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341 | disciple that Jesus loved | 1 John 4:10 | Aixen7z4 | 121949 | ||
It would be interesting, but probably not convincing, to know what you have heard different. It is clear that Jesus loved all the disciples (See John 13). But there was a special place for Peter and James and John and there was a very special place for John. John may have been somewhat embarrassed by the special attention (I use the word advisedly and not to draw response) and he was disinclined to identify himself by name. But there was one who “which also leaned on his breast at supper” (John 21:20). We should not be surprised if he is the same one writing about Jesus as “that which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled” (1 John 1:1). He is also the only one known to refer to Jesus as “the Word”, though I do not know why that came out, except it be that he was close enough to have heard his every word. For all that, he seems to have always had his eyes fixed on Jesus. The love was mutual. With all that, it was not so important to John that he loved Jesus, though he did (1 John 4:19) but that Jesus loved him, and us (Revelation 1:5). |
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342 | put 1Jn 5:7 BACK where it belongs! | 1 John 5:7 | Aixen7z4 | 98705 | ||
I wonder what you think of "The Message" and the way it translates the word of God. See how they render Matthew 23:24. "Do you have any idea how silly you look, writing a life story that's wrong from start to finish, nitpicking over commas and semicolons?" I find it interesting to see how all of the translations tell us the message God has given. Also interesting to see how the message develops across the pages from Genesis to Revelation. God speaks once, yea twice, yea many times, but there is no contradiction or confusion there, when you get it. God established his creation and speaks through it. Those who have no Bible or reading ability still get the message. There is no language and no place where it is not heard. God gave each of us a conscience so that even without a word in writing we know right from wrong. Moreover, we can know God, and it is within us to worship him as God or to become vain in our imaginations. God has sent his Son, and he has spoken, with words and deeds, including a death and a resurrection that might have made it clear. But some still would not believe. Is it because they had problems with the meaning of the words, or what he had failed to say? He wrote nothing himself, as far as we know, except once on the ground, and we do not know what he wrote then. Those who heard him wrote what he said and did, though none wrote all of it, and their accounts have some slight variations. But we do not well to strain over those slight variations. Thank God for all of them and see that their stories all agree. Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours, as are all the translations of the Bible. God gave us his Holy Spirit and even when we are unsaved he ministers to us, of sin and of righteousness and of judgment to come. When we are saved he guides us from inside, reminding us of the word of God and giving us the applicable meaning. He knows the mind of God, and he tells us without having to strain at words. And the Spirit and the Son and the written word and our hearts all agree. And there are many translations of the Bible. They all tell us the same message: that God loves us and sent his son to die for us. And they all tell us that we are to love each other. What if we knew just that and did not have the wherewithal to see the gnats? Then perhaps we would concentrate on acting on the little that we knew. The message of 1 John 5:7 is seen throughout the Bible. It seems to me it does not matter whether or not it was said there one more time. |
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343 | WILL YOU ADD TO, TAKE AWAY FROM, OR LEAV | 1 John 5:7 | Aixen7z4 | 98860 | ||
No insult intended, my friend, and no accusation; just a regret that you did not take the time to ponder the post. As I have indicated elsewhere, there seems to be no problem with the text in question when one considers the word of God as a whole; nothing has been violated. But whereas you think some may be risking damnation by accepting a translation with an omission, I think it is fair to ask you to consider that the Matthew 23 passage might apply. I think it simply says you may be focused on the wrong thing. The overall message, the need to obey it, and the need to preach the Gospel, may be more important than a comma, a semicolon, or even a single verse. | ||||||
344 | request for money is a false teacher? | 2 John 1:10 | Aixen7z4 | 143552 | ||
I do believe you may be thinking about a passage in the third epistle of John. The message seems to be positive, that we should support those who preach the Gospel. The reason is that they do not accept anything from unbelievers, and it is the place and privilege of the believers to give them hospitality and support. The passage says (3 John vv. 5-8 NLT): "Dear friend, you are doing a good work for God when you take care of the traveling teachers who are passing through, even though they are strangers to you. They have told the church here of your friendship and your loving deeds. You do well to send them on their way in a manner that pleases God. For they are traveling for the Lord and accept nothing from those who are not Christians. So we ourselves should support them so that we may become partners with them for the truth". I wonder if that is what you are remembering. |
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345 | How do we "contend for the faith"? | Jude 1:3 | Aixen7z4 | 97162 | ||
And is it not too late now? Jude seemed to be so concerned about the coming in of false doctrine, he put aside a discussion of salvation to deal with it. And even today it seems there are so many false doctrines to contend with, we hardly have time to talk about salvation. Can we effectively contend for the faith today? In that day it was the church to keep false dctrine out. But by this time it has taken root and infested and permeated the church. Is that stating it too strongly? Now it seems that anyone trying to root out false doctrine is, in a sense, on the outside, and reaching in. What many have tried to do is to start a new church and then to keep it pure. But what they are really starting is a new denomination and they are immediately infected with the sin of sectarianism. They are not able to keep the small group pure, and the larger church is left to go from bad to worse. Does Jude's exhortation apply to the church of today at all? Or is the church, as J.N. Darby says, beyond repair? Nevertheless, Paul says that Jesus has made provision "That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish". And Jude commits the church unto him that is able to keep us from falling, and to present us faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy. So let it be. |
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346 | What do we believe? | Jude 1:3 | Aixen7z4 | 117084 | ||
We may know very well what we believe, but how do we express it? We would be correct to say that we believe whatever the Bible says, but what does that communicate? Creeds have been used as concise statements, used sometimes to aid the congregant, sometimes to communicate with outsiders, and sometimes to set the church apart from rising heresies. Statements such as “We believe whatever the Bible says” and “We speak where the Bible speaks and where the Bible is silent we are silent” serve a purpose. But what is the ideal statement? When we had to develop a statement of beliefs for our ministry, it was a challenge. We wanted to make it as brief as possible, and yet it had to encompass everything. It had to fit on the back of a business card. We wanted to make it as simple as possible without being simplistic. We had to use words that conveyed deep meaning. This is what it turned out to be. See http://www.hishows.bizland.com/Beliefs.html This is what we believe. And to this we are committed. 1. God gave us this life, and he is ruler over us. 2. There are two important things he asks of us: - to love him and obey him. - to love and help each other. 3. Since we have failed in both of these areas, he asks us to admit it, and to accept his forgiveness. 4. He can forgive us because Christ died for our sins, he was buried, and he rose again. 5. When we repent and trust in him, he gives us a new life, and with it, a new opportunity to do the tasks in #2. To get help, or to give help, please contact us. I wonder now if there was anything essential that was left out. We do believe that Jesus is the Son of God, that he was conceived of the Holy Ghost, and everything else the Bible teaches. We could make a long list of the truths that we adhere to. Where do we stop, between presenting the entire Bible and making a concise list of four or five points.? Some Gospel Halls have a statement on the back of their bulletin listing a set of beliefs. Of course, some have no such list, indeed, no bulletin at all. It would be interesting to see, if they were required to come up with a statement, what it would look like. In the end, though, it seems to matter little what we say with our lips or put on paper. It is our behavior that speaks for us. What do we practice, or try to, that we can support with scripture? That is our statement of beliefs. To paraphrase Paul, in 2 Corinthians 3, we are our own statement of beliefs, written in our hearts and lives, observed and read by all men. We are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered to us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in the fleshy tables of the heart. |
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347 | prist and king | Rev 1:6 | Aixen7z4 | 148240 | ||
That fact is revealed at least two times in the book of the Revelations. John says, “Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and has made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen“. (Rev 1:5,6). And they sung a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for you were slain, and you have redeemed us to God by your blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; and you have made us kings and priests unto our God, and we shall reign on the earth” (Rev 5:10). |
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348 | What is this "open door?" | Rev 4:1 | Aixen7z4 | 133430 | ||
Hello: I found your question while looking for discussions in Revelation and wondered what further thoughts you might have had on the subject, the door, since 6/28/02. You noticed that there is a door in Revelation 3:18 and a door in Revelation 4:1 and wondered if they were the same. It was said the first door was an entrance into the kingdom or a door of opportunity, while the second was a view into heaven or an entrance into heaven in order to see certain things. Mention was made also to the door in John 10, which represents the Lord himself. It seemed to me significant that in all these cases it was a door and not a window. Surely a window could provide a view, but a door is the one we actually go through. As Jesus would say (John 10:9) “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.” So it seems that a door is that which allows entrance and exit. Not that a window cannot be used for the same purpose, but Jesus referred to that in John 10:1. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber”. He would go on to say that those who enter in that way come to kill and to steal and to destroy. It is evident that he was talking about false prophets who may come into the church. Interesting that Jesus himself enters through the door. This seems to say that he enters in the right way, legitimately, but also that someone lets him in. In John 10 it is the porter who opens the door, and it would seem that the Porter is usually the Holy Spirit. In Revelation 4:1, John heard a voice. Whose voice? It does not say. But in the next verse there is the influence of the Spirit leading him through the door and into heaven. In 1 Corinthians 12, it is the Holy Spirit who brings new believers into the church. Otherwise it may be a leader of the church or any believer in the church who can open the door, as in Revelation 3:20. I might note in passing that the door in this last instance is evidently the entryway into the church and not into the heart as is often supposed, though Ephesians 3 does picture him settling down in the heart. But then Jesus is himself the door into the fold, which I take as another reference to the church, the body of believers. It is through this door that we pass in and out (John 10:9). We go through that door, into the world, and one purpose is to find sheep that are lost and to bring them in. He did say that there are sheep who belong to him that are not yet in the fold. He might have been referring to the Gentiles at that time, but I take it there is a double meaning there and it applies still today. And all of this to say that a door is different from a window and it is more than a view that is in view. A door is to let people in and out, and there is a door to the church. We should let Jesus in and not the false prophet. They will enter anyway, but it is partly through their mode of entry that we will know them. A door is for us to go in and out of. It was used in Revelation 4 to let John into heaven. It remains a fixture in the church to let us go outside the church and to come back in, bringing something with us. Interesting that Jesus comes through the door, he is the door, and he is also the shepherd who leads us in and out the door. “When he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him” (John 10:4). Have you thought about these things? |
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349 | help | Rev 13:16 | Aixen7z4 | 149062 | ||
We looked at the passage in over twenty (20) translations and it always said the mark would be in one place or the other. We have not yet found one where it says the mark will be in both places. We would suppose that one saying so would be in error. But … It is evident that the location of the mark is not important. Also, from what follows, the mark and the name and the number are all the same. Interestingly, it is also apparent that even those who might have chosen to cut off their right hand (as in Matthew 5:30) would not escape the requirement. Isn’t that interesting? How much better to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ now and be included in the rapture! It will be a terrible time, and the beast will be a terrible creature! He will have power “to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world”. “If any man have an ear, let him hear”. |
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350 | Why not sentences | Rev 22:18 | Aixen7z4 | 97095 | ||
The original writings were, I assume, in the form of sentences. That is the way thoughts are expressed in every language. There is a question why the editors did not decide to assign one verse to each sentence. Some sentences are broken up into verses. John 13:2,3,4 are one sentence. Granted the sentence is long, but so is Ester 8;9, and it is left as one verse. The chapter divisions are also curious as there are very long ones (John 6) and very short ones (Malachi 4). Even more interesting is the fact that a chapter can end with a comma (Acts 21). That can be somewhat disconcerting, The idea of paragraphs seems to be a good one, but that makes it more difficult to locate the verse numbers. Bibles that have verses looking like paragraphs usually add a "¶" to indicate paragrahs transitions. We should be thankful for the people who do these things to help us. They are monumental tasks and I suppose the quirks may be due to phenomena such as fatigue and loss of concentration. If we can live with the locations of the letter keys on a QWERTY keyboard, I suppose we can live with quirky subdivisions of words. We should be aware that these divisions are not like the original writings especially in the fact that they were not inspired. The problem with quoting verses is that we may think that each one is a complete thought. It is not. Someone has pointed out that Philippians 2:5-8 is one sentence, and one thought. How many of us read read the passage and dote upon the fact that Jesus thought that way (humbly) and miss the point that we should do the same. That was the intent of the author, and the author, lest we forget, is the Holy Spirit. The original writings were, I assume, in sentences, and we would do well to read our Bibles that way. |
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