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181 | married | Heb 13:4 | bowler | 206717 | ||
Liefie I have been following this branch for a while and been trying to see exactly what you originaly meant by your question here. The thread got interesting. But it seems like what you are talking about is a verse that describes that you must be married and not live together? As in you must "remain married while you are not living together"? I think that perhaps that is what you were trying to ask about? 1 Corinthians 7:10, 11 But to the married I give instructions, not I, but the Lord, that the wife should not leave her husband (but if she does leave, she must remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband should not divorce his wife. This is the only verse I know of that fits how you phrased your question, "where in the Bible does it state that you must be married and not live together". I think some confussion came in there because of the last half of your question as, "and not live together" in light of being married. As everyone in the thread keeps discussing everyone who is married is supposed to live together, they are not suppossed to be apart. What these verses in 1 Corinthians 7:10, 11 is talking about is if the marriage goes south the wife should not leave, and the husband should not divorce his wife. But if for some undisclosed reason that Paul doesn't give us, the wife leaves then, "she must be married and not live together", or to put it another way, "she must remain "un"married (that is separate from the husband and not married to another man)". Then the verses say that she must remain in that "single but married, unmarried but married" state or go back to her husband. This is instructions for believers. There are some a reasons why she, or he, has to stay married but "single". 1) They are believers. 2) In verse 39 it says the wife is bound to her husband as long as her husband is alive, but she is free once he is dead. There are a lot of reasons why people split up, but that is because God's plans, marriage God style, gets messed up by sin. If there is anything the devil would like to be doing it is to mess up all of God's plans and marriage is one of God's plans. In Mathew 19 and Mark 10 Jesus talks about God's plans for marriage and how people mess it up. Jesus also talks about true grounds for divorce. And in 1 Corinthians 7 it talks about no longer being bound if the unbeliever leaves you. But I am not going to touch the ins and outs of that with a ten foot poll because people get very upset by it and not many can agree about whether or not a person who had grounds for divorce have the Biblical right to get remarried. blessings abound, bowler |
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182 | To jehovah the earth belong | Bible general Archive 4 | bowler | 206713 | ||
chisenga Your question is a bit unclear there. Perhaps you are asking about the Sabbath Day? Or maybe you mean Sunday the "Lord's Day"? Or maybe you are aksing about the Great and Terrible Day of the Lord when the Lord will take back the earth? Please be more specific so someone may understand you and help you. 1 Corinthians 12:25 So that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. blessings abound, bowler |
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183 | What is considered work on the Sabbath? | Bible general Archive 4 | bowler | 206712 | ||
stJohn Thank you John, all glory to my Lord and savior Jesus Christ for if in anything I have edified you, or anyone else I give praise to God only, and count myself an unworthy son. God's blessings to you John for your most kind words and extention of brotherly unity. 2 Peter 1:2, 3 Blessings abound, bowler |
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184 | 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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185 | 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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186 | What is considered work on the Sabbath? | Bible general Archive 4 | bowler | 206707 | ||
doclinda2 stJohn is absolutely right. Colossians 2:16 Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day - things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; the the substance belongs to Christ. Romans 14:5, 6a One person regards one day above another, another regards every day alike. Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind. He who observes the day, observes it for the Lord. We are no longer under the covenant of the Law, we are under the new covenant of grace in the blood of Christ Jesus. There is liberty in Christ. A good book to read on this aspect of being free from the Law is all of Galatians especially chapters 3-5. According to Paul you are not dishonoring God by gardening or whatever else on Saturday. Another way of looking at this thing about the law is to try to understand that there were the Ten Commandments and then about 600 more laws in the OT to be keeping. No one could keep them all, and if you fell in one, you fell in them all and were automatically guilty of all. But now, righteousness has been put to our account with God by the blood of Jesus, fulfilling the whole requirement of keeping the whole Law. So keep on worshipping, praising, meditating, and honoring Him to His glory and don't worry about keeping laws. blessings abound, bowler |
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187 | should you be baptist again, if you fall | 1 Pet 3:21 | bowler | 206706 | ||
SATNJ 1 Peter 3:21 Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you - not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience. This verse means that baptism is "an appeal to God for a good conscience" - that is it is a symbol of having a good conscience. This is what you did the first time around when you got baptized, I hope, - you made a public confession to the church of the fact that you were already saved, that you had repented and taken Christ. It was only a symbol of salvation. If you backslid all you need to do is repent and go back to living in Christ. You don't ever need to be baptized again. That is assuming that you got baptized as an adult who knew that they had repented and taken Christ as their savior. If you were baptized as a child before you even realized you were a sinner who needed to repent you might want to consider being baptized again now that you know Christ as your savior as an adult capable of repenting and taking Christ. blessings abound, bowler |
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188 | Where is Hell | Revelation | bowler | 206688 | ||
CharlieH I think it would be good to understand that heaven and hell are in realms outside our known unniverse. The language in the Bible about "hell being in bowels of the earth" and so on is figurative language to describe some place that we cannot comprehend where it really is. The important thing about it is not where it is, but that it does exist and is waiting for the unbelievers. blessings abound, bowler |
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189 | 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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190 | can someone give me their input | Matt 9:16 | bowler | 206684 | ||
Rufus III This passage is talking about why the disciples did not fast. The Pharisees were accusing Jesus that His disciples did not fast and Jesus tells a little story about why they don't do this. The verse are talking about Jesus being present in earth and that while His is still among the disciples they do not fast because they are happy His is there. Then Jesus talks about that no one puts new wine, which is Jesus, into old wine skins, which is the practice of fasting, and He means the same thing about the cloth. This is an anology of Jesus being a new covenant and the disciples leaving off an old covenant to take the new one. The phrase "unequally yoked" comes from something else in 2 Corinthians 6:14. This is talking about being bound with unbelievers because Christians are not in agreement with unbelievers about how to live, who to worship, how to act, what to do. For instance a believer should not marry an unbeliever once they believe. Or non-believers should not serve in positions in the church. Or believers and non-believers cannot go evangelize together (this has actualy happened on college campuses). Or single beleivers should not be room mates with unbelievers. Believers are called to be part of a lost society and witness Jesus to the lost, you can't come all the way out of the world and be doing the work of Jesus. But you can separate yourself from as much as possible from the unbelievers in practice while still reaching out to them in purpose while walking among them. blessings abound, bowler |
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191 | safety precaution for house building | Lev 14:34 | bowler | 206681 | ||
martha hendricks Leviticus 14:34-57 tells us of the placing of a mark of leprousy on a house to see if it will spread. Then what follows are a long set of instructions for how to deal with leprousy infecting a house and what to do about it. That is the only one I found. blessings abound, bowler |
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192 | who is truly saved? How can we be sure | Acts 16:31 | bowler | 206678 | ||
doclinda2 Acts 16:29 - 31 And he called for lights and rushed in, and trembling with fear he fell down before Paul and Silas, and after he brought them out, he said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved"? They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your whole household." Acts 2:37, 38 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"? Peter said to them, "Repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins; and you will recieve the gift of the Holy Spirit." Romans 10:9, 10 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. 1 John 4:1, 2 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God. A person is saved if they repented of sins, asked for forgivness of sin, believes that Jesus died and rose again, confesses Him as Lord, period. Those are the only the requirements. Your question was "who is truly saved", those who confess Jesus is Lord in the flesh, that is that He is God and died and rose agains, are the ones who are truly saved. And you can't be sure who is saved. Question - do you know for sure that people who act right and do right have actualy sincerely in their hearts done the requirements because they say so? No, you don't. Question - do you know that people who don't act right and do right have not done the requirements? No, you don't. We are not fruit inspecters who go around determining who is and is not saved, that is not our job it is God's job. James says I will show you my faith by my works. John says there are moral indicators of the saved. Paul says the flesh and the spirit are constanly at war and sin, which dwells in the believer, does the sin, not the believer. Jesus says many will say to Him, "Lord, Lord" trying to get into heaven who have done works in His name, but they will not get it and He will say, "I never knew you". Sanctification cleans up the believer over time and good fruit as evidence of salvation will result. No believer will stop sinning until Jesus glorifies them at the rapture, or until they go to heaven. Doing your best is all you can do - keep going to church, praying, studying, woshipping, and praising God. Romans 8 teaches that you can't lose your salvation at the end 31-39. Paul talks about every single thing that could make a charge against a believer to unhinge their salvation, but none of them can beat the love of Christ Jesus to the believer. No one who is saved stays in sin and never comes out. The Holy Spirit will convict them and they will repent to Jesus. blessins abound, bowler |
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193 | 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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194 | 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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195 | Lead us not | Luke 5:18 | bowler | 206644 | ||
AllenRhoades I apologize for not getting back to you again sooner. Yeah without a book is pretty amazing isn't it? Next time I will not assume my little tools have all the answers! I really am thinking about trying to find the time to study this language though because I get frustrated sometimes that I do not know more about how it really works. Please enlighten me, LSJ? Which tool is this, I am always collecting a new tool in the hopes of learning more. Is this tool going to be over my head? Please advise. The reason I would be most eager to have such a tool is that from what you are saying it will have a listing of Greek sources that are Extra-Biblical? That is most important, to find out how other authors were using the same words in other concurrect literature. Off this subject, I am currently seeking the usage of several Greek words for an off line discussion I am having about their Biblical and Extra-Biblical usages. Again, I would like to know what tool this is please. I see what you mean about the "fit" with 1 Timothy 6:7. There is room in the body of Christ for a diversity of gifts, I am likin yours. blessings abound, bowler |
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196 | Paul's circumstances writing Rom 8:31-39 | Rom 16:23 | bowler | 206643 | ||
nps50 I would caution against assuming that the occaission, now that I understand you more clearly, for Paul writing about Christian perseverance in Romans 8: 31-39, was that "Paul was being adamant in saying nothing could separate him from the love of Christ" as if he was at the time facing serious adversity. Here is why - Chapter 8 of Romans starts with the phrase "Therefore there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ ". Paul starts writing chapter 8 in answer to chapter 7 in which he states that the flesh is battling the spirit and that one sins when one does not want to, but that it is sin which dwells in the believer which does the sinning and not the spirit which wars against it. At the end of chapter 7 Paul says, wretched man that I am, who will save me from the this body of death? So then on the one hand he serves the law of God, but on the other with the flesh the law of sin. Hence "therefore, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus". Paul moves on through the passage to say that we have the mind of Christ and the Spirit of Christ. Then Paul moves on to that he considers the sufferings of this present time not to be worthy of the glory that awaits. He is making a theological point about the sufferings that occur to all are not worthy of the glory to come. He does not mention and is not trying to point out some specific personal suffering, he is talking about all Christians suffering. He moves on to explain that all of creation is also suffering and waiting for all Christians to be changed, so that they too will be changed. He goes on to say that we are the first fuits of the Spirit and that we groan inside for the redemption of our bodies. It is at this point that we see he has been talking in answer to chapter 7 all along about the answer to the power of the flesh as being the process of redemption. Which is why I said in the previous post not to divorce 8:31-19 from the broader concept Paul is writing about in chapters 6-8, which is sanctification. Paul is talking about how suffering works and the mind of Christ works in sanctification here in chapter 8. Then Paul moves on to how the Holy Spirit plays a role in this sanctification process as intercessor. Then he moves on and begins to talk about "all things" work for good, meaning suffering and good things too to work out this sanctification. Next he moves to the process of the will of God - foreknowledge, predestination, calling, justification, sanctification, glorification, and election. Then he comes to a big theological point from 31-39 where he says, since all of what I have said so far is true - then who can bring a charge against the elect to condemn them? And this is the major point of the whole chapter and the sole reason for the end of the passage you are asking about. The whole book of Romans is one big book on Paul's theology, which is why I gave you a break down, chapter by chapter of what is going on in Romans from beginning to end. In 31-39 he lists and expounds most adamantly on all the reasons why a charge cannot be brought agains the elect, giving every single thing that could try to unhinge the position of a believer out of the will of God as being saved and refuting every single thing as having any valid ability to separate us from the love of Christ. He was not imprisoned when he wrote Romans - he was at Corinth with the believes I listed in chapter 16 for you, if you go there and read chapter 16, it lists the top people who were there with him at Corinth, Cenchrea is at Corinth. If you see chapter 15 at the end he is on his way to Jerusalem to give them the collection from Macedonia. If you see chapter 1 he wishes to come to them when he finishes doing this and make a collection to take to Spain after visiting Rome. Hope this clears it up for you. God Bless you. blessings abound, bowler |
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197 | old versus new testament | Rom 3:1 | bowler | 206640 | ||
Doc No my good man of God, you glossed over nothing at all, you were quite clear. I agree completely about the "grace" and "means of grace" that you have outlined here, I take no other. I would like, if you please to take the time, when you can to elaborate for me at some length, with the strength which God supplies, about how the Baptist Divines would have "nonetheless been willing to express your quote from the Canons of Orange"? This would be most informative. What I am struggling with is that very Roman Catholic idea that after receiving "According to the catholic faith we also believe that after grace has been received through baptism, all baptized persons have the ability and responsibility, if they desire to labor faithfully, to perform with the aid and cooperation of Christ what is of essential importance in regard to the salvation of their soul." And "so that we may both faithfully seek the sacrament of baptism, and after baptism be able by his help to do what is pleasing to him." Whereby one having recieved the "sacrament of baptism", "all baptized persons have the ability etc.". - As if the ability comes from the grace conferred by baptism? Thank you. blessings abound, bowler |
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198 | Lead us not | Luke 5:18 | bowler | 206626 | ||
Moran61 Well thank you very much for that! I went looking through a tool I have that shows all the places a Greek word is used and that word did not show up at all, now I am wondering why. Nothing beats actualy going somewhere for about three to four years to learn the language thoroughly which I do not have time to do, so thank you Jesus, that you did. No tool is going to beat knowing the ins and outs of Greek though. http://www.greekbiblestudy.org/gnt/greekWordStudy.do?id equal sign 112981 and sign greek equal sign false Let he who has been taught share with him who teaches. Thanks. blessings abound, bowler |
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199 | Disciples One With Christ? | Eph 2:5 | bowler | 206625 | ||
Val I appreciate your thoughts greatly, thank you. I like what you say about "dropping what they were doing and following Christ" there. You make a good point there as a possibility of being the "definitive event". You got me to musing about at what point the disciples understood that Jesus was God and wondering if it is possible to be said to be calling Him "Lord" in the sense that we take that to mean now. They called Him Lord, but did not understand at all points until the end what exactly that meant as Jesus being "God". They knew for sure He was master for a long time before they figured out He was God. I am trying to tell myself that it is somehow truly not possible be in Christ without understanding that He was God? But perhaps my thinking on this is way off as the disciples seem to display a saving faith before He died and rose again? The church did not begin until Pentecost, the work of Christ by believers began before Pentecost. Just a thought there without a point to make specifically. I agree fully that we cannot know based on outward observance when someone has come to Christ for real. blessings abound, bowler |
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200 | Why Saul Does Not Know David's Father? | 1 Sam 17:55 | bowler | 206623 | ||
Azure Thanks for the post. Left with more questions though after reading it. In chapter 16 Saul's servants identify to Saul who David's father is in reccomending David to Saul as "the Son of Jesse the Behtlehimite". David may have been 12 when He first went to Saul as musician and armor bearer? Chapter 16 says David was a handsome man and already a warrior, not a young boy. Armor is heavy, David also became Saul's armor bearer it is unlikely that David was a child doing this. Saul was huge and later David even has trouble wearing Saul's heavy armor because its was "untested". There is nothing to tell us that David stopped being Saul's musician or armorer bearer, only that at some time, maybe back and forth we do not know, David went and tended his father's flocks and came back to kill the Philistine. I am wondering if perhaps Saul became upset as soon as David killed Goliath because he knew that David had already been annointed king even before David became Saul's musician and armor bearer this happened. And now Saul sees David do the impossible and the prize for killing the Philistine will be Saul's daughter as wife, make the man rich, and free his house in all Israel. Saul has to bless greatly his rival to the throne. Later on we find Saul unwilling to give David his daughter as he promised to do for killing the Philistine. It may be, I could be very wrong on this, that Saul pretends not to know who David is because he is starting to be afraid that his days as king are soon over, as evidenced in chapter 18 right after David kill Goliath, Saul starts in on trying to kill David because the Lord was with David, but not with Saul. Your post was helpful though, I enjoyed it and all the branches that went with it. blessings abound, bowler |
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