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21 | "All things belong to you" means what? | 1 Cor 3:21 | Sir Pent | 127772 | ||
In this verse and the next, Paul says that "all things belong to you". He seems to be refering to the Corinthian church. What does he mean by all things belong to the Corinthian church? | ||||||
22 | What can we learn from the Pentecostals? | 1 Cor 3:22 | Sir Pent | 127771 | ||
Correction (reference to website)..................................... I just came across this old thread and wanted to make a correction due to some research that I did. According to the "United Pentecostal Church's" official website, "The UPCI emerged out of the Pentecostal movement that began in Topeka, Kansas in 1901. It traces its organizational roots to October 1916, when a large group of ministers withdrew from the Assemblies of God over the doctrinal issues of the oneness of God and water baptism in the name of Jesus Christ." This information came from the following website "http://www.upci.org/about/index.asp#history" |
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23 | How do we know we're in the end times? | Is 1:1 | Sir Pent | 127667 | ||
Request for clarification............................................. Hello Fatherof4, I had not heard of Preterism before, but I checked out the site you recommended as well as several others. Do you consider yourself a full-preterist or a partial-preterist? If you believe that Jesus "second" coming happened in the first century, then do you believe that he will never come back again, or will there be a "third coming"? |
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24 | The Doctrines Please? | Bible general Archive 2 | Sir Pent | 127548 | ||
Personal Note.......................................................... Hi EdB, Thanks for your clarification. I gladly accept your apology and am relieved to discover that I was misunderstanding your post to be directed towards me. I was overly sensitive. I have been here off and on for almost 3 years now, and have posted over 600 times. Yet I still feel that there are those on the forum who still view me as an outsider and have less grace with my posts than is given to others here. Perhaps I am again misunderstanding what others write, but that feeling probably impacts my sensitivity here. May we both be patient with each other as we continue to study God's word and try to apply it correctly to our lives :) |
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25 | The Doctrines Please? | Bible general Archive 2 | Sir Pent | 127525 | ||
Duplicate Post....................................................... Hi EdB, I accidentally responded to your other posting of this which can be found below. |
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26 | The Doctrines Please? | Bible general Archive 2 | Sir Pent | 127524 | ||
Personal note.......................................................... Hi EdB, It is good to talk with you again as well, even if we are having a bit of a misunderstanding at present. Your post (127443) that was somewhat hurtful to me was addressed specifically to me. In that post you said you wondered why someone who was dissatisfied with the forum would keep coming back. Since the post was addressed to me and since I have just recently "come back" to the forum after being away for a few months, I naturally thought you were referring to myself. Then you made the comment that people should either be part of the solution or get out of the way. Once again, since the post was addressed to me and since the earlier comments seemed to be directed at me, I naturally thought that you were saying that I was not being helpful and so should not continue participating here. Then in your last post you asked why I would claim to be hurt when there wasn't anything to hurt me. This seems to question my honesty, as if I would claim to be hurt when I wasn't really. I hope that you can see that your responses to me thus far since my return could easily be understood to be attacks on me personally and therefore hurtful. I hope that this is all simply a misunderstanding and that you did not intend your statements to be read in the way that they came across, and would appreciate some clarification. |
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27 | The Doctrines Please? | Bible general Archive 2 | Sir Pent | 127521 | ||
Personal note......................................................... Hi Hank, It's good to talk with you again, and I'm glad that you're keeping cool in Arkansas. I recognize that you have been with the forum since almost the very beginning (5 months longer than myself). I understand that you don't think that there are "unwritten rules" here on the forum. However as you mentioned, infinite discussion is not permitted. If a thread goes on for too long, the participants are asked to stop posting to it. That rule is not written anywhere that I know of, yet it does happen. You also mentioned that viewpoints are allowed as long as they do not "foster divisiveness, push denominational biases, result in ad hominem insults, deny the authority of Scripture or the deity of Christ, denigrate orthodox Christianity, etc." These rules are stated on the forum, which is good, however they are applied inconsistently. For instance, the subject of Predestination and Free Will is a denominationally biased subject that can lead to divisiveness and these threads are always restricted. But the necessity of Baptism for salvation is also a denominationally biased subject that can lead to divisiveness, yet these threads are often not restricted on this forum. This indicates that there are unwritten rules of applying the general stated rules. I appreciate your suggestion to bring my "organizational" suggestions to the Lockman Foundation's attention. However, I don't think that they have much interest in my ideas. I made many suggestions almost 3 years ago, none of which have been implemented. These included deleting duplicate posts, combining similar posts, limiting initial responses to questions, staying on topic, requiring a consensus statement for each thread, allowing symbols, adding a spell checker, adding a chat room, and labeling posts with headings. For reference please see post #'s 17840, 17951, 18277, 18278. Thanks again for all your dedication to this forum and the time and effort that you put into it. You won't know until heaven how many people's lives have been helped by your input here. |
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28 | The Doctrines Please? | Bible general Archive 2 | Sir Pent | 127450 | ||
Personal note …………………………………………………… Hello again EdB, I must admit that I am somewhat hurt by your response to my post. A person asked a question about what topics to avoid talking about in order to not offend the unwritten rules of this forum. I simply tried to answer that question, since I’ve been here long enough to know what those unwritten rules are. Then you question why I am even here. I understand that this is a Bible Study Forum. However, in studying the Bible people are naturally going to disagree at times as to what it means and how they should apply it. Therefore this forum will naturally have discussions (or debates) to try to come to understanding. As for why I am here and keep coming back, I think that there are two main reasons. The first is that I really like the people here (including you). I have a lot of respect for the core members of this forum (Tim Moran, Makarios, Charis, Emmaus, Kalos, Searcher, EdB, Hank, etc.) and appreciate reading their thoughts on what the scriptures mean. There are times that I have questions about certain passages or ideas, and I believe that there is a lot of wisdom in this group of people. I also appreciate their ability to approach these issues rationally. And on occasion there is even a little side conversation that can be enjoyable as well. The second reason that I keep coming back is because I see so much potential for this forum. I keep checking back to see how much of that potential is being realized. Once again, I think that the people are here to make this one of the best resources on the entire Internet. However, there are some organizational problems that can be frustrating (limited search abilities, limited ability to follow threads due to lack of headings by most users, limited ability to talk about certain subjects that are considered off-limits, etc.) But overall, I find that the good outweighs the bad and makes this forum a place that I consider to be worth my time to visit and contribute to at times. As for your choice, I would like to be part of the solution :) |
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29 | The Doctrines Please? | Bible general Archive 2 | Sir Pent | 127440 | ||
Hello Ancient, You have asked a very good question. This forum does have specific doctrines that fall into three (at least) categories. However, most of these are not actually listed anywhere, so a new person would not know what they were until an old forum member let them know. The first group would be doctrines that are supported so strongly that they are not allowed to be debated at all. These would include the fundamental beliefs such as those summarized in the Apostle's Creed. The most common instances of this on the forum are discussions about whether Jesus was really God, or whether the Bible is true (inerrant, etc.). People who deny these sorts of things are usually banned from the forum. The second group would be doctrines that are allowed to be debated, but not on the homepage (thus the threads are restricted). The most common discussions in this category are on the Calvinism / Armenianism debate, the Pacifism debate, or discussions criticising the forum itself. These threads get blocked from appearing but do not get users banned (unless the user exclusively writes about topics of this sort). The third group would be doctrines that are allowed to be debated publicly on the homepage. These would include about everything else. For instance, people often debate what is going to happen in the end times, whether Baptism is a requirement for salvation, what is the Christian approach to divorce and remarriage, whether there is an unforgivable sin, which Bible version is the best, and many other things. All of these are controversial, but seem to be allowed to be debated here without penalty. I hope that this is helpful in understanding the forum better, and will help you to decide what topics to participate in discussing here. |
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30 | The culture war | Luke 17:3 | Sir Pent | 121073 | ||
Personal Note......................................................... Hello again Pete2, I am not offended by your refusal to read the thread 22206. However, I am a bit surprised. You seem like a person who enjoys thinking through ideas for yourself by getting all the relevant information and then making up your own mind. If this is true, then I would have thought that you would want to read this other related thread so that you could have additional information to make your decision. But perhaps your statement that "I feel fine where I am at" means that you have decided to lock-in your current beliefs and refuse to continue to re-evaluate your ideas in a search for truth. As for your experience with bullies growing up, I also dealt with bullies as a youth. Perhaps you would type the number 121072 into the "Quick Search" box at the top right corner of the screen to read my story. |
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31 | The fruitlessness of fighting | 1 Sam 17:47 | Sir Pent | 121072 | ||
The fruitlessness of fighting......................................... I would like to share my personal experience with fighting during my youth and how I learned that this verse gives a better solution. When I was in 1st grade, I was on the playground one day, and Jason, the biggest kid in the class and I got into a fight. He hit me once, which knocked me down and skinned my knee. That ended the fight with him as the "winner". When I was in 2nd grade, I had a crush on a little girl in my class. One day a 6th grade kid took her ball and kicked it on the roof of the school. I challenged him to a fight, hit him once, and he ran away. That ended the fight with me as the "winner". When I was in 3rd grade, there was a classmate named Matt, who was much smaller than me, but who picked on me all the time. So one day, I hit him, knocking him down and tearing his jacket. I was caught fighting for the first time and punished by the school principal. When I was in 4th grade, two of my friends named Peter and David were fighting with each other. I tried to break it up, but ended up in the middle when the teacher walked in. We were all sent to the school principal and punished. When I was in 5th grade, there was a bully named Shane, who picked on everyone in the class. One day I decided to teach him a lesson. So when we were on the bus, I challenged him to a fight and hit him several times. I was again sent to the principal to be punished. When I was in 6th grade, there was a kid named Andrew, who tapped me on the shoulder during lunch. When I turned around, he hit me on the jaw and then took off before I could respond. So I finished my lunch and waited outside the door for him to come through. When he did, I hit him on the jaw and took off before he could respond. Later in the day, he found me in the hallway and hit me in the jaw again and took off before I could respond. Then I waited by his locker and hit him in the jaw again and took off before he could respond. After all of this, I was sitting in math class and thinking about my day up to that point. I imagined this pattern continuing for the rest of the day, and then for the rest of my life. Suddenly it occurred to me that violence is a never ending cycle. Fighting didn't really solve anything, it just caused a lot of pain in the jaw. So after class I talked with a couple of his friends in the bathroom and told them that I had decided to not fight anymore. I explained how I had realized that it wasn't going to resolve anything and would be stupid to continue. They were surprised of course, but had to admit that it made sense. Therefore, that little feud ended there, and although I had 10 more years of school, that was my last fight. Fear didn't stop my fighting after getting beat up in the 1st grade. Punishment didn't stop my fighting after getting caught in the 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades. But God stopped me by using that still, small voice inside to show me His perspective on fighting. God does not want us to depend on the sword to deliver us from our problems. The battle is the Lord's and He wants us to come to Him for the answers. |
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32 | Background info on Bible translations | Bible general Archive 2 | Sir Pent | 121056 | ||
Referral to another thread............................................ Welcome to the forum Nxdxgirl21, In addition to EdB's great answer, I would just like to mention that you can trust any major translation to be the accurate Word of God. By major translation, I mean ones like NASB, NIV, NKJV, and KJV. They were all done by a large group of people who had committed their lives to the study of the languages and ideas of the Bible, and the product of their work has been validated over a period of many years by the Christian church as a whole. For more information on how much you can trust the modern translations of the Bible, type the number 15780 into the "Quick Search" box at the top right corner of the screen. |
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33 | Simple analogy to understand the Trinity | 2 Cor 13:14 | Sir Pent | 120987 | ||
Science Lesson....................................................... Hi Rowdy, If you are thinking of Oxygen as a gas and that Ice has little bubbles of gas trapped inside making it less dense, that is not correct. The lower density of ice relative to liquid water is actually due to hydrogen bonds. As the water gets cold enough, the molecules slow down enough that these hydrogen bonds cease to be broken creating a latice structure that spaces the molecules farther apart than they normally are. This is what causes the density to decrease. However, as the Hydrogen atoms create their lattice structure, they do indeed surround the Oxygen atoms. So in a way you are correct after all. If you would like more information, a relatively simple explanation can be found at http://wow.nrri.umn.edu/wow/student/water/unique.html |
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34 | God's name or a title? | John 1:1 | Sir Pent | 120981 | ||
Disagreement.......................................................... Hi BStudent, There is too much in your last post to reply to all of it individually. But I will summarize by saying that your interpretation of the Bible goes against what is widely considered a correct Christian understanding of it. Your background in the Jehovah's Witness has significantly biased your interpretation, and is the reason for the mental gymnastics used to explain why these verses don't mean what they say they mean. I will point out the same thing that I have told others on this subject. God sent the Bible to be His message to mankind. He has protected it's accuracy through the years, copies, and translations. He would not have allowed it to be corrupted to the extent that people would have been decieved into thinking Jesus was God. If the Bible says that "the Word (Jesus) was God" then that is exactly what God meant. Attempting to explain it away by looking at Greek is only trying to confuse people. Put your trust in your Bible, not in your brain, or in the brains of the Jehovah's Witness teachers who are leading you into error. |
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35 | The culture war | Luke 17:3 | Sir Pent | 120980 | ||
A different perspective.............................................. Hi Pete2, You seem to think that Christians cannot win the culture war due to their desire to "turn the other cheek". You seem to think that being kind cannot stop evil. However, there are many examples in history where just the opposite is true. For instance, there is the story of Telemechus the monk. His peaceful protest of the gladiator contests in ancient Rome stopped the killing there forever. This is recorded in the writings of Theodoret (http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/npnf203/htm/iv.viii.v.xxv.htm) I can relate to your personal experience of being raised in a Christian home but coming to a point of having to start over with a clean slate (tabula rasa) to determine what you believe. Perhaps you would be interested in reading how I started from scratch and found Christianity to be the only logical choice. Just type the number 22206 into the "Quick Search" box at the top right corner of the screen. |
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36 | Simple analogy to understand the Trinity | 2 Cor 13:14 | Sir Pent | 120968 | ||
Personal Note......................................................... Hi Mary01, Thanks for your response and do not be concerned with offending me. I always enjoy having a good logical exploration of a subject with someone. If I understand correctly, you agree that the Father is God, but you disagree that Jesus and the Holy Spirit are God. Let's examine Jesus first. You said that you interpret John 1:1 differently and in such a way that it does not say that "the Word (Jesus) was God", as it clearly appears to. Your explanation of this was based on the original greek, which Tim Moran (who is much more an expert in that area than I) has already responded. However, let me also respond by saying that God would not allow His message to all mankind to be so corrupted that He would allow that significant an error in translation. For more information on my thoughts along these lines type the number 15780 into the "Quick Search" box at the top right corner of the screen. You also said that you interpret differently Jesus statement in John 10:30 that "I (Jesus) and the Father are one". You see this as just saying they are united in mind (ie they think alike). However if you want to look at the Greek, there is a word used throughout the New Testament that means being united in one mind. It is "homothumadon", and is used 11 times. If this is what Jesus meant, then logically He would have used that word, but He didn't. And if you are like me and are convinced that God protects the accuracy of His message to mankind, then you would also be convinced that God would not allow an error in translation like this that would lead people to believe that Jesus was God. I hope that you will chew on some of this for a while, and I look forward to hearing your response. |
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37 | Simple analogy to understand the Trinity | 2 Cor 13:14 | Sir Pent | 120964 | ||
Personal Note......................................................... Hi Rowdy, Your mention of water being lighter (less dense) as a solid than a liquid reminded me of a post that I wrote a long time ago on this forum. If you're interested, just type the number 22371 into the "Quick Search" box at the top right corner of the screen. |
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38 | The culture war | Luke 17:3 | Sir Pent | 120960 | ||
A different perspective............................................. Hi Pete2, I agree with you that there are more battles in the "culture war" than there are Christians willing to fight them. This is unfortunate but it does not mean that "Christians are a no show" as you previously stated. Your statements make me curious though. How can you see so clearly that Jesus is the only answer for society as a whole, yet you are unable to see that Jesus is the only answer for yourself? |
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39 | Cristians are a no show in Culture War | Luke 17:3 | Sir Pent | 120956 | ||
Referral to another thread............................................ Hi Mommapbs, You asked where were Christians during Roe vs. Wade? Many of them were praying for Roe, and their prayers were answered. She has now become a Christian and actively supports the unborn. You asked where were Christians when school prayer was banned? Many of them were starting something called "See you at the pole", which now has thousands of students praying around their school flagpoles across America. You asked where were Christians while evolution was being taught? Many Christians have put much time and effort into discovering how science supports the scriptural account of creation. See ICR.org for more information. You asked where were Christians when the Ten Commandments were removed? Many of them have put signs in their yards to support the return of the Ten Commandments, and some such as Justice Roy Moore have put their career on the line for that cause. You asked where are Christians now that "In God We Trust" is endangered? Many of them have started groups such as the CLA (www.christianlaw.org) and the ACLJ (www.aclj.org) to defend against these legal threats. You asked where are Christians now that "sanctity of life" is endangered? Many of them started an organization called "Right to Life" to fight this culture war. Even their enemies admit that they are winning. (http://www.miplannedparenthood.org/rtl.htm) You asked where were Christians when the US Post Office released an Islamic stamp? Many of them are protesting and educating people about this issue (http://www.freecongress.org/commentaries/2002/021121pw.asp) While I agree with you that more could be done, one cannot deny that there are Christians who are truly engaging in the "culture war". I hope that this message is an encouragement to you Mommapbs. I hope you can see that the cup is half-full :) |
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40 | HOW DOES GOD VIEW AN ADULTERESS WOMAN WH | John 8:11 | Sir Pent | 120919 | ||
Referral to another thread............................................ Hi Ucmenew, You seem to be curious about how to balance "forgiveness" and "reaping what we sow". Please type the number 120487 into the "Quick Search" box at the top right corner of the screen. This will take you to a post that I wrote dealing with the two different kinds of consequences of sin. |
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