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21 | Did God make mankind to show His love? | Deut 29:29 | Sir Pent | 14261 | ||
So if I interpret correctly, Lionstrong feels that discovering God's purposes and motivation is irrelevant and doesn't really matter, because after all He is God. vkey, agrees with the idea that Steve tipped me off to, that God's motivation is to love mankind, therefore creating so that there is a mankind to love. Are there any other thoughts on this? | ||||||
22 | Does God have multiple motivations? | Deut 29:29 | Sir Pent | 14262 | ||
Fran, Thanks for your input. It seems that you mentioned three sepperate motivations here. 1. The desire to have someone to love. 2. The desire to have someone to love you. 3. The desire to nuture a loving relationship between two or more other people. Are you suggesting that God is motivated by all three of these reasons, and do you think that He is more motivated by one of these than the other ones? What order of importance would you put them in? |
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23 | Could we get to know Peches better? | Ps 35:1 | Sir Pent | 16298 | ||
PECHES 650520, I have read a large number of your posts on this forum, and would like to know a little bit more about you. Could you fill us in on some things (either in your user profile, or in this thread)? How long have you been a Christian? What church do you go to? What is your native language? What is the most recent school you went to? I don't mean to be nosy, but some of your posts have concerned some of the members of this forum. And I think that the answers to these questions would clear up a lot of the confusion. |
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24 | Are praise and worship different? | Ps 63:4 | Sir Pent | 13965 | ||
Dear Steve and Nolan, Lifting up of hands is not a way that I personally choose to worship God. However, I have known many people whom I respect who do choose to worship that way, and it seems to bring them into closer communion with God. I am curious about your definition of worship Steve. If I understand your post, you agree that lifting of hands can be related to praising God (Psalm 134 below). However you say that this is not worship. I always thought that praising God was one form of worship. Could you please explain the differences that you see between them. Psalm 134 1: Come, bless the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, who stand by night in the house of the LORD! 2: Lift up your hands to the holy place, and bless the LORD! 3: May the LORD bless you from Zion, he who made heaven and earth! |
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25 | Why did God wait to send the Holy Spirit | Joel 2:28 | Sir Pent | 113288 | ||
Why did God wait so long to send the Holy Spirit? I have been thinking lately about why God waited so long to send the Holy Spirit. Some people believe the Earth to be millions of years old. And even if you believe in a young Earth like myself, the world is at least 6000 years old. Yet God has only sent the Holy Spirit to be in people's lives for the last 2000 years. Before that, there were probably less than 50 people (ie. Old Testament prophets and judges) out of millions of people around to world who had that privilege. Since we know that God wanted to give the Holy Spirit to people. And we know that He could have done it at any time. Why did He wait so long? |
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26 | Can anyone else answer this question? | Joel 2:28 | Sir Pent | 113356 | ||
Can anyone else answer this question? I appreciate that Johnny at least tried, but just saying that God's timing is perfect doesn't really answer the question. Doesn't anyone out there have any thoughts on this issue. Why did God's perfect timing dictate that He wait so long to send the Holy Spirit? |
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27 | Do we display consistency to the world? | Matt 11:7 | Sir Pent | 60093 | ||
Hypothetical Situations ...................................... I would like to discuss a few hypothetical situations between two hypothetical forum members named Tom and Jerry. ...................................... 1. Tom submits a post interpreting a single verse of scripture. Jerry AGREES with the interpretation and compliments Tom on such a profound thought. 2. Tom submits a post interpreting a single verse of scripture. Jerry DISAGREES with the interpretation and rebukes Tom for failing to look at the overall context of the passage which clearly shows that Tom is totally wrong. ...................................... 3. Tom submits a post interpreting a single verse in the context of several paragraphs preceeding and following it. Jerry AGREES with the interpretation and compliments Tom on such a profound thought. 4. Tom submits a post interpreting a single verse in the context of several paragraphs preceeding and following it. Jerry DISAGREES with the interpretation and rebukes Tom for going through mental gymnastics to change the clear meaning in the verse itself. Jerry reminds silly Tom that he has to look at the totality of scripture to get a full understanding of God’s message. ...................................... 5. Tom submits a post interpreting a single verse in the context of several paragraphs preceeding and following it, and within a framework that incorporates the entirety of scripture. Jerry AGREES with the interpretation and compliments Tom on such a profound thought and such thorough research. 6. Tom submits a post interpreting a single verse in the context of several paragraphs preceeding and following it, and within a framework that incorporates the entirety of scripture. Jerry DISAGREES with the interpretation and rebukes Tom for stretching scripture to the point of no return just so that it will fit into Tom’s flawed theology. ...................................... Granted, these are completely theoretical situations, and would never happen on this forum. However, they probably happen on other forums, and I’m interested in why everyone thinks that they would happen at those other places. |
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28 | Why must people be 18 to share ideas? | John 19:17 | Sir Pent | 128422 | ||
Lockman Question...................................................... Hi Hank, Wow, I missed that requirement when I initially came to the forum. Thankfully, it does not apply to me (having just turned 28), but I am unclear as to what reason the Lockman Foundation would have to require people to be 18 years old to share their thoughts on the Bible. Do you know what their reasoning is on this matter? |
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29 | Forgiveness of What? | Acts 13:38 | Sir Pent | 23359 | ||
Forgiveness of What? .......................... There have been multiple discussions on this forum about whether a person who commits some sin or breaks some requirement in the Bible deserves permanent punishment of any sort. The basic line of reasoning that most people seem to support is that if the person is truly sorry for the wrong doing, and has changed, then they should be treated in all respects as if it had never occurred. Is this a Biblical perspective of forgiveness? |
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30 | How to know God just from seeing nature? | Rom 1:20 | Sir Pent | 22206 | ||
Finding God in Nature, part 1 How can this verse be true? How can someone be responsible to know "God's divine nature" based only on nature? I will try to answer this in a series of posts, as I have many thoughts on this. First a little background about myself. I am a research scientist, and therefore, have spent a lot of time studying the world around me and the scientific theories about the universe. The result of this study has been that I believe that just examining nature around us "shows" us who God is. Notice that I don't say "proves". It is been my experience that nothing can actually be "proven". In life, we must make choices about what we "believe". And it is most logical to choose to believe what is more likely than what is less likely. For instance, the theory of gravity has never been actually "proven". However, our vast experience of seeing effects indicating its presence (ie. seeing balls drop, etc.) and its ability to fit into other scientific theories make it a much more logical to believe in gravity, than to disbelieve it. Therefore, we live our lives based on it being true (ie. we don't jump off tall buildings, thinking that we won't fall). Similarly, I have found that on every issue where we must choose what we believe, one option is more reasonable than any others. Therefore, in this series of posts I will try to explain why I find Christianity to be the most logical choice of belief. |
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31 | Do people's claims cause you to question | Rom 1:27 | Sir Pent | 116908 | ||
My response to your question...................................... Good to see you are still here Ptgard05, You asked how many adulterers claim to be born that way. I would answer that there are a large number, although they don't phrase it that way. There are probably more people committing adultery who claim that they can't help themselves than there are people who practice homosexuality that claim that they can't help themselves. The point is that there are always going to be people who claim that they can't help doing something that the Bible says is sin. Does this cause you to believe that the Bible doesn't mean what it says? |
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32 | Did you follow my referral? | Rom 1:27 | Sir Pent | 116911 | ||
Did you follow my referral?........................................ Good to see you're still around Ptgard05, In my post that you responded to I recommended that you type in the number 15780 into the "Quick Search" box at the top right corner of the screen. It appears that you have not done that, since you didn't respond to any of the ideas in that thread. I really think that you would benefit from doing the search to find that thread and then reading all of the posts that are there. It was a great discussion about whether we can trust the Bible that we have on our bookshelves today to still contain God's words and not just man's words. I think that if you consider what is contained in that thread, it may help you to regain some confidence that you seem to be lacking in the scriptures and your understanding of them without knowing the original languages, etc. Would you be willing to read what is there? |
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33 | "All things belong to you" means what? | 1 Cor 3:21 | Sir Pent | 127772 | ||
In this verse and the next, Paul says that "all things belong to you". He seems to be refering to the Corinthian church. What does he mean by all things belong to the Corinthian church? | ||||||
34 | Why does Paul's imprisonment lessen fear | Phil 1:14 | Sir Pent | 86323 | ||
Why would the fact that that one of the greatest leaders of the early church (Paul) was in jail encourage other Christians to share their own faith with less fear? This seems to be the opposite effect from what I would expect. | ||||||
35 | I'm still looking for the answer | Phil 1:14 | Sir Pent | 86331 | ||
Hi Prazn, I don't think that I've talked with you before, and it's been a long time since I've written here on the forum. Thanks for trying to answer my question, but I think I need some more help. Your answer was basically that Christians don't need to fear because God is on our side. I agree with that, but the verse is talking about something different. It says that the Christians had less fear becuase Paul was in jail, not becuase of their faith in God. That is why I am confused. How could Paul being imprisoned make them more confident to share the gospel? |
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36 | What does dying once mean figuratively? | Heb 9:27 | Sir Pent | 21135 | ||
Dear Forumites, In keeping with the idea that all verses are literal until proven figurative by contradiction with other scriptures, I have a qeustion about Hebrews 9:27. The literal meaning is obviously contradicted by people such as Lazarus, Jairus' daughter and Dorcus. They all died once, were resurrected, and then died a second time. So what are we to take this verse to mean? |
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37 | I would like more information | Heb 13:4 | Sir Pent | 112456 | ||
I would like more info......................... Welcome to the forum Monkman :) Before I respond to your post, I would like to know more about you. Do you consider yourself to be a Christian? Do you consider the Bible to be authoritative for your life? |
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