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Results from: Answers On or After: Thu 12/31/70 Author: Reformer Joe Ordered by Verse |
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141 | Does Satan have free will? | Job 2:6 | Reformer Joe | 4572 | ||
I don't know about "often," but Scripture tells us taht he does it. In Matthew 4, the Holy Spirit even leads Jesus out to be tempted by Satan. Just as God is not the author of our sin but fits it into the grand scheme that ends up with God and the church victorious, he also uses Satan's hatred of God to his purposes as well. One only needs to read through the rest of the book of Job to see how God uses even his enemies to his glory. --Joe! |
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142 | Can Satan hear our verbal prayers? | Psalm | Reformer Joe | 33257 | ||
I suppose if he is right there he can hear you. Remember that Satan is not omniscient or omnipresent like God. And he is certainly not omnipotent, so him hearing a prayer here or there certainly doesn't give Him the power to thwart the purposes of Almighty God. --Joe! |
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143 | Meaning of christian to be deep rooted? | Ps 1:2 | Reformer Joe | 45962 | ||
The previous verse answers the question. By delighting in the instruction of the Lord, by meditating upon it day and night, we develop a "root system" that is well-nourished by streams of the living water (John 4) and we will grow strong and sturdy in the Lord. What a wonderful thing it is to know that a disciplined study of the "spiritual plant food" that is the Scriptures is what God uses to keep us from being driven away like the wicked! --Joe! |
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144 | Does old testiment talk of Jesus? | Ps 2:7 | Reformer Joe | 70516 | ||
The inter-testamental period lasted about 400 years. In a very real sense, the entire Old Testament talks about Jesus. All of the events in the OT were part of God's redemptive plan to save human beings from their sins in Jesus Christ. Wee see that promise at its vaguest form in Genesis 3:15, but God prgressively reveals more and more about what He has planned to do through Jesus Christ. Genesis 17:7 gives us more detail, and throughout the book we see God promising the coming redemption (on up through Genesis 49:10). If we read Hebrews in the New Testament, we read God's explanation of how the Law of Moses and its system of priests and sacrifices also pointed forward to the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world. The prophets also speak of the Messiah. Psalm 2, Psalm 22, Psalm 110, Isaiah 52-53, Micah 5:2, and a holw host of other passages "flesh in" more and more of the plan until God in the flesh Himself came on the scene. Hope this helps! --Joe! |
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145 | Does Psalms 22 stand up to the skeptics? | Ps 22:16 | Reformer Joe | 52819 | ||
I am not the Hebrew scholar, so I will leave items 1-3 to someone else more qualified. 4. It is pretty obvious that David was not writing about literal dogs, but that the term is a description for his pursuers. Go tell your friends what a metaphor is. 5. Irrelevant to it being prophetic. Psalms are POETRY, and poetry employs figures of speech, metaphor, and other literary techniques. Saying that "you lay me in the dust of death" does not necessarily mean that he was laid in literal dust. Did your opponents in this debate ever take high-school English. Knowing our educational system as an insider, I am afraid that they just may have... 6. Not necessary for it to be a prophecy. Many prophetic Psalms, including some Messianic ones, describe a current situtaion (in this case, that of David) as well as have a future implication as well. Again, this is a poetic prophecy, not a play-by-play to the last detail of all that is going to happen on the day it predicts. 7. I hope someone else wrote this sentence, because the sentence itself makes no sense. Bitten by metaphors? Okay... 8. Jesus' own people rejected him (John 1:11; John 18:38-40; Acts 2:36) 9. What do they mean that prophecies are "taken out of context"? How is Matthew 22:14-15 a prophecy at all? 10. Jesus was raised from the dead, glorified. Death did not hold Him. Just as Psalm 2 says, God did not let his Holy One see decay. 11. Your pals need to go back and read the Garden of Gethsemane passages more carefully. And they need a lesson in the distinction between persons of the Trinity. Jesus was not talking to Himself there. 12. Yep, they made sure that he fulfilled all those prophecies, in spite of people still living who could easily refute their claims, and they would be imprisoned, endure torture, even die to defend what they knew to be a lie. Makes perfect sense. 13. Tell your friends, "So what?" It makes no difference. If I gave you twenty dollars and my mother 50 dollars, would you be wrong if you wrote, "Joe gave me twenty dollars"? In other words, what they are trying to do is argue from silence. 14. Such as? 15. The Hebrew Masoretic text is actually from the 9th century. While most extant Hebrew texts do have the different wording, it is hard to conclude what was actually there in the autographs. Some Hebrew texts have "pierced" just like our Bible does, and the Septuagint has the hands and feet "pierced" as well. In any case, we cannot be certain that the Masoretic text is the correct rendering in this case. 17. Well, if John puts himself there, then John seems to know, doesn't he? Your fellow debaters are really amateurs who do not know how to read literature very well at all, much less the Bible. If they are looking for reasons to rebel against God, they will always find them, no matter how feeble they may be. --Joe! |
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146 | How do you know there is a God? | Ps 46:10 | Reformer Joe | 19448 | ||
Maryann: Great question! Rather than answer it myself, let's look at what the Bible has to say: "For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse." --Romans 1:20 In other words, the created universe reveals the God who created it. In fact, the universe just doesn't make sense without a divine, all-powerful creator. People who deny the existence of God literally are denying the truth staring them in the face. "God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world." --Hebrews 1:1,2 God not only revealed himself in creation, but he continues to actively reveal Himself in very specific ways. In the past, he revealed himself through the judges and prophets of the Old Testament, for example. Finally, he revealed Himself most directly and clearly through the historic life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. What do you think of Jesus Christ, Maryann? If someone (such as me) were to ask you who Jesus Christ is, how would you answer? Thanks for your post! --Joe! |
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147 | why did jesus speak in parables ? | Ps 78:2 | Reformer Joe | 26926 | ||
Hello, Anonymous! You have written a lot of great works throughout history, so I just wanted to compliment you on most of them! As to your question, Jesus answered it Himself: Metthew 13:10-16. --Joe! |
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148 | God of Fear or God o LOVE | Ps 89:1 | Reformer Joe | 52845 | ||
Welcome to the Forum! That may be a first-glance assumption, but the truth of the matter is that we see a great deal of the Lord's lovingkindness toward His people in the Old Testament (look through the richness of the Psalms for example) and much of his holiness and wrath in the New (Romans 1 and 2, Ephesians 2:3, and many of the teachings and warnings of Jesus Himself). The plain truth is that holiness and justice are aspects of God that should cause us to fear him, simply because next to God's perfect hominess and omnipotence we see ourselves as the sinful people that we are. However, God shows his mercy toward us that while we were yet sinners, he sent Christ Jesus to die for all who have faith in Him (Romans 5:6-8, Ephesians 2). So God's justice and wrath and his love intersect at the Cross of Christ. Jesus bore my just punishment as well as God's just wrath that should have been mine. That was the extent of God's love for me, and why Romans 3:26 can say that God is at the same time just (having punished sin) and the justifier (declaring me righteous) of the ungodly (that's me). Hope that helps answer your questions some. Take a look through the psalms and marvel at how much God loves His people! --Joe! |
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149 | The idea of Ps 111:7,8; Ps 119:89,160 | Ps 111:7 | Reformer Joe | 57268 | ||
Well, the Ten Commandments are normally considered a summation of his moral will. The verses you mention here speak of the eternality and immutability of God's will, and that his will should always be obeyed. --Joe! |
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150 | follow-up question | Ps 111:7 | Reformer Joe | 57568 | ||
You wrote: "So, it safe then to say that God's will, His moral will is still binding up to this day." I would say that it is binding on God's people as a rule of life. We are not justified by following God's moral will (since we have already blown that and Christ already did it perfectly for all those who believe in him), but following God's commandments is a mark of truly having faith in Jesus Christ. Again, we still blow it all too frequently, reminding us that the need of God's grace is a continuous one. "Are we ought to obey all the ten or just a part of it?" Well, that will be a point of disagreement. There are those who think that the Fourth Commandment has been done away with, and others think that it hasn't and we still should observe the Sabbath, whether that be the original Sabbath or the "Christian Sabbath" of Sunday. Most will agree that we still shouldn't steal or commit adultery or worship idols or covet. --Joe! |
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151 | how can a person do this? | Ps 119:9 | Reformer Joe | 70367 | ||
The careful study of the word of God is an indispensible tool for doing what you suggest. Read Psalm 199 carefully and see what effect the study of God's law has on David, the author of the psalm. Then read James 1:22-25 to see how the Christian's walk is taken from just studying the Bible to real-life living. Then read Colossians 1:29 to see where we are to get the strength by which we are to live according to the word of God. Then look at Matthew 6:9-13 to see how we get that strength from God. Hope this helps! I will pray for you right now as well... --Joe! |
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152 | how can a person do this? | Ps 119:9 | Reformer Joe | 70368 | ||
Having trouble finding Psalm 199? Me, too! I meant Psalm 119. Sorry about that! --Joe! |
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153 | Answering Anti-Missionary Arguements | Is 7:9 | Reformer Joe | 63454 | ||
Greetings from one of the wild olive branches! (Romans 11) You listed this question: "1. The Messiah is to be a decendant of King David. Yeshua had no physical father, therefore He could not be the Messiah. (ref. Numbers 1:18,2:2)" The Bible tells us: "Jacob was the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, by whom Jesus was born, who is called the Messiah." --Matthew 1:16 " When He began His ministry, Jesus Himself was about thirty years of age, being, as was supposed, the son of Joseph, the son of Eli..." --Luke 3:23 Jesus was considered Joseph's son in a legal sense. --Joe! |
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154 | Answering Anti-Missionary Arguements | Is 7:9 | Reformer Joe | 63457 | ||
" 2. Mathew traces Joseph's genealogy back to King David, but through King Joceoniah. In Jerimiah 22:30, this king was cursed by Adonai. This curse disqualifies him, or any of his decendants of being a Messianic Candidate. His sons name was Sheatiel, and again he is disqualified. 3. In Luke's genealogy of Yeshua, Yeshua is again disqualified from being the Messiah because the Messiah must be a decendant of King David through his son Solomon. Luke lits Nathan. (2 Samuel 7:12-13, 1 Chronicles 17:11-14, 22:10, 28:4-7)" This Web site provides an answer to these questions: http://www.carm.org/diff/Jer22_28.htm --Joe! |
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155 | Answering Anti-Missionary Arguements | Is 7:9 | Reformer Joe | 63458 | ||
'4. In Isiah 7:14, the word translated as "virgin" is "almah" which means "young woman". Virgin, in Hebrew is "betulah"...so in Matthew 1:22-23, he misquotes Scripture.' The Septuagint uses the word for virgin, which clearly points out the translators' understanding that the word "almah" should connote a virgin. After all, how would a "young woman" bearing a child be any kind of miraculous sign? There is a word for "virgin" in Hebrew, but the use of "almah" does not rule out this understanding. '5. Mark 8:11-12 states that Yeshua would not give any signs to "this generation". However, John 12:37 and Acts 2:22 condradict that statement.' I don't see any signs FROM HEAVEN (like Elijah and the prophets of Baal) mentioned in John or Acts for the crooked generation (Pharisees and other unbelievers). '6. In John 5:31 and John 8:14, Yeshua condradicts Himself. Explain. "' http://www.carm.org/diff/John8_14.htm --Joe! |
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156 | Answering Anti-Missionary Arguements | Is 7:9 | Reformer Joe | 63460 | ||
'11. Yeshua "justified" the sinner in Romans 4:5, 15:9) However, Proverbs 17:15 teaches that "He who justifies the sinner is an abomination to G-d". Explain.' First of all, Jesus doesn't justify the sinner. God the Father justifies the sinner on account of what Jesus Christ had accomplished on the Cross as the Christian's Passover lamb. Jesus as my Great High Priest and as the sacrificial Lamb both MADE and WAS the sacrifice that atoned for my sins. Proverbs is speaking to someone who just winks at the sinner and doesn't acknowledge their sins. God does not do that. God abhors my sin, and His wrath was fully felt by Jesus Christ as my substitute. '12. In Mark 6:5, it says that Yeshua "could do no miracle". However, Mark 10:27 says that "with G-d, all things are possible". Which is it?' I take it to mean that Jesus was not permitted by the Father to do a miracle among them. Jesus during His earthly ministry was perfectly obedient to the Father. --Joe! |
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157 | Is Jesus the 'Eternal Father'? | Is 9:6 | Reformer Joe | 6369 | ||
Thanks for the information. Modalism, for the church, is the most serious heresy regarding the nature of God. Please remember paragraphs! --Joe! |
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158 | Do I have it? | Is 27:11 | Reformer Joe | 11699 | ||
I just spent a week at a summer camp teaching teenagers about discerning God's will for their lives, and here is what I glean from Scripture regarding what our role is: 1. Know God's moral will as it is revealed in the Bible. The Bible is God's self-revelation, in which He gives us everything we need to know about what we must do to honor Him (2 Timothy 3:16-17). If one does not know Scripture, s/he does not know what God's will is. Knowledge of Scripture is a lifelong pursuit, and it does take time, but it is a must for anyone wanting to know what God's will is. 2. In making decisions, analyze the situation, and analyze your motives. Our motive should always be to live our lives so that in every way God is glorified (Deuteronomy 6:5; 2 Corinthians 5:20; 1 Peter 2:9-10; 1 Corinthians 15:58). Nothing less should be our goal. There are some actions we take that neither honor nor dishonor God (e.g. the color shirt we decide to wear, in most instances). Likewise, there may be one or more avenues available through which we may bring honor to God. In both these instances, we have freedom to choose wisely. Once we understand that God is sovereign and that we can't "mess Him up" and that He already has taken our future decisions into account and that he has prepared good works for us to walk in (Ephesians 2:10), we can rest comfortably that God will honor and bless our God-honoring decisions. That does not mean that there aren't necessarily better decisions and worse ones. For example, there are both pros and cons to attending a Christian college rather than a secular university, or marrying this Christian rather than that one. Therefore, both our motives and situations must be carefully evaluated, to see both that we are seeking to honor God and that the likely outcomes of our decisions will bring us the results that we desire. 3. Making wise decisions based on our analysis is the final step. Rather than calling for us to ask God for divine revelation at every fork in the road, the Bible calls us to be wise decision-makers (James 1:5). After doing (1) and (2) above prayerfully, and realizing that God has given us freedom to act within the boundaries of his moral will, we are called to the responsibility of making a decision, of getting off the fence and pursuing one course of action or the other. If we truly trust in the sovereignty of God, if we truly follow his revealed will as set forth in the Bible, and if we pursue wise courses of action, we know that Romans 8:28 will be a reality in our lives. Hope this helps! --Joe! |
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159 | 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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160 | Before all creation what made God crave | Is 43:7 | Reformer Joe | 75620 | ||
When God created the universe, He did it not out of a sense of need for relationship. He already had (literally) perfect companionship within the Trinity. One of the chief reasons that God created was in order to glorify Himself. He created us and everything else for His glory. --Joe! |
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