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Results from: Answers On or After: Thu 12/31/70 Author: peacebestill Ordered by Verse |
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21 | Is it out of order? | Phil 4:8 | peacebestill | 209208 | ||
4everblesssed I would gently ask you, is this a Bible study question? I think that where the Bible is silent we should be too. But I do think you have the right motives in that you are seeking for what is Godly behavior in this instance as a woman of God attending church. I just don't know if this is the right place to address this question. But I will try gently to do so. Saying hello to people whether they are men or women should be acceptable in church as part of general fellowship - Acts 2:42 They were continually devoting themselves to the apostle's teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of food and to prayer. So you could start with hello, my name is so and so, how are you today, I really enjoyed the service today, how about you? And see where the Lord would lead that endeavor? Perhaps that much is not forward, but part of proper fellowship? I am thinking also of exmaples in the Bible how God moved in the details of men and women getting together. I think if I am not mistaken that the Lord has the man doing the "looking" for a woman and not the other way around. But I also wonder about Ruth. Abraham sent someone to look for a wife for his son, you see the men doing the choosing; Jacob, David, Solomon, and on and on... We have not much in the NT other than the story of Mary and Joseph, which hardly applies at all. But it is said that the OT is not really to be used as examples for moral living per say. I would say the description of holiness might apply here - 1 Peter 1:15 But like the Holy One who called you, be holy yhourselves also in all your behavior; because it is written, You shall be holy, for I am holy. Older women are told to be modest in their behavior and to teach young women the same and to love their husbands. Perhaps modesty is in order here; maybe this is the whole premise of a woman not being forward towards a man in letting him know she is interested. None of us, men or women can be like people are in the world... Ask yourself this, in what sense are you attracted to the man, and is that attraction pure and holy? And would letting him know what type of attraction you have to him be modest? Try to find scriptures that describe right conduct in general and see if your plans to approach the man in letting him know you are attracted to him line up with the practice of those scriptures? Lean on the Lord and ask the Lord for what you need in your life, He is faithful to provide what you really need. Wait on Him, be still and know that He is Lord. peacebestill |
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22 | what does Titus 2;11 mean? | Titus 2:13 | peacebestill | 208504 | ||
marilyn I do believe that in this one particular instance the word grace refers to Jesus Christ Himself because whatever is appearing as that grace is bringing the salvation. peacebestill |
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23 | what does it mean to be a godly person | Titus 2:13 | peacebestill | 208506 | ||
marilyn This is past tense, the grace of God appeared. The grace that bring salvation is Jesus, so this is referring to His first appearance among men as the actual event being described. peacebestill |
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24 | need information on galatians Chapter 6 | Heb 3:12 | peacebestill | 209121 | ||
sheltona Perhaps the reference in Galatians you were looking for is in Galatians 5:4 You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace. - NASB. The Greek is a bit different there according to what I have been taught. A rough retranslation could be according to one pastor I had is this - No effect from Christ who any in law are being justified, of favor you fall out. So rather than being severed from Christ perhaps it is that Christ is of no effect to those who try to be justified by the law. Not to say that salvation is of no effect, but think about the process of sanctification? When you try to get righteousness through law keeping you are kind of putting a halt on the process of sanctification because that rests on being justified by faith and not by the law. And rather than understanding that one who does this has fallen from the gift of grace that is salvation, it may perhaps mean that one falls OUT of favor with Christ, not loses their gift of grace which is their salvation. In looking at Galatians 6:1-8 the only thing that could possibly be misconstrued to mean losing one's salvation is that reference to restoring one who had a trespass? As if they had lost their salvation? All Christians sin, the point of this one part of the verse in 6:1 is that we ask Jesus for forgiveness, but sometimes someone who sees another caught in trespasses has the job of pointing the fallen one to Christ for forgiveness of sins and a restoration to the fellowship of the saints if that was cut off, or the person has not been attending. Really the fact is once saved always saved, and there is no such thing as losing your salvation. There are problematic passages like Hebrews 6:1-8 and Hebrews 10:26. In Hebrews 6 a lot of people miss what it says in verse 8 - that the people being described in strong language in verse 1-7 actualY ARE CLOSE TO BEING CURSED AND THEIR WORKS ARE GOING TO END UP BEING BURNT UP. But they themselves will be saved. Hebrews 10 is much harder to make out. But in verse 27 is says a judgment having the fury of fire will be consuming the adversaries of Christ. What is missing is the writer saying that the fires of hell will be consuming the adversaries of Chrsit. Try thinking in terms of Peter being rebuked by Christ where Christ calls Peter "Satan", at that moment Peter is being an adversary of Christ, for however breif a moment. And Peter's works as a believer at that moment in time will most definitey be consumed by a fury of fire later, at the Bema seat where jugments for the believer are rendered. It says in 1 Corinthian 3:11-15 that if a man has bad works that those works will be burnt up and he will be saved as though through fire. It says in Hebrews 10:31 that it is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the Lord. That makes me think about a couple of things and one of those things is David, who sinned, and who choose to fall into the hands of the Lord. You see it is not only unbelievers who God takes in hand and whose sins get addressed, it is also the believer too. And God does, although He forgives sin, often make the believer live out the consequences of sin. In some instances God will remove a believer early in life by death. In other instances He may do some other drastic thing to a believer who sinned becuase He is a holy God who will take vengeance for sin and He will repay, He promises to repay. How terrifying a thing to trample on the Holy Spirit and to fall into the hands of the Lord for judgment while still alive. peacebestill |
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25 | Can someone explain Jude 1:11 | Jude 1:11 | peacebestill | 208580 | ||
rivery14 The way of Cain was to get angry that his offering was not accepted by God and jealous of his brohter whose offering was accepted - he became a murderer and shed innocent blood. The way to Balaam was that he was a prophet of God who did not obey God, but went about doing things his own way. The way of Korah was that the sons of Korah burnt strange inscence to the Lord and were destroyed by God as punishment with fire. This all relates to what Jude is saying about those who rebel against God in Jude verses 5-8; Sodom and Gomorrah and the angels, and also those in vrses 1:4, 8 as those who have crept in the congregation unawares. The point of verse 11 is that they will perish, just as those in the expamples given. Jude 1:13 Wild waves of the sea, casting up thier own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever. peacebestill |
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26 | Are these the same people? | Rev 7:15 | peacebestill | 208315 | ||
Immanueslown It appears from the 7:15 passage that the ones standing before the throne were dead believers in heaven from the Great Tribulation serving God. It seems as if the passage 6:9 is talking about martyrs, but it does not say what time period they are from. It could be that they are all the dead from time immemorial, the OT and the NT saints, plus those in the Great Tribulation, it is just not clear... Perhaps if the Bible is silent, we can't really speculate too far? But look here at this part of it; the end of verse 9 and because of the testimony which they had maintained, and verse 11 where it says that they were told to rest a little while until the rest of their number should be completed - this is as if the dead there are waiting for more of their own kind to come in. And since this is taking place during the tribulation, that goes to that those under the altar are also from the tribulation, making them the same kind, but not necessarily the same exact group as you find in 7:15. peacebestill |
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27 | Are these the same people? | Rev 7:15 | peacebestill | 208316 | ||
Thomas Sorry I have been in here a while without posting and reading stuff and mistakenly thought you were some one else... It appears from the 7:15 passage that the ones standing before the throne were dead believers in heaven from the Great Tribulation serving God. It seems as if the passage 6:9 is talking about martyrs, but it does not say what time period they are from. It could be that they are all the dead from time immemorial, the OT and the NT saints, plus those in the Great Tribulation, it is just not clear... Perhaps if the Bible is silent, we can't really speculate too far? But look here at this part of it; the end of verse 9 and because of the testimony which they had maintained, and verse 11 where it says that they were told to rest a little while until the rest of their number should be completed - this is as if the dead there are waiting for more of their own kind to come in. And since this is taking place during the tribulation, that goes to that those under the altar are also from the tribulation, making them the same kind, but not necessarily the same exact group as you find in 7:15. peacebestill |
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28 | Does this 'star' relate to Wormwood in 8 | Rev 9:1 | peacebestill | 208601 | ||
Thomas8 The Wormwood in 8:8-11 is an actual heavenly body from the universe sent by God to fall to earth and pollute a third of all the waters, as in a metor or something similar. The star in 9:1 is actually Satan himself, see verse 9:11; his Hebrew name is Abaddon, and in Greek Apollyon - these are some less well known names for Satan. Notice that whoever this is in verse 11 has authority over the things that come out of the abyss. Some theologians say these are demonic forces, or actual demons, the locusts and the scorpions and that Satan, as he is the ruler and king over all demons, is the one who is over whatever these things are because of the names Abaddon and Appolyon. peacebestill |
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29 | seven thunders | Rev 10:4 | peacebestill | 208395 | ||
John Gmuer I have heard of the seven peals referred to as the vioce of God pealing like thunder from the throne of God. I have heard of the seven peals of thunder referred to as seven even more powerful angels than the one crying out in verse 3 to which they responded. But I think when the Bible doesn't tell us in the scripture right there, or in another scripture about the same we can't know and are only guessing which is not exactly good. peacebestill |
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30 | Coming of the Lord | Rev 10:10 | peacebestill | 208393 | ||
John Gmuer I do not think the two are related, two different trumpet sounding events. I would say that we can't know when the Rapture in 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 will happen because Revelation does not say when it will happen. Also the whole point of chapter 10 is to illustrate some things; that there was a prophecy revealed to John and the angel, but not to us, that God was going to have the seventh angel sound out the finality of His plans to end the world and institute a new one, and that John was being told to prophesy again concerning the peoples, nations, tongues and kings. peacebestill |
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