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21 | "lost" or "unbeliever" | Luke 5:31 | flinkywood | 218730 | ||
I have lifelong friends who are "lost", so I pray for them and their children. Since they knew me when I was lost and acting it, I keep it subtle, which means I try more to live, and less to preach, the Gospel. When they have questions, I respond in ways specific to them. I would certainly invite them to church, because you never know--after all, it happened to a wretch like me. | ||||||
22 | Should "lost" people come to church? | Luke 5:31 | flinkywood | 218681 | ||
How do you know who's lost so as not to invite them? | ||||||
23 | scripture, key words for tree of life | Gen 2:1 | flinkywood | 218632 | ||
And typically these inquiries vanish with the answer. | ||||||
24 | scripture, key words for tree of life | Gen 2:1 | flinkywood | 218626 | ||
Tree of life: Signifies everlasting life and communion with Christ. We were banned from this tree at the Fall in Eden. Christ restores our access to this tree. Literal references: Gen 2.1; 3.22; 3.24; 3.18; Pro 3:18; 11.30; 13.12; 15.14; Rev 2.7; 22.2, 14; 19. Also look at Psalm 1, which is a kind of gateway to the Psalms and speaks beautifully about your subject. Read it in the KJV. Also, why are you at wit’s end? Do you have a concordance? Have you heard of E-Sword? |
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25 | Why did Eve react like that? | Bible general Archive 4 | flinkywood | 218526 | ||
You may be referring to Doc's response, not mine. | ||||||
26 | Why did Eve react like that? | Bible general Archive 4 | flinkywood | 218525 | ||
Doc, I'm referring to a Calvary Bible Church pastor, not to a priest. Priests tend to know little about the bible. And I don't mean to be provocative. I mean to say that conjecture or speculation can either spur fruitful inquiry or harden untenable assumptions. Shouldn't we investigate the history, literature and lifeways of OT and NT Israel in order to understand and interpret scripture? |
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27 | Why did Eve react like that? | Bible general Archive 4 | flinkywood | 218517 | ||
Doc, There are many "problem verses" (as my pastor once phrased it) in the bible that the Evangelists deliberately included w/o any apparent interpretive key or associated scripture. Take John 20:23, for ex: And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained." (Joh 20:22-23 NKJV) Jesus appears to give these men divine authority to forgive or retain sins, heretofore the prerogative of God alone. If we are constrained by the rule of "explicity", as you state it, we are left with 2 options: either John the Apostle deliberately left us conjecture-less, or there existed a tradition, perhaps lost, perhaps not, with which his readers were familar but of which we're unaware. It seems that we must conjecture in order to discover what did provide the interpretive framework for this verse. In other words, it appears that in some cases the NT presupposes a contemporary knowledge, tradition or practice within the early church, a background to render intelligible certain verses like the above; otherwise, and according to your formulation, wouldn't John be violating Sola Scriptura by corraling us into conjecture rather than clarity? |
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28 | ... | Bible general Archive 4 | flinkywood | 218492 | ||
It's common-sense: If you don't want fleas, keep out of fleabags. | ||||||
29 | ... | Bible general Archive 4 | flinkywood | 218490 | ||
I've liked some Mormons I've met, but I won't go to temple with them. | ||||||
30 | ... | Bible general Archive 4 | flinkywood | 218488 | ||
Azure, I advise against stip clubbing. | ||||||
31 | ... | Bible general Archive 4 | flinkywood | 218484 | ||
Humility, If you don't like strip clubs, don't go. If these "friends" really cared for you they'd "chill" with you. Here's permission from the Man himself: "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you." (Mat 7:6 KJVA) |
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32 | What does He mean? | Luke 5:23 | flinkywood | 218436 | ||
I've read the exchanges below. Great stuff. It's what SBF is for. The Temple and it's priests were the OT channels of forgiveness. Jesus pointedly upends this by offering himself as this channel under his divine authority. His NT mission, the fulfillment of God's OT promise, was the forgiveness of sins: "Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the LORD. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more." (Jer 31:31-34 ESV) In addition, it seems that because disease was associated with sin, Jesus used this opportunity, this miracle, to link his power to heal the body with his divine power to heal the soul. The Pharisees would have seen this as omninous blasphemy. These verses in conjunction with, "When the crowds saw it, they were afraid, and they glorified God, who had given such authority to men." (Mat 9:8 ESV) are suitable to deploy against Jehovah's witnesses, with the leading question, "Can a man forgive sins?" |
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33 | What are the thoughts that were revealed | Luke 2:35 | flinkywood | 218331 | ||
Makarios has a good answer. The thoughts of many hearts were revealed that day (the Roman Centurion’s declaration, “Truly this was the son of God,” for example, expresses beutifully his own heart’s conversion), and are still revealed up to this very day. I don’t think Simeon’s oracle had its fulfillment on Calvary. The world continues to encounter Christ daily “so that,” like it or not, “the thoughts from many hearts may be revealed.” |
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34 | Animals in heaven? | 2 Tim 2:15 | flinkywood | 218290 | ||
More encouragement. | ||||||
35 | Animals in heaven? | 2 Tim 2:15 | flinkywood | 218282 | ||
I hope to be with my actual dog in heaven any way he comes, afire or otherwise. I also hope he'll be off-leash. | ||||||
36 | Animals in heaven? | 2 Tim 2:15 | flinkywood | 218280 | ||
No mention in scripture, but I'm encouraged by Elijah's assumption into heaven on a "flaming chariot with flaming horses" (2 Kgs 2:11-12). Here's C.S. Lewis on the question: "It seems to me possible that certain animals may have an immortality, not in themselves, but in the immortality of their masters" ("The Problem of Pain", ch. 9). |
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37 | need verse Godfathersonholyghost | 2 Cor 13:14 | flinkywood | 218103 | ||
"Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit," (Mat 28:19) Notice that Jesus says "in the name of...", as opposed to "in the 'names' of..." |
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38 | The Suffering of the Church | Acts 8:2 | flinkywood | 217616 | ||
Mike, In the “Faith Dome”, some years back, I heard Pastor Fred Price introduce a sermon on the Death of Stephen with, "Christians aren't supposed to suffer," claiming Stephen's beatific vision in support. I’ve also heard Price say that if your disease isn’t getting cured, your faith is weak, which lays too much responsibility on a person's failings and too little emphasis on God's grace. Though suffering results from our first parents’ rejection of God’s covenant love, suffering isn’t characterized as evil or Satanic in the bible. In the following verse, Paul writes to the Colossians that he has actually discovered joy through suffering: Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church, (Col 1:24 ESV) Would Paul be rejoicing if suffering were evil? Christians don’t rejoice in evil. Suffering has enabled Paul to see it’s salvific meaning, it’s goodness, and it’s this insight he wishes others to see: …If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort… for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort. (2Co 1:3-7). Paul even asserts that by avoiding suffering we avoid sharing in Christ’s eternal glory: The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs--heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him. (Rom 8:16-17). In short, to the degree that we suffer with Christ we share in his eternal glory. What was good enough for Him must be good enough for us: Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. (Heb 5:8) Suffering, as elucidated in the above verses, has salvific meaning, inherent goodness, insofar as it brings us closer to God. |
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39 | Walk as He walked | 1 John 2:3 | flinkywood | 216895 | ||
Thanks, Tim, now get to work... | ||||||
40 | Walk as He walked | 1 John 2:3 | flinkywood | 216891 | ||
Tim, "If you love me, you will keep my commandments,” (John 14:15) implies that keeping—doing--His commandments is required to love Jesus. Since Jesus is the Law, and since apart from Him we can do nothing (John 15:5) doing the Law flows from loving Christ in return; therefore not doing the Law--breaking any of the 10 commandments--is to fail to love Christ (1 John 2:4; 4:20). This might sound like a prescription for “doing” over “loving”, for “works-righteousness;” but the act of keeping a commandment--the moral law--strengthens our faith. Action is to faith what exercise is to the body: what we don’t use (our loving faith) we can lose. 2 quotations say it better: “People often think of Christian morality as a kind of bargain in which God says, ‘If you keep a lot of rules I'll reward you, and if you don't I'll do the other thing.’ …I would much rather say that every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature: either into a creature that is in harmony with God, and with other creatures, and with itself, or else into one that is in a state of war and hatred with God, and with its fellow-creatures, and with itself.” C.S. Lewis “Mere Christianity “ "If a certain character of mind, a certain state of the heart and affections, be necessary for entering heaven, our actions will avail for our salvation, chiefly as they tend to produce or evidence this frame of mind. Good works (as they are called) are required, not as if they had anything of merit in them, not as if they could of themselves turn away God's anger for our sins, or purchase heaven for us, but because they are the means, under God's grace, of strengthening and showing forth that holy principle which God implants in the heart, and without which (as the text tells us) we cannot see Him. The more numerous are our acts of charity, self-denial, and forbearance, of course the more will our minds be schooled into a charitable, self-denying, and forbearing temper. The more frequent are our prayers, the more humble, patient, and religious are our daily deeds, this communion with God, these holy works, will be the means of making our hearts holy, and of preparing us for the future presence of God. Outward acts, done on principle, create inward habits. I repeat, the separate acts of obedience to the will of God, good works as they are called, are of service to us, as gradually severing us from this world of sense, and impressing our hearts with a heavenly character." J.H. Newman "Holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord." Hebrews 7:14. |
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