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21 | Why did Eve react like that? | Bible general Archive 4 | flinkywood | 218526 | ||
You may be referring to Doc's response, not mine. | ||||||
22 | Why did Eve react like that? | Bible general Archive 4 | flinkywood | 218525 | ||
Doc, I'm referring to a Calvary Bible Church pastor, not to a priest. Priests tend to know little about the bible. And I don't mean to be provocative. I mean to say that conjecture or speculation can either spur fruitful inquiry or harden untenable assumptions. Shouldn't we investigate the history, literature and lifeways of OT and NT Israel in order to understand and interpret scripture? |
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23 | Why did Eve react like that? | Bible general Archive 4 | flinkywood | 218517 | ||
Doc, There are many "problem verses" (as my pastor once phrased it) in the bible that the Evangelists deliberately included w/o any apparent interpretive key or associated scripture. Take John 20:23, for ex: And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained." (Joh 20:22-23 NKJV) Jesus appears to give these men divine authority to forgive or retain sins, heretofore the prerogative of God alone. If we are constrained by the rule of "explicity", as you state it, we are left with 2 options: either John the Apostle deliberately left us conjecture-less, or there existed a tradition, perhaps lost, perhaps not, with which his readers were familar but of which we're unaware. It seems that we must conjecture in order to discover what did provide the interpretive framework for this verse. In other words, it appears that in some cases the NT presupposes a contemporary knowledge, tradition or practice within the early church, a background to render intelligible certain verses like the above; otherwise, and according to your formulation, wouldn't John be violating Sola Scriptura by corraling us into conjecture rather than clarity? |
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24 | ... | Bible general Archive 4 | flinkywood | 218492 | ||
It's common-sense: If you don't want fleas, keep out of fleabags. | ||||||
25 | ... | Bible general Archive 4 | flinkywood | 218490 | ||
I've liked some Mormons I've met, but I won't go to temple with them. | ||||||
26 | ... | Bible general Archive 4 | flinkywood | 218488 | ||
Azure, I advise against stip clubbing. | ||||||
27 | What are the thoughts that were revealed | Luke 2:35 | flinkywood | 218331 | ||
Makarios has a good answer. The thoughts of many hearts were revealed that day (the Roman Centurion’s declaration, “Truly this was the son of God,” for example, expresses beutifully his own heart’s conversion), and are still revealed up to this very day. I don’t think Simeon’s oracle had its fulfillment on Calvary. The world continues to encounter Christ daily “so that,” like it or not, “the thoughts from many hearts may be revealed.” |
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28 | Animals in heaven? | 2 Tim 2:15 | flinkywood | 218290 | ||
More encouragement. | ||||||
29 | Animals in heaven? | 2 Tim 2:15 | flinkywood | 218282 | ||
I hope to be with my actual dog in heaven any way he comes, afire or otherwise. I also hope he'll be off-leash. | ||||||
30 | The Suffering of the Church | Acts 8:2 | flinkywood | 217616 | ||
Mike, In the “Faith Dome”, some years back, I heard Pastor Fred Price introduce a sermon on the Death of Stephen with, "Christians aren't supposed to suffer," claiming Stephen's beatific vision in support. I’ve also heard Price say that if your disease isn’t getting cured, your faith is weak, which lays too much responsibility on a person's failings and too little emphasis on God's grace. Though suffering results from our first parents’ rejection of God’s covenant love, suffering isn’t characterized as evil or Satanic in the bible. In the following verse, Paul writes to the Colossians that he has actually discovered joy through suffering: Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church, (Col 1:24 ESV) Would Paul be rejoicing if suffering were evil? Christians don’t rejoice in evil. Suffering has enabled Paul to see it’s salvific meaning, it’s goodness, and it’s this insight he wishes others to see: …If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort… for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort. (2Co 1:3-7). Paul even asserts that by avoiding suffering we avoid sharing in Christ’s eternal glory: The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs--heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him. (Rom 8:16-17). In short, to the degree that we suffer with Christ we share in his eternal glory. What was good enough for Him must be good enough for us: Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. (Heb 5:8) Suffering, as elucidated in the above verses, has salvific meaning, inherent goodness, insofar as it brings us closer to God. |
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31 | Walk as He walked | 1 John 2:3 | flinkywood | 216895 | ||
Thanks, Tim, now get to work... | ||||||
32 | Walk as He walked | 1 John 2:3 | flinkywood | 216891 | ||
Tim, "If you love me, you will keep my commandments,” (John 14:15) implies that keeping—doing--His commandments is required to love Jesus. Since Jesus is the Law, and since apart from Him we can do nothing (John 15:5) doing the Law flows from loving Christ in return; therefore not doing the Law--breaking any of the 10 commandments--is to fail to love Christ (1 John 2:4; 4:20). This might sound like a prescription for “doing” over “loving”, for “works-righteousness;” but the act of keeping a commandment--the moral law--strengthens our faith. Action is to faith what exercise is to the body: what we don’t use (our loving faith) we can lose. 2 quotations say it better: “People often think of Christian morality as a kind of bargain in which God says, ‘If you keep a lot of rules I'll reward you, and if you don't I'll do the other thing.’ …I would much rather say that every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature: either into a creature that is in harmony with God, and with other creatures, and with itself, or else into one that is in a state of war and hatred with God, and with its fellow-creatures, and with itself.” C.S. Lewis “Mere Christianity “ "If a certain character of mind, a certain state of the heart and affections, be necessary for entering heaven, our actions will avail for our salvation, chiefly as they tend to produce or evidence this frame of mind. Good works (as they are called) are required, not as if they had anything of merit in them, not as if they could of themselves turn away God's anger for our sins, or purchase heaven for us, but because they are the means, under God's grace, of strengthening and showing forth that holy principle which God implants in the heart, and without which (as the text tells us) we cannot see Him. The more numerous are our acts of charity, self-denial, and forbearance, of course the more will our minds be schooled into a charitable, self-denying, and forbearing temper. The more frequent are our prayers, the more humble, patient, and religious are our daily deeds, this communion with God, these holy works, will be the means of making our hearts holy, and of preparing us for the future presence of God. Outward acts, done on principle, create inward habits. I repeat, the separate acts of obedience to the will of God, good works as they are called, are of service to us, as gradually severing us from this world of sense, and impressing our hearts with a heavenly character." J.H. Newman "Holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord." Hebrews 7:14. |
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33 | Christologically Pregnant Passages | Titus 2:13 | flinkywood | 216668 | ||
CDBJ, you're right. Good call. | ||||||
34 | Christologically Pregnant Passages | Titus 2:13 | flinkywood | 216667 | ||
CDBJ, I don't understand. Could you rephrase? | ||||||
35 | Christologically Pregnant Passages | Titus 2:13 | flinkywood | 216657 | ||
Tim, If rendered His (God's) church and his own Blood (humanity) we have an assertion of the full humanity and divinity of Christ. Your point is clear, to render it the "church of God" and then, "blood of his own son" can bring this divine union into question. The fullest reading, it seems, should be "Church of the Lord...with His own blood." Colin |
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36 | Christologically Pregnant Passages | Titus 2:13 | flinkywood | 216652 | ||
Tim, With the NWT (the JW bible), these translations also render Acts 20:28 thus: (NET): ...with the blood of his own Son. (NRSV): ...with the blood of his own Son. (RSV): ...with the blood of his own Son. Your thoughts? |
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37 | Christologically Pregnant Passages | Titus 2:13 | flinkywood | 216648 | ||
Makarios, The JW's did send a varsity crew to our door. When they confronted my wife with the Jesus question she replied, "If Jesus is God's Son, then He must be God, just as your son is human." I would have made a mess of it, frankly. It's great to see you back.(I also hear from Ed Blough and Steve Pohl on the random occasion). You answered my first question herein, btw. I also understand you are a family now. Blessings to you double. Colin |
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38 | Christologically Pregnant Passages | Titus 2:13 | flinkywood | 216647 | ||
Tim, I’ve followed your exchange with Makarios. Great stuff. As you likely know, the JW bible emends Acts 20:28 to read “…which he purchased with the blood of his own son,” implying that the son’s blood is distinct, because this son, saith the Watchtower, is in truth the archangel Michael, a created being. Here’s a neat progression leading to Christ as God: Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he. (Isa 41:4 ESV) Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: "I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god. (Isa 44:6 ESV, which refutes the “…was a god” mangling of John 1.1 in the JW bible) Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: "I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god. (Isa 44:6 ESV) "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty." (Rev 1:8 ESV) And he said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment. (Rev 21:6 ESV) "And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: 'The words of the first and the last, who died and came to life. (Rev 2:8 ESV) If you follow “ the first and the last” through scripture until Rev 2.8, you come to the truth of Christ. Colin |
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39 | and you will be like God | Gen 3:5 | flinkywood | 216637 | ||
Doc, I know the guidelines, as I've haunted SBF for a good while. Also, no need to apologize for my "angst", since I had none. |
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40 | Christologically Pregnant Passages | Titus 2:13 | flinkywood | 216636 | ||
That's really well done, Makarios. I'll note these to deploy on the JW's. | ||||||
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