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221 | Crying out loud Lord rescue me | 1 John 5:13 | Hank | 200061 | ||
Dear veund stokes :: Galatians 6:2 says, "Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ." And Ecclesiasties 3:1 says, "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven." ..... My dear fellow registrant on Study Bible Forum, your post touches my heart and I pray for a resolution of your personal anguish. ....... Now for a second look at those two quotations from Scripture with which I opened this post. The first was about bearing one another's burdens. There are times in the lives of most of us when we can help others bear their burdens, but there are also times when we desperately need others to help us bear our own, for as Ecclesiastes says, "to every thing there is a season." And on the strength of your post, it does in fact appear that the season has come for you when you should seek help from a pastor or other qualified counselor, perhaps your family physician -- someone who is qualified to help you bear your burdens. I will pray for you and you can feel comforted that other readers of this page will join me in prayer for you also. The Lord be with you. --Hank | ||||||
222 | INVITATION | NT general | Hank | 200004 | ||
Irish Eyes :: Your post addressing Jeff was directed to me. Anyway, thanks for responding and I'm sure Jeff will see it on the thread. Keep the Irish Eyes smiling :-) (I'm sure you remember the lyrics from the song, "When Irish eyes are smiling..." --Hank | ||||||
223 | INVITATION | NT general | Hank | 200001 | ||
Hi, Jeff :: Your caution against hastening to dole out specific advice or rushing to judgment is wise indeed, for as you and the rest of us regular posters on SBF know all too well, questions seeking advice are all too common, as are answers proposing to give it. The problems with these kinds of Q. and A. exchanges are many. Three come quickly to mind. (1) The web site is first and foremost a forum for Bible study, as its name implies. It is not, therefore, in competition with the "Dear Abby" type of advice columns that appear in newspapers. ...... (2) Most of us here are lay persons who are not qualified to dispense advice on specific personal problems, and even if we all were professionals in that area (there are some professionals who have registered on SBF), that is not what the Forum is all about. Moreover, I believe that professional counselors would be very wary of trying to treat a private personal problem on a public forum. (3) Finally, the problems that questioners present to this forum are often vague, incomplete, and one would guess that they are rather lop-sided, usually presenting only one side of an issue, namely, that of the questioner's, and may not tell the whole story. ..... Anyway, I've rambled enough. But thanks, Jeff, for calling attention to the unwisdom of rushing to judgment even before it is determined whether all the facts are in. It's a dangerous business, and one needs to make sure he is not unwittingly giving bad advice, which is far worse than giving none at all. --Hank | ||||||
224 | How do I obtain what I'm asking for? | 2 Tim 2:15 | Hank | 199979 | ||
David :: In Matthew 6:9-13 our Lord gave to us who are His disciples some very precious insights to aid us in our prayer life. Commonly called the "Lord's Prayer" it is more accurate to think of it as a pattern for prayer that Jesus gave His followers. It is brief but it deserves intensive study and reflection, for Jesus put much in few words. In this short response to your question, I'd like to touch upon only four words that appear near the beginning of the prayer. The words are "Thy will be done." They tell us that the major purpose of prayer is to get exactly the very things we want, such as health, happiness and gobs of money, that all we need do is to "name it and claim it." Right? ...... No! Not in a million years! ...... But what it does tell us immediately is that prayer has one major purpose, and that is to seek out and find the will of God. Jesus did not teach His disciples in this brief passage that prayer is a wrestling match with God whereby we attempt to pin God down and bend His will to ours. Nor is prayer an exercise in which we bargain with God by trying to talk Him into doing something we want done in reward for "being good." Knowing God's will comes from knowing God's word and praying in the Holy Spirit of God as He leads, interceding for us in our prayers, for in our weaknesses we do not know what we should pray for as we ought. (See Romans 8:26). --Hank | ||||||
225 | INVITATION | NT general | Hank | 199977 | ||
Dear Justme :: Good to know that you and the missus made it back 'home' and are happy with the move. I knew you were SBC but had no idea you had been on a six-year leave of absence. ........ My wife and I were "unchurched" for a matter of months several years ago while we looked for a new church home. It was not a fun time for us by any means. We felt like homeless drifters. --Hank | ||||||
226 | INVITATION | NT general | Hank | 199955 | ||
Hi again, Doc. May I enter an amendment to my prior post? Evidently I erred in my understanding of the "committee" question in regard to candidates for membership. At the Baptist church where I'm a member, those who "walk down the aisle" are indeed met and counseled by the church's staff of ministers (it is a large church and has a pastor and a number of other ministers on its ministerial staff. After thinking of my previous post, I began to fear that I came off as a maverick of some kind and, albeit inadvertently, may have misrepresented my home church as well as my position on the matter. But of course and indeed! there is a great deal more involved in following Christ than merely taking a Sunday morning stroll down the aisle of the church house. These new members need much follow-up counsel, nurturing, instruction, encouragement and fellowship from the moment they take the initial step down the aisle onward. I tend to believe that the questioner may have been mistaken about the committee who reportedly took it upon themselves to pass judgment about a candidate's salvation. That's a matter between the candidate and the Lord. --Hank | ||||||
227 | INVITATION | NT general | Hank | 199952 | ||
Thanks, Doc. I must lead a cloistered life, for this is the first time I've heard of a membership committee in an SBC church. I suppose there are two things every church needs these days. More committees to gum up the works and confound things sufficiently so that congregants can bask in endless disputes. And a generous supply of pettifogging lawyers to tell the church what it can and cannot do. What a golden age we live in! How comforting! --Hank | ||||||
228 | having sex with other men husband disabl | Ex 20:14 | Hank | 199933 | ||
Right you are, Dave. Behind each question, each answer, each note and comment of every stripe, lies a flesh and blood human being, with virtually the same hopes, fears, and aspirations as I have. And they also have feelings which, not unlike my own, are fragile, delicate and oh so vulnerable to hurt. But more than any of these things, they have the same desperate need of a Savior that I do. By God's grace through faith in His Son Jesus Christ, we are saved. Without Him we die in our sins. And on this Forum, as in all walks of life, they will know we are Christians by our love. --Hank | ||||||
229 | INVITATION | NT general | Hank | 199932 | ||
Hi, Sandra :: I am a Baptist and belong to a local church that is a Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) church. What you have described is foreign to the practices of the church of which my wife and I are members. But there are, as you may know, a number of communions that call themselves Baptists and their doctrines and practices often vary widely. Unfortunately, there is an extreme diversity among modern Baptists and thus the moniker "Faith Baptist Church" doesn't give us much to go on I'm afraid. So I would hesitate to comment further unless you are able and wish to supply additional information that might serve to "pin down" just what this church teaches and whether it is a totally independent local church or attaches itself to one of the many different denominational branches that have the word "Baptist" as part of their name. Sanda, are you absolutely sure that the information you were given about three elders deciding whether a candidate for church membership was saved accurately represents the doctrinal position of this church? Is this Faith Baptist by any chance a congregation of the Primitive Baptists? --Hank | ||||||
230 | having sex with other men husband disabl | Ex 20:14 | Hank | 199927 | ||
Dear Dave (workman) :: Sir, with all respect to you, I really don't think that Irene (Blue Eyes) was deliberately trying to shout at her correspondent (by using all caps for God and Bible). I notice that in nearly all her posts to date, she uses all caps for certain words while using all lower case for nearly everything else, including the beginning of a new sentence. I believe Irene would look favorably upon the gentle suggestion of brushing up her skills a bit on the conventions of capitalization and punctuation for the sake of clarity of communication. I recognize that both you and Irene are new to Study Bible Forum, and it's an honor to have you both. We truly encourage the participation of new users of SBF such as you and Irene who have demonstrated an avid interest in sharing with the rest of us the eternal truths of God's blessed word, the Bible; and we fully recognize that the Forum can be a daunting place for a newcomer and that it takes a while for one to find his stride. I've been on this thing almost since the day it cranked up in early 2001, and I'm still looking for my stride :-). So, please, don't either you, Irene, or any of the other new users become discouraged. We have quite a number of seasoned users on SBF, and I can assure you confidently that each one of them stands at your beck and call should any of you newer users need help in finding your way around SBF. May God richly bless you all. In Him, --Hank | ||||||
231 | How did Paul die | NT general | Hank | 199903 | ||
Hello again, Talmid :: My heart goes out to young believers in schools today. It was tough enough a long time ago (I'm 72) when I was in school. I can only try to imagine what it must be like today. Grace to you. --Hank | ||||||
232 | How did Paul die | NT general | Hank | 199889 | ||
Hi, Talmid of Yeshua Ha Maschiach. This is Hankmid of Ozarka Ha Arkansach. See? I have a sense of humor, too! ..... Too bad what happened to poor old Sha'ui, whoever the old boy was. But do you happen to have any information on the apostle Paul? I note that you reckon dates by using C.E. It's a matter of taste and preference, I suppose, but what's wrong with using A.D. It's Latin you know for "the year of our Lord" I'm aware that C.E. can stand for Christian Era, but usually not. It's more often an abbreviation for "Common Era." It's chiefly an invention of secularism to remove as many references as possible to the triune God. --Hank | ||||||
233 | Looking for a book - evolution vs Bible | Bible general Archive 4 | Hank | 199868 | ||
themirandacian :: The best place on the web that I know of that will most likely satisfy your quest for learning more about evolution from both a biblical and scientific perspective is icr.org. I am very well acquainted with this organization and have met its president on more than one occasion. Not only do they provide a vast number of articles on the topic but their on-line bookstore stocks a large number of publications that you can order if you wish. I hope you enjoy the web site and that what it offers meets your needs. Thanks for registering on Study Bible Forum, and we extend both a welcome and an invitation to consider becoming a regular participant in SBF. --Hank | ||||||
234 | Should I be water baptized? | NT general | Hank | 199866 | ||
Sir, it is hoped that your joy in Study Bible Forum may wax ever stronger as a workman who needeth not be ashamed as you join us on the sacred journey of making our best efforts at rightly dividing the word of truth; and as you get to know us better and we you. ....... It's refreshing to see that you have sketched in your personal profile. Perhaps in time you will see fit to expand it somewhat. A warm welcome to you. --Hank | ||||||
235 | Who or what was sacrificed? | Judg 11:39 | Hank | 199863 | ||
Hi, BMyers :: One of dearest and sweetest ladies I've ever known, a precious old saint who for years was a member of my home church until the Lord called her to glory a couple of years ago, said to me one day, "Hank, I just don't think I'll ever be able to accept these new translations. I've tried to read them, but they don't seem like the Bible to me." I noticed that in her lap she was holding a copy, much tattered and worn, of the King James Bible. If I thought reading the KJV would make me half the saint that she was, I'd order a case of them tomorrow. ....... My mother loved the King James, and I still have her copy, the one she owned up until she died, tucked away among my prized earthly treasures. My father, on the other hand, was a staunch defender of the American Standard Version of 1901. It was his conviction that the King James was written for the British but he was an American, so both for patriotic and theological reasons, he favored the American Standard Version. The fine translation that we know today as the NASB is essentially the old American Standard Version of 1901 dressed up in a new suit of clothes. --Hank | ||||||
236 | the name of G-d? | Judg 11:39 | Hank | 199855 | ||
Monday greetings, halroy! I enjoyed your post and believe you made some good points well. Particularly was I arrested by your remarks in paragraph six about the "one cupper" group, because of an experience that dates back, and that was way back! to my college days in Nashville, Tennessee. In the environs of Nashville in those days was a certain denomination (although they claimed to be THE CHURCH and thus eschewed the label of denomination and looked with disdain upon anyone who applied the term to their "true church," which with remarkable vigor they asserted themselves to be) -- there was, then, this certain denomination which got into a squabble concerning how the element of the fruit of the vine (grape juice, in this instance) ought to be administered. About half the church elders noted that in 1 Cor. 11:25 Paul quotes Jesus as follows: "This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it in remembrance of me." So they reasoned that since the demonstrative pronoun "this" is singular, and so is "cup," that the congregants must therefore employ a common cup and pass it amongst themselves. But about an equal number of the elders took the view that this was much too legalistic a view and held for using the tiny individual cups served from a tray made expressly for serving the communion in this manner to the congregation. After many meetings and much talk, they came to a deadlock, with approximately half the congregation siding with the one-cup elders and the remainder with the multi-cup elders. ..... So, instead of splitting the church physcially into two groups, each group meeting under separate roofs, they hit upon the idea of remaining physically under the same roof, with the multi-cuppers sitting to the left of the center aisle and the uni-cuppers to the right, sort of like dividing the sheep from the goats. I was, as I mentioned, a college student in Nashville and soon moved from the area, so I never did learn how things eventually worked out between the uni-cuppers and multi-cuppers, but the memory of this incident has stayed with me for lo these fifty-odd years. .......Before I bid you good day in this post, halroy, I would like to append a comment on the next-to-last paragraph of your interesting post in which you pose the question of what name we are to use for God on SBF. I would suggest that we do what most other Christians and reliable English translations of Scripture do in this respect: in general discourse simply refer to Him as God, so that even the poor dyslectic will be able to transpose the letters he sees as doG and know that we are speaking of God. There are exceptions, certainly, and we must be reasonable. God has many other titles, many of them highly descriptive, that appear in our most trusted and revered English translations. For example To dare change the pattern prayer of the Lord Jesus that appears in Matthew's Gospel from "Our Father" to "God" is not only fatuous and inane but constitutes a tampering with the sacred text. This we should never do! ..... I won't attempt to lay down any hard and fast rules on this subject, and indeed such an attempt would be pointless and presumputuous of me. My point in my former post was not meant to play the role of judge and juror on this or any other subject, and any Forum reader who thinks so is missing the entire point of the post. One of the responses (not yours) that my former post elicited was something to the effect that since Jesus was a Jew, we should not be insensitive to His Jewishness. Of course we shouldn't! But that doesn't mean we should bring a verbal aura of the synagogue to SBF! Moreover, we do not live under the law, "for Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth" (Romans 10:4). And, "For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him" (Romans 10:12). ....... Most of us speak, write and think exclusively in English. We understand words like God, Father, Son, Jesus, Christ, Lord, and Holy Spirit. We don't speak ancient Hebrew or Greek, and most of us don't understand very much of either. Words like Alpha and Omega are well anglicized by now and most literate speakers of English know exactly what they mean. And there are, of course, other foreign words and phrases that are widely known by speakers of English. So there's really no need to make a big to-do about what I suggested regarding the use of esoteric names for the Godhead, and of certain other Hebrew and Greek words about the meaning of which very few on this Forum have a clue. My post was not intended to be a philippic but a call to exercise reason and common sense. But common sense may not be so common as one might suppose. Perhaps time will tell. --Hank | ||||||
237 | Who or what was sacrificed? | Judg 11:39 | Hank | 199818 | ||
My name is Hank. It does not profane my name or show me any disrespect to call me Hank, complete with the vowel a. Nor does it show any respect for me, my age (72), or anything else to write my name as Hnk, omitting the vowel a. ...... Now, if I were writing in German to a German speaking Forum, I would use the German appellation for the first person of the trinity, which is Gott. If this were a French speaking Forum, I'd use Dieu. But since SBF is designed for speakers of English, I usually refer to the Father as God, to the Son as Jesus or Christ, and to the third person of the trinity as the Holy Spirit. ...... I see nothing at all to commend the general and habitual usage of foreign-language terms for any member of the trinity in everyday communication on this Forum, unless one who is qualified to do so is explaining something of didactic value about the meaning and significance of underlying Hebrew or Greek words supporting an English translation. Otherwise, in my judgment, the practice does nothing to instruct or unite us as members of the body of Christ. Its didactic value is practically non-existent. I am expressly unaware that to write God as G-d or Lord as Lrd has any effect at all on whether I profance His name. I can profane His holy name in a thousand ways in my life, and so can anyone else, and none of them has anything whatever to do with whether I write His name as God or G-d! ..... This web site comes to us through the kind provision of the Lockman Foundation, translators and publishers of the New American Standard Bible (NASB), which for years now has been held in exceptionally high regard by scholars and commoners like me. We are told on good authority that it is one of the most literally accurate translations of Scripture in modern English. I submit to readers of this Forum that the nomenclature for members of the trinity throughout this fine translation is as good as we're likely to find and therefore worthy of emulation. We need not spend our time searching for esoteric names for the trinity. The seasoned and dedicated scholars who gave us the NASB did not translate Genesis 1:1 as "In the beginning Abba (or G-d or Adonai) created the heavens and the earth." They say "In the beginning God..." and, my friends -- since most of us speak and write English, not Hebrew or Greek or German or French or Urdu -- so should we. I love and worship God and His Christ just as much when I call Him God and His Son Jesus as I possibly could should I insist upon always calling the Father Abba or Adonai and His Son Jeshua or Yashua. My object in speaking about Jesus is to communicate as clearly as I can with my English-speaking audience, whether one person or many, not to confuse them with foreign terms that are likely strange and unintelligible to them. I'm just not much good at, or in favor of, speaking in an unknown tongue. ..... This is an English-language Forum. It behooves all of us to write English, and write it as well and as lucidly as we possibly can. --Hank | ||||||
238 | Oneness? | Gen 1:26 | Hank | 199698 | ||
covenantman08 :: Welcome and thanks for your question, although you need to make it more specific in order to help insure that the response you get is the response you are seeking. If you will, please expand and re-submit your question. Hank | ||||||
239 | Repentance, how many times? | Luke 15:20 | Hank | 199696 | ||
stjohn, halroy, and to all others whom it may concern :: The question posed by LJ777 had to do with "backsliding" and repentance. The responses have veered off topic it seems to me; hence, my questions: (1) What does the Bible teach, if anything, about "backsliding"? (2) Does the Bible view backsliding and apostasy as being the same things? (3) Are the two words, repentance and forgiveness, used synonymously and interchangeably in Scripture: are they the same things? ....... It is all too common to discuss ideas and issues based on certain "theological" words without stopping to define the words themselves in the light of how Scripture uses them. So what do these words -- backslide, repentance, forgiveness, apostasy -- mean within the context of Scripture? There's the semantic "bait," so have at it. :-) --Hank | ||||||
240 | Explain Trinity Father Son, Holy Ghost | Is 1:1 | Hank | 199634 | ||
Dear Halroy :: A warm welcome, sir, to Study Bible Forum. Yes, I also concur heavily with the caveat that we must lean toward caution when speaking of, or trying to invent metaphors and similies to explain, the idea of the triune God. God has revealed much of Himself in His word, all, I would dare say, that man is capable of comprehending. And even then He has encased much of His revelation in what John Calvin was pleased to call "baby talk," by which I take Calvin to mean that God has reduced His eternal truths to the simplest human language possible so that we might know Him as intimately as possible. Yet God is still God and man is still man, and God remains transcendent. ...... And when finite man attempts to explain in his own language and according to his own limited reason the attributes of the triunity of the transcendent God, all his metaphors and similies rapidly fall apart because they never had adhesion to begin with. ..... But we know that Scripture teaches clearly the triunity of God even though we understand it but dimly. No one I suppose has anything like a perfect understanding of this vital doctrine of the church, but the ancient creeds add much to our understanding, even though it remains limited. ...... As an afterword, I'm reminded of a story one of my college professors told me long after I'd left school and his classroom. The professor (of English) used to teach a surprisingly popular class on the King James Bible as literature. After class one day, a young co-ed walked up to his desk and presented her dilemma. It so happened that her very next class was a speech class and she had chosen to give a brief speech on the Trinity. But she admitted to the English professor that she had not had time to prepare for her speech and asked him to explain the Trinity to her (she had all of 10 minutes before her speech class) so she could make her speech. "And what did you tell this young lady? I asked. And the professor told me that he said something like this to her, "My dear young lady, you flatter me enormously. Some of the finest minds who have ever walked this earth have strugged with the doctrine of the Trinity for hundreds of years, and you presume me able to explain the Trinity to you in 10 minutes? Next time you're called upon to give a speech, for goodness' sake choose a subject you know something about. Good day, young lady." ...... Grace to you, halroy. --Hank | ||||||
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