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241 | An Enemy Has Done This! (Matt 13:24-30) | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 215594 | ||
Vintage, you will note that the cannon of Scripture we have today includes Paul's writings. Therefor when those scholarly men put together the cannon they saw fit to include 2 timothy 3:16 as part of that cannon, so ALL Scripture means All Scripture. You will also note that the Terms of Use that we all agreed to include that "Postings must be Biblically based and not opposing the Bible's sole authority (sola Scriptura)," Now back to my original question. Speaking of parables, how do we reconcile the statement: "To be a teaching tool as some have espoused, is a false assumption." When we hold it up against 2 Tim 3:16 "ALL SCRIPTURE is inspired by God and profitable for TEACHING, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;"? John |
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242 | An Enemy Has Done This! (Matt 13:24-30) | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 215599 | ||
Sorry... but Huh? I think I'll leave you to your thinking for now my friend, because I have absolutely no idea, what on earth you are talking about. That expiation is so convoluted you lost me after the first paragraph. Perhaps, [and I hope you do read it] after you read the book Doc has recommended, you can return to this subject with something we can understand. | ||||||
243 | An Enemy Has Done This! (Matt 13:24-30) | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 215603 | ||
Dear Vintage, At this point it seems best to simply go over what has been recommend for you by Doc, [who's opinion you respect] to read in post #157835 as apparently you have not taken the time to do so. So I'll be of your service, sir, and just post it hear for you. SOUND EXEGESIS OF PARABOLIC TEACHING Definition: A parable is a brief story drawn from human life or nature, not related to an actual event, but is true to life and, concerning the listeners, is given for the purpose of teaching a spiritual truth. CHARACTERISTICS OF PARABLES 1. Parables teach a truth using the technique of similarity or illustration. 2. Parables are usually very short, thus they are intended to be easily remembered. 3. Parables can be described as simultaneously very simple and very complex. 4. Parables use earthly things as teaching instruments. 5. Parables have only one primary point. 6. Parables typically have three parts: (1) the setting (cultural context); (2) a story; and (3) a spiritual application. 7. Parables are intended to teach faithful disciples. 8. Parables are intended to hide the truth from the disobedient. GUIDELINES FOR INTERPRETING PARABLES 1. Study the setting and the cultural background. 2. Read the story in its natural meaning. In other words, take it literally. 3. Determine the one central truth taught in the story. Learn to separate the unimportant details from the important issues. (Note that this isn't always an easy thing to do.) 4. Check to see if Jesus or other Scriptures interpret the parable for you. (Note: If Jesus gives an explanation, don't look any for another!) 5. Check to see if the interpretation or point of a parable is dealt with in a doctrinal section of the scriptures, particularly the epistles. 6. Check with good commentaries. (Note: Be sure to study the parable for yourself first. Don't become too dependent on commentaries. Instead, allow the Holy Spirit to teach you. But use the commentaries to verify that your interpretation is not too far off from what is understood by orthodoxy.) 7. Look for specific applications of the point of a parable to your own life. Apply what you discover to your life in a specific way. IMPORTANT NOTE: Solid interpretation must ALWAYS precede application. You cannot apply what you do not understand. Just one more note, Vintage, is that Jesus gave His disciples keys to understanding the parables when they ask Him to explain them. We can also use these same keys to understand the other parables as well. i.e. when we see a man, it refers to the Son of man, which is Jesus, or God. When we see a field, it represents the world. When we see a sower of seeds, that represents God. When we see birds, they represent evil. Try it, it may help you to understand all the parables, not just the ones He [Jesus] specifically interprets. John |
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244 | ... | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 215718 | ||
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245 | why does god spouse to commit adultry | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 215741 | ||
Dear Hoppy, Brother, it's a privilege and honor to bring our prayers and supplications to the feet of The Most High God. Hoppy, It indeed is an honor to join you in your prayers. May our gracious Lord keep you in His loving hand, and bring you comfort in your trouble my friend! And may the peace that truly surpasses all human understanding, fill your heart and give you strength to keep the faith in the one who is all sufficient. "Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Just as it is written, "FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE BEING PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG; WE WERE CONSIDERED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED." But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:35-39 God bless John |
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246 | why does god spouse to commit adultry | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 215761 | ||
Dear Hoppy, You are so welcome! If I can do anything for you friend let me know. I'll try to contact you later today. Check your email buddy. God bless John |
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247 | To whom did God speak directly? | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 215794 | ||
Hi Estabon, You've been given some very good answers Estabon, but when we are considering that Jesus is God too, well then, we would have to say we don't really know how many people God spoke to directly, but it would be in the many, many thousands. Luke 6:17-18 is just one place in the New Testament where we see Jesus speaking to a very great crowd of people. "And he came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases." Luke 6:17-18 ESV John |
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248 | are we born into a sinnful world | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 215807 | ||
Hi sllnjb, Welcome to the forum! Did we inherit sin are we born into a sinful world? --"Answer: Yes, all people inherited sin from Adam and Eve, specifically Adam. Sin is described in the Bible as transgression of the law of God (1 John 3:4) and rebellion against God (Deuteronomy 9:7; Joshua 1:18). Sin had its beginning with Lucifer, the “shining star, the son of the morning,” the most beautiful and powerful of the angels. Not content to be all this, he desired to be the most high God, and that was his downfall and the beginning of sin (Isaiah 14:12-15). Renamed Satan, he brought sin to the human race in the Garden of Eden, where he tempted Adam and Eve with the same enticement, “you shall be like God.” Genesis 3 describes their rebellion against God and against His commandments. Since that time, sin has been passed down through all the generations of mankind, and we, Adam’s descendants, have inherited sin from him. Romans 5:12 tells us that through Adam sin entered the world and so death was passed on to all men because “the wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). This is the condition known as inherited sin. Just as we inherit physical characteristics from our parents, we inherit our sinful natures from Adam. esis 5:3). When Adam fell into sin, that resulted in every one of his descendants also being “infected” with sin. David lamented this fact in one of his Psalms: “Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me” (Psalm 51:5). This doesn’t mean that his mother bore him illegitimately; rather, his mother had inherited a sin nature from her parents, and they from their parents, and so on. David inherited sin from his parents, just as we all do. Even if we could live a perfect life, we are still sinners as a result of inherited sin. Being born sinners results in the fact that we all sin. Notice the progression in Romans 5:12: sin entered the world through Adam, death follows sin, death comes to all people, all people sin because they inherit sin from Adam. Because “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23), we need a perfect, sinless sacrifice to wash away our sin, something we are powerless to do on our own. Thankfully, Jesus Christ is the Savior from sin! Our sin has been crucified on the cross of Jesus, and now “in Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace” (Ephesians 1:7). God, in His infinite wisdom, has provided the remedy for the sin we inherit, and that remedy is available to everyone: “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:9)." http://www.gotquestions.org/inherit-sin.html John |
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249 | are we born into a sinnful world | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 215851 | ||
MJH, Yes, I've often found the good folk's at gotquestions.org to be a very reliable source of biblical answers. Just imagine, the beauty we now see in His creation is only a mere shadow of that which will be when He returns to put it aright again. Not to mention the awesomely beautiful sight of, Him that created it! "Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, On earth as it is in heaven." Matt 6:9b-10 John |
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250 | Two literal Bibles, what's different? | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 216148 | ||
Hi Justme, Just my opinion here of course, but I'm asked to do Scripture readings -among other duties- on Sunday when we meat, and I often will chose one or the other just because I like the way one reads in certain passages better then the other one does. (sometimes I'll use the New KJV) But I think the NASB and the ESV are both very good translations. I think that the ESV most often just sounds better though, it seem to be more poetic, sorta like the KJV witch I think is the most beautifully written of them all. But the NASB of course is the most accurate as far as word for ward translation from the original language. When I'm preparing a lesson I will often read form several Bible translations, just to get a real good feel for the subject I'm studying. I'd have to say though, (Thanks to my pastor for purchasing it for me, and my apologies to Lockman) that the ESV study Bible -at this time- is my favorite, with the NASB not far behind. My 2 cents. :-) John |
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251 | Two literal Bibles, what's different? | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 216158 | ||
Very good info Brother, Makarios. Thanks! I'm happy to know I've got my library in good order. :-) I've also recently got the on-line version of the ESV Study Bible, and I use it just about every day. I've got it in another browser so I open it and have it available to do research while I'm doing study on my main browser. It's got some really great features (including an audio reading of Scripture, so I can listen while I'm working on other stuff) and It's been a wonderful asset, I really like it a lot! John |
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252 | changes and developments in Jerusalem | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 216362 | ||
Please do your own homework. We do not encourage students to sluff-off of their reading assignments. | ||||||
253 | explain baptism into moses | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 216388 | ||
1 Cor 10:2 | ||||||
254 | The league must be broken | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 216481 | ||
"The Gospel leaves men, unless upon extraordinary occasions, their names, their reputations, their wealth and honors, if lawfully obtained and possessed; but the league that is between the mind and these things in all natural men must be broken. They must be no longer looked upon as the chiefest good or in the place thereof." John Owen |
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255 | Jew-Gentile controversy | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 216531 | ||
Homework-?! | ||||||
256 | Jew-Gentile | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 216533 | ||
Duplicate! Homework question! Dear bpayne01, It appears quite obvious that the brunt of your questions have looked a lot like homework questions! It is a crying shame, bpayne01, and a disgraceful dishonor to God, with so many good resources (available to everyone) on the internet, that so many students today are too lazy to do their own research! John |
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257 | The league must be broken | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 216538 | ||
Dear Makarios, First of all, thanks for the encouragement! It is ironic isn't it? Festus took that which was a positive and good thing, (i.e. Paul's great education) -and though 'we believers' are not to hold these things up as idols- then he (Festus) tried to spin it into something negative. Like so many non-believers today, and indeed, just like I was, they will use some of the most inane logic to make the case for unbelief. Thanks for the great verses too! Very befitting to the subject my friend. John |
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258 | How do you know when GOD is talking to y | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 216559 | ||
Hi HR, If it's a thought that stirs our conscience to do good, or if the thought is convicting us of some sin we need to deal with; it sure isn't us or the devil doing the thinking. :-) "as it is written, "THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NOT EVEN ONE;" Rom 3:10 John |
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259 | So are you saying that your good thought | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 216587 | ||
There is no simple answer to that question. Why don't you ask Him? :-) You know, I was told by a wise old Pastor that, I didn't hear God's small voice talking to me, because I didn't shut up and listen. :-) | ||||||
260 | Does god hate one that doesn't believe | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 216692 | ||
LovemyLord, This is indeed a difficult dichotomy for our finite human minds to grasp, but Scripture does say that God hates some people, though John 3:16 says He so loved the world. John Gill puts it this way: "Ver. 16. For God so loved the world,.... The Persic version reads "men": but not every man in the world is here meant, or all the individuals of human nature; for all are not the objects of God's special love, which is here designed, as appears from the instance and evidence of it, the gift of his Son: nor is Christ God's gift to every one; for to whomsoever he gives his Son, he gives all things freely with him; which is not the case of every man. Nor is human nature here intended, in opposition to, and distinction from, the angelic nature; for though God has showed a regard to fallen men, and not to fallen angels, and has provided a Saviour for the one, and not for the other; and Christ has assumed the nature of men, and not angels; yet not for the sake of all men, but the spiritual seed of Abraham;" -Gill http://www.freegrace.net/gill/ I cant tell you that I fully understand it, because I don't, but I (we) just have to take some things on faith. (Deut 29:29) Here is something more that may help too: http://www.gotquestions.org/does-God-love-everyone.html John |
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