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181 | kiv Grt Commission of JC, how we see it | OT general | Tamara Brewington | 205196 | ||
Dear chessshores, Please note that the last question of yours that I sent you a note on has been removed from the forum for reasons unknown to me. You need to be aware that the forum will quickly shut you down if you belong to a cult, or if you do not adhere to a literal intreptretation of scriptures. You wrote; Eugene Peterson, a Presbyterian scholar-Pastor who wrote a paraphrase of the Bible coined the Message and the Message Remix (as a second revised edition) seems to agree with charismatic Benny Hinn in application of this passage that even kings and rulers can become prophets. Yes King David was a king a ruler and a prophet, what has that got to do with false prophet Benny Hinn? That Bible you are referring to, the remix Bible is a paraphrase, and just like the Amplified Bible is not a literal intrepretation of the Bible and adds words to the Greek and Hebrew fundamentally changing the meanings of the texts. Though EugeneP may not be Charismatic, his writing interests Charismatics who quote him to the masses. eg Planetshakers n Hillsong Church. That the masses like him is absolutely no indication of him being accurate in his translation of the Bible, only popular to those who are seeking added meanins to the what the Bible is saying because they feel they are having trouble understanding and applying the Bible as it was intended to be understood, literally. Are you going to keep on propping up Benny Hinn the false prophet? Planetshakers n Hillsong Church is not known to be an expository Bible believing and teaching church. What point are you actually trying to make with repeated posts about Benny Hinn the false prophets and the world wide Charismatic movement? Make your intentions more clear please... God's day to you, Tamara |
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182 | churches here predominantly Charismatic | 2 Tim 2:15 | Tamara Brewington | 205194 | ||
Dear chessshores, I understand your explanation of what kind os churches are prevelant in your country... Joyce Meyers is closely aligned with the Word of Faith teachers. She teaches that you take the word of God and release the promises of God into your life by the level of your faith in God and that you receive rhemas from God to direct you what God wants you to do. She does teach that you must line up your life to reflect the word of God or you will not be able to release the promises of God into your life. However, God makes promises based off His own Holy and sovereign will and it is not necessary for men to take the action of having strong enough faith before God will choose to act, which is what Joyce Meyer teaches. One of the worst teachings in Word of Faith movements is that God will not act until you do, that is not scripturally supportable at all. You have to twist the scriptures to get that. Joyce Meyer teaches folks to get control over their circumstances by lining their lives up to the word of God, no problem, but then she says God will not act on your behalf until you do, her exact words. Benny Hin has been debunked by many who left his minstry as a complete and utter fraud. I have seen Benny Him literally push people down to the ground because they did not get slain in the spirit when he went to touch their foreheads. There are true reports that those who thought they were healed by Benny Him have gone to the doctor and been told they are not at all healed. Benny Hin has a whole lot of money and many holdings and possessions gotten from the middle class and poor from all over the world who think that this false prophet is a sainted man offering healing and freedom from demons and he rarely offers salvation to the lost. The Amplified Bible is not a literal translation of the Bible and adds many words to the Greek and Hebrew that are not there changing the fundamental meaning of the texts. The Charismatic movement has indeed made and spread a great deal of money through out the world, their traditions and attempts to use charismatic gifts do not make them Bible based, the proper intrepretation of the Bible does and a proper application of it does. Just because a church is very large and practices being slain in the spirit with great care does not make that practice Biblical at all, it just makes it tradition. If the good Bishop meant that all Christians have gifts from the Holy Spirit and are therefore Charismatic he was correct, if he meant that all Christians are Charismatic because they all could speak in tongues if they but would he was wrong. The Charismatic movement has gone world wide, that does not mean it lines up with what the Bible teaches about gifts and the use of gifts. My web browser is on the fritz, so I am unable to give you a proper web site, sorry for that I pray someone else will attend to this. Charismatics traditionally through out the world have honored others in both helping the poor and in working in concert with those of other views and denominations to partner with them in reaching people. Evangelicals do not always partner to evangelize or help the poor or church plant with those whose views and beliefs they do not agree with because that is being unequally yoked in minsitry which the Bible teaches against. God's day to you, Tamara |
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183 | 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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184 | Biblical women who wrote songs | 1 Chr 25:1 | Tamara Brewington | 205183 | ||
Dear aceve, The answer is no women including Miriam are said to have composed songs, only the men. Exodus 15:21 Mirian answered to them, sing to the Lord, for He is highly exalted; the horse and his rider He has hurled into the sea. Miriam did not write any song, Miriam was a prophetess and she was telling the women to sing the song of Moses most likely. The text said that she told them to sing a song, she is telling the women to sing, not composing a song. God's day to you, Tamara God's day to you, Tamara |
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185 | kiv Grt Commission of JC, how we see it | OT general | Tamara Brewington | 205180 | ||
Dear chessshores, Your question was; q: can we assume from this passage that the "spirit/essence of Prophecy, the Testimony of Jesus" (New Testament)is poured out by our Active Living Jehovah since the invisible things are clearly discerned (apostolic epistle) to every unbeliever through the glory of creation, the tell-it-all? The passage you cited from Proverbs has nothing what so ever to do with the spirit and essence of prophecy, the testimony of Jesus Christ. Proverbs were words of wisdom written by Solomon to guide the wise mand and to rebuke the foolish. Proverbs is prose language, not prophcy of any kind about any one. The gospels descrbing the spirit essence of prophecy, the testimony of Jesus as you like to call it, what ever that means to you, I am not sure, are full of 350 fulfilled prophecy, but this is not one of them. I am looking closely at your passage and do not find the words, the invisible things are clearly discerned, any where in the two passages you cite. Do you have another passage in Proverbs in mind here? You have included here an allussion to invisible things being cleary discerned to every unbeliever through the glory of creation, the tell it all, this was a revelation of God given to men which they rejected, but you are linking it to another type of revelation, Jesus Christ... Do you mean that the revelation of Jesus Christ was poured out by God after every unbeliever rejected the revelation of the creation by God, and that this is a result of a prophecy from Proverbs coming true? The first part of that is true, but that it was a prophecy from Proverbs is not. Take your time, craft your questions in parts if need be, you can have one scripture and several questions at once, it is all right to do. Where you go to write a question it will be suggeted to you to pick a verse first. Up top there are two boxes and you type in there your verse or book in question. The page will flip to a new page where you will then write your question. God's day to you, Tamara |
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186 | clarify ground rules, q incl midway | 2 Tim 2:15 | Tamara Brewington | 205176 | ||
Dear chessshores, You may use up to 5,000 characters per post, not 5,000 words, that is letters and punctuation, not words. Many users on the forum prefer brevity for the questions in order to leave visible page space for other unanswered and answered questions to appear to the naked eye on each of those pages. The guidelines for the forum say a number of things, and on of them is to avoid brevity as it leads to confusion. If you will notice, when you go to write a question, there is a message there telling you to include all the details of your question before posting it. There are going to be instances where the question will warrant an answer that include exegesis of the passage, or passages in question and my require that, in order for you to give an exegetical reply, that you cut and paste part of your answer into a next second reply, regardless of how carefully you write it or how clear it may be. Charismatic teachings largely have their basis in a theology that is not properly supported by a thorough exegesis of all of the passages on pneumatic infusion of believers in Acts. The subject of the gifts of tongues and prophecy have been discussed several times on the forum. Each time evidence was submitted by various members showing that the way in which these gifts are now being used and taught about is not necessarily supported by a thorough exegesis of Acts. The guidelines here require that we all sign up agreeing to adhere to a literal intrepretation of the Bible. When some scriptures are taken out of context and used to support a supposed Christian practice like the practices of some Charismatic churches, it will be addressed exegetically, theologically, doctrinally, and if it is found to be without support a continued pursuance of defending it will result in action on the part of the Lockman Foundation to make it come to screaching halt as a breaking of the guidelines has repeatedly occured. Simply typing in the words I am a Charismatic would not result in being ousted from the forum, but repeated refutation of sound doctrine based on sound exegesis would. Perhaps the words I am a Charismatic, was the revealing cap on a long chain of notes going back and forth on a subject and sound exhortation was not heeded over and over again. The Charismatics have some sound practices like extended and active praise and worship. They may have some other practices like falling out by falling backward; being slain in the spirit, which have absolutely no scriptual basis. They may have some other practices like the speaking of tongues being the only and first evidence that a person has received the holy spirit that, with a thorough exegesis of Acts, it will be seen that that practice happened to usher in 4 groups of folks into the kingdom of God and as well, that not all time in Acts did they speak in tongues as evidence that they had received the Holy Spirit, knocking that theory down. As well there are other passages which speak about receiving the Holy Spirit that say each does not have the same gift, also knocking that theory down. There is the Charismatic concept that one needs to be baptized by the Holy Spirt after accepting Christ, where scripture teaches that we receive the Holy Spirt at the moment of belief. Again there were 4 groups of folks who were being ushered into the body of Christ; the Jews, the Samaritans, the Gentiles and those who had the repentance and baptism of John. These groups all without exception received the Holy Spirit only when the Apostles and only the Apostles either laid hands on them, or preached to them. After these 4 groups were ushered into the kingdom of God every one that believed got the Holy Spirit right away, as it states in Ephesians 1:13. There is the practice of prophesying for which there is some scriptural support for still being around, but which has been grossly abused and is largely seen as either a dead gift, or a misused gift. Following Christ's golden rules will not ensure particaption here although it is proper. Following the many guide lines in here will. If you are really a more mature Christian than your friends who got banned from the forum, just follow the guide lines, practice grace and you should be just fine. Welcome to the forum! God's day to you, Tamara |
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187 | Make a Decision | Rev 3:20 | Tamara Brewington | 205164 | ||
Dear Hoppy I am sure John will get to you in due time... In the mean time, the passage says up in verse 18 that the discourse was about the church at Thyatira... The message about Jezebel was to the entire church at Thyatira and was about a woman named Jezebel in the church who was calling herself a prophetess in that church. She was teaching a false gospel and leading the church members astray and leading them to commit sexual sins and to eat foods sacrificed to idols. These were both part of pagan idol worship practices, to have open sexual encouters of fornication or adultery and to eat food sacrificed to the pagan idol. You need to take the Bible and interpret it literally, it means exactly what it says, there are sometimes symbols or allegories, like when Jesus says I am the door, but this is not one of them. There was a real woman with a real name who was doig real things and the church, the whole church was to take real action, period. There is nothing that you need to reinterpret or re-apply here, it was a message to that particular church about a particulare situation in that church. God's Day to you, Tamara |
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188 | Just out of curiosity. | Phil 1:23 | Tamara Brewington | 205113 | ||
Dear Lionheart, Quote from Millard J. Erickson, Introduction to Theology, pg. 378, par. 2; "One veiw which over the years has had considerable popularity is termed, "soul sleep". This is the idea that the soul, during the period between death and resurrection, reposes in a state of unconcsiousness. In the sixteenth century, many Anabaptists and Socinians apprently subscribed to this veiw. A similar position is taken today by the Seventh Day Adventists. In the case of Adventists, however, the phrase "soul sleep" is some what misleading. Hoekema suggests instead "soul extinction," in the Adventist view one does not fall asleep at death, but actually becomes completely nonexistent, nothing surviving." This then is an invention of the Anabaptists and Socinian in the sixteenth century that purported that the soul actually sleeps as a function of a bipartite (division of man as soul and body) entity, where the body disintegrates and the soul goes to sleep on some spiritual plane. This veiw got adopted and changed by the Jehovah's Witnesses, as that man is one entity without two parts, and that man's one essence being his mind and body, cease to exist at death altogether. The soul is not actually sleeping, it is gone with the mind that disentegrated. In this view of soul sleep God is so powerfull that He will raise everything that disintegrated from the dead. This veiw got adopted by the Seventh Day Adventists, who believe that the soul and body are two parts together and that the body disentegrates, but that the soul actually sleeps. God is so powerfull that He will wake the souls from the dead and reunite them to their bodies which God is so powerfull to reunite from disintegration. This view got adopted and changed by the Mormons and they believe that the body disintegrates and that the soul goes to sleep, then only the soul will be raised from the dead and receive a new spiritual body to replace the old flesh and that in this process a person becomes a god, just like Jesus and God were once men and died and received new spiritual eternal god bodies before us. God's day to you, Tamara God's Day to you, Tamara |
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189 | Spices and the Sabbath | Luke 1:2 | Tamara Brewington | 205112 | ||
Dear Jim, We have a clue about why these accounts are different in Luke 1:2,3; just as they were handed down to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word, it seemed fitting for me as well, having investigated everything carefully from the beginning, to write it out for you in consectutive order, most excellent Theophilus. Luke interveiwed the apostles and the disciples to get a consectutive order for his account. Mark however may have had sources as well, as he was not one of the twelve. What we can conclude from this is that the women came with spices. We can also conclude that when people tell stories they tell them from a different point of view from one another and the different sources told their stories from these viewpoints that may not coincide from account to account in the minutia of the details, but agree on the substance. I myself have posted similar questions about the end of the four gospels and am laughing to myself that I missed this nugget about the spice! Bravo! The accounts cannot be reconciled in their particulars but can in their substance and that is how you reconcile an account like this one. The Bible is indeed the innerrant word of God and contains some discrepancies at points, but not at any major points and not doctrinally ever. Exegesis can only take you as far as the constraints of the text will allow, the rest is a true mystery of God. I would not say that such forays are fruitless, or meaningless, all of scripture is profitable and God breathed. Here is for you; II Timothy 2:15 Be ready to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handing the word of truth. By His Grace, Tamara |
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190 | An interesting discussion/question | Romans | Tamara Brewington | 205110 | ||
last continuation, Tamara There is better evidence though that those who die do not fall asleep and then get woken up at the resurrection. Try Revelation. Revelation 6:9-11 When the Lamb broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God, and because of the testimony which they maintained; and they cried out with a loud voice, saying, "How long, O Lord, holy and true, will you refrain from judging and avenging our blood on those who dwell on the earth. These are saints who have been killed for their testimony in Christ Jesus and they are awake and crying out in heaven. They have not yet been resurrected from death, they are dead and they are in heaven. Their blood was shed on the earth and they are crying out for justice, imprecating the Lord. Revelation 7:9-11,13,14 After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands; and they cry out with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb." Then one of the elders answered me, saying to me, 'These who are clothed in the white robes, who are they, and where do they come from?" I said to him, "My lord, you know." He said to me, 'These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb." A literal intrepretation of the Bible shows without deviance that soul sleep is a twisting of scriptures by taking them out of their proper context in order to fit a false doctrine. False doctrine comes from improper interpretation of scripture every time. This is why the exegesis must drive the theology every single time and why theology prevents a misinterpretation of scripture. This issue has been hashed about for two days now to the tune of over 25 eamils by Doc's last count. You never emailed me and you may have been busy and you don't have to email me. But you were not too busy to keep on posting refutation after refutation to the evidence presented to you over and over. You have me wondering, although not accusing you, what your intention was in saying that to avoid debate you were going to let me have the last post, but then you answered everyone else over and over? I want you to think about what basis you have to continue to believe in soul sleep after this final presentation of the evidence to the contrary to you. By His Grace, Tamara |
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191 | An interesting discussion/question | Romans | Tamara Brewington | 205109 | ||
2nd continuation, Tamara Who was the first man to go to heaven? Jesus. When did he go? John 20:17 Jesus said to her, "Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, 'I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.'" Acts 1:3,10 To these present 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. And as they were gazing intently into the sky while He was going, behold, two men in white clothing stood beside them. They also said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was been taken, will come up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched Him to into heaven." Jesus never ascended up to heaven until 40 days passed after He rose on the third day. Jesus was the first man to go to heaven When did the inhabitants of the Paradise compartment of Hades who are all the OT saints and all the saints who believed in Jesus and died before He did, and the criminal, go to heaven? Ephesians 4:8 Therefore it says, "When He ascended on high; He led captive a host of captives, and He gave gifts to men." This is a quote from Psalm 68:18 The rest of the verse goes Even among the rebellious also, that the Lord God may dwell there. The context is about unity in the Spirit in the baptism of Jesus, and the gifts according to the measure of Christ's gift. Verse 8 is about the gifts in the body according to the measure of Christ's gift. But, now what is the measure of Christ's gift? The measure of Christ's gift is what He has accomplished by entering the holy of holies, Therefore it says, "When He ascended on high". "He led captive His captives.", all those in that compartment of Hades where the OT saints were, where the criminal was, where everyone who was a saint who died while Jesus was a live, was led out of that compartment and Jesus paraded them to the whole universe and showed off His captives to the host of heaven while He led them to heaven, having made a way into the veil, into the holy of holies. Hebrews 9:11,12 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation; and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. When Jesus ascended on high leading captive His captives He led them into the holy of holies having obtained the redemption of thier souls. It was not until Jesus ascended to heaven that heaven became open to men, being separated from God by a wall of sin, they were ushered right into the presence of the holy Father God by the blood of Jesus Christ. This is why Paul was then able to say; II Corinthians 5:8 we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be home with the Lord. Jesus opened up the door to heaven and Paul was talking about going in and being present with Jesus. Paul is not talking about a gap of time either, he is talking about right away. Philippians 1:23 But I am hard pressed from both directions, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, for that is very much better. Paul was desring to depart and go straight to Jesus. more to come, Tamara |
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192 | An interesting discussion/question | Romans | Tamara Brewington | 205108 | ||
continuation, Tamara Luke 16:19-26 the story of the beggar Lazarus and the rich sinner who ignored him, passing him by as he sat begging for food at the rich sinners gate. :22 Now the poor man died and was carried away to Abraham's bosom; and the rich man aslo died and was buried. In hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom First point; they both died and were both wide awake, having never fallen asleep accourding to Jesus. Second point; Jesus as God knew better than Solomon in all his wisdom and Job in his misery what actually occurs after death. This is a progression of revelation about death and what happens to one in the Bible, that is if we are going to say that both Solomon and Job had as their intent to say something about the state of folks in death... So of you are going to say that Solomon and Job are really saying something about the state of death, you have to recognize that Jesus as God, who has more authority than they do, is now revealing more about the state of death as progressive revelation. Luke 16:24,25 And he cried out and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in the water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame'. But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus did bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony'. According to Jesus as God, the rich man was awake and suffering in the torment of flames and was thirsty for even a drop of water. According to Jesus as God, Abraham was awake and answering the rich man's request with a proclaimation of judgment. Luke 16: And besides all this, between us there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us. According to Jesus both dead men were in one single place, Hades (verse 23), with two compartments, one was hell the other had to be a type of paradise, separated by an uncrossable chasm. This has to be true because Jesus says in John 3:13 No one has ascended into heaven, but He who descended from heaven; but He who descended from Heaven; the Son of Man. More about this later, it is important in determing the progression of what Jesus revealed about death in the NT. Luke 23:40,42,43 But the other answered, and rebuking him said, "Do you not even fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?" And he was saying, "Jesus, remember me when You come in your kingdom!" And He said to him, "Truly I say to you, today you shall be with Me in paradise." The context of this passage in light of subsequent passages drives the meaning in this passage because Jesus was in the grave for three days and did not go up to Paradise until He ascended more than some 40 days later. The context of the passage is that Jesus is being crucified and is on His way to His kingdom in that act. Jesus is about to die and enter into the process of entering His kingdom, the veil of the temple is about to split in two, indicating that Jesus has made a way through to the holy of holies by His death, has entered into His kingdom. When Jesus says, today you shall be with Me in Paradise He is not talking about time, He is talking today He is about to die and go about entering His kingdom and usher the way clear into Paradise for the criminal. We have to look to the reason why Jesus was saying what He was saying to see the true context of those verses. more to come, Tamara |
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193 | An interesting discussion/question | Romans | Tamara Brewington | 205107 | ||
Dear Jamison, I was under the impression that you wanted to stop posting and go off the forum and discuss this without going any further. I must be mistaken somehow in what your intention was concerning your intention to avoid a debate. I looked at your five scriptures and found that only two of them are about your view, the rest don't fit. Ecclesiastes 9:5,10 For the living know they will die; but the dead do not know anything, nor have they any longer a reward, for their memory is forgotten. Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no activity or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol where you are going. Here in both verses Solomon makes a contrast between the dead and the living about what they will know about the activities of life. The emphasis here is not on the dead not being aware, it is on the dead no longer having any cognizance of the affairs of life. The affairs of life a running theme through out Ecclesiastes and Solomon is making a point about the vanity of death as being without the same quality as life. And that is the context of this passage, not soul sleep, to say otherwise is to divorce an intrepretation from the author's intent in writting is constrained to the contrast between the quality of life with the vanity of death. Job 14:10-12 But man dies and lies prostrate. Man expires, and where is he? A water evaporates from the sea, and a river becomes parched and dried up, so man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no longer, He will not awake nor be aroused out of his sleep. The context of this exerpt from Job 14 is that back up in verse 1 Job speaks of the futility of life. :1 Man, who is born of woman, is short lived and full of turmoil. Like a flower that withers. He also flees like a shadow and does not remain. That first verse is the whole theme for the entire 14th chapter of Job, everthing else is related to and comes out of that verse. Verses 10 through 12 are talking about the futility of life because it ends in death and the dead no longer are roused from the grave and to live. The author's intent in writting about death is constrained to the futility of life because it ends in death, and is not about soul sleep. more to come, Tamara |
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194 | Does God want us to belong to one church | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 205074 | ||
Dear Jeff, Am I to understand that you mean for this woman to wear a hat if her husband is saved, but not if he isn't? Or that she should simply wear a hat because she is a married woman? You have me very curious as to what you are saying here. Note to forum members; this is not an attempt to bring up the hat issue agains as if it had not been discussed, but is an attempt to udnerstand Jeff's position on the scripture he gave as advice to Sissy. God's day to you Jeff, Tamara the hat lady |
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195 | the power of our words | 1 Cor 4:20 | Tamara Brewington | 205073 | ||
Dear Kiarafuentes, I want you to consider this verse; I Corinthians 4:20 For the kingdom of God does not consist in words but in power. The revelation of Christ to man is given to us in words and the word of God is as powerful as a two edged sword dividing the joints and marrow. The word has the power to save and bring you into the kingdom of God, but that is done by the working of the Holy Spirit. But the kingdom itself consits not of words, but of power. The power of God Himself, the Holy Spirit power to enact God's word, the words do not hold the power by themselves. The words hold the power by the Spirit of the Almighty God who enacts them by His Holy and miraculous power. Contrary to popular Word of Faith teachers who abound on radio and tv, the Bible does not teach that the power of God resides in your tongue. This is a false doctrine that states that when you speak out loud the word of God, you are empowering God to act according to the measure of your faith. What you are asking falls into this camp of Word of Faith teachings. This teaching you are asking about states that scripture supposedly states that whoever we bless will be blessed and whoever we curse they will be cursed. This is based on a twisting of the scriptures. I am going to ask you, which scripture do you have that actaully says that you are to be careful because who ever you bless will be blessed, and whoever you curse will be cursed? I couldn't find it, perhaps you could enlighten me? None of the scriptures you gave come any where near saying what you claim you have read in scripture... The power of God is to curse and to bless, not man's power, God's. Speaking God's truth out of your mouth does not unleash the power of God into your life, or anyone elses life. God is not kept from acting until you speak of His power and unleash it, that is a false Word of Faith doctrine. The idea that you could bless or curse is to usurp the power of God and is a false doctrine. The idea that we need to be careful of what we say because of unbelievers is correct, there are plenty of scriptures to uphold that! Genesis 12:3a And I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse. God has the power to curse and to bless, not man. God's day to you, Tamara |
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196 | Does God want us to belong to one church | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 205067 | ||
Dear Lionheart, Hebrews 10:25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near. Of course this doesn't say that you have to remain in the same church, but it does say we should not forsake fellow shipping together. Of course there are those who do not believe this is true, like Harold Camping, who believes the age of the chruch is over and that you would be better off in a whore house (his words, not mine). However, if we were to take the first century church as our model, then it would seem that folks belonged to particular gatherings, house churches, met regulary, had names of churches they belonged to and so forth. I would take that as my model, that it is a good thing to be in one congregation after a careful search and remain there. The reason is, you will experience the dification and reciprocate it to your brethren of the body of Christ over a prolonged period of time and that is essential to your growth as a Christian. If you dont' belong to a particular church, and you are going about from church to church you may become like a waterless cloud, lacking sound foundations for lack of a consistent diet on consistent doctrine and consistent relationships where you will be required to engage in the working out of your salvation. Fellow ship in one congregation is essential to the full Christian expereience in my experience. I was in a church for 6 years and then left out to go see about other churches and church hopped for 4 years because I was having trouble with my family in church. I left a good church and was never satisfied with the doctrinal teaching I exposed myself to and went back despite family problems and will never be leaving again, it has been 4 years since I went back to my church home. There is one other very good reason not to go floating around as a husband and wife, or even as a single believer, accountability to the body of Christ to follow Christ. When you as husband and wife, or even as a single person stay in one place you are accountable for your actions as a Christian to the body of Christ and not just to Christ. God's Day to you, Tamara |
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197 | Does God want us to belong to one church | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 205063 | ||
Dear Jesus Keep Me, Welcome to the forum! We have a couple in our church who were both believers but were in different churches. The wife wanted to be in a place where sound Biblical preaching and teaching was going on, the husband was serving as a deacon at the other churh which had many programs and a lot of evangelism. He eventaully left that church because the teaching and preaching was not sound Biblically and came to our little church and serves on our deacon board. The Lord blessed them while they served in different churches in their marriage, but now He is blessing them even more since they are serving together. Word of caution, if your husband is perhaps not saved, then it might be better to go with him to the church he chose in order to follow his leadership. As long as it is a sound Bible believing church you should respect your husband, revere your husband, follow your husband as unto Christ. Your behavior in doing this in all things will help to win him over to Christ all the way as he observes your behavior. We should remember that the husband and wife are one flesh, one person, not two people in one marriage, but one person in one marriage, as Christ is with the church. I believe God would be more pleased to see that the two of you act as one. God's Day to you, Tamara |
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198 | An interesting discussion/question | Romans | Tamara Brewington | 205008 | ||
Dear Jamison, I don't want the last word. Let's discuss this further off forum to avoid engendering a debate or digressing into a debate amongst all the forum members and you. I do not say this as a pointed comment towards you or forum members at all. And you did not ramble at all, you were being crystal clear about your view. Never feel shy about expressing what you truly believe in detail, it helps to make clear where you are coming from. We will not be debatting this issue at all, we will be discussing it at some length privately so that we can study it until we have exhasted the subject and got at the truth together. As long as we both stick to what we believe is the literal interpretation of the Bible, there will not be a real problem between us. But if there occurs allegorizing scriptures or symbolizing them, then there will most definitely be a problem between us. I do agree with Doc that theology is not based on speculation, and that doctrine is central here, very central, because depending on what you believe about Christ you will either go to heaven, or you will not. I also agree with Doc that a viable theology does not come about before having examined all the evidence, it comes after and is not the cause of misinterpreting scripture, but the preventing of misinterpreting scripture. And as far as soul sleep, that doctrine will not keep you out of heaven, but it did indeed has it's roots in false theologies of churches that carry a false doctrine of who Christ is, what He accomplished, and how redemption from original sin through to the resurrection works, of which soul sleep is a part. By His Grace, Tamara |
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199 | A Paster with GUTS! | Is 5:20 | Tamara Brewington | 205006 | ||
Ah John, What an example you are to me, you never cease to be edifying! I am working on this part of my walk, no matter what I say or do to be humble, be full of love and to edify in all that I do and say... As you can see of late, I have been stumbling around a bit or so. Scripture; I Timothy 5:11 Therefore encourage on another and build up one another, just as you are also doing. By His Grace, Tamara |
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200 | Purpose of the parables? | Matt 13:1 | Tamara Brewington | 205004 | ||
Dear Lookinforacity, Jesus had reasons that I could tell to preach the parables, but I am not too sure that He was preaching the kingdom. I think when He preached the Sermon on the Mount He was preaching the kingdom, but when He preached the parables there was something esle going on. Mathew 13:10 And the disciples came and said to Him, "why do you speak to them in parables?" :11 Jesus answered them, "to you it has been granted to know the mysteries fo the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been granted. :13 Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. See Mathew 13:14-17 Jesus was revealing the the mysteries of the kingdom to the disciples and to hide the truth from unbelievers. I agree with what you said about unbelief. Not many churches are preaching the kingdom because the apostles switched up and began preaching the crucifixion instead, which is the same thing. Christ revealed Himself in a lasting and final way after the crucifixion, where as before the crucufixion the only thing to be preaching about was the kingdom is at hand and repent. I don't know what you think? God's day to you, Tamara |
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