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121 | DO WE KNOW EACH OTHER IN HEAVEN | Bible general Archive 1 | Reformer Joe | 64783 | ||
If we don't, I will introduce myself. --Joe! |
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122 | reincarnation and the Bible. | Mark 10:30 | Reformer Joe | 64610 | ||
Jesus is speaking of the members of the family of God. Notice that he says "in this time." He lists the benefits of forsaking all things for Christ. Notice also that persecution accompanies this. In addition, he speaks of eternal life in the world to come. So what Jesus speaks of first is what happens in this life, and then addresses the glorious future in heaven for those who trust in Jesus Christ. The Bible clearly teaches that it appointed for us to die only one time (Hebrews 9:27). Therefore, Christians need to understand that Jesus was not suggesting that we will live hundreds of times, but rather that we will have spiritual relatives in this life--the church. --Joe! |
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123 | reincarnation and the Bible. | Mark 10:30 | Reformer Joe | 64608 | ||
Jesus is speaking of the members of the family of God. Notice that he says "in this time." He lists the benefits of forsaking all things for Christ. Notice also that persecution accompanies this. In addition, he speaks of eternal life in the world to come. So what Jesus speaks of first is what happens in this life, and then addresses the glorious future in heaven for those who trust in Jesus Christ. The Bible clearly teaches that it appointed for us to die only one time (Hebrews 9:27). Therefore, Christians need to understand that Jesus was not suggesting that we will live hundreds of times, but rather that we will have spiritual relatives in this life--the church. --Joe! |
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124 | infant baptism | Acts 2:38 | Reformer Joe | 64585 | ||
The answer is not as cut-and-dried as Searcher suggests. Pro-covenant baptism arguments: http://public.csusm.edu/public/guests/rsclark/Covenant_Baptism.htm Pro-believer's baptism arguments http://www.desiringgod.org/library/sermons/99/082999.html http://www.desiringgod.org/library/sermons/97/052597.html Evaluate the arguments for yourself. There are good ones on both sides. --Joe! |
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125 | John4:22 | John 4:22 | Reformer Joe | 64349 | ||
Salvation is from the Jews in that Jesus was a Jew, and until the New Testament, salvation was given to people among the covenant people of Israel. God chose Abraham to be the ancestor of the Messiah, and likewise chose Isaac and then Jacob to be the children of the promise. God provided the oracles of God (the Law and prophets) to the nation of Israel, and the Messiah Himself was a Jew, born under the law. That isn't to say that salvation is only FOR the Jews, however. God promises Abraham that in him ALL the families of the earth will be blessed (Genesis 12:1-3). Isaiah testifies that salvation will be for all the nations (Isaiah 49:6). So, salvation is of the Jews because our savior became a Jew. --Joe! |
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126 | Predestination summary | Eph 1:3 | Reformer Joe | 64285 | ||
The Canons of Dort http://www.reformed.org/documents/canons_of_dordt.html That's not much of a summary...more like an extended explanation. A somewhat shorter explanation (although Hank is right about this not being a "sound-byte" kind of thing) can be found here: http://www.desiringgod.org/library/topics/doctrines_grace/summary.html http://www.desiringgod.org/library/topics/doctrines_grace/tulip.html My private email is in my info if you want to discuss it further, but it has really been throughly discussed here already. --Joe! |
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127 | Joe, | Luke 23:43 | Reformer Joe | 64280 | ||
You wrote: 'If He didn't go down to "get the keys" or "conquer death" what do you think He did do in the grave for those 3 days and 3 nights?' Well, as I said before, death was conquered on the Cross. I do not think the Bible says with any kind of certainty what Jesus (his human nature) did during the period of His death. --Joe! |
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128 | Did God want a family? | Is 43:7 | Reformer Joe | 64278 | ||
You won't find any in Scripture. God was lacking nothing before the creation. He created in order to display His glory, not out of any need for fellowship. --Joe! |
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129 | Jesus couldn't of gone up to heaven. | Luke 23:43 | Reformer Joe | 64185 | ||
Jesus didn't go get any keys. The atonement was accomplished on the cross (He did say, "It is finished," after all). Jesus' human nature was in the heart of the earth, but His divine nature, being omnipresent, was in heaven as well. --Joe! |
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130 | What is your understanding of the H.S.? | Matt 22:37 | Reformer Joe | 64182 | ||
First of all, the Holy Spirit is a "He," not an "it." The Holy Spirit is God, the third Person of the Trinity. "We believe and confess also that the Holy Spirit proceeds eternally from the Father and the Son-- neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but only proceeding from the two of them. In regard to order, he is the third person of the Trinity-- of one and the same essence, and majesty, and glory, with the Father and the Son. "He is true and eternal God, as the Holy Scriptures teach us." (Belgic Confession, Article 11) "Justifying faith is a saving grace, wrought in the heart of a sinner BY THE SPIRIT and Word of God, whereby he, being convinced of his sin and misery, and of the disability in himself and all other creatures to recover him out of his lost condition, not only assenteth to the truth of the promise of the gospel, but receiveth and resteth upon Christ and his righteousness, therein held forth, for pardon of sin, and for the accepting and accounting of his person righteous in the sight of God for salvation." (Westminster Larger Catechism, Answer #72). --Joe! |
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131 | Dying for our sins? | Rom 3:26 | Reformer Joe | 64159 | ||
"In Christianity the base of our belief was that Jesus died for our sins but why must God sacrifice his son to forgive us why couldnt he just forgive us?" Because a just God must punish sin. Justice is an immutable characteristic of the Christian God. Either Jesus faced God's just wrath for your sins or you will forever. "isnt he all powerfull and all loving how can a all loving father sacrifice his son just for a fruit that was eaten." He didn't. "And it also doesnt seem fair that all people before Jesus died with the original sin, why are they punished for something they didnt do doesnt seem logical" Rest assured: all non-Christians will pay for what they HAVE done. SIn is any failure to conform to God's law, or any transgression of God's law. Forget original sin; how about the sin that originated with you? --Joe! |
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132 | jesus | 1 John 2:22 | Reformer Joe | 64157 | ||
Isaac, First of all, please be honest enough to admit to the forum that you are not the Christian that you are portraying yourself to be. Now, to answer your questions: "Where did Jesus Christ say in his own words that he came to die for our sins?" Get a Bible and read these passages: Matthew 20:28 Mark 10:45 John 8:24 John 3:14-20 John 5:24 Luke 19:10 Matthew 16:13-19 Matthew 26:26-28 There's a start. By the way, the entire Bibel is true, so not only are Jesus' claims about himself true, but also the testimony of angels such as Gabriel (Matthew 1:21) and the apostles' testimony about him in the epistles. You wrote: "and why was Jesus sweating blood when the Jews were after him ?" Have you read the account in the Bible? The Bible makes it pretty clear why. "if he was suposed to die for us why would he be soo worried?" Who said anything about him being worried? --Joe! |
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133 | i did not get a satisfactory answer yet | Philippians | Reformer Joe | 64154 | ||
Well, how about responding to the answers given to you already and explaining WHY you find them to be so unsatisfactory? Are they unsatisfactory because you do not understand them? Do you need more clarification? Or is your will set against believing what the Bible teaches about Jesus Christ? --Joe! |
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134 | Paul's evil practices Pre or PostJesus | Rom 7:19 | Reformer Joe | 64110 | ||
I take the opposite position from Tim. I believe that Paul is describing his post-conversion life in Romans 7, and here are MY reasons: 1. Romans 1 through most of Romans 3 treats the spiritual condition of the unregenerate Jew and Gentile. From that point through most of Romans 5, Paul describes the role of Christ in our justification. After that point, Paul is describing why the Christian should not live in sin. In other words, he seems to be describing the sanctification of the believer. The whole thing seems to follow a chronology from unregenerate life to justification through faith in Christ to the "not letting sin reign" in our mortal bodies. 2. It is obvious that a Christian is not free from the struggle with sin, and all of us continue to fail. Paul did not attain sinless perfection in this life any more than I will, so it is not inconsistent with Paul's internal struggle described in Romans 7. 3. Paul writes "For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members." (Romans 7:22-23). The unsaved person does NOT joyfully concur with the Law of God. The pagan does not struggle between serving God and obeying the residual sin in his life, because the unsaved person does not do ANYTHING that pleases God (Romans 8:6-8). 4. Paul is describing a struggle between the flesh (commonly used in the epistles as a description of our tendency -- even as Christians -- to sin) and the mind. Paul even says in the last verse that he is serving the law of God with his mind, another thing not characteristic of the unsaved individual. --Joe! |
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135 | The muslim said to me | Phil 2:6 | Reformer Joe | 64091 | ||
You wrote: " Jesus used to often pray to God (Matt 14:23) Sonship implies father-son equality in characteristics. he son can do what his father can.Since the Father does not pray, neither should the son." Your Muslim contact certainly seems to have had an effect on you, Isaac. Don't be terribly alarmed, however. He is not being terribly intellectually honest. Notice what he said. First he said that if Jesus were the Son of God, He would be able to do what the Father does. That is very biblical. However, the Muslim went on to say that since the Father does not pray, neither should the Son. That is not a logical conclusion from what was said before. Where in the Bible does it say, first of all, that God CANNOT pray? The ability to pray and the actual activity of praying are two different things. Secondly, how does a son asking his father for something make him less of a son? That is just plain silliness. With all due respect, I think that if you want to meet the challenges of Islam, you need to study Christianity quite a bit more. I would recommend starting with some of the classical confessions which summarize the teachings of the Bible. Read them and take the time to understand the claims of Christianity a little more, because the Muslims you are talking with do not understand Christianity at all. Many of them can be found on the Internet, such as: --The Belgic Confession http://www.reformed.org/documents/BelgicConfession.html --The Heidelberg Catechism http://www.reformed.org/documents/heidelberg.html --The Westminster Shorter Catechism http://www.reformed.org/documents/wsc/index.html And if you want to examine the claims of Christianity vs. Islam, one of the best resources is a book entitled _Answering Islam_ by Norman Geisler and Abdul Saleeb. Any honest approach to understanding the Christian faith requires study, so I encourage you to take the time and energy to see and internalize the wonderful truths of Christianity and how it does stand up to all scrutiny. --Joe! |
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136 | Muslim missionaries said to me last week | Phil 2:7 | Reformer Joe | 64089 | ||
You wrote: "Had Jesus been God's begotten son, he would be have been equal to him in strength." And He was: "Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was." --John 17:5 You wrote: "The gospels depict a picture of Jesus as the weakest human who ever lived on earth!" Yes, He was depicted as the suffering servant Isaiah, seven centuries before, prophesied He would be: "For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, And like a root out of parched ground; He has no stately form or majesty That we should look upon Him, Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him. He was despised and forsaken of men, A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; And like one from whom men hide their face He was despised, and we did not esteem Him." --Isaiah 53:2-3 You wrote: "Jesus was taken for investigation, insulted, beaten, whipped, mocked and crucified without defending himself or being defend by his Father, as the gospels narrate!" ...which was the whole purpose for which Jesus came to earth: "Surely our griefs He Himself bore, And our sorrows He carried; Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, Smitten of God, and afflicted. But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed. All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all To fall on Him." --Isaiah 53:4-6 "Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross." --Philippians 2:6-8 And he willingly laid his life down to pay for the sins of Christians. He wasn't UNABLE to come down from the cross; he was UNWILLING to disobey the Father: "I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep." --John 10:11 "I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My own know Me, even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep." --John 10:14-15 "For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again. No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own initiative. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This commandment I received from My Father." --John 10:17-18 Tell me, Isaac: who in existence would have the authority not only to lay down one's own life (on one's own initiative), but then, following death, to take it up again? Jesus claimed to be God." What your Muslim contacts seem not to understand is that the crucifixion was no accident, but the very means by which the Son of God bore the sins of His people. Your Muslim contacts claim that he is a weak man. Ask them how weak a person has to be to bear the holy, infinite, and unrelenting wrath of God for every sin committed by every one of God's people from the beginning of history to the end of it? The Jesus of Christianity is no wimp. --Joe! |
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137 | Jesus | NT general Archive 1 | Reformer Joe | 64087 | ||
You wrote: "In the red letter bibles you can see Jesus Christ never said he was Gods beggoten son and he was equal to God, why is it not clear if its like the biggest part of our religion it makes no sense to me plz help :) from the heart" He did indeed claim to be God. If you are serious about investigating the doctrines of the Trinity, I recommend a book by James R. White entitled _The Forgotten Trinity_. You can find or order it from any large Christian bookstore or Internet site. --Joe! |
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138 | Gospel says | Luke 23:46 | Reformer Joe | 64078 | ||
Jesus has two natures: an eternal, uncreated one that cannot die (God), and one that was created for him in the womb of the virgin Mary (the human one). It is the human nature that died on the cross and came back to life. --Joe! |
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139 | Trinity? | 1 John 5:7 | Reformer Joe | 64077 | ||
No, it is not the cornerstone of the Trinity. The cornerstone of the Trinity are six separate teachings of the Old and New Testaments: 1. There is one God. 2. The Father is God. 3. The Son is God. 4. The Holy Spirit is God. 5. The Father is not the Son nor the Holy Spirit. 6. The Son is not the Holy Spirit. --Joe! |
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140 | Jesus Son of God? | Matt 1:1 | Reformer Joe | 64074 | ||
Jesus has two natures now. He has always been God. In time and space He took on a second, human nature. In His divine nature, He is the Son of God. In His human nature, he is the Son of David. --Joe! |
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