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21 | What does "because of the angels" mean ? | 1 Cor 11:10 | GeneZ | 96829 | ||
You said... "... The angels are neither male nor female." The Bible does not say that. The Hebrew and Greek do assign a definite gender to angels. It is always in the masculine gender, never in the feminine gender. And, never neuter. Vines made a point of this in his Word Study. That the words for angels always appear in the masculine gender. And, if you note, the names always given to angels in the Bible are masculine, never feminine. Grace and peace, Gene |
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22 | the angels that sinned | 2 Pet 2:4 | GeneZ | 96825 | ||
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23 | the angels that sinned | 2 Pet 2:4 | GeneZ | 96789 | ||
"There is Absolutely NO Scriptural evidence for this statement." Try re-wording that, please? That, you see no Scriptural evidence. Others do. Thank you... Gene |
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24 | Reconciling 1 Tim 2:4 with Rom 8:29 | 1 Tim 2:4 | GeneZ | 96659 | ||
It is not revealed in just one place in the Bible. The Bible reveals that there are stages in God's drawing men to himself. The first stage is what I have learned to call "God consciousness." This is where God gets men to accept the reality that there must be a God. It is not a salvation call at this stage. "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse." (Romans 1:18-20) Note: "because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them." God does this work in ALL men. It is because of evil in their hearts that some suppress the truth they have been shown. I had this happen to me as a child. I wanted to know God, for I sensed God had to exist. Yet, I had no idea about Jesus Christ and salvation. That, came years later. Many religious men stop at this stage. They accept that there is a God, but reject God's further drawing them to know about salvation in Christ. Many of the Jews following Jesus were seeking salvation through works. They wanted to learn of what works they needed to become saved. That is why in John 6, Jesus threw at them that they must eat his flesh and drink his blood in order to be saved. Jesus was speaking figuratively about his saving work on the Cross, but they took him literally. Many at that point stopped following him because that was *a work* that they saw as disgusting and repulsive. Jesus was slapping them around in their legalism towards salvation. And, Jesus also made sure to make it clear that men are not saved by their works, but rather, by the work of God in their hearts. "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day." (John 6:44) God draws all men to know there is a God. Then, if they remain positive in knowing more about God he will draw them into preparing their hearts for receiving the Gospwl. If they remain positive God will send them the Gospel, even if they live in a remote isolated part of the world. Not all are positive to God's drawing them. That is why in parts of the world they never hear the Gospel. God will hold these accountable at the judgment for what he will show them they had rejected in his drawing them to Christ. Grace and peace, Gene |
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25 | Reconciling 1 Tim 2:4 with Rom 8:29 | 1 Tim 2:4 | GeneZ | 96609 | ||
If the verses you mentioned are speaking of predestination, then all men would get saved. " who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth." (1 Timothy 2:4) Its God's desire... All men at some point in their lives are given a chance(s) to know God. But God's desire can not over ride the volition of man. This glorifies God even when men reject him. For it reveals and proves that God created a creature (man) with free will. For if man did not have free will we would not be free to reject God's desire for all men to be saved. All men would be saved. "For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren..." (Romans 8:29) That means that he knows who will believe. And he has chosen from all who would believe, for us(Church age believers) to be in Christ. That is, chosen to be the Bride of Christ. We were chosen for this before the foundations of the world. Moses was not chosen to be in Christ, nor was David. We were. It was God's sovereign choice that we be born during the Church age, as to receive the particular blessings that accompany the salvation to be given during the Church age. The Church has been called to reign with Christ. David always looked forward to the day when the Messiah would reign *OVER* him, not with him. What we have been chosen for is a special position in eternity, not simply to get saved (as some mistaken the Scriptures to be saying). " From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live." (Acts 17:26 nivĀ®) God CHOSE you to be born now. He did not chose you to believe in Him. He knew you would choose to believe in him, but he did not make you believe in Him. Yet, He chose (predestined) that you would be in Christ when you would believe. For Acts 17:26, says, that he determined when and where you were to be born. In that way he chose you to be in Christ. You were born during the Church age. That was God's sovereign choice. We have received a special and different area of grace in our salvation(why we are not under Law) that the OT saints did not receive in their salvation. They were not chosen to be in Christ before the foundations of the world. " Concerning *this salvation*, the prophets, who spoke _*of the grace that was to come to you*_, searched intently and with the greatest care.." (1 Peter 1:10 nivĀ®) We have received a portion of grace that was not given to OT saints. We have been chosen to be a part of the Bride of Christ. The helpmate of Christ in his reign. Grace and peace, Gene |
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26 | Jesus Created or Creator??? | Rev 3:14 | GeneZ | 96383 | ||
At one time I used to drive from Massachusetts to DC to hear him teach. Then, when I moved to Georgia, he used to teach just south of Atlanta. Its been an honor. And, its been a blessing. He does not teach you to simply repeat what he teaches, he teaches in a way that gives you the freedom to have your own ideas as well. To even disagree. As long as your disagreement is objective he had no problem with it. Right now I am primarily studying Revelation. Fascinating to see what is there when exegeted. Grace and peace, Gene |
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27 | Jesus Created or Creator??? | Rev 3:14 | GeneZ | 96280 | ||
I started sometime in 1981 after having graduated from an independent Bible college. He needs to slow down now. Most people his age are barely getting along living in assisted living facilities. To keep going as long as he has is amazing. Especially, since he taught typically more content in one week than what most pastors can teach in half a year. A walking tribute to grace in action. A crash course in Bible doctrine that seemed would never end. But, it really hasn't. There is yet more on tape that I have not heard than I have. Grace and peace, Gene |
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28 | Jesus Created or Creator??? | Rev 3:14 | GeneZ | 96259 | ||
He makes one think and consider about areas no one else that I have found ventures into. Likewise, I do not always agree 100 percent with all he teaches, and neither does he. He had changed a few points of his own over the years. Yet, I have changed some of my views over the years as well. We are all learning together. As you well know his ministry has been a great blessing to those led into the sound of his voice. I am glad I am one of them. Grace and peace, Gene |
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29 | Jesus Created or Creator??? | Rev 3:14 | GeneZ | 96203 | ||
Only the humanity of Christ suffered. I see anywhere in the Scripture where it says Deity suffered for anything. Humanity can suffer. Jesus suffered, but not his Deity. Omnipotence when combined with omniscience can not suffer. God can no more suffer than to lie. It is impossible for God to lie. God has no weakness required for anger. Anger would mean he has limits to what he can do to accomplish his desire. Yet he has a need to express anger as a means to let us know something we should know ACCORDING to our way of thinking. If you wanted to communicate with ants, and ants express anger by twitching their antennae. You may tell them that your antennae is twitching fiercely over something they just had done. You have no antennae. And, you really are not angry over an issue only important to ants. Yet, they understand what you desire (a change in behavior and thinking) and they get the message. God must resort to that at times. Yet, God IS love. God does not simply love. God IS love. We love because God first loved us. God imparted love to us. You said... "Fear" in Hebrew means exactly that, fear. Why should anyone fear a God who never gets angry? " Fear also can mean deep *respect.* "Reverence" A fear of displeasing God. Yet, it says that we fear. Not God. It said God got angry? In other words it is like saying... God's antennae twitch fiercely when we do something wrong. Are you getting this? God already knows our eternal state. He expresses what is needed to correct us according to what we can understand and can relate to. He desires that we submit to his molding us. For only he knows what is to be. We can not see what it is that he is getting us to become. Why should God be angry with anything? Is he limited and unable to do what he desires to do? Anger is expressed only as a means to motivate us until we grow up more in understanding who and what God is. If we do grow, then truth becomes our main concern... not conditioning by pain and pleasure reinforcement. Still having a problem with this? God is not a man. Yet, Jesus Christ is the humanity by whom God is *interpreted* to us. The Greek says that Jesus *interprets* God to us. Jesus is God's perfect means to express what we can relate to about God, as to give us an accurate *concept* about what God is. " No man has ever seen God at any time; the only unique Son, or the only begotten God, Who is in the bosom [in the intimate presence] of the Father, He has declared Him [He has revealed Him and brought Him out where He can be seen; He has _*interpreted*_ Him and He has made Him known]." (John 1:18 Amplified) What we can know about God has been INTERPRETED by Christ to us. We can not know God as God knows Himself. We can not know what it is like to be omniscient. Without Christ as our interpreter we could not have a correct concept of God that we can relate to in our way of thinking. For Jesus Christ is both man and God. He knows perfectly well how to explain and interpret God to men. Before Abraham was existing, Jesus was always interpreting God to mankind. He only became manifested in human flesh when it was the right time in God's plan. God already sees you as you will be. He may appear to get angry at times, but he is already seeing the finished product and is pleased with you, no matter how much you may fail to glorify Christ in time. That is, if you have believed in Jesus Christ. Yet, if we fail to grow up in grace and knowledge, anger and pleasure will be needed to try and get our attention back on the right path. God motivates us according to our understanding. Anger is needed by those who do not please God. Those who do not please God obviously have a poor understanding of God. So, he motivates and disciplines according to where these are in their understanding of Him. Some only respond to anger at a given point in their life. But, God is not really angry. He only would get angry if he could fail to achieve his desire. God does not fail. Man does. Grace and peace, Gene |
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30 | Jesus Created or Creator??? | Rev 3:14 | GeneZ | 96195 | ||
RBT is very familiar to me. Yes. He spurred on my thinking in that area. Yet, my response was from my own reasoning on the subject. Grace and peace, Gene |
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31 | Jesus Created or Creator??? | Rev 3:14 | GeneZ | 96087 | ||
God never suffers. He already knows the beginning to the end. Nothing takes him by surprise, and he is always living as the perfect answer to all our suffering. He is now able to identify with our suffering through the humanity of Christ. That is one reason why mankind needs a mediator between man and God, the humanity of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ can identify with our weakness. "For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. " (Hebrews 4:15) God (Deity of Christ) has no weakness. Deity did not, and could not, suffer on the Cross. God is, and always was, being perfect happiness and joy. For God NEVER changes. Jesus (humanity) suffered in our place, not his Deity. Deity is always being the joy that was set before Christ(humanity) as Jesus bore our sins. "...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." (Hebrews 12:2) I realize that for some this may be hard to accept at first. For others, it will not be. It is something we are to learn and know about God. He NEVER changes. He now has a policy to express human emotions as a means to communicate with us. For we understand God's policy this way. These expressions are called "anthropopathisms". That means God is attributing to himself traits that he himself does not possess which are used as a means to communicate certain things to finite creatures such as ourselves. God NEVER changes. God is always infinite love and happiness. God is never angry. He never is frustrated. He always sees us as being with him in Eternity as we will be, not as we are now. For what we are now in these bodies is seen by God as being dead and nailed to the cross with Christ. "I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me." (Galatians 2:20) Grace and peace, Gene |
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32 | Jesus Created or Creator??? | Rev 3:14 | GeneZ | 96067 | ||
Many confuse the humanity of Christ with his Deity. His Deity was never created. Only his humanity was. The Lord had to take on the form of a man, live as a man by avoiding living in the power of his own Deity; and die as a man for all men. He had to die in our place as a perfect substitute for us. We are a created being. His humanity is a created being. The created was dying for the created. Deity can not die. Deity did not die for us on the Cross. Only the humanity of Christ did. That was made only possible by taking on the form of a created being - humanity. Grace and peace, GeneZ |
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