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221 | to get to Heaven | Heb 10:25 | srbaegon | 215958 | ||
Hello MeMe 3, What does the Bible says about going to a specific church? That you should go. Steve |
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222 | Is verbal confession enough assurance | Rom 10:9 | srbaegon | 215956 | ||
Hello liz, Allow me to add to the responses. Consider Ephesians 2:8-10, and note verse 10 especially: 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Now look at James 1:22-25: 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. 24 For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. 25 But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing. Putting these together we see that there is action or conduct that demonstrates that how we live agrees with what we say we believe. There is fruit that is born out of the new life within us (see Galatians 5:22-23). Note that this just scratches the surface of the topic. Steve |
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223 | Did Jesus ever drink wine? | Matt 11:19 | srbaegon | 215877 | ||
Hi Tim, True they did, but in both cases it was a conclusion based on what the Lord was doing or saying. In John 7:1-24 the Lord was the Jews that they were plotting to kill him. The crowd responded that he had a demon; nobody was trying to kill him. This sounded like lunacy, therefore the demon comment. Later in John 8:48 the Jews repeated the accusation because Jesus had said they were children of the devil, not Abraham to whom they could prove natural lineage. Again Jesus' comment sounded like lunacy on the surface. In the same way, one cannot be a glutton or drunkard without eating and drinking those things that could be used to bring an accusation, however unfounded. So both types of comments were disparaging and fueled by hatred, but there was some outward act that prompted them. That's all. :-) Steve |
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224 | Did Jesus ever drink wine? | Matt 11:19 | srbaegon | 215861 | ||
Hello chosen one, The attached verse seems to indicate that Jesus did drink wine. If he did not, they could not have called him a drunkard. Steve |
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225 | Does God lead us to sin? | Bible general Archive 4 | srbaegon | 215859 | ||
Hello chosen one, God does not lead people to sin. Concerning Pharaoh, look at Exodus 3:19 where God is speaking to Moses at the burning bush. "But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless compelled by a mighty hand." God knew Pharaoh's heart and pushed it in the direction it wanted to go. The same thing type of thing is demonstrated in Romans 1 where God gives people over to their depravity. Steve |
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226 | Leave possesions to realize GOD | Genesis | srbaegon | 215112 | ||
Hello Mike, True enough. I just wanted to stay within the scope of the original question. As C.H. Spurgeon used to preach it--salvation is all of grace. The work of atonement is complete by the shedding of the Lord Jesus' precious blood which covers and removes all sin. There is no more work to be done. Steve |
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227 | Leave possesions to realize GOD | Genesis | srbaegon | 215106 | ||
Hello Rajeeb, No, you do not need to live in poverty to fully live for God. Consider these men: Abraham (Gen 24:35) The Lord has greatly blessed my master, and he has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, camels and donkeys. Isaac (Gen 26:12-14) And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. The Lord blessed him, and the man became rich, and gained more and more until he became very wealthy. He had possessions of flocks and herds and many servants, so that the Philistines envied him. Jacob (Gen 30:43) Thus the man increased greatly and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys. Joseph (Gen 41:39-44) Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Since God has shown you all this, there is none so discerning and wise as you are. You shall be over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as you command. Only as regards the throne will I be greater than you." And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt." Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and clothed him in garments of fine linen and put a gold chain about his neck. And he made him ride in his second chariot. And they called out before him, "Bow the knee!" Thus he set him over all the land of Egypt. Moreover, Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and without your consent no one shall lift up hand or foot in all the land of Egypt." I could add others. All these men were blessed by the Lord with power and wealth. When Jesus said to the rich, young ruler to sell all, it was because the ruler loved money more than the Lord. Steve |
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228 | Why did God tell Abraham to kill his son | Gen 22:2 | srbaegon | 215002 | ||
Hello, When teaching Bible in my church, I am rather strict in making the class speak accurately of the text, so no, God did not tell Abraham to kill his son. He told Abraham to offer Isaac as a burnt offering. I know it's a fine point, but I will be adamant about it (in a nice way). This is the reason I belabor the point. God's plan was to provide the substitute for Isaac. He just never let Abraham know the plan until the very end after everything had been prepared to offer Isaac as a sacrifice. Abraham built the altar, laid the wood, bound Isaac (remarkable in itself), laid him on the wood, and took the knife. Notice it does not say that the Lord interrupted as the knife was coming down or anything like that. It just says everything was prepared. At that point God reveals the substitute. So no, your friend cannot destroy his family. All he can do is make preparations and expect a substitute. If none arrives, God was not speaking to him. And really the only acceptable substitute would be Christ himself who already paid the price. Steve |
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229 | Why did God tell Abraham to kill his son | Gen 22:2 | srbaegon | 214996 | ||
Hello, The reconciliation between Gen 22:2 and James 1:14 is that the passages have nothing to do with each other. James is speaking of temptations that come from within and tear us and others down spiritually. Genesis 22 is a test to prove and increase faith. We know from looking at this side of the story that God never intended for Isaac to die. In order for your friend to mimic the command to Abraham, he would have to stop at the last moment and kill a ram instead. Steve |
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230 | Why did God tell Abraham to kill his son | Gen 22:2 | srbaegon | 214975 | ||
Hello, You may be comparing apples to oranges between Abraham and this friend. Is God asking the friend to offer the family members as a burnt offering? That would be the only possible justification your friend would have. As to your question concerning God's request which would end in a person's death: God does nothing in violation of his character. If he did, he would cease to be God. We know God hates murder, and he had already promised that Isaac was the promised son through whom he would be the father of many nations. That being the case, God's command to Abraham could not possibly end in Isaac's death. One of two things must occur: God stops Abraham, or God resurrects Isaac. In either case, the immediate end of the journey is life. Now, does God command people to kill other people? Yes, he does, but only as an act of defense or as a tool of divine judgment. But that is looking at Abraham's situation from our understanding with the totality of Scripture. The capital punishment described in the covenant with Noah was to deal with retribution for unjust killing. I am willing to bet your friend does not have assurance that his family members will live physically immediately after they have been killed. Steve |
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231 | Why did God tell Abraham to kill his son | Gen 22:2 | srbaegon | 214965 | ||
Part 2 F. W. Grant, Genesis: In Light of the New Testament (Speaking of Abraham and Isaac as pictures of God the Father and the Lord Jesus) "Isaac is undoubtedly the living type of Christ which gives Him to us most in the work He has done for God, and thus for us. For a moment, as it were, from the solemn institution of sacrifice the vail is almost removed. Man for man it is must suffer: man, but not this man. Isaac is withdrawn, and faith is left looking onward to the Lamb that 'God will provide for Himself' as a burnt offering. But if Isaac be the type of this, another comes no less distinctly into view. It is a father here who gives his son. Abraham seems, indeed, the most prominent figure, and necessarily for the type. It is the father’s will to which the son obediently gives himself. In the anti-type, the God who provides Himself the lamb answers to the father in this case. It is the Son of God who comes to do the Father’s will. But what a will, to be the Father’s! We wonder at this strange testing of a faith God held precious. Was it not worth the while to be honored with such a history? This was his justification by works now, God bringing out into open sight before others that which He Himself had long before seen and borne witness of. And then how wonderful to see in this display of a human heart the manifestation of the Father’s! How all is measured out to Abraham! But who can fail to see that in these elements of sorrow that filled to the brim the father’s cup we have the lineaments of a sacrifice transcending this immeasurably? Let us not fear to make God too human in thus apprehending Him. He has become a man to be apprehended. . . . Through all this trial of Abraham’s we must not miss the fact that the faith of resurrection cheers the father’s heart. The promises of God were assured in him, of whom He had said, 'In Isaac shall thy seed be called.' If therefore God called for him to be offered up, resurrection must restore him from the very flames of the altar; and 'in a figure,' as the apostle says, from the dead he was received. The figure of resurrection here it is very important to keep in mind, for it is to Christ in resurrection that the events following typically refer. In fact, Isaac is spared from death; and here occurs one of those double figures by which the Spirit of God would remedy the necessary defect of all figures to set forth Christ and His work. Isaac is spared; but there is substituted for him 'a ram caught in a thicket by his horns.' Picture of devoted self-surrender, as we have seen elsewhere the ram is; he is 'caught by his horns'—the sign (as others have noticed) of his power. . . . In a figure, however, Isaac is raised from the dead; and as risen, the promise is confirmed to him,—'In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.' It is Christ raised from the dead who is the only source of blessing to the whole world. The value and necessity of His sacrificial work are here affirmed. Death has passed upon all men, for that all have sinned; only beyond death, then, can there be fulfillment of the promise, however free." Steve |
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232 | Why did God tell Abraham to kill his son | Gen 22:2 | srbaegon | 214964 | ||
Hello bibleman12, You have been given several reasons. You just do not like them. Here are more. Barnes' Notes: "Abraham must have felt the outward inconsistency between the sacrifice of his son, and the promise that in him should his seed be called. But in the triumph of faith he accounted that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead. On no other principle can the prompt, mute, unquestioning obedience of Abraham be explained. Human sacrifice may have been not unknown; but this in no way met the special difficulty of the promise. The existence of such a custom might seem to have smoothed away the difficulty of a parent offering the sacrifice of a son. But the moral difficulty of human sacrifice is not so removed. The only solution of this, is what the ease itself actually presents; namely, the divine command. It is evident that the absolute Creator has by right entire control over his creatures. He is no doubt bound by his eternal rectitude to do no wrong to his moral creatures. But the creature in the present case has forfeited the life that was given, by sin. And, moreover, we cannot deny that the Almighty may, for a fit moral purpose, direct the sacrifice of a holy being, who should eventually receive a due recompense for such a degree of voluntary obedience. This takes away the moral difficulty, either as to God who commands, or Abraham who obeys. Without the divine command, it is needless to say that it was not lawful for Abraham to slay his son." Lawrence O. Richards, The Bible Readers Companion "God did not intend for Abraham to sacrifice Isaac. The command was a test: a test of how far Abraham would trust the Lord with his most precious possession." James Montgomery Boice, Genesis "How could this problem be resolved? There were only two ways. Abraham could have concluded that God was erratic, wavering from one plan to another because he did not know his own mind. This had not been Abraham’s experience of God. The long wait for the son had taught him better than that. Or Abraham could have concluded that, although he—being finite and sinful—was unable to see the resolution of the difficulty, God could nevertheless be trusted to have a resolution, which he himself would certainly disclose in due time. This was the harder of the two solutions to accept, but Abraham’s experience of God led in this direction. Abraham acted in a manner consistent with his knowledge of God. That is, he trusted him, concluding that whatever God’s purposes may or may not have been in this situation, God had at least shown that he could not be his enemy. God was his friend. When the command to sacrifice Isaac was first given, Abraham did not understand how, if the command were carried out, the promise could be fulfilled. But that was all right. Abraham left the difficulty with God, which is the essence of true faith. What is faith? Faith is believing God and acting upon it. This is what Abraham did. God had shown that he could be trusted, so Abraham believed God and acted, even though he could not understand the solution to the difficulty." Steve |
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233 | Moabites forbidden and Ruth allowed?? | Deut 23:3 | srbaegon | 214590 | ||
Hello MJH, This is well done--thank you. As an aside, I question one part: "While a Roman could be a member of the 'Assembly of the LORD' (ie. church in the New Testament) yet remain a Roman citizen..." I disagree only because Paul states that "our citizenship is in heaven" (Phil 3:20). Therefore the status of the Christian is as a sojourner (or resident alien) but not citizen. I see Paul's own use of Roman citizenship when arrested as more to hold the Roman guards accountable to their own laws rather than claiming something for himself. Steve |
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234 | did apostles disobey jesus' commission? | Matt 28:19 | srbaegon | 214473 | ||
Please do not speak in vague generalities. Specific details of specific occurrences are related in Acts. This does not mean that the apostles never baptized using three names. The best you can say is that Acts does not give any accounts of it happening. Steve |
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235 | ... | John 8:58 | srbaegon | 214471 | ||
If Jesus is: * the image of the invisible God; (Col 1:15) * the firstborn of all creation; (Col 1:15) * the author, vehicle and power of creation; (Col 1:16-17) * the head of the body, the church; (Col 1:18) * the dwelling place of all the fullness of God (Col 1:19; 2:9) * the vehicle of reconciliation (Col 1:20) * the recipient of reconciliation (Col 1:20) If he is all these things (which can only be attributed to God alone), how is it that he has a God? Steve |
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236 | ... | John 8:58 | srbaegon | 214465 | ||
What did you mean that "Jesus does have a God"? Steve |
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237 | can Satan plant thoughts into our minds? | 1 Pet 5:8 | srbaegon | 214464 | ||
These are good verses, but none of them, separately or together, proves what you stated. Steve |
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238 | will jesus reveal the seven seals b4 his | Revelation | srbaegon | 214461 | ||
Not that I can see. Steve |
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239 | dogs or cats in heaven (pets) | Bible general Archive 4 | srbaegon | 214459 | ||
Where is the Scripture that proves the eternality of God's word equates to the eternality of plant or animal species? Steve |
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240 | did apostles disobey jesus' commission? | Matt 28:19 | srbaegon | 214458 | ||
Where do you get the idea that every apostle baptized only in the name of Jesus Christ? Just because Scripture does not directly address a matter, that does not mean it did not happen. Steve |
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