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21 | What is a repentance from dead works? | Heb 6:1 | Rowdy | 133664 | ||
Yes, I agree with this and all the other verses but getting to the rub, "where the rubber meets the road," how will this be done? In other words, in strict compliance with this verse and all the others, the devil himself is going to Heaven. How will God distinguish and keep him along with all his followers out of Heaven? Please advise and God bless. Rowdy |
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22 | Are we too dull to understand the Bible? | Heb 6:1 | Rowdy | 133661 | ||
Dear Kalos, my friend I'm sorry that you seem to be interpreting my posts in such a way. I don't really think I'm portraying such messages but I'm always willing to discuss specifics. If you'll identify the particulars, I'll do my best to respond. It sounds like you have quite a list, do it may take me a while. Could you break down the quantity maybe to a couple or three per post? I'm constantly re-evaluating my posts and my positions in an attempt to make sure that they're in agreement with either the specific Words from the Bible OR the obvious intent behind the Spirit of the Bible's position on a particular topic. But I must admit, I knew this topic of baptism would be a sensitive one to most folks. And the only reason I'm so stubborn about this issue is because it seems to be widely misunderstood by a good many people. Finally, I'd be literally the very last person in the world to reflect the image of not making a mistake. I've made far more than my fair share of mistakes, both in my life and on this Forum. So for those mistakes, I'll apologize to you and to whomever else I need to apologize. But I can't apologize for God's requirement about our getting into His Family. As I've mentioned many times before, this issue of baptism is very important to Him, just as circumcision was very important between Him and the Israelite nation. I hope very much to continue our dialouge on this subject only to get everyone as much as possible INTO the Family of God so we can ALL go to Heaven together, as our Lord prayed. Looking forward to your response and asking for your patience. God bless. Rowdy PS: Were you able to find an example of a Godly person in the Bible who was able to please God with belief only to the exclusion of obedience to His Commands, His Terms and Conditions, in any dispensation? I'd certainly like to discuss this with you. |
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23 | Question for Rowdy.... | Acts 2:38 | Rowdy | 133652 | ||
In response, I can only quote the following verses as they sound pretty clear to me. Acts 2:38 Peter said to them, "Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Mark 16:16 "He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned. I guess we're going to have to agree to disagree but I'm willing to keep this as long as you wish. I'm just a vessel, a common pot in the hands of our Lord. Looking forward to your response and still praying for you. God bless. Rowdy |
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24 | Question for Rowdy.... | Acts 2:38 | Rowdy | 133651 | ||
His offer of Isaac as a sacrifice was merely one of the most supreme examples of his devotion and faith. His first such example or act of obedience was his getting out of his home country, leaving all his kinfolk behind him, that is with the exception of Lot, his nephew. I think I can confiently say that every child of God in all dispensations (Patriarchial, Jewish and Christian) all showed their faith with their own acts of obedience as you and I must do. Maybe you can find an exception but I should think that will be difficult to do. God bless you, dear friend. Rowdy |
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25 | A reason for the confusion in the world | NT general Archive 1 | Rowdy | 133645 | ||
I can only respond with the words of Jesus for He foretold of these kinds of things in our world. Matt 24:6 "You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end. Mark 13:7 "When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be frightened; those things must take place; but that is not yet the end. In contrast we must read on for in Matt 11:29 "Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS. John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me. and from the OT: 2 Chr 13:18 Thus the sons of Israel were subdued at that time, and the sons of Judah conquered because they trusted in the LORD, the God of their fathers. 2 Chr 14:11 Then Asa called to the LORD his God and said, "LORD, there is no one besides You to help in the battle between the powerful and those who have no strength; so help us, O LORD our God, for we trust in You, and in Your name have come against this multitude. O LORD, You are our God; let not man prevail against You." 2 Chr 20:20 They rose early in the morning and went out to the wilderness of Tekoa; and when they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, "Listen to me, O Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, put your trust in the LORD your God and you will be established. Put your trust in His prophets and succeed." Ps 25:2 O my God, in You I trust, Do not let me be ashamed; Do not let my enemies exult over me. Ps 31:14 But as for me, I trust in You, O LORD, I say, "You are my God." Ps 40:3 He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God; Many will see and fear And will trust in the LORD. Ps 52:7 "Behold, the man who would not make God his refuge, But trusted in the abundance of his riches And was strong in his evil desire." Ps 52:8 But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the lovingkindness of God forever and ever. Ps 55:23 But You, O God, will bring them down to the pit of destruction; Men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You. Ps 56:4 In God, whose word I praise, In God I have put my trust; I shall not be afraid. What can mere man do to me? Ps 56:11 In God I have put my trust, I shall not be afraid. What can man do to me? Ps 62:8 Trust in Him at all times, O people; Pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us. Selah. I hope these scriptures will give you the courage to face these perils we all face together. God bless. Rowdy |
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26 | What is a repentance from dead works? | Heb 6:1 | Rowdy | 133639 | ||
I think I can agree with some of what you're saying. Please read on. "So, we mustn't think that we need our filthy rags, but we do in fact need them? What does God need our filthy rags for? :-)" In this situation, God DOESN'T need them. He has no needs whatsoever for He's God BUT we NEED to do them for our benefit. You might say it's beneficial to us in the same manner as our prayers. Here again, God doesn't need our prayers as He knows our needs AND our wants before we do. BUT we're commanded to "pray without ceasing." In both cases our prayers and our works of faith help us keep our focus on God just like Peter discovered while walking on water. "Eph. 2:8-9 doesn't say that we are saved by works done in the proper attitude." James 2 on the other hand does make it clear that "faith without works is dead" and thus worthless to both us and to God. "Nor does James 2 talk about works done with a proper attidute. The individuals in James 2 were claiming to have faith and did not need to demonstrate any works. James was showing them that real faith 'works', thus they did not have real faith. "Thus, 'works' are the result and evidence of faith, not the basis of salvation." This is the only item with which I can agree in part. Yes indeed our works should be thought of by us as being proof of our faith. But notice the reverse is also true. If we have no works to look back on how can we say we have true and genuine faith for the devil himself believes in God and yet continues to disobey? If we can't lay claim to ANY acts of obedience, how can we claim to love God or our fellow man? So, yes, I agree with you, works is most certainly NOT the basis of salvation as the ONLY foundation for salvation MUST be Jesus Christ, He alone and the Grace of God, His Father and ours. I guess you might compare this Grace and our works as a marriage. One can't be married to another human being WITHOUT accepting the idea that there may come some days of trial and difficulties but the couple stays married regardless for that's God's Will. In the same way, when we become children of God, that automatically means we agree to bear the costs as Christ suggests in his parable AND we MUST bear our own cross of submission to His Will as he commanded. We can't have one (Grace) on the one hand and NOT have the other (acts of obedience). God DEMANDS real and genuine faith and I'm afraid He's going to be looking for our proofs of that faith on Judgment Day. How do you anticipate that God is going to distinguish between christians and other sinners on the Day? I hope this helps to clarify. God bless. Rowdy |
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27 | What is a repentance from dead works? | Heb 6:1 | Rowdy | 133637 | ||
Copied for reference: Matt 25:40 "The King will answer and say to them, 'Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.' I'm hoping that I'm assuming correctly here (maybe she'll forgive me if I err): Mommapbs and I were ultimately referring to the attitude, at least I know I was. I would further clarify with one of Jesus parables below. Luke 18:9 And He also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and viewed others with contempt: 10 "Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 "The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself: 'God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 12 'I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.' 13 "But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, the sinner!' 14 "I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted." We can do all the good we could possibly cram into our lives but if we do it with anything else but with the most humble attitude, it won't count for anything. When we actually do/say everything in the name of the Lord as commanded, then we can be assured we on the right path (straight and narrow) headed in the right direction. Paul also talks about this in 1 Cor 13. I hope this makes it a little more clear. God bless. Rowdy |
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28 | Baptism-What Does the Bible Teach? | Acts 2:38 | Rowdy | 133635 | ||
I'm very curious as to how you came to such a conclusion about Paul's position on baptism in light of the scriptures below. Rom 6:3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. 1 Cor 1:13 Has Christ been divided? Paul was not crucified for you, was he? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul? 14 I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius, 15 so that no one would say you were baptized in my name. 16 Now I did baptize also the household of Stephanas; beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized any other. 17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not in cleverness of speech, so that the cross of Christ would not be made void. 1 Cor 10:2 and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 1 Cor 12:13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. 1 Cor 15:29 Otherwise, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why then are they baptized for them? Gal 3:27 For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. Eph 4:5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, Col 2:12 having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. I understand there are some controversies about this topic of baptism but it seems to me that Paul's being a strong advocate of baptism is NOT one of them. If by chance you're referring to Paul's position about the focus of his ministery as mentioned in 1 Cor 1:17, I think there's a simple explanation. Human beings have a tendancy to want to be baptized by someone famous. My own father was baptized by a christian preacher who had a show on television many years ago and is now dead. But people all over the world brag about being taught and/or baptized by a famous christian who perhaps is on television or has written a book of some sort. In the first century, obviously Paul was getting some of this same kind of notariety along with Apollos and Peter. Here Paul is trying to de-emphasize himself and promote Christ and His sacrifice on the cross instead. IMO, Paul recognized he had a big job to do, preach the Gospel throughout the whole world and a short time to do it in. So naturally he prioritized his life into preaching the Gospel and let others take care of details like baptizing those that wanted to become christians. I hope this helps clarify the issue. God bless. Rowdy |
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29 | What's the most important msg of Romans | Not Specified | Rowdy | 133634 | ||
Just rec'd this quote from a good friend Grace is the incomprehensible fact that God is well pleased with a man, and that a man can rejoice in God. Only when grace is recognized to be incomprehensible is it grace. Grace exists, therefore, only where the Resurrection is reflected. Grace is the gift of Christ, who exposes the gulf which separates God and man, and, by exposing it, bridges it. ... Karl Barth, The Epistle to the Romans Tell me what you think. I thought it's pretty good. God bless. Rowdy |
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30 | What's the most important msg of Romans | Rom 5:8 | Rowdy | 133642 | ||
Just rec'd this quote from a good friend Grace is the incomprehensible fact that God is well pleased with a man, and that a man can rejoice in God. Only when grace is recognized to be incomprehensible is it grace. Grace exists, therefore, only where the Resurrection is reflected. Grace is the gift of Christ, who exposes the gulf which separates God and man, and, by exposing it, bridges it. ... Karl Barth, The Epistle to the Romans Tell me what you think. I thought it's pretty good. God bless. Rowdy |
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31 | Question for Rowdy.... | Acts 2:38 | Rowdy | 133611 | ||
You keep on leaving out parts of the picture. With Abraham, remember He proved his faith to God when He told him offer his son as a sacrifice. Paul proved his devotion and commitment many times over, not the least of which included being baptized as cited Acts 9:18. James 2 deals with the works very thoroughly. Works are most certainly not to be considered part of the process but to be proofs of salvation after the fact. So baptism is not a work on our part; it's the Lord's working in us. Now that I've answered/responded to your points, how about taking a chop at answering/responding to my main point about believing or proving one's faith without any kind of proofs at all. Show a definite contrast between your belief and that of the devil's belief in God. I pray that God blesses you in your response. Rowdy |
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32 | Question for Rowdy.... | Acts 2:38 | Rowdy | 133610 | ||
You keep on leaving out parts of the picture. With Abraham, remember He proved his faith to God when He told him offer his son as a sacrifice. Paul proved his devotion and commitment many times over, not the least of which included being baptized as cited Acts 9:18. James 2 deals with the works very thoroughly. Works are most certainly not to be considered part of the process but to be proofs of salvation after the fact. So baptism is not a work on our part; it's the Lord's working in us. Now that I've answered/responded to your points, how about taking a chop at answering/responding to my main point about believing or proving one's faith without any kind of proofs at all. Show a definite contrast between your belief and that of the devil's belief in God. I pray that God blesses you in your response. Rowdy |
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33 | Question for Rowdy.... | Acts 2:38 | Rowdy | 133597 | ||
Please believe me, dear friend Tim. I'm quite serious. The reason for my statement about the Bible not being quite clear is represented by the sum total of ALL of God's Word on this rather wide topic of what it takes to comply with God's commands and receive the Gift of Salvation on Judgment Day. That my friend is not quite so clear when our Lord does clearly say that His Words will Judge us on that Judgment Day. So the correct conclusion is try to make sense of it all and follow God's commands as best as we possibly can. Would you not agree this is our charge from God Almighty? This seems pretty clear to me. Looking forward to your response. God bless. Rowdy |
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34 | What is a repentance from dead works? | Heb 6:1 | Rowdy | 133595 | ||
I like the attitude of your first paragraph. We absolutely MUST not think that ANYTHING we do or say could possibly be more than "filthy rags;" I agree wholeheartedly. HOWEVER that does NOT mean that we can think for a single moment that we get into Heaven without doing them. Our "faith without works is dead" per James 2. So we must reconcile this conundrum by doing the works BUT with a proper attitude as if we were slaves, mere servants to our Lord for that's what we are. He bought and paid for us with His Own Dear and Precious Blood. His was the only thing that could have been used to make such a purchase. So we owe Him everything we are, everything we own and everything we can hope to be or to accomplish. That brings us back to doing good deeds in His name as we're commanded. Col 3:17 Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father. I hope this helps and God bless. Rowdy |
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35 | Question for Rowdy.... | Acts 2:38 | Rowdy | 133594 | ||
I'd like to think your statement would be conclusive except for verses like Mark 16:16 and Acts 2:38. No, my friend, I'm afraid the Bible is very clear on the matter. If a person wants to be certain of his salvation, at least as certain as he can be on this side of Judgment Day, then we have to follow ALL of God's Word. God bless. Rowdy |
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36 | Question for Rowdy.... | Acts 2:38 | Rowdy | 133578 | ||
As I noted in another post, Country Gir is my wife and I neglected to change the automatic ID that comes up on the computer, thus my big goof. I apologize for the confusion. I didn't give scriptures as you put it because I've cited all 87 of them in the past. The sum total of those scriptures do make for a rather strong conclusion in most Bible student's minds, including mine. But you seem to have neglected to notice my challenge was never met with scripture either. I'll repeat the challenge for your reference and response if you'd like. Basically, I'm looking for a verse that says that we can be saved by faith only (alone) or belief only (alone), excluding all other features of Christianity. As I'm sure you already know, I mentioned earlier in the thread, the only place in the Bible that mentions this phrase is from James. James 2:24 You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone. In this verse the concept of "faith alone" is cited in a negative context. That is, faith alone won't get you anything with man or God. In this world, if a man says he has faith but then does NOT act like it, we say he's a hypocrite. Same attitude with God and His Son as shown in Rev 3:16. I don't see how the Bible or I could be any more clear about the matter. As I mentioned previously God does expect us to use our intellect and make certain conclusions based on His Word, especially in those few areas when some few verses aren't ideally clear like those verses pointed out by our dear friend Tim. I've also mentioned God isn't going to make this process of digging out His commands any simpler than He already has. It's all in His Book, our Bible. You know the scriptures at least as well as I do, probably a little better. This I do know: God will hold ALL of us accountable to His Words just like His Son said. John 12:44 And Jesus cried out and said, "He who believes in Me, does not believe in Me but in Him who sent Me. 45 "He who sees Me sees the One who sent Me. 46 "I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness. 47 "If anyone hears My sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. 48 "He who rejects Me and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day. 49 "For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak. 50 "I know that His commandment is eternal life; therefore the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me." Is there anything more that could possibly be said that hasn't been said already? Take a look and let me know. God bless. Rowdy |
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37 | What is a repentance from dead works? | Heb 6:1 | Rowdy | 133574 | ||
I just plugged in the words "dead works" into the Search Engine and came up with the following verses. Heb 9:14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? James 2:17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself. James 2:26 For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead. It seems James devotes the whole of Chapter 2 of his letter to this topic. Basically, I gather from his discussion that our works must be genuine and of real value both to our fellow man and our God and Father above. What do you think? Good question and God bless. Rowdy |
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38 | is the seed non-human? | Dan 2:43 | Rowdy | 133570 | ||
Matt 24 is a very controversial chapter as Christ is talking about two different major events. This subject has been discussed to great lengths here on the Forum and just in case you need to know you can insert key words like "end times" in the Quick Search to retrieve those posts for your reading pleasure. Briefly, my belief along with many millions of christians from around the world is that Jesus was talking about the ultimate ending of the world and its disintegration as depicted by Peter. This was what I was referring to with the reference to the thief at night. The second major event as discussed by Jesus in this chapter is the pending doom and destruction of the Israelite nation as God's favored family. I suppose you already know on or about 70 AD, the Roman army completely destroyed the Temple, to the point they even melted the gold from between the column joints supporting that structure. They completely destroyed ALL the records of the Jewish family so that no one to this day can trace his roots back to Moses as required by Jewish custom to prove their nationality. You see, there's no clear scriptures that definitely descibes the rapture or this thousand year reign here on earth. All that is a lot of conjecture on someone's part with a few vauge verses giving very weak support. But in contrast we do know there will always be strife, wars and rumors of wars on this planet as long as it exists. Jesus did tell us that. And as I stated about the ultimate end of the world, no one can possibly know when it will happen. The trumpet could blow the very next second and I'd be as suprised as everyone else. The most important item of learning we all need to know is to be like the 5 wise virgins waiting for the coming of the bridegroom. That much was also clearly communicated from our Lord. Hope this helps and God bless. Rowdy |
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39 | is the seed non-human? | Dan 2:43 | Rowdy | 133552 | ||
You ask/pose some very tough questions, none of which I can answer with any high degree of confidence. I can only notice from history that God is incredibly patient and if the vast majority of "the whole world thinks only wickedness all the time" like it was in Noah's time, it might be close to the end of the world. But I don't think the world is quite that bad and another thing: I'm convinced as long as they are a substantial number of people looking for the Lord's second coming like we have in today's world, IMO I think that's another reason we're NOT close to the end of the world. As I'm sure you know very well, the Lord promised us His second coming would be like a thief in the night and NO ONE expects a thief in the night. So, with these two solid factors to consider, I think the Lord MIGHT let us live/exist for a little while longer. In answer to your other question, I just simply don't have a clue. If a person is alive as a result of being cloned, does He have a soul or not? I'd like to think so. I guess it'll depend on whether or not he has an innate conscience telling him right from wrong. We'll just have to wait and see and then there's the matter in the legal court system. Will the courts grant him full legal citizenship and voting rights and everything else a natural born person expects from this life? Yes, some very tough questions for us and our descendents to deal with. Lord, help us make the decisions you would endorse as being Your Will. God bless us all during this trial. Rowdy |
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40 | Question for Rowdy.... | Acts 2:38 | Rowdy | 133549 | ||
Sorry for the mix up. Country Girl is my wife and I forgot to change the ID which comes up automatically on our computer after she logs on. I thought you might have heard, in many circles most Bible students consider the ark to be the antitype of the church, complete with an ocean of sins. The ark is built to the Lord's specifications vs. the church being built to Jesus' specifications. I agree with you, "the emphasis is still on Faith," an active and obedient Faith, totally submissive to God's Will in contrast to the devil who also believes in God but has always refused to obey God and His Commands. I can only think of one more scripture to compliment your statement of "only 1 door." Eph 4:4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all. 7 But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ's gift. Hope this helps and God bless. Rowdy |
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