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241 | Woman in pants | Deut 22:5 | Beja | 213659 | ||
Do you really think that in our current culture pants is a "man only attire" in the same way a dress is "women only?" The reason it is alright for women to wear pants is that its no more a "man only" article of clothing than shoes are, at least in our current culture. Women in pants is not cross dressing. Perhaps where you live its different. In Love, Beja |
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242 | Greiving the Holy Spirit | Is 63:10 | Beja | 213496 | ||
Sometimes when we read a statement like that we look so hard for something deep we miss that the answer is right there. I take it to be referring to all the other things in ephesians 4:25-32. Not beggining to work out these changes in your life grieves God's Spirit which desires to see Christ fully formed in us (our thinking, our conduct, our relationships, etc.). In love, Beja |
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243 | What about these sins? | Matt 16:6 | Beja | 213467 | ||
Let me just begin by saying that scripture does not actually give explicit advice for your situation. I mean that in the sense that while it gives plenty of advice for marriage and rules against divorce, had you followed the rules in existence you would not be married to this second spouse, yet the only way for you to in a sense go back and undo this would be yet another divorce. So you are caught between looking back to see sin led you here, and now you wonder if sin itself is the way out. That specific circumstance is not singled out in scripture. However, I will give you my attempt to answer your situation as long as we are both understood that what I am giving you is my best attempt at processing all the commands God gives concerning marriage and all that I know of God to try to think within the mind of Christ to answer this question. This is my attempt, and not "Thus saith the LORD." What we know is that any divorce is a sin to the one who divorces unless their spouse actually cheated on them. These are Christ's words. Paul also in 1 Corinthians 7:10-12 says that is a wife does through sin leaves her husband that she now has two options, she may either remain unmarried, or return to her husband. First I assume this applies to a husband who leaves also. Now what I'd like you to see is that after this person had sinned in unlawfully leaving a spouse, the sin was done and now must be decided how to keep from sinning further which naturally assumes the person is wishing to do God's will after the first sin, and there is some degree of repentence. You find yourself yet one step further in sin, you committed the divorce, then you married again, but now again you must see where do you go not to sin further. The first step is that this assumes the same repentence from you. You have sinned, you have done wrong in getting to where you are, and you do need to turn to go in serious repentence for this. However, you now have found yourself in the situation that you have made a second covenant before God in marriage. You can not make your past mistakes right by committing divorce a second time. Only the blood of Christ can make that right. If you repent, and you turn to fully seek God's will in your new situation, and you give your current spouse the committment before God you didn't give your first one, God will bless your marriage. We do not fix sin with sin. Cling to your new spouse with all your life. A critique against what I have said will surely be this: does this not leave people a way to do what they want, to leave their spouse, to marry again, and then cleverly say oh well, I guess now to obey God I must get exactly what I wanted! Surely people can play games with you and I and any rules we set up, but rest assured God knows their hearts. Galatians 6:7 says, "Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life." So I say to you this, if it is your heart to repent entirely and turn both your life and this marriage you are currently in to God, you do well. If you seek to use this simply as a stamp of approval for your sin, God will know, and God will repay. Finally, I beg you to see no judgement of you in my post for that is certainly not my intention. Rather, fully edifying whoever should read this post, and not leading them to sin from halfly revealed truths has compelled me to portray fully the path to life and the path to condemnation within your situation. Read 1 Samuel chapter 12 for an encouraging story on God calling people on in faith when they have found that they have sinned. In love, Beja |
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244 | naming and subordination | Gen 3:20 | Beja | 213409 | ||
1 Cor 11:8 involves a highly disputed passage which speaks of men having authority over women and how that plays out in church. The details of the passage are not what I draw attention to so much as the basis for which Paul anchors his male authority view point. In verse 8 he says, "For man does not originate from woman, but woman from man." (NASB) Let us move to a second verse which we find in 1 Timothy chapter 2. 1tim 2:11,12 states that women are not allowed to teach or have authority over a man within the church. Once again the interesting thing to note is the reasons for which Paul states this. The first of his two reasons is stated in verse 13 when he says, "For it was Adam who was first created and then Eve." He does then go on to state what happened in the fall as a second reason. My concluding statement to your first question is this: it does seem that Paul set forth what took place in creation (prior to the fall) as a reason of the husband being head over the wife. I don't submit this as absolute conclusive proof, but I think since scripture doesn't explicitly anywhere state whether it was based on the fall or creation then these two verses should definitly lean us towards a creation view. As for your second question I believe the answer is yes, it did signify his authority over her. However I know of nowhere that scripture states this and it would have to be backed up from simply viewing extrabiblical traditions and studying the Jewish mind set. So I put forth this part of my response most humbly as my opinion. Hope the first part was helpful, Beja |
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245 | God, Are You There? | John 16:8 | Beja | 207292 | ||
Let me begin by saying I highly doubt you shall receive any answer more in the spirit of Christ and the New testament than what mister "Wild olive shoot" gave to you. Mine his post for every thought in it. However, I would like to add to what you have been given by Him in whatever little way I can. First, the heart of your question seems to my mind to be that you see something in the way your husband is behaving or talking that, if real, you believe you ought to have. And if you don't have it, perhaps you are doing something wrong. Working on the assumption that this is the heart of your concern I will make two points. This first point is that usually when somebody uses such language he simply means this: I feel very strongly about this and I believe those feelings are from God. It is not to say that he is actually hearing voices, or that he has some special revelation. He is simply following his heart so to speak. Hopefully he is measuring this very carefully against God's word. We must follow our consciences but we must let God's word correct us on all points of our belief. Second, how can you have what you perceive him to have. The best answer I can give you on this is Jeremiah 29:13 You will seek me and you will find me when you seek me with all your heart. This is so often how God works with us. He waits for us to seek him with all our heart and passion. The best thing you can do is to reach the point in your own heart where you can honestly say this: I am going to spend the rest of my life seeking You whether I find you or not, because You are the only thing worth it. Set your heart fully on this and seek Him in any way you can, reading his word, praying, acts of love and kindness specifically done for Him that you hide from others so as not to receive praise from men. Anything you can do, seek Him fully with all your heart. When you do this whatever happens you can be sure you are EXACTLY where He wants you. And from there leave yourself entirely in His hands, to bless to whatever extent He sees fit. Take simple peace knowing you are where He wants you, and He will not long leave you alone when you seek Him with all your heart. I can offer you this one comfort. The few times in my life I have persued Him so completely have been the moments that preceeded my most dearest times with Him. Set your whole heart on Him, and He will find you. |
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246 | revelation, inspiration, illumination | Bible general Archive 4 | Beja | 207251 | ||
The difficulty you are going to run into is that people are going to consistently use these words to say different things. What is important is getting straight the ideas they represent. There is one thing in which God makes "new revelation." This is ofcourse often called revelation or with regards to the writers of scripture this was often called inspiration. On the other hand there is the process where God opens our heart to actually understand what has already been revealed in his word. This is often called illumination. However, what you need to understand is that people don't always use the same words for the same things. Some people refer to this process where God helps us understand existing revelation as revelation itself. Ultimately you have to try to understand what a particular person is saying by it. The sad fact is that two people can say the same thing and mean totally different things by it. Keep the concepts straight in your head, and then try to understand how a given person or source is using these words. | ||||||
247 | Marriage as a Covenant Relationship? | Eph 5:32 | Beja | 206771 | ||
Heb 8:7-13 and its counterpart in Jeremiah has your answer. Yes we are in a new covenant. But as verse 9 says it is one, "Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers." The difference in the two is that the old covenant was as you are asking, full of rules and expectations. But what is unique about the new one is that it has no qualifications on our side. A normal covenant has I will do "such and such" and your part is to do "whatever." The way the new covenant is different is that it has no "our" part. God describes it fully in terms of I will do these things and put my laws on their heart and forgive their sins. We have a new covenant that is not dependent on the weakness of our flesh but solely on God's resolve to save. | ||||||
248 | Speculation? | 2 Tim 2:23 | Beja | 206767 | ||
1 Cor 4:6 says that you may learn not to exceed what is written. I feel like this verse is a little clearer on what this "foolish speculation" is. I understand it to be anything beyond what scripture reveals to us. This would include taking a topic further than scripture reveals to us. This is a problem for two main reasons that I can think of. 1. Leads to conflict within the church, because we don't have an answer and therefore we are extending ourselves onto guess work which people are going to disagree and argue about. 2. While many of us may enjoy trying to figure out such things, it is ultimately unprofitable for righteousness and knowing God, which is what our concern should be. Scripture has given us everything that we need for life and righteousness. Now, given all of this, I don't think it is always wrong for a couple of christians to discuss some brain twister. But two things should be kept in mind. It is for fun, and shouldn't be returned to the shelf in full awareness of its usefulness even IF we were to figure it out, and secondly that we should never bring it up in front of questions that don't have the level of maturity to handle it at such. I think anything beyond this is going into what Paul has warned us about. |
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249 | Where is Hell | Revelation | Beja | 206674 | ||
Ask him to show you that in scripture. He wont' be able to. This is pretty absurd actually. | ||||||
250 | Psalm Refers to Jesus Calming the Sea? | Ps 107:26 | Beja | 206602 | ||
Are the two connected? Absolutely. But let me respond with this question. Was it a prophecy that Jesus had to fulfill? Or was Jesus simply intentionally doing this to connect Himself to that psalm in the mind of His disciples in order to make a statement about who He was. Side note: Fulfillment of passages in the OT within the new is a tricky topic. Becaues so many instances such as the one you just brought up are obviously connected to the life of Christ or the early church, but we must never forget the passage had very real meaning in the time of the Old Testament also. A Jew reading this Psalm in the year 10 BC would not have been confused by it but certain it was a glorifying story of Yahweh delivering sailors in the midst of a storm. So we find ourselves with the situation that nobody probably ever suspected this to be a prophecy until the moment Jesus did what he did. So we must ask ourselves, was it one? Or did Jesus just decide to pain a picture with His actions in an attempt to essentially say, "I AM this God who calms the storms in Psalm 107." I leave you to decide. God bless |
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251 | Verse 14 About Judas or Israel and Judah | Zech 11:14 | Beja | 206601 | ||
Personally I understand the whole passage to be referring to the current situation. I just don't think the reference to the thirty pieces of silver in verse 13 merits understanding the whole passage as speaking about Judas. Far more likely it is talking about the very near judgement of God on this nation and later thinkers has the infamous 30 pieces of silver in mind when reading it. | ||||||
252 | Contrast Exodus 20:5 and Ezekiel 18:20? | Ezek 18:20 | Beja | 206600 | ||
I would ask three questions of myself to guide my decision on how to understand these two passages in relation to one another. 1. What is the difference between "visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children" found in Exodus 20:5, and the "bear the punishment for the father's iniquity" in Ezekiel 18:20. Do you beieve that is a different way of saying the same thing? Or do you think perhaps Exodus is referring to the fact that the sins of the fathers have cascading consequences affecting future generations and the Ezekiel is talking about actual moral guilt in God's eyes. 2. In Exodus 20:5 it says "on the third and fourth generations of those who hate me." Who do you think "of those who hate me" is referring to? It could be referring to future generations who hate him. But I find that doubtful to be honest. 3. In Ezekiel God seems to be explicitly explaining how he accounts sin upon people while in Exodus He seems to be more so making a statement about who he is rather than trying to give an explicit account of his book keeping techniques. Because this statement is remarkably similiar to the statement God makes in Exodus 34:6,7 where God reveals himself to Moses in the form of a key statement of his character. A statement that went on to be a central defining description of who he was. I'm not so much giving you an answer but telling you that how I resolved the previous three questions in my head would very likely determine how I personally understand the two passages. Think about it, pray about it and see what you think. |
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253 | Questions about being Saved | Ps 22:1 | Beja | 206566 | ||
Question 1: Most believe that God can not look upon sin and therefore had to turn His face from Christ while Christ carried our sin on the cross. As you have already mentioned there is no way we can comprehend what implications such a statement would have within the trinity. Combine that with the fact that this answer is nowhere found in scripture I have to personally reject this idea. Another less popular theory, which I think is correct, is that Christ was drawing upon the 22nd Psalm. What he cried out is the first line of Psalm 22. In doing so the point was to bring to mind the entirety of the Psalm. Psalm 22 begins in utter dispair over the apparent situation of God forsaking the Psalmist and ends in a triumpant cry of God's faithfulness. I believe the cry was meant to bring to mind the entire psalm including the ultimate assurance that even in this God is faithful and will deliver. We do this often actually when we state some short phrase of an inside joke and intend for the person to recall to mind the punch line and see how it applies to the current situation. We do this with a variety of things, a brief song lyric, a movie quote, etc. Christ was simply doing this with a Psalm. Question2: For time reason I can't currently give you the full picture to answer this. You are touching upon a very large topic. But here is a tiny bit to help with what you specifically asked. We were "chosen" before the foundation of the world. The actually saving was yet to be done. The payment at the cross and our receiving the gospel for salvation was yet to be completed. |
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