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21 | about Paul | Bible general Archive 4 | BradK | 216602 | ||
2 Tim. 2:15! | ||||||
22 | TNIV ended and new NIV release ? | Bible general Archive 4 | BradK | 219011 | ||
Hello justme, Well then, I probably own one of the few copies known to exist! Maybe It'll gain in value when it's officially out of print:-) In all seriousness, as I've mentioned before, since purchasing my reference copy some 5-plus years ago, I was never able to find one on the shelf at local Christian Book stores! Apparently- and thankfully- it never caught on and sold! Dismal sales is probably just reward for a "dismal translation". I call it "dumbing people down" and I'm not a proponent of that. Now, the ESV on the other hand is a well-produced translation that does justice to the original languages. Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |
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23 | ho were Jesus' main opponents during His | Bible general Archive 4 | BradK | 220302 | ||
Hello salli, This sounds like a homework question? Please see post# 220293. BradK |
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24 | ho were Jesus' main opponents during His | Bible general Archive 4 | BradK | 220303 | ||
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25 | Is the Bible the word of man or God? | Bible general Archive 4 | BradK | 221866 | ||
Hello jgingrich, Are you familiar with the purpose of this Forum? Before proceeding, I'd strongly recommend a review the Terms of Use and "About Forum" provided by our host, The Lockman Foundation. Please note: About Postings The StudyBibleForum is an inter-denominational Christian forum. This forum encourages questions and answers but we may determine what is acceptable at any particular time. Postings must be Biblically based and not opposing the Bible's sole authority (sola Scriptura), Christianity, or the deity of Jesus Christ. Whenever possible, postings should include supporting Bible references. Postings must not be intended as a personal attack on other users of this forum. They must not be submitted as an effort to foster debates, arguments, divisiveness, ill-will, dissension or disruptions to this forum. This will save us all a lot of wasted time. BradK |
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26 | Is there a Church of Christ member here? | Bible general Archive 4 | BradK | 223125 | ||
Hello bjaneb, I attend a local "Christian Church" in the Northwest. However, we're not a Church of Christ, though (our) historical roots are the Church of Christ. If I may, why do you ask? BradK |
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27 | Proverbs 3:5 | Bible general Archive 4 | BradK | 224471 | ||
Dear growing in the Lord: Beware of wolves in sheeps clothing! User DRO is in violation of the Terms of Use and promoting the heresy of Arianism (Jehovah's Witness)!!! Please avoid his solicitation as he will lead you into error! Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |
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28 | Is it Biblical to take up an offence | Bible general Archive 4 | BradK | 225008 | ||
Hello Prentiss, There is so much that could be said. As a rule, this Forum is not the best avenue to pursue matters of personal nature and relationships. Three quick questions: 1. Is your family member a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ? 2. Can you remain neutral- not take sides? 3. Do you have a Pastor that can provide needed Biblical counsel in this situation? Above all, continue in prayer about this family member and the situation. Lift it up in prayer, remembering that, "Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God." (Phil. 4:6 NASB) Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |
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29 | Why do I feel like God is teasing me? | Bible general Archive 4 | BradK | 225737 | ||
Dear Luna, Our prayers go out for you! Unfortunately as mentioned, this Forum just isn't the right venue nor is it equipped to provide you the help you need:-) Please seek guideance from your Pastor,or another mature Christian you have respect for! The Lord understands completely. Psalm 147:5 says, "Great is our Lord and abundant in strength; His understanding is infinite." May 1 Pet. 5:7 bring some comfort, "casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you." Seek Him. Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |
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30 | Easter | Bible general Archive 4 | BradK | 227408 | ||
Hi Julia, I'm the other Brad, so if you don't mind... :-) To my knowledge, Easter is not about worshipping any pagan goddess- despite what the JW's say! Easter is about CELEBRATING the resurrection of our Lord, Jesus Christ! He is Risen, is He not? (1 Cor. 15:14) Since the JW's deny the Diety of Christ, they must therefore, dismiss Easter as any type of celebration affirming his Divinity! Does this make sense? The Watchtower Organization has only been around since the late 19th Century! What did they uncover(?) that the rest of the Church missed for 1900 Years? Nothing. Ask him why they deny that Jesus is God when scripture- and the Church- have affirmed His Diety! Jesus clearly told the Pharisees in John 8:58," "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am." (NASB) The Jews picked up stones to stone Him, for they clearly knew what He was affirming- to be God! Similarly, after Jesus told Thomas, "Reach here with your finger, and see My hands; and reach here your hand and put it into My side; and do not be unbelieving, but believing." Thomas answered and said to Him, "My Lord and my God!" (John 20:27-28) Thomas certainly knew WHO Jesus was. Unfortunately, many well-meaning JW's and your husband have been systematically deceived by their Watchtower Organization! Their theology is built upon Arianism- (the denial that Christ is Divine) which was soundly defeated at the Council of Nicea in 325! Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |
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31 | what does it mean when god give new name | Bible general Archive 4 | BradK | 227440 | ||
Hello Patty, I'd highly encourage you to read the Terms of Use if you haven't done so already. Here's what Lockman states: You must abide by the following rules in connection with your use of the Forums: * The Forum is not intended to provide or be a source for answering test or homework questions of those that are students. Questions asked should be from a true desire to learn and not as an easy substitute for the learning process BradK |
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32 | this | Bible general Archive 4 | BradK | 230152 | ||
Hello ewq1938, Welcome to the Forum. Your question is rather open-ended. Who has done the changing? Do you have a specific verse or passage in mind? Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |
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33 | what is moving me | Bible general Archive 4 | BradK | 234876 | ||
Hello Irus, Unfortunately, this Forum is not the proper venue to provide you a truly knowledgable answer. I too recomend you see a doctor or mental health professional. May we be in prayer for you regarding this matter? Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |
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34 | Merry Christmas! | Bible general Archive 4 | BradK | 235043 | ||
Justme: A belated Merry CHRISTmas to you as well! BradK |
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35 | Father | Bible general Archive 4 | BradK | 235047 | ||
Jankwee: have you read your bible? Try a google search! BradK |
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36 | Where is God symbolized by fire | Bible general Archive 4 | BradK | 235267 | ||
Hello j b palmer, Is this part of a New years' resolution? |
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37 | fifth verse of psalms 23 what is it | Bible general Archive 3 | BradK | 158856 | ||
Hi vbrascom, Here is commentary from C.H. Spurgeon in his work, The Treasury of David: "PSALM 23:5 - EXPOSITION Ver. 5. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies. The good man has his enemies. He would not be like his Lord if he had not. If we were without enemies we might fear that we were not the friends of God, for the friendship of the world is enmity to God. Yet see the quietude of the godly man in spite of, and in the sight of, his enemies. How refreshing is his calm bravery! Thou preparest a table before me. When a soldier is in the presence of his enemies, if he eats at all he snatches a hasty meal, and away he hastens to the fight. But observe: "Thou preparest a table, "just as a servant does when she unfolds the damask cloth and displays the ornaments of the feast on an ordinary peaceful occasion. Nothing is hurried, there is no confusion, no disturbance, the enemy is at the door, and yet God prepares a table, and the Christian sits down and eats as if everything were in perfect peace. Oh! the peace which Jehovah gives to his people, even in the midst of the most trying circumstances! "Let earth be all in arms abroad, They dwell in perfect peace." Thou anointest my head with oil. May we live in the daily enjoyment of this blessing, receiving a fresh anointing for every day's duties. Every Christian is a priest, but he cannot execute the priestly office without unction, and hence we must go day by day to God the Holy Ghost, that we may have our heads anointed with oil. A priest without oil misses the chief qualification for his office, and the Christian priest lacks his chief fitness for service when he is devoid of new grace from on high. My cup runneth over. He had not only enough, a cup full, but more than enough, a cup which overflowed. A poor man may say this as well as thosein higher circumstances. "What, all this, and Jesus Christ too?" said a poor cottager as she broke a piece of bread and filled a glass with cold water. Whereas a man may be ever so wealthy, but if he be discontented his cup cannot run over; it is cracked and leaks. Content is the philosopher's stone which turns all it touches into gold; happy is he who has found it. Content is more than a kingdom, it is another word for happiness." I hope this helps, BradK |
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38 | book is the rock of which republic rest | Bible general Archive 3 | BradK | 161628 | ||
Hi poohbb, Welcome to the Forum! I see you appear to be asking many trivia-type questions. Might I ask why? BradK |
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39 | What is the definition of salvation? | Bible general Archive 3 | BradK | 162921 | ||
Hi AGB, The definition could be very broad by including both OT and NT. I'll confine my response to a few points in relation to the NT from The New Bible Dictionary: In the NT we begin with the general observation that the ‘religious’ usage of a moral/spiritual deliverance becomes almost wholly dominant as far as the idea of salvation is concerned. Non-religious usage is virtually confined to saving from acute danger to life (Acts 27:20, 31; Mk. 15:30; Heb. 5:7.) Paul claims that the Scriptures ‘are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus’ (2 Tim. 3:15ff.) and provide the ingredients essential for the enjoyment of a full-orbed salvation. Enlarging and applying the OT concept of the righteousness of God, which itself had adumbrations of the saving righteousness of the NT, Paul shows how there is no salvation by means of the law, since it could only indicate the presence and excite the reactionary activity of sin and stop men’s mouths in their guilt before God (Rom. 3:19; Gal. 2:16). Salvation is provided as the free gift of the righteous God acting in grace towards the undeserving sinner who, by the gift of faith, trusts in the righteousness of Christ who has redeemed him by his death and justified him by his resurrection. God, for Christ’s sake, justifies the unmeriting sinner (i.e. reckons to him the perfect righteousness of Christ and regards him as if he had not sinned), forgives his sin, reconciles him to himself in and through Christ ‘making peace by the blood of his cross’ (2 Cor. 5:18; Rom. 5:11; Col. 1:20), adopts him into his family (Gal. 4:5f.; Eph. 1:13; 2 Cor. 1:22), giving him the seal, earnest, and firstfruits of his Spirit in his heart, and so making him a new creation. By the same Spirit the subsequent resources of salvation enable him to walk in newness of life, mortifying the deeds of the body increasingly (Rom. 8:13) until ultimately he is conformed to Christ (Rom. 8:29) and his salvation is consummated in glory (Phil. 3:21). Salvation is moral and spiritual. Salvation relates to a deliverance from sin and its consequences and hence from guilt (Rom. 5:1; Heb. 10:22, from the law and its curse (Gal. 3:13; Col. 2:14) from death (1 Pet. 1:3–5; 1 Cor. 15:51–56), from judgment (Rom. 5:9; Heb. 9:28, also from fear (Heb. 2:15; 2 Tim. 1:7, 9f.) and bondage (Tit. 2:11–3:6; Gal 5:1f). It is important to indicate the negative implications of this, i.e. what Christian salvation does not include. Salvation does not imply material prosperity or worldly success (Acts 3:6; 2 Cor. 6:10), nor does it promise physical health and well-being. One must be careful not to overstate this particular negative, as clearly remarkable healings did and do take place and ‘healing’ is a gift of the Spirit to the church (Acts 3:9; 9:34; 20:9f.; 1 Cor. 12:28). But healing is not invariable, and hence is in no sense a ‘right’ to the saved man (1 Tim. 5:23; 2 Tim. 4:20; Phil. 2:25f.; 2 Cor. 12:7–9). Further, salvation does not include deliverance from physical hardship and danger (1 Cor. 4:9–13; 2 Cor. 11:23–28), nor even, perhaps, seemingly tragic events (Mt. 5:45?). It does not mean being absolved from social injustice and ill-treatment (1 Cor. 7:20–24; 1 Pet. 2:18–25). I hope this helps, BradK |
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40 | Jesus responds | Bible general Archive 3 | BradK | 163025 | ||
Hi Noveta, Marvin Vincent says this about 10:30: "30- One (en). The neuter, not the masculine (eis), one person. It implies unity of essence, not merely of will or of power." The Commentary Critical gets it right on in conveying the power of the original Greek: "30- I and my Father are one—Our language admits not of the precision of the original in this great saying. “Are” is in the masculine gender—“we (two persons) are”; while “one” is neuter—“one thing.”" The grammar makes it abundantly clear. So, there is no mistaking that Christ is claiming to be God- One in essence! Note the Jews immediate reaction in vs. 31! They knew exactly what He was claiming- they just didn't believe it! "Who do you say I am", is still THE most important question. If Jesus be not God- One in essence- then He can't save us from our sins. He is both fully God and fully man. Incidentally, to be our Mediator, Christ had to (and does) fulfill 3 conditions: 1. He must be a man. The Apostle assigns as the reason why Christ assumed our nature and not the nature of angels, that He came to redeem us. (Hebrews ii. 14–16). It was necessary that He should be made under the law which we had broken; that He should fulfil all righteousness; that He should suffer and die; that He should be able to sympathize in all the infirmities of his people, and that He should be united to them in a common nature. He who sanctifies (purifies from sin both as guilt and as pollution) and those who are sanctified are and must be of one nature. Therefore as the children were partakers of flesh and blood, He also took part of the same. (Hebrews ii. 11–14.) 2. The Mediator between God and man must be sinless. Under the law the victim offered on the altar must be without blemish. Christ, who was to offer Himself unto God as a sacrifice for the sins of the world, must be Himself free from sin. The High Priest, therefore, who becomes us, He whom our necessities demand, must be holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from sinners. (Hebrews vii. 26.) He was, therefore, "without sin." (Hebrews iv. 15; 1 Peter ii. 22.) A sinful Saviour from sin is an impossibility. He could not have access to God. He could not be a sacrifice for sins; and He could not be the source of holiness and eternal life to his people. This sinlessness of our Lord, however, does not amount to absolute impeccability. It was not a non potest peccare. If He was a true man He must have been capable of sinning. That He did not sin under the greatest provocation; that when He was reviled He blessed; when He suffered He threatened not; that He was dumb, as a sheep before its shearers, is held up to us as an example. Temptation implies the possibility of sin. If from the constitution of his person it was impossible for Christ to sin, then his temptation was unreal and without effect, and He cannot sympathize with his people. 3. It was no less necessary that our Mediator should be a divine person. The blood of no mere creature could take away sin. It was only because our Lord was possessed of an eternal Spirit that the one offering of Himself has forever perfected them that believe. None but a divine person could destroy the power of Satan and deliver those who were led captive by him at his will. None but He who had life in Himself could be the source of life, spiritual and eternal, to his people. None but an almighty person could control all events to the final consummation of the plan of redemption, and could raise the dead; and infinite wisdom and knowledge are requisite in Him who is to be judge of all men, and the head over all to his Church. None but one in whom dwelt all the fulness of the Godhead could be the object as well as the source of the religious life of all the redeemed. As it was necessary that Christ should be both God and man in two distinct natures and one person, in order to effect our redemption, it follows that his mediatorial work, which includes all He did and is still doing for the salvation of men, is the work not of his human to the exclusion of his divine nature, nor of the latter to the exclusion of the former. It is the work of the theanthropos, of the God-man. [Hodge, C. (1997). Systematic Theology.] I trust this willl shed more light on this questions and help toward on answer. BradK |
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