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2101 | Do All Things Work Together For Good? | Rom 8:28 | Hank | 11296 | ||
Oh, but Steve, my brother, who among us knows the mind of our Mighty God, who can scan His perfect plans, who can fully fathom the depth of His purposes in our lives and in the lives of others? I have read the testimony of our dear sister prayon and am led to reflect upon the deepest sorrow that has ever befallen my wife and me: the loss by a drunken driver of our son some dozen years ago...... It was hard then, and it is hard still, to make of this tragedy "everything working for good" -- yet I know that David our son was saved by the blood of the Lamb and is in His presence at this very moment..... David loved to play the drums, and he was terrific at it. David died in April and the Christmas of that year was particularly difficult. But I shall never forget that every time during that Christmas season when I heard the song, "The Little Drummer Boy" I said to God, my eyes filled with tears, "Lord, you must have needed a little drummer boy in heaven to praise the Lamb." ..... If this sounds maudlin to anyone, perhaps it is. But it's easy to be sentimental and hard to be objectively cool about losing a son..... And having lost a son, my wife and I can be far more empathetic toward and comforting to other families whom tragedy strikes. --Hank | ||||||
2102 | What are the interpreted consequences of | Ex 20:13 | Hank | 10964 | ||
Good Samaritan, if you will go to Search and type in "suicide" you'll be provided with well over 100 posts on the topic of suicide in which various points of view are presented. Welcome. --Hank | ||||||
2103 | What are the Methodists up to? | Numbers | Hank | 10906 | ||
Norrie, sad to say, I'm afraid it's not only the Methodists who stray from their conservative and biblically-based heritage. The Presbyterians are in a bad way too. My wife and I were Presbyterians for 35 years and left them and joined the Southern Baptists about 4 years ago. And we bless the day we made our decision. It's unbelievable the spiritual bankruptcy and decay into which some of the churches in our land have fallen. Mainline churches are losing members like mad and they don't seem to get the message, or care, that are on the path to extinction. --Hank | ||||||
2104 | What kind of whale swallowed Jonah? | Jonah | Hank | 10879 | ||
OK, Nolan, Debbie, Ed and everyone else who would like to read a couple of fascinating (and biblically sound) fish stories. Go to icr.org. Go to search at the bottom of the home page. Type in "Jonah" and enjoy. The articles are written by John Morris, Ph.D., President of Institute for Creation Research in El Cajon, CA. My wife and I have the pleasure of knowing John and his wife Dalta, a delightful and dedicated Christian couple. --Hank | ||||||
2105 | Question on spiritual covering? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 10809 | ||
Shannon, maybe someone else can come up with a specific Scripture on this; I can't. But, I think if I were in your shoes, I'd turn the table on your new member and ask her to prove her point. A second idea, why not talk to your pastor and ask his blessing on your ministry to the women's group? --Hank | ||||||
2106 | Jesus earth: God/man or just man? | John 1:14 | Hank | 10702 | ||
Jesus was not God who lost His Deity when He become man. He was not a man who became God when he ascended to heaven. He was fully God and fully man when He lived on this earth. If He was nothing but a man, His death on the cross would have been meaningless. The teaching of the Deity of Jesus Christ is so fundamental and indispensable to the Christian faith that any denial of it proscribes entry into His kingdom. Put another way, anyone who denies the Deity of Jesus Christ is not, and cannot be, a Christian. --Hank | ||||||
2107 | How did they know? | Matt 2:11 | Hank | 10597 | ||
Prayon, this may not be quite the sort of answer you're seeking, but my answer would have to be in the form of another question, Who but the Holy Spirit related to any of the biblical writers the message their books contain? --Hank | ||||||
2108 | NRSV vs. NASB | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 10559 | ||
Dear Prayon: This will be but a sketchy, non-technical summary of the major differences between the two Bible versions, the NASB and NRSV. Both are considered scholarly and reliable translations and use, for the most part at least, what is called the Critical Text rather than the Textus Receptus. The NASB follows a more literal word-for-word translation philosophy than the NRSV does. One of the characteristics of the NRSV is its use of "gender-neutral" personal pronouns in the texts in which the translators felt that, for example, "he" meant "he or she." This practice often made it necessary to re-cast the sentence, to pluralize singluar pronouns, or to provide some rather awkward substitutions, as in the construction "all men are" becomes "all mortals are."........ Various ratings have been given to translations based on their degree of literalness. I saw one that placed, on a scale from 1 to 10 with 10 being the most literal, the NASB at around 9 and the NRSV at about 6. The Message weighed in at 1 or 2........ The NRSV and its predecessor, the RSV, have traditionally been less favored by conservative Christians than the NASB...... Before I switched to the NASB as my Bible of choice for serious study, I used the RSV. I've never cared much for the NRSV. --Hank | ||||||
2109 | but in John's Gospel. | John 3:16 | Hank | 10505 | ||
OK, richilou, if you want an exegesis, I'll give you one. The Greek word John uses in John 3:16 and elsewhere in his gospel that is translated "world" is kosmos, the ususal meaning of which is, oddly enough, world. It can also mean the sum total of the material universe, or the beauty of it. Additionally, kosmos can mean the sum total of persons living in the world....... The context simply won't support any other definition of kosmos (world) except the last one, i.e., the sum total of persons living in the world. Read John 3:16 as follows and you will not be wrong: For God so loved the sum total of persons living in the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life....... Now let's parse the verse using the other definition of kosmos. It would read something like this: For God so loved the material universe and its beauty that He gave his only begotten Son, that whatever in the material universe (the rocks, flowers, oceans, tadpoles) believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. Which definition of kosmos makes more sense in this verse? --Hank | ||||||
2110 | What do you think the word "world" means | John 3:16 | Hank | 10420 | ||
The "world" of John 3:16 is not the earth; it is the "world" of humanity. --Hank | ||||||
2111 | Accuracy of Spanish Bibles | Ps 119:105 | Hank | 10403 | ||
Note on Bible Translations: We English-speaking peoples are singularly blessed (or cursed?) with virtually an infinite number of translations and, of much less significance, paraphrases of the Bible. But there remains much translation work to be done, especially in languages other than English. Some people on this earth have no Bible at all in their native tongue. Many others have but one translation in their own language. The Lockman Foundation, sponsors of this forum, have done and continue to do an exemplary job in making a reliable translation of God's word available to peoples of other lands, other tongues..... I don't know three words of Spanish, but I know a great deal about Lockman and consequently am prepared to believe that their translation of the Bible into Spanish (the LBLA) bears the same hallmarks of fidelity to the original tongues as the NASB does...... There are differences in translations in other languages just as there are in English. For example, I know enough German to get by. Just the other day I skimmed a new German translation of the New Testament that is rendered in contemporary German somewhat along the lines of the Good News Bible. Even I whose German is mediocre at best could see a vast difference between this version and Martin Luther's. --Hank | ||||||
2112 | Who practices a oneness doctrine? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 10370 | ||
MGB, the "Oneness" doctrine has been one of the most discussed issues ever to come before the forum. Please use the Search function, type in "oneness" and you will be able to view more than 100 postings that address both sides of the issue. Welcome. --Hank | ||||||
2113 | "The Disciple's Prayer"? | Luke 11:2 | Hank | 10327 | ||
Yes, Nolan, it is the Lord's prayer only in the sense that He gave it to His disciples as their model or pattern of what their prayers should be like. He never needed to pray for forgivenness of His sins for the quite clear reason that He lived without sinning. I'm unconvinced that Jesus ever meant this prayer to be prayed verbatim as part of a liturgy. Once I heard a cleric ask his congregation to stand and repeat the Lord's prayer. It crossed my mind that a parrot can be taught to repeat it, but only a human being can be taught pray. --Hank | ||||||
2114 | Do humans become angels? | 1 Cor 13:1 | Hank | 10168 | ||
No, I know of no passage of Scripture that teaches that human beings are angels, ever were, or ever will be. My sense is that the Bible clearly teaches that human beings are entities created by God separate and apart from angels. I know of no instance in Scripture in which men became angels or angels men. --Hank | ||||||
2115 | "Messiah" a reference to Deity? | John 1:41 | Hank | 10089 | ||
Yes, Nolan, Messiah is more than a reference to Deity. The Messiah, Jesus Christ, is Deity, being the second person of the Trinity. Messiah (the Greek is Christ) in Hebrew means the Anointed One. It means the expected king and deliverer of the Hebrews. The first promise of the Messiah, although not using that name, is that to Eve in Genesis 3:15. The same promise was, in varying phraseology, repeated to many individuals throughout the ages, notably to Abraham and David..... What a superb and joyful moment it must have been for Andrew when he told his brother Simon Peter, "We have found the Messiah." Since that day untold numbers of people have been filled with joy when they too found Christ. --Hank | ||||||
2116 | Why does everything happen in thirds? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 10085 | ||
Nay, I see that this is your first post to the forum and, honestly, we'd like to be able to answer, or try to answer, your question. What did you have in mind about everything happening in thirds? If you'd like, please feel free to post again with more detail about your question and some of us will give it our best. --Hank | ||||||
2117 | Is the Ecumenical movement good? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 10077 | ||
Certainly not, Nolan, merely for the sake of appearing united, or of being united superficially in name only, but divided in core beliefs. Real unity of Christians involves a great deal more than signing on to an ecumenical movement. The views of conservative Christians frequently differ markedly from those of liberal Christians on certain issues, and the polarity appears to be getting stronger rather than weaker. Unity of believers is a worthy goal, not to be dismissed lightly, because for it our Lord so fervently prayed. But I really don't see as reality the achieving of a worldwide Christian church living in unity and cooperation in our time -- certainly not left to our own devices. But Christians should never cease to pray for unity. Nothing, of course, is impossible with God. --Hank | ||||||
2118 | T-Rex and Noah | OT general | Hank | 10027 | ||
An excellent Christ-focused creation ministry where science and the Bible are fully integrated is Institute for Creation Research: icr.org. There you can read to your heart's content about the "behemoth" of Job, T-Rex and his brethren, and other ancient creatures that go bump in the night. I recommend icr.org without reservation -- serious scientists with Ph.D's in their "heads" and Christ in their hearts. --Hank | ||||||
2119 | What separates Evangelicals, Catholics? | Rom 3:28 | Hank | 10002 | ||
JVH, to your question of what separates Evangelicals from Catholics, one could submit a laundry list of issues and beliefs on which the two groups have a divergence of views running the gamut from mild to severe. But I would propose that the fundamental reason that there is a theological gulf betweeen the two that can be spanned only with the greatest difficulty, if at all, lies in the matter of what is considered the final authority for faith and practice. Evangelicalism is supported monopodially, as it were, with the Bible alone being considered the seminal source of authority in all matters of faith and practice. Catholicism, on the other hand, stands on a tripod whose legs are Scripture, church tradition, and papal authority. Whence come the marching orders is an enormously large issue and constitutes, in the view of this writer, the core differences between the two communions. --Hank | ||||||
2120 | HOW CAN ONE LIVE WITH A QUARRELSOME WIFE | Proverbs | Hank | 9898 | ||
Would the "corner of the roof of your house" be the "dog house" in current speech? :-) A man is blessed indeed if his wife is not a quarrelsome or a nagging person. I've been married 42 years to a non-quarrelsome, kind-hearted loyal Christian woman. I appreciate her very much and love her dearly. Sometimes it's all I can do to keep from telling her that! :-) ....... But a woman also is blessed if her husband is kind, gentle and does not try to be domineering. My wife and I try to put Christ first in all things. And let me tell you, things go better for any couple who do that. --Hank | ||||||
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