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Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Author: wdc Ordered by Verse |
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101 | Why do we disagree? | 1 Thessalonians | wdc | 2026 | ||
Charis, I have grown to value your opinion greatly. On what part did you disagree with what I said? |
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102 | Why do we disagree? | 1 Thessalonians | wdc | 2028 | ||
Charis, Is that Japanese? In Texas we would say 'scuse me. I thought it might be that statement about it not happening on earth. There will come a day when the earth shall be filled with His knowledge and glory, but that gets into an eschatological discussion. thanks for your quick reply, I might not have been able to sleep tonight. later...wdc |
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103 | Can anyone see Jesus in this life | 1 Tim 6:16 | wdc | 102725 | ||
Gentlemen, I don’t hold with most of the dreams and visions that we hear about today either. I would just like to share a thought here for I have been approached by some friends with questions like this also. They are members of an evangelical movement, and had a vision of Jesus telling them some new doctrine and some new understanding of some scripture verses. What Jesus was supposed to have told them did not agree at all with other scripture and it had to do with salvation and the endtime. John 14:21 21He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. Jesus promises to manifest Himself to those who has His commandments, keeps them, and loves Him. Strong’s says manifest means to exhibit in person or disclose by words. In verse 22 Judas ask’s how Jesus will manifest Himself to them and not to the world, probably since the world doesn’t keep the commandments of Jesus or love Him. Jesus answers in verse 23 that He will make His abode with that man. I understand this to mean or indicate the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. The indication here is also a strong love not only for Jesus, but for His word, the Bible. If someone claims to have seen Jesus, and received a message from Jesus, that message will without a doubt, correspond to the Words of Jesus, the Bible. 1 John 4:1 tells us that there are many spirits and voices out there doing their best to get our attention and to lead us away from the truth. We have to have a guide line or a plumb line if you would, to anchor us in truth so we don’t get lead astray, and God gave us two. The indwelling of the Holy Spirit to lead us to truth and away from error, and the second is the Bible, God’s inerrant word to man. I am not smart enough to cipher through all the voices that are calling to me in the world today, so I meditate daily on the word of God and keep my ear tuned to the leading of the Spirit. My friends told me that Jesus told these new things and that I should listen to them and follow these new teachings or I would be backsliden and ought of step with the work of Christ. They were exceptionally bold in their assertions because they believed their new teachings had come straight from Christ. They would not listen to reasoning to them from scripture, because what they had received superceded scripture. Needless to say, I don’t fellowship with them on a regular basis anymore. We must very careful in this day and age. Just a thought on this subject. Your brother in Christ, wdc |
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104 | Is NASB better than other translations? | 2 Tim 2:15 | wdc | 219220 | ||
If the NASB is so literal, why are there so many footnotes that say "lit" meaning literally? If that is what the scripture says literally, why didn't they print that? I want a Bible that says what it says literally, regardless of how it reads, that is why I am currenlty studying the Greek language, I hope to eventually be able to read the Greek text. I don't know if this will solve the battle going on in my heart, but maybe it will help. | ||||||
105 | What does this verse mean? | Heb 10:26 | wdc | 2002 | ||
What does this verse mean and how is it applied today? | ||||||
106 | What does this verse mean? | Heb 10:26 | wdc | 2011 | ||
I don't see anything about an apostate in the chapter. He is talking to believers that(v.19) have boldness to enter into the holiest, and then he says in verses 24 and 25: (Heb 10:24) And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: (Heb 10:25) Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. These do not sound like apostates to me, it sounds like what I try to do everyday to my fellow believers. Then he closes in verses 38 and 39 with incouragement not to draw back, but to go on in the faith. Maybe I don't understand what an apostate is. Help me out here. later...wdc |
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107 | Where is the message found? | 1 John 1:9 | wdc | 2973 | ||
Lifer, let me get in on this. I want to address two things here. First 1 Jn. 1:9. This is something all Christians should do. When we sin, it hinders our fellowship with God. The meaning of confess is to agree with God. When we confess our sins to God, we are agreeing with Him that what we did or didn't do is wrong, like He says it is, and that we now agree with Him on it. All our sin was paid for on the cross, but we still have to confess our sinfulness to Him and call upon His as Savior (Rom. 10:9-10) before we can be saved. The main problem with unconfessed sin is the consequences we face here in this life and that goes farther than lost followship, you can cut off your arm, and be forgiven for it, but you want have an arm anymore. So we confess our sin to put ourselves in agreement with God and to help us see more clearly the area's of our lives we need to work and get His help. Cmpare also the teaching of Jesus to Peter in John 13:1-15, esp. verse 10. The second is the Lord's supper or communion. I think there is a bad error in our teaching here. In the context of 1 Cor. 11, Paul is pretty much scolding them about the big parties they had turned the Lord's supper into and the factions and groups that had come out of it. Remember also the problems they had the gifts of the Spirit and spiritual pride. When he tells them they are partaking in an unworthy manner, he is not talking about that they hadn't confessed every known sin, but rather the actual way they were serving the supper. Notice verse 29: (1 Cor 11:29) "For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body." Not discerning the Lord's body. The Lord's body is one, not many groups and factions, as they had split into. Also discerning the Lord's body is understanding why He died on the cross for our sins and shed His blood. We cannot come to the Lord's table on our own merit, even if we could confess every sin we had committed since the last time we confessed to Him, and we can't, we still would not be worthy to stand before Him. But when we come to the table, understanding that the only way we are worthy is because He took our sin and imparted to us His righteousness, 2 Cor. 5:21, and He secured this for us by giving Himself on the cross, then we can partake at the table in a worthy manner. I don't see any problem with confessing any sin you know of before the Lord's supper, but do not think you are worthy because you have done so. Know that you are only worthy because Christ is in you, and you stand by His blood and His righteousness. Notice also verse 31, "For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged." How do we judge ourselves-- not worthy of what He has done. But when by faith we stand "in Him", God sees us in the righteousness of Jesus, and we are then worthy in God's eyes. So let us never be remiss in confessing our sin, 1 John 1:9, but let us never forget that we can stand before God only because of what Jesus has done for us. Hope this helps. later...wdc |
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108 | where has this verse gone | 1 John 5:7 | wdc | 985 | ||
The note that is used from the Scofield reference Bible is not in the early additions of Scofields notes. In other words, it was added after Scofield died. I have two Scofields, one of them from 1909, and the note is not there. These changes did not come about until recently, if you can call 30 or 40 years recently. Just thought I'd add my thoughts here. later...wdc |
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109 | Resurrection of 2 witnesses and Rapture? | Revelation | wdc | 14537 | ||
Tim, This passage may be helpful. 1 Thes. 5:1-9 (1) But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.(2) For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. (3) For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.(4) But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.(5) Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.(6) Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. (7)For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. (8) But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.(9)For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, The Bible never says that the day of the Lord will come upon the prepared, watching, faithful servant of God like a thief in the night. Most of the passages that use the phrase "thief in the night" refer to the servant that is not watching and ready, and says that the master is delaying his coming or will not come. In all the examples in the Bible that are types of the rapture or the return of the Lord, He always told them before the event happened. Noah and the flood, Lot being delivered for Sodom's destruction. (He also told Abraham). Notice that Paul tells them he does not need to write them about the seasons and times for they know perfectly well. We do to if we study scripture and pay attention. I know many people say we should not set dates, and this in no way tries to set dates. But I believe from reading the scripture, we can if, nothing else, know the season of His coming, it will not take us as a theif in the night. later...wdc |
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110 | Resurrection of 2 witnesses and Rapture? | Revelation | wdc | 14539 | ||
Retxar, There will be people that get saved during the tribulation period. I don't that the two witnesses get saved during the tribulation, they may already be saved and serving God in some capacity before the tribulation starts. Rev. 7:9-14, espicially verse 14, (13) And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?(14) And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. I believe there will be others that will come out of the tribulation as saints of God due to the witness of the 2 and also the witness of the 144,000. See also Rev. 6:9-11, I believe these people come out of the tribulation as saints of God. So there will be Christians in the tribulation. Some this is the Church, I guess that depends on your view of when the rapture takes place, pre, mid, or post. Hope this adds to the discussion. later...wdc |
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