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Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Author: Reformer Joe Ordered by Verse |
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2401 | Why would you include 1 John 5:7? | 1 John 5:7 | Reformer Joe | 98707 | ||
"now....... did the God who inspired these words KNOW that the Revelation would eventually be part of a bigger book? I say, YES." So what? The warning in Revelation refers to the text of Revelation. "I insist that the warning applies: especially when you consider that 1 John and The Revelation were both penned by the same human writer." Again, so what? Tolstoy wrote _Anna Karenina_ and _War and Peace._ They are different books written at different times. The fact that John wrote a gospel, three epistles, and Revelation does not make them the same book. --Joe! |
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2402 | put 1Jn 5:7 BACK where it belongs! | 1 John 5:7 | Reformer Joe | 98709 | ||
"Of you want to see a simple and typical example of WHY I cannot replace my 1769KJV with the NKJV, just go to Psalm 17:13-14 and compare. There is a WORLD of difference there... and the KJV is right." Okay, I'll bite: 1. How is there a WORLD of difference there? 2. Show us how the KJV is right. Give us a Hebrew lesson as well as a lesson in how to properly translate from one language to another. "THANK YOU Lockman Foundation for providing this forum! Now please fix up that NASB so I can recomend it!" As far as I know, none of the posters here are on the staff of Lockman. I don't know why you keep thinking that we can make the revisions you are proposing any more than you can. "I believe that GOD Himself is presently voting for the 1769KJV as THE STANDARD ENGLISH BIBLE." I can believe that I am Napoleon; it doesn't make me right... --Joe! |
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2403 | Do you own a TNIV BIBLE? | 3 John | Reformer Joe | 68488 | ||
I think that this question was a duplicate one. | ||||||
2404 | About the Forum | Jude 1:3 | Reformer Joe | 69955 | ||
How does discussing doctrine tear one another down? We can't even talk about the Bible at all without discussing doctrine. And we will come across different points of view on that, unless we are limited to saying that Jesus rose again and that there is one God. --Joe! |
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2405 | Scandal of the Catholic Priesthood | Jude 1:4 | Reformer Joe | 52600 | ||
I think it was completely unnecessary for you to post it in its entirety on StudyBibleForum.com. The link was absolutely sufficient for anyone to read it without having to scroll through pages of your posting. --Joe! |
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2406 | Scandal of the Catholic Priesthood | Jude 1:4 | Reformer Joe | 52601 | ||
Brian: While I grieve with you over the recent events, I do not think that the blaming of society and the state for the sins of certain church leaders is a biblical way of addressing the issue. You wrote: "Society cannot have morally strong adults (including religious leaders) if they are not given proper guidance from childhood on." And it is the parents in the church who are raising these future leaders, for the most part. No matter what the state or society does, it is the covenantal responsability of parents to educate their children in the things of God (Deuteronomy 6). The early church faced a pagan culture that perhaps even makes ours somewhat pale in comparison. Christianity transformed the culture not by being "a mirror reflecting the image of today's society," but by standing apart as salt and light in the midst of moral decay. The events of recent days have been tragic and reflect poorly on the name of Christ, and for that everyone who bears his name should be in fervent prayer. However, when a body that claims to be the church of Jesus Christ is caught publicly in sin, the course of action is not to pass blame on society and the libraries or minimize its own guilt in not only the perpetrating but in the covering-up of sin, but to confess its sin and repent before almighty God and the watching world. --Joe! |
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2407 | Scandal of the Catholic Priesthood | Jude 1:4 | Reformer Joe | 52623 | ||
You wrote: "I think shown against the backdrop of the Catholic Church, the world sees homosexuality for what it really is." Actually, I don't think it is homosexuality that is being condemned here by the world, but the molesting of children. What we learn from this, as we have learned from the public exposure of the sins of leaders from across the Christian spectrum, is that the world hates Jesus Christ, and they are all-too-quick to rejoice in saying, "See, they are just like us." The world is always looking for ways, legitimate or otherwise, to tarnish the good and strong name of Jesus Christ. When anyone claiming to represent Him, whether Catholic or Protestant or Coptic or Orthodox, aids and abets the tarnishing of that name, repentance is called for. You do agree with that, don't you? You wrote: "I realize that there are plenty of Protestant denominations which are pro-gay, but now you know how the world really feels about it. " Actually, the world loves it. Such "enlightenment" is "celebrated and affirmed" all over. It is Protestants who hold fast to the Scriptures who are so dismayed by it. You wrote: "Why does everything have to be an argument with you, Joe. " Here's a hanky, Brian. You stop blaming society and the state for sin in the church, and I will stop arguing. --Joe! |
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2408 | Scandal of the Catholic Priesthood | Jude 1:4 | Reformer Joe | 52624 | ||
You wrote: "By the way, I am not grieving for my Church." I didn't say that we should be grieving for your Chruch, Brian. We should be grieving the the name of Christ has been maligned by those who are called to glorify it. And as always, we should be grieving over sin in all its forms, both our personal ones as well as those we see in the world as a result of the Fall. You wrote: "It's not perfect, and it never will be." The church of Jesus Christ will one day be perfect, and for that I rejoice. "This is not the first time the Catholic Church has had any issues and it won't be the last." You seem to want to make this a Catholic/Protestant issue. I will readily acknowledge that Protestants have committed grievous sins, even sins identical to the ones being thrown around in the press today. In those cases, repentance and removal from ministry is called for, and if the superiors of such individuals covered up those sins, they should be called into account as well. God established church discipline in order to keep Christ's bride pure in doctrine and in practice. In my estimation, biblical church discipline ranks up there with the ministry of the word and the sacraments as marks of a true, functioning church. As I have said before, I am saddened by the treatment of the RCC in the media. It angers me that Jay Leno has to make his nightly joke about priests and pedophilia. But while the RCC is a victim of the persecution of the press, it is by no means an innocent victim. To point fingers and say that the world is just as guilty of the same sins is no defense of the actions of priests who have committed these crimes and the bishops who have covered up and defended them or excused them. Such iniquity is to be expected of the unregenerate, but not of the household of God. We who are Christians are indeed not perfect, but we have been called to a higher standard than the perishing world. --Joe! |
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2409 | Scandal of the Catholic Priesthood | Jude 1:4 | Reformer Joe | 52635 | ||
Wow...a rant befitting the "Caps Lock" key! Okay, I know you have the word "freak" in your name, but let's take a deep breath and discuss like reasoning people. I agree that the work of Christ alone is the grounds for our justification. I am about as much of a classical Protestant as one can be. However, I wholeheartedly disagree with this statement you made: "The church cannot do a thing for you. It's full of hard hearted, spiritually blind, legalistic, religious, arogant and prideful individuals." Let's see what the Bible says about the ministry of the church: "And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ. As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love." --Ephesians 4:11-16 We are differently gifted and called together to minister to one another. That is what God does for the believer through the ministry of the church. And it is also the context in which the individual believer ministers to her brothers and sisters in Christ. "For just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another." --Romans 12:4-5 Christians do not only belong to Christ, but to each other as well. That is the church, the household of God. We are ONE BODY (excuse the caps). We may be saved as individuals, but the Christian life is not exclusively an individual one. The New Testament makes that quite clear. We as believers derive benefits and have responsibilities to the church. Just out of curiosity, assuming you do fellowship with other believers, do you walk in the door on Sundays and greet your brothers and sisters in Christ by referring to them as "hard hearted, spiritually blind, legalistic, religious, arogant and prideful individuals"? There is a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, to be sure, but there is also a corporate one as well. To deny that is to deny the Bible and God's means of grace. Things like the Lord's Supper make absolutely no sense outside of the COMMUNION of the saints (sorry about the caps). Let's take a look at the earliest example of the new Testament church to see how God worked: "Day by day continuing with one mind in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they were taking their meals together with gladness and sincerity of heart, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number day by day those who were being saved." --Acts 2:46-47 Seems like the church was busy, and God was busy saving people and adding them to the CHURCH (those caps again!). There is no question that God's church is a work in progress, and no stranger to sin. However, if you completely reject the church, I would have serious doubts as to whether you truly understand the gospel at all. The work of God's kingdom is a corporate work shared by all who are called according to His purpose. We are a covenant community just as the nation of Israel was, and Jesus makes it quite clear in the opening chapters of Revelation that he will remove His lampstand from among entire congregations for not dealing with the sins of individual believers within the body. Like it or not, all of us who possess saving faith in Jesus Christ are in this together, and we would best heed the words of the apostle Paul: "Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or remain absent, I will hear of you that you are standing firm in ONE SPIRIT, with ONE MIND striving together for the faith of the gospel" --Philippians 1:27 --Joe! |
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2410 | 18 Book of Revelation | Revelation | Reformer Joe | 95264 | ||
Paragraphs, man! :) --Joe, the partial preterist |
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2411 | where is judgement | Revelation | Reformer Joe | 95267 | ||
You wrote: you seem to think that the judgment has not happen yet, well my friend the bible tells us very plainly that the judgment is when? Hebrews 9:27 will give us the answer. It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this [after what]? after death is the judgment." The author of Hebrews never says that judgment immediately follows death. Your interpretation is certainly not ruled out, but neither is an opposing view. "Notice in revelation 20:12 john says he saw the [DEAD] these people had already died and were being judged." But we both can agree that when John was writing it, all of the prophetic events recorded were future ones. This judgment certainly took place after John recorded it. The question is whether the judgment took place before we read about it. What do you make of Matthew 25:31-46. This seems far from an individual, incremental judgment. --Joe! |
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2412 | Is Jezebel part of the church? | Rev 2:20 | Reformer Joe | 78001 | ||
And the Scriptural support for this is...? --Joe! |
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2413 | Is Jezebel part of the church? | Rev 2:20 | Reformer Joe | 78065 | ||
I was talking about the alleged "spirit of Jezebel," which is supposedly in the church today and about which an author wrote an apparently authoritative book. Biblical support for this...? --Joe! |
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2414 | Is Jezebel part of the church? | Rev 2:20 | Reformer Joe | 78189 | ||
Not really, sorry. We have the queen in the Old Testament and a false prophetess that goes by the same name in the church at Thyatira. Both of these were human beings who had those names. Scripture says nothing more, and that's where we should close our mouths. Did the carpenter who raised Jesus have a "Joseph spirit" that Jacob's son also had? Seeing that my name is also Joseph, do I have that same spirit? --Joe! --Joe! |
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2415 | what about the K J V | Rev 3:10 | Reformer Joe | 25006 | ||
"SOLO scriptura"? I love it! Did you make that up, and if so, may I have permission to use it every day for the rest of my life? --Joe! |
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2416 | what about the K J V | Rev 3:10 | Reformer Joe | 25007 | ||
Coming as I do from the theological tradition of the Puritans (call me puritannical -- I don't mind!), I will be happy to contend that the KJV is okay, just not as accessible to people speaking and English that is almost 400 years newer than what we see in its pages. Incidentally, the Geneva Bible (1560) came out before the KJV (1611), and the KJV was a response to that version, not vice-versa. King James just didn't like those Puritans and their study Bible! :) --Joe! |
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2417 | what about the K J V | Rev 3:10 | Reformer Joe | 25045 | ||
Hank: R.C. Sproul isn't THAT old! :) Sproul's Reformation Study Bible is New King Jimmy, though... Speaking of Bible translations, I am test-driving the new English Standard Version, published by Crossway Bibles. I like it a lot! --Joe! |
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2418 | what about the K J V | Rev 3:10 | Reformer Joe | 25089 | ||
Ed: The Geneva Bible may not have been as extensive as the bajillions of study Bibles out on the market today (I am still waiting for my Veggie Tales Study Bible, so I can learn how agriculture plays a vital role in redemptive history), but it did have a good deal of Calvinistic-leaning commentary in the margins (after all, it was translated by the exiled Puritans living in Geneva). James didn't like that, so he had his own made. --Joe! |
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2419 | what about the K J V | Rev 3:10 | Reformer Joe | 25092 | ||
The NRSV was commissioned by the National Council of Churches. Of course it uses language that denies the virgin birth of Christ! --Joe! |
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2420 | what about the K J V | Rev 3:10 | Reformer Joe | 25126 | ||
Ed: I am by no means an expert on the Geneva Bible, but here is a link which explains a little about the Geneva/King James situation: http://www.reformed.org/documents/geneva/Geneva.html And here is an example of the notes from the 1599 version of Romans: http://www.reformed.org/documents/geneva/romans.html Hope this gives you a good idea! --Joe! |
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