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321 | Are women to be dependent on men? | Ruth 3:7 | Reighnskye | 131031 | ||
Doc, So is this one verse completely and strictly cultural? Does it no longer have a modern day application for us? ---- The women are to keep silent in the churches; for they are not permitted to speak, but are to subject themselves, just as the Law also says. If they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is improper for a woman to speak in church. (1 Corinthians 14:34-35 NAS95) RS |
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322 | Why does God impart familial bitterness? | Ruth 1:20 | Reighnskye | 131028 | ||
Doc, So can people who are born into bad families find a better family in the Church? I'm just afraid that I haven't found this. ---- Then Peter said to Him, "Behold, we have left everything and followed You; what then will there be for us?" And Jesus said to them, "Truly I say to you, that you who have followed Me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on His glorious throne, you also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. "And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms for My name's sake, will receive many times as much, and will inherit eternal life. (Matthew 19:27-29 NAS95) |
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323 | How much money to purchase a good wife? | Ruth 4:10 | Reighnskye | 131026 | ||
Roger, I find these two short little verses to be quite intriguing. They are also filled with vast implications when compared against each other. The first verse reference that you provide seems to say that a godly and virtuous woman is above and beyond the value of any dollar amount. An excellent wife, who can find? For her worth is far above jewels. (Proverbs 31:10 NAS95) While the second verse reference that you provide seems to display that a lowly whore can be bought and sold for money. So I bought her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a half of barley. (Hosea 3:2 NAS95) RS |
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324 | What is the Church's responsibility? | Ruth 2:10 | Reighnskye | 131025 | ||
Roger, You've provided some great verses here as to what is the extent of the Church's social responsibilities to the unsaved. preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, (2 Timothy 4:2-3 NAS95) These verses seem to imply a very verbal, albeit essential, ministry which the Church should be engaged in. I'm just wondering what the Church should do (or conversely should not do) towards the unsaved on a more material (non-verbal) level. Please also take a look at this next verse, as both these scripture units are probably best combined together in our actual practice, so as to yield the greatest degree of effectiveness. What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and be filled," and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself. (James 2:14-17 NAS95) RS |
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325 | Were woman bought and sold? | Ruth 4:5 | Reighnskye | 131023 | ||
Roger, The association and/or inference that I draw here is virtually identical to your question, albeit on a much grander scale. Indeed, women were treated as the property of men, in the times of ancient Israel, much like land property. Such traditions may even have extended to women in the early New Testament Church. So here is the grander question, within the context of this verse (Ruth 4:5): Does (or should) the culturally biblical treatment of women extend into our modern day and age? Were ancient Israel and the early Church inherently inspired by God to treat women as they did (buying and selling women as property, etc.)? And if so, then to what degree? Or if not, then to what degree do we today still enforce the old ways in smaller degrees? RS |
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326 | What should be a woman's boundaries? | Ruth 2:22 | Reighnskye | 131019 | ||
Roger, Perhaps it is best to look at the verse to better understand the question. Particularly the Amplified Bible versus the NASB for the clearest rendering here. Insofar as I believe that the Bible's principles are both universal and timeless, it stands to reason to me that this verse and any other still has a modern day application. The verse particularly suggests that women have a danger of being sexually molested in the workplace. As such, Ruth chooses to stay among the maidens, so she will not suffer undue risk of being sexually molested. In the context of this verse (Ruth 2:22), I again offer my question. What are adequate boundaries for a woman to take among male workers? Is it good for a woman to be among other women? I find that boundaries are still a big issue today in the workplace, and I have even relayed corporate policy to new female workers never to be alone with the opposite sex. RS |
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327 | What is the Church's responsibility? | Ruth 2:10 | Reighnskye | 131016 | ||
Doc, Indeed, i must agree that our eyes should look upward. In addition, the verse that you offer here seems to imply a material social responsibility that the Church has to the world around itself. Would the Church's role extend to the support of the handicapped? I am legally disabled myself. Or is material compassion, on so grand a monetary scale, best left to the US government? ---- Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world. (James 1:27 NAS95) RS |
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328 | Does God plunge mortals into ignorance? | Obad 1:8 | Reighnskye | 131015 | ||
Angel, Your words in your last post here are like poetry. :) RS |
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329 | How much authority do leaders have? | Ruth 3:5 | Reighnskye | 131014 | ||
Roger, This scripture unit seems to say to me at least two things: 1. We should submit to our earthly leaders, even though they are corrupt in their hypocrisies. 2. We should not name leaders among the Church, for One is our leader. Would these interpretations be correct? ---- Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples, saying: "The scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the chair of Moses; therefore all that they tell you, do and observe, but do not do according to their deeds; for they say things and do not do them. "They tie up heavy burdens and lay them on men's shoulders, but they themselves are unwilling to move them with so much as a finger. "But they do all their deeds to be noticed by men; for they broaden their phylacteries and lengthen the tassels of their garments. "They love the place of honor at banquets and the chief seats in the synagogues, and respectful greetings in the market places, and being called Rabbi by men. "But do not be called Rabbi; for One is your Teacher, and you are all brothers. "Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven. "Do not be called leaders; for One is your Leader, that is, Christ. "But the greatest among you shall be your servant. (Matthew 23:1-11 NAS95) RS |
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330 | How much money to purchase a good wife? | Ruth 4:10 | Reighnskye | 130900 | ||
How much did it normally cost for Israelites to buy their wives in the Old Testament? Were women treated as a property tranfer from one owner to another? | ||||||
331 | Were woman bought and sold? | Ruth 4:5 | Reighnskye | 130898 | ||
Did ancient Israel buy and sell woman as property for a price? | ||||||
332 | Are women to be dependent on men? | Ruth 3:7 | Reighnskye | 130894 | ||
Is the dependency of women upon men more of a cultural thing? How much authority shall the man have over the woman, if any? | ||||||
333 | What character shall a woman have? | Ruth 3:11 | Reighnskye | 130893 | ||
What marks of character should a godly woman possess? | ||||||
334 | How much authority do leaders have? | Ruth 3:5 | Reighnskye | 130892 | ||
To what extent shall we obey leaders and elders? How complete should our submission be to them and to what degree does their authority over us extend? | ||||||
335 | What is the Church's responsibility? | Ruth 2:10 | Reighnskye | 130891 | ||
What is the extent of the Church's social responsibilities to the unsaved, who are particularly without a healthy family support? | ||||||
336 | What should be a woman's boundaries? | Ruth 2:22 | Reighnskye | 130890 | ||
What are adequate boundaries for a woman to take among male workers? Is it good for a woman to be among other women? | ||||||
337 | Why does God impart familial bitterness? | Ruth 1:20 | Reighnskye | 130888 | ||
Why does God bring bitterness on people by destroying the family unit? Is there solace in the Church as a surrogate? | ||||||
338 | How does one fellowship with the Church? | Ruth 1:16 | Reighnskye | 130887 | ||
How is one admitted into fellowship with the Church of God? Ruth left her very own people (and their foreign gods) to become a member of the house of God. Must sinners leave their former affiliations to enter into fellowship with the Church? Ruth was a gentile that converted to the ways of God. | ||||||
339 | Will the time of the judges be restored? | Ruth 1:1 | Reighnskye | 130886 | ||
Will the time of the judges be restored in Christ's future kingdom? When Christ chose twelve disciples, he fashioned this group after the structure of the twelve tribes of Israel, intending for the twelve disciples to lead twelve tribes, in future governmental authority. Indeed, sitting upon their twelve future thrones, it is quite likely that they shall even judge angels, and not only the combined nations of the earth. Of course, one of the apostles (Judas Iscariot) was lost, as symbolic also of the loss of the tribe of Benjamin in the last chapter of the book of Judges. |
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340 | Does God plunge mortals into ignorance? | Obad 1:8 | Reighnskye | 130885 | ||
Aaron, I guess that I'm under the impression that humanity born in sin never really possessed the higher wisdom in the first place. Children from the womb lack the light of spiritual awareness, and therefore cannot discern between good and evil without the Law of Moses to eventually instruct them. I fully agree with what you say in your post here. I guess a better way that I may articulate my question would be as follows: Does God elevate mortals to the light of spiritual awareness prior to their rejection of the gospel? Or do people usually merely reject the gospel with no more than the Law of Moses to enlighten them? ---- For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. (Romans 1:18-23 NAS95) Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was well-pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. For indeed Jews ask for signs and Greeks search for wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness, but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong, and the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are, so that no man may boast before God. (1 Corinthians 1:20-29 NAS95) |
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