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241 | Is Satan a fallen angel? | Num 22:22 | Hank | 189269 | ||
BibleVerse - The source of your post was easily traced to the Jehovah's Witnesses official web site and is, in fact, a direct quotation from this URL: http://www.watchtower.org/e/rq/article_04.htm ..... This is cyber-plagiarism, which is nothing less than literary theft. Whether you are a Jehovah's Witness or not, you have no business doing this. Your post is in violation of the standards of conduct for users of Study Bible Forum on two counts. (1) This Forum will not condone acts of blatant plagiarism and (2) this Forum will not permit teachings of cults to be displayed on its pages. ...... Please answer the following two-part question: Are you (a) a Jehovah's Witness, or (b) do you subscribe to the beliefs and practices of the Watchtower Society? It is important that you reply to this question as soon as possible. --Hank | ||||||
242 | loving others | 1 Cor 13:1 | Hank | 189259 | ||
A splendid recommendation, Sister Azure, that book by Lewis, I mean. Why didn't I think of that? I ask myself. ..... "The Four Loves" by C. S. Lewis ranks right up there in the league of excellence with his "Mere Christianity" and his "Screwtape Letters." ..... Night Jay is one of my favorite young chaps. He has been around for quite a while and I think of him as the "Questioner Laureate" of SBF. He asks many questions, and many of them are excellent ones at that. The oldest method of teaching in the world is still the most effective: asking questions, giving answers. ...... Night Jay is nearly as adept at asking questions as you are at giving answers. Both of you keep up the good work! --Hank | ||||||
243 | Which Disciple was Jesus cousin | Gal 1:19 | Hank | 189239 | ||
John, when you said that John the Baptist was not a disciple (of Christ), did you mean disciple or apostle? --Hank | ||||||
244 | Saved or not ? | Jer 17:9 | Hank | 189035 | ||
Cheri, it's more likely that the fault lies more in my failure to make the point clear than in yours for failng to understand. Let's see whether a recasting of the idea will help to clarify it. Salvation is wholly of God. Man cannot save himself or keep himself saved. He cannot save others or keep them saved. Neither is he empowered to judge who is saved and who is not. And yes, I believe the Bible is quite clear that all regenerate believers are the elect of God. Many thanks for your inquiry, Cheri. And I do hope I haven't muddied the water any worse than it was! --Hank | ||||||
245 | Saved or not ? | Jer 17:9 | Hank | 189032 | ||
We all of us see through our glass darkly. It is always fine to keep in mind our shortcomings, especially when we presume to pass judgment upon other men which, because we do not have the perfect perception that is God's alone, is largely based upon outward appearances. There is a famous passage in 1 Samuel 16:7 that draws a sharp contrast between divine and human perspectives. ..... There was a man whom I once knew who seemed to wear a permanent scowl upon his face, and until I came to know him better, I thought of him and sometimes spoke of him as 'that crabby old man.' Later when our acquaintance grew into friendship, I found him to be one of the kindest and most warm-hearted human beings I've ever known, not at all like the first impressions I had of him. ...... And who has not known a person who made a pleasing initial impression but later showed his true colors, which turned out to be anything but pleasing? ...... I believe it may have been C. S. Lewis -- I'm not absolutely sure -- who related the story about a rather crabby woman in his congregation who barked at about everything and everybody, and rarely seemed quite pleased with anything or acted very pleasant toward other members of the church. A member called C. S. Lewis aside one day and asked him about this woman, whether she was a Christian or just pretented to be. .... "Oh, I don't doubt that she's a regenerate believer," said Lewis. "She has changed considerably since she became a Christian. You see, I knew her before she came to Christ. You should have seen her then." ...... And so, WOS, your call to exercise caution is quite appropriate and applies to us all. It is unwise to place much trust in our perceptions which are at best exceedingly imperfect and woefully inadequate. Shakespeare said, "There is no art to find the mind's contruction in the face." I believe there is neither any art to find in the outward appearance of a man his inner relationship with God. --Hank | ||||||
246 | Conditional organs donation | Matt 7:12 | Hank | 189027 | ||
Justme - I truly appreciate your comments and thank you. The loss of a child is a devastating experience than which perhaps no other human loss is more intense. It is profound aplenty even when the parents are saved and the child is saved. I cannot possibly imagine how an unbeliever, who has not the hope and comfort afforded to the redeemed in Christ, can weather such a storm in his life. ...... It has been my aim and wish, that in sharing a few of these memories of my son with readers of this forum, I might be able to touch the hearts and bring a measure of comfort to those who personally know such intense sorrow. God has a loving way of mending the broken heart and transforming memories from sad ones to glad ones. I thank God for the privilege of being David's father and for the love we shared for nearly 21 years. And I thank Him too for my two other precious children and their children who have brought to my life joy and richness in abundance. And for my faithful and loving wife who has been by my side in sickness and health for almost 48 years. What blessings God has showered upon me! --Hank | ||||||
247 | Worship in form of art | Ex 20:4 | Hank | 189008 | ||
otahuti - It has been my hap to have been active on this Forum since a few days after it began, yet it never ceases to astound me the avidity with which registrants jump to conclusions for which reasons are totally lacking. A case in point is yours in which you characterize Azure's response to your question as being "very closed minded." How that determination could be founded on Azure's brief response, which consisted merely of a Bible verse and two short question, goes beyond my powers of comprehension. ..... By the way, while I rejoice that you seem to have found a measure of satisfaction and contentment in sculpting, I do not see it as a scripturally-endorsed form of worshipping God. ..... I tried my hand at sculpting years ago. I started out with a large hunk of clay and worried with it for days. When at last I grew weary and surveyed my work, it was plain for all to see that the fruits of my labor were nothing but a large hunk of clay. Thus ended my career as a sculptor and with it my hopes to add a couple of Presidents to Mt. Rushmore. --Hank | ||||||
248 | Mediator | Heb 4:16 | Hank | 188997 | ||
Brian - We have come to a time and a point in this disagreement when it shows little promise of resolution. Therefore, the prudent course is to end the disputation. I thank you for your kindness and civility and trust that you will continue to observe the stated guidelines that the Lockman Foundation have laid down for the conduct of their forum, especially the sola scriptura dictum. As ever, --Hank | ||||||
249 | Mediator | Heb 4:16 | Hank | 188995 | ||
Dear Brother WOS - As a Christian, I stand in rapt admiration of C. S. Spurgeons's sound theology. As a lifetime student of English, I stand amazed at his rare ability to paint in words with pen and ink as masterfully as Michalengelo painted in images with brush and oils. He is always fresh, clear, insightful and inspiring. I particularly am fond of his "King's highway" quotation. Thanks for including it in your post. It makes for an excellent illumination of your your thesis. ..... I don't mean to overlook John Gill! He's a fine old saint too, with sound and instructive exegeses, but lacks some of the sheen of Spurgeon. Still and all, if among preachers Charles Spurgeon is the prince, John Gill is by no means the pauper! I'd gratefully settle for a tithe of the Bible knowledge John Gill had. --Hank | ||||||
250 | Mediator | Heb 4:16 | Hank | 188993 | ||
Bauhania - Although Jesus is God, the second member of the triunity, the triune God being God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, the model prayer that Jesus himself gave to His followers (Matthew 6:9-13) begins, "Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name." Ephesians 2:18 teaches that believers have access to the Father through Christ, and Jesus taught that we should pray to the Father in His name (John 14:13,14). The Bible does not specifically command against praying to Jesus, but it does instruct to pray to the Father in Jesus' name. --Hank | ||||||
251 | Mediator | Heb 4:16 | Hank | 188989 | ||
Brian - Saints: who are they? The living who are the called of God, the redeemed of the church? That's how the New Testament commonly uses the word. Or the dead who have been "canonized" by Rome? .... A problem of semantics, perhaps? In the examples from Scripture that you cite, Brian, I don't see that they lend any authority whatever to your argument. They were neither deceased nor beatified. ...... Since this is a Forum that subscribes to the doctrine of sola scriptura, perhaps you would like to cite scriptural instructions, not church tradition, for praying to beings other than the triune God. --Hank | ||||||
252 | Mediator | Heb 4:16 | Hank | 188985 | ||
Amen and Amen! | ||||||
253 | Conditional organs donation | Matt 7:12 | Hank | 188959 | ||
Cheri, thank you so much for your kind response. It good to have you on SBF; your sincere enthusiasm is contagious. Blessings to you, dear one. --Hank | ||||||
254 | Saved or not ? | Jer 17:9 | Hank | 188880 | ||
Hello, WOS - Though it may not sends chills down your spine, I quite agree with you: God has not made it His business to make any man privy to whether another man is saved or lost. It's the same with who's elect and who is not elect. Some people close to Charles Spurgeon once suggested to this great preacher, "Why don't you just spend your time preaching to the elect?" I love Spurgeon's answer: "Sirs, if you will be so kind as to mark the elect so that I can tell who they are, I'll be happy to preach to them." ...... I believe Jesus got it right when He said, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned" (Mark 16:15,16, NKJV). I recognize that you quoted the same passage too, but it never hurts to repeat the wonderful words of life! --Hank | ||||||
255 | Why were the chosen ones chosen? | Rom 9:15 | Hank | 188571 | ||
Dear Brother WOS - I may as well come clean and confess that I have some enormously deep wells of treasure to draw from, 66 of them actually, and each well has a name, such as Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deut..... you get the idea. ..... And the quality and content of your posts leave no doubt in my mind, dear sir, that you drink deeply and frequently from these wells also. --Hank | ||||||
256 | Why were the chosen ones chosen? | Rom 9:15 | Hank | 188567 | ||
Seeker - The point that I believe WOS has illustrated by the use of appropriate Scripture references is that God chose the ones He chose, not because they are perfect, but because He is God, and is therefore free to chose whom He will, being sovereign. ...... Scripture is brim full of examples of imperfect vessels of clay whom God has used to His purpose and His glory. David, shepherd, giant fighter and king was also an adulterer and murderer. Peter, the zealous and energetic apostle, denied his Lord three times yet became an outstanding figure in the early church. Saul of Tarsus, leader of a goon squad bent on erasing the Christians, after his confrontation with the risen Christ along the road, became Paul, the great lion of God, the apostle who took the message of the gospel of Christ to the Gentile world. ...... God chooses whom He will. --Hank | ||||||
257 | Is It Human to Sin? | Gen 1:27 | Hank | 188429 | ||
Lookn4ward2Heavn - There you go again, asking for opinions (What are your thoughts?) instead of asking what God's word teaches. How many times must you be reminded NOT to elicit opinions from your Forum peers? All this does is bring on more discussion, more opinions, more debate, more of everything except what we are here for, which is, I say to you again and for the last time, to study the word of God. What part of this simple statement of purpose do you not understand? Please take these words seriously if you have any intention of remaining as a contributor to Study Bible Forum. --Hank | ||||||
258 | By What Right Does God Rule Man? | Ps 2:11 | Hank | 188304 | ||
Lookn4ward2Heavn - The idea of this Forum is and has always been to ask Bible questions which elicit Bible answers. You end your question directed to PanJam with "What do you think?" ...... It is not what PanJam thinks, or what Hank thinks, or what anyone else thinks that we're after on the Forum. We seek to know what the word of God teaches on a given topic. All you're doing is asking for an opinion. I believe you have been admonished before about keeping within the bounds of Forum guidelines. Please see to it that you do. ...... You stirred up so much dust and got such negative feedback from your peers on the Forum with your original question about what right God has to rule man, that it's surprising that you continue to push it. I'm hard pressed to understand what point and what value, if indeed any, the question has anyway. --Hank | ||||||
259 | gap therory | Gen 1:1 | Hank | 188288 | ||
Why? That's the question that needs to be asked, sir. Why, Gary, do you "tend to lean toward" the gap theory? You gave no Bible reference -- no documentation of any kind whatever. So, pray tell me, how on earth can you or any other Forum registrant reasonably expect other registrants to sit up and take notice? They don't know you. You may have ample credentials; you may have more degrees than a thermometer; you may have a thousand and one cogent reasons to believe as you do and be able to back up every single one of them with sound evidence from Scripture itself -- although, in the case of trying to talk Scripture into supporting the gap theory, you may have a tough row to hoe, friend. ..... As for as there being a problem with the translation of the account of the six days of creation, which is what you claim, then I assume you expect the readers of this Forum to believe that all the major translations into English from Tyndale to the English Standard Version got the whole thing wrong. What a pity, too, that all these major translations on which we English-speaking peoples so heavily rely, were so deplorably inept that they couldn't even get the opening few lines of the Bible right. So we appeal to you, sir. Tell us, if you will, how it ought to be. Set us straight so that we no longer will have to depend on the King James Bible or the New American Standard Bible, or any of those other pitiful attempts to translate the ancient tongues into clear English. With the kind of expertise that you seem to imply, we can read the correct version right here on Study Bible Forum. ...... While we're at the business of revising all those error-riddled translations, we may as well change the rendering of the Hebrew word "hayetah" in Genesis 1:2 from "WAS without form and void" to "BECAME without form and void" in order to make the Bible more tolerant of the gap theory. After all, it makes more sense to change Scripture to agree with man's gap theory than to throw out this neat theory simply because Scripture refuses to go along with it. ...... I've never quite understood why God does not, from time to time, revise His written word and at least make some effort to keep it up to date with the inerrant thinking of modern man. Hmmm...could it be that God's thoughts are not man's thoughts? Now that's something to chew on. --Hank | ||||||
260 | Can the devil tune in to our thoughts? | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 188239 | ||
Dear WOS - It's clear to see that you are trying to get this thread back on a Bible-based footing. I offer my thanks and support. --Hank | ||||||
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