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141 | how many covenants in the bible | Bible general Archive 4 | EdB | 238174 | ||
However there are many more covenant made between man and man. Also there are many types of covenant. Like Blood and salt. Abraham made covenant to secure a well. Joshua made a covenant with the Gibeonites, David made covenant with Jonathan. Then some of righteous and unrighteous kings of Israel made various covenants. Each marriage was considered a covenant and treated as such. So the without more definition there were many covenants listed in the Bible |
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142 | Biblical basis for office of Deaconess? | Bible general Archive 4 | EdB | 238414 | ||
In all fairness that is the stance of one side of Christian theology. There is another side equally valid that disagrees. The main point of contention is the word "perfect: in Verse 1Cor 13:10. Some say the perfect is the completion of the New Testament Canon and others say it will be the second coming of Christ. If in fact the "perfect" is the second coming then , prophecy, tongues and knowledge are still active in today's church. The Cessationist (those that feel the gifts have stopped) are basically from the Reformed school of Theology and those that feel the gifts are still in use today are from the Wesleyan Theological side of the house. This discussion has raged in the church since the first century church and is alive and well today. |
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143 | Is a marriage legal without a license? | Bible general Archive 4 | EdB | 238426 | ||
Let me say marriage without a license is illegal as I have stated before. However the problem goes way beyond illicit sex or children with one parent. Many older couples whose spouse has died are faced with a problem of wanting to be married in the sight of God but if they are legally married they will lose their income. In many cases the woman is covered by the dead spouses pension and health insurance which ends if she remarries. Many man who lost a spouse has their pension and life insurance that will not cover a spouse married to them after their retirement. So a couple that wants to live together and to do right in the eyes of God must give up their pension and health insurance if they marry. Their choice live together without being legally married. Problem they are outside God's will. This problem is only getting worst. Many would instantly go into financial ruin the instant they marry losing homes, all savings and having no recourse but to live in poverty and without proper medical treatments. |
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144 | Is a marriage legal without a license? | Bible general Archive 4 | EdB | 238431 | ||
Or maybe our laws need to be changed :-) so that people that want to be right with God and to remarry don't have to forsake all they have worked for through the years. | ||||||
145 | Is a marriage legal without a license? | Bible general Archive 4 | EdB | 238436 | ||
My only involvement is of people asking if I can marry them in the eyes of God but not in eyes of the state. I have to tell them I can't but I understand and sympathize with their position. I think the best crusader for this cause would be someone that is having the problem. Possibly someone that married and lost their benefits. Then they could tell their story from their experience. All I have is second hand info. |
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146 | Praying in tongues | Bible general Archive 4 | EdB | 242004 | ||
Let me publicily clear a misunderstanding in my post above I used the word nemesis in referrence to my relationship with Doc. That was an unfortunate choice of a word. I meant it as I was the one that often added to Doc's responses to insure there was a theologically unbiased presentation of the various theological positions. Doc unfortunately took to mean I was declaring him my enemy. I didn't want to be accused of being a psalm 26:19 person so I figured I should clear up this apparent misunderstanding of my use of the nemesis While I hold Doc's theology to be an abhorrent philosophy of man and I'm sure he feels my position to be equally wrong, however I do not consider Doc to be an enemy. Doc is not public enemy #1 to me. :-) |
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147 | what do JW and Mormons believe | Bible general Archive 4 | EdB | 242358 | ||
To suggest the doctrine of the Trinity is made of man while defending the man made religion of Jehovah Witnesses is silly. The New World Translation is a modified copy of the King James Version. The JW refuse to reveal their translators and the manuscript they claimed to use to translate from was proven to have never been in their possession, thus making it impossible to translate from it. The whole concept of the Jehovah Witness are based on the made up name of God. History shows teaches us Tyndale when translating his Bible used the tetrammaton of YHWH adding the vowels from Adoni to made the word Jehovah. The whole concept of Jehovah Witnesses is based on the ideas developed by Charles Taze Russell who was proven to be a liar in various court cases. |
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148 | Three Days and Three Nights | Bible general Archive 4 | EdB | 243093 | ||
Rstrats Did you even consider the answer I gave to you on 3/13/2013? It is in this thread it is branch directly off your original question. |
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149 | Three Days and Three Nights | Bible general Archive 4 | EdB | 243096 | ||
Never said it did. What it explained was how Jesus was actually in the grave 3 days and 3 nights with no need for manufactured idioms, understandings, or first century thought. |
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150 | GOD TURNED HIS BACK ON JESUS WHEN JESUS | Bible general Archive 2 | EdB | 94740 | ||
Aixen7z4 First God and Jesus are One how does One separate Himself from the other. When we are deepest in sin does God turn from us or does He reach out to us in Love saying take M y Hand? Jesus said He would never leave us nor forsake us yet when Jesus needed Him most we suppose God left him. What Jesus said was a quote from the beginning of Psalm 22. Psalm 22 is a vivid description of the crucifixion that Jesus was presently experiencing. By Jesus quoting this well known scripture to the crowd He was once more testifying of His love, and His desire for them to know the truth that he was in fact the Messiah. When the psalmist wrote Psalm 22 he was crying out from his personal predicament, his cry my God my God why did you forsake me. Had God forsaken the psalmist? Absolutely not, again the assurance God would never leave us nor forsake us. However in his sorrow it seemed that way to Psalmist therefore Jesus knowing that God hadn't forsaken the psalmist certainly wouldn't have quoted something like that had God really left Him. I believe the idea that is commonly taught in the church that God had turned His back on Jesus was because of the quote Jesus made and people not realizing it was the beginning lines of Psalm 22 which speaks of the crucifixion. Not making this connection they tried to explain by human reasoning that Jesus was in sin so God had to turn His back on Him, that is a concept not found anywhere in the Bible. Also while Jesus carried the sins of the world he wasn’t a sinner Jesus was still the perfect lamb of God the propitiation of our sins, He took on our sins He didn’t defile Himself by committing our sins. Lastly we see in the Bible that God talks to Satan and Satan is the epitome of sin, If God has to turn from sin then why not from Satan himself? Once again while we were still in sin God reached out to us. There is no Scripture basis to say God forsook Christ once we have proper understanding of what Jesus meant when He said My God My God why have you forsaken me. EdB |
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151 | GOD TURNED HIS BACK ON JESUS WHEN JESUS | Bible general Archive 2 | EdB | 94763 | ||
Aixen7z4 I appreciate your position but it is not more Biblically grounded than mine. I can supply scripture all day where Jesus says He and the Father are One, that there is but One God, that the God head is one made up of Father Son and Holy Spirit. To separate one from the other we would have to understand the Godhead was divided and nothing in scripture suggests that. In fact Jesus said if you have seen me you have seen the father. You gave some verses where the writer was using hyperbola by saying You (God) turned Your face from sin. However since God spirit and is omnipresent, all seeing and all knowing He really doesn’t have a face nor back for that matter. So we have to realize these were figure of speech rather than actual reactions of God. If we look at the story of Isaac and Abraham at Mt. Moriah Genesis 22 we see a shadow of the crucifixion. There is a remarkable amount of "types" here. Abraham traveled three day to sacrifice Isaac and we know in Eastern Culture during that time Abraham consider Isaac already dead to him. They went along leaving their servants behind, while Jesus was on the cross the earth was thrown into darkness. Isaac carried the wood for his sacrifice, Jesus carried his cross. Isaac in obedience allowed his father to bind him and prepare him for sacrifice, Isaac was between 12 and 27 and Abraham was around 112 – 127 (Isaac allowed) just as Jesus allowed Himself to be placed upon the cross. Abraham said God would provide a Lamb however in verse 13 we see a ram instead was substituted, it wasn’t until nearly 2000 years later that God provided the Lamb. I say in all of this to say, no where in this beautiful picture of love and obedience do we see Abraham turning away from his son even as he was ready to thrust the knife in to take his very life. If God turned away from Jesus on the cross then in effect by Biblical definition Jesus was Spiritually dead. If God is Spirit and Jesus and God are one then one would have to conclude God was dead. Somehow that doesn’t work for me. So as I said while I see your position and appreciate it, it is certainly not biblically stronger than my position, and in many case it contains serious weaknesses which mine does not. EdB |
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152 | GOD TURNED HIS BACK ON JESUS WHEN JESUS | Bible general Archive 2 | EdB | 94765 | ||
Aixen7z4 You said, "In any case, God did not send any angels to protect him. He did not strike his attackers dead. He stood by, so to speak, while they crucified him, in our place. It must have seemed that God had not only forsaken him but that God himself had turned on him, to punish him for our sins." Your absolutely right and understand that Jesus knew this was going to happen since creation, since Jesus is the Word and Word explained the crucifixion in Psalms 22 Jesus always had that knowledge. Also remember the Human Jesus understood and knew since the time he was able to read Psalm 22 and the prophet Isaiah. In fact Jesus demonstrated this knowledge at the age of 12 when he amazed the teachers with His knowledge and understanding of scripture. Nothing of the crucifixion surprised Jesus He knew exactly what and how it was going to turn out. In fact since God is not limited by time Jesus while in heaven saw himself on the cross both before he step through the womb of a virgin to live among us on earth and now in eternity past. To think Jesus announced in surprise that Why did you forsake me limited Jesus’ deity for neither he nor God were surprised by the events of the day. EdB |
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153 | The Problem with WoF in a nutshell | Bible general Archive 2 | EdB | 95132 | ||
Jim You said, "If you want to expose truth to the brethren I suggest you find someone who is preaching heresy, and reveal the truth about them." I thought that is exactly what I did. In my two part post I tried to give a thumbnail sketch of WOF doctrine and the error contained within it. While what I wrote is no where complete nor could it be, given the space restraints of the forum. I think I wrote enough to reveal main errors in Word of Faith teaching. Mainly the placing of your faith in faith rather than in God. WOF's teaching also minimizes God and Jesus while maximizing man. This by definition is humanism also an error. No where did I say faith was not important because it is vital in our relationship to God Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. However faith in faith is misdirected, viewed from WOF perspective, faith becomes an entity itself rather than trust, hope and belief in a Living God. Your example of the operating manual of a car misses two points, The Bible is not merely an operating manual but instead it is the Living Word, which becomes a road map of life for those who follow it. The Holy Spirit’s task is not to give new direction but to rather clarify the direction God has already detailed within scripture. By saying we do not need interpretation that the Holy Spirit will give correct interpretation also assumes we as human can turn off all preconceived ideas, biases, prejudices and our own human desire learning only what the Holy Spirit reveals. This is simply not possible and all through history we see men and women fail in attempts to do just this. That is why God gave us the Living Word to establish boundaries. If while we travel through life and we are being lead of the Holy Spirit, but then find ourselves being lead outside those boundaries we can know we have lost God and are now following our own idea and ambitions or those given us by the Satan himself. The Bible is far more important than just an operating manual you read once then begin traveling through life believing we do not need to go back and refresh, renew, and relearn the many life experiences contained there in. Nor can we expect to travel through life depending on our spirit being lead of the Holy Spirit if we refuse to review and hold fast to the very Book the Holy Spirit inspired. If we examine WOF teaching we see the error contained therein is more than just enthusiasm, it is calculated to draw people, to enrich the teachers coffers and blind eyes to the truth. Why else would you teach Jesus as being wealthy unless you wanted to justify becoming rich yourself? Why else would you teach that man with enough faith can duplicate what God and Christ did? Why else would you teach God HAS TO heal you if you have enough faith? Why else would you teach that this “power” called faith can be lost if you view or consider anything that might expose this teaching as error? Can faith more mountains? Yes it can! But does God have to move the mountain if I name it and claim it? No! Psalm 135:6 Whatever the Lord pleases He does, In heaven and in earth, In the seas and in all deep places. I do not deny that some good may have come from WOF, I’m sure some have been saved and brought to a real faith in God and Jesus Christ in spite of what WOF teaches. However just because some good may come out of the teaching does not require us to say the teaching is okay, in fact if it contains error the Bible challenges us to expose that error and call the people back to the truth. In the service of Jesus Christ EdB |
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154 | The Problem with WoF in a nutshell | Bible general Archive 2 | EdB | 95140 | ||
Hank You know my heart as we have discussed my feelings about WOF many times. It breaks my heart to see someone tied up it's lies. I thank you for your kind words and your encouragement, I also thank you for your help and knowldege that you have shared in this fight. When I responded to apostoloB's post I wondered how many would see the error he had slipped in it by mimimizing the Bible. I wondered if I would be seen as out of step but to my relief and great joy almost immediately you Hank, Radioman2 and Morant61 also spotted it and commented about it. Now that excited me!!! Praise God for all the faithful servants God has on this forum. I commend you all, fight the good fight. EdB |
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155 | The Problem with WoF in a nutshell | Bible general Archive 2 | EdB | 95173 | ||
apostoloB To answer your questions yes to both, To answer your statement of your trying to share the truth. I wonder about that, of course I wonder about anyone that mimimizes the Bible. EdB |
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156 | The Problem with WoF in a nutshell | Bible general Archive 2 | EdB | 95178 | ||
Justme Thank you for your kind words and I rejoice over the report of your blood test. May God be praised! EdB |
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157 | cronology of names in bible | Bible general Archive 2 | EdB | 95579 | ||
Darcy Good for you! I have a pastor friend that pronounces all hard to pronounce names as Bubba. Sometimes he will go through a passage that lists three or four hard names calling them bubba1, bubba2, bubba3 and etc. If it is real problem for you there is a book called "That's easy for you to say" the book is fairly cheap under 20 dollars and it comes with a CD which when installed will actually pronounce through you computers speakers any name or pronoun you click on. By clicking on it a few times you can get the hand of saying the name. The book is in most Christian books stores and is sold by CBD. EdB |
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158 | cronology of names in bible | Bible general Archive 2 | EdB | 95585 | ||
Hank Makarios is a step ahead of you he already did. I told him my breathing problems were solved last night and I have the motto "if isn't broken don't fix it". I'll pass. EdB |
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159 | cronology of names in bible | Bible general Archive 2 | EdB | 95589 | ||
gbt1997oct alias Gbennett If your an example of a Mormon I don't want anything to do with them. Your using deceit (different userid's), your obnoxious (stating the same thing over and over)and your wrong Joseph Smith was no prophet of God if anything he was a lousy plagiarist that got caught. Your tactics have not strengthened the Mormon position but rather tore them down. Actually I’m glad your doing this, since this presents the true picture of Mormonism, deceit, trickery and manipulation. EdB |
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160 | Prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32) who is he? | Bible general Archive 2 | EdB | 96240 | ||
Godman Turn off the Caps lock. Using all capital letters is very hard to read and in Internet language it means your yelling, screaming or hollering. EdB |
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