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Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Author: winged1 Ordered by Verse |
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21 | Is this Mary the sister of Lazarus | Luke 7:37 | winged1 | 134292 | ||
Please see ID # 131482 John 12:1-8 has the account of Mary annointing Jesus' feet. Hope this helps Jo |
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22 | What's John 14:6 in original language? | John 14:6 | winged1 | 132526 | ||
I have a friend who believes many things that Christians believe. However, he does not believe the Bible to be authoritative or infallible. He does not trust history's ability to hand us down an accurate Bible after so many translations. During our discussions, I mentioned John 14:6. He thinks that this verse might be inaccurate. Can any scholar who knows the original language help me out? What was the original phrasing/sense of this verse? | ||||||
23 | How can I show the Bible is truth? | John 14:6 | winged1 | 132532 | ||
Thank you, but I think what I'm really looking for is, how can I prove the Bible is truth to someone who does not believe it? I can't use Scripture because that is suspect in his mind. I need a way to assert it's accuracy. | ||||||
24 | Isn't 24 more than one? | Acts 2:38 | winged1 | 133536 | ||
Hello Tim and Rowdy I remember a speaker coming to my school for Spiritual Emphasis Week who really explained this one story to us. The story is found in Mark 5:21-34. Jesus was going to heal the young girl and the woman with the bleeding condition touches him and is healed. Now Mark says that she just touched his clothes, but Matthew says "the edge of his cloak". Now what the speaker told us was that women in this condition were unclean. When she touched Jesus, a rabbi, she made him unclean, so according to the law he would have to cleanse himself before praying or doing anything like that. Not only that, but she grabbed his prayer shawl, because there was a tradition that the tassels on the Messiah's prayer shawl would heal. She believed that he was the Messiah, and she put her whole trust for her health and really for her normal adult life in his relationship with his father, symbolized by his prayer shawl. Her uncleanness is transferred to him. By doing so, she could be severly punished, I'm not sure if that means she could be stoned. In another place, Jesus chastens the Pharisees and scribes for making their tassels so long, so as to suggest that they might be the Messiah or could heal people. When Jesus asks who did it, she "told him the whole truth". She trembles, but she confesses her faith in him, and her trust in his power. Then Jesus says "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from her suffering." Now the way I feel the Lord has lead me for a while now is there is belief and there is faith. The difference is that a person can believe that Jesus and all he did was true, but unless he trusts himself to God, unless he "throws his whole weight on" God's promise. Unless he risks his soul by entrusting it to Jesus' work, he is not saved. So when Satan and his fallen angels believe, it is of this first kind, I think. The kind of belief that gets us saved is the kind that is willing to take Christ at his word and seek salvation from no other. I don't know if this distinction will help the discussion at hand, but it may be edifying anyway. God bless and may He speak through this forum Jo |
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25 | What did you mean by "others"? | 2 Cor 6:14 | winged1 | 133271 | ||
Hey, just a quick clarification, please. When you said, "Yahweh is a jealous God and He did not allow His people to share His Glory with others," does "others" refer to other nations or peoples or rather to other gods? Excellent points, btw God bless Jo |
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26 | What did you mean by "others"? | 2 Cor 6:14 | winged1 | 133338 | ||
Hi, Angel Ok, I figured that it had to be it. It just confused me for a second before it occured to me to ask for clarification. Thanks and God bless Jo |
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27 | What does unequally yoked mean? | 2 Cor 6:14 | winged1 | 134187 | ||
Now I've heard this verse before many times. But why exactly is it wrong, or won't work, or is difficult? I quoted this verse to someone at college and they said things like, "As long as the non-Christian respects the other's commitment to Christ" and "People in a relationship with two different faiths can learn from each other" and more of the same. And how about casual relationships that aren't marriage? I know part of their arguments are humanistic and relativist. But I need an answer they'll respect. One that doesn't make Christians out to be exclusionary. Thanks! Jo |
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28 | What does unequally yoked mean? | 2 Cor 6:14 | winged1 | 134205 | ||
I thank you, Hank, for answering. I see your points and acknowledge them as truth. It's just so hard to argue day after day and have my beliefs shot down by superior logic. My friends will never mock me, I think, for what I believe, but I continously sense this confusion, like they think me a fool to believe. When my main proof is the Bible, which they don't believe, any time I use the Bible to defend my position is lost. Between moral apathy and relativism, I'm not gaining any ground. I feel like what I'm doing is worthless. I know it's not, but it is discouraging nevertheless. Jo |
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29 | Your screenname? | 1 Tim 2:9 | winged1 | 132530 | ||
Doc, Please sir, i'm so confused. I've followed every single post on this thread. I really don't want to butt in but what does your screenname mean? It seems to be important to you and to others, but I can't make it out. I'm still to this forum and I'm trying to learn. I'm a freshman in college, so many of the terms mean little to me, but concerning what's where in the Bible, I'm fairly familiar thanks to the blessings God gave me as a child. Your younger and confused sister in Christ, Jo |
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30 | Your screenname? | 1 Tim 2:9 | winged1 | 132593 | ||
Oh, I am sorry. Thank you. I was indeed a little surprised when my questin showed up as an unanswered question. That does indeed make sense. God bless, Jo |
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31 | Your screenname? | 1 Tim 2:9 | winged1 | 132594 | ||
Thank you Doc, it's much clearer now. Actually, I have heard of the Five Points of Calvinism in one of the Bible classes at my high school. The only way I can remember them is that they make the acronym "TULIP". :-) Not having gone to seminary, some of this thread frightened me a little because I know so little about doctrine. I know some of the heresies that the Bible mentions by name, but most of my knowledge about what I believe, although Biblically based, is a little disorganized in presentation. Thank you again, and I'm sorry I posted the question as a question instead of a note. Now I know better. God bless, Jo |
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32 | Please pray for my friend? | James 5:16 | winged1 | 133022 | ||
I've got a major prayer request. Please inform me if this is a misuse of the site, but this is a big part of my life right now. One of my good friends purposely overdosed on perscription drugs. He went to the hospital and he's OK. I've been talking to him, and he seems OK emotionally. I had an enormous discussioin with him about the things of God, during which I quoted several Bible verses, which I know will never return void. Please pray for his health, spiritually and emotionally. I'll take this down in a day or two. Jo |
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33 | Please pray for my friend? | James 5:16 | winged1 | 133023 | ||
My friend is back in his dorm and back in his classes again. Thanks to everyone who prayed for him. He seems fine, but of course, only God knows the heart. James 5:16 "Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective." Thanks again and God bless Jo |
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34 | WHO pays the wage? | 1 John 1:9 | winged1 | 134313 | ||
1 Corinthians 3:12-15 "If any man builds on this foundation using wood, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw, his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be reveled with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man's work. If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. if it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping thorugh the flames." I wonder if this passage could clear up the confusion for us. There's salvation, which is once and for all through Jesus Christ. And then there is the lifetime of works, for which we are given rewards separate to our salvation, because the man in the passage was still saved, although saved with not much to show for it, like a man saved from a burning building. However the good workers got rewards, again seperate from their salvation. Now I could be understanding this passage entirely wrong. I pray that the original meaning is revealed to us through the Holy Spirit on the subject. God bless Jo |
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