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281 | Were the disciples saved, Born Again? | NT general | bowler | 206229 | ||
Steve I understand you. Why then, does Jesus say "born again" as it if it is for the second time? I am thinking of Nicodemus asking, "How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter into his mother's womb again, can he?" And then Jesus repplies right away about being born of water and the spirit in answer to Nicodemus asking about being birthed again. Which goes to Jesus saying before hand, "you must be born again", as if one has to be born a second time. Hence, water as first birth, spirit as "born again", the second birth. Just cruious on your thouhgts here. But I respect your point there. blessings abound, bowler |
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282 | What is the treasure? | 2 Cor 4:7 | bowler | 206224 | ||
What is the treasure in earthen vessels, is it the gospel? Is the treasure in earthen vessels the power of God? Is the treausure the life of Jesus in our body? Is is the treasure the knowledge of the glory of God? I am stuck here trying to figure this verse out because there are so many possibilities in the surrounding verse. blessings abound, bowler |
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283 | Bind and Lose in heaven? | Matt 18:15 | bowler | 206223 | ||
Looking at verse 15 through 20. Wondering exactly what is meant by "bind and lose" in verse 18. Does this have to do with your brother sinning, and if so, what is the believer binding and losing, since only Jesus can forgive sins or God condemn a sinner? And what is binding and loosing, in heaven? Is this just a recognition thing, or is this some sort of power the believer has to retain or eject people from the church? blessings abound, bowler |
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284 | Apostles, how many what qualified them? | Eph 1:1 | bowler | 206221 | ||
Altogether how many apostles were there according to the whole New Testament and what qualified one to be an apostle? I am looking through Acts and seeing apostles name that didn't seem to be appointed by Jesus or do anything in the Bible that is visible by reading it... blessings abound, bowler |
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285 | Music in church unholy? | Eph 5:19 | bowler | 206220 | ||
In thinking about the model of the first century church, after trying to persuade believers of a certain denomination that I do not belong to, that music should be allowed in worhship, I am trying to reconcile that concept of music in church today with that you do not see that activity in the first century church. Any scriptures, thoughts on whether or not it is Biblical to have music in church being that we don't find a record of it in the first century church? I have the same question about praise dancing we don't see that in the first century church either, but we do in the OT? The problem for my thinking is that we do see both of these things in the OT, but not the NT, but that there seems to be some acceptance in certain circles for music of a certain type as being seen as holy if it is largey the old church hymns and worldy if it is too contemporary. But historicaly speaking the hymns of the 1900's and 1800's were seen as radical, unholy, and an abomination to God because they were not what was considered to be the holy old hymns of the church at that time. Now we have the same problem, except that the majority of hymns that are seen as holy are the same ones from the 1900's and 1800's found in our pew hymnals that were once considered to be the music of the devil as it was called (along with the earlier ones from the church fathers and the middles age church that have survived the test of time). What we have here is a situation where from one group of centuries to another a certain group of musical arrangements and words is held to be holy. When something new comes along which uses new words and new phrases to worship God it is considered unholy. blessing abound, bowler |
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286 | Praying to the Holy Spirit? | John 14:14 | bowler | 206217 | ||
Is it improper to pray to the Holy Spirit? I am seeing here in the verse that Jesus says we can pray to Him, and we know in the verse before to ask the Father in the name of Jesus. But is there anywhere that the Bible speaks of praying to the Holy Spirit? I am thinking it is proper to reverence the Holy Spirit as part of the Godhead, and does not the whole Godhead deserve worship? Is not part of worship prayer? blessings abound, bowler |
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287 | Is limited atonement needed in Calvinism | Bible general Archive 4 | bowler | 206216 | ||
achoo4 John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. Note that, "that whoever believes in Him shall not persish". God loved the whole world, but only those who believe do not perish. 1 John 2:1, 2 My little children, I am writing these things so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world. Note that; the Advocate is for the saved, the unsaved cannot avail themselves of the Advocate because they have not accepted Him. "He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only but also for those of the whole world." John 1:12 - John says as many as received Him, not all but to many. Mathew 22:14 - Jesus says many are called but few are chosen. John 6:37 - Jesus says all that the Father has will come, it does not say all will come it says the ones who will come. Acts 13:48 - Luke says that as many as had been appointed by God to eternal life believed. 1 Tim 4:10 - Yes God died for all men, especially for believers. Romans 9:22 What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? He died for all of them, but not all will be saved. 1 John 2:2, Only the saved have an advocate with the Father, the unsaved have not partaken of the heavenly grace to avail themselves of the privelege of forgivenss of sins until they repent to Jesus and call Him Lord. Limited Atonement is definitely necessary to Calvinism. And Arminianism has that Unlimited Atonement it necessary to it. The problem with Limited Atonement as that is taught in Calvinism is that God does say in the Bible without a doubt in the Greek that Jesus died for the whole world, for the sins of the whole world, as a propitiation, and that He desires for all men to be saved. There is another way to look at the process of salvation; you can have Unlimited Atonement without veiwing that the way Arminians do, as that God willed that all be saved, but that He does not save some because they chose to reject Him. That Arminian belief poses a major problem with the sovereignty of God; it says that God chooses us because we choose Him, which is Biblically backwards, wrong, and erroneous. Another way to view Unlimited atonement outside of Arminianism is to see that while God did indeed have Jesus die for the sins of all people, the whole world, God only decides to save some based on His choice and His choice alone, and by His choosing He sends the Holy Spirit to work on the unbeliever of His choice to choose God by their own free choice once they have been convicted of sin by the Holy Spirit. This allows for the fact that man has a limited ability to have free choice, like a bird which has the ability to be free to fly, but has a broken wing and cannot fly though it be free, it must be healed, and then be able to choose to fly. This is neither Arminianism, nor Calvinism, both schools of thought which take one set of scriptures to make a point, or system, without balancing the other scripture which bear on the problem. However, it is much safer to adhere to the majority of Calvinism as it comes closer to a true interpretation of scripture than does Arminianism which trods heavily upon the sovereignty of God. The scriptures state over and over again that God's will is that many will be saved and not all. So then we cannot confuse God's desire that all men be saved, and that God sent Jesus to die for all men, with God's will that only some of all Jesus died for will be saved. blessing abound, bowler |
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288 | Were the disciples saved, Born Again? | NT general | bowler | 206215 | ||
Immanuelsown Question - how could it be possible for the disciples to go out and do the works of Jesus if they were not already saved? It takes the power of God to perform healings, cast out demons, perform the miracles, which the twelve, and then the seventy, were sent out to do, and did accomplish. Many will want to argue or dispute that the disciples were saved before Jesus went on to the cross. But how would it be possible for them to to do the works of God without the power to do so? All people are either in the kingdom of the devil, or in the kingdom of Jesus. All people either operate by the power of the devil, or by the power of Jesus. Once you believe in Jesus and get saved you come out of the kingdom of Satan, no longer held and operating by its power and are in the kingdom of Jesus, of God. Jesus says to Nicodemus in John 3:5 Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." How does one become born again? One is born again of the water and the Spirit. You have to be naturaly born first and then spiritualy born second in order to be "born again". John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. Ephesisans 1:13 In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation - having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise. According to Paul as soon as you hear the message of your salvation, and you believe, you receive the Holy Spirit. Jesus said you have to be born of water and of the Spirit in order to be born again. Some confuse the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost to confer power to witness the gospel and to start the church with the activity of the Holy Spirit to save souls. The term "born again" that Jesus uses is Jesus saying, you were born once through your mother's womb (by water), now you have to be "born again" a second time by the Spirit to enter the kingdom of God. Not everyone agrees that water here refers to the water of the womb because of Acts 2:38, but one is not saved by being baptized, so it is unlikely that Jesus was referring to being baptized by water to be saved. It is also unlikely because Jesus did not come to baptize with water, He came to baptize with the Holy Spirit. John 13:10 Jesus said to him, "He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you." This was to signify that Judas was unclean, but that the rest were clean. Many take this to mean that the disciples were clean of sin, saved, born again. blessings abound, bowler |
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289 | why did he ask this | Matt 16:13 | bowler | 206214 | ||
swella Jesus reveals the answer to your question in verse 17 - And Jesus said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-jona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven." The purpose Jesus asks the question is so that the answer will be revealed to the rest of the disciples. He was not so much testing them and it was not so much because of what the others in the crowds believed, but so that Peter would confess the Christ, as we see, Jesus says, God has revealed this to you. blessings abound, bowler |
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290 | Is the world ending in 2012. | Rev 16:8 | bowler | 206212 | ||
Spike Revelation 16:8, 9 is about one of the bowl judgments and some who do not take a literal interpretation of the Bible do not believe it will happen as prophesied by John. A literal intrepretation of the Bible would mean that it is going to come true sometime in the future. I say future because Revelation, although it does use figurative language is a real prophecy and no prophecy that is in the Bible has failed yet. Revelation chapter 1 is about an angel announcing a Revelation to John from Jesus Christ. In Revelation 1:19 the angel tells John that this is about the past, the present, and the future. The past is Revelation chapter 1, the present is Revelation chapters 2, and 3, the future is Revelation chapters 4 through 22. The prophecy of the Great Tribulation starts at chapter 6 and lasts until chapter 19 when Christ returns. In the Great Tribulation are a series of real judgments that are described using some figurative langauge to describe real events - for instance there are locusts with faces that go out and sting people that may be demons, - the beasts have horns that represent people and, or nations, or kingdoms and there are figurative depictions of two different women one good, one bad that represent the church and the evil economic and spiritual empire of the beast. But the bowl judgments and the trumpet judgments are meant to be real things to happen in the future. The one thing about Revelation is that the bulk of it, the chapters 6 through 19 are suppossed to happen within 7 years split up into two parts and the judgments happen during this time. So where Revelation 16:8, 9 says that an angel pours out a bowl on the sun and that the sun scorches men with fierce heat and that they curse God, we can count on that it will happen because the Bible does not lie. Many have been saying for years that Jesus is going to come at a this date or that certain date. They got the first dates they came up with wrong, now they have choosen other dates. Jesus says - Mathew 24:36 But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, not the Son, but the Father alone. If Jesus did not know, and if the angels do not know, it is certain that these people cannot say with any certainty that te world will be ending in 2012. Another reason why this cannot be so is that all the things that have to happen in order, starting from chapter 6, would have had to have started in 2005, and they did not happen at all, so the end of the world cannot come by 2012 because we would have to be 4 years into a set of judgments that have not happened yet. blessings abound, bowler |
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291 | Still punishable today | NT general | bowler | 206210 | ||
topper Romans 8:1 Therefore there is not no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Romans 3:28 For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law. John 3:18 He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Your sins are forgiven, your eternal dues for sin have been paid and you will not undergo eternal punishment. Your sins are no longer to be punished. But the effects of your sin to you and others does not get erased; if you kill someone, God forbid, you still go to jail and undergo an earthly punishment and the person you killed is still dead. However, there is the judgment for the believer of the deeds they did, whether good or bad. 2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. 1 Corinthians 3:12, 13, 14, 15 Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each man's work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man's work. If any man's work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward. If any man's work is burned up he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. According to these verses the believer will undergo a judgment at the "bema seat" of Christ and there the good deeds and the bad deeds done in the body will be either burned up, or rewarded, but the believer will be saved regardless of the outcome. blessins abound, bowler |
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292 | sending or being sent? | Is 48:16 | bowler | 206208 | ||
Jeff I went searching through Bible Tools and a Bible with some translations for the Hebrew on this scripture for you. One is from the Concordant Version of the Old Testament in Scripture4all - Draw near to me! Hear this! From the beginning, I did not speak in concealment, nor in a dark place of the earth. From the era of its coming, I was there and now My Lord Yahweh sends me and His spirit. This translation goes to your English Standard Version. Then there is this from the Esword Interlinear Bible - Have not from the beginning in secret spoken from the time that it was I: and now the Lord God hath sent and His spirit. This goes to the English Standard Version. Then I found this on Scripture4all as the Hebrew word order taken from the Sublinear English transliteration of the Westminster Lenningrad Codex - Near to me hear you this not from beginning in concealment I spoke from time of to become of her there I and now my Lord Yaweh He sends and spirit of Him. This goes more to the English Standard Version that you have there. The New American Standard Bible says this - Come near to Me, listen to this: from the first time it took place, I was there. And now the Lord God has sent Me, and His spirit. This goes more with your English Standard Version. I would go with the Lockman Foundations translation here because it is known to be closest to the Greek of all the translations, which perhaps we are able to see from viewing the Sublinear Westminster Lenningrad Codex, the Interlinear, and the Concordant Version of the Old Testament the same thing as well - that it most likely reads, "the Lord God has sent me and His Spirit." What is not coming through clear here is whether or not the King James Version is really saying anything different. What I am seeing is that it is saying the same thing as the English Standard Version being - the Lord God has sent and His Spirit too - and the King James Version as saying the Lord God and His Spirit has sent. I am trying to see the same difference that you are seeing here as being that the English Standard Version is really saying that "he" and the Spirit both got sent? blessings abounding, bowler |
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