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11001 | What is missionary dating? | 2 Cor 6:14 | DocTrinsograce | 125271 | ||
This behavior is contraindicated for the believer by scripture. My mother used to say, "You marry who you date." Given that aphorism and this scripture passage makes things pretty clear. (One could also challange the entire modern notion of dating, but I will leave that to others.) | ||||||
11002 | don't see who his wife parents are | Gen 4:17 | DocTrinsograce | 125269 | ||
With no other scripture passage to explicitly tell us, we cannot identify her parents. However, who ever her parents were, they must necessarily have been descendants of Adam and Eve. Perhaps this woman was even a sister of Cain. There is precedence for this in scripture: Sarah was the half-sister of Abraham. Due to degredation of the genetic pool, many generations later, Moses prohibitted inter-marriage by close relatives. | ||||||
11003 | Seeing their lawless deeds. | 2 Pet 2:8 | DocTrinsograce | 125267 | ||
All Lot had to do was close his door to shut out the view of lawless deeds. But we actually pay someone to pipe the images of people doing lawless deeds into our homes in a far more concentrated form than Lot ever witnessed. Do we need any further scriptures to encourage us to turn off our televisions? | ||||||
11004 | Six sins Lord hates; Seven detestable | Prov 6:16 | DocTrinsograce | 125265 | ||
That is a request, dear sister, that you can bank on! Per James 1:5 God is always ready to give us wisdom. That verse further says that God does so "without reproach." To me, that's the penultimate "There are no dumb questions." What a gracious God we have! Thank you for your question and for your subsequent response. Please pray with me that God will grant us both greater wisdom... but more than that, that we will grow in our knowledge of Him! | ||||||
11005 | How do you humble yourself? | James 4:10 | DocTrinsograce | 125252 | ||
"God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble" is an aphorism that is repeated in James 4:6 and in 1 Peter 5:5. In my experience, humility has only come through humiliation, and I am thankful to the Lord for His Hebrews 12 ministrations! Nevertheless, this passage calls us to actively humble ourselves. I am interested in knowing how others believe this is done. Is this strictly a matter of how we "reckon" ourselves? Has anyone found a way to implement this in their daily walk with our Lord? |
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11006 | Significance of gourds in TEmple | 1 Kin 6:18 | DocTrinsograce | 125247 | ||
I believe your reference is 1 Kings 6:18. In my very humble opinion, a better translation of the word "gourd" might be egg. The passage does appear to be talking about a shape or design. Its possible that it is just an architectural form common at the time. Alternatively, perhaps these designs refer to fruitfulness. We do not have any scriptural reason to assume that they had more significance than this. We must be careful not to over spiritualize things. Scripture is used to interpret scripture. Since this is the only reference to these gourd-shaped-carvings, perhaps they are just gourd-shaped-carvings. | ||||||
11007 | What or where does "outer darkness" mean | Job 10:22 | DocTrinsograce | 125245 | ||
The old Baptist comentator John Gill states that the phrase "outer darkness" refers to "the Gentile world, and into judicial blindness and darkness of mind, and into the blackness of darkness in hell..." He sites several Rabinical sources to make his case. Matthew Henry also compares these verses with Job 10:22. | ||||||
11008 | "What things?" | Luke 24:19 | DocTrinsograce | 125243 | ||
In this verse Christ is responding to a question with a question. The disciples asked Him "Are you a stranger who does not know these things?" Although He does not yet reveal Himself, so he supports their assumption that He is a stranger who hasn't heard the latest news. We know that God cannot lie... clearly this cannot be construed as a falsehood. Nevertheless, it does sound misleading. What do you think about this? | ||||||
11009 | Crucified with Christ | Gal 2:20 | DocTrinsograce | 125242 | ||
Paul uses the phrase "I am crucified with Christ." This is not the only epistle in which he uses language like this. (See Romans and elsewhere.) I am curious to know how others see this phrase. Do you see it as a metaphore, or do you think that in some more literal way we are crucified right along with Christ in His crucifiction? |
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11010 | This seesm to point to preordination (I | Eph 1:4 | DocTrinsograce | 125240 | ||
I agree... Please excuse my interjection. I agree that we have free will. However, salvation is not a matter of human will. John 1:12-13 says that it was a matter of God's will. Note also in Ephesians 2 that it is only God who is acting. We can take no credit for our salvation even in the tiniest degreee. This is very precious and very humbling. There is nothing in me that warranted His choice of me. The wonder is not that God did not choose some, the wonder is that He chose anyone! Remember, even God has limitted power of the will. God can do nothing that is contrary to His nature. God can do nothing that He does not want to do. But is that really different than any sapient being? We cannot do anything contrary to our nature. Even a dog cannot be a bird just by willing it to be true. |
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11011 | is it ok to kill? | Eccl 3:3 | DocTrinsograce | 125227 | ||
Yes, sometimes we must use violence in order to prevent a greater sin. Note that the intent is not for any self centered or empassioned reasons. The difference is that as believers, as soon as the sinful act has been prevented, we immediately seek to aid the injured would-be-criminal by calling an ambulance. Nevertheless, I pray that God will not see fit to place me into such a situation. | ||||||
11012 | Predestination | Eph 1:4 | DocTrinsograce | 125226 | ||
Regeneration always preceeds conversion. Lazarus needed healing and resurection before he could respond to the command to come forth. | ||||||
11013 | Jesus questioned Peter's love? | John 21:15 | DocTrinsograce | 125224 | ||
In my humble opinion, I believe He questioned Peter three times so that Peter could affirm Him once for each denial. Nothing magical here, just Christ being gracious and forgiving. However, something does seem to be revealed in that when Christ asked "Do you love me?" He used the word agape. However, when Peter answered, "You know that I love you" Peter used the words "phileo." | ||||||
11014 | Has God already chosen who he would save | Eph 1:4 | DocTrinsograce | 125222 | ||
Matthew 22:14 says that many are called but few chosen. Romans 8:30 states that the called are saved. Job 21:30 states that the wicked are preserved for judgement. God does the converting, we simply proclaim the truth. We take the gospel to a dying world because we are commanded to do so by the Lord. (He preached to and healed some of the very people who shouted "crucify Him!") I recall a quote by C. H. Spurgeon, "If God painted a yellow stripe down the back of every elect person, I would go around London lifting up shirt tails. Since He has not chosen to do that, I must preach to all men." I hope this helps. |
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11015 | describe the different loves agape etc, | John 21:15 | DocTrinsograce | 125217 | ||
The two most frequent Greek words in the NT that we translate as "love" are agape and phileo. See Strongs 25 and 26 for agape and 5368 for phileo. Agape is a total and sacrificial kind of love. Phileo is a strong affection. In Greek there is also a word eros that refers to the sexual affection. | ||||||
11016 | Six sins Lord hates; Seven detestable | Prov 6:16 | DocTrinsograce | 125214 | ||
In my exceedingly humble opinion, what you are seeing in Proverbs 6:16 with the "six" and then "seven" is a Hebraic literary idiom. (The seven things are itemized in verses 17 through 20.) Regarding "hate" versus "detest" I believe this is another literary device. The Old Testament is full of phrases that are repeated in this fashion, but mean the same thing, probably done for emphasis. A modern example might be if I said to you, "I am looking for a job. Yes, I'm really pounding the pavement." | ||||||
11017 | SEARCHING FOR THE TRUTH | Luke 10:27 | DocTrinsograce | 125212 | ||
In my exceedingly humble opinion: "following" Christ is being obedient to God Who has commanded all men to believe/obey His Son. This seems clearly stated in John 3:36. (Please forgive me if it was not appropriate for me to interject in this discussion.) | ||||||
11018 | speaking in tongues 1cor.12:1coming | Eph 1:13 | DocTrinsograce | 125209 | ||
Answer to question 1: When we believe, we are sealed by the Spirit. See Ephesians 1:13. It is not a separate event. See Romans 8:9, 1 Peter 1:2, 2 Thes 2:13. | ||||||
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