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201 | Paul had problems? No one acts good? | Matt 11:28 | ebrain | 164760 | ||
Continuation of my last post. Once again you are misquoting Scripture. you say that Romans 6:11, says "that christians are dead to sin". This is clearly nor the case, what in fact this verse is requesting us to do is "to consider ourselves dead to sin". An unconverted person only has one nature, which we refer to as "the old nature", however, when one becomes a christian one is delighted to discover that one now has a "a new nature", this nature only desires to do the will of God, and is incapable of sin. We are, however, horified to discover that the old nature is still with us, and very much alive, this is made clear by Paul, where yet again once more back in Romans 7, at verse 25, he says "I myself with my mind (new nature) serve the law of God, but with my flesh (old nature) I serve the law os sin". This statment by Paul helps to reconcile the apparant contradiction of 1st John 1:8-10, with 1st John 3:9, which should be translated as "cannot sin", and not "cannot keep in sinning", as some modern versions read. Remember it is not just a case of overcomming His reluctance, but rather laying hold of His willingness. Edwin Brain. |
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202 | Paul had problems? No one acts good? | Matt 11:28 | ebrain | 164746 | ||
Thank you for your post above, which I find most challenging, I will now address each of the verses you quote in turn. Romans 7, please explain how a person speaking in the first person singular present tense, and doing so at the behest of the Holy Spirit, is not refering to himself? You will be pleased to know that I do not teach "Sinless Perfection". Jesus was only refering to the way in which men think/judge things, and not the way He Jesus (one who is sinlessly perfect),Judges. Luke 11:13. Here Jesus is only saying that evil people are able to give gifts that other evil people think are good, and indeed as I have said before, we fallen sinfull humans do think that we can give good gifts, but this is not what God says. Phil 3:4-6, Paul is clearly refering to the time before his conversion, when he was as v6 says "a persecutor of the church", and why did you leave out veses 7-8, where the above verses are put into there correct perspective. Paul counts what he had refered to in verses 4-6 as gain, now in verses 7-8, as "lost rubbish". Regarding Acts 24:16, you will be pleased to know that I also feel the same way. Must close now due to time, more later. Christian love. Edwin. |
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203 | Paul had problems? No one acts good? | Matt 11:28 | ebrain | 164716 | ||
Hi Atdcross. Thank you for your post. Would I be right in concluding that you do accept that Paul's words in Rom 7:14, and following, refer to problems that he had after, and not before his conversion. That this same problem is also universal with all christians as confirmed at 1st John 1:8-10, which is written to christians, and not the unconverted. Refering now to your 2nd paragraph. In no way am I sugessting any such thing, in fact I am supprised that you should even put forward such a possibility. Jesus is sinless, is Devinely inspired, and is incapable of arriving at a wrong conclusion in respect of a man's deeds, in fact if you look at Luke 11:13, you will see that Jesus says that thoes who know how to give good gifts, are in fact evil. Not that good deeds make you evil, we are all of us evil regardless of what we do, or do not do. When the rich young ruler called Jesus "good master", he had no idea that he was speaking to God, he thought that he was speaking to just another man like himeself, even if that man was in fact a Teacher. I is not supprising therefore to find that our Lords reply is in keeping with this young man's assumption, and in no way can His answer be taken as indicating that Jesus was denying His Devine nature. As far as I can se we do not appear to be in disagreement, I do hope that the above clarifies the situation, and explains my position. May the Lord bless you. Edwin. |
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204 | Greater Love | 1 John 4:7 | ebrain | 164601 | ||
Regarding your last paragraph, 1st, don't hurry. "be still, and know that He is God" 2nd, listen to what He has to say, remember "My sheep hear my voice". 3rd, Thank you for your Christmas greeting, have a great New Year, see you DV in 2006. God bless you, and yours. Edwin. |
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205 | Please read 1 Sam 15:1-4. | Bible general Archive 3 | ebrain | 164600 | ||
No problem, I agree, see my post to Lionheart above. Happy Christmas to you as well Atdcross, and anyone else who reads this. May the Lord bless you all. Edwin Brain. |
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206 | Please read 1 Sam 15:1-4. | Bible general Archive 3 | ebrain | 164599 | ||
Thank you Lionheart, I agree, I have no problem with this passage of Scripture, but some people may have? Happy Christmas. Edwin. |
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207 | Greater Love | 1 John 4:7 | ebrain | 164598 | ||
Thank you Mark. It only fair for me to point out that our Lord Jesus had one huge advantage over us in being able to perform His Fathers will, and that is that He was not born a sinner, as we are, but He who knew no sin, was made sin for us all. He did not only come here to die for us, but also to show us by His life, how we can live in the way that God intended us to in the first plase. Examine carefully how He, Jesus did it, and you will at the same time discover how you are intended to do it. Pay special attention to His own description of the attitude that He allways adopted towards His Father. John's Gospel is best for this, look at Ch 1 v 18, Ch 11 vs 41b and 42, It was not Jesus who raised Lazarus from the dead, but as Acts 2:22, says "God did through Him". May the Lord bless you adundantly brother Mark. Yours, in His service. Edwin. |
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208 | Paul had problems? No one acts good? | Matt 11:28 | ebrain | 164597 | ||
If as you say Paul is talking of the time before he converted, Please explain why vs 1-13, are written in the past tense, and vs 14-25, are written in the present tense? The word of God does not disagree with itself, the verses you quote refer to man's idea of what is good. When Jesus said "why do you call me good, only God is good" (Mark 10:18) is He saying that He is not God? Please let me have your comments on the verses I quoted in the last paragraph of my post of 10.28 am on the 22nd. |
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209 | Is this invitation open to everyone? | Matt 11:28 | ebrain | 164559 | ||
Thank you Mark for your kind words, they are much appreciated. Christian love. Edwin. |
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210 | Is this invitation open to everyone? | Matt 11:28 | ebrain | 164543 | ||
Mark, please read the last paragraph first, thank you. The verse means exactly what is says, yes of course it was a sincere invitation. Your sugestion that I might think otherwise is both an insult to Him, and is offensive to me. I asked you a question regarding 3 verses of Scripture, so far you have ignored this. I also made it clear that v 28 must not be considered apart from vs 29 and 30, of which it is a part, for some reason unknown to me you insist on quoting only v 28, and ignoring the other two verses. Our Lord was not in these three verses giving an invitation to His listeners to have their sins forgiven, but is addressing His remarks to those of His hearers that felt that they were "laboring and heavy-laden". Now why do you think that they felt this way. Just read what Jesus had said a short while before as found in Ch 10 fron verse 16 to 39, but especially vs 16-21, and vs 34-36. Is it any wonder that they felt that way.. All that Jesus is doing in refering to "My yoke" is explaining how it is possible to be the sort of servant that God requires. Mark, I know that you had no intention of insulting me, but please do be carefull what you commit to print. The Lord bless you. Edwin. |
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211 | Is this invitation open to everyone? | Matt 11:28 | ebrain | 164485 | ||
You say that "all are able to come", if this is the case, please explain John Ch 6 vs 44 and 65, also Matt Ch 19 v 26. Love in Christ. Edwin. |
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212 | Is this invitation open to everyone? | Matt 11:28 | ebrain | 164471 | ||
Here we have yet another example of quoting Scripture verses out of context, you must also read vs 29-30. Here our Lord explains that you are to take His yoke upon you, note it is "My yoke", not our, or your yoke, His yoke, the method He employes to make a heavy burden light. You are told to "Learn from Me", find out how He does it, and you will discover how you can do it. These are spiritual things, and as we are told at 1st Cor 2:14-16, spiritual things are spiritually discerned. The natural man i.e. the non christian is spiritually dead. Please explain to me Mark how a non beliver could possibly understand these verses? How can anyone other than a christian possibly take upon himself the "Yoke of Christ"? Every blessing. Edwin. |
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213 | Is this invitation open to everyone? | Matt 11:28 | ebrain | 164469 | ||
Are you saying that because the word "christian" was not in use when Jesus spoke these words, that they are not applicable to christians? Please enlighten me. Christian love. Edwin. |
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214 | Is this invitation open to everyone? | Matt 11:28 | ebrain | 164446 | ||
Becomming a christian does not require the abandonment of common sense, reason and logic. Our Lord knew full well that belivers even after 2000 years would still have the same problem of how to live the christian life. What is required here, and elseware is spiritual insight, and not just not acedemic knowledge. Yours in Christ. Edwin. |
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215 | Can a slave desire to be free? | 2 Pet 2:19 | ebrain | 164443 | ||
They will not express any desire to be free, because they think that they are free. As is the case with all verses of Scripture these must be read in their context, the final destiny of the persons spoken of in v 19, is found in v 17. These people are False Prophets, and False Teachers, they may think that they are the real thing, but clearly they are not, they will be told "I never knew you". What I do not understand is why you asked this question in the first place, please enlighten me. Yours because I am His. Edwin. |
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216 | Why was his heart hardened? | Ex 4:21 | ebrain | 163797 | ||
Thank you Jeff. Many years ago I read a book by "A W Pink" entitled "The Sovereignty of God", this book I found most helpfull, you may of course allready have it, but if not then I can strongly recommend it, copies can be obtained from www.amazon.com Regarding the responses in this thread, I can certainly say that they are both interesting, and informative. Thank you again for your comments. The Lord bless you. Edwin |
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217 | Why was his heart hardened? | Ex 4:21 | ebrain | 163790 | ||
Thank you Jeff for your kind words about me at the start of paragraph two of your post to Mark. If you would like to know a little more of just what it is that I believe, perhaps you would be good enough to read other material contributed by "ebrain" since the date of your post above, If you do, I would value your comments. Yours in Christ. ebrain. P.S. Oh and by the way my gender is male. |
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218 | Why was his heart hardened? | Ex 4:21 | ebrain | 163777 | ||
Hi Mark. My use of the word "appears" is due to the fact that Scripture does not disagree with Scripture, although, it may "appear" to do so due to the limitations of human ability to comprehend. That is why I asked you to help me to reconcile the apparent contradiction of John 12:40, with Ezekiel 33:11, and 2 Peter 3:9. I look forward your reply with eager anticipation. Christian love. Edwin. |
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219 | Why was his heart hardened? | Ex 4:21 | ebrain | 163776 | ||
Hi Mark. I have no problem with the first two paragraphs of your post, but what Biblicl indication do you have that Pharaoh had a free will? As Jesus said "you are of your father the devil, and his will you wish to do", John 8:44. Now tell me in what way were you, I, and for that matter Pharaoh any different whilst we were unconverted. Yours, because I am His. Edwin. |
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220 | Why was his heart hardened? | Ex 4:21 | ebrain | 163774 | ||
Dear Steve. I am unable to find the post by Tim to which you refer, please help me. Thank you. Edwin. |
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