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141 | End of Times ??? | NT general Archive 1 | Rowdy | 119306 | ||
I can only quote from Matt 24:6 "You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end. In contrast we see a very different set of guidance from Jesus as follows: Matt 24:42 "Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming. 43 "But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. 44 "For this reason you also must be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think He will. I'm firmly convinced that Christ's second coming will be a complete surprise to everyone left on the earth at that time. Thus, with so many people expecting to see Him in the near future, I think that's a pretty good indication this is no the time of His choosing or His Father's. There's another reason why I think this way. When we look at the previous times in the world's history when God destroys on a large scale like the world-wide flood and Sodom and Gomorrah, we see a certain pattern. God allowed the world to progress and live on in Noah's age until it was so corrupt that only Noah and his family of seven others were saved. In Sodom and Gomorrah, He was willing to save those cities if Abraham could have only found 10 righteous people. But of course, only Lot, his wife and two daughters were all that avoided the actual destruction of the cities. So what pattern can you deduce out of God's actions in this regard? Well, at this point, I'll let you (and everyone else) think about the infinite amount of patience of our Lord and Father. God bless. --Rowdy |
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142 | Are there different heavenly rewards? | 2 Tim 1:9 | Rowdy | 119303 | ||
1 Tim 5:17 The elders who rule well are to be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching. Apparently, elders will get some kind of special treatment according to this scripture. I can't think of any other special arrangements. God bless. --Rowdy |
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143 | what does J.C means | Mark 3:30 | Rowdy | 119283 | ||
nae-nae 04, you really need to update your profile by going to "Update User Info" on the left side of your screen. We'd love to know more about you. God bless. --Rowdy | ||||||
144 | what does J.C means | Mark 3:30 | Rowdy | 119282 | ||
It means Jesus Christ, I'm sad to say. God bless you for such a wonderful state of ignorance of the way of the world. --Rowdy | ||||||
145 | Who accpied the land of jerusalam before | Joshua | Rowdy | 119279 | ||
This is the main theme of the Book of Joshua, the conquest of Cannan, the promise land. It's literally filled with tremendous battles for the Lord AND a tremendous amount of bloodshed for those folks who did live there. Speaking as a retired military man, I'm thankful God is NOT in that business any longer. In specific answer to your question, there were many tribes and cities with many different names. Hope this helps and God bless. --Rowdy |
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146 | Violent correction? | Neh 13:25 | Rowdy | 119275 | ||
I can only quote from the NT as follows: Matt 18:2 And He called a child to Himself and set him before them, 3 and said, "Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 "Whoever then humbles himself as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 5 "And whoever receives one such child in My name receives Me; 6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. 7 "Woe to the world because of its stumbling blocks! For it is inevitable that stumbling blocks come; but woe to that man through whom the stumbling block comes! 8 "If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter life crippled or lame, than to have two hands or two feet and be cast into the eternal fire. 9 "If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it from you. It is better for you to enter life with one eye, than to have two eyes and be cast into the fiery hell. I've heard some folks say that here Christ was speaking figuratively. I don't think so. He and His Father are very, very serious when it comes to sin. IF and that's a big IF...IF that's what it literally comes down to, a choice between loosing our soul for eternity and loosing a body part, most people would gladly choose the latter. The big problem we humans have is perserverance. We all tend to be impulsive like Peter and would rather get it over with in a hurry and then enjoy the fruits of our "dedication" afterwards. Instead our God likes to see a steady progression of maturity, love and devotion in spite of living in a world filled to overflowing with distractions, temptations and much evil. This is truly the more difficult thing to do. Hope this helps and God bless. --Rowdy PS: Hair isn't such a big thing to lose. I've been losing it ever since I was a teenager. Ha-Ha |
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147 | is dating right in gods eyes | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 119256 | ||
Since the Bible doesn't deal directly with this subject, I can only give you the benefit of my experience. This Sep 04, my wife and I will be celebrating 29 years of marriage, our first and only marriage for both of us. We've both had our share of ups and downs, with each other and with our boys. We were kinda young, she at 17 and me at 21 when we got married. And if I had to live my life to live over, I wouldn't change a thing. You see, I was headed for a life of sin and disobedience to God in spite of my upbringing, as I was brought up in a christian home. My wife was the best person in the world for me, as she has the strong personality needed to keep me straight and out of trouble. She doesn't hesitate to remind me of that upbringing and my responsibility to my Lord. We talk, pray and go to worship together at the same congregation. I say that because I can't possibly imagine a person having a good, solid relationship with God, our Father and NOT having an equally good solid relationship in the same faith with his/her spouse. In my opinion, it would be impossible to be truly happy in such a situation. But it's difficult to communicate that to a young person. I see in your profile that you're 17 years old and you seem to be unusally mature to be participating and posting this much on the Forum. So I can only make this recommendation. Do yourself a favor and promise God that you will do everything in your power to marry a christian lady and I emphasize "lady" as she should act, think and behave as a christian lady should. The best way to make certain you marry a christian is to date only christians. BUT if you meet someone special and decide she's for you and then discover she's not a christian, sure you can always convert her. But, quite often it doesn't happen quite that easy. Again, do yourself a favor and promise God, IF you do date a young lady who's not a christian, get her in God's Family BEFORE you marry her. Because after you marry her, it needs to be with the attitude it's for life. Remember, a lifetime of happiness is at stake. AND it could be possible as Solomon found out that an ungodly person just might draw you away from God forever. It's not worth the risk to do otherwise, but that's my recommendation. God bless. --Rowdy |
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148 | Baptism without water? | NT general Archive 1 | Rowdy | 119249 | ||
Of course there are other ways to look at this, for example; From Webster's Dictionary: Baptism - 1) a Christian sacrament marked by ritual use of water and admitting the recipient to the Christian community, 2) an act, experience, or ordeal by which one is purified, sanctified, initiated or named. NOTE: It seems the second definition above is referring to the pracitice of baptizing babies and is therefore not really germane to this topic as it is unBiblical. BUT I don't want to contradict Ray's statement about there being one baptism. Yes, indeed there is only baptism as described in the NT for christians in this day and age. What I want to add to the discussion is the fact that the picture of water baptism draws its power from the analogy of a watery grave as depicted in Rom 6. Its not the water itself, as stated so powerfully by Peter in 1 Pet 3:18 For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit, 19through whom also he went and preached to the spirits in prison 20who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, 21and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also--not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a good conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 22who has gone into heaven and is at God's right hand--with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him. As with so many features about Christianity, acts or rituals described in the Bible have a tremendous amount of implications and power about them. That's why I think it's so important that we're baptized for the right reason, only because that's where the Bible puts all the emphasis. As Ray stated, there's only ONE single baptism per person. It seals the person's relationship with our Lord forever, IF he/she remains faithful as cited in Rev 2:10 Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution for ten days. Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown of life. 11He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not be hurt at all by the second death. Let's not forget Acts 2:36 "Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ." 37When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?" 38Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Now in the first century, there was a second baptism, that of the Holy Spirit. It only happened twice, once to Apostles in Acts 2 and again to Cornelius and his household in Acts 10. With that baptism came special miraculous powers which has NOT been duplicated since the last person died having received such powers from the "laying on of the Apostles hands," as described throughout the book of Acts. But the one baptism that Paul was talking about was the one reserved for all time to be point of entry into God's Family, His Kingdom. Hope this helps and God bless. --Rowdy |
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149 | Can we agree? A case of agreement? | 1 John 5:8 | Rowdy | 119246 | ||
First of all, I have to say, I'm not sure how productive this discussion is, but I'll comment for what it's worth. It seems to me that whenever the Bible talks about THE Spirit, it's talking about one of the Godhead so I'm naturally inclined toward capitalizing the word as in the first two versions. The only other kind of spirit that I would understand the Bible might mention would be for example the spirit of man. In that case, it should never be capitalized as it is never meant to be Godly in our basic nature. In your opinion, is there yet another or a 3rd kind of spirit in the Bible? If so, what are your conditions for capitalizing or not capitalizing it? So, I'll let you go back to counting the tally of the citations of spirit in God's Word. But tell me, what is all this going to do for you when you get finished with that tally? I pray for God's blessings on you. --Rowdy |
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150 | So who baptized Jesus' FIRST disciple? | NT general Archive 1 | Rowdy | 119215 | ||
Cited for reference: Heb 9:15 For this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. Heb 9:16 For where a covenant is, there must of necessity be the death of the one who made it. Heb 9:17 For a covenant is valid only when men are dead, for it is never in force while the one who made it lives. Until Christ died, the Perfect Sacrifice was not made and thus forgiveness for sins could not be granted until that moment. John the Baptist's baptisms were a foreshadow of things to come as so many things in the OT as compared to the NT. God bless. --Rowdy |
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151 | John 4: If Jesus did not baptize, THEN? | NT general Archive 1 | Rowdy | 119159 | ||
Remember Matt 9:9 As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man called Matthew, sitting in the tax collector's booth; and He *said to him, "Follow Me!" And he got up and followed Him. and we all know what Paul was...he was a tent maker but most of all, he was a devout Jew and a persecutor of christians; he even blessed the killing of the first martyr, Stephen. So Christ called a wide variety of men to come into His inner circle of disciples to become Apostles. Now concerning John the Baptist's baptism, I can only quote Acts 19:1 It happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the upper country and came to Ephesus, and found some disciples. 2 He said to them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" And they said to him, "No, we have not even heard whether there is a Holy Spirit." 3 And he said, "Into what then were you baptized?" And they said, "Into John's baptism." 4 Paul said, "John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in Him who was coming after him, that is, in Jesus." 5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. And regarding Jesus doing any baptizing, the Bible doesn't address that issue at all, which seems to say to me that it isn't considered important at all. Hope this helps and God bless. --Rowdy |
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152 | How does God help us break addictions? | Rom 13:14 | Rowdy | 119153 | ||
Along with the good advice you've rec'd, I would offer this: Since this addiction didn't happen overnite, it will probably take quite a while to get completely away from it. Don't be disappointed, just settle for going slow and make steady progress. However, I understand there are groups of people who are genuinely dedicated to assisting those with this problem. They probably even use a similar system of steps to get a person out of this addiction, like Alcholoics Anonymous. Check your phone book for groups for some kind of thereapy sessions. Remember with God on your/our side, who can possibly oppose you/us. We'll all be praying for you and God bless. --Rowdy |
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153 | unmmarried | 1 Cor 7:12 | Rowdy | 119112 | ||
Cited for reference 1 Cor 7:26 I think then that this is good in view of the present distress, that it is good for a man to remain as he is. 27 Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you released from a wife? Do not seek a wife. 28 But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you. 29 But this I say, brethren, the time has been shortened, so that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none; 30 and those who weep, as though they did not weep; and those who rejoice, as though they did not rejoice; and those who buy, as though they did not possess; 31 and those who use the world, as though they did not make full use of it; for the form of this world is passing away. 32 But I want you to be free from concern. One who is unmarried is concerned about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; 33 but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife, 34 and his interests are divided. The woman who is unmarried, and the virgin, is concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband. 35 This I say for your own benefit; not to put a restraint upon you, but to promote what is appropriate and to secure undistracted devotion to the Lord. A great portion of this Chapter is recommendations from Paul and shouldn't be taken as commands, especially since so much is NOT endorsed by other scriptures. Most scholars have difficulty in determining which portion should be read as recommendation and which is "commands from the Lord." In my opinion, with verses 32 and 33, Paul is trying to help the Corinthians understand what motivates a man in these two different circumstances: married vs. unmarried. A man's priorities should change when he marries a woman, HOWEVER it is plain, his top no 1 priority should never change from being God. With God as our no 1, then our wife should come next; naturally our kids should be after our wives, then everyone else, in a general sort of perspective. I hope I'm making sense but God bless, regardless. --Rowdy |
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154 | where in the bible is woman/ makeup foun | 1 Tim 2:9 | Rowdy | 119088 | ||
With this topic, I would suggest "treading lightly." I must admit, I do think many American women wear too much make up. But I must give my wife praise in this area. I have never seen her wear too much make up to any function, in or out of a church setting. I've also told this to her many times. I do think that our Lord expects christian ladies to remember that they are making an appearance for Him and their beauty to Him really comes from within. Now it should also be said that men must also dress and conduct themselves with a reasonable amount of modesty. Our Lord is not one to favor one sex over the other in this area. The area where we need to and should be showing off to God is our works AND how well we conceal those works from our fellow man. God bless. --Rowdy |
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155 | resurrection of the dead | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 119080 | ||
Howdy! Welcome to the Forum. I assume you're asking about resurrection of the dead but you don't give us any details or scriptures. Can you give us a little more to go on? What particular aspects of the subject do you wish to discuss? You might benefit by inserting those words "resurrection dead" in the Quick Search at the right of your screen and you'll recall several posts on that subject. God bless. --Rowdy | ||||||
156 | Where did people go to when they died? | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 119078 | ||
This subject has been addressed many times before. If you'll insert the words paradise and/or hades in the Quick Search at the right of your screen, you'll get quite a huge no of posts with a wide variety of opinions. God bless. --Rowdy | ||||||
157 | and the world was void | Gen 1:2 | Rowdy | 119054 | ||
You can also submit this question to the folks at apologeticspress.com for an expert's opinion. They've got PhDs and have been studying the subject for decades. There's quite a wide variety of opinions about so basically God expects us to look at the evidence, read our Bibles and make up our minds. God bless. --Rowdy | ||||||
158 | Still Confused | OT general | Rowdy | 118979 | ||
You can insert my post no 118348 into the Quick Search and get my "chop" on this subject. You could do your search by inserting other key words in the same field to the right of your screen. Ultimately, there's not a really ideal comfortable answer that makes much sense to us as humans. What can we say? God is the sumpreme Ruler/Creator of this world and everything in it. God bless. --Rowdy |
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159 | Blasphemy against Holy Spirit | NT general Archive 1 | Rowdy | 118973 | ||
You can insert "blasphamy" into the Quick Search and get a huge amount of information/posts from the Forum as this is discussed quite often. God bless. --Rowdy | ||||||
160 | Matthew's apparent quote of Jeremiah | Jeremiah | Rowdy | 118959 | ||
Jer 19:1 This is what the LORD says: "Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take along some of the elders of the people and of the priests 2 and go out to the Valley of Ben Hinnom, near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. There proclaim the words I tell you, 3 and say, 'Hear the word of the LORD , O kings of Judah and people of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Listen! I am going to bring a disaster on this place that will make the ears of everyone who hears of it tingle. 4 For they have forsaken me and made this a place of foreign gods; they have burned sacrifices in it to gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah ever knew, and they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent. 5 They have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as offerings to Baal-something I did not command or mention, nor did it enter my mind. 6 So beware, the days are coming, declares the LORD , when people will no longer call this place Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. 7 " 'In this place I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, at the hands of those who seek their lives, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth. 8 I will devastate this city and make it an object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and will scoff because of all its wounds. 9 I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh during the stress of the siege imposed on them by the enemies who seek their lives.' 10 "Then break the jar while those who go with you are watching, 11 and say to them, 'This is what the LORD Almighty says: I will smash this nation and this city just as this potter's jar is smashed and cannot be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room. 12 This is what I will do to this place and to those who live here, declares the LORD . I will make this city like Topheth. 13 The houses in Jerusalem and those of the kings of Judah will be defiled like this place, Topheth-all the houses where they burned incense on the roofs to all the starry hosts and poured out drink offerings to other gods.' " Matthew is referring to both the passage above from Jeremiah AND to the prophecy from Zechariah. It's not presented that way in Matthew but then Matthew's peers knew their scrolls much better than you and I know our OT. Hope this helps and God bless. --Rowdy |
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