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21 | Book, chapter and verse? | Gen 1:26 | Sctt | 45161 | ||
Hi Greg Martin see my answer to Ladyk it might help to clear up a few of the problems you have concerning her quesstion.In Christ Scott | ||||||
22 | is man still being created in God's ima | Gen 1:26 | Sctt | 45160 | ||
Hi ladyk The Gen. account of Adam being in the image of God was a prophesy of Christ. Let me explain were I'm comming from. GEN.1:26 Let us make man in our image , after our likeness. The question has to be asked what does God look like if man is to be made in his image? Jn.4:24 says God is a spirit , now we know that a spirit has no material body so how then are we too be made in his image? The image that man is to have is the reflection of God. When God looks at us he must see himself , just as when we look in a mirror and see ourself. This then is the image of God , I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. When God sees this we are in his image. What then can be said about “ after our likeness”? Likeness and image go together , you cannot have one without the other. Likeness is to have Gods nature , and you cannot have Gods image without his nature. Now I must ask you did the first man Adam have Gods image and likeness? If you believe he did then I must ask how then did he sin? We know that God cannot sin and if Adam had all Gods attributes how did he sin? Therefore we must look for one who was made with the image and likeness of God. The man Jesus Christ is the only one who fits the description , and we now though him will be made also into the image and likeness of God. And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. 1CO.15:45. Therefore we have the first prophecy of the coming of Jesus Christ our Lord “ Let us make man in our image , after our likeness”. GEN.1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Verse 27 shows that God was indeed looking forward to Jesus Christ when he said “ lets make man in our image , after our likeness , for he says he created them male and female and we know that only in Christ Jesus is male and female made one. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. GAL.3:28. Now lets look at male and female separately , you can see a time difference between when they were made. How much time? the bible does not say , but Adam had time to name all the living creatures that God had made before woman was created. This could have been a twenty four hour day , or a month or even years , for God created the living creatures in abundance. Male and female were created in Gods image , but because we can see there is a time difference between when they were created we can see that God was looking ahead when he said male and female created he them. To what time was he looking forward? To the time of the cross of Christ , were male and female will no longer be separated but joined together in Christ. One more thought to show that this is not Adam that God created in his own image , but a looking forward to Jesus Christ that is the fulfillment of the scripture. JN.3:31 , 34-35 He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him. The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. 1CO.15:45-49 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. 46Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. 47The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. 48As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 49And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Thank God that in Christ we can now fulfill the scripture in the image of God created he him ; male and female created he them. Therefore we have the first prophecy of man being made into Gods image through Christ Jesus. So we can see that verses 26 and 27 is a prophecy of Christ and us in Christ. All scripture from KJV. No man before Christ was made in the image of God ,this includes the natural man (Adam) In Christ Scott |
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23 | Cain and Seth's wives descended from who | Genesis | Sctt | 45153 | ||
Hi Meusing let me see if I can condense what I have said earlier: God created the living creature , this is mankind with all the different races. God looks at the living creature that he has made and says lets make man in our image. So God takes one of the races of man that he created and puts him in the garden to train him. This may sound strange at first but God has always called out a people , Abraham out of Haran , Israel out of Egypt , the elect out of this world. In each of these God has called his chosen people to become seperated from the rest of the races of man. Now to become seperated means to not be carnally minded like the rest of the races of mankind , but to be spiritually minded ( my definition). So then God takes this race of man , the Hebrew or tribe of Israel and puts him in the garden to be made into his image ( God calls Israel his firstborn son. EX.4:22 Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn.) though obedience to his commands. Now the reason why sin was passed down was because the law came into effect for it is by the law that we have knowledge of sin. Ro.3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. |
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24 | Cain and Seth's wives descended from who | Genesis | Sctt | 45150 | ||
Hi Kalos the laws were in place and we can see this in the following scriptures. 1) Gen.26:5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. 2)Ex.15:26 And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee. 3)Ex.16:26-28 28And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws? 29See, for that the LORD hath given you the Sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day. 4)Gen.4:7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. 5)Gen.13:13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly. Jude:7 7Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. 6)Gen.39:9 There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? 1)2)These commandments laws and statutes were before the law at Sinai. 3) The law of the Sabbath was before the laws at Sinai, here is one that was repeated is this also redundant? 4)Why was Cain punished for killing Abel if the commandment thou shalt not kill was not in effect? 5)Why was Sodom and Gomorrha punished for fornication,and going after strange flesh if the laws were not in effect? 6Why did Joseph say to sleep with this married woman was a sin against God if the commandment thou shalt not commit adultery was not known to him? There are more but I think you can see were I am coming from , from these few I have quoted. The reason why they may have been written down at Sinai could be so that man would not forget or say they did not know this was one of Gods commandments. Also were they not given twice at Sinai?Was it redundant of God to have to give them twice because man is so slow to learn? |
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25 | Cain and Seth's wives descended from who | Genesis | Sctt | 45149 | ||
Hi Kalos the laws were in place and we can see this in the following scriptures. 1) Gen.26:5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. 2)Ex.15:26 And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee. 3)Ex.16:26-28 28And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws? 29See, for that the LORD hath given you the Sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day. 4)Gen.4:7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. 5)Gen.13:13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly. Jude:7 7Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. 6)Gen.39:9 There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? 1)2)These commandments laws and statutes were before the law at Sinai. 3) The law of the Sabbath was before the laws at Sinai, here is one that was repeated is this also redundant? 4)Why was Cain punished for killing Abel if the commandment thou shalt not kill was not in effect? 5)Why was Sodom and Gomorrha punished for fornication,and going after strange flesh if the laws were not in effect? 6Why did Joseph say to sleep with this married woman was a sin against God if the commandment thou shalt not commit adultery was not known to him? There are more but I think you can see were I am coming from , from these few I have quoted. The reason why they may have been written down at Sinai could be so that man would not forget or say they did not know this was one of Gods commandments. Also were they not given twice at Sinai?Was it redundant of God to have to give them twice because man is so slow to learn? |
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26 | Cain and Seth's wives descended from who | Genesis | Sctt | 45156 | ||
Hi Emmaus let me see if I can explain myself better.. GEN.2:16-17 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 17But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. What is this tree that can bring death to man? Now we know that death comes because of sin RO.5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin. Therefore we can see that it is sin that brings death to man , but what brings us the knowledge of what sin is? The law. RO.3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. Therefore the tree of knowledge of good and evil is the law for by eating of the tree death entered into the world. Now is the knowledge of good and evil ( the law ) sin RO.7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. So then if the eating of the law was not sin what was? Was it not in the breaking of the commandment THOU SHALT NOT, the fruit itself was not the sin , for after God created all the trees He saw that it was good.Gen.1:12 So then why did God command man not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil if there was nothing sinful in the fruit. Is it not because God placed a covering over man in the commandment THOU SHALT NOT , so that man would not see his sinful nature (remember man was created outside of the garden ) because when man sees himself though the eyes of a righteous God his sins overwhelm him and he runs and hides from God , just as Adam hid himself when his eyes became open. Where else do we find the phase THOU SHALT NOT is it not in the commandments that God set down for all men. (Ten commandments ) Therefore the phase THOU SHALT NOT is a commandment of covering , if we listen to it we do not eat of our sinful nature, but we have a foreshadowing of the covering that Jesus Christ gives us. Therefore it was not the eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil that was mans sin but the breaking of the commandment THOU SHALT NOT. Also look at my answer to Kalos.All scrpture fromm KJV. In Christ Scott |
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27 | Cain and Seth's wives descended from who | Genesis | Sctt | 44813 | ||
Hi Emmaus the law was in place it is the tree of knowledge of good and evil. In Christ Scott. | ||||||
28 | time | Acts 1:3 | Sctt | 44811 | ||
Hi Tim Da.8:14 4And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. Reads Unto two thousand and three hundred evening(ereb)and morning(boqer). Gen.1:5 And the evening and the morning were the first day. or the evening(ereb)and the morning(boqer) were the first day.Now if you say that the evening and the morning in Da.8:14 is evenings and mornings you also have to say that the evening and the morning in Gen.1:5 is evenings and mornings because they have the same meanings (ereb) and (boqer).No matter how you look at it the day is much more then 24hrs. As I have already said God showed me that I was putting a limit of time on Him by making a day a thousand years,you to fall into this error by making a day a 24hr day. When we make the day in Gen.1:5 a 24hr day we are making Gods word conform to our idea of what a day is instead of comforming to Gods idea of a day is. Which no man can tell for God dwells without time. Also remember that the sun,moon and stars were not created till the forth day,and that these were given for days ,seasons,years etc.now because these were not given till the forth day this shows us that God did not look at a day as 24hrs or He would have created them on the first day. to me this is a clear statement that God did created the days in His time and not our understanding of time. Therefore if you make it a 24hr day you make God dwell in time and we know that He does not,for He is timeless.I hope youcan see my meaning because as God is timeless we cannot restrict Him to the time it took to create the world. If it took Him 10,000,000yrs to Him it would be but a day.God bless,you brother in the Lord Scott |
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29 | Cain and Seth's wives descended from who | Genesis | Sctt | 44777 | ||
Hi linjmer You asked were did Cains wife come from? Lets look at what the bible says.Gen.2:7 says And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life;and man became a living soul. 1CO.15:45 explains this to be the first man Adam , And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Now what else in verse 7 shows this to be the natural man , it says that he was formed of the dust of the ground. Now the word formed comes from the Hebrew word yatsar meaning to squeeze or mold into shape , it has the same meaning as the word potter in JER.18:6. Therefore you can see that we are to be molded as the potter molds the clay , but molded into what? The image of God. and you cannot obtain His image except though Christ. Lets look back to see when natural man was created.Gen.1:24 It says And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind , now this living creature is the natural man ( mankind with all the different races) for the words living creature and living soul have the same meaning , they come from the same Hebrew words chay (living)and nephesh (creature) , soul. Now the word nephesh has this meaning in the Hebrew , 1 soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion 1a that which breathes, the breathing substance or being, soul, the inner being of man 1b living being 1c living being (with life in the blood) 1d the man himself, self, person or individual 1e seat of the appetites 1f seat of emotions and passions 1g activity of mind 1g1 dubious 1h activity of the will 1h1 dubious 1i activity of the character 1i1 dubious Strong's lexicon Therefore you can see by this that the living creature and the living soul are both man. Now that we know that man was created a living creature and there were more then just one man and one woman created lets look at Cain and his wife. GEN.4:17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. Here we have another question that must be asked , where did Cain’s wife come from ? This is a question most commentaries skip over because of the problem that it creates. And that problem is that Cain’s wife must have been his sister , as there were only Adam and Eve to populate the earth. This then would indicate that incest was okayed by God , but we know from Lev.18:9 And 20:17 that we are not to have sexual relationships with our sisters. Other commentaries state that in the beginning before God gave his laws that incest was okey because there wouldn’t have been any polluted genes. But if God hates incest now he would have hated it then for MAL.3:6 says For I am the LORD, I change not... Now we can do away with this problem of where Cains wife comes from if we look back to what was said before concerning the living creature in GEN.1:24. and that is the living creature is all the different races of mankind. Therefore Cains wife comes form one of these different races of man. This not only takes away the confusion of where Cains wife come from but also takes God of the hook of being the originator ( by implication because he only created Adam and Eve ) of incest.In Christ Scott All scripture taken from the KJV. |
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30 | time | Acts 1:3 | Sctt | 44766 | ||
Hi Tim I'm not sure of your point with Dan. 8:14. Wouldn't 2,300 'evenings and mornings' be 2,300 days? The word days comes from the same word evening and morning in Gen1:5. so it would follow that if evening and morning is one day,then the evening and morning here is 2300years. If you use the word days as evenings and mornings are you not making the evening and morning in Gen.1:5 evenings and mornings as they come from the same Hebrew words evening (ereb)morning(boqer).If you do it would read ...And the evenings and the mornings were the first day.I hope I you can understand what i'm trying to say because sometime I have a hard time expressing my thoughts on paper.In Christ Scott. | ||||||
31 | Was the serpent satan or just a serpent? | Gen 3:1 | Sctt | 44709 | ||
Hi Chynna The serpent is unregenerated man (man without Christ in his life)Heres my reasoning. GEN.3:1-7 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden. Who is this serpent that is so subtil ( crafty , sly , shrewd ) and has the gift of speech? Unregenerated man ( man without Christ in his life ). Who else but man has the gift of speech , and can reason. You may say a parrot can talk but can it reason? Balaams ass spoke but it was God that opened her mouth NU.22:28 And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam. Nowhere is it said that God opened the mouth of the serpent. This serpent has the gift of speech and can still talk and reason today. Now some have said that the serpent lost its gift of speech as part of its punishment , but nowhere in the bible does it say this. Therefore we must conclude that the serpent can still talk today. Who else is this then but Unregenerated man. Now this serpent ( man ) comes and reasons with the woman to deceive her into disobedience to Gods command. Now in order to understand how the woman was deceived we have to look at what God says concerning the tree of Knowledge of good and evil. GEN.2:16-17 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 17But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. What is this tree that can bring death to man? Now we know that death comes because of sin RO.5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin. Therefore we can see that it is sin that brings death to man , but what brings us the knowledge of what sin is? The law. RO.3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. Therefore the tree of knowledge of good and evil is the law for by eating of the tree death entered into the world. Now is the knowledge of good and evil ( the law ) sin RO.7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. So then if the eating of the law was not sin what was? Was it not in the breaking of the commandment THOU SHALT NOT, the fruit itself was not the sin , for after God created all the trees He saw that it was good.Gen.1:12 So then why did God command man not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil if there was nothing sinful in the fruit. Is it not because God placed a covering over man in the commandment THOU SHALT NOT , so that man would not see his sinful nature (remember man was created outside of the garden ) because when man sees himself though the eyes of a righteous God his sins overwhelm him and he runs and hides from God , just as Adam hid himself when his eyes became open. Where else do we find the phase THOU SHALT NOT is it not in the commandments that God set down for all men. (Ten commandments ) Therefore the phase THOU SHALT NOT is a commandment of covering , if we listen to it we do not eat of our sinful nature, but we have a foreshadowing of the covering that Jesus Christ gives us. Therefore it was not the eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil that was mans sin but the breaking of the commandment THOU SHALT NOT.In Christ Scott |
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32 | time | Acts 1:3 | Sctt | 44706 | ||
Hi Tim heres a couple of other translation for concideration.The Jerusalem Bible But there is one thing,my friends, that you must never forget: that with the Lord,a day can mean a thousand years,and a thousand years is like a day. Interlinear Geek and English NT revised Standard Version and Zondervan Parallel NT Greek and English both read But this one thing let not be concealed from you,beloved that one day with the lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years as day one. Now this may not say that a thousand years is a day ,but it does show that God veiws time differant then we do. When I said that a thousand years was a day I was in error as I was making the same mistake I believe that those who say a day is a day and thats all it is ,is making.You cannot put a time limit on the why God looks at a day,it my be 24hrs,in one place,1000yrs in another,or even greater or lesser periods of time. Therefore when you state that a day is 24hrs in Gen. you are putting on God a time table that man relates to,not God. The word day come from the Hebrew word YOWM(stong's lexicon)Now for those that take yowm to be 24hrs in Gen. have to take it to be 24hrs in other books of the bible also.If you don't to my way of thinking you are only tring to make it fit with what you believe not to what the scriptures actualy say.It was because of the study of the word yowm that I seen my error in holding God to a thousand years, one day pricipal,but with God a day can be either longer or shorter then a thousand years,I for one will not hold Him to a thousand years much less a 24hr day. Here are some of the scriptures I came across to change my way of thinking.NU.20:15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time(yowm); and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:here we have a 400yr day. 1Sa.7:2And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjathjearim, that the time(yowm) was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD.Here we have a 20yr day. 1Ki.11:42And the time(yowm) that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years. 40yr day.1Ch.29:2727And the time(yowm) that he reigned over Israel was forty years; seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.7year plus 33year day.There are others I could quote but this shoul be sufficent to show that no one knows how long a day is with God. Now lets look at evening and morning for in Gen.1:5 these two words make a day.You believe it to be 24hrs but read Da.8:14And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days(evening and morning); then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.Here we have a evening and morning that is 2300days.Do these not all show that a day(yowm)is 24hrs,and much more then 24hrs. Only God knows his time table and if we limit him by our understanding of time we do Him a great diservies by making Him conform to us and not us to Him.In Christ Scott |
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33 | Who was John? | John 19:26 | Sctt | 44439 | ||
Hi JdthCstl I believe Jesus was speaking of the apostle John | ||||||
34 | time | Acts 1:3 | Sctt | 44437 | ||
Hi Tim you say Even if the Jews believed this, the issue is what does the Bible teach? First off we can learn alot about what the OT teaches from the Jews , because unto them it was given. It is in the NT that the Jews come to their greatest error,not believeing that Jesus Christ is the Massiah. Now saying this I'm not saying that they didn't have a wrong interpitation of the scriptures sometimes,they were men such as we ourselves are. You also write There are still two problems with this view. 1)That they are a similie. You state that it is a similie because it uses the word AS and you take it to mean LIKE, but whenever it is used with numeral the word signifies ABOUT. hos (5613) usually means “as.” Used with numerals it signifies “about,” e.g., Mark 5:13; 8:9; John 1:40; 6:19; 11:18; Acts 1:15; Rev. 8:1 W.E. Vine, Merrill F. Unger and William White, Vine’s complete expository dictionary of Old and New Testament words [computer file], electronic ed., Logos Library System, (Nashville: Thomas Nelson) 1997, c1996.So if you read 2Pet.3:8 with the word about instead of like this does away with the similie,and back up what the Jews believe conserning time. 2)You say that the other problem is that there are only two verses which even mention this tidbit! This may be so ,but if it was only mentioned once in the bible I would believe it. I have always found that if something is written in the OT you can find it in the NT , and vice versea.For the OT point to the NT and the NT refers to the OT.And when you find it in both the OT and the NT they become witnesses one of another , and no to better witnesses can I find. May the Blessings of God the Father, Christ the son,and the Holy Spirit be upon us all amen.Scott |
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35 | God forgive no matter what | 2 Cor 5:8 | Sctt | 44391 | ||
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36 | time | Acts 1:3 | Sctt | 44263 | ||
Hi Tim you say 2pet.3:8 is a similie but the jews took this as fact not as a similie I let John Gill explain this as had far greater access then I to what the Jews believed. But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing…Here the apostle addresses the saints he writes unto, and for whom he had a tender affection and regard, and for whose welfare he was concerned, lest they should be stumbled at the length of time since the promise of the coming of Christ was given, and which these scoffers object; and therefore he would have them know, observe, and consider this one thing, which might be of great use to them to make their minds easy, and keep up their faith and expectation of the coming of Christ: that one day (is), with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day; referring either to (Psalms 90:4) ; or to a common saying among the Jews,founded on the same passage, (Mynv Pla hb "qh) (lv wmwy) , "the day of the holy blessed God is a thousand years" F26; suggesting, that though between thirty and forty years had elapsed since the promise was given out that Christ would come again, and should even a thousand, or two thousand years more, run off, before the coming of Christ, yet this should be no objection to the accomplishment of the promise; for though such a number of years is very considerable among men, ye not "with God", as the Arabic and Ethiopic versions read, with whom a thousand years, and even eternity itself, is but as a day, (Isaiah 43:13) . Unless this phrase should be thought to refer, as it is by some, to the day of judgment, and be expressive of the duration of that: it is certain that the Jews interpreted days of millenniums, and reckoned millenniums by days, and used this phrase in confirmation of it. Thus they say F1, in the time to come, which is in the last days, on the sixth day, which is the sixth millennium, when the Messiah comes,for the day of the holy blessed God is a thousand years. And a little after, "the Lord hath created a new thing in the earth, a woman shall compass a man". This is in the time of the Messiah which is in the sixth day.And elsewhere F2, the sixth degree is called the sixth day, the day of the holy blessed God is a thousand years. And in that day the King Messiah shall come, and it shall be called the feast of gathering, for the holy blessed God will gather in it the captivity of his people. So they call the sabbath, or seventh day, the seventh millennium, and interpret F3 "the song for the sabbath day", (Psalms 92:1) title, for the seventh millennium, for one day of the holy blessed God is a thousand years. To which agrees the tradition of Elias, which runs thus F4; it is the tradition of the house of Elias, that the world shall be six thousand years, two thousand years void (of the law), two thousand years the law, and two thousand years the days of the Messiah; for they suppose that the six days of the creation were expressive of the six thousand years in which the world will stand; and that the seventh day prefigures the last millennium, in which will be the day of judgment, and the world to come; for the six days of the creation (they say F5) is a sign or intimation of these things: on the sixth day man was created; and on the seventh his work was finished; so the kings of the nations of the world (continue) five millenniums, answering to the five days, in which were created the fowls, and the creeping things of the waters, and other things; and the enjoyment of their kingdom is a little in the sixth, answerable to the creation of the beasts, and living creatures created at this time in the beginning of it; and the kingdom of the house of David is in the sixth millennium, answerable to the creation of man, who knew his Creator, and ruled over them all; and in the end of that millennium will be the day of judgment, answerable to man, who was judged in the end of it; and the seventh is the sabbath, and it is the beginning of the world to come. As to the word beyom: These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day (beyom) that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.… Here day refers to the entire period envisioned in the first six days of creation W.E. Vine, Merrill F. Unger and William White, Vine’s complete expository dictionary of Old and New Testament words (computer file), electronic ed., Logos Library System, (Nashville: Thomas Nelson) 1997, c1996. In Christ Scott |
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37 | Where did Cain's wife come from? | Genesis | Sctt | 44210 | ||
Hi Brethren, for a differant out look on this type Gen 1:1 into were it says Questions/notes , go to were it says two creation stories and read my answer to ray, its in 4 parts. | ||||||
38 | What was infused? | Acts 1:3 | Sctt | 44209 | ||
Hi Nimrod2 Just one more thought for concideration. Look at Alaska they have six months of day and six months of night.So you could say that their day was six months long. Just a thought, God bless. P.S. thanks for the help on this thread I realy had no idea it was such a hot topic. One thing I think everyone will agree on is that God in His own time and after His own fashion will reveal the truth of this matter to us all. In Christ Scott | ||||||
39 | What do you base this on? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sctt | 44205 | ||
Joe my analysis is not flawed , you take 2 verses and say this is talking about Satan , but the rest is talking about a man. You break up the flow of the scriptures to make them fit to you own interpitation of what they say. You also say go with what historically has been held by the church. read what Adam Clarke , Jamieson,Fausset,Brown and John Calvin have to say about these verses. You may be suprised just what the historical church held.In Christ Scott |
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40 | What was infused? | Acts 1:3 | Sctt | 44122 | ||
Hi Nimrod2 very well said.IN Christ Scott | ||||||
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