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141 | Hyper calvinism and Backsliding? | Bible general | EdB | 243483 | ||
How is a person enlightened? How have they tasted of heavenly fruit? How are par takers of the Holy Spirit? How have they tasted the good word and the power to come? Unless they are saved? How is possible renew unless one was already once in repentance? |
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142 | Hyper calvinism and Backsliding? | Bible general | EdB | 243484 | ||
Why was this thread restricted? | ||||||
143 | Hyper calvinism and Backsliding? | Bible general | EdB | 243486 | ||
I agree this is exactly the reason the SBF is not being used. I think we were having a good discussion. Nothing nasty or unsettling! | ||||||
144 | The SBF what does it need to do? | Bible general | EdB | 243502 | ||
I think for SBF to survive every poster must realize there are 3000 plus denominations in this country and each were founded not by atheist but by dedicated and faithful men that believed they found the truth. They weren't idiots, they weren't ignorant, they weren't uneducated, they were men that tried to follow God as best they could. That opens the question if this is all true where did these 3000 plus denominations come from? The answer is we all read with a predetermined prejudice that prejudice makes each and everyone of us to read scripture and come away with a slightly different opinion of what it said to us. Add to that the Holy Spirit and that scripture is alive and again we see scripture speaking differently to each of us. When people get a firm grasp on that concept they also learn not to be so dogmatic that their theology is the only correct theology. Then we can discuss our differences as honest seekers of the fullness of God. However When we try to educate all the "uneducated" to the truth of our theology we become insulting, overbearing and frankly unChristlike. Today such people have control of the forum and limit open discussion of any theology that they don't agree with. |
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145 | Dr. S. Franklin Logsdon | Bible general | EdB | 243553 | ||
I’m fairly familiar with Mr Logsdon and his King James Only agenda. In my studies his name has come up many times in testimony used against the NASB translation. In a sermon Mr Logsdon made some serious accusations against the NASB and of course the King James Only people jumped on it and used it as proof that any translation other than KJV was of Satan. Unfortunately what Mr Logsdon said in the sermon was not totally correct. Lockman foundation was latter to forced to issue a statement on the subject. From my notes this is a statement made by Dr. White then director of Lockman foundationto address the situation. My notes are incomplete as to when and where this quote was made. The Board of Directors of The Lockman Foundation launched the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE translation work in the late 1950’s following the completion of the AMPLIFIED NEW TESTAMENT. Dr. S. Franklin Logsdon was acquainted with Dewey Lockman, president of The Lockman Foundation, prior to Mr. Lockman’s death in 1974. Mr. Logsdon was never a member of the Board of Directors, nor was he an employee of The Lockman Foundation. Mr. Logsdon had no authority to hire employees or translators for the Foundation, to set policy, to vote, to hold office, to incur expenses, etc. He cannot be considered “co-founder†of the NASB, nor part of The Lockman Foundation, nor part of the NASB translation team, nor did he write the forward of the NASB. According to our records, he was present at board meetings on two occasions — once to hear a travel report; and once to deliver an “inspirational thought.†Mr. Logsdon last wrote to Mr. Lockman in fall of 1973 that he was moving to Florida. Mr. Lockman replied that he was surprised and saddened by his decision to leave the area. Mr. Lockman passed away in January of 1974, and no further correspondence was exchanged between Frank Logsdon and The Lockman Foundation. He resided in Florida until his passing some years ago. The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever. Isaiah 40:8 (NASB) There has been much discussion of this matter and it seemed that after the Dr White’s statement was made much of it has been put to sleep. |
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146 | Dr. S. Franklin Logsdon | Bible general | EdB | 243554 | ||
In case there is any confusion the ESV English Standard Version and NASB New American Standard Bible are not connected. I believe the reference to ESV was a mistake. I consider the NASB to be superior to the ESV which is has strong Reformed Theological leanings. |
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147 | The right Bible for you? | Bible general | EdB | 243572 | ||
I agree with much of what you said. I will not buy a NIV nor do I buy from Zondervan the publisher of NIV. My personal study Bible is the NASB but I have found I really can't read aloud from the NASB so I use the NKJV. The NASB 1995 revision was much easier to read aloud but still not what I desired. I'm hoping the upcoming revision will solve the problem for me completely while remaining faithful to the previous versions. On the subject of Christian Book stores I have mixed emotions. I browse them but I rarely find something I buy. Most are oriented more towards light reading, Christian gifts and trinkets than serious study. As a pastor I am most often forced to go to the internet or my denominational suppliers for the material I'm looking for. Lifeway is a great store but rarely has suitable Sunday School or discipleship material that I'm looking for. Mom and Pop Christian book stores are the true underdogs and most have gone out of business. Because there is such a variety of material these smaller stores can't possibly stock it all and if they have to order it, I might as well and eliminate the middle man. To find out which bible you want all a person has to do it go to internet and look for the many comparisons of the various versions that are out there. Also most book store and internet Christian Bible retailers also have a comparison chart on their site. What I find most difficult is finding a version that is easy to understand by bi language people where English is not their first language. I often lean toward the NLT in those situations. |
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148 | The right Bible for you? | Bible general | EdB | 243573 | ||
Let me add that many people have an agenda in this area and that tends to distort the truth. A few years ago the King James Only people put on a big push to eliminate any translation no KJV. Thankful this failed! However the fallout is still occurring. Many people know more about what is wrong with a particular bible than they do about what is right! I think any major translation is fine as long as you stay from the New World Translation which is Jehovah Witness based, and personally I avoid the New International Version and The Living Bible. You can't go wrong with The New American Standard Version. |
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149 | Hyper calvinism and Backsliding? | Bible general | EdB | 243632 | ||
There is more than enlightened mentioned here. Enlightened,tasted the heavenly gift, partakers of the Holy Spirit. Have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come. If that doesn't sound like a saved person I would like to know how a person that has experienced all these things without being saved is possible. To be a partaker of the Holy Spirit certainly talks of a saved person, unless you believe Holy and unholy can share the same house. How does a unsaved person taste the good word of God? |
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150 | Hyper calvinism and Backsliding? | Bible general | EdB | 243634 | ||
Yes let us keep the passage before us. Hebrews 6:4-6 (NASB) 4 For in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, 6 and then have fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame. It starts out saying it is impossible for someone to be renewed AGAIN to repentance. The use of the word again insists they were once there. Who is that someone again the passage clearly defines them as someone that has tasted of the heavenly gift, has been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, has tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come. Yes I am saying to have all of traits used define someone is saying that person is saved. You need to prove someone can be described this way and not be saved. What is the heavenly gift? Unless you can provide scripture to show the heavenly gift is something other than salvation it is conclusive that the person is saved. What is a partaker of the Holy Spirit? Unless you can prove the Holy Spirit will reside with an unclean spirit there is no way not to declare this person saved. What is tasted the good word of God? Provide proof that someone can drink of the good word of God and not be saved. To have all three active in ones life is saying that person is without a doubt saved. If you don’t think so prove proof of your position. Scripture then says have fallen away. You must be some place to fall away. That place is then defined, renew them AGAIN to repentance. Notice it says “again†this is saying they once were that the place of repentance. Provide scripture to show a person can be in true repentance and not saved. Then it explains why, because to do so would require Christ to be put on the Cross once again, saying the first time they accepted salvation has passed, Christ would have to die again. The language and wording of this passage is clearly speaking of a saved individual and to disagree would require you to prove an unsaved person could be described this way and not be saved. |
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151 | Hyper calvinism and Backsliding? | Bible general | EdB | 243635 | ||
Here is the response to this question made by Tim Moran our once resident original language expert in Post number 24759 Consider the following: 1) The first term in Heb. 6:4 desribes the person as being enlightened. The word is 'photizo'. This word is used again in Heb. 10:32 where it says, " Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you stood your ground in a great contest in the face of suffering." These people are also described in Heb. 10:39 as, " But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are saved." So, I think this could definitely be a term describing true salvation and not just intellectual assent to the Gospel. 2) The person described in 6:4 is also said to have tasted of the Heavenly Gift. It can be debated what the Heavenly Gift is, but the word tasted means to participate in fully. For instance, this word is used in Heb. 2:9, "But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone." Whatever the Heavenly Gift is, the person described took part fully. 3) The person in Heb. 6:4 is described as one who as "shared in the Holy Spirit." Can an unbeliever be described as someone who has shared in the Holy Spirit, especially in light of 2 Cor. 6:14, where 'metochos' (the same word translated as shared in Heb. 6:4) is used to describe the lack of a relationship between righteousness and unrighteousness? Futher, this word is used several other times in Hebrews. Heb. 3:1 talks about "sharing in the Heavenly calling." Heb. 3:14 talks about "sharing in Christ." I really don't see how these terms could describe a non-Christian! |
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152 | What is evidentialism? | Bible general | EdB | 243643 | ||
Presuppositionalism vs Evidentialism total nonsense. Does a Muslim come to belief in Allah because of Presuppositionalism or Evidentialism? Does a Buddhist? Romans say man knows there is a God. The problem becomes when man's intellect kicks in and man defines his god or rejects his senses. The important issue is salvation by belief in Jesus as Lord and Savior. Scripture says salvation comes by faith. Faith triggered by the Holy Spirit. That is what important, Man's decision to accept or reject the salvation freely offered to him. |
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153 | Am I Biblically free to marry? | Bible general | EdB | 243734 | ||
Hi Brr101373 My heart goes out to you. You have experienced the worst of the worst. Take time and recover. Before you even consider doing anything else find yourself a GOOD and Godly church pastored by a man CALLED of God not a hireling. He must be a man of good reputation, a man that possessed integrity, and a man that lives in Righteousness. Find a pastor that will sit down and discuss all that you have told us here and work with him to get all things in your life on track with God. Take time, let God work in you. In your heart and most of all in your spirit. You have seen the worst of marriage and before you consider marriage again let God work within you. My advice wait, don't think about marriage think about getting in right relationship with a Godly church, Godly pastor and most importantly with God. I will keep you in prayer! |
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154 | Do demons exist today? | Bible general | EdB | 243770 | ||
Justme Beja gave you an excellent answer to your question, however I would like to add a comment and offer an answer to your question how do demons oppress Christians. First my comment, other than what is mentioned in scripture we know very little about demons. Scripture show us that they are fully aware of God James 2:19. They respectfully answer God when asked a question. Luke 8. They do not know the future Luke 8 asking to be sent into the pigs who would then run off the cliff. And they know their destiny Matt 8:29. Much that is written about demonology comes from teaching of Islam. While I agree they probably know a lot about demons being a false religion, we also know from scripture 1Tim 4:1 demons are liars so what Islam says about demons should be taken with a large grain of salt. As to the question about demon oppression on Christians. First let me say I have no medical degree, nor do a I claim to be a mental health expert. I do believe demons can oppress Christians and they do it by causing depression. I believe when a Christian suffers depression they have taken their eyes off Jesus and are looking instead at what deceiving demons are showing them. I understand that there is clinical depression caused by chemical imbalances but I think many cases of both diagnosed and undiagnosed depression in Christians is nothing more than demon oppression that occurs when a believer takes their eyes off Jesus. I pray that saying this is not offensive to anyone. |
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155 | Do demons exist today? | Bible general | EdB | 243776 | ||
Coming from a Full Gospel background we believe demons do exist and that believers can and must cast them out should they manifest in another (unbeliever). But this must be done carefully and with full consideration of consequences. Matthew 12:43-45 is but one example of a possible consequence. As I said earlier I do not believe a Christian can be demon possessed but they can be oppressed and Ephesians 6 gives us proper remedy for that. Demon possession of a nonbeliever must be carefully dealt with. As we see in the Matthew 8 account and from Matt 12 account we see demon when cast out will look for a place to move to. If someone casts a demon out of an unsaved person that demon will try to get back in or go into another unsaved person nearby. I have seen over enthusiastic preachers in church services trying to cast out demons with no thought of where that demon if it did come out would go to. They never considered the unsaved in the audience; they just wanted to demonstrate THEIR ability to rule over demons. That was total nonsense and I’m sure the demons and Satan laughed. Before anyone messes with a demon they must make sure their house is in order, their prayer life will sustain them, that they have humbled themselves in fasting to the point they know that they know this is what the Lord their God would have them do. Demons are defeated and the blood of Jesus is the Passover Blood on the lintels of our lives. We do not need to fear them but we should not ignore them but I am not one to preach about them as I feel this gives them more press than they should have. |
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156 | Do demons exist today? | Bible general | EdB | 243784 | ||
Interesting discussion. 2 Cor 11:3-4 seems to suggest that possession of a believer is possible. I think the question then becomes what is a Christian? Is it a name only or does it require a person to close all entrances to their being except that which is opened only by Christ? Wow seems like Christians have a lot to do. |
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157 | Do demons exist today? | Bible general | EdB | 243788 | ||
Sorry I was that I was not clear. My question was, what defines a Christian the name or a behavior within them or the fact they have closed all e trances into their being except those that Christ Himself opens. To clarify I believe there actions both Christians and non Christian can do that give Satan access into their lives. I am not talk about sinning as such but rather things that open our spirit being to attack. Example while messing with the occult is sin it also opens our being giving entrance to Satan. Likewise consulting a medium, tarot card readings, ouija boards, drugs, alcohol, and so forth. I believe to truly be a Christians we must be active in protecting the portals of our mind giving access to only to the things of God. I hope that clarifies what I was trying to say. |
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158 | Do demons exist today? | Bible general | EdB | 243792 | ||
2 Cor 11:4, An example Lev 19:31, lev 20 :6 | ||||||
159 | Do demons exist today? | Bible general | EdB | 243796 | ||
In an effort to help make what I'm trying to say more clear to you, I need for you to tell me what you understand these passages to be saying. It appears clear to me but evidently not to you, so please explain to me what these passages are saying to you and I think it can help clear up this confusion |
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160 | Do demons exist today? | Bible general | EdB | 243798 | ||
Beja Okay a starting place. I think we all agree that Christians should not intentionally sin, more over sin of any kind gives Satan and the consequences of that sin an opportunity to destroy us. The question was posed can a Christian be demon possessed. My initial reaction and perhaps I should have stayed there, was no a Christian can not be demon possessed, only demon oppressed. However I think it was you that made the statement that you were not sure a Christian can not be demon possessed and that got me researching. The first scripture I came to was Leviticus 19:31 (NKJV) 31 'Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God. The word defiled jumped out at me. Admittedly this is not speaking to Christians but rather to faithful followers of God. It says don’t open yourself to mediums or familiar(demonic) spirits lest you become defiled by them. Implication here is this opens a door to demonic possession. To me Leviticus 20:6 (NKJV) 6 'And the person who turns to mediums and familiar spirits, to prostitute himself with them, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from his people. Reinforces my take away of Lev 19:4. The second verse then referenced was 2 Corinthians 11:3-4 (NASB) 3 But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ. 4 For if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted, you bear this beautifully. Admittedly I gave the wrong reference in my last post to you, sorry! In the verse depending on translation say different or another. Which implies the audience already has received a spirit. Since this verse is talking to Christians and says you can receive a different or another spirit other from a different or profane gospel. Implication here is that a Christian can receive ungodly or false spirits (demons?). As to drugs, alcohol and other sin we see in 1 Peter 5:8-9 (NKJV) 8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. 9 Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world. We are to be sober and vigilant. I think we all can agree we are not totally sober nor can we be vigilant we are involved in drugs, alcohol, or other forms of addiction and sin. It further warns us that Satan is walking about seeking. While it does not specifically say in so many words I interpret this as giving an opening to Satan to come in and destroy our lives. Here again I think we can all agree that demon possession would probably ruin our lives. I believe we have portals to our spirit mind. Our ears, our ears, our physical minds, these I believe must be guarded as Paul admonished us in Philippians 4:8-9 (NKJV) 8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy--meditate on these things. 9 The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you. Interestingly the verse before this Philippians 4:6-7 (NKJV) 6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Suggests that the peace of God guards our heart and minds through Christ Jesus. Again if your heart and minds are not on Christ Jesus the implication to me is we have opened ourselves for an attack from Satan. To clarify something that may have been misunderstood, I never meant to suggest that only certain sins opened us to demonic attack but that there were some listed specifically that to me implies they become gateways for demons. Like messing with the occult, familiar spirits, mediums, drugs, alcohol, addictions of any kind. I hope that explains or clarifies my position. I am still not totally convinced that a Christian can be demon possessed but I am not so positive that it can’t happen that I would not consider the possibility. That is something that in the past I would have never considered. |
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