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21 | replies from persons or "bots"? | 1 Cor 15:10 | waldo700 | 28127 | ||
Hank, Does this also mean that we are a house which will not stand? -- waldo |
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22 | What is the Bible for? | 2 Timothy | waldo700 | 19657 | ||
Sounds good to me. My only question would be about the way we are to become right with God. Would it be by following His instruction or by the imputed righteousness of Christ applied to us? I bring this up because of your statement: "instruction in righteousness is now given in the example of Jesus' life, in the gospels and epistles, and in God's law written upon our hearts" I hope you do not mean to say that we are made right with God by the exercise of our own righteousness, do you? Other than that, I don't see anything offensive about your statement at all. In fact, I found it to be a very good statement and quite a refreshing, clear perspective on the Bible! -- waldo garcia www.choosecalvinism.org |
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23 | Do you think 2 Tim. 3:5 is nations too? | 2 Tim 3:5 | waldo700 | 24619 | ||
I think we should consider what Paul was thinking when he wrote these words. It is hard to see that he would have had nations in mind. True, that if you get enough sinners together, they will make up a nation and so ultimately, cumulatively, and collectively this list of sins could characterize a nation. That is just an interesting way to look at it, but there does not seem to be anything in the text (that I can see) indicating that Paul was thinking of anything other than individuals. If that is so, we cannot really apply this verse and say we ought to turn away from this nation or that nation. We need to start by thinking of the church and turning from those individuals who would be living in sin but professing to be Christians. We should also protect the church from those outside of the church and especially from those who seek to destroy it explicitly. But that would be the application of some other verse perhaps, not this one. waldo garcia |
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24 | Do you think 2 Tim. 3:5 is nations too? | 2 Tim 3:5 | waldo700 | 24738 | ||
I'm not sure I see your point in relation to the original question or my response. You seem to be very concerned about how we respond "as a nation" to these issues. But I do not see how this text demonstrates that Paul had anything other in mind than the sin of individuals. I also do not see the Bible anywhere being terribly concerned with the sins of a collective nation as a whole; except that Israel symbolically represents Christ and the pagan nations symbolicaly represent Satan. Thus, the Bible, in how it addresses nations, is actually preaching the gospel to us, not speaking of social reform. "If my people will turn from their wicked ways..." (1 Chronicles 7:14) is a picture of the first Adam -- sinful Israel -- being urged toward righteousness -- the righteousness which Christ lived for us as the second Adam. All though you are speaking about our sins as a nation, I get the sense that your main point is that the USA is doing something wrong by destroying terrorists worldwide, as if this were somehow evil. But the government is given to us, graciously by God, to act as a restraint on evil. See these verses: Rom 13:4b But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it [the government, the governing authorities, v. 1] does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil. Rom 13:5 Therefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of wrath, but also for conscience' sake. Fearing the commands of God, and following our conscience, we should respectfully submit and even be supportive when our government brandishes the sword against those who commit evil. This is a godly -- and biblical -- attitude. |
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25 | Rev 8:8 what is the meaning? | Revelation | waldo700 | 20406 | ||
Rev. 8:8 "The second angel sounded, and something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea; and a third of the sea became blood," It means that there was an angel, (specifically the second of the angels in this section), and he blew his trumpet. Then, "something" -- it wasn't a great mountain burning with fire, but it was very similar to one -- was thrown into the sea. (Who through it into the sea is not clear, at least from the immediate context). Also, third of the sea became blood. This could mean all of the sea in the world or a particular sea; but the point is that a third, a significant portion of it, turned into blood. Moses also turned seas and rivers into blood in Exodus and that was a sign of judgment to come. It could be reasonable to assume that here, too, the sea becoming blood was a sign of impending judgment. This would be borne out by the context. In sum, this is just one of the many incidents described in Revelation, which foretell the judgment which God is going to exercise against unbelieving mankind in payment for their transgressions of his law and their sinful hearts. |
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26 | ___-trib satisfactory? | Revelation | waldo700 | 20407 | ||
I do not believe Revelation is trying to give us "chronology" of endtime events. After all, it is not a book of history -- it is prophecy. And prophecy is often told in poetic form, using repetition, allegory, symbolism and other literary devices. Even though the events described in prophecy are real historical events which will in actuality occur (or have already occurred in some cases), the events are told in a specific genre of writing -- poetic and apocolyptic. While it is always about true events, it is not always meant to be a historical accounting of how those events will be played out. This is obvious when you just take a look at double fulfillments from the Old Testament and the fact that OT prophecies are not at all given in chronological order but rather topical order. For these reasons, I would say it is like chasing one's tail to study "rapture chronology." The point of the prophecies is not to give us a historical timetable of precisely what will happen when. The point of prophecy is to declare the judgments which God will execute against people for violating His laws and also how God will bring about the coming of Christ, (both His first and second comings), in order to save people from God's judgments against them for their sins. The main point is that looking for chronologies is to entirely miss the context of prophetic passages. We need to ask, "What is the GENRE of the book which I'm reading?" With prophetic books, we are not reading historical narratives, we are reading prophetic, judgmental pronouncements told in non-chronological, but topical order, using the literary devices of apocalyptic writing and poetry. Regards, waldo garcia www.choosecalvinism.org |
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27 | ___-trib satisfactory? | Revelation | waldo700 | 20429 | ||
I would indeed agree with you concerning the fact that there IS a chronology to something like the seven trumpets, (and probably other prophetic passages as well). It's just that -- and perhaps you will agree with this -- I think the overall point of all such passages is not the chronology per se, or to give us an order of events to occur; but rather, the overall point is that of God's judgment applied to the reprobate and His grace applied to the elect in increasing measure until the glorious appearance of the Lord Jesus. Especially in Revelation, the point is that the "re-creation" mirrors the creation of Gen. 1. Seven days (Gen 1) ends with seven scrolls, seven trumpets and seven bowls. In Gen. 1, the 7th day is the day of rest; and in Revelation, the seventh item is that which unfolds into the next higher event, (that being the next grouping of seven). The last event, the culmination of all previous "types" of the Sabbath is the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus. In sum, in this sense there are definitely "chronologies" or "chronological orders" to things in prophecy. But their purpose is not to give us a roadmap across the ages of history; their purpose is to give us a sense of increasing wonder at the holy and climactic and ultimate revelation of the appearance of Christ. This revelation is not merely repeated in different ways for emphasis, but it is repeated in different ways which grow in intensity with each repetition. Christ's appearance is to be to us like the swelling of the greatest of sunrises. (Son-rises). Regards, waldo garcia www.choosecalvinism.org |
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28 | what about the K J V | Rev 3:10 | waldo700 | 24957 | ||
Whatever happened to using a good literal translation as a GUIDE to refer back to the original Greek and Hebrew? A translation is only the English version of what the original authors originally wrote as they were originally moved by the Holy Spirit. If someone wants to really study a topic, shouldn't they be referring back to the original languages? regards, waldo garcia |
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