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181 | What does this mean and how does it fit. | Eph 1:5 | Emmaus | 148358 | ||
shael, You may find footnote number three on Ephesians 1:3-14 at the following linik helpful. http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/ephesians/ephesians1.htm Emmaus |
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182 | Is the Temple destruction yet to come? | Matt 24:2 | Emmaus | 148354 | ||
The wailing wall was not a part of the temple itself, but part of a retaining wall for part of the gound upon which the Temple was built. It was not part of an actual building. | ||||||
183 | Why does Paul take such a broad view? | Eph 1:1 | Emmaus | 148352 | ||
shael, "I am reading Ephesians and in 1:1-14 this passage expresses Gods salvation in terms of the past, present and future 3-6a election, 6b-11 redemption, inheritance 12-14. Why does Paul take such a broad view? " Because he was inspired by the Holy Spirit to take such a broad view. And Ephesians is consistent with the rest of Paul's epistles. If Paul were asked, "Are you saved?", he might well respond with the following "I am already saved (Rom. 8:24, Eph. 2:5–8 ), but I’m also being saved (1 Cor. 1:8, 2 Cor. 2:15, Phil. 2:12), and I have the hope that I will be saved (Rom. 5:9–10, 1 Cor. 3:12–15). I am working out my salvation in fear and trembling (Phil. 2:12), with hopeful confidence in the promises of Christ (Rom. 5:2, 2 Tim. 2:11–13)." Paul was definitely not a one dimensional person. Emmaus |
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184 | Who we are in Christ. | Eph 1:5 | Emmaus | 148200 | ||
"I'm looking for scripture refrences that tell who we are in Christ.Any help would be appreciated." We are children of God by adoption in Christ. Rom 8:15 For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, "Abba! Father!" Rom 8:23 And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body. Rom 9:4 who are Israelites, to whom belongs the adoption as sons, and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the Law and the temple service and the promises, Gal 4:5 so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. Eph 1:5 He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, Emmaus |
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185 | Why should a child be baptized? | Acts 2:38 | Emmaus | 148075 | ||
Acts 2:36 "Therefore let all the house of Israel know for certain that God has made Him both Lord and Christ--this Jesus whom you crucified." Acts 2:37 Now when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brethren, what shall we do?" Acts 2:38 Peter said to them, "Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Acts 2:39 "For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself." |
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186 | Is Rahab's home still standing? | Josh 2:15 | Emmaus | 148014 | ||
No. Rahab's house was in the wall of Jericho, which fell down. | ||||||
187 | What is so wrong with Catholics | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 147980 | ||
4thetruth, Welcome. Nothing is wrong with Catholics that isn't wrong with anybody else, New Creature's opinions notwithstanding. I happen to be Catholic and I do not recognize myself in his description. I wonder how his Catholic friends would describe him and his Protestant faith and if he would recognize himself in their description. You can check out my past posts in the archives and see my profile. Emmaus |
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188 | Gatekeeper's charge to warn of danger | Ezek 3:18 | Emmaus | 147955 | ||
Ezek 3:17 "Son of man, I have appointed you a watchman to the house of Israel; whenever you hear a word from My mouth, warn them from Me. Ezek 3:18 "When I say to the wicked, 'You will surely die,' and you do not warn him or speak out to warn the wicked from his wicked way that he may live, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. Ezek 3:19 "Yet if you have warned the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered yourself. |
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189 | absent from the body | Rom 8:23 | Emmaus | 147951 | ||
Because the fullness of our redemption is in the resurrection of the body even as Jesus was resurrected. God created us not as pure spirits but as an integrated whole of body and spirit. We are men, not angels. The Holy Spirit within us, which gived us spiritual live in Christ is a pledge or downpayment on the fullness of our redemptioj in the resurrection of the body. 2 Cor 5:5-9 "Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave to us the Spirit as a pledge. Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord--for we walk by faith, not by sight-- we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him " Romans 8:23- "And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body." 1 Cor 15:12-17 "Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain. Moreover we are even found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified against God that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins." Emmaus |
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190 | Jesus chasing out moneychangers | John 2:15 | Emmaus | 147928 | ||
John 2:15 | ||||||
191 | What is considered unsafe in the Bible? | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 147897 | ||
kttyfx93 Disobeying God. But is there a more specific, immediate or detailed context to the question as it is presented to you? Emmaus |
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192 | What is considered unsafe in the Bible? | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 147895 | ||
kttyfx93 Disobeying God. But is there a more specific, immediate or detailed context to the question as it is presented to you? Emmaus |
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193 | Ref. to Luke 24....Do you believe that | John 20:15 | Emmaus | 147871 | ||
See John 20, Matthew 28 and Mark 16: 9-11(the longer ending of Mark). | ||||||
194 | Children are God's , not man's | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 147818 | ||
uh-oh, Rarely if ever in this situation is one egg "donated". Rather a cluster of eggs is necessary. Some resulting embyros from the artificial insemination are implated. If more than one survives that process in the womb, then often the "excess fetruses" are aborted. Unused fertilized embryos are frozen and stored. Their future may involve litigation, straight forward destuction, selling or giving to others, or destruction in medical experiments such as embryonic stem cell research. Welcome to our Brave New World. Emmaus |
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195 | Children are God's , not man's | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 147817 | ||
uh-oh, Are your parts just so many commodities to be bought and sold or traded for favors and what may be momentary good will? The college campus newspapers are full of adds offering to buy the eggs of young women. This is the maketing of human procreation. We are not far from from people farming or the selling of the rights to certain parts of our bodies as if we were selling the mineral rights to a piece of property that we own. If your egg (and a man's sperm ) becomes a child after it is fertilized you will be a mother (and the man a) father and you will have a child in the world. This is not quite the intimate setting and bonding envisioned by God in the bible is it? Think long and hard on this. When the begetting of children becomes a techonological act rather than a unitive and procreative act that God meant it to be we have entered the realm of commerce, marketing and government regulation. Sounds a lot like slavery and bondage doesn't it? And this is certainly not the same thing as adoption or giving a child up for adoption due to a personal crisis for the good of the child. One more thought. Think of all the trouble caused by Sara's desire for a son that way so great, she in the only way possible for her time, asked Hagaar to donate her egg, so Abram could fertilize it, so Sara could have a a child. It did not work out as planned did it? See Genesis 16. We are still living with the consequences in the Middle East and the rest of the world because of the conflict between Jews and Arabs and all that flows from that situation. God had another plan for Sara, but she wanted to be in the driver's seat. Who is Sara, the free woman, and who is Hagaar, the slave woman, in your situation, if you go along with your friend's request? Think long and hard. Just because something can be done, does not mean it should be done. Emmaus |
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196 | guardian angels | Matt 18:10 | Emmaus | 147355 | ||
Matt 18:10 "See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven continually see the face of My Father who is in heaven." | ||||||
197 | "Law" is a Metaphor? | Rom 7:23 | Emmaus | 146966 | ||
Doc, Rom 7:21-24 "I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?" "7:22 the law of sin: Traditionally called concupiscence, which is the inclination of fallen man to missues his free will in sinful and selfish ways. It manifests itself as an unremitting desire for pleasure, power and possessions. Even the baptised have to wrestle with thisinner force, although Paul insists that the Spirit can give victory over its unmanageable urges (8:2,13). So concupiscence reamins in the believer, but it need not rule us like a tyrant. (6:12-14)(CCC 405, 1426, 2520) footnote from the Ignatius Catholic Study Bible "405 Although it is proper to each individual, original sin does not have the character of a personal fault in any of Adam's descendants. It is a deprivation of original holiness and justice, but human nature has not been totally corrupted: it is wounded in the natural powers proper to it, subject to ignorance, suffering and the dominion of death, and inclined to sin - an inclination to evil that is called concupiscence". Baptism, by imparting the life of Christ's grace, erases original sin and turns a man back towards God, but the consequences for nature, weakened and inclined to evil, persist in man and summon him to spiritual battle." http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p1s2c1p7.htm#III "1426 Conversion to Christ, the new birth of Baptism, the gift of the Holy Spirit and the Body and Blood of Christ received as food have made us "holy and without blemish," just as the Church herself, the Bride of Christ, is "holy and without blemish."(Eph 1:4; 5:27) Nevertheless the new life received in Christian initiation has not abolished the frailty and weakness of human nature, nor the inclination to sin that tradition calls concupiscence, which remains in the baptized such that with the help of the grace of Christ they may prove themselves in the struggle of Christian life. This is the struggle of conversion directed toward holiness and eternal life to which the Lord never ceases to call us." http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p2s2c2a4.htm#V "2520 Baptism confers on its recipient the grace of purification from all sins. But the baptized must continue to struggle against concupiscence of the flesh and disordered desires. With God's grace he will prevail - by the virtue and gift of chastity, for chastity lets us love with upright and undivided heart; - by purity of intention which consists in seeking the true end of man: with simplicity of vision, the baptized person seeks to find and to fulfill God's will in everything;(Cf. Rom 12:2; Col 1:10) - by purity of vision, external and internal; by discipline of feelings and imagination; by refusing all complicity in impure thoughts that incline us to turn aside from the path of God's commandments: "Appearance arouses yearning in fools";(Wis 15:5) - by prayer: I thought that continence arose from one's own powers, which I did not recognize in myself. I was foolish enough not to know . . . that no one can be continent unless you grant it. For you would surely have granted it if my inner groaning had reached your ears and I with firm faith had cast my cares on you.(St. Augustine, Conf. 6,11,20:PL 32,729-730) " http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s2c2a9.htm#II Emmaus |
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198 | How is the date for Easter determined? | Matt 26:18 | Emmaus | 146902 | ||
Theoran, "How is the date for Easter determined?" The Western Church uses the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Vernal Equinox. An article on the history of this subject is at the following link: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05228a.htm Emmaus |
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199 | Before Jesus death | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 146891 | ||
ARTICLE 5 - "HE DESCENDED INTO HELL. ON THE THIRD DAY HE ROSE AGAIN" 631 Jesus "descended into the lower parts of the earth. He who descended is he who also ascended far above all the heavens."[Eph 4:9-10] The Apostles' Creed confesses in the same article Christ's descent into hell and his Resurrection from the dead on the third day, because in his Passover it was precisely out of the depths of death that he made life spring forth: Christ, that Morning Star, who came back from the dead, and shed his peaceful light on all mankind, your Son who lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.[476] Paragraph I. Christ Descended into Hell 632 The frequent New Testament affirmations that Jesus was "raised from the dead" presuppose that the crucified one sojourned in the realm of the dead prior to his resurrection.[Acts3:15; Rom8:11; 1 Cor 15:20; cf Heb 13:20] This was the first meaning given in the apostolic preaching to Christ's descent into hell: that Jesus, like all men, experienced death and in his soul joined the others in the realm of the dead. But he descended there as Saviour, proclaiming the Good News to the spirits imprisoned there.[cf 1Pater 3:18-19] 633 Scripture calls the abode of the dead, to which the dead Christ went down, "hell" - Sheol in Hebrew or Hades in Greek - because those who are there are deprived of the vision of God.[cf Phil 2:10;Acts 2:24; Rev 1:18; Eph 4:9; Pss 6:8; 88:11-13] Such is the case for all the dead, whether evil or righteous, while they await the Redeemer: which does not mean that their lot is identical, as Jesus shows through the parable of the poor man Lazarus who was received into "Abraham's bosom":[cf Pss 88:49; 1 Sam 29:19; Ezek 32:17-32; Luke 16:22-26] "It is precisely these holy souls, who awaited their Saviour in Abraham's bosom, whom Christ the Lord delivered when he descended into hell."[481] Jesus did not descend into hell to deliver the damned, nor to destroy the hell of damnation, but to free the just who had gone before him.[482] 634 "The gospel was preached even to the dead."[1 Peter 4:6] The descent into hell brings the Gospel message of salvation to complete fulfilment. This is the last phase of Jesus' messianic mission, a phase which is condensed in time but vast in its real significance: the spread of Christ's redemptive work to all men of all times and all places, for all who are saved have been made sharers in the redemption. 635 Christ went down into the depths of death so that "the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live."[Jn5:25; cf Matt 12:40;Rom 10:7; Eph 4:9] Jesus, "the Author of life", by dying destroyed "him who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and [delivered] all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong bondage."[Heb 2:14-5; cf Acts 3:15] Henceforth the risen Christ holds "the keys of Death and Hades", so that "at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth."[Rev 1:18; Phil 2:10] Today a great silence reigns on earth, a great silence and a great stillness. A great silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world began. . . He has gone to search for Adam, our first father, as for a lost sheep. Greatly desiring to visit those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, he has gone to free from sorrow Adam in his bonds and Eve, captive with him - He who is both their God and the son of Eve. . . "I am your God, who for your sake have become your son. . . I order you, O sleeper, to awake. I did not create you to be a prisoner in hell. Rise from the dead, for I am the life of the dead."[487] IN BRIEF 636 By the expression "He descended into hell", the Apostles' Creed confesses that Jesus did really die and through his death for us conquered death and the devil "who has the power of death" (Heb 2:14). 637 In his human soul united to his divine person, the dead Christ went down to the realm of the dead. He opened heaven's gates for the just who had gone before him." The Catechism Emmaus 475 Eph 4:9-10. 476 Roman Missal, Easter Vigil 18, Exsultet. 477 Acts 3:15; Rom 8:11; I Cor 15:20; cf. Heb 13:20. 478 Cf. I Pt 3:18-19. 479 Cf. Phil 2:10; Acts 2:24; Rev 1:18; Eph 4:9; Pss 6:6; 88:11-13. 480 Cf. Ps 89:49; I Sam 28:19; Ezek 32:17-32; Lk 16:22-26. 481 Roman Catechism 1, 6, 3. 482 Cf. Council of Rome (745): DS 587; Benedict XII, Cum dudum (1341): DS 1011; Clement VI, Super quibusdam (1351): DS 1077; Council of Toledo IV (625): DS 485; Mt 27:52-53. 483 I Pt 4:6. 484 Jn 5:25; cf. Mt 12:40; Rom 10:7; Eph 4:9. 485 Heb 2:14-15; cf. Acts 3:15. 486 Rev 1:18; Phil 2:10. 487 Ancient Homily for Holy Saturday: PG 43, 440A, 452C; LH, Holy Saturday, OR. |
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200 | How long on earth after His death? | Acts 1:3 | Emmaus | 146889 | ||
Acts 1:3 To these He also presented Himself alive after His suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God. | ||||||
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