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181 | Pauls' loss of Salvation | Rom 9:3 | Beja | 229794 | ||
JohnRyals, You are looking for Romans 9:1-3, though it is very clear that Paul is not actually suggesting this is possible to trade. He is simply expressing his love for them is so great that he willingly would if the opportunity was hypothetically there. In Christ, Beja |
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182 | What is Man Psalm 8:4 | Rom 9:11 | Beja | 224356 | ||
caronz, I think David's point is that there is nothing in us that merits God's grace. In Christ, Beja |
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183 | Heaven/hell - those never hearing gospel | Rom 10:12 | Beja | 223856 | ||
rclouviere, Paul gives us a pretty clear answer in Romans. He says in chapter 10 that all who will call on him will be saved. But then he asks a series of rhetorical questions in which he tries to make clear the need for people to preach the gospel. Romans 10:14,15 "How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher? How will they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written, 'howbeautiful are the feet of those who bring good news of good things!'" verse 17 "So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ." So Paul says that somebody must preach the gospel in order for them to hear, and they must hear in order to believe, and must believe in order to call, and must call in order to be saved. A person might ask how this is fair to judge those who have not heard the gospel. Paul addresses this in the very first chapter from about verse 16 on to the end of the chapter. His summary is enough about God is evident in creation that they are without excuse. This does mean they understand Christ and the gospel through creation, it means rather they should know enough about God to not sin and therefore they are morally accountable. I'll admit that this is a terrifying notion but it remains the biblical answer to your question. In Christ, Beja |
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184 | John Mills 30k inconsistancies in the NT | Rom 10:17 | Beja | 219624 | ||
Hello Kevo, While you've been given some good words on this question. I felt it might build your faith to hear a bit more of what is actually going on with these errors in the manuscripts. First of all we need to take an honest look at what was going on when they were copied. Most have heard stories about how reverently the Hebrew text was copied and how carefully they preserved it from error. This was done by professional scribes and even the slightest error found would cause the copy to be burned. However, when you come to the new testament documents this isn't what you see. What is happening then is largely uneducated people are copying letters written from the various apostles and evangelists. They are using very cheap materials and they don't have the training or financial means to just scrap them if one letter is wrong so that they can start again. So we would expect many errors in these manuscripts. However, also consider the nature of these errors. As you said something like 90 percent is in perfect agreement, but there is a more remarkable statistic. Of the errors, the vast vast majority are of what we would call a negligible nature. In other words its something like this: Four manuscripts read as follows... Jesus is the Son of God Jesus is the Sun of God Jeus is the Son of God Jesus is the Son of God This is a made up example, but bear with me. In these four "manuscripts" now we have already counted two errors. But look at the nature of the errors. Their source is so obvious (a mistaken letter, and somebody hearing and writing a phonetically identical word) that there is literally no doubt whatsoever as to what is the original author's writiing. This is the nature of the huge majority of "errors" in the manuscripts. Now, if one of these errors occur within a passage on the virgin birth, we can rightly say there is error in such passages, but they mean to make it sound like there is a significant variance in which one manuscript teaches something crucially different. Do you see how their words are true yet deceiving? Are there errors that can affect the sense of a passage? Yes, rare but yes. But even in these there are no errors that affect a passage's teaching of a doctrine that doesn't have ample teaching to show the error for what it is in other areas of scripture, or more often just in other copies of that manuscript. Most expect God to have preserved his word through one copy with no errors. But if that was the case how would we know it had never been tampered with? No shortage of wicked men have tried to alter scripture I suspect. But God has preserved his word by a sudden amazing spread of copies throughout all the known world at the time, so that if in any place and in any passage wicked men have altered his word, or have translated it carelessly through tired eyes, manuscripts throughout the world shout out corrections to it. So we have many errors, but many witnesses to the true writing of God's word, showing us clearly what it is. Such is the wisdom of God. In Christ, Beja |
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185 | How can we know if Bible was not fabrica | Rom 10:17 | Beja | 222470 | ||
Billy 2010, You said, "I don't want to simply have a blind-faith." Sir, I would like to commend very highly to you "blind faith." Hebrews 11 teaches us that faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. And it is by this blind faith that abraham believed God that his descendants would be as many as the stars in heaven. It was by this blind faith that he was willing to risk offering up the one son of promise he had through whom God had told him this multitude would come, believing that if God let him die then God was able even to ressurrect him. Blind faith is the means by which men are saved. Read 2 corinthians 4:1-6. Men are not set free from being blinded by clever arguements, but by God granting them to perceive the truth of who Christ is. Romans 10:17 claims that faith comes from hearing, and hearing from the word of Christ! The parable of the rich man and Lazarus in Luke 16 ends with the rich man in hades crying out for lazarus to go warn his brothers of this place. He was told that they have Moses and the Prophets (the scriptures), the rich man responded that if only one rose from the dead then his brothers would believe!. The response to him was that if he will not believe those said scriptures, then he would not even believe should somebody rise from the dead to warn them. And I tell you, sir, should you not believe scripture for what it says with this "blind faith," then you will certainly not believe regardless what defenses we give you. That being said there are many apologetic sites that could give you "defenses" of scripture's inspiration. A couple of things that strongly argue in its favor are archeology and prophecy. Many prophecies in scripture were fulfilled with such obvious precision that it speaks of scripture's inspiration. Time and again also, the world has accused the scriptures of false history details, the book of luke was once laughed at for references to people and places that we had no record of existing. Yet christians took it with, "blind faith." Now Luke is marveled at as historically accurate to a remarkable degree. Why? Because archaeological digs kept proving Luke right time and again. There are other things to argue for it, but you can always find a way not to believe it. Seek out this blind faith you refer to. It is the good stuff. It is the saving stuff. It is the faith that can ward off all the attacks of Satan (Eph 5.) In Christ, Beja |
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186 | Doing a job without a call from God!!! | Rom 11:11 | Beja | 226220 | ||
Grace7044, "Calls" have been greatly over exagerated in our time. Now don't missunderstand me, there is truth to a man being called of God. But when somebody in our church wants to drive the youth van, we don't stop and try to make sure the man has received a destiny defining moment of realization before he may do so. What we look at, if we are doing it correctly, are two fold. First and foremost, the top qualification of any role within the church is a godly character. Look at 1 Timothy and see the qualifications of a pastor. Consider how many of them are character and how few of them are a matter of ability. Read the account in acts concerning the choosing of the seven to wait on tables. This is the type of task we'd toss to your youth groups and say, "oh, let the kids have some ministry opportunity!" But in contrast, even for such a thing as waiting tables the apostles called for men filled with the holy spirit. So first of all we require character. Second, we look to see if God has given the spiritual gifts for this task. Whether or not my character is godly, I assure you that you don't want me to be a music minister. God has gifted us for the roles that he wants us to play within the body of Christ. As you look at those two things, if an individual has a desire to serve in a certain way, it is then the role of the church to affirm whether this individual has both the character and the gifts of the spirit for this role. Granted those two things, followed with the individual actually desiring the job, there is nothing standing in the way. The "calling" is pretty much simply a God given desire for the task. There is such a thing as a desire for a task that is not from God. But how to tell the two apart is what we've been talking about, and the job of the church. We pastors have done a huge disservice by making people feel like they must have a damascus road story before they are validated. The truth is, it doesn't happen like that at all...usually. In Christ, Beja |
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187 | contraception | Rom 14:1 | Beja | 221041 | ||
Dear Rajeeb, Here is a sermon that drastically changed my perspective with regards to children. No single scripture impacted me as did grasping a biblical opinion of kids. I hope this can help you and your wife as well. I will pray for you. http://www.evangelismteam.com/sermons_vbaucham.php In Christ, Beja |
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188 | homeasexual invited into home | 1 Cor 5:1 | Beja | 223127 | ||
Posha, According to 1 Cor 5, if a professing christian is a homosexual we are not to even have a meal with them. However, I take 1 Cor 5 to mean that if an unbeliever is a homosexual then we ARE able to eat with them. The idea here is that with those who are professing to be christians, they are giving the world a false idea of christianity and the gospel, therefore our deliberate seperation is part of preserving both the church and the gospel. On the other hand, I bring to your mind what Doc is so often reminding us of. There is a difference in what we may do and what we ought to do. We may eat and spend time with an unbelieving homosexual couple, but should we? If our time is being spent to build a bridge for the gospel then in my opinion this is a good thing. Yet if we are just hanging out and having an ongoing friendship with no context of striving to bring them to christ or to show them their sin, then I would suggest it could contribute to the problem of confusing the outside world what the church is suppose to be. Not suggesting every encounter with them should be you challenging them, but I think if their conversion is the dominant desire in your heart it will look different to all involved. Hope this helps. In Christ, Beja |
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189 | What does the bib say about christians t | 1 Cor 6:1 | Beja | 223470 | ||
MyAnnointed1, You will find that in 1 Corinthians 6. And the short of it is that it would be far better to let the christian get away with wronged you than to take your brother in Christ to court. In Christ, Beja |
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190 | can you go to heaven if yoursavedand gay | 1 Cor 6:9 | Beja | 226550 | ||
Babbigil, 1Co 6:9,10 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. May I ask a question in return? How do you reconcile two things in your own question: 1. "Living an openly gay lifestyle 2. "Struggling to become free." Perhaps we are just having different terminology, but "living a gay lifestyle" whether hidden or exposed does not mean to me that they are struggling to become free of the sin. Regardless, rest assured that there is no salvation without repentence. Carefully note what is said in Ephesians chapter 4. Eph 4:17-24 So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. But you did not learn Christ in this way, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus, that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth. Note very carefull how this passages says that if anybody has been rightly taught Jesus Christ, they were taught to turn from old sins in repentence and to instead walk in holiness. This is a jarring passage because it causes us to conclude that a great deal of the "easy believism" that passes itself as christianity today are teachings that fail to teach Christ. Repentence is required. In Christ, Beja |
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191 | Buddha statue in a house of a christian. | 1 Cor 8:1 | Beja | 214353 | ||
Let me answer with another question. Do you think that it could cause a younger Christian, who fails to grasp that Buddha is nothing and that the decoration is nothing more than an item, could it cause such a one who sees it in your house to stumble? 1 Corinthians chapters 8-10 might be good reading for you. Romans 14 also. As for me, I don't judge you for it but... Rom 14:6 "Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind." In Love, Beja |
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192 | Exact meaning of Biblical "The Lord" | 1 Cor 8:6 | Beja | 221567 | ||
Cathy, 1 Cor 8:6 might be a good verse to look at. Also Christ is continually referred to as Lord throughout the new testament. In Christ, Beja |
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193 | Did Jesus and early church drink wine? | 1 Cor 11:25 | Beja | 232989 | ||
00123, It is my personal belief that this passage states that Jesus did drink wine of the alchololic variety. Mat 11:19 "The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds." This was contrasted with John the baptist who came "neither eating nor drinking." Now I doubt it meant that John the Baptist had found a way to survive apart from food and water. The notion seems to be with regards to eating in some kind of festive context and alcoholic beverage. Therefore if that is its reference in the previous verse, I must conclude that it is what Jesus meant in this verse. Also it gives the basis of the Pharisee's wrongly accusing him of drunkeness. I am NOT suggesting that Jesus was ever drunk. In Christ, Beja |
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194 | speaking in tounges | 1 Cor 12:30 | Beja | 214993 | ||
Paul is clear that not all Christians receive the gift of speaking in tongues (1 Cor 12:30). 1 Cor 12 would be a great chapter for you to read. The people who told you this are flat mistaken, speaking in tongues is not an issue that shows you do or do not have the Holy Spirit. In Love, Beja |
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195 | how do you explain to someone that does | 2 Cor 4:6 | Beja | 224259 | ||
ddhome, Two things. 1.) Pray. 2 Corinthians 4:3-4,6 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing. In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. (on to verse 6) For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness", has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Lets observe two things from this passage. First, it is not simply a lack of being convinced that hinder people from accepting the gospel of Jesus Christ, but rather it is a supernatural hindrince by the god of this world (Satan.) Second, the cure is not a better arguement, a nice power point, asking the right questions, and certainly not altering the gospel! Rather the cure is God himself shining light into their heart such that they understand the gospel. That they would perceive, "the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." So we have supernatural obsticals for which nothing but the power of God will suffice to overcome. Therefore I say to you pray! Pray and pray until every word you speak to them has been saturated in prayer. 2.) Preach Christ crucified. Preach Christ dying specifically for OUR sins. Preach 2 Cor 5:21 "For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." While even our very ability to perceive the gospel to be what it is, is a divine act of God to open our eyes, even so God has appointed to divinely open our eyes in the preaching of the gospel. Romans 10:13-17 "For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, 'How beautiful are teh feet of those who preach the good news!' But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, 'Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?' So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ." See what it says here, faith comes from hearing the word of Christ. So therefore preach Christ! In summary, pray continually for the individual because their belief will not happen without a divine act of God (John 6:65.) And preah Christ, because God has chosen to do this wonderous act through the preaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ! (1 Cor 1:21). In Christ, Beja |
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196 | Any other verses on Going to Heaven? | 2 Cor 5:8 | Beja | 227016 | ||
00123, 2Co 5:1 For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2Co 5:2 For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven, 2Co 5:3 inasmuch as we, having put it on, will not be found naked. 2Co 5:4 For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life. 2Co 5:5 Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave to us the Spirit as a pledge. 2Co 5:6 Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord-- 2Co 5:7 for we walk by faith, not by sight-- 2Co 5:8 we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. In Christ, Beja |
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197 | Once saved, are you saved forever, | 2 Cor 5:21 | Beja | 227049 | ||
Murphi, I do not say this in any way to scold you, but to try to point you in a right direction. Your understanding of what salvation is about and how it occurs to seem to be very lacking. You seem to be under the impression that your lack of attendance at church negatively impacts your state of salvation, and at the same time you seem hopeful that your current attendance restores it. The only source of salvation is Jesus Christ dying in order to satisfy all the wrath of God which was due to you for your many sins. All that one must do to be saved is to believe and to trust upon what Christ has done on the cross for forgiveness of your sins. He is offered to you freely. He is not for you to earn or in any way merit. Believe it, and trust fully upon his taking your place for your salvation. Do not trust in that you once were baptized. Do not trust in that you once said a prayer. Do not trust in that a pastor told you that you were saved. Do not trust in anything in heaven or earth other than that Jesus Christ has taken your sin upon himself, died for those sins upon a cruel cross, and that Christ has given you His very own righteousness in place of your sin. And for the love of your own soul spend your remaining days diligently in the word of God, faithly in the attendance of Church and hearing the word preached, and passionate in seeking to know Him that you might make up for the time you have lost so that you might know him and the gospel as you ought. Repent of the time you've lost and follow him. Know with certainty that all those who come to God through Christ are not only promised forgiveness of sins, but we are also promised that He will write His words upon our heart so that we shall become obedient to him (Heb 8:8-12, Ezekiel 36:25-27). So trust fully upon the cross of Christ and go forward and learn that obedience that was purchased for you on the cross. For God will enable you to make gains in holiness, "for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure" (Philippians 2:13). God is able to restore to you the years that you lost (Joel 2:25). He is a compassionate God who delights in mercy (Micah 7:18). He will never cast out any soul that comes to Christ (John 6:37). He has infinite compassion on your shortcomings and weaknesses (Hebrews 4:15). Cling fast to Christ and the cross. Believe that He is a rewarder of those who seek him (Heb 11:6). In Christ, Beja |
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198 | A mate from God | 2 Cor 6:14 | Beja | 222191 | ||
Child of j, 2 Cor 6:14 says that we are not to be bound together with unbelievers. I believe the context is primarily talking about church membership, but I think it certainly applies to marriage. 1 Cor 7:39 tells widows that they are free to marry again, but "only in the Lord." I believe this is a specific restriction to marry only Christians. I really think there is another good verse dealing with this, but it is slipping my mind at the moment. Beyond even direct commands how horrible of a situation you are pondering! Ephesians chapter 5 says unto wives that they are to obey their husbands even as the church is to obey Christ! What a sad lot for a godly woman to be in such that she must daily struggle to serve a man who does not honor God. A man that orders his entire household with no thought to the glory of God or obedience to God would be a constant torment to any truely godly woman. How difficult it must be to follow the instructions of 1 Peter 3:1 where it tells wives to be obedient to such husbands so that they will be won over by their wives conduct even while the wife keeps silent in prayer for their husband. You must understand also that the discussion in 1 Cor 7 is meant for those who have converted after marriage and yet remain married to an unconverted spouse. A godly woman ought sooner to consider robbing herself of an eye before chaining herself to an unconverted man, who is to then be the leader of her home with regards to discipling both her and her children! What could you possibly find in common when the delight of your every day is seeing the glory of God in Jesus Christ, and that while his every thought is displeasing to God because it is impossible for him to please God! (Rom 8:8.) His every thought is completely contrary to seeking the very one who is your everything? We should weep the sweet lamb of God that through fear of being alone forgets that the Lord is her constant portion and companion and provider (Heb 13:5), and through lack of faith in her heavenly Father's provision, chains herself to an unconverted man and gives herself over to so many miseries. In Christ, Beja |
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199 | chould a preacher question peoples chris | 2 Cor 13:5 | Beja | 222834 | ||
Jamesandfaye, Absolutely they should. Though it is done in the right spirit. Doc, gave you an excellent answer. Might I just add that one of the reasons its fitting that he includes the question, "What is the church," is because a part of what it means to actually be a church is mutual responsibility for each other. This makes evaluating our evidences of salvation especially appropriate. In Christ, Beja |
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200 | How could Satan sin? | Ephesians | Beja | 221209 | ||
Dhudspeth15, I encourage you to do a few things. First, what scripture are you using to state that there is no sin in heaven? I know that is going to, from a knee jerk reaction, sound heretical, but consider it. And if you find something, make sure you aren't confusing eternity past, with the new heavens and the new earth which God is preparing for those in Christ. So first, make sure you are thinking in scriptural terms. Second, I encourage you to look at the references in the book of Ephesians to the place referred to as the "heavenlies." Ephesians 1:3,20 2:6, 3:10, 6:12. Especially the last reference. See if these things can help you come to any conclusion on the matter. In Christ, Beja |
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