10). With regard to daily sins if we are to receive forgiveness we must also forgive the sins of those who have sinned against us and who repent (Matt 6.15; Luke 17.3-4). If we have an unforgiving spirit against someone who has sinned against us but repented, we cannot ourselves expect daily forgiveness. However, when we come to worship God publicly we are warned not to approach Him until we have put right with our brother anything in which we have sinned against Him (Matt 5.24), otherwise our worship will seemingly not be acceptable before God. Best wishes |
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107 | Mt. 7: 22-23 | Matt 7:22 | biblicalman | 229226 | ||
Hi Puppytoes, The point of Matt 7.22-23 is that it is possible to make a great show of being a Christian without being one. As Jesus said Himself the final test is whether we do the will of His Father in Heaven. People can preach and prophesy in His Name, and yet not be genuine Christians because they do not have a personal experience of Him.. They can even cast out devils in His Name and not be Christians. There were many who sought to cast out devils in Jesus' day and some tried to do it in His Name. And they claimed that it had worked. And some healed in His Name (like some modern healers the healings were psychosomatic or self-induced). But Jesus' point is that none of this means anything. Doing the will of His Father is central. Without that the rest is useless. Best wishes |
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108 | I don't understand why Jesus told the le | Matt 8:4 | biblicalman | 229192 | ||
Hi Carol, As Brad has rightly said, one reason was so that the people would not be taken up with the wrong thing. Jesus did not want to be seen as a miracle worker. He wanted people to concentrate on what He said. But I think we can safely say that there was also another reason. The Jews were expecting a Messiah. And the most popular view about the Messiah was that he would come performing miracles, would rouse up the people and arm them and would then defeat the Romans and conquer the world. Jesus was always aware of the danger of this (see John 6.15). That is why He never openly claimed to be the Messiah (except among the Samaritans who saw things differently - John 4.25-26). It would in fact have been the guaranteed way to get arrested by the Romans. Thus while He wanted people to get excited about His message, He did not want to build up a reputation as a wonder-worker and arouse people's Messianic expectations. However, when He was in Greek Decapolis, which was not Jewish territory, He had no such inhibitions. There He had in mind the future preaching of the Gospel. So there he tells a man who has been healed to let all know (Mark 5.19). There was no danger of a Messianic rising there. Best wishes. |
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109 | can God seperate the joining of flesh? | Matt 19:5 | biblicalman | 228807 | ||
Hi. Welcome to the forum. Husband and wife are made one flesh by sexual union. That is why an unconsummated marriage can be annulled. But once two people have been united in that way they become one (Matt 19.5-6), even if it is with a prostitute (1 Cor 6.16) There is no suggestion anywhere that God will break that union. It is man who breaks the union by having sex with another person. That then means that the innocent party is freed from the union. They may divorce and marry again with God's approval. Clearly, however, we have to take into account God's forgiveness, especially when an offence was committed before conversion. However there would appear to be two cases where divorce is permitted other than for a sexual offence. One is where a Christian is married to an idolater who refuses to give up idolatry. That would appear to be the implication of Ezra 9.1-2. Notice that the foreign women in question were idolaters. The other would appear to be where a Christian is married to a non-Christian who as a result decides to break up the marriage (1 Cor 7.12-13). (The Christian should not seek the divorce unless the non-Christian is engaging in antiChristian oppression. Otherwise divorce is forbidden. Moses never actually authorised divorce. That was the interpretation of Deut 24.1-4 by the Pharisees. But Jesus said that God did not acknowledge that interpretation (Matthew 19.8-9). And that even Deut 24 had been written because of the hardness of men's hearts. But Deut 23.1-4 did not permit divorce. It simply regulated it. |
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110 | wife left doing drugs adultery help | Matt 19:9 | biblicalman | 227885 | ||
You could try a period of prayer and fasting. You should ask her Christian friends to approach her, then you could ask the leaders of her church to speak to her and pray for her (Matthew 18.15-17). If she still refuses to repent and IF she has committed adultery you will have sanction to divorce her (Matthew 19.9; 18.17). | ||||||
111 | I'm trying to bring my family back, | Matt 21:22 | biblicalman | 229586 | ||
Hi, Well your main problem would appear to be a loss of the trust of your family. Trust is easily lost, not so easily restored. How that is to be done can only be suggested by someone who knows all your circumstances. Best wishes |
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112 | is there a parrable where... | Matt 25:14 | biblicalman | 227721 | ||
The parable is found in Matthew 25.14-30, although it is about a man and his servants rather than about a king. The lesson from the parable is to use the gifts that God has given us to the utmost. This will include sharing Christ both by word and deed. Even the weakest of us can do something. The point about the man with the one talent is that he did not use it at all. He did not give a genuine response to his master |
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113 | Forsake | Matt 27:46 | biblicalman | 227392 | ||
Jesus was citing Psalm 22.1. It was the heart cry of some one who felt abandoned. but the psalmist was not abandoned by God and neither was Jesus, although both felt totally abandoned. none of us can even conceive what Jesus suffered or how abandoned He felt, as He bore the awfulness of our sin, but in His Godhood He could not be abandoned, nor would the Father actually have done so. | ||||||
114 | Matthew 28:18-19 | Matt 28:18 | biblicalman | 228066 | ||
I have to disagree with the one who says that 'all authority in heaven and earth does not apply to the Son in His Godhood. We cannot thus separate the divinity and the humanity of the Son. Jesus was both God and man at the same time. He was and is ONE. The fact that He excluded from Himself the right to utilise His powers as God did not make Him less than God, nor did it mean that He had lost those powers. It simply meant that He would not call on them. When He said that He was being restored to the glory which He had with the Father before the world was (John 17.5), He was not thereby saying that He had lost that glory. He was indicating that He had submerged it within His manhood, and was now about to enjoy it again. Thus when He said that all authority in heaven and earth had been given to Him it was as the God-man. Yes, He was receiving that authority as both God and man, having deliberately subsumed for a while His authority over all things in order to live as a man. We all too glibly speak as though Jesus Christ could be two persons. This is proved by His claim that He would be with us always. That could only be true of Him in His Godhood. At no stage did Jesus Christ lose His Godhood. In all that He did He acted as both God and man. And in all that happened to Him it happened to Him as both God and man. The fact that He chose not to manifest His glory (except at the Transfiguration which reveald that it was still His), and chose not to exercise His authority over all things was a deliberate choice, not a cessation of His Godhood. |
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115 | whereis swine made whole? | Mark 5:13 | biblicalman | 228844 | ||
hi welcome to the forum are you sure that you don't mean where the demoniac is made whole when Jesus sent the devils into the swine? see mark 5.1 ff best wishes |
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116 | traditions of men? | Mark 7:8 | biblicalman | 227688 | ||
The reference to tradition has in mind the 'traditions of the elders'. These were oral Jewish traditions of the past passed down among the Scribes based, at least theoretically, on what great Rabbis had said in the past. They were basically like commentaries, giving men's opinions on how the Scriptures should be interpreted. But they had been given a significance far in advance of what they deserved, and had become a law in themselves. Comparison can be made with 'the traditions of the fathers' to which the Roman Catholic church gives far more significance than they deserve. In both cases it was in order to support their own position. | ||||||
117 | book of mormon? | Mark 7:8 | biblicalman | 227725 | ||
The basic problem with 'the traditions of men' was that they resulted in a false interpretation of Scripture and distorted Scripture. They 'made void the word of God'. It is true that that is what Mormons and JWs do. But it can equally be true of all Christians if they take the traditions of their church and make Scripture fit into them, rather than the other way round. Our lives are full of 'tradition' but it only comes within the purview of Jesus' teaching on the subject when it results in misinterpretation of Scripture. Thus there are good traditions like holidays which do not affect the teaching of the Bible one way or another. To celebrate Easter is to celebrate the Passover in its new significance as pointing to Christ. If it makes us recognise the truth of the Bible, and celebrate Christ's death and resurrection, it is a good tradition. It is only if we allow it to distort Scriptural teaching that it becomes false tradition. |
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118 | is there anywhere in the bible that says | Mark 7:19 | biblicalman | 228469 | ||
In the Old Testament it was forbidden to eat animals unless they 'parted the hoof and chewed the cud'. Only animals within that description could be guaranteed to both eat wholesome food and graze in healthy areas. Other animals ate food from places were death was common, or went to places where death prevailed. It was an object lesson to Israel about healthy and wholesome living, and the necessity of avoiding places of death. It undoubtdly saved them from many health problems, especially while they were in the wilderness. But once Jesus came, the epitome of holy living, the object lesson became unnecessary, and He declared all foods clean. As with all the other ordinances it was fulfilled in Jesus. |
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119 | Exactly what does Mark 15:42 mean | Mark 15:42 | biblicalman | 228148 | ||
It was towards evening on the day of preparation, thus it was still Friday. The body had to be buried before the Sabbath otherwise the land would be defiled. The modern Greek word for Friday is 'preparation'. Once the Sabbath started at nightfall nothing further could be done. That is why the women waited until the 1st day of the week. We know from Jewish tradition that the Jews spoke of friday afternoon to sunday morning as 'three days and three nights', because there was part of the first day and night on the friday, a full day and night on the saturday, and the first part of sunday was spoken of as 'a day and a night' It was Jewish usage. that is why Jesus also rose on 'the third day'. |
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120 | How old are the children? | Mark 16:15 | biblicalman | 227991 | ||
assuming you mean Mark 10.15 they were old enough to come to Him and for Him to put His arms round them and then lay His hands on them. 'that He might touch them' indicates those who were not babes in arms. They were therefore probably 5 upwards. In a comparative passage Jesus speaks of 'those who believe in Me' (Mat 18.6). Thus they were of an age to believe. His whole point is their openness and honesty without prejudice creeping in. | ||||||
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