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261 | Isaiah Sawn In Two? | Heb 11:37 | bowler | 206818 | ||
Searcher Thank you, can you name the source? I am having a lot of trouble finding the source. blessings abound, bowler |
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262 | married | Heb 13:4 | bowler | 206717 | ||
Liefie I have been following this branch for a while and been trying to see exactly what you originaly meant by your question here. The thread got interesting. But it seems like what you are talking about is a verse that describes that you must be married and not live together? As in you must "remain married while you are not living together"? I think that perhaps that is what you were trying to ask about? 1 Corinthians 7:10, 11 But to the married I give instructions, not I, but the Lord, that the wife should not leave her husband (but if she does leave, she must remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband should not divorce his wife. This is the only verse I know of that fits how you phrased your question, "where in the Bible does it state that you must be married and not live together". I think some confussion came in there because of the last half of your question as, "and not live together" in light of being married. As everyone in the thread keeps discussing everyone who is married is supposed to live together, they are not suppossed to be apart. What these verses in 1 Corinthians 7:10, 11 is talking about is if the marriage goes south the wife should not leave, and the husband should not divorce his wife. But if for some undisclosed reason that Paul doesn't give us, the wife leaves then, "she must be married and not live together", or to put it another way, "she must remain "un"married (that is separate from the husband and not married to another man)". Then the verses say that she must remain in that "single but married, unmarried but married" state or go back to her husband. This is instructions for believers. There are some a reasons why she, or he, has to stay married but "single". 1) They are believers. 2) In verse 39 it says the wife is bound to her husband as long as her husband is alive, but she is free once he is dead. There are a lot of reasons why people split up, but that is because God's plans, marriage God style, gets messed up by sin. If there is anything the devil would like to be doing it is to mess up all of God's plans and marriage is one of God's plans. In Mathew 19 and Mark 10 Jesus talks about God's plans for marriage and how people mess it up. Jesus also talks about true grounds for divorce. And in 1 Corinthians 7 it talks about no longer being bound if the unbeliever leaves you. But I am not going to touch the ins and outs of that with a ten foot poll because people get very upset by it and not many can agree about whether or not a person who had grounds for divorce have the Biblical right to get remarried. blessings abound, bowler |
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263 | In James 1:21 I am to fill the blanks. | James 1:21 | bowler | 206444 | ||
gatterson No offense to you but perhaps if you just study the verse a bit, the anwers will become self evident? Is this for school of a Bible class or something? 2 Timothy 2:15 - please consider studying this verse in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who died for both you and me. blessings abound, bowler |
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264 | If you draw close to God? | James 4:8 | bowler | 207791 | ||
Jesus Keeps Me It is in James 4:8. James 4:10 Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you. blessings abound, bowler |
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265 | should you be baptist again, if you fall | 1 Pet 3:21 | bowler | 206706 | ||
SATNJ 1 Peter 3:21 Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you - not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience. This verse means that baptism is "an appeal to God for a good conscience" - that is it is a symbol of having a good conscience. This is what you did the first time around when you got baptized, I hope, - you made a public confession to the church of the fact that you were already saved, that you had repented and taken Christ. It was only a symbol of salvation. If you backslid all you need to do is repent and go back to living in Christ. You don't ever need to be baptized again. That is assuming that you got baptized as an adult who knew that they had repented and taken Christ as their savior. If you were baptized as a child before you even realized you were a sinner who needed to repent you might want to consider being baptized again now that you know Christ as your savior as an adult capable of repenting and taking Christ. blessings abound, bowler |
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266 | 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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267 | 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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268 | 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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269 | Suffering For The Sake Of Christ? | 1 Pet 4:12 | bowler | 206414 | ||
Cody Mac I hear you about suffering physicaly, being perscuted for the faith like as if we were over seas and being hunted. I see where my confusion was now about what you were really saying about kinds of suffering there are. I also see what you are saying about doing His work that we are not always suffering just because we do it. blessings abound, bowler |
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270 | How Far Are We To Suffer For Christ? | 1 Pet 4:16 | bowler | 206750 | ||
What exactly does it mean to suffer as a Christian and how far in obeying Christ should we go? What if obeying Christ means our whole lives would be ruined? What if obeying Christ means dying because you don't retaliate, "and if you are struck, don't strike back"? At what point do Christians say enough, when it gets dangerous, or very impossible to keep going without losing everything? blessings abound, bowler |
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271 | How Far Are We To Suffer For Christ? | 1 Pet 4:16 | bowler | 206778 | ||
remorse2 Thank you for your most graceful answer. The reason I asked the question is because I have been coming across other Christians who are facing circumstances where they would have to choose between having a nice life living the way they are and truning around and obeying Christ instead. If some of them, not all of them, were to do this they would have to leave evertything behind that they have worked so hard to have and their lives would definitely be ruined. Some of these cricumstances are life style arrangements and are not suffering for the sake of proclaiming the gospel. Others have been attacked out in the street and some fought and some didn't. As a Christian it is hard to know what to do becuase the laws of society say you can defend yourself, but the Bible says turn the other cheek. That sounds like a no brainer on the surface, just obey the Bible, but if we take Romans 13 as part of obeying the Bible, it is possible to consider defending yourself. Of course I would take the Bible over the law as long as I didn't break the law, but others may not see it that way. So its not really from my perspective that I am asking, but that I know people who either will have to choose to suffer to follow Christ, or who choose not to suffer for Christ and obeyed the law, but disobeyed Christ. By the way, your profile does not contain your email! :) blessings abound, bowler |
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272 | How Far Are We To Suffer For Christ? | 1 Pet 4:16 | bowler | 206826 | ||
Val I must respectuly say that I am confused about your post to me. I don't think I have all the answers and am the only one who is on track. If you would realy like to know the circumstances that occassion that comment please just ask, these are people I know personally and as far as they are concerned their lives would be ruined by "turning around and sinning no more" as they put it. What I have tried to do in my post is not volunteer information that is so specific as to make the question have to be about a specific narrow paritcular subject as I know three people with different life situations this would apply to. In the name of blessed Jesus, why would you say to me that I have a Pharisee atitude? I will qualify my statment in the first paragraph for you - No, I am not saying Christ does not provide a nice life. I am saying once you have built your entire life, your house, your family, your job, on things that are the direct result of sin - if you then turn around and walk away from the sin that is the direct source of keeping these things, in obedience to Christ, you may have to be required give up the house, parts of the family, the job - and that could ruin your life. That is what my friends are saying to me, not me, but them. Christ may very well give them "a nice life" sometime afterwards, Christ is good, Christ is great. That does not mean these people will not at first have ruined lives and suffer for a long time before Christ rebuilds their lives. Hence the "suffering for Christ", hence the "ruined life". You seem to leave out the part where I say there are different ways to look at suffering and that the law could also be being obedient to Christ and that others may see things differently. Your post to me seems to be implying by your scriptures that I am standing in judgment of others and am a hypocrite, which I most respectfully and most certainly am not. Ephesians 4:3 being diligent to perserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. blessings abound, bowler blessings abound, bowler |
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273 | How Far Are We To Suffer For Christ? | 1 Pet 4:16 | bowler | 206841 | ||
Azure Thank you for your post. Now perhaps you mihgt see that this is exactly why I did not choose to outline exactly what the circumstances were? It leads more to friction here with the saints over whether or not I am judging anyone by simply asking a question about how one would apply the scripture about suffering for Christ, rather than pointing to the real thrust of my question. I was not in the first post, or any other querying about my friends sinful lives. I was querying about what it means to "suffer for Christ", how far should one go? At what cost? No one can tell who realy is a Christian, we don't know who sincerely asked for forgivness of Jesus based on whether or not they sin, or how long they stay in it. As I tried to say, one's life can be "ruined" for a period of time if they walk away from "parts of family", house, job. Suffering for Christ is something we all face. I was merely quoting my friends, not making a Biblical point as if a Christians life is "ruined by Christ". I also mentioned that Christ will restore after a while, I qualified this statment before. By asking the question I seem to be seen as thinking that I have all the answers, nothing could be further from the truth, as I stated three times now, in the love of Christ and with as much grace as I can - I do not think I know better than others and have better or the only answer. In and for the love of Christ Jesus and in the interested of Christian grace and having our conversation edifying and with "salt" I will be happy to hear from everyone on the matter, but choose not to continue from my side on this matter. blessings abound, bowler |
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274 | 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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275 | 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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276 | Did God create evil? | 3 John 1:11 | bowler | 207902 | ||
Flinty Joe Please take the time to read the following post numbers in order scrolling down - 2, 3, 8 - all by Doc, and 5 by Kalos - you will find these by typing the word "theodicy" in the upper right hand corner in the search function. Doc and Kalos make a great big dent in answering your concerns here as your questions fall under the area of study called theodicy. I particularly like the part where Doc addresses the issue of that God has provided for us to know "what to do", but has absolutely no reason or responsibility toward us to provide a "why things are so". Job 38:1-15 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said, "Who is this that darkens counsel By words without knowledge? "Now gird up your loins like a man, And I will ask you, and you instruct Me! "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding, Who set its measurements? Since you know. Or who stretched the line on it? "On what were its bases sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone, When the morning stars sang together And all the sons of God shouted for joy? "Or who enclosed the sea with doors When, bursting forth, it went out from the womb; When I made a cloud its garment And thick darkness its swaddling band, And I placed boundaries on it And set a bolt and doors, And I said, 'Thus far you shall come, but no farther; And here shall your proud waves stop'? "Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, And caused the dawn to know its place, That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, And the wicked be shaken out of it? "It is changed like clay under the seal; And they stand forth like a garment. "From the wicked their light is withheld, And the uplifted arm is broken. blessings abound, bowler |
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277 | Did God create evil? | 3 John 1:11 | bowler | 207975 | ||
Doc Thanks for that. blessings abound, bowler |
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278 | Best commentary on Revelation? | Revelation | bowler | 206314 | ||
Gbzones I would agree that you need the Holy Spirit to understand the passage of Revelation or any other passage. However, it would be wise to stop and consider that the theologians who were mentioned as having given commentary on the subject of Revelation took a tremendous amount of time doing the very thing you point out, praying to have the scriptures illuminated to them by the Holy Spirit. Many of them udoubtedly incorporate what the other scriptures would have to say about Revelation as that is part of writing good commentary. Not having studied it to as great a length, how do we then do we say that those who have studied such things at great length, have not arrived at the truth without studying both the Bible and their work at length to say such things of them? The studying of the various works of commentators is not about a confusion of interpretations, each one has taken the time to do the excursions into the arts of exegesis and hermeneutics to arrive at his conclusion. We should endeavor to do the same to the best of our abilities in both our own private study of Revelation and in reading their works. The criteria for determining the truth, as you call it, or the meaning, as I would call it, of Revelation should be a thorough examination of the scriptures to arrive at the meaning. I think the term truth is a little off the mark here as appplying that to the conclusions of these men, as all scripture is truth and studying it is the garnering of the meaning of it. What we try to do in studying it is to arrive at the meaning of that truth. I have a question for you, and this is not to foster ill will, nor is it for argumentation sake. What does Genesis have to do with interpreting Revelation other than to understand the fall? What other clues could one garner from Genesis that could possibly help us understand Revelation? It seems, though perhaps only to me, that Daniel would yeild more clues about Revelation than any other book. For your consideration. blessings abound, bowler |
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279 | Where is Hell | Revelation | bowler | 206688 | ||
CharlieH I think it would be good to understand that heaven and hell are in realms outside our known unniverse. The language in the Bible about "hell being in bowels of the earth" and so on is figurative language to describe some place that we cannot comprehend where it really is. The important thing about it is not where it is, but that it does exist and is waiting for the unbelievers. blessings abound, bowler |
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280 | What is the "Lord's Day" | Rev 1:10 | bowler | 206730 | ||
Jim Estes The actual term "the Lord's Day" is only found in Revelation 1:10, and it was used by the church fathers below and refers to Sunday. The following site contained the following excerpts as quotes, I would be careful about going to this site, I did not believe all that I read there - http: double front slash www.specialtyinterests.net single front slash lords down dash day down dash history.html number sign ioa 4. Didache cir. 125 BC - 50 to 90 AD "But every Lord's day, do ye gather yourselves together, and break bread, and give thanksgiving after having confessed your transgressions, that your sacrifice may be pure. But let no one that is at variance with his fellow come together with you, until they be reconciled, that your sacrifice may not be profaned. For this is that which was spoken by the Lord... Matt. 5:23-24." 2b, or this translation, "On the Lord's day of the Lord come together, break bread and hold Eucharist." Loeb Classical Library - Apostolic Fathers, Vol. 1 pp. 330, 331. Note: The word "day" is a later interpolation by the translator, in the original the word may have been "supper." 5. Bishop Dionysius of Corinth cir. 170 AD wrote to Bishop Sater of Rome: "Today we have passed the Lord's holy day, in which we have read your epistle." Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, 2nd series, Vol. I, p. 204. 6. Bishop Melito of Sardis cir. 170 to 185 AD wrote a treatise "On the Lord's Day" but the word day' is not in the Greek original which is, "o peri tes kuriakes logos ...", where the word "hmara" day is missing and like in Ignatius treaties on the Life of Christ' was more likely "kuriaken zoen", lord's life.' Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, 2nd series, Vol. 1, p. 204. 2c 7. The apogryphical gospel according to Peter cir. 190: "Here we have the clear application of "the Lord's Day" to the first day of the week." Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. I, IX, pp. 27, 29. 8. Pliny's letter to Trajan cir. 107 to 112 In this letter he states that the Christians worship on a certain "fixed day". Loeb Classical Library, Pliny, Vol. II, pp. 402-405. 9. The epistle of Barnabas cir. 135 AD "Your present Sabbaths are not acceptable to me, but that is which I have made namely this when, giving rest to all things, I shall make a beginning of the eighth day, that is, a beginning of another world. Wherefore, also, we keep the eighth day with joyfulness, the day also on which Jesus rose again from the dead. And when He had manifested Himself, He assembled unto heaven." Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. I, pp. 146, 147. 10. Justin Martyr 100? to 165 He states that the "day of the sun" is observed by Christians, because of the resurrection. Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. I, pp. 185, 186. The correct quote of Justin Martyr reads as follows: "And on the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together in one place, and the memoirs of the apostles, or the writings of the prophets, are read, as long as time permits," etc. Justin Martyr's First Apology, ch. 67. 11. Clement of Alexandria ca. 174 Clement, a teacher of Tatian and Origen the compiler of the 6 column Hexapla Bible, is the first man who unequivocally used the expression "Lord's day" for the first day of the week. 12. Origen 185-255 He, classes the Sabbath with the Preparation day, Passover and Pentecost, as Jewish festivals. Statements include: "It is one of the marks of a perfect Christian to keep the Lord's day." Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. IV, pp. 285, 366, 601; Vol. IX, pp. 388, 389, 469, 470. Comment: At his time apostasy had taken firm roots but biblically we know the Lord's day is Sabbath. "Others, with greater regard to good manners, it must be confessed, suppose that the sun is the God of the Christians, because it is a well-known fact that we pray toward the east, or because we make Sunday a day of festivity. What then? Do you do less than this? Do not many among you, with an affection of sometimes worshipping the heavenly bodies likewise, move your lips in the direction of the sunrise? It is you, at all events, who have even admitted the sun into the calendar of the week; and you have selected its day Sunday in preference to the preceding day, as the most suitable in the week for either an entire abstinence from the bath, or for its postponement until the evening, or for taking rest, and for banqueting. By resorting to these customs, you deliberately deviate from your own religious rites to those of strangers." Tertulian, Ad Nations, Book 1, chap. 13; Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. III. blessings abound, bowler |
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