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341 | Obey the Lord, not "Follow Your Heart" | Jer 16:12 | Hank | 180244 | ||
In harmony, I believe, with Richard Baxter's message on conscience is an aphorism I heard or read years ago whose source I can't recall. It said, "Conscience is a creature of education." I had occasion to prove the validity of this aphorism recently. A day or two before the November election a friend and I were opining on issues and candidates when it became obvious that his views differed sharply from mine. "Well," he said, "I'm going to vote my conscience and you can vote yours." ...... I voted mine and have reason to believe that he voted his. But, as Baxter pointed out, "an erring conscience is not to be obeyed, but to be better informed." It is my fondest wish that between now and the next election, my friend will take the remedial steps necessary to better inform his conscience. ...... On theology matters -- and theology certainly does matter -- the only trustworthy guide to faith and practice is God's word -- not man's conscience, not man's opinions, not man's reason, not man's scientific discoveries, not man's theories, hunches, dreams, visions, private "revelations or man's anything else. Sola scriptura. Sola scriptura. Scripture alone. Scripture alone. 2 Timothy 2:15 and 3:16. --Hank | ||||||
342 | Bodypiercing scriptural?ok? | Ps 139:14 | Hank | 180228 | ||
Dear young Mr. Summers - Even though you will not be enabled to respond, your registration having been rescinded because of legal considerations involving your young age, you are nevertheless welcome to visit Study Bible Forum as frequently as you wish as a non-participating reader. We are joyed that your faith in Christ is strong and encourage you to continue to fight the good fight of faith, to be strong in the Lord, and to let the light that you have found in Him shine before your classmates in school and everyone with whom you come in contact. And we extend an invitation to you to join Study Bible Forum upon attaining the legal age to do so. Again, the measures that have been taken regarding your user account are in no way punitive. God bless you and keep you under His wing is our prayer, dear young Christian. --Hank | ||||||
343 | ARE WE MARIED | 1 Cor 7:1 | Hank | 180219 | ||
Hello, Azure --It was American humorist Mark Twain who put a somewhat different, but nonetheless provocative, twist on biblical comprehension when he observed, "It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand." --Hank | ||||||
344 | ARE WE MARIED | 1 Cor 7:1 | Hank | 180095 | ||
Wiley - Years ago my family and I moved to Memphis. Shortly afterwards I thought I was driving east on one of the main streets of that city but was actually going west. Show me in the Bible where I was wrong! ..... Regarding the question of whether you are married, it is not Jeff's burden to show you wherein you are wrong but yours to show wherein you are right, and that, of course, is impossible to do. Jeff, Kalos and others have given you sage counsel to which, if you are sensible and have any wisdom, you will listen with great care. So, now it's time to put this issue aside and move on. We do not permit the playing of interminable linguistic ping-pong on Study Bible Forum. --Hank | ||||||
345 | ARE WE MARIED | 1 Cor 7:1 | Hank | 180093 | ||
Wiley - I visited England. Does that make me an English citizen? I visited Harvard University campus. Does that make me a Harvard graduate? Years ago I dated a young lady named Dottie and we came to love one another. Did that make us married? No, it did not! But on September 13, 1959 we were joined together as husband and wife in holy matrimony in a wedding ceremony conducted by the pastor of First Presbyterian Church in a small college town in Arkansas. We were thus married and have a legal marriage license to prove it. What legal document do you and Pat have? ..... Friend, you and the girl are no more married than you were before you walked into that church buillding and stood at the altar and said whatever it was you said to each other in private. Not one time since September 13, 1959 has either Dottie or I felt any reason whatever to ask the question you have asked of this Forum: "Are we married?" If you love this girl and she loves you and both of you wish to live together as husband and wife till death parts you, what then is your problem and what your excuse? Do the honorable thing: make a commitment; get married; and stop playing silly games by profaning what is sacred. --Hank | ||||||
346 | Whom baptizes with the Holy Ghost | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 180053 | ||
Note on Post 180020, wherein appears the question, which is assumed to be intended as a rhetorical question, "Well, what is the Holy Ghost but Jesus?" ..... The orthdox doctrine of the Triunity of God (Trinity) is the distinctive and essential Christian doctrine that there is one God in three Persons. The Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God. There is a distinction between the Persons so that the Father is not the Son, the Father is not the Spirit, and the Son is not the Spirit. Each is a Person. The Holy Spirit is not to be envisioned as a mere force or influence. ..... Adapted from a Glossary entry, "The Believer's Study Bible," 1991, Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville. --Hank | ||||||
347 | were is the answer i couden't find it. | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 179903 | ||
Sir, the information you seek may be found on first, second and third base, respectively. Respectfully, --Hank. | ||||||
348 | DOES YOUR PASTOR BELIEVE THE BIBLE? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 179881 | ||
thenoel2 - The post you've responded to is over five years old and the author has not posted on the forum in more than four years, so it is doubtful that you will get a response. She cited a source reference at the end of her post. I checked it out a few minutes ago. It's a valid URL and the site is affiliated with Christianity Today, but I couldn't locate the article cited as the source for the statistics given in the post. --Hank | ||||||
349 | Your Favorite, Best Quality Bible? | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 179826 | ||
Justme - Perhaps I can be of help to you in resolving a problem you have experienced with a Foundation publication. Please e-mail me at placeonea@webtv.net. --Hank | ||||||
350 | Why the need for manna? | OT general | Hank | 179739 | ||
Jeff, as I was reading your fine answer to LAP involving God's providential care of His people in providing them with daily manna, the words of our Lord from His pattern prayer in Matthew 6:11 came to mind: "Give us this day our daily bread." Echoes of Exodus? Yes, I believe they are and for the same reason. God's children, then and now, have no real reason to store up for themselves treasures on earth (Matthew 6:19) or to be worried about their lives (Matthew 6:25), but to seek first His kingdom and His rightousness, and all these things will be added to them (Matthew 6:33). This is no simplistic Pollyanna philosophy that Jesus is teaching but a tough lesson in faith and trust in the providence of God. In our time it is far more stylish to trust in the plastron of wealth to shield us against the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune than in the providence of God. The ancient Israelites of the Exodus frequently found it difficult to put their complete trust in God; and we who wander about in our own kind of wilderness don't find the going much easier than did they. Most men pattern their lives after the rich fool in Luke's gospel, not bothering to stop and consider what happened to this rich fool (Luke 12:16-21). --Hank | ||||||
351 | Judas' betrayal | Matt 27:4 | Hank | 179719 | ||
Paul - Never in the history of this forum have the proceedings remotely involved "two English-speaking nations divided by a common language." On the contrary, the issues that divide involve variant doctrinal points of view relating to Scripture and have nought to do with anything else. This forum was designed for, and always has been dedicated to, the study of the Bible and extends its welcome to searchers for biblical knowledge who come from the four corners of the earth. --Hank | ||||||
352 | Judas' betrayal | Matt 27:4 | Hank | 179685 | ||
Paul - Along with my colleague Doc I hereby register a complaint against your ad hominem slur against my friend and Christian brother, John (kalos). Let's have no more of that, please. Continuation of such behavior constitutes sufficient grounds for your user account with the Lockman Foundations's Study Bible Forum to be revoked. An apology under coercion is without value, but if you find it in your heart, after reflecting on this matter, to apologize voluntarily, honestly and sincerely to kalos, I believe that kalos would accept your apology with grace and complete forgiveness. ..... And a P.S. Let's scrap this silly talk about Judas' role in salvation. Not since the world began has any man but the man Christ Jesus had the power to save men from their sins. He and He alone has everything to do with it. And with that declaration, sir, I declare the case closed! --Hank | ||||||
353 | OT laws repeated in NT | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 179647 | ||
Valoree - Having known your correspondent Doc for some time and having had considerable exposure to his writings and his ideas, I must say that he is far more astute than you appear to give him credit for being. Moreover, in human dialogue the failure of the hearer to understand is often closely related to the failure of the speaker to communicate clearly. To a degree of which many of us are either unaware or unwilling to admit, we all of us live in glass houses and should throw stones cautiously and prudently, if indeed at all. Hank | ||||||
354 | Act 19:5, what happen what ideas, result | Acts 19:5 | Hank | 179365 | ||
tonjab - Don't you think that using the Forum to answer your homework questions is not being quite fair to the course you're taking, nor to your classmates, nor to your instructor, nor even to yourself? It is suggested that you review and ponder what 2 Timothy 2:15 says. We welcome you to use the Forum but not to answer the homework questions that you yourself should toil over. You are in effect asking us on the Forum to do your homework for you and this, dear student, is NOT the same thing as honest research of your own! --Hank | ||||||
355 | nothin about facing east for resurection | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 179356 | ||
No, Doc, I ain't never seen no casket what said "THIS END UP" on it :-) (But see 1 Kings 22:35.) --Hank | ||||||
356 | script on burial/ cremeation, how / why | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 179355 | ||
Lorenzo - Cremation was not the general Hebrew method of disposing of the dead, but it was not unknown to ancient Hebraic culture, particularly in the case of criminals as Joshua 7:25 attests. Morever, we find in 1 Samuel 31:12,13 and account of the citizens of Jabesh Gilead having burned the bodies of Saul and his sons. But it is of interest to note that afterwards they interred their bones. In light of the fact that the Philistines had beheaded Saul, the cremation may well have been an act on the part of the valiant men of Jabesh Gilead to hide the damage. ...... At all events, Scripture neither sanctions nor specifically forbids cremation, although we may reasonably infer that the Israelites placed a certain amount of importance on burying their dead; for example, the account (Gen. 23:2-15) of Abraham's considerable efforts to find a suitable burial site for his deceased wife Sarah, and Jacob's plea to Joseph not to bury him in Egypt (Gen. 47:29,30). --Hank | ||||||
357 | 1 Kings Chapter 13 | 1 Kin 13:1 | Hank | 178964 | ||
Azure - What an interesting experience! And thanks for sharing it. I've keenly enjoyed your posts and encourage you to continue your fine contributions to SBF. Your user profile is a delight also and I noted with keen interest that C. S. Lewis is your favorite writer, or, if you prefer, your favourite writer :-). I'm a long-time admirer of this erudite Oxford don also. A number of years ago I led a summer seminar for college students on Lewis' writings, chiefly his "Screwtape Letters." One of my students then is my dentist now. But I digress. The main point about Lewis I wish to make in this little post is this: The associate pastor of a church of which my wife and I used to be members told me that his father, an inveterate skeptic who would have nothing to do with any religion, became a follower of Christ after having read "Mere Christianity." Isn't it remarkable that a book written by a man who himself was for many years a skeptic would become the instrument to touch the life of a skeptic in such a profound way? God used a donkey, as you pointed out, to deliver His message long ago. And He used C. S. Lewis, a former skeptic, to deliver His message to the skeptic, the pastor's father. The late David Elton Trueblood, professor of philosophy at Earlham College and author of a number of books including "The Life We Prize," of which I own an autographed copy by the way, said that he believed the most convincing evidence for the authenticity of the Christian religion lay in the incontrovertible fact that it changed lives, profoundly and permanently. I myself would prefer to recast the statement to say that it is Christ Jesus who changes lives. ...... One final comment involving C. S. Lewis. A few summers ago while visiting my daughter I met an Oxford don and his wife who have a summer home on Cape Cod just a few doors away from where my daughter and her family live. My conversation with the don came around to a discussion of C. S. Lewis. The don had joined the faculty of Oxford after the death of Lewis and so had never met him personally, but his eyes lit up when I mentioned C. S. Lewis. "Ah, yes," said the don. "Lewis is still discussed around Oxford. He's what you might call a legend. He was a Christian, you know." ..... Yes, I knew. And I thought how wonderful it would be, when the bell tolls for me and the curtain of my life on earth is closed, for it to be said long after I'm gone, "He was a Christian, you know." --Hank | ||||||
358 | explain God father son is one | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 178815 | ||
Jimtheseeker - Respectfully but firmly must I take issue with your analogy, Jim. because it is descriptive not of Trinitarianism but Modalism, which is one of the basic errors into which men have frequently fallen with reference to the doctrine of God. Modalism maintains that there is one God who manifests Himself successively as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit but who is not contemporaneously all three. ..... The orthodox doctrine, distinctively and essentially Christian, is called Trinitarianism (Trinity, Triunity) and affirms that there is one God in three Persons. The Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God. There is a distinction between the Persons so that the Father is not the Son, the Father is not the Spirit, and the Son is not the Spirit. Each is a Person. Moreover, the Holy Spirit is never to be envisioned as a mere force or influence, never as an impersonal "It" but always as a personal "He." ...... There are no satisfactory analogies to be made as efforts to explain the Trinity. In trying to make such analogies, man is limited to created things, but there is in all creation nothing comparable with the transcendent God who created all things. ..... Scripture reference: Matthew 3:16,17, in which the Triunity of God is manifest simultaneously in the presence of the Father in the audible blessing and assurance; in the Son in His submission to baptism; and in the Holy Spirit in His anointing of the Son for His role as Messiah. --Hank | ||||||
359 | Mat 5:27-28. Adultery. | Prov 5:1 | Hank | 178740 | ||
Hello, Edwin - Of course, no one in the New Testament is reported to have handled snakes nor to have been commanded to do so, which makes the argument sophistic and the illustration academic. ...... When I was growing up in eastern Tennessee many years ago, there was a "holiness" church near Chattanooga that practiced snake handling. It was quite a spectacle and people came from far and wide to see it. The nearest present-day counterpart to the carnival atmosphere that surrounded the snake handlings would be the faith healings staged by Benny Hinn and others of his feather. I recall vividly still the big news event occasioned by one of the practictioners having become the victim of a fatal bite by an uncooperative rattle snake, whereupon civil authorities moved in and put an end, at least temporarily, to the snake handling nonsense, much to the disappointment of those who had come to depend on the events as sprightly amusement. I am not aware whether this religious cult ever resumed the dangerous practice, which, it seems to me, is an example par excellence of putting God to the test. But not any more than invoking the name of God and yelling "Be healed" to a person with a terminal illness. What truly is amazing, my British brother, is the ease with which human beings can find Bible loopholes where there really are none, speak loudly on those issues about which Scripture is silent, and blissfully ignore other issues about which Scripture fairly shouts! O, if only finite man would inculcate 2 Timothy 2:15 into his soul, print it, as it were, indelibly on his heart and commit it to his memory cells, what a difference it would make in Christianity today! If Christians round the world became Bereans instead of blind sheep, it would put the charlatans out of business. --Hank | ||||||
360 | baptism when and who | Acts 2:38 | Hank | 178515 | ||
Amen! Shelly. Well put. Please let me encourage you to fill in some information about youself in your user profile. Not mandatory, of course, but helpful to us to get to know you a little better. Thanks for being a member of SBF. --Hank | ||||||
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