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121 | Son of mean, what does it mean | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 20333 | ||
Please do a search ...................... Dear Towanda, A very good answer to this question has already been given. Please use the search box (top right corner) and type in "Son of Man Moran". This will bring up several posts, and the answer is dated: Thu 08/16/01. |
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122 | The Plan of God in an Arminian Nutshell | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 20678 | ||
Clarification .................................. Dear Dan K, I also appreciate your last posting regarding the two types of God's "will". If I understand you correctly, you are saying that God has a "sovereign will" which is unstopable and perfect, and a "permissive will" which is allowed by Him to be disrupted. I think that I agree with you completely. God does have a general will for all of the universe, to glorify Him. I believe that this is inevitable. No matter what choices anyone makes, in the end all glory will go to God. I also agree with you that there are times when something that appears to be against God's will ends up working for the best (ie. Joeseph's entire life). Romans 8:28 also gives me confidence that as a Christian, God always has my best interest at heart, and that in the end things will work out well for me (eternity in heaven with Him). However, I believe that within this framework of the eternal plan we live almost completely in the "permissive" system that God has set up. In one sense, God chose to set it up that way, so it is indirectly in His control. But in the lives of individuals, the choices that they make are completely their own. God's overall plan will be accomplished in the long term, but in the short term, earthly life of an individual that may not be the case. |
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123 | Amyraldianism, a 3rd choice or not? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 20680 | ||
Personal Note .................................. Dear Tim, Yes, I agree that the names they come up with for these things are not entirely helpful or easy :) I see your point about how the contradiction could be explained by a conditional election. However, I don't think that the Amyraldian viewpoint would support that type of election. Therefore, the contradiction seems to still be there. Hopefully someone else (perhaps Steve, who I think identifies with this perspective) will be able to explain this. |
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124 | What can you get your prayer life back? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 20715 | ||
Support, Experience ............................. Dear Yogi, Tim and Hank have both answered you well. It is true that the key to praying is to just pray. It is also true that prayer in Christianity is much more free than in many other religions. The exact words that are used are not as important as the attitude of your heart towards God. This all being said, I would like to share a couple of ideas that have helped me in the past in my own prayer life. 1. Focus on several parts of prayer individually. A common way to do this is to use the acronym ACTS (adoration, confession, thanksgiving, supplication). First focus on praising God for who He is (for example: creator, all-loving, a good listener, etc). Second focus on repentance of the sins in your life (for example: not spending enough time with God lately). Thirdly, focus on letting God know how much you appreciate the blessings He has given you (for example: the ability to think, food to eat, the colorful trees to look at, etc.) Fourthly, focus on asking God for the desires of your heart (for example: your relative to get well, your spouse to get that job, yourself to find a good church, etc.) 2. A second idea that helped me in the past was to pretend that God was sitting next to me at the lunch table, or in the passenger seat of the car. Then I would just talk to Him as I would talk to a very close friend, who was right there with me. A good example of this kind of prayer is found in the movie "Fiddler on the Roof". The main character, named Tev'ya, talks to God often in this conversational manner. 3. A third idea that helped me in the past was to keep a prayer journal of sorts. I would write down things that I prayed for, and then later go back and mark the ones that had been answered. That was a good way for me to clearly see how God had listened to my prayers and worked in my life and the lives of those around me. I would also write down any thoughts that God brought to my mind during my prayer time so that I could remember them as well. I hope that you may find one or more of these ideas to be helpful in your own prayer life, as I did in mine. Remember though that they are only suggestions, and it is important that you don't get caught up in just praying one way all the time or it can become merely routine, and lose it's meaning. |
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125 | Who were the witnesses? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21056 | ||
Support and Question ........................... Dear Angel-7, Welcome to the Forum :) I agree with your hypothosis that the two witnesses are Elijah and Enoch. I have thought the same thing for a long time. However, I also have a question regarding your suggestion that each person can literally only die once before the "judgement". How do you reconcile that belief with people like Lazarus, Jairus' daughter, and Dorcus? Each of them died, was ressurrected, and assumedly died a second time. I am curious what you think about them. |
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126 | Who were the witnesses? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21134 | ||
Personal Note ............................... Dear Angel-7, Don't worry about it. I was actually hoping you had an idea about how to reconcile those verses, as I have wondered about them for a while. Perhaps I'll start a new thread on that subject since it is not really the point of this thread. |
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127 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21147 | ||
Dear Forumites, I think that there has been a slight frustration building for quite some time regarding our forum here. Reformer Joe has recently articulated it well. There are many threads which are either of minimal value (see Kalos' questionable question post), or which leave little room for discussion (like where is such-and-such). Then there are the neverending discussions on issues such as Calvinism vs. Arminianism (with the recent additionof Amyraldianism). While these are still threads that need to be addressed on the forum, I believe that some of the most regular members (especially who have been here for a while) could lose interest. I wonder if this partially explains a trend that I discovered while looking at the history of the forum. There are some members who have been here forever like Kalos, Charis, and Hank. However, there are also many people who are very active and supportive for a time and then just kind of disappear. Some of these RCScroll, RElderCascade, Brent Douglass, Xapis, Heir of God, KBurgee, Melchizedekau, Reformedreader, Jim, InHzsvc, and GMsmith101. And there's also our most prolific poster Nolan Keck, who has been on sabatical for over a month. I think that it is worth addressing to discover a way that we could continue to improve the forum so that people will want to stay. Their experience and valuable input is sorely missed when they leave. What does everyone think? For those of you who have been here a long time, do you remember why some people left? Why have you stayed? Are people really frustrated, or do I interpret Reformer Joe and others incorrectly? |
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128 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21159 | ||
Dear Forumites, I have one idea that I think might help keep things fresh for long term members of our forum, while at the same time add significant value to this forum's usefulness. My idea is that individual members of the Forum could each volunteer to be responsible for one book of the Bible. Then over the next few months, they could each go through that book thouroughly adding comments and questions as they arise. This would help fill the void of so many verses that just haven't come up on their own. It would make a much more complete study aid for people looking for answers. And it would probably bring up a myriad of new thoughts and discussion topics that haven't been covered. I just think that we've been too REACTIVE on the forum so far, mainly responding to others questions and comments. Perhaps we should be more PROACTIVE by doing more complete and thorough Bible commentating. What does everybody think about this idea? Would anyone be willing to volunteer to take a book? |
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129 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21161 | ||
Personal Note ................................ Dear EdB, Thank you for such a helpful post. You seem to have a very complete list of reasons why people left. I am interested to hear what you think of my idea to combat some of these reasons. Also, since it seems that you have e-mail contact information for many of our lost contributors, do you think that you could invite them back? If we are able to make significant improvements, they might be interested in rejoining the group. |
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130 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21162 | ||
Personal Note .................................. Dear Hank, I would just like to say thanks. You have been here since practically the beginning of this forum, and I would like you to know that I appreciate all of the time and effort that you have put into it. You will probably not know (until heaven) the difference that you have made in some people's lives. Thanks again for sticking around, and keep up the good work. |
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131 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21167 | ||
Personal Note ................................... Dear Waldo, Thank you for sharing your sincere and heartfelt experiences. I would appreciate your thoughts about my idea to have people go through individual books of the Bible? |
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132 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21193 | ||
Personal Note ................................. Dear Schwartzkm, While I of course appreciate the honor of your nomination, I must respectfully decline. I am considering going through a book, however, I would probably prefer one a little less ... well, you know what I mean :) |
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133 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21194 | ||
Support ..................................... I completely agree with Tim on this issue. I think that having some of our leading members (on a volunteer basis of course) author studies on books of the Bible would accomplish both of these goals. |
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134 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21198 | ||
How can it work?................................ Dear Forumites, Waldo brings up a good question. How could we implement such a large undertaking. It would require a significant commitment to provide commentary on an entire book of the Bible. At the same time, there is a solution. To begin with, each person could choose a book whose size and complexity would be suitable for the amount of time that they were willing to put forth towards this goal. Someone with little time to contribute could do one of Peter's letters, while someone with more time could do a gospel, while someone else with a ton of time could do Genesis. There could of course be some circumstance that would cause a person to not be able to finish, but even if that were the case, progress would still have been made. Having commentary on half of Romans is better than just having it on the 20 verses that everyone talks about all the time. I would also recommend that a person who wanted to be responsible for a book of the Bible have some sort of minimum number of posts to the Forum already (perhaps 100). Of course, there's nothing to stop anyone from doing this sort of thing on their own, but I think that it would be important to have some sort of way to ensure that such an important task was handled respectfully. Also by having a history of posts from the author, one would be able to see where that person was comming from more clearly. This would help us all take individual comments that a person would make about a book in the context of their overall beliefs. This would also probably diminish "knee-jerk" objections to that often have led to long debates that are eventually discovered to be based purely on a misunderstanding. So what's everybody think? Could we make this work? Are you willing to try it? I think that God has assembled a collection of very gifted and Godly Christians in this Forum, and would like to see this happen. Are there people ready to make some commitment? |
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135 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21204 | ||
Personal Note .................................. I hate to leave while this all gets figured out, but I've got to take off for the weekend. I'll look forward to comming back Monday to see what you guys figure out. P.S. One other post mentioned how there will still be people comming to visit the Forum and ask questions that aren't related to specific passages. I would recommend that we of course keep trying to help answer those people and point them in the right direction. This new idea is not to replace that, but to supplement it. |
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136 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21427 | ||
Contrary View .................................. Dear EdB, I think that it would be better for several different leaders on the Forum to each be going through books simultaneously rather than just start at Genesis 1:1. For one thing, I think that we would cover more ground, more quickly. Secondly, I think that would help keep the forum as a whole more balanced between focusing on the OT and NT, as well as different types of books (history, prophecy, poetry, etc.). Thirdly, I think that there would be more of a unified voice in the commentaries if there was only one person primarily responsible for each book. Of course everyone would be able to join in to discuss things, but the overall outlook would at least have some consistency. Lastly, I think that it would be better for accountablility. If a job is the responsibility of "everyone", then it often ends up being accomplished by "no one" because "each one" thinks "someone else" is going to do it. |
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137 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21440 | ||
Looking for commitments ......................... Dear Forumites, I would first like to thank Tim Moran for being the first forum leader to be willing to commit to providing commentary on a book of the Bible. From the posts so far, it looks to be a very thorough and interesting study of 1 Peter. So who else would be willing to commit. Nolan, you mentioned you were thinking about picking a book. And Swartzkm, you're often talking about how much you value the input of the people here on the forum, directly instead of just quoting others. This would be a chance for you to start add a lot of primary thoughts. Hank, you mentioned that the forum would be improved with a stronger sense of purpose. I think that this is a great endeavor to accomplish just that, and it could use your help. Searcher (Steve Butler), you mentioned that you're somewhat frustrated by the repetition on the forum. For you this would be a great chance to cover some new territory and bring up new thoughts for others to ponder. Finally, Prayon, you brought up the observation that this forum is a terriffic opportunity to witness to others and enlighten "baby Christians". This would give you a chance to provide answers for many verses that future visitors to the forum will be able to use to answer questions that they have. All of the people, who I just mentioned, would IMHO, be excellent leaders of individual books of the Bible. I can only hope that they would have the desire to choose to commit to making it happen. From a logistic standpoint, I would recommend that since Tim Moran has already chosen a NT letter, we try to vary things a bit with our other books. Perhaps someone could take a gospel, someone else could take a minor prophet, a third person could take a book of history, and a fourth person could take a book of poetry. I will see what others volunteer for and then take a book from whatever category is left over. Finally, I would suggest that each time a person adds a primary note on a verse of the book they are leading the discussion on, that they also add a first response. That would keep all those posts from filling up the box of "primary notes without responses". This first response could just be a period, or could be a welcome for feedback, or even an email address to send questions to. |
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138 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21449 | ||
Contrary View ................................... Dear EdB, I understand your hesitency, for this is a large undertaking. However, I also find it hard to believe that there could be anything but good things to come out of a thorough commentary of several books of the Bible. Therefore, I would say let's go ahead and do several at once. We typically have questions that come from all over anyway, so this won't be any more confusing. I understand that you aren't completely "sold" on the idea yet, but perhaps some other forum leaders are ready to jump in already. |
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139 | Only seal and horse in same verse Rev6:5 | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21456 | ||
Personal Note ................................... Dear Casiv, Let me begin by reminding you that I have never to my knowledge attacked you personally on this forum. In fact, I have recently tried to heal some of the rift between yourself and several other members here. I have tried to encourage everyone to be respectful in their posts to you, whether they agree with you or not. This being said, I was dissapointed by your last post. You began by saying, "I am not trying to be mean", implying that you suspected that your comments were mean-spirited. I would confirm that your suspicion was correct. EdB simply asked for clarification as to whether you believed the "mark of the beast" to be of a physical nature (on the hand or forehead), or only an ideology. A sufficient answer that gets the same point as your last post would have been, "I (Casiv) believe that the mark of the beast is purely ideological, because there is not enough room on a person's forehead to physically write it in all the languages of the world". However, this is not how you answered. Instead, you post came across as condescending, inflamatory, and went into subjects that aren't even being discussed (such as the USA's monetary system). I hope that you will reconsider your method of communication and will see that it encourages others to reply to you unfavorably. I do not excuse others for responding in an un-Christ-like manner. But at the same time, if you are a Christian, then it is wrong of you to "provoke" them. It appeared recently that your posts were becoming more thought through, but this last post was IMHO uncalled for. |
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140 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21461 | ||
Personal Note .................................. Dear EdB, I am not sure which of these options is better, since I have not read the material. If you think that the information would be helpful to the Forum as a whole (and you have permission to share it), then I would suggest posting it. If on the other hand, you feel that it is not truly important information to anyone but myself (or if you feel that privacy is important), then feel free to e-mail it to me. As for my e-mail address, I have up to this point remained rather anonymous on this forum, partly for privacy and safety, while I tested out what the forum was like. I haven't really revealed a whole lot in my user profile. This was also intentional, so that people could get to know me without preconceived ideas based on my religious background (ie. Arminianism). However, I have been here now for many months, and have developed an appreciation for this forum and so many of my colleagues here. I also feel that I have established a personality here with even some amount of respect (amazing considering the initial response to my user name). Therefore, I believe that it is time to share significantly more about myself with you all. In the very near future, therefore, I will be updating my user profile, and look forward to continuing to develop the new friendships that I have found here. |
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