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101 | In desperate need. | Heb 11:1 | Tamara Brewington | 205566 | ||
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102 | Rabbis not paid? | James 3:1 | Tamara Brewington | 205561 | ||
Dear Thomas8, You make an excellent point there Thomas8, freely ye have received, freely give... Yes I like that a lot, the word is absolutely free of charge Thomas, it is a gift from God to be handled with great care. It reminds me of II Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves. Paul was always seeking how he could humble himself for the sake of the gospel, he is our great example after Jesus of serving Christ without arrogance giving the gospel from pure motives without guile or thinking of self. I have greatly enjoyed studying with you Thomas8 you are a true student of the Bible who is interested in dividing the word of God because you love God. And you are interested in studying in here with others because you love the brethren and it shows in how you act towards others. It is not just the grace of your response, it is your intent in continuing to look at the texts from differing interpretations than your own and inviting others to look at your interpretation too. That is something to appreciate indeed... God's Day To You, Tamara |
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103 | what about doing the work Jesus did ? | 1 Cor 12:28 | Tamara Brewington | 205560 | ||
Dear John, I hear that you are done... Why in the world did you bring it up as if you believed one thing and then change mid stream? Remember where you started? How do we end up here, but don't bother to answer that as you are done, it is a rhetorical question and it is not meant in ill will... What was that about? Going fishing or something? Did you catch something? This time I am really puzzled, you said you believe in healing folks of demons and laying on of hands to heal folks and here it appears to be a change of heart... We were in agreement about Charlatons... But say John after posting me that you were done you went on and on and on....? Okay my brother okay, I am just here to encourage you to feel comfortable okay about whatever okay? I don't have to understand anything at all here, I just have to love all of you... God Bless, Tam |
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104 | Rabbis not paid? | James 3:1 | Tamara Brewington | 205558 | ||
Dear Thomas, I have been taught that it is factual, but I don't know which books to point you to to prove that. Apparently Rabbis as a matter of course did not take any pay for being Rabbis, it was seen as being dishonorable to do so, one was working for God not for pay. According to what I have been taught, which is by a pastor whose profession is as an historian, all Rabbis had a trade on the side that they learned from their fathers. In fact all men learned the trade of their fathers anyhow. Paul was studying under Gamiliel in order to enter the Rabbinical in the sect of the Pharisees. Paul was a tent maker by trade a leather worker, which we know from Acts 18, and we know that for the entire time Paul was in ministry he worked for a living, unlike the other apostles; see I Corinthians 9. At that time in history a philosopher would be supported by a trade or a patron, or begging or by charging a fee for services, which Sophists did, but this was considered offensive for a philosopher or a teacher of religion to charge a fee. This was true of Greek culture and Jewish culture and of Roman culture. Paul supported himself always in all places regardless of donations by tent making, a carry over from his Rabbinic training days. See I Thessalonians where Paul sets the tone about how he views doing the work of God. See I Corinthians 11:7-12 for Paul's refusal to take money for his services for Christ. Paul is the only apostle who worked for a living and he was the only apostle who had been a former Rabbi too, where before he did not take any pay because he loved God and would not bring dishonor to His name, how much more now was he determined not to be a philosopher or teacher of Christ for pay in order to bring glory to God and not besmirch the name of Christ. God's Day To You, Tamara |
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105 | Abraham inheriting the whole world? | Heb 11:8 | Tamara Brewington | 205545 | ||
Dear Woldem, Welcome to the forum! Check out Hebrews 11:8-10 - we have here that Abraham is said to have been sent out to receive an inheritance of land, a place, not the whole world... He went out and he was an alien looking for a city which has foundations in God, talking about faith here as well as the promised land. But he never found it see - verse 13 says these all died in faith without having received the promises. See Genesis 12:1-3, here God promises that He will make Abram a great nation and in you all the earth will be blessed. But this is not about Abraham inheriting the earth at all, it is about his seed being blessed in the future and being a great nation. Here is who will inherit the earth. The righteous - Psalm 25:13. The meek or the gentle - Mathew 5:5. The blessed by God - Psalm 37:22. The humble - Psalm 37:11. The picture we get is that the saved inherit the earth - check this out you have to be made righteous by Jesus in order for God to say you are righteous, you are not truly humble till you bow down answer to God, you don't become truly gentle or meek until you get sanctified which takes getting saved first. So the saved inherit the earth. God's Day, Tamara |
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106 | 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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107 | what about doing the work Jesus did ? | 1 Cor 12:28 | Tamara Brewington | 205540 | ||
Dear John, I am gettin old over here brother really old... My glasses were on and freshly cleaned too.... oh meo mio sorry every body, I am an isomniac and I get punchy a lot and lost too... oh dear I need a whole lot of grace, my belly hurts from laughing at myself so very hard, see this is why I don't take myself very seriously, it doesn't pay, um um. God Bless, Tamara |
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108 | what about doing the work Jesus did ? | 1 Cor 12:28 | Tamara Brewington | 205538 | ||
Daiauh, You lost me over here John....!!!! I Timothy 5:23? Galatians 4:13? Does not Paul say that God decided to leave Paul's thorn in the flesh? Does that not mean that there are some things that will not be healed anyway? But what does that have to do with the possibility to their being gifts of healing operating then or now according to God's sovereign will? No one is gaurunteed healing simply becuase the gift is still around. No? Help me out here, I appreciate that different view though! God's Day To Us all, Tamara |
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109 | what about doing the work jesus did | John | Tamara Brewington | 205530 | ||
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110 | 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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111 | water to wine? | John 2:1 | Tamara Brewington | 205526 | ||
Dear John, First of dear heart my brain is on bonk because I thought sure as sure I was repplying to Val!? oops my bad...:))))) Yup you are absolutely right about that John absolutely! Sometimes the simplest things become profound to those of us how divide a scripture until the whole thing is laying on the floor in pieces John! Oh I am laughing at myself again, I never take myself very seriously lest I actually think I have gotten somewheres..... Jesus whole existence is full of beginnings, isn't it? Genesis, pre Genesis, John 1, 2, 20, Acts 1, a whole lot more of em too I guess... Yeah I got to scratchin my head over MacArthur's use of a modern word and concept to describe a first century setting, kinda strange of him don't you think? I think you are dead on about that point there. Okay John so we won't call you profound, we will reserve that title for wonderful Val, okay? We will go back to calling you loquasious and eloquent in speech, how's that? By His Infinite Grace, Tamara |
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112 | water to wine? | John 2:1 | Tamara Brewington | 205518 | ||
Dear Val, I like your thinking there Val! You got me to thinking about what you are saying and asking here a bit. Jesus was fully God and fully man. Maybe every supernatural act He did from knowing what people thought to making wine was a miracle He was doing as fully God, while remaining fully human? Hope you don't mind I answered your note to John, it was just so profound what you said! God's Day To You, Tamara |
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113 | water to wine? | John 2:1 | Tamara Brewington | 205511 | ||
Dear Flinkywood, Quote; MacArthur Study Commentary, John MacArthur, pg.1353, par.3; 2:4 Woman. The term is not necessarily impolite, but it does have the effect of distancing Jesus from His mother and her request. Perhaps it was the equivalent of "ma'am" what does your conern have to do with Me? The expression, common in Semitic idiom (Jud.11:12. 2 Sam. 16:10), always distances the two parties, the speaker's tone conveying some degree of reproachapter Jesus tome was not rude, but abrupt. The phrase asks what is shared in common between parities. The thrust of Jesus' comment was that He had entered into a purpose for His mission onearth, so that He subordinated all activities to fulfillment of that mission. Mary had to recognize Him not so much as a son that she raised, but as the promised Messiah and Son of God. Hope this makes sense, God's Day To You, Tamara |
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114 | water to wine? | John 2:1 | Tamara Brewington | 205508 | ||
Dear stoneslinger, Well to start it was His first miracle, right? And we have Mary encouraging Him on there as a sort of catalyst with Jesus saying, woman, what does that have to do with Me? My hour has not yet come. But somehow Mary goes on ahead with a plan and tells the servants to be prepared to do whatever He would ask as if she had not heard Him. This is what they like to term as the beginning of Jesus minsitry and it is characterized by a miracle, which in itself is an interesting fact... Why start with this kind of miracle? Why not start with demon possesion instead? Or raising from the dead? Any of those would have made a bigger public entrance to His ministry. We can difintely say that turning the water into wine was a great sign signifying His deity. Interesting as well is that He called some disciples before performing this first miracle, or sign as John terms it. Although the first actual sign of Jesus diety is in the calling of Nathaneal where Jesus knows Nathaneal's business before being told and Nathaneal repplies, indeed you are the Son of God! So that makes it interesting that the commentators consider the water into wine as the first sign. Head scratcher... One thing that is significant here is that this is the first time for His disciples to really get a taste of the type of work He was going to go about doing. This is His first public miracle and it was on a large scale with plenty of witnesses. The fact that the headwaiter said of the wine that it was better wine; there were huge pots for purification of water, which had to do with mixing water with wine so the wine would not ferment, but this was not watered down water, it was pure wine, proving that it was not of the other batches sitting around. Jesus calls His mother woman distancing Himself from her being His mother in begninning this minstry of His... There is an allussion here to an OT prophecy that the Messianic age would be characterized by the free flowing of wine in, Jeremiah 31:12, Hosea 14:7, and Amos 9:13 so this event could be said to be in keeping with these prophecies... Hope this helped, God's Day To You, Tamara |
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115 | "their" faith | Mark | Tamara Brewington | 205504 | ||
Dear rgarden1, Welcome to the forum! Please take the time to prayerfuly fill out your profile so we can know a little about you! When you scroll down to the bottom of the page you will see all the people who had any comments about the subject, if you click on any name their profile will pop up so you can get to know them a litte... Yep there is a lot of misinterpretation fo the scriptures going around in the churches today. It is not always easy to pick out what is happening in a passage, it take a bit of work, you have to read and read and read it again to pick up the clues that will tell you what is really happening... God's Day To You, Tamara |
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116 | "their" faith | Mark | Tamara Brewington | 205501 | ||
Dear rgarden1, We can't read into the text what is not there, it does not say if it ws just his friends or him too. But I would tend to think that the man did have faith too because how else could Jesus forgive the man's sins unless he believed in Jesus and repented? Hope this helped, God Bless, Tamara |
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117 | why would satan present himself to the L | Rev 12:10 | Tamara Brewington | 205499 | ||
Dear interestedinthebible08, See Revelation 12:10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the salation, and power, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, he who accuses them before out God day and night. Do you see that? That is talking about Satan the devil, coming to the thrown of grace both day and night to accuse the brethren to God to condemn them. I Peter 5:8 Be sober of spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion seeking to devour. See that the devil goes prowling all around the earth seeking who to devour. Now let's look at Job together... Job 1:6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them. The Lord said to Satan, "From where do you come?" Then Satan asnwered the Lord and said, "From roaming around on the earth and walking around in it. The Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered My servant Job?" For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, fearing God and turning away from evil." The discourse goes on, but this is enough. Satan had been going about the earth, walking around, prowling around, seeking whom he could devour. He comes to the throne as he would if he had someone to accuse, as he does day and night, but that day, he had no one to accuse... God knows all about Satan and his ways, how he goes about seeking for someone to devour and how he shows up every day to accuse whomever he decived into falling. God sees that Satan is not accusing anyone that day, so God says, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, fearing God and turning away from evil." Do you see what was happening here? Satan had no one to accuse, but God wanted to challenge Satan to a duel of wills over Job. Don't you think God knew that Satan would start off immediately and try to accuse Job of having it easy as the reason why Job stayed good? That is why Satan says all those things about how God is protecting Job. But God was counting on that he would do that, God had a plan in mind. The plan was to allow Satan to hurt Job and test his faith by tempting him to curse God. God won the duel of wills. The sons of men is an expression often found in the OT that meant angels. Satan went to the throne along with God's good angels for an audience. Hope this helps, Tamara |
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118 | Was it the influence of | Ex 33:11 | Tamara Brewington | 205473 | ||
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119 | Was it the influence of | Ex 33:11 | Tamara Brewington | 205472 | ||
Dear BarryB, Number of things going on here... The Bible says, no man may see His face and live right? The Bible also says God is a spirit right? Question for you; did or did not Moses see God in the burning bush and speak with Him face to face? In what way did Moses see God in the burning bush? This is called anthrompomorphism - this means God deals with humans using modes of revelation that man can understand in human terms. Moses saw what appeared to be God in the burning bush, the Jews call this the Angel of God, a likeness of God where God is there for real speaking, but showing himself to men in a likeness of Himself. So when we say that Moses spoke to God face to face, God was really there, and most times as an invisible spirit, and someitmes the presence of the cloud would come and engulf the place where Moses was standing there talking to God. It was not a metaphor for God's thoughts in Moses mind, they met for real often and spoke as if face to face, Moses according to the Bible was hearing God's voice out loud in the air. This is what is meant by speaking face to face. An interesting study is Exodus 34 where Moses goes up the mountain to speak to God. Moses goes up and is engulfed in a cloud with the presence of God in it. Moses asks God if he can be allowed to see His glory in Exodus 33:18 and God says in verse 20-23 that He will put Moses in the rock and cover him with His hand and that Moses will see God's glory and that Moses will see His back. Moses asked to see God's glory, God speaks back in anthrompomorphic language saying He has a hand and a front and a back. But see God is a spirit, He may not have a hand or a back or a front, but that is up for debate because angels are spirits and they have spiritual bodies with fronts, backs, sides, hands, wings, and some have four fronts and no backs. So it is possible for God to have a spiritual body with hands, front and back, but we have no proof that this is so. We do know that what Moses asked to see was God's glory and that God was saying no man can see His face and live and that God said, I will let you see my backside. God meant the backside of His glory, which is what Moses asks about, His glory. So in Exodus 34 Moses is covered somehow by God, whether it was a real hand or a figurative hand as God's power to cover Moses and then Moses saw the tail end, the back side of God's glory. Some like to say it was the length of time that He was up there with God, or the quality of the relationship, but that doesn't add up. Moses had a quality relationship with God for a long time and Moses spoke to God face to face all the time, the only real difference between those times and this time was that Moses saw God's glory, the back end of it. This surely means that at least we can say God actually has a back and a front to His glory as a spirit. After Moses sees God's glory, he is suffused with God's glory and he goes back down the mountain with hi face shinning. Hope this answers it. God's Day To You, Tamara |
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120 | Was it the Holy Spirit dictating? | Ex 33:11 | Tamara Brewington | 205470 | ||
Dear BarryB, Welcome to the forum! II Peter says this about what you are asking... :20 for no prophecy was ever an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God. And Paul says; II Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness. The first scripture there is clearly saying that all the men who have given us this word we have were moved by the Holy Spirit to speak from God. So that would include every writer both OT and NT. The second scripture there is saying something interesting in the original Greek. It is saying all scripture is God breathed, literaly, God blew out the scriptures, God inspired the scriptures. That means that according to the first passage that it is the Holy Spirit who is God who is the one blowing out scripture to man. This is called plenary inspiration - this means that all scripture is inspired by God in that every word is inspired by God, not dictated to men, but every word is the inspired word of God. God used these men and their particular personalities and natural abilities to write thes thing in their own wording, by that very wording is inspired completely by God and is not of their own invention, although it is not dictated. God did not speak in their minds and tell them, write this, nor did He speak out loud dictiating exactly how to write what He had in mind. He told some of them to go write these things down, but did not say specifically go write this, go write that. He did inspire them what to say, not how to say though. Hope this clears it up! God's Day To You, Tamara This is called |
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