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21 | Need feedback on Genesis? | Bible general Archive 4 | Rolff | 210604 | ||
Steve, Is the quote, ""God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him...Sin is what we do when we are not satisfied with God." from Desiring God by John Piper? If so I need to give him credit on my website. |
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22 | Need feedback on Genesis? | Bible general Archive 4 | Rolff | 210609 | ||
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23 | explain baptism into moses | Bible general Archive 4 | Rolff | 216385 | ||
I was intrigued by your question. A quick search of my concordance came up "dry" on Moses and Baptism. I looked up “baptized into Moses” with no results. Even a quick scan of all references to Baptism came up as a dead end. Would you be so kind as to include a biblical reference to guide this writer? Thanks. |
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24 | explain baptism into moses | Bible general Archive 4 | Rolff | 216397 | ||
1CO 10:1 For I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all [pas, all or every]under the cloud, and all [pas, all or every] passed through the sea; 10:2 and all [pas, all or every] were baptized [dip or sink] into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 10:3 and all pas, all or every] ate the same spiritual food; 10:4 and all [pas, all or every] drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ. I must confess I have not seen this passage before although I have read 1 Corinthians many times and my trusty electronic concordance was unable to pull it out. This is one of the reasons I enjoy viewing this Forum. The original question was, “scripture states that we were baptized into Moses explain and was it considered wet or dry.” I believe the answer is in the text above. Some date the Exodus including Moses around 1444 BC, most of the Christians in both Saul called Paul’s time and ours did not pass under the cloud or thru the sea in a literal sense. Therefore it must be a spiritual or dry baptism. This is stated concretely in verse 10:4. On 2/29/2004 the following was posted in this Forum regarding 1 Cor 10:2… Subject: Baptism a warning about overconfidence Note: xxx, I won't explain. But your response is exactly what I hoped to get from all parties to the baptism controversies here on the forum. More thinking, less posting would be good. Emmaus Blessings, I hope I answered your question on wet or dry. |
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25 | Where do angels sing in the Bible? | Bible general Archive 1 | Rolff | 208607 | ||
Markarios and Kalos, I was sent to your bios on Study Bible Forum to check out your links and happen to find this question. Check out JOB 38:7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? One of the possible meanings of this verse is angels singing and shouting over one that comes into the Kingdom. |
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26 | Where do angels sing in the Bible? | Bible general Archive 1 | Rolff | 208612 | ||
I wanted to thank you for sending me to their bio's and the links. Using the illustration Jesus used of the 10 lepers and only one returned to thank Jesus, I try to thank people that help me along the way. This I did whether they read it or not. Thanks again for your help in making my Christian Education page even stronger and better. | ||||||
27 | how does Pauls three journeys correlate | NT general | Rolff | 228393 | ||
You have asked a question that is too large for this venue. The three Missionary Journey's of Paul are found in Acts The first Journey is Acts found in Chapter 13 and 14. The second journey is found in 15:36 to 18:22 and the third journey is in 18:23 to 20:38. If you hear about a fourth journey, it is Paul's trip to Rome. Most of what you ask is in this text of Scripture. Ie. Ephesis is Ephesians. Philippi is to the Philippians. But Galatia is a provence like a state. It included cities in the Biblical text including Antioch, Iconium and Lycnonia. I would like to suggest you garner a copy of THE LIVE AND EPISTLES OF ST. PAUL by Conybeare and Howson for the classic on the topic. |
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28 | Who was Cain's wife? | Genesis | Rolff | 207235 | ||
God only tells us things we need to know and apparently God didn’t think we needed to know Cain’s wife. Adam and Eve, Adam means man or mankind and all through the Old Testament when you see a man did this or that…the Hebrew word equivelant to Adam. Eve was the mother of all living. Adam and Eve’s job was to have children. They had at least three boys and we assume they had many children. As late as Abraham and Sarah, brothers and sisters were marrying each other (Genesis 20:2, circa 2000 BCE.) It is assumed Cain married one of his sisters. |
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29 | What date was Adam and Eve created? | Genesis | Rolff | 242695 | ||
Bishop Usher put a Creation date of 4004 BC, he had it down to the hour if not the minute. This was the date for over 200 years and the one I grew up memorizing. Smarter minds than mine found his numbers lacking and some rounded the date to 4000 BC or BCE. ... I am a grandfather, more than once I have called my grandson, my son. His father is no longer living and it is a term of endearment. There are places you can study in the genealogies where they skip several generations, possibly only mentioning important or famous members of the line. Can you imagine if every name for 4000 years were mentioned in scripture? It would take many pages of the Bible just to list them. ... Since we were not there, and since the Bible does not say, some put a date of no earlier than 10,000 BC. Our job today is to be like Jesus Christ. This creation date is one of the questions we will have to ask God in eternity. | ||||||
30 | ETYMOLOGY OF WOMAN | Gen 2:23 | Rolff | 242731 | ||
Gen 2:23, if ADAM, man, the Hebrew ish, then what is the etymology of woman | ||||||
31 | Person that went to heaven without dying | Gen 5:21 | Rolff | 229882 | ||
Thank you for your quesion. There are two persons in the Old Testament that may not have died. GEN 5:21 Enoch lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Methuselah. 22 Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he became the father of Methuselah, and he had other sons and daughters. 23 So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. 24 Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him. Elijah may not have died...2Ki 2:12 Elisha saw it and cried out, "My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!" And he saw Elijah no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes and tore them in two pieces. (NAS95) |
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32 | Whence cometh the races? | Gen 11:7 | Rolff | 223395 | ||
I got interested in this question when I was not Chinese, but dating a Chinese. First, we don't know the answer to this question because it is not listed in scripture. Races may as you suggested have changed when God changed the languages. They may have woken up under the shadow of the tower and said, "Uh, you speak funny and look funny." and separated. Second, it could be related to geography, while there are many exceptions, light skinned people seem to be farther north and darker skinned people seem to be native to warmer climates. Third, it could be that before car and airplane travel closer relatives married and created the diversity of homo sapiens that add to our kind because God created that diversity in our genes. | ||||||
33 | Problem sharing our faith? | Ex 20:1 | Rolff | 211871 | ||
Dear kamschoolgrad, Your question in part, “Well, we all know how preposterous it would be for such a story to be true, yet this is exactly what the god of the Christian bible did. Deuteronomy 5:17, "Thou shall not kill." Deuteronomy 13:9, "but you shall surely kill him." When are the people of the real world going to realize that although some of the bible stories may be historically truthful, most of them are fairy tales that can't be taken seriously?" Mahalo, actually, this is one of the best reasons for donating the King James to the library of antiquities. I love the KJV, but it is a foreign language to 21st Century readers. Thou shalt (not even in my word-processing spell-check dictionary) not kill is not a good translation for 21st Century readers. Second, your question is about definitions. In Exodus 20:13, Deut 5:17 both read, "You shall not murder." NASB. The language the Old Testament was written in, Hebrew uses the same word in both verses, ratsach, which is murder. The same Hebrew word is used six times in the Old Testament, let’s look briefly at them. EXO 20:13 ¶ "You shall not murder. DEU 5:17 ¶' You shall not murder. PSA 62:3 ¶ How long will you assail a man, That you may murder him, all of you, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence? PSA 94:6 They slay the widow and the stranger, And murder the orphans. JER 7:9 "Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and offer sacrifices to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known, HOS 4:2 There is swearing, deception, murder, stealing, and adultery. They employ violence, so that bloodshed follows bloodshed. HOS 6:9 And as raiders wait for a man, So a band of priests murder on the way to Shechem; Surely they have committed crime. Regarding murder, Miriam Webster’s Online Dictionary states: “The crime of unlawfully killing a person especially with malice or forethought.” There were six cities of Refuge, given by God to protect the person that took the life of another without intent. The example that is used is if the ax head comes off while chopping an tree and another dies. The one living could run to one of the cities of refuge until the high priest died and then go home. Numbers 13:35f . A person died, but the life of the one taking the life was saved by God’s decree because it was accidental. War as horrendous as it is, is not forbidden in the Bible. War is not murder. Accidental killing, be it by car, stupidity or accident is not murder. Murder is a drive-by shooter taking the life of a friend of mine. Murder is intentionally taking a weapon and using it until it removes the life of another. In Deuteronomy 13:9 kill means kill. The Hebrew word is harag according to my Hebrew lexicon means kill. Miriam Webster’s Online Dictionary states, “transitive verb, to deprive of life : cause the death of “ Quell is from the same etymological root. Capital punishment is not murder. Which begs to your question; If one takes the life of another, Deuteronomy 5:17 that person should be put to death Deuteronomy 13:9. [When I was a boy there was little murder because the murderer was a dead man in short order. He did not want to die, so he didn’t take the life of another. The more lenient we get on murderers the more murder occurs. The Bible never talks about prison, but it does tell us to remove the murderer from among the living.] Aloha, Rolff |
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34 | Murder vs Killing | Ex 20:1 | Rolff | 211885 | ||
kamschoolgrad, There are many sides to God. My father used to kid my mother about the husband that needed to hug, chalk and hug some more before chalking because his wife was so fat. In many ways, that is the way to look at God. In fact, that is how theologians look at God. We take what we call attributes and only look at one part at a time of the total of what God is, because we can't see all of him at one time. If we could understand God, He would not be God. I am not sure anyone can answer your question completely as it is in the heart of God. But the substance, when one peels off all the layers of God: is love. God is love, 1 John 4:8. God's love makes him love, at the fall this is what we lost. We do things and ask, what is in it for me? God not only made us when He did not need to but he gave his son to die for people that didn’t like him, because God is who He is. I might die for another, but I wouldn't give my children for another...that is how much He loved you and us. But there is another side of God after the chalk mark. God is a God of absolute purity that expects us to love Him. He is a jealous God. EXO 20:5 "You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, We can say this is unfair, but God makes the rules and he says that is the way it is. God's holiness demands holy. MAT 5:48 "Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. [Some translations use mature, which helps me sleep at night.] When I first read the article you wrote in your question, my first thought was this is immoral person. I am 2200 miles and five hours by air from Maui but I have heard Dawson McAllister and Josh McDowell both mention that people that have hidden sin need to disprove God to prove they are OK. If there is a God then they need to repent, which they have no intention of doing—so they say there is no God or he is a bad God, as the author of the article was trying to prove. You will not win this argument by argument. You will win it by ... love. God loved so much he died...talk about an oxymoron. Your husband needs to 1 Thessalonians 4:11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; Aloha, don dba Rolff |
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35 | Murder vs Killing | Ex 20:1 | Rolff | 211888 | ||
John, Val and Doc, The answers to the question Re Deuteronomy 5 and 13 is one of the best interactions I have seen on this forum. I appreciated all the answers. We all answered within 30 minutes and I did not know others had posted or I would not have put my second two bits in. |
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36 | Why is bigamy ok but adultry isn't? | Ex 21:10 | Rolff | 221909 | ||
The seventh commandment in Exodus 20, tells us not to commit adultry. Clear as can be. But a chapter later in Exodus 22-23 we are given rules for a second wife. Two wives (bigamy) appear to not be sin in the Pentateuch but adultry is sin. What is the difference? they both have two different women in your bedroom. This is an honest question that is gnawing at me. |
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37 | ADULTRY VS BIGAMY #3 | Ex 21:10 | Rolff | 221917 | ||
Tim, What you say is correct. My non-legal mind can't see a difference between adultry and bigamy, two women, one man in both cases. The US has made rules against second wives based on Matthew 5 and 19. Yet, Moses (who was married to two women wrote these rules.) One is legal with rules, one is a sin, just verses apart. I am reading a Legalist's dissertation and he is railing on adultry, page after page. His paper is on law and grace and I am bored beyond tears. What about bigamy? If I have a one night fling, it is Adultry. If I marry two women and do both of them every night, it is ok? As a man of the Word, this seems convoluted, but may be so. Any comments from a different point of view? [One wife is almost too much. Can't imagine two bedded women under my roof. The question above is a long standing question between my brother and I. ] |
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38 | Why is bigamy ok but adultry isn't? | Ex 21:10 | Rolff | 221930 | ||
It sure doesn't say it is wrong. David had 19 reported wives/concubines/women and he was a friend of God. I'm not sure I want one gunaika, but we hear to an extreme, adultry is sin. NO ONE preaches that bigamy is not forbidden in God's eyes. What is the difference? One man, two women in two chapters of Exodus.(Exodus 20:14 and 21:10) |
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39 | ADULTRY VS BIGAMY #3 | Ex 21:10 | Rolff | 221932 | ||
Thanks, he said with a tongue firmly in cheek, I'll move to Africa or Asia and enjoy my four legal wives using your advice. Civil law is not Moses' law and my question came from Exodus 20:14 (no adultry) and Exodus 21:10 (here is the rules for your second woman.) This is one man and two women any way you look at these two chapters and I wondered out loud what was the difference. We've spent enough time on this, I'll move on. |
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40 | ADULTRY VS BIGAMY #3 | Ex 21:10 | Rolff | 221938 | ||
Good answer. Thank you for the humor and satisfying answer. | ||||||
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