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141 | Serpent possesed by the devil? | Gen 3:1 | Tamara Brewington | 204585 | ||
Hi searcher, Can you direct me to a verse please? Thanks God Bless hat lady |
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142 | God's Regard for Cain's Offering? | Gen 4:5 | Tamara Brewington | 205975 | ||
Dear forum members, Why did God not have regard for Cain's offering? Was it heart attitude, type of offering, or something else? God's Day To You, Tamara |
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143 | Nephilim Angels or godly sons of Seth? | Gen 6:4 | Tamara Brewington | 203850 | ||
Are the Nephilim angels that came down and had sexual relations with women? Or are they the goldy sons Seth? Who were the mighty men of old, the men of renown? Genesis 6:1-4 Scriptures and opinions please. | ||||||
144 | Nephilim Angels or godly sons of Seth? | Gen 6:4 | Tamara Brewington | 203877 | ||
Thanks a bunch Azure! You answered two questions at once! | ||||||
145 | very few accept the Lord today | Gen 6:5 | Tamara Brewington | 205680 | ||
Dear Charlo, Genesis 6:5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Man's heart is infinitely wicked and no one on their own recognizance comes to God without the acitvity of the Holy Spirit, the cross and the Father to draw them to God and salvation. It has always been this way, there are less people who will come to Christ than there are those who will be going to hell. Hell is going to be bursting at the seams, but there will be a whole lot of room in heaven and the New Jerusalem because man is depraved. God's Day To You, Tamara |
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146 | God has a backside or is it His anger? | Exodus | Tamara Brewington | 204009 | ||
OK next question because of the kooky professor... Moses didn't realy see the back side of God because God is a spirit wihtout a front or a back. And by the way has no spiritual body, even though Paul says there are spiritual bodies and physical bodies. Moses never saw any part of God and further God did not hide Moses with His hand to shield Moses from His glory because He doesn't have a hand. Then to top it off the back side of God that He showed Moses was his sterness and anger like in Jeremiah 18:17... Are you laughing yet? I was, but honestly I am interseted in what you think of his take on this because God is a spirit. My answer was that there are spiritual bodies and that God said He has a front a back and a hand, how you gonna tell God he don't? Tell me what you all think. God Bless, Tamara | ||||||
147 | God has a backside or is it His anger? | Exodus | Tamara Brewington | 204023 | ||
Ok Steve thanks I agree, so in light of this response do you see why perhaps I think of both Moses and us getting changed into states of glory because of seeing God's glory? I keep thinking about the angels, who have spiritual bodies which have fronts, backs, sides and wings, although some of them have four front sides... Is it possible then, that God was not simply using anthropormorphisms, but that He actually has a front back etc.? God bless, Tamara | ||||||
148 | How human-like is God | Exodus | Tamara Brewington | 205186 | ||
Dear chessshores, Could you please be more clear as to how God is man like and not the other way around? How is it that God is human like in any way back in Exodus in your thinking? Please expound with scriptures that highlight what you are seeing there... God's day to you, Tamara |
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149 | Was it the Holy Spirit dictating? | Ex 33:11 | Tamara Brewington | 205470 | ||
Dear BarryB, Welcome to the forum! II Peter says this about what you are asking... :20 for no prophecy was ever an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God. And Paul says; II Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness. The first scripture there is clearly saying that all the men who have given us this word we have were moved by the Holy Spirit to speak from God. So that would include every writer both OT and NT. The second scripture there is saying something interesting in the original Greek. It is saying all scripture is God breathed, literaly, God blew out the scriptures, God inspired the scriptures. That means that according to the first passage that it is the Holy Spirit who is God who is the one blowing out scripture to man. This is called plenary inspiration - this means that all scripture is inspired by God in that every word is inspired by God, not dictated to men, but every word is the inspired word of God. God used these men and their particular personalities and natural abilities to write thes thing in their own wording, by that very wording is inspired completely by God and is not of their own invention, although it is not dictated. God did not speak in their minds and tell them, write this, nor did He speak out loud dictiating exactly how to write what He had in mind. He told some of them to go write these things down, but did not say specifically go write this, go write that. He did inspire them what to say, not how to say though. Hope this clears it up! God's Day To You, Tamara This is called |
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150 | Was it the influence of | Ex 33:11 | Tamara Brewington | 205472 | ||
Dear BarryB, Number of things going on here... The Bible says, no man may see His face and live right? The Bible also says God is a spirit right? Question for you; did or did not Moses see God in the burning bush and speak with Him face to face? In what way did Moses see God in the burning bush? This is called anthrompomorphism - this means God deals with humans using modes of revelation that man can understand in human terms. Moses saw what appeared to be God in the burning bush, the Jews call this the Angel of God, a likeness of God where God is there for real speaking, but showing himself to men in a likeness of Himself. So when we say that Moses spoke to God face to face, God was really there, and most times as an invisible spirit, and someitmes the presence of the cloud would come and engulf the place where Moses was standing there talking to God. It was not a metaphor for God's thoughts in Moses mind, they met for real often and spoke as if face to face, Moses according to the Bible was hearing God's voice out loud in the air. This is what is meant by speaking face to face. An interesting study is Exodus 34 where Moses goes up the mountain to speak to God. Moses goes up and is engulfed in a cloud with the presence of God in it. Moses asks God if he can be allowed to see His glory in Exodus 33:18 and God says in verse 20-23 that He will put Moses in the rock and cover him with His hand and that Moses will see God's glory and that Moses will see His back. Moses asked to see God's glory, God speaks back in anthrompomorphic language saying He has a hand and a front and a back. But see God is a spirit, He may not have a hand or a back or a front, but that is up for debate because angels are spirits and they have spiritual bodies with fronts, backs, sides, hands, wings, and some have four fronts and no backs. So it is possible for God to have a spiritual body with hands, front and back, but we have no proof that this is so. We do know that what Moses asked to see was God's glory and that God was saying no man can see His face and live and that God said, I will let you see my backside. God meant the backside of His glory, which is what Moses asks about, His glory. So in Exodus 34 Moses is covered somehow by God, whether it was a real hand or a figurative hand as God's power to cover Moses and then Moses saw the tail end, the back side of God's glory. Some like to say it was the length of time that He was up there with God, or the quality of the relationship, but that doesn't add up. Moses had a quality relationship with God for a long time and Moses spoke to God face to face all the time, the only real difference between those times and this time was that Moses saw God's glory, the back end of it. This surely means that at least we can say God actually has a back and a front to His glory as a spirit. After Moses sees God's glory, he is suffused with God's glory and he goes back down the mountain with hi face shinning. Hope this answers it. God's Day To You, Tamara |
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151 | Was it the influence of | Ex 33:11 | Tamara Brewington | 205473 | ||
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152 | Speaking to God not glory, Moses shines? | Ex 34:29 | Tamara Brewington | 204003 | ||
Ok here's another one from the kooky professor... When Moses went up the mountain and received the 10 commandments the first time in Exodus 34 this guy is saying that it wasn't getting in the presence of the glory of God that make Moses face shine, it was Moses speaking in concentration form for a long time that got Moses face to shine. The reason he gave is verse 29. God Bless, Tamara | ||||||
153 | Speaking to God not glory, Moses shines? | Ex 34:29 | Tamara Brewington | 204019 | ||
Thanks, Tamara | ||||||
154 | Jewish Calendar ? | Leviticus | Tamara Brewington | 204796 | ||
Dear Lookinforacity, The Christian Calendar The Christian calendar is the term traditionally used to designate the calendar commonly in use, although it originated in pre-Christian Rome. The Christian calendar has years of 365 or 366 days. It is divided into 12 months that have no relationship to the motion of the moon. In parallel with this system, the concept of weeks groups the days in sets of 7. Two main versions of the Christian calendar have existed in recent times: The Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar. The difference between them lies in the way they approximate the length of the tropical year and their rules for calculating Easter. What is the Julian calendar? The Julian calendar was introduced by Julius Caesar in 45 BC. It was in common use until the late 1500s, when countries started changing to the Gregorian calendar (section 2.2). However, some countries (for example, Greece and Russia) used it into the early 1900s, and the Orthodox church in Russia still uses it, as do some other Orthodox churches. In the Julian calendar, the tropical year is approximated as 365 1 to 4 days is 365.25 days. This gives an error of 1 day in approximately 128 years. The approximation 365 1to4 is achieved by having 1 leap year every 4 years. 2.1.1 What years are leap years? The Julian calendar has 1 leap year every 4 years: Every year divisible by 4 is a leap year. However, the 4-year rule was not followed in the first years after the introduction of the Julian calendar in 45 BC. Due to a counting error, every 3rd year was a leap year in the first years of this calendar's existence. The leap years were: 45 BC, 42 BC, 39 BC, 36 BC, 33 BC, 30 BC, 27 BC, 24 BC, 21 BC, 18 BC, 15 BC, 12 BC, 9 BC, AD 8, AD 12, and every 4th year from then on. Authorities disagree about whether 45 BC was a leap year or not. There were no leap years between 9 BC and AD 8 (or, according to some authorities, between 12 BC and AD 4). This period without leap years was decreed by It is a curious fact that although the method of reckoning years after the (official) birthyear History of the Gregorian Calendar The Gregorian calendar resulted from a perceived need to reform the method of calculating dates of Easter. Under the Julian calendar the dating of Easter had become standardized, using March 21 as the date of the equinox and the Metonic cycle as the basis for calculating lunar phases. By the thirteenth century it was realized that the true equinox had regressed from March 21 its supposed date at the time of the Council of Nicea,325 to a date earlier in the month. As a result, Easter was drifting away from its springtime position and was losing its relation with the Jewish Passover. Over the next four centuries, scholars debated the correct time for celebrating Easter and the means of regulating this time calendrically. The Church made intermittent attempts to solve the Easter question, without reaching a consensus. By the sixteenth century the equinox had shifted by ten days, and astronomical New Moons were occurring four days before ecclesiastical New Moons. At the behest of the Council of Trent, Pope Pius V introduced a new Breviary in 1568 and Missal in 1570, both of which included adjustments to the lunar tables and the leap-year system. Pope Gregory XIII, who succeeded Pope Pius in 1572, soon convened a commission to consider reform of the calendar, since he considered his predecessor's measures inadequate. The recommendations of Pope Gregory's calendar commission were instituted by the papal bull Inter Gravissimus, signed on 1582 February 24. Ten days were deleted from the calendar, so that 1582 October 4 was followed by 1582 October 15, thereby causing the vernal equinox of 1583 and subsequent years to occur about March 21. And a new table of New Moons and Full Moons was introduced for determining the date of Easter. Subject to the logistical problems of communication and governance in the sixteenth century, the new calendar was promulgated through the Roman-Catholic world. Protestant states initially rejected the calendar, but gradually accepted it over the coming centuries. The Eastern Orthodox churches rejected the new calendar and continued to use the Julian calendar with traditional lunar tables for calculating Easter. Because the purpose of the Gregorian calendar was to regulate the cycle of Christian holidays, its acceptance in the non-Christian world was initially not at issue. But as international communications developed, the civil rules of the Gregorian calendar were gradually adopted around the world. Anyone seriously interested in the Gregorian calendar should study the collection of papers resulting from a conference sponsored by the Vatican to commemorate the four-hundredth anniversary of the Gregorian Reform. |
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155 | Disobedience to God - Why? | Num 20:11 | Tamara Brewington | 204357 | ||
The exact answer is becuase God told Moses in verse 8 to speak to the rock, not strike the rock. In verses 9-12 Moses is angry calling Israel rebels and in anger strikes the rock twice instead of speaking to the rock to get the water for a complaining Israel. God tells Moses because you did not believe Me to treat Me holy (speak to the rock, not strike) you will not bring the assembly into the land I am giving them. God Bless, Tamara |
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156 | laying out fleece vs divining | Judg 6:38 | Tamara Brewington | 205702 | ||
Dear Believer53, The laying out of fleece was actually something the Lord decided to answer tha Gideon did out of a lack of faith. Think about it a little -Gedeon says If you will deliver Israel through me, as You have spoken, etc." We can stop right there, Gideon says something very important here, he says, "as You have spoken". God had already told Gideon what He would do. Then in the next verse 37 Gideon divises a test to confirm what God already promised to do! Let's not even get into you shall not test the Lord your God... God decides in His own mercy and sovereign will to answer Gideon's request for a confirmation of His word to Gideon. That is not diving anything that is asking God to confirm His word and only becuase God decided to answer Gideon are we hearing about in the Bible. Not to teach us to divine things, but as an expample of God interacting with man in a miraculous way that was never, ever repeated, nor will it be. This is what the Bible says about diviners, which would include dousing as dousing as it is a form of divination; Deuteronomy 18:10-13 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. Deuteronomy 18:14 For those nations, which you shall dispossess, listen to those who practice witchcraft and to diviners, but as for you, the Lord your God has nto allowed you to do so. Dousing is done by having one with the power of divination go out and point a stick at the ground in order to "divine" where the water is. Persons are said to be born with this power, it is said this power runs in families and the like. I would say this - being a psychic of any kind is done by the power of the devil and sometimes quite effectively and there are many things folks may be able to truly acccomplish by the power of the devil. I am sure that being a pychic can be real because I used to be one before I got delieverd from the power of the devil. I used to be able to walk up to folks and know their personall business down to details I should not be knowing, I married into a family that did this on the side for a living part time and they would sit there in the fanciest hotels where there were long long lines of people waiting to be read for ten dollars a pop. The power of the devil has deceived many for century upon century with impressive feats of knowledge and divinations of all kinds, dousing is just one of many that does work, but is evil. The devil has a kingdom of which he is ruler and it is called the world forces of this darkness, called so by Paul, it is also said by Jesus that the earth is the kingdom of the devil. This stuff is very real and not all supersition based on nothing, but it is indeed evil and you should gaurd your heart and your very life from it by studying the Bible to find out every truth in it. God's Day To You, Just a evil sinner who got saved by His Infinte Grace, Tamara |
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157 | laying out fleece vs divining | Judg 6:38 | Tamara Brewington | 205719 | ||
Dear Doc, I will ask you to try to see that Gideon had no need to ask for a confirmation of something he shoud have just taken on faith... There was no need to ask for a confirmation of what he knew he heard was there? Here do you like this language better; Gideon asked for a confirmation of what he already was clearly told and should have known God would do, and that constitutes some lack on his part of a complete trust that God would deliver receiving a sign of confirmation. If that is still out of order please Doc take the time and :))))))) patience to teach my why it is out of order, or wrong thinking verbiage, verbiage, verbiage... I am trying to get at the reason why Gideon seemed to be needing confirmation - God is a solid promiser what is not clear about being told once? Gideon had that once being shown by fleece was not enough, and asked that God's anger not burn against him for asking twice - he was aware that there might be a problem between God that he was asking... We can say for sure that he had doubt about what God promised or he would not have asked for a sign of confirmation would he? That is where I started out from... God Bless, Tam |
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158 | laying out fleece vs divining | Judg 6:38 | Tamara Brewington | 205727 | ||
Okay John God Bless You Dear.... So much for what I have witnessed... | ||||||
159 | laying out fleece vs divining | Judg 6:38 | Tamara Brewington | 205803 | ||
Dear Doc, Thank you for that insight there about what the church has generaly taught... I have noticed you have a propensity to refer to what the compendium of theologians and commentators in the church have taught. I would say it is good to do this, but I would not rely on it primarily myself before trying to see what the scripture is saying, not saying you are either. Of course we take into account that these great men have had the time to study these things for longer and more intesnly than we might ever hope to do. I like the idea of starting with the scriptures first as a starting point in order to arrive at a conclusion; Quote, What is Theology, by Tamara Brewington, excerpt; A Starting Point for the Study of Christian Doctrine The first question that has to be answered in doing theology is where to find the sources for composing a doctrine and the sources are as follows: 1.Natural Theology – general revelation of God, i.e., the parts of creation in the universe are examined in order to extract definite facts about God and human nature as empirical evidence. 2.Tradition – the teachings of the compendium of persons and institutions which comprise the church fathers, theologians, and the Universal Christian Church throughout history provide a foundation of beliefs as a basis for what ought to be believed as being normative. 3.The Scriptures – the Bible as a document is the authority for the Christian faith ruling what should be believed and acted upon. 4.Experience – the religious experience of the Christian provides authoritative divine information from which to provide a foundation of beliefs as a basis for what ought to be normative. The scriptures provide the best source as the divinely inspired word of God from which to gather materials for composing a doctrine because it is the highest authority out of the four sources from which to choose. I would go in order by 3, 2, 1, and 4 with great caution. I was unfamiliar with this example by John Gill that you gave, I have never, ever heard this take on this passage before... Quote, MacArthur Bible Commentary, by John MacArthur, pg. 277, par.6; Gideon's two requests for signs in the fleece should be viewed as weak faith; even Gideon recognized this when he said, "Do not be angry with me" (v.39) since God had already specifically promised His presence and victory (vv. 12,14,16). But they were also legitimate requests for confirmation of victory against seemingly impossible odds (6:5, 7:2, 12) God nowhere reprimande Gideon, but was very compassionate in giving what his inadequacy requested. In 7:10-15 God volunteered a sign to boost Gidneon's faith. He should have believed God's promises i n7:9, but he needed to bolstering, so God graciously gave it without chastisement. I am thinking about John Gill's statement there that; "and perhaps his view was more for the encuoragment of those that were with him than himself". I do not find that very credible because Gideon seemed to need a personal confirmation for himself because he says to God, "then I will know that You will deliver Israel throug me,". Perhaps you see why I came to the conclusion there that Gideon was seeking for God to confirm what God has already said and that it was a testament of the state of his faith or so. Thank you for the information... God's Day To You, Tamara |
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160 | Solomon's judgment of Adonijah and Joab | 1 Kin 2:13 | Tamara Brewington | 203958 | ||
Ok Carlos, here goes... From looking closely at the text we can see that Solomon sees himself as having fulfilled the prophecy of David to ascend to the throne made in II Samuel 7:12-16. Most commentators see this as Solomon assuming he is the only one who has his kingdom established by God, and as the one who gets the throne that will be established forever, because of I Kings 2:24. The parellel comes in I kings 2 when we see that the Lord was giving David a double prophecy. The proof is in two verses; 13 where it says that God will establish his throne forever - meaning Jesus the Messiah who will live and rule forever and 14 where it says that whoever God establishes on the throne if he sins God will chasten him. And since the we know that Jesus the Messiah can't sin, we know that David's son has to be the one in question on the throne. However, the text in I kings 2:13-34 is not a reference to a picture of the Messiah's judgment in the person and action of Solomon. There are elements in the history found in scripture of parallels that can be drawn between Jesus and Solomon though, but none of them involve judgment. The first parallel you already see, that Jesus was of the line of David and would be established on the throne of David and that Solomon was of the line of David and would be established on the throne of David. The next one is that Jesus was going to build the final tabernacle being His body crucified and resurrected as the place for all to worship and Solomon was going to build a tabernacle as a place for all to worship. The next one is that when Jesus went up the mountain and was transfigured the presence of God was there in a cloud as He was speaking to Moses and Elijah about raising the last tabernacle and when Solomon finished building the tabernacle the presence of God was present in a cloud that filled it up. The next one is that when Jesus judged matters of the people He used the wisdom of God and Solomon was given a wisdom from God which was unparalleled by any until Jesus came down. There are no parallels in the first commands of Solomon as it pertains to his reign as being the archetype of the new kingdom. Some would say there was because he apparently used a kind of wisdowm in executing a rival and Solomon's reign was later characterized by wisdom or because he destroyed his rival to the throne. But the wisdom he was later to receive from God goes beyond the sort of self preservation that is displayed in this passage and also does not point to either the specific judgment of the Messiah that if they don't receive His word they are doomed or the general judgments of the Messiah using wisdom to judge matters and it does not make contact with the Messiah eventually judging Satan, the Anti-Christ, or the False Prophet in Revelation. When you look for parallels, types, shadows of events and people in the Bible pay close attention to the circumstances because that will give the big clue as to if a text applies to the idea you might have. God bless, Tamara | ||||||
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