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201 | Lucider satan? | Ezek 28:12 | Rowdy | 117759 | ||
I was not able to find any mention of Lucifer in my Bible in Gateway or the Forum but I did find a rather interesting website, see below. Just a word of caution as it seems to be coming from the Mormans. I'm not Morman nor do I endorse any of their abberant beliefs. www.lds-mormon.com/lucifer.shtml But I guess we can study history, from which they claim this is coming. God bless. --Rowdy |
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202 | Searching for the truth | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 117738 | ||
I don't see how you can separate these two tasks. It's literally impossible if you ask me. Reading my Bible, God commands me to be like His Son every day, all day. If we're searching and doing the Will of God, we're reading His Word which leads us to a better job of doing His Will. Yes, circular logic, I agree. That's the way I see you; what do you think? God bless. --Rowdy |
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203 | What the Bible says about women preacher | 1 Cor 14:34 | Rowdy | 117726 | ||
I'm afraid the Bible is very clear on this subject as follows 1 Cor 14:34 As in all the congregations of the saints, women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the Law says. 35If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church. In addition to this, there are others that make it very clear, a woman's role in the church is to be submissive to the men of the congregation. She can feel free to speak out in a business meeting held for the whole congregation but then she should also maintain proper respect for the elders and deacons just as the men should. God bless. --Rowdy |
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204 | Threatens to leave if believer attends | 1 Cor 7:15 | Rowdy | 117724 | ||
You've gotten several good comments from many folks but the most important words are from our Lord as follows Lk 14:25 Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said: 26"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters--yes, even his own life--he cannot be my disciple. 27And anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. Although Jesus didn't include the word spouse or wife, I think we can safely conclude the intent is clear. God doesn't want ANYONE to stand between He and His children on an individual basis. BUT I also agree most people wouldn't leave their spouse for choosing God over them. If he does, she's better off rather than be burdened with such a Godless person. Her trajedy will be that she can't remarry and be acceptable in God's sight. God bless. --Rowdy |
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205 | Which version/interpretation? | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 117709 | ||
I just took another look at your post and noticed your citation of Rom 7:6 is a pretty good answer to your question BUT in a spirit of teamwork and cooperativeness, I will respond. As you and several others have already noticed, I tend to be a little lazy but I do look at what the whole Bible has to say about each particular subject. But in this case, I'd like to reverse the logic as I did with an earlier post to Kalos. Let's pretend the OT is fully empowered and we're somehow expected to comply with both the OT and the NT. ALL of us gentile christians would have to inspect each other literally and make certain we're all circumcised. Yeah, can't you see the lines waiting for that inspection? We'd all be going down to the local supply store for our ration of dead animals to sacrifice and we'd all have to learn how to make these sacrifices properly on the alter and of course we'd have to ressurect the temple in each city with its showbread, candlesticks, and a big thick curtain. I think you begin to get where I'm going with all this. This has been my point with the last couple of days' worth of posts on this subject. I don't see any way around it. Either our Lord took the whole thing (OT) with Him to the cross or He didn't take any of it. IF He only took a portion as your question suggests, who decides which portion? Where's the scripture to support that decision? No, my friend I'm afraid I must stick with my original statement. God has "passed the majesty's staff of power" to His Son in this dispensation as evidenced in Matt 28. Jesus delegated this responsibility to his only official representatives, the ones he sent, including Paul. Jesus' words and all the NT are the guiding principles, also their acts, the commands they enacted by example are the ones we are to follow. This point is even shown in the language of the Kingdom. Before Acts 2, the kingdom's establishment was talked about in the future. After Acts 2, the kingdom's establishment is discussed as in the past. And AGAIN, let me say quite often we see many endorsements from the OT on a particular subject but when we see a contrast between we MUST know which document to heed. For its these words in the NT by which all of us will be judged. In response to Kalos comment about this "command by example." This is a very common concept. We as parents use it all the time. We all want our kids to grow up as solid citizens to the community and we DON'T want to have to verbalize orally or in writing every little thing this entails. So we all cop out by living a good life and expect our children to follow our footsteps. For the few that don't follow this philosophy, their world generally ends up behind bars. In response to Hank's comment: I'm sorry, dear friend, there is no scriptures I can offer in direct support of these statements other than the ones I've already cited. I'm afraid our Lord left a few things for us as His children to figure out on our own. I do hope this is all a little clearer. God bless. --Rowdy |
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206 | When was Adam saved? | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 117708 | ||
Personally, I don't think any of us are going to know for certain when the vast majority of the OT characters will be saved until we get to Heaven to ask. BUT I do think we can take comfort in knowing their names are in the Bible and at least for most of them, nothing bad is mentioned. For example, in spite of God's punishment of Moses and not allowing him to enter the promised land, He still buried Moses Himself. David may have murdered, was found guilty of adultery and did a lousy job of parenting Absolom but I think he repented through to the end of his life so we should see him in Heaven. The others..., you know their stories as well as I do. Hope to see you in Heaven. God bless. --Rowdy |
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207 | YOU SHALL RECEIVE POWER | Acts 2:22 | Rowdy | 117706 | ||
You might get a few more responses by using more lower case letters and reserve upper case letters for those few instances when you want to emphasize a particular one/two word point. All upper case letters suggests you're shouting at folks. I'd like to cite Acts2:22 "Men of Israel, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know. 23This man was handed over to you by God's set purpose and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross. Also 2 Cor 12:12, Heb 2:1-4. When one does a thorough review of this whole subject throughout the Bible, you quickly get the idea that God did these kind of miracles through a select number of persons for the single purpose of confirming the words being preached as coming from God. Look at Mk 16:20 Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied it. Another fact of the Bible is that NOWHERE is there an example of ANYONE getting these miraculous powers from any other source other than from the "laying on of hands from the apostles." Now the two exceptions to this is in Acts 2 with the apostles initial "baptism of the Holy Spirit" and Acts 10 with Cornelius and his family which was done for the express purpose of endorsing the Gentile world with the same endorsement from the Holy Spirit as was done for Jews in Acts 2. If after all this you've still got questions, I could only urge you to look for people who claim to have this measure of power and compare it to what you see in the Bible. In other words, do people raise up from the dead, are limbs replaced, eyesight restored to a person BORN blind. The miracles in the Bible are unmistakable acts of the supernatural, something that is ABSOLUTELY unquestionable acts and NOT a cure of a headache or backache or something else that can be conceled or possibly governed by someone's sincere mind control. In other words, look for the same kind of miracles in today's world and TRY to match them with what you see in your Bible. Remember 1 Jn 4:1 Dear friends, 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. God bless. --Rowdy. |
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208 | Do we have to do God's will or All comma | 2 Cor 5:9 | Rowdy | 117651 | ||
I cite both passages but it looks like you really meant 2 Cor 5, right? 1 Cor 5:9 I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people; 10 I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world, or with the covetous and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world. 2 Cor 5:9 So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it. 10For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad. On the assumption of the latter scripture being correct, it seems fairly straight forward as to what God expects from us but yes in my opinion, we will answer for our actions, our words and even our thoughts. We will face God and His Son in judgement just like He depicts in Matt 24. Another scripture useful in this discussion is Rom 1:18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. 21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. 24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator--who is forever praised. Amen. 26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. So we see from Paul's letter that God has some pretty bad stuff in store for those that refuse to believe AND obey Him. God bless. --Rowdy |
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209 | Which version/interpretation? | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 117647 | ||
Bless you, dear friend. It'll take me quite some time to prepare a thorough response as your question are quite deep and important in the their implications. I'll get back to you. Meanwhile, I invite other to respond to my challenge or to Ray's questions, either one. I'm interested in seeing both. God bless. --Rowdy |
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210 | But do we have to sin? | Job 1:21 | Rowdy | 117624 | ||
Paul deals with this kind of thinking as follows Rom 3:5 But if our unrighteousness brings out God's righteousness more clearly, what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.) 6Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world? 7Someone might argue, "If my falsehood enhances God's truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?" 8Why not say--as we are being slanderously reported as saying and as some claim that we say--"Let us do evil that good may result"? Their condemnation is deserved. Let no one be deceived. God is not mocked. We will most definitely pay for our sins in this world and reap the full consequences UNLESS we've got the blood of Jesus to cover our sins AND we're sincerely trying our best to live a christian life every day. God bless. --Rowdy |
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211 | Job 1:21 why does he refer to God here w | Job 1:21 | Rowdy | 117556 | ||
You might say that Job knew instinctively what was going on just as we do when we sit and think about all the evil, pain and suffering in the world. All that bad stuff is in the world as a result of our sinful nature but it's true like Job says. The Lord does give and He does take away just like it is with a small child in our homes as parents. In that home a small 2 or 3 year old child explores his/her world and is facinated with all the many fun things to do like touch a hot stove and stick one's finger in an electrical socket. The child experiences pain and as far as they are concerned, we the parent are responsible for indeed we are. After being a parent and rearing our two sons, I can share my experiences. One time when my son was 4 years old, I was mowing the lawn in the back where our metal swing set was and he was playing. I continued my circle around the yard while he continued to run at the swing and push it in front of him to have it fall behind him. Yes, I knew what would happen but my wife and I agreed to "allow him to experience the lesson if he could endure the little bit of pain." Yes, the swing eventually hit him in the back of the head. He came to me crying at which I held him until he stopped crying. Being a carbon copy of his old man, he went back to doing the same thing with the same swing. Yeah, we're both pretty stubborn but that day he taught me something. Our God created us to be tough enough to withstand the pain and suffering of this world, hoping that we'll realize that He's got something far better for us at His House. But we've got to give up our addiction for this finite, physical world and learn to prefer His World of the infinite and spiritual. God wants us to read ALL of His Words, including Job and graduate to His World of the spiritual, heavenly things. One more small point: we MUST let God choose when we get to move on from this world to the next. Good question and God bless. |
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212 | Gods view of David vs. Saul | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 117539 | ||
Personally, I think it was because David's heart was more in tune with God's heart. Whereas Saul showed himself to be very shallow and not very committed. Probably his height and good looks got him what he wanted through his life, whereas David was humble, both in statue and with a "ruddy complexion." Whatever the reasons, we need to follow David's example and keep our heart and attitude humble and submissive to God. | ||||||
213 | Bible version can become an idol? | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 117520 | ||
There is some tendancy for some folks to "fall in love" with a particular version like you're seeing in these posts. And there's nothing wrong with that idea as long as it's a simple preference for a particular version as Hank mentions. However, there is a potential danger as has been mentioned also. ALL current versions of the Bible have come to us as translations prepared by men and should be treated as such. All men are human and make an ocassional mistake when translating. Most of these errors are minor and have to do with the grammatical changes when translating from one language to another. I do think it's significant enough to emphasize that the Lord did protect the overall message of His Word BUT He didn't see fit to protect an indestructible copy of the original "autograph" version of each book of the Bible. If He had it would undoubtedly have turned into an idol as your question suggests. That's exactly the kind of thinking our Lord wants us to avoid. He wants us to internalize His Words into our hearts and minds so we live our lives as living monuments to His glory. But in order to come to a common understanding of just what does His Word have for us in specific guidance, we must go back to the translations we have. The three you've cited in your question is a good start for all christian's libraries but I would suggest adding the NKJV. Most all modern translations are fairly good but they all must be approached with some caution as they are prepared by men, usually several dozen men coming from a wide variety of faiths and denominations. The bottom line is to keep an open mind, study constantly with the resolve to see what all God's Word has to say on any one topic. One more caution: we must maintain perspective with the issue of the Old Testament and the New Testament. When we see an obvious conflict like marriage and divorce contrasted by the two, we must allow the NT to "outrank" the OT, as Jesus took the OT to the cross with him because He fulfilled it. The Law of Moses and the OT has no authority to guide us in our spiritual relationship. HOWEVER, the OT is an incredibly valuable document for study and understanding the NT. God bless. |
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214 | Holy man disobeying God | 1 Samuel | Rowdy | 117517 | ||
Eli's sons, Nadab and Abihu are the ones for which you're looking. If you'll put the their names in the search engine to the right of your screen, you'll get several different verses. The sum total story tells all their sins which were many and grievous to the Lord. He was being quite gracious and patient with them but they just went too far. God bless. | ||||||
215 | why does god require sacrafices | Rom 6:23 | Rowdy | 117473 | ||
You've gotten several good comments from several good Bible students but I'd just like to add my two cents' worth. Our God created you, me and the rest of the world for the purpose of our being a glory to Him, as the Creator. But He only gets this glory IF we actually make that choice since He gives us the freedom to turn Him down. Our God desparately craves the love and devotion of His creation but He graciously gives us that freedom to submit to Him or rebel and follow our own way. This simple choice between His way or our way has been one of the main themes throughout His Word, our Bible. With reference to the "hardening of Pharoah's heart," that has been a tough subject for many Bible students. In my opinion, God was using the Pharoah's condition to make a world-class showdown between Himself and the most powerful nation then known in the world. Pharoah had already shown he would never repent regardless of ANY gesture from God. So God used the 10 plagues in a very specific way, every one of them in a direct put-down to the various gods of Egypt. This showdown by the Lord needed the Pharoah to be very hard-hearted and not submit to Moses' demands. Again, I should mention there was no hope for Pharoah. He was headed for one single place but God used him just as He uses all the rest of His creation to get His message love AND majesty to us as His children. Good question and God bless. |
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216 | The Church's response to Active Sin | NT general Archive 1 | Rowdy | 116356 | ||
In the scripture above, homosexuality just happened to be the sin being dealt with at the moment. A christian should NEVER feel comfortable commiting a habit of sin time and time again without any real intention of repenting and turning away from that sin. With that FACT in mind, we should always feel free to "be our brother's (or our sister's) keeper" and approach them about the sin in their life in private. We find this is the procedure to follow in Matt 18:15-17. Of course, this MUST be done with love and genuine concern for the soul of the sinner. This is absolutely paramount, so important that if you can't do it, you MUST pray about it long and hard and God will help you through it. But if you love this individual enough and want to take him/her to Heaven with you, you will find a way. A wonderful side benefit is the bond between you will increase exponentially if you're successful. And you'll be known as a peacemaker AND bringing back a sinner to God "cover a multitude of sins" in accordance with James 5:20. God bless you for caring enough to ask. I pray that you'll follow through and restore your dear friend. |
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217 | wentcandobiblelessononline.? | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 116355 | ||
I'm sorry but I have to say your messages are totally unintelligible and useless to me and I daresay the vast majority of the Forum. Is there any way we can entice you into using the Forum properly? If enigmas and puzzles, etc are your thing, you might try some puzzles magazines. But I do hope God blesses you with maturity and wisdomm. | ||||||
218 | Last part of Jonah | Jon 4:10 | Rowdy | 116325 | ||
In addition to Sir Pent's excellent post, I'd like to add the Lord's commentary from the famous parable, The Prodical Son from Luke. Luke 15:25 "Meanwhile, the older son was in the field. When he came near the house, he heard music and dancing. 26So he called one of the servants and asked him what was going on. 27'Your brother has come,' he replied, 'and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.' 28"The older brother became angry and refused to go in. So his father went out and pleaded with him. 29But he answered his father, 'Look! All these years I've been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends. 30But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!' 31" 'My son,' the father said, 'you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. 32But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.'" You see the Israelite nation had developed a rather "exclusive" relationship with God, or at least in their mind, it was exclusive. They didn't want to share any of the benefits/blessings of God with the rest of the world of gentiles; that includes most all of us. God from the beginning intended to bless the whole world with the ultimate benefit of salvation with His Son's sacrifice. That's made pretty plain with curse on the serpent in the Garden of Eden. But of course, the Jewish nation got rather hooked on this feeling of superiority and wanted the Messiah to lead them to conquer their whole world and be their physical king here on earth. So we can see some correlation between God's handling of Jonah and the way the Prodical Son's father treated his older son. God bless. |
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219 | Why Matthew is "introduced" late... | Luke 1:3 | Rowdy | 116321 | ||
The following is cited for reference: Luke 1:1 Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile an account of the things accomplished among us, 2 just as they were handed down to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word, 3 it seemed fitting for me as well, having investigated everything carefully from the beginning, to write it out for you in consecutive order, most excellent Theophilus; 4 so that you may know the exact truth about the things you have been taught. We have to remember that these men, writers of the NT were human, inspired yes by the Holy Spirit. But I have no problem believing that they would each "interview" the different apostles and disciples and get as full accounting of the facts as they possibly could. I think the Holy Spirit helped them realize when someone was adding/fabricating or misrepresenting themselves. Some small bits of history they may have even discarded in accordance with the guidance from the Holy Spirit. What do you think? Especially about this passage in Luke? God bless. |
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220 | Where does it say that? | NT general Archive 1 | Rowdy | 116309 | ||
I can't think of a verse that actually cites faith as preceding repentance but in the verses below, it's very difficult to imagine inserting repentance between faith and hearing the Word. Rom 10:16 However, they did not all heed the good news; for Isaiah says, "LORD, WHO HAS BELIEVED OUR REPORT?" 17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. Again, I can't think of a passage that actually depicts baptism as "a commitment made to God" but I think the verses below do an adequate job of proving the same point. Luke 14, The Cost of Being a Disciple 25 Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said: 26"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters--yes, even his own life--he cannot be my disciple. 27And anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. 28"Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Will he not first sit down and estimate the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it? 29For if he lays the foundation and is not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule him, 30saying, 'This fellow began to build and was not able to finish.' 31"Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Will he not first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand? 32If he is not able, he will send a delegation while the other is still a long way off and will ask for terms of peace. 33In the same way, any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple. NOTE: No one on the Forum has met my challenge to prove there's any one single all conclusive example of a person being saved in the Bible with every single step clearly defined. I'll agree it's difficult to meet the challenge because it's not there. Thus, we are forced to do some simple reasoning and put together some kind of logical sequence BUT I am certainly open to discussing this topic. We've already discussed the first three steps above: 1) Hear 2) Believe and 3) Repent The only steps left are: 4) confess the name of Jesus as your Lord and Savior in accordance with Rom 10:9-10 and 5) Be baptized in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost as cited in Acts 2:38. It's quite possible that confession could precede repentance so you see we're just trying to be thorough just like we have to be when we prepare to make an appearance in court. Again, I really am looking forward to discussing this topic with anyone on the Forum. God bless you all. |
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