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241 | Why is the Christian Church so divided? | Bible general Archive 4 | bowler | 206412 | ||
Cody Mac No problems, no harm no foul. Ephesians 4:3 being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. blessings abound, bowler |
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242 | How Far Are We To Be Tolerant? | Eph 4:2 | bowler | 206411 | ||
Searcher I prefer to remain quiet actually and to continue to pray as I am not too sure that admonishing anyone is the right thing to do. I am not over anyone to be the one to be correcting them, we are brothers and sisters. I see what you mean about words in love and peace though. I think I have never seen yet in my 25 years as a believer that anyone was able to change just because their faults get pointed out to them. It takes the Holy Spirit to change a person, not just conviction, which is the most popular idea when wishing for someone to change. The Holy Spirit working from the inside of a believers heart to actually produce the good fruit. That takes prayer on the part of others who see the fault in another and might actually be more effective in bringing about a result. I have tried this at home, works every time :), takes a long time, sometimes years, but it works better than words, which can only convict. I was thinking as I chose the scriptures of how long a person should be waiting, how tolerant of other's faults, because of how judging others makes us not a doer of the law, but a judge of others, which God condemns. blessings abound, bowler |
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243 | Biblical Function Of Elders? | Num 11:16 | bowler | 206410 | ||
Searcher Very interesting, thank you for those scriptures it brought light to the whole thing. As to rule of churches - By congregation? How does that work, do you know? Is that done by vote or some such, by the boards? Elder is a pretty broad term, overseer is another way of putting it. A pastor or a teacher could be said to be an elder, or overseer. A deacon could be said to be an elder, but perhaps not an overseer. We have deacons, and trustees, some of whom are on the elder board, and then the pastor who works more closely with the elder board than with the deacons per se. Not all of our deacons and trustees are male, but all of our elders are. We have a lady associate minister udner the headship of the pastor, but she does not interact very closely with the elder board, but does with the deacons. Our church is a little bit different than a lot of others. Our elders are responsible for matters of conduct and church governance and work together with the pastor on these matters, he consults with them and makes descisions in concert with their input a lot of the time, but not always. blessings abound, bowler |
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244 | Verse For Testing Leaders? | 1 John 4:1 | bowler | 206407 | ||
quvmoh Thank you. 1 Thessalonians 5:21 seems to come closest, test everything. I seem to be stuck here looking for something along the lines of test a candidate for leadership. Maybe I am looking at this thing all wrong and I shoud just look at the qualifications for leadership that one must live up to understanding that these would be criteria for a test. I seem to be searching for something that is not there, a verse to use as a basis to test one for becoming a leader. blessings abound, bowler |
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245 | Suffering For The Sake Of Christ? | 1 Pet 4:12 | bowler | 206405 | ||
Cody Mac Suffering for Christ as if it is His fault? A little confused how that would work. Perhaps you meant suffering for Christ's sake because He suffered for us? There shouldn't be anything to suffer if we do the work of Christ? I think Peter says we are called to suffer because we are Christians somewhere. I agree that if the spouse talks down to you about you doing the work you are suffering for Christ. Thank you for your thoughts here. blessings abound, bowler |
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246 | Suffering For The Sake Of Christ? | 1 Pet 4:12 | bowler | 206404 | ||
Searcher Yes I see about suffering for Christ in terms of for the gospel as all your scriptures are about, that is the proclaimation of it. My marriage is actualy pretty good considering, been a long time together! What I meant by "I am struggling with things considered to be suffering for the sake of Christ" is I was struggling with the scriptures themselves. I do know a brother in church who is struggling in his marriage because his wife is an ubeliever, and he was told that "obeying Christ", doing Ephesians 5 and all that entails, and still encountering problems, that his suffering is not "suffering for the sake of Christ" because it is not for the proclaimation of the gospel. Mathew 5:10-12 seems to be about suffering for being a disciple, but I see how would apply that in a sense to being married to an unbeliever who is unbearable to be with. blessings abound, bowler |
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247 | Christians Apostate Same As Anit-Christ? | 1 Tim 4:1 | bowler | 206403 | ||
Cody Mac Thanks for the input. I see exactly what you are saying about the difference between apostasy and being of the spirit of the Anti-Christ. I got to thinking about what Jude says in 1:22, 23 about having mercy on some who doubt, save others snatching them out of the fire, and on some to have mercy with fear. And what I thought was that those who are apostate it may be possible to pull back to the faith because they have gone dangerously astray due to false teaching or doctrine, and that these are all apostate. This would make them believers who went wrong, but if they never come back were they ever saved? But that those who believe that Jesus is not God, these are the ones with the spirit of the Anti-Christ and they cannot be pulled back from something they were never truly a part of, the body of Christ. blessings abound, bowler |
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248 | Verse For Testing Leaders? | 1 John 4:1 | bowler | 206394 | ||
I am having trouble finding the verse that speaks about testing those who are being considered for positions of leadership. Is there such a verse in the first place, and who does the testing? blessings abound, bowler |
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249 | Suffering For The Sake Of Christ? | 1 Pet 4:12 | bowler | 206393 | ||
I am struggling with which things are to be considered to be suffering for the sake of Christ. I have heard it said that those who are suffering in their marriages are not suffering for the sake of Christ but because of mutual sin and that suffering for the sake of Christ is to suffer for the proclaimation of the gospel only. Is that suffering for the sake of Christ is only in the doing of the work of Christ, or is it that any sufferig to obey Christ is suffering for the sake of Christ? blessings abound, bowler |
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250 | Christians Apostate Same As Anit-Christ? | 1 Tim 4:1 | bowler | 206392 | ||
What is meant here by falling away from the faith? I do not by any means pretend to know. How can one fall away from the faith if one has an assurance of faith? Is this talking about those back then who at first were doing the right things, but then taught to do the wrong things, and does this mean they have the spirit of the anti-Christ, or is it that they are still saved but believe the wrong things? blessings abound, bowler |
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251 | Biblical Function Of Elders? | Num 11:16 | bowler | 206391 | ||
Looking at the Biblical idea of elders here and tracing it from the OT into the NT. In Numbers 11:16-17 the Lord grants to Moses help in judging the matters of the people. In 1 Timothy 3:1-13 Paul shows the qualifications for elders. What would be the difference if any between how the Lord had elders functioning in the OT and how they should be functioning now according to the NT? blessings abound, bowler |
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252 | Why is the Christian Church so divided? | Bible general Archive 4 | bowler | 206390 | ||
Immanuelsown I totaly agree with you that the only place this seems to be true is in the church that where two don't agree they don't walk together, but out there for money people disagree strongly about all kinds of things but come together on making the money. That is one very big reason why so many can't get past the church and what they see going on in the church to go ahead and take the offer of salvation, which is hypocritical actualy because they will do the same thing to get the money. The church is united in Christ and is not truly divided, saw that on another note and really liked that:), but that may be more a spiritual reality than a visible one in a lot of churches. As you mention, and I agree, the use of gifts has caused one type of division bewtween denominations. Another thing that has caused division between denominations is how to view Baptism and the Lord's Supper, whether as sacrament or as ordinance. I was very intrigued by your view of the forum here as a microcosm of the church. It made me think about the literal church being the whole spiritualy undivided body of Christ, as also being the virtual church as the church outside of the building inside this forum because as scripture states - Mathew 18:20 For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst. Then according to that scripture this forum is where two or more than three have gathered. Where ever the members of Christ are, consitutes the church (which is never the building, but the members meeting), there is the church literaly. In that sense whatever divisions appear to be here in the forum, actualy in the life of the body of Christ do not exist, as there is no true divisions in the body of Christ. blessings abound, bowler |
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253 | How Far Are We To Be Tolerant? | Eph 4:2 | bowler | 206389 | ||
I have come accross as of late, members of the church who seem to be not exactly very good examples of Christian behavior. In particular a number of the ladies auxiliary where I fellowship have a tendency to show a lack of the fruit of the spirit when dealing with others whom they either do not agree with about how things should be done around the church, or who they do not agree with about how to interpret scriptures in a Bible study setting, and also in social but Christian settings. I have been a silent observer of this and have not said anything to the elders or to the pastor and keep on praying for these ladies who by and large seem to do more around the church than most of the men and there are more of them attending the Bible study setting then there are the men. In fact there are more ladies in our church than there are men. In the social but Christian settings these ladies hold a lot of sway about how things ought to be done. This is in no way whatsoever being posted as disaparging remarks to the ladies on this site, or to denounce ladies anywhere from being involved actively in church or at any Bible study, including this one, or to mean that ladies should be seen as overbearing in social but Christian settings just because they are involved. How far should we go as church goers, as members of the whole body of Christ, and as men, in being tolerant to members of the body of Christ in any Bible based setting? And how far should we go in not speaking against our sisters and being their judge? Does saying anything about something that is wrong qualify here, or are we to understand some other principle I am missing here? The main verse I am thinking of is the one posted, but the other two I have in mind are - James 5:9 Do not complain, brethren, against one another, so that you yourselves may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing right at the door. James 4:11 Do not speak against one another, brethren. He who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge of it. Truly seeking a Biblical answer to this one. blessings abound, bowler |
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254 | WHAT MADE LOT A RIGHTIOUS MAN? | Luke 8:13 | bowler | 206386 | ||
GBzones We are so much like Lot! We often go the wrong way into trouble spots and it is God who plucks us out! By faith, by listening to God when He does speak, as Lot did when God sent His angels to tell Lot to come out. Which according to you, not fighting here just pointing out, he did not, but according to the account he did come out. Abraham made a few major mistakes himself concerning God and his wife, but like Lot, despite his mistakes, it is the example of faith of both men that we emulate, not either of their mess ups. God bless you in whatever you endeavor to do for Christ Jesus here, or anywhere. blessings abound, bowler |
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255 | What Happened To The Tribe Of Dan? | Rev 7:5 | bowler | 206384 | ||
Immanuelsown I am trying to still learn about and get used to how this site works and I keep stumbling on what people are saying! So thanks for pointing me to a link, or do you call them branches? I do believe Doc was most helpful in this manner as well, I had to get into the right search box first and then everything poped up. Now I must say, that was a most engaging post you gave me there, very thorough, very thorough indeed. I will keep stuyding to find out who subsituted for whom and whom was a half tribe of whom and why Revelation only lists 11 tribes out of a possible 13. blessings abound, bowler |
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256 | why the one when not the other | Gen 2:9 | bowler | 206382 | ||
GBzones Apparently according to Genesis 3:22 Then the Lord God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat and live forever", it seems if one ate from that particular tree one would indeed live forever. I see your question here - Why put the tree of life in there, when clearly the other does give eternal life? What is most interesting to me about this is that God did say that Adam and Eve could have eaten of any tree of the garden, just not the tree of the knowledge of good and evil becuase they would surely die. What is implied here which is not so clearly seen is that they did have the right to eat of the tree of life and thereby live forever! But for some ungodyly reason it never occurred to Adam and Eve to go eat of the tree that would have made them live forever, they just mossied on through the garden eating fruit and vegetables and gave no thought to living forever, as if this was of no concern at the time for them. And indeed it was not as death did not enter in until they fell, so perhaps they had no need of the good gift of eternal life from the tree of life because they already had it. So, back to your question - Why a tree of life? No one can say for sure why God did that, only He knows. The only thing I could surmise is that God left them a choice of what to do, do what He said which included eating from the tree of life, which they could have done at any time, or to disobey and eat from the tree of good and evil that caused death. One thing that puzzles me is about Eve thinking that somehow disobeying would not result in what God said and that it would make her "like God", when the closest she was ever going to come to being like God would have been to continue living forever by either obeying, or eating of the other tree and living forever. The other interesting thing is that it did not occur to Adam and Eve to go eat of the tree of life after falling and being condemned to death, even though they now knew of good and evil, they did not seek to remedy death before God took that remedy away from them. About God's will there, I think that it is entirely possible that God wants all His creations to choose to worship and obey Him and always leaves the option open for them to excersize limited free will to do so, or to reject Him. No one can resist irresistable grace, that is not what I would say at all. But God knew before he made man that man would fall and planned accordingly from eternity past to rectify our mistake. Only God knows why, theologians have trying to figure out several unanswerable questions of this type without any sucess. I think you have hit on one of these things. I find your posts thus far most engaging and look forward to more studying with you. blessings abound, bowler |
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257 | Why God bless a Roman soldier over a Jew | Matt 8:6 | bowler | 206375 | ||
PRAZINGOD Mathew 7:28, 29 is the end of the Sermon on the Mount which was preached to the Jews, a huge number of Jews. Mathew 8:5, 6 was Jesus blessing one Centurion, but there is no juxtaposition in Mathew 8:5, 6 bewtween Jesus blessing a Centurion and Jesus blessing the Jews. In fact Jesus had just finished healing a Jew in Mathew 8:1-4. In one instance Jesus heals man requesting to be made clean, in the other instance Jesus heals a Centurion's servant without even going to the Centurion's home because the Centurion had great faith. But that is not Jesus blessing one above another it is just different circumstances. blessings abound, bowler |
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258 | Why is the Christian Church so divided? | Bible general Archive 4 | bowler | 206345 | ||
Cody Mac I agree that if two do not agree they cannot walk together. When looking at church history there seems to be a lot of times where differing beliefs dived men into different camps just like you say. Men have been willing to kill for what they believe, even those who called themselves Christian in the halls of history. I would not equate divisions over theology as the same as racial divide though. Races historically clashed over land and human rights issues, while churches clashed over matters of spiritual belief about how to practice being a Christian, or what entails being a Christian. blessings abound, bowler |
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259 | What Happened To The Tribe Of Dan? | Rev 7:5 | bowler | 206344 | ||
Cody Mac Thank you very much. At some point the tribe of Manasseh and the tribe of Gad were half tribes. I tried to trace the history of Dan while waiting for an answer and found that it simply dissapears out of scripture sometime after the building of the Milo at Jerusalem, scripture has the tribe of Dan going up into the hills and then they are not heard of again. Perhaps your explanation shows best what happened there, they rebelled against God somewhere along the line. What has me pulling my mustache in thought is that in Revelation there are not 12 tribes but 11 mentioned, and that in Numbers there not 12 but 13 mentioned. I try not to enter into speculation though it is far safer to find a definite scriptural answer. blessings abound, bowler |
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260 | What does Ephisians as whole talk about? | Ephesians | bowler | 206343 | ||
Missvee Ephesians discusses the work of Christ as ruler of the church. Depending on who you read you get different concepts about what Ephesisans is about. Some say it is about 1:9 the mystery of His will as that is revealed in the unity and function of the church. Others would say it is about the theology found in the whole NT about the scope and rule of Christ. Still others will say that it is about the reconciliation of both Jews and Gentiles in Christ in the church. Paul's main intention seems from reading it to be of outlining Jesus' role in the lives of believers and of instructions about how to act together in a harmonious fashion. blessings abound, bowler |
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