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281 | flesh wars against the spirit | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 183495 | ||
Dear Trust - Welcome! And your question is welcome too, but what is it? Would you mind refining it a bit more? --Hank | ||||||
282 | Will this get posted? | Prov 22:6 | Hank | 183489 | ||
Winningside - This is the second time today I've responded to the subject you introducted on this thread, but, dear lady, I honestly felt constrained to add a post script in hopes that your apparently deep-seated concerns involving matters of conduct on this Forum can be fully acknowledged, properly and politely addressed in a spirit of Christian love and brotherhood. Moreover, it is fervently hoped that your misgivings can be resolved, your ill feelings assuaged, and that you will be able in future to continue as a happy and productive contributor to Lockman's Study Bible Forum. ...... If you wish not to cite posts or name names on the pages of this Forum of those of your peers whom you feel have been in some manner abusive to others or otherwise have posted things clearly contrary to the Forum guidelines as laid down by the site's owner, the Lockman Foundation, you certainly have the right, even the obligation, to file an abuse report. You can do this simply by scrolling to the end of the post you wish to report as abusive and click on the word Abuse that shows on your screen in blue. Having done that, you type in specifically what you envisage about the post as being abusive and in violation of Forum guidelines. This report goes instantly to the powers that be at Lockman who will read the report and take whatever action they deem appropriate. ..... It is a serious charge to lodge against the Forum in general or any member in particular when one writes for all to see, as you did in your post that I'm now responding to, that -- and I quote you verbatim -- "people are being chewed up, spit out, torn to pieces, called names (and) judged because they ask a question that does not measure up...to standards." ...... Winningside, if someone said such a thing about you (to my knowledge, no one is!), wouldn't you like to know specifically what they meant? Wouldn't it be helpful to you to know precisely how you erred so that you might be able to take steps to correct it if possible, or at least be enabled to know better how to conduct yourself in the future? If there are those who regularly do such things on this Forum, don't you feel that some of the rest of the regular users would rise up in protest? Surely you don't think that all of us regular users are corrupt, or that we are all in cahoots in some sinister conspiratorial mob, do you? If you had written your general, unsubstantiated complaint, the essence of which I've just now quoted, to Lockman, I assure you that they would take no action on such general remarks. How could they? They can't act to correct a violation unless they know who the violator is. Neither could anybody else. ..... So, please, if you have a legitimate complaint and can back it up with concrete facts, such as citing a specific post in which the perceived breach occurs, and being able to explain exactly how this violates Forum guidelines, then by all means make an abuse report. Make as many as you feel necessary, but just be sure you stand on firm ground when you do. Sorry, but general, hazy complaints just won't cut the mustard! ....... We have on this Forum a wide assortment of backgrounds and church traditions, and we have people of varying talents and abilities. We have babes in Christ and we have mature Christians. Some are quite scholarly and learned while others are not. Some are articulate and can express themselves with great felicity while others struggle to reduce their thoughts to words that others can comprehend. From east and west, north and south we, a heterogenous grouping of followers of Christ meet here daily in an effort to know Him more clearly, love Him more dearly, and follow Him more nearly. We hope that you will find it in your heart to join in and help us all to make Study Bible Forum a place to learn and to fellowship one with another and, above all else, to bring glory to His name. --Hank | ||||||
283 | Will this get posted? | Prov 22:6 | Hank | 183488 | ||
Winningside - This is the second time today I've responded to the subject you introducted on this thread, but, dear lady, I honestly felt constrained to add a post script in hopes that your apparently deep-seated concerns involving matters of conduct on this Forum can be fully acknowledged, properly and politely addressed in a spirit of Christian love and brotherhood. Moreover, it is fervently hoped that your misgivings can be resolved, your ill feelings assuaged, and that you will be able in future to continue as a happy and productive contributor to Lockman's Study Bible Forum. ...... If you wish not to cite posts or name names on the pages of this Forum of those of your peers whom you feel have been in some manner abusive to others or otherwise have posted things clearly contrary to the Forum guidelines as laid down by the site's owner, the Lockman Foundation, you certainly have the right, even the obligation, to file an abuse report. You can do this simply by scrolling to the end of the post you wish to report as abusive and click on the word Abuse that shows on your screen in blue. Having done that, you type in specifically what you envisage about the post as being abusive and in violation of Forum guidelines. This report goes instantly to the powers that be at Lockman who will read the report and take whatever action they deem appropriate. ..... It is a serious charge to lodge against the Forum in general or any member in particular when one writes for all to see, as you did in your post that I'm now responding to, that -- and I quote you verbatim -- "people are being chewed up, spit out, torn to pieces, called names (and) judged because they ask a question that does not measure up...to standards." ...... Winningside, if someone said such a thing about you (to my knowledge, no one is!), wouldn't you like to know specifically what they meant? Wouldn't it be helpful to you to know precisely how you erred so that you might be able to take steps to correct it if possible, or at least be enabled to know better how to conduct yourself in the future? If there are those who regularly do such things on this Forum, don't you feel that some of the rest of the regular users would rise up in protest? Surely you don't think that all of us regular users are corrupt, or that we are all in cahoots in some sinister conspiratorial mob, do you? If you had written your general, unsubstantiated complaint, the essence of which I've just now quoted, to Lockman, I assure you that they would take no action on such general remarks. How could they? They can't act to correct a violation unless they know who the violator is. Neither could anybody else. ..... So, please, if you have a legitimate complaint and can back it up with concrete facts, such as citing a specific post in which the perceived breach occurs, and being able to explain exactly how this violates Forum guidelines, then by all means make an abuse report. Make as many as you feel necessary, but just be sure you stand on firm ground when you do. Sorry, but general, hazy complaints just won't cut the mustard! ....... We have on this Forum a wide assortment of backgrounds and church traditions, and we have people of varying talents and abilities. We have babes in Christ and we have mature Christians. Some are quite scholarly and learned while others are not. Some are articulate and can express themselves with great felicity while others struggle to reduce their thoughts to words that others can comprehend. From east and west, north and south we, a heterogenous grouping of followers of Christ meet here daily in an effort to know Him more clearly, love Him more dearly, and follow Him more nearly. We hope that you will find it in your heart to join in and help us all to make Study Bible Forum a place to learn and to fellowship one with another and, above all else, to bring glory to His name. --Hank | ||||||
284 | Educational guarantee for life and godli | Prov 22:6 | Hank | 183446 | ||
Finder - The Lord Jesus Christ said, "Seek and ye shall find." So for what are YOU seeking? What is it that you are trying to find, Finder? Is it the Lord, or is it merely trying to find, in your words, "a very serious problem" with His revealed word? Perhaps it would do you a great deal of good to mull over the final chapters of the book of Job, beginning at Chapter 38. You will discover from your reading of the concluding chapters of Job how adroitly God put Job in his place. Frankly the nature, tone and perspective of your inquisitive posts remind me of the clay trying to talk back to the potter, a powerful analogy that Paul draws in the ninth chapter of the book of Romans. It all boils down to this, Finder. A person believes in God or he doesn't. He believes in God's word or he doesn't. He trusts God with all his heart and leans not on his own understanding or he doesn't. He walks by faith or he walks by sight. How do you describe yourself? Do you trust God and trust His word with all your soul and with every nerve and sinew within you, or are you holding back, trying to understand as much about God's word and purposes as God himself understands? Do you want everything in duck soup order, with all t's crossed and all i's dotted before you are willing to surrender your will utterly and completely to His, holding back nothing? I was once young and possessed with somewhat of a "Finder" mind set myself But now that I am past the three-score-and-ten milestone in my life, I look back upon those years, much as Solomon did in Ecclestiastes I suppose, and recognize how utterly foolish I was to question God and His word. And now as I am advanced in age, I exult with Solomon who, after all his experiments with what he called the "vanity of vanities" in life, proclaimed boldly and I believe with a great deal of relief akin to the prodigal son when at last he turned his heart homeward to be reconcied to his father, "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man" (Ecclestiastes 12:13,KJV). ...... That you too will find your way homeward to your Father is my prayer. --Hank | ||||||
285 | Are visions/dreams of this sort demonic? | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 183281 | ||
Dear Buffy - While I intend to pray for your family and the problems that they have, and ask my fellow Forum registrants to join me in prayer, I deem it most unwise for this Forum to attempt to dispense specific advice beyond this: that you or whoever has legal custody of this child get her to a qualified professional as soon as possible. --Hank | ||||||
286 | bible questions | 2 Tim 2:15 | Hank | 183063 | ||
sheeja - Please break your questions down, asking only one at a time. If these are "homework" questions, as they have every appearance of being, it is strongly recommended that you do your best to research and answer them yourself. Read 2 Timothy 2:15. ..... Welcome to SBF. We are here to study God's word together but not to offer a panacea or a substitute for what one should dig out for himself. We hope you understand our mission and purpose and why we take this position. If you need help learning how to research Scripture, some of us will be happy to pass along a few tips. --Hank | ||||||
287 | More Questions (please ans. in order) | Ex 20:4 | Hank | 183015 | ||
Thanks for submitting a question to SBF. Please go to the following link: http://www.gotquestions.org/worship-saints-Mary.html .... It will provide you with a biblical answer to your questions. --Hank | ||||||
288 | seated us with Him | Eph 2:6 | Hank | 182826 | ||
strts5 - Welcome and thanks for your question. There are passages in Scripture where the context makes clear that "seated" means to be enthroned or otherwise placed in a position of authority. Here are several references you may wish to study, taking care to read them in context: Job 36:7, Matt. 23:2, Luke 22:69, Eph. 1:20 and Col. 3:1. --Hank | ||||||
289 | A car accident that was a fight. | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 182811 | ||
Most of us are aware that we live in a fallen world. Let's please keep to the theme of this Forum. --Hank | ||||||
290 | explaining to middle school youth | John 14:6 | Hank | 182799 | ||
Dear Gluasdi - Thanks for your question and welcome to SBF. This is a beautiful verse of Scripture, this John 14:6, and it's wonderful that you plan to expose a group of middle school students to its riches. You teach perhaps in a Christian school? I wouldn't strive for a simple way to present it to these kids but rather for a clear and dynamic way -- a way that will arrest their attention and grab them with its mighty truth. I would expect that you may get hit with some tough questions from these young students no matter how you present the verse, so I'm highly recommending a sermon to you as part of your preparation. The sermon is by a man who has been called "The Prince of Preachers," Charles Spurgeon, and if you aren't familiar with Spurgeon, I believe after reading his sermon on John 14:6, you will begin to see why he has been called a prince. The sermon, based on John 14:6, is called "The Way to God" and it addresses some of the same questions that are still being asked today, such as "can't people of other religions be saved as long as they're sincere?" You can read the sermon on this link: http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/0245.htm ...... I honestly believe that you will find many riches in this powerful sermon that will inspire you and make you eager to share them with your kids. --Hank | ||||||
291 | What is your favorite Bible edition? | Ps 119:105 | Hank | 182788 | ||
John, yours is a hard question for me since here I sit so forlorn because I am so terribly torn between two favorite editions of the Bible. I'd be really hard pressed to pick and choose between these two editions of the Bible that I use and love so much. May I therefore be granted license to speak of both? But first I'd like to point out the commonality of the two editions. Both are bound in calfskin leather and are thread (Smythe) sewn. Both have proved to be durable. Both have clear and fairly large print (about 11-point size), making them easy on the eyes. Both are printed on excellent quality acid-neutral paper that does not allow the print to "bleed through" -- a defect that is all too common, and extremely annoying, with some Bibles that use a cheaper grade of ultra-thin paper that tends to be less opaque than the better papers. I never have got the hang of reading both sides of a page at the same time! ...... Now to look at each edition separately. The first of my pair of favorites is the King James Study Bible, published by Nelson. The annotations are written by a team of a dozen Bible scholars who are Southern Baptists, which may come as a surprise to some of our readers who didn't think we Southern Baptists had that many scholars :-) And the annotations are printed in a type font that is clear and nearly as large as the text itself, so no more squinting at microscopic print. The King James text is illumined considerably by the inclusion of marginal notes that update many of the difficult old words and phrases of the King James. This edition has all that one has learned to expect from a good study Bible - a fine set of maps in the back as well as in-text maps and charts, excellent introductions to all books of the Bible, a generous-sized concordance, a handy index of the annotations, a fairly detailed guide to Bible study, a useful 'harmony of the Gospels,' an exhaustive chart listing prayers of the Bible, etc. It's a remarkable library bound together in slightly over 2,000 pages. I don't find the size cumbersome to carry to study classes and worship services. It is not as skinny and light weight as the ultra-slims, but neither is it likely to cause eye strain like these tiny print Bibles can do. ....... The other favorite edition is the single-column reference edition of the NASB 1995 Update by Foundation Publications, the publishing arm of the Lockman Foundation, sponsor of this Study Bible Forum. The NASB is one of a scanty number of modern versions that I trust, and among modern versions it is my favorite. The edition has wide margins, a handy feature for those who like to make their own in-text notes. It has maps, a concordance, thousands of side references and a feature that I find especially helpful, translators' notes including a number of variant readings. ....... Sure it's subjective, but for me these two editions in a sense offer, to use a trite phrase, the best of both worlds. The King James Study Bible for sheer beauty of language that has never been matched or exceeded in English, and annotations and other helpful notes and charts that are sound and reliable. The New American Standard Bible, 1995 Update, side-column reference edition for a modern translation that has earned wide respect for being the most literally accurate translation in the English language today. I find myself engaging less and less in the "musical translations" game of flitting from one version to another in hopes of finding that perfect translation. It's too much like chasing rainbows and I think King Solomon would have called the practice 'vanity of vanities.' The story of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8 holds a lesson that Christians who are obsessed with stocking up on every version that comes off the press would do well to meditate on. When Philip found the Ethiopian sitting in his chariot reading from the book of Isaiah, Philip asked him, "Understandest thou what thou readest?" And the Ethiopian replied, "How can I, except some man should guide me?" ..... So, as we all know, Philip then asked the Ethiopian, "Hast thou read this passage in the NIV and the NLT? Or peradventure thou wilt get the message better from the Message. Thine eyes wilt surely be opened and thy spirit quickened when thou readest from these." Well, this wasn't exactly the way Philip handled the situation with the Ethiopian, so perhaps we should all open to Acts 8, review the passage and find out exactly what went on in that chariot. As we read, it would be well to ask just who it was that told Philip to "Go near and join thyself to this chariot" ...... A final comment. Some people recoil at the idea of spending a hundred or more dollars for a fine edition of the Bible that should last for many years, but think nothing of spending 20 or 25 grand for a car that they will dump in three or four years -- if it lasts that long! --Hank | ||||||
292 | Bible Study | John 7:17 | Hank | 182765 | ||
Cuddle, some questions put before SBF fall flat on their face while others, such as yours about Bibles and Bible study tools, not infrequently draw a lot of responses. I guess we're all interested in that sort of thing, which is very good, and each has developed his likes and dislikes in Bibles and study aids, as well as his method of approaching Bible study, over the years and, judging from the volume of responses, he is eager to share them with his friends on the Forum. ..... Much good stuff has come forward in this thread and I have nothing really new or earth shaking to add. Long ago I gave up trying to hitch onto every new version, commentary, study Bible, or other materials that were promised to make me as wise as King Solomon. I've found my Bible study -- and my life in general -- goes a little better the more I try to heed Henry David Thoreau's advice to "Simplify! Simplify" .....My methods are quite ordinary and my Bible tools few, and I'll list them both in a moment. But first I'd like to quote a line from Rudyard Kipling: "I keep six honest serving men, (they taught me all I knew). Their names are what and why and when and how and where and who." ..... It's remarkable how much these six men, along with a good Bible translation read in context, can teach us. ..... A concordance (I've used the same volume of Cruden's that I bought 50 years ago and it's still ticking) and a Bible dictionary (I use Holman's) are indispensible. I like John MacArthur's notes as well as Charles Ryrie's. And I get a lot of good stuff from the annotations and other study helps in the King James Study Bible (Nelson). I read from several versions, but in the main I study from the NASB and KJV. I also do a little Bible study and research on the internet, but nothing like some of my colleagues do. ..... I try to do some serious Bible study nearly every day. I am not a devotee of what has been called 'devotional reading' or 'quite time reading' in which one reads a snippet of Scripture, perhaps a poem or a 'devotional' quotation by some well-known writer of devotional tid-bits. I'm an admirer of Dicken's novels, but had I used such timid methods of sampling the works of Dickens, I'd still be toying around with "David Copperfield" which I've already read three times, the first time years ago. To learn Scripture one must study Scripture with at least the earnestness, resolve and industry that he would normally devote to Dickens or any other secular writer. Why we tend to think that we must nibble on Scripture as though we had spiritual anorexia instead of partaking of a hearty meal is beyond my comprehension! ..... But I've left out the two most important things in Bible study, spade work and Spirit work. The spade work means that we have to dig deep, long and hard to uncover the precious gems of truth that Scripture has for him who is willing to seek earnestly for them. "Ask, (also translated as 'keep asking') and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you" (Matthew 7:7, NASB). ..... And 'the Spirit work' means praying to God for illumination by His Spirit: "Open my eyes that I may behold wonderful things from Your law" (Psalm 119:18,NASB). ...... A certain man, a Bible expositor of note, is on record as saying that he never put pen to paper about any book of the Bible until he had read that book through at least 50 times. The man's name, by the way, was Dr. G. Campbell Morgan. ....... Someone asked a great Shakespearean scholar years ago, "How do you study Shakespeare?" His answer was terse: "Read Shakespeare." ..... A seminary student went to his professor one day and asked him to recommend a good book on the life of Jesus. The professor responded, "Have you tried the one Luke wrote?" ....... "There is no royal road to learning" so says the old aphorism. Yet there are some people today who seem to believe that God will transform them into Bible scholars overnight without effort on their part. It's as if they expected to put a copy of the Bible under their pillows at night and while they slept, by some strange means of mental osmosis, the names of the kings of Israel and Judah would come up through the duck feathers! I agree with Dr. J. Vernon McGee: "The Bible needs to be studied. We need to realize that the Spirit of God will not teach us something that we could get for ourselves by study." ...... How important is it to study the word of God? I could write on this subject for days! But I'll close by relating a sobering experience. For more than a quarter of a century I taught an adult Sunday school class in a church where the Bible was not preached from the pulpit and the people simply did not know the word of God. That church, from which my wife and I eventually pulled away, has fallen into apostasy, can't pay their bills, and is dying for lack of nourishment, word of God. --Hank | ||||||
293 | NISB | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 182720 | ||
Cuddle, some years ago I shelled out the shekels for an Inductive Study Bible and frankly didn't like it very much, although I do have a certain respect for the idea of studying the Bible using the inductive approach championed by Kay Arthur. It was all those colored pencils and involved color codings of Scripture passages that drove me up the wall. I'm not the neatest craftsman on the block and it didn't take me long with all those brightly colored pencils to make an inglorious mess of what began as a well-printed and sensibly designed Bible. This idea of color coding reminds me too much of the Rainbow Bible, from which I stay away as far possible. I love the colors of the rainbow but feel they were meant for rainbows and not Bibles :-) ..... For what it's worth, I hit upon an alternative to the Inductive Study Bible that has served my purposes. I bought a copy of Kay Arthur's little book called, "How to Study Your Bible." She lays down her ideas of inductive study fairly well in this book, and the principles of inductive study can, of course, be applied to any edition of any translation. I don't clutter up any Bible that I own by writing in it -- no marginal notes and no highlighting or underlining. I do jot down notes with some frequency, but I do my jotting in a separate place, in a notebook/journal sort of thing. ..... Your concerns on the durability of Bibles being printed today are well taken. Unfortunately some publishers charge premium prices and deliver poor quality merchandise. I have a copy of the NASB single-column reference edition in large (11 point) print, bound in soft and supple calfskin leather, with Smythe-sewn spines instead of being slapped together with a glob of glue, that has proved durable, but it's a bit pricey. It's printed and bound by Foundation Publications, an arm of the Lockman Foundation. ..... I don't find your question trivial in the least, Cuddle. Believe me, I've seen scores of questions on SBF that were "farer trivialer than ewers"! --Hank | ||||||
294 | Do soldiers die in vain? | Job 14:5 | Hank | 182710 | ||
Camera Man - While you are encouraged to ask questions on Study Bible Forum, the one you have posed is one of those "what if" types of questions that always call for speculation, and speculation is of little value in any human enterprise and of no value in studying God's word. My point is this: Some 3,000 U. S. soldiers have been killed in the Iraqi war. That is a fact, a statistic, a reality, a past event of recent history that cannot be changed. What, I ask, have we to gain, what can we possibly learn, and what on earth can we prove by engaging in the sort of speculative conversation that your question invites? Sorry, sir, but your question opens an area of conjecture, guesswork, and speculation that do not fall within the horizon of the aims and purposes of SBF. But you are certainly welcome to ask Bible questions and give Bible answers all day long! --Hank | ||||||
295 | why no law between Adam and Moses? | Rom 5:13 | Hank | 182600 | ||
buffy1 - May I offer you (and all other SBF questioners) a simple formula for asking a question? When the answer to a question is not known, no part of it should be assumed. Your first question in the battery of questions in your post provides a good example. You ask, "Why was there no law during the time from Adam to Moses?" You are assuming that there was no law and asking why was this so. But would you on examination be able to prove your assumption that there was no law during this period of history? Better to ask, "Was there a law during the time between Adam and Moses?" It must be established that there was no law before asking why there wasn't one. If the questioner has not established that there was no law, asking why there was no law doesn't make sense; it runs into a dead end and becomes a moot question. Questions based on assumptions or preconceived ideas are not good questions. They are in fact more closely akin to statements of opinion than honest questions seeking information. ...... The formula is simple. Ask a question, but make sure it is only a question, not a question freighted with such extra baggage as assumptions, preconceived notions, opinions or declarations. --Hank | ||||||
296 | Jesus ordained twelve | 2 Tim 2:15 | Hank | 182517 | ||
Dear Sir or Madam Box - "Jesus ordained twelve" is a nice 'question' and goes well with one of my favorites, which is "Peter denied thrice." --Hank | ||||||
297 | which is more correct desription ? | Is 53:1 | Hank | 182516 | ||
Sunam - Echoes of what Doc said about the Jerusalem Bible ...... cast your net again, because there are better fish in the pond! I'll go along with Doc's picks, NASB and ESV, and add a trio more: KJV, NKJV, Holman CSB. In my judgment, all of these are better pickings than the Jerusalem. The Jerusalem Bible (1966) and its revision, The New Jerusalem Bible (1985) have presented formidable problems for the conservative Bible student since their publication. For a critical review of this translation, including its revision. go to http://www.bible-researcher.com/new-jerusalem-bible.html --Hank | ||||||
298 | do we choose how long we live | Ps 90:10 | Hank | 182429 | ||
The preacher to whom your sister referred may be well known but it is clear that he is not well versed, at least not about his understanding of things such as God's will and man's longevity. If your sister, having listening to this obvious crackpot, is implying that we choose how long we live, ask her whether we also choose to be born, and when, and of which gender, and by what parents. Please! Let's move out of the way and allow a little room for God's sovereignty! ..... P. S. Shhh, don't tell, but God is sovereign whether we want Him to be or not. --Hank | ||||||
299 | How long did Jesus wait to heal Lazarus | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 182251 | ||
Luv - Now that we've learned a little about how to research the Scriptures, why not attempt to answer your question and let us know how you did? Fair enough? --Hank | ||||||
300 | how many gosepls record the feedings | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 182249 | ||
Luv - Instead of giving you the answer to this easy question, perhaps I can help you more by showing you how to find it easily. Right on this page, go to the "Get Bible Text" search engine, limit your search by selecting "New Testament" and then type in two words, five thousand. Other quick and easy ways to find the answer to your question are these: Use a printed Bible concordance and look at entries for "thousand" or perhaps "five thousand." Or look under "miracles" or perhaps "miracles of Jesus Christ" in a standard Bible dictionary. Or consult a "Harmony of the Gospels" spreadsheet that you will find in a number of reference and study Bibles. All of the study tools that I've mentioned here are rather commonplace, easy to find, and are enormously helpful in Bible studies. --Hank | ||||||
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