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121 | Who told the people not to drink water | Bible general Archive 4 | Bill Richardson | 231006 | ||
There are many such passages in the Bible; I found 20 of them when I inserted the words "not drink water" in the Search Engine of my online version of the the Bible, BibleGateway. It's difficult to know the one to which you're referring. Do you have anything more to help pinpoint the passage? Go with God in all things, Bill |
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122 | bodies | Phil 3:21 | Bill Richardson | 231004 | ||
The last verse of this passage seems to be close to that for which you're looking. Thus it also seems clear this takes place after we reach Heaven. Phil 3:17 Brethren, join in following my example, and note those who so walk, as you have us for a pattern. 18 For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame—who set their mind on earthly things. 20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself. Go with God in all things, Bill |
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123 | Church and addiction | NT general | Bill Richardson | 230894 | ||
What I'm trying to figure out is why there is such a big need for such a question. That sudden question from you coupled with the deletion of my previous post on this thread of conversation seemed terribly suggestive. Do you have any idea as why or who deleted my post? If so, I'd like to know the reasons as to why and how to avoid so much waste of my time and effort in the future. Please advise. Thanks in advance. Go with God in all things. Bill |
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124 | Church and addiction | NT general | Bill Richardson | 230892 | ||
Dear Beja, Sorry, I'm just another christian. Are my posts on this Forum really that repulsive to you and to BradK? Please tell me how they are so repulsive and I'll do my best to improve. Please, Please, PLEASE advise. Very sincerely, Bill |
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125 | Symbolic meaning of a "well" | OT general | Bill Richardson | 230891 | ||
Well said my dear friend Azure. The most powerful example (of which I can think) of what Azure is saying in response to Anjaromanov's query is from Jesus Himself from John 4. In that story, Jesus meets a Samaritan woman at a well. Notice even His disciples question their Lord's Wisdom in speaking with this woman. And Jesus shares one of the most powerful and profound facts of the future recorded in the Bible, in my humble opinion. Jn 4:19 The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.” 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22 You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. 23 BUT THE HOUR IS COMING, AND NOW IS, WHEN THE TRUE WORSHIPERS WILL WORSHIP THE FATHER IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH; FOR THE FATHER IS SEEKING SUCH TO WORSHIP HIM. 24 GOD IS SPIRIT, AND THOSE WHO WORSHIP HIM MUST WORSHIP IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH.” What are we to take away from this story? I'm thinking the most powerful point is: We should just trust our Lord, most especially when He says something bizarre in our thinking. We should look at whatever it is we're considering and re-think about it after discarding all the prejudices from our world of humanity and try to see the subject from God's perspective. But back to the business of the well as has been mentioned. To me, it just seems this is another case of people gathering at the "watering hole" as in the western movies or around the "water fountain" at our place of employment. It seems natural for us to pause for a moment, enjoy the bit of refreshment and talk with those others gathered at the same place, same time. I have to agree with Azure; nothing mysterious about it. We do need to take God's Word as straight forward as possible with the best Commentary coming from other scriptures between Genesis 1 to Revelation 22. The passages with figurative language do lend themselves to much controversy but the most important item to remember is to gather a message from these figurative passages in compliment to the rest of our Bible as reflected in... 1 Cor 14:33 For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints. Go with God in all things, Bill |
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126 | why did the angel tell cornelius to send | Acts | Bill Richardson | 230889 | ||
It's very curious that you've answered your own question. This passage presents a fantastic story, especially for us military. Are you really interested in discussing this story and its implications for the whole world? If so, I'd be interested in such a dialouge. Go with God in all things and you'll be Blessed. Bill |
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127 | Plan for people who will never be saved? | NT general | Bill Richardson | 230888 | ||
This is a very controversial subject. So there seems to be a contradiction among some scriptures as follows: John 3:16-17, Acts 17:30 and the ominous warning in Matt 7:13-14. "Yes, God so loved the world..." and He wants ALL of us to repent. He even warns us of the consequences of our choices, Heaven or Hell. So what are we to conclude from all this? He Created us with His very own Image, our soul and conscience with which we'll carry forever into eternity. AND God gives us all the ability to choose which path we want to follow; we call it our "Free Will." 2 Cor 8:3 For I bear witness that according to their ability, yes, and beyond their ability, they were freely willing, 4 imploring us with much urgency that we would receive the gift and the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. We need to remember our Lord and Creator looks at us as His Creation, in the same way an earthly parent looks at his child, Matt 18:2-5. We all know and realize children can grow up and become one of two things. They can grow up to be a contributing member of society. OR they can grow up to be a deviant to some degree, maybe even land in prison or get themselves executed. Yes imagine those greiving parents. So our God does want us ALL to come home to Him, to the Heavenly Mansion He's got waiting for us but it's up us to accept that Gift and to obey His Commands. Samuel revealed this very basic, timeless Truth to King Saul long ago in... 1 Sam 15:22 So Samuel said: “Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams. We all know the wonderful feeling of a parent when his child obeys and does indeed follow the parent's wishes for his life. AND we've heard about the results and empathize with a greiving parent when their child becomes an awful criminal and ends up killing someone or many. Yes, so very, VERY sad. But let's all think about this for a moment. Do we allow such a hardened criminal to run free among us, continuing his pillage of society and run amok, killing and robbing or whatever else he chooses? I think we all know the answer to that. Now let's put ourselves in the place of our God. You've probably seen the E-Mail that's making the rounds. The world has got some horrible disease and it's running rampant, killing thousands, maybe millions. The medical community discovers our one and only son has the perfect cure running in his viens. Yes, his blood can save the whole world but those insane doctors need ALL of our son's blood to do it. Then we run into one individual who has the disease and refuses to take the cure. He even takes the vial and stomps on it in disgust, depriving someone else of that life-saving serum. You tell me, do we feel any pity for such an individual? Yes, I agree with you; a rather extreme, very extreme story. And our reaction is naturally human whereas our God is the all-powerful Almighty with all those omni-traits. So is it too much to believe that He really will send the disobedient and selfish people to Hell? I have to say I believe what He says. So should we become christians out of fear? Some do but I'm thinking we all find out it's great to be a child of God as you can still have fun with fellow christians. I know; I have fun every day. I cut up and act like a clown all the time; just ask my wife and kids, my grandkids. Well that's about all I can think to say. Yeah, maybe even a bit too much. Appreciate your patience in reading this far. And as always, Go with God in everything, Bill |
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128 | what is a major and minor prophet? | OT general | Bill Richardson | 230883 | ||
The disignation "major and minor" prophet was assigned to the writings of God's prophets long ago and really doesn't mean anything like that as we would use those terms today. They really apply more to the size of their respective books and certainly doesn't mean anything like superiority of one over the other. The books of the Minor Prophets are the last 12 books of the OT: Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi. Whereas the books of the Major Prophets are known as Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel and Daniel. The focus of the minor prophets was usually pretty narrow. For example, in Hosea, God is telling His Beloved Jewish nation how much He hates their unfaithfulness just as Hosea hates his prostitute wife's unfaithfulness. In the books of the Major Prophets, God covers many more characters in the story with many more details. In all 17 of these books, God is expressing His Displeasure with Israel's constant going back and forth between God and their false idols. Go with God in all things, Bill |
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129 | how is the bible divided | Bible general Archive 4 | Bill Richardson | 230880 | ||
The first 5 books of the OT is known as the Pentatuch. The next 12 books are known as the History Section. Next is the 5 books of Poetry and Wisdom. Most of were written by Solomon. The next section of 5 books are known as the Major Prophets, not because of their superiority over the next section but most probably because of their size. The last section in the OT is the 12 books of the Minor Prophets. In the NT, the first 4 books are known as the Gospels as they tell the Good News of Jesus Christ, His Life, Ministry, Death, Burial and Ressurection. The next is the one single book of History for the NT. Next are all the 21 epistles (letters) written mostly by the Apostles; Paul wrote 13 of them himself. The last book is known as the book of Prophecy as it tell of many events in the future from the perspective of the 1st century. In the case of dividing up the Bible into chapters and verses, it's helpful to remember the writers of the Hebrew and Greek world didn't use caapitalization, punctuation or even a way of ending sentences as we do today. So it took someone who knew Koine Greek to understand the meaning and intent of the 1st century writers. The writers of the ancient world would take up many scrolls, mostly made of vellum, a document made of animal tissues. Sometimes it would take many, many scrolls, expecially on the long books like in the Pentatuch. Also they didn't divide their scrolls into chapters and verses we take so much for granted in today's modern world of quick and easy references. I discovered this section of Wikipedia which is most helpful about this latter innovation, which happened in different centuries. Chapters The original manuscripts did not contain the chapter and verse divisions in the numbered form familiar to modern readers. Some portions of the original Hebrew texts were logically divided into parts following the Hebrew alphabet;[citation needed] for instance, the earliest known copies of the Book of Isaiah use Hebrew letters for paragraph divisions. (This was different from the acrostic structure of certain texts following the Hebrew alphabet, such as Psalm 119 and most of the Book of Lamentations.) There are other divisions from various sources which are different from what we use today. The Hebrew Bible began to be put into sections before the Babylonian Captivity (586 BC)[citation needed] with the five books of Moses being put into a 154-section reading program to be used in a three-year cycle. Later (before 536 BC[citation needed]) the Law was put into 54 sections and 669 sub-divisions for reading. By the time of the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, the New Testament had been divided into paragraphs, although the divisions were different from the modern Bible. Archbishop Stephen Langton and Cardinal Hugo de Sancto Caro developed different schemas for systematic division of the Bible in the early 13th century. It is the system of Archbishop Langton on which the modern chapter divisions are based. Verses For at least a thousand years the Tanakh has contained an extensive system of multiple levels of section, paragraph, and phrasal divisions that were indicated in Masoretic vocalization and cantillation markings.[citation needed] One of the most frequent of these was a special type of punctuation, the sof passuq, symbol for a full stop or sentence break, resembling the colon (:) of English and Latin orthography. With the advent of the printing press and the translation of the Bible into English, Old Testament versifications were made that correspond predominantly with the existing Hebrew full stops, with a few isolated exceptions. A product of meticulous labour and unwearying attention, the Old Testament verse divisions stand today in essentially the same places as they have been passed down since antiquity. Most attribute these to Rabbi Isaac Nathan ben Kalonymus's work for the first Hebrew Bible concordance around 1440.[2] The first person to divide New Testament chapters into verses was Italian Dominican biblical scholar Santi Pagnini (1470–1541), but his system was never widely adopted. Robert Estienne created an alternate numbering in his 1551 edition of the Greek New Testament which was also used in his 1553 publication of the Bible in French. Estienne's system of division was widely adopted, and it is this system which is found in almost all modern bibles. The first English New Testament to use the verse divisions was a 1557 translation by William Whittingham (c. 1524-1579). The first Bible in English to use both chapters and verses was the Geneva Bible published shortly afterwards in 1560. These verse divisions soon gained acceptance as a standard way to notate verses, and have since been used in nearly all English Bibles and the vast majority of those in other languages. End of article from Wikipedia. Hope this helps and Go with God in all things. Bill |
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130 | effect Christ's return on us | NT general | Bill Richardson | 230873 | ||
The clearest answer of which I can think is from Jesus Himself in... Matt 25:31 “When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. 32 All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. 33 And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. 34 Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; 36 I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.’ 37 “Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? 38 When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You? 39 Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’ 40 And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’ 41 “Then He will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels: 42 for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink; 43 I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’ 44 “Then they also will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’ 45 Then He will answer them, saying, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.’ 46 And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.” Go with God in all things, Bill |
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131 | How many chapters are in the bible? | Bible general Archive 4 | Bill Richardson | 230871 | ||
From Wikipedia: "There are 929 chapters in the Old Testament and 260 chapters in the New Testament. This gives a total of 1,189 chapters." Go with God in all things. Bill |
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132 | how is the bible divided | Bible general Archive 4 | Bill Richardson | 230868 | ||
Ashanti, There is a traditional manner of dividing the Bible, grouping the books by topic, both the OT and NT. I can provide if that is type for which you're looking. If on the other hand, you're interested in the background (when and by whom) on the division of chapters and verses, that will take a little more research but that too can be done. Please advise. Go with God in all things. Bill |
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133 | Church and addiction | NT general | Bill Richardson | 230855 | ||
I must admit; I don't know exactly to respond to all this. I posted my response to you just this morning, 9:18 AM with over a dozen scriptures to support my position. I go to Bible Class and Worship with fellow christians and come back to the Forum, discover my latest post has been deleted. Whew! All that work, copying and pasting wasted. And now you ask me about this other fellow, Inquisitor. Am I to infer some hidden message here? Am I being punished without a proper hearing or trial? Can you please explain all this to me? Did you delete my previous post? If so, please tell me why. And you call this "Speaking the Truth in Love"? Please elaborate how your words and actions qualifies in this regard. A little disappointed in my fellow children of God. Bill |
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134 | Church and addiction | NT general | Bill Richardson | 230843 | ||
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135 | Church and addiction | NT general | Bill Richardson | 230841 | ||
I'm thinking the perfect analogy to all this is the one from our Lord... Matt 9:10 Now it happened, as Jesus sat at the table in the house, that behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Him and His disciples. 11 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to His disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” 12 When Jesus heard that, He said to them, “THOSE WHO ARE WELL HAVE NO NEED OF A PHYSICIAN, BUT THOSE WHO ARE SICK. 13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.” When we as patients go to our doctor, we rely on him/her to figure out our ailment, prescribe the correct medicine and/or treatment, i.e. therapy, etc. IF we don't follow the doctor's instructions, we can't blame him if we don't get well. We only have ourselves to blame. In the same line of reasoning, our Lord knows our problem and has issued the prescription for all mankind. It's up to us to accept His Wisdom and follow His Commands to rid our souls of the dark blight of sin. IF we don't follow His Commands, then we only have ourselves to blame on Judgment Day. Good discussion. Go with God and all His Commands and He'll Bless us with His Home in Heaven. Bill |
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136 | When do we go to heaven? | NT general | Bill Richardson | 230836 | ||
This too is a very controversial subject. Some believe in the rapture and some don't. Two scriptures that say a lot to me: Heb 9:27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, 28 so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation. 2 Pet 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. 11 Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, 12 looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. Beyond the obvious Guidance reflected above, I can't elaborate much more. I do like to repeat an axiom learned in my childhood: "The Bible is own best Commentary." Go with God in all things and study ALL of His Word. Bill |
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137 | how is the bible divided | Bible general Archive 4 | Bill Richardson | 230834 | ||
Ashanti, Azure makes a good point to you with his request for more information. I assume you're talking about something more than just the division of the Old Testament from the New Testament. Then there's the books spanning 1600 years of writing from authors spanning every occupation you can think of, at least back then. Then there's the division of the chapters and verses which happened separately and didn't happen until just a few centuries ago. So what exactly are you asking? Please be specific. Thanks in advance and as always, Go with God in all things and He will Bless you. Bill |
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138 | why id paul oppose circusission | NT general | Bill Richardson | 230833 | ||
This is in supplement to Steve's and MJH's good responses. I think it's interesting to note that yes indeed Paul did encourage and succeeded in having Timothy circumcised so that he could be a more useful vessel in God's Hands to the Jewish nation after Paul's passing. You see, although Paul did leave the Jewish nation "with the dust off his feet," he really did care a great deal for his former heritage. Now the most interesting tidbit not here mentioned, at least on this thread of discussion is his other "son of the faith," Titus. With him, Paul defended rather aggressively his option NOT to be circumcised because his ministry was to the Gentiles as shown in... Gal 2:1 Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and also took Titus with me. 2 And I went up by revelation, and communicated to them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those who were of reputation, lest by any means I might run, or had run, in vain. 3 Yet not even Titus who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised. 4 And this occurred because of false brethren secretly brought in (who came in by stealth to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage), 5 to whom we did not yield submission even for an hour, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you. So we see even after Paul's passing from this world, he provided for two different ministers, his sons of the faith to carry on his mission to 2 different groups of people, of "being all things to all people to win some" to Christ. Yeah, what a guy! Go with God in all things, Bill |
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139 | What is the meaning? | NT general | Bill Richardson | 230832 | ||
Just a correction on the post above: Matt 13:48 Now when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of the Lord. And as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed. 49 And the word of the Lord was being spread throughout all the region. 50 But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, raised up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them from their region. 51 But they shook off the dust from their feet against them, and came to Iconium. 52 And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit. This quote is from the Book of Acts, not Matthew; the chapter and verse are correct however. Sometimes my keyboard just needs retraining. Ha-Ha. Thanks for your patience. Proofreading is sometimes a challenge. Go with God always. Bill |
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140 | middle east termoil bible time to now | NT general | Bill Richardson | 230829 | ||
Quoted from your post: "the bible makes reference of the middle east being at war or in termoil forever" I don't know of any such statement in the Bible. You may be quoting someone who changed it a little bit from the following... Matt 24:3 Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?” 4 And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you. 5 For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many. 6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows. This is another very controversial passage as many interpret Jesus as talking about the ending of the Jewish nation which ended in 70 AD. Others interpret these verses as referring to the end of our universe and the start of Judgment Day. I'm thinking you could insert key words as mentioned above into the Search Engine on the right of your screen and find a multitude of posts discussing these two topics ad nauseum. Go with God in all things, Bill PS: One hint is the understanding of verse 34 and its ultimate purpose. |
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