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141 | DOUBLE AND TRIPLE NEGATIVES OF NT | Luke 22:18 | bowler | 206996 | ||
Tim Moran I am wondering how it works? Is it that the actual word is in itself a double negative? Or is it that the word appears two times in a sentence for emphasis? This is why I want to find the time to learn Greek. Just a worthless son. blessings abound, bowler |
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142 | DOUBLE AND TRIPLE NEGATIVES OF NT | Luke 22:18 | bowler | 207042 | ||
Tim Moran Thank you very much for the explanations. I appreciate it. Just a worthless son. blessings abound, bowler |
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143 | Is jesus god incarnate? | John 1:14 | bowler | 206710 | ||
talien4444 Jesus is very God - Colossians 1:15-19 - Jesus was there before the creation of all things and then He created all things, whether things on earth or in the universe, or kingdoms, or principalities of powers - everything was created through Him and for Him. Verse 19 says all the fullness dwelt in Jesus - the fullness of being very God and the fullness of being very human. Incarnate - John 1:14 And the Word - the Divine Exression of God - became flesh and dwelt among us. Jesus was both the Son of God and to be worshipped - Hebrews 1:5 To which of the angels did He ever say "You are My Son, today I have begotten You?, 1:6 "And let all the angels of God worship Him". Only God can be worshipped, but God calls Jesus His only begotten Son and says let the angels worship Jesus. Verse 1:8 God says of the Son, Your throne oh God is forever and ever, and the righteous scepter of your kingdom. Jesus was fully God. Jesus was fully human - John 11:35 Jesus wept, John 19:28 Jesus was thirsty, Mathew 4:2 Jesus hungered, John 4:6 Jesus got tired, Mathew 4:3 Jesus was tempted, Mark 4:38 Jesus slept, Luke 23:46 Jesus died. Jesus is fully God and fully human and is He God incarnate. blessings abound, bowler |
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144 | once saved always saved? | John 10:28 | bowler | 207412 | ||
Jesus keeps Me There is a wealth of information here in this wonderful site! I often get lost in the treasures that are to be found in here using the search feature up to the rigth at the top. Try typing the words "eternal security" up in the search feature, you will recieve a real treat, there is so much there. John 3:16 John 10:27-29 Philippians 1:6 1 Peter 1:45 Romans 5:1 Ephesians 2:8, 9 There is a start, some of them you were given before I think. Hebrews 6:19 This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil. blessings abound, bowler |
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145 | once saved always saved? | John 10:28 | bowler | 207503 | ||
Progolfer190 I am trying to follow your logic and here and I am not suceeding. You said the following - "I don't think so because you can die without repenting of your sins ad getting a bad heart and (i believe) go to hell but if you repent of your sins at the end of your life and you die with a good heart then you will go to heaven." In response to - "once saved always saved?" I am trying to break down what you are saying into parts here - "because you can die without repenting of your sins" This begs the question; How in the world could you get to heaven unless you did repent of your sins and take Jesus Christ as your savior and Lord? Is there some other way to get to heaven than to do that? Is it that you believe that you get saved sometime early in life, or at all, and then because you don't repent of your sins after that "event" when you got saved, that you will "get a bad heart" and go to hell? How does that work really? Is it really possible that a Christian who is truly saved would not repent of their sins on an ongoing basis, is that a Christian? The whole premise of salvation is that the human heart is infinitely wicked and we cannot get to heaven becuase "we have a good heart" becuase we don't have one. Once saved always saved means that once you repent of your sins to Jesus alone, nobody else, not His mother, not to God the Father, not to the Holy Spirit, not to the dead saints, or live angels, but just to Jesus - once you do that for real with a sincere heart, your salvation is complete. There is no waiting around until we see how good you lived when you finally die, or waiting for a man to tell you you are saved after you pray a certain way and go to him to repent of your sins. Salvation is a work of Christ, not of you - you don't have the power to effect salvation by your good works or your bad works, it is not possible, that is why Christ had to do it. The way to salvation is simple; believe Jesus is God, repent of your sins, confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord, believe in your heart that He died and rose from the dead and you will be saved. There is no such thing as getting saved and then going to your death and not making it to heaven, it doesn't work that way. Ephesians 1:7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace. blessings abound, bowler |
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146 | once saved always saved? | John 10:28 | bowler | 207766 | ||
Azure, I was away sorry for the long delay in answering you. Why I do believe you are right in one sense and so am I! Question; could a person repent to God the Father without having "faith in Jesus for the forgiveness of their sins"? I doubt it. Which is more what I meant by saying you should repent to Jesus. So many people think they are saved who repented to God, but did not do it in the name of Jesus, do not believe in Jesus and so on - that is what I was referring to, that a person should not just repent to the Father and leave Jesus out of the picture. On the other hand if you repent to Jesus alone, He and the Father are one, you are repenting to God the Father through faith in Jesus. I think what I was trying to say and what you are saying actually kind of go together. But I do see what you are saying that the model we find in the Bible is repenting to the Father in the name of Jesus. John 6:40 "For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day." blessings abound, bowler |
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147 | Jesus weeping over Lazarus | John 11:35 | bowler | 206659 | ||
Minister Bethune quvmoh is right we can't know for sure that why Jesus wept. I have heard this preached different ways. The big question is why would God cry? He is knowing what He is going to be doing, that He will raise Lazarus from the dead. So why cry, what is the point of cryng over something you know you are going to be fixing? And over showing them you are God 11:14. But as man Jesus has the ability to have sorrow over the death of a man He loved dearly 11:36. So maybe what is going on is that we have Jesus as fully God and fully man. As God He had to need to cry, as man He did, He loved Lazarus and death, altough fixable, sorrowed him. Death comes from sin and the dying of Lazarus may have sorroed Jesus. I have heard that Jesus wept because the people did not believe. But why would that be? He did not weep all the other times no one believed He was God or that He would do miracles. It is true as quvmoh said though, that Jesus showed compassion by weeping and this points more and more to His full humanity. blessings abound, bowler |
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148 | Betryed by Friend | John 14:6 | bowler | 206413 | ||
CharlieH As it is true that God will use whomever He wants to draw a child of God to His throne of grace how ever He chooses to we cannot say that God would have or could have used someone better or different because it all didn't work out later. God only has a first plan to especially save each one of us, there is not a second plan to how we come to His grace. We can't really give advice here, but if your wife is a believer then perhaps you might be able to guide her to an understanding of at least how you feel about her safety. Ephesians 5:28, 29 - we are to love our wives as ourselves and that includes protecting them. As spouses we can't change the past and redo what got done, the good parts, or the bad parts, but we can let it go and walk in unity as one person. Ephesians 4:3 being diligent to perserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. blessings abound, bowler |
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149 | Praying to the Holy Spirit? | John 14:14 | bowler | 206217 | ||
Is it improper to pray to the Holy Spirit? I am seeing here in the verse that Jesus says we can pray to Him, and we know in the verse before to ask the Father in the name of Jesus. But is there anywhere that the Bible speaks of praying to the Holy Spirit? I am thinking it is proper to reverence the Holy Spirit as part of the Godhead, and does not the whole Godhead deserve worship? Is not part of worship prayer? blessings abound, bowler |
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150 | Praying to the Holy Spirit? | John 14:14 | bowler | 206265 | ||
Doc Enjoyed the link, nothing there on praying to the Holy Spirit, thanks. blessings abound, bowler |
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151 | Praying to the Holy Spirit? | John 14:14 | bowler | 206284 | ||
Doc Thank you for more links! So very helpful! An asnwer to prayer. Actualy I was so fascinated with theologian Arthur Pink, whom I had never heard of before that I did take the time to read through it, although I admit to skiming through some of it to try to find what I was looking for, but I did go through it all in about 4 hours at one sitting. I should actualy go back and read it more thoroughly and see if I missed what you were referring me to. Laugh at me, I am. blessings abound, bowler |
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152 | Praying to the Holy Spirit? | John 14:14 | bowler | 206285 | ||
Wild Olive Shoot My apologies to all! I missed this in what was sent to me by another. Having some trouble with theologian Arthur Pink's writing here. Aruthur Pink 30. Pray For Love Toward God Then had followed the prayer in 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 that they might be comforted and established by an effectual application to them of the glorious contents of the gospel. Next he had solicited their prayers for himself and fellow ministers (2 Thess. 3:1-2), after which he had declared, "But the Lord is faithful, who will stablish you, and keep you from evil. And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you" (2 Thess. 3:4). Note, the apostle did not say, "We have confidence in you" but "We have confidence in the Lord touching you." Paul was assured that God, having begun a good work in them, would graciously complete it. The Addressee of This Prayer Let us now consider the Addressee of this prayer. Who is meant by "the Lord" here? We answer unhesitatingly, the third Person of the blessed Trinity, the One who is designated "Lord" in 1 Corinthians 12:5, and "the Spirit of the Lord" in 2 Corinthians 3:18. First, this is clear from the fact that in our present verse He is definitely distinguished from "God" and "Christ," so that reference is here made to the Eternal Three. I understand his reference to another passage that the Holy Spirit is in the Godhead and deserves worship. What I am trying to see is his take on 2 Thessalonians 2:16, 17 because the prayer mentions Jesus and the Father but does not mention the Holy Spirit and then ends. Then Pink metions chapter 3 as if the prayer is continuing, with the Holy Spirit as the object deserving attention as the recipient of a prayer, but now Paul is speaking of asking the brethren to pray and is no longer praying, he stopped in chapter 2. I don't think I am a theologian by any means, and all credit due to the great men of yesteryear. I do however, respectfully wonder sometimes how they come to the conclusions they do. I appreciate, though reading him, and you sending the link. blessings abound, bowler |
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153 | helping a friend | John 16:8 | bowler | 206647 | ||
BLESSED 136 Couple of things here. There are times, as I have seen in other churches than my own, where a preacher feels they are hearing from God that someone needs salvation pariticularly, as if some needed it more than others who also did not respond. In my humble opinion this is a bit sensational and does nothing to actualy prompt the lost to come forward as your friend is showing it does not. The Holy Spirit does all the work, the preacher just gives the call. Singling someone out just embarrasses them and does not help them to believe in Jesus. Why should your friend listen to these preachers? If your friend knows they can't believe yet going forward without believing won't help at all, it might result in a false confession, but not in salvation. When your friend asks what it means that they were singled out, it might be more profitable to explain what the call of salvation is for - to come forward because of seeing that they are a sinner who needs salvation. That is what the altar call is for, to recognize that you are a sinner and go forward to acknowledge that you are ready to ask Jesus for forgivness of sins, or that you did at home, or in the pew - you are answering the call to salvation. Praying with your friend that salvation will come some day? That would be something to do on your own for your friend. Question - why is your friend praying for salvation to come if they don't actualy come to Jesus? Salvation is a choice to make on the part of the sinner who wants to be saved. Either they are sure they don't want to be saved, or they are sure they do want to be saved, there is no such thing as a gray area. You need to ask your friend what is in the way of them taking the free gift. Is it impossible to believe Jesus died and rose again? Is it impossible to believe that Jesus is God? Is it impossible to believe that Jesus forgives sins? Is it impossible to stop arguing with God that the sins they, or someone else committed are realy wrong so they can't ask for forgivness? There has got to be a reason why this friend of yours is not taking the gift, and it has nothing to do with the altar call, and nothing to do with why the preachers keep aksing them to come forward. It has everything to do with them and God and whether or not they can accept God period. What is happening to your friend is that they are either on the fence and believe that Jesus forgives sins and is God and that they are a sinner, but have problems with God and what God will do to unrepentant sinnners, or they do not believe any of it anyway and and either wish they could or will never believe because they want to believe something else. The focus is not on the church, the preacher, or what does or does not happen with those two things, the focus is on your friend and whether or not they believe or not in Jesus, and then whether they are refusing to take salvation because they are fighting with God. The phone calls, the prayers, the going to church, the talking and talking about it all are a diversion from the truth of their true relationship with God. I would pray alone and take them to church and maybe offer to pray with them for Jesus to reveal Himself to them. You don't get saved without a revelation from Christ that He is God, there is no other way. It is not an understanding, it is not a feeling, it is not a conversation, it is very God and them. blessings abound, bowler |
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154 | God, Are You There? | John 16:8 | bowler | 207273 | ||
Micket's Mom I found a book for you I think will be good. Try googling it. It is "The Mystery Of The Holy Spirit", by R.C. Sproul. http://www.monergism.com/directory/link_category/Holy-Spirit/Work-of-the-Holy-Spirit/ Doc is a real gold mine of information, as are plenty of others on this site, he is where I got the site from. Judging from the names of the authors, you will find sound teachings there. Here are some scriptures about the role of the Holy Spirit I found - John 16:5-15 John 14:23-27 John 1:33 I Corinthians 12:4-13 2 Peter 1:21 I would like to be most careful in any attempt to answer your question outside of the confines of what scripture proscribes as the role of the Holy Spirit. So I gave you scriptures that talk about what His role is with us. In all humbleness, I notice that you hardly ever include scriptures with your questions? I don't think from observing everyone else that anyone here is so consistent as to "always" include scriptures. But, I can only speak for myself, I try hard to include scriptures wherever I can. It would be nice to know a little bit about who you are Mickys Mom, please fill out your profile so we can all get to know you! Just a worthless son. blessings abound, bowler |
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155 | God, Are You There? | John 16:8 | bowler | 207276 | ||
Steve I meant no harm or self promotion at all. I did add that others also do the exact same thing and included myself, saying I try, implying "I don't always either". I was not judging her at all. There have been several posts lately where others oberved a lack of scripture attached, and I myself am guilty of this. "Guilt" may be the wrong word. Please don't judge me, my statements were not meant to judge her. Just a worthless son. blessings abound, bowler |
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156 | pray to the Holy Spirit | John 16:23 | bowler | 207725 | ||
sureshtv In many places we see in the New Testament this model; To pray to the Father God in the name of Jesus. I have yet to see a model for prayer in the New Testament that has Jesus or anyone else praying to the Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus. We do have that you can pray directly to Jesus in Jesus name in John 14:14. Now, in all fairness this is the sorvereign Godhead we are talking about. God is God, and God is to be worshipped in Spirit and in truth, the right way that is. So even though the Holy Spirit is in the sovereign Godhead, if we don't see a model in the New Testament of anyone praying directly to Him, is it right to do? HHHMMM. I myself would err on the side of caution and stick to what Jesus said to do and the models for prayer we find all over the New Testament. I would therefore say no, it is not Biblical to pray to the Holy Spirt, soley based on the record of the New Testament. John 14:15 If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. blessings abound, bowler |
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157 | When and where, Last Words of Christ? | John 19:29 | bowler | 206318 | ||
I have been trying to understand when and where the tradition in some churches of preaching "the seven last words" about on Good Friday came about. I searched to no avail through the web for the inception of this fine tradition of the church. Where and when did this tradition of preaching the last word of Christ our glorious Lord begin? blessings abuond, bowler |
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158 | When and where, Last Words of Christ? | John 19:29 | bowler | 206331 | ||
Steve I had replied to lionheart but for some reason it got pulled. I tried there in keeping with clarity and in the spirit of Christian fellowship to say the following - My question was not about where in scripture we find the seven last words as the Biblical historical inception of them. My question was where in the history, say in the middle ages, did the preaching of the seven last words begin, where and when did this fine tradition of the church of preaching the seven last words begin? This is a Biblical question including a scripture as an example of what one of the seven last words was. In the Spirit of Christ. blessings abound, bowler |
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159 | distance Temple to Mount of Olives | Acts 1:1 | bowler | 206687 | ||
rustman No one today can know that for sure because there is a discrepancy as to where the actual temple was then and where the ruins appear to be know. Here is a link explaining that. http://becomingone.org/templemount.htm Then there is information about the distance between the Mount of Olivet and the city - Acts 1:12. This is talking about a "sabbath's day journey" which is about one thousand yards, maybe a twenty minute walk or less. One other clue we have is that in John Jesus says, let us get up from here at the end of chapter 14. Then they all go on a long walk to Olivet and Jesus seems to talk and pray along the way there. blessings abound, bowler |
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160 | What must I do to be saved? | Acts 2:37 | bowler | 206709 | ||
Ashwood Acts 16:31 Believe in the Lord Jesus and be saved. Acts 2:38 Repent and be baptized. Romans 10:9, 10 Confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, believe that He was raised from the dead, you will be saved, with the heart you believe, with the mouth you confess, resulting in righteousness. Acts 8:22 Repent of your wickedness and pray that the Lord will forgive you according to the intention of your heart. Believe in the Lord Jesus, that He is God and that He died and rose again, repent of your sins outloud, ask Jesus for forgiveness outloud, and you will be saved. That is all there is to it. It is not a feeling Jesus coming into your heart is not a feeling, it is the recognition that you are a sinner who needs to be saved. It is not going to church, although you should. It is not loving God, although you should. It is not doing good works, although you should. There is only one God and only one way to get saved. If you can't ask yet for salvation then there is a problem between you and God. Many people can't believe Jesus died and rose again and that He is God. Others can't believe that it is fair for God to punish sinners and send them to hell if they do not accept Jesus. Still others can't get around that they know their sins were wrong because they felt they had to do those things to have a better life and not a ruined one. And even though the believe Jesus is God and that they are sinners who need salvation, they can't stop fighting with God about that what they did was most definitely wrong and repent. You have to admit you are a sinner who needs to get saved and then take the offer of salvation and repent to Jesus and to Jesus alone to be saved. There is no other way. Take the life boat, it will be much, much better than burning in hell for an eternity. blessings abound, bowler |
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