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4021 | Should the Bible be taken literally? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 15040 | ||
"Should the Bible be taken literally" is akin to asking, "Should all medication be taken in the same way?" The obvious answer to both questions is, "Of course not. Not always, in every instance, without exception. It depends on which medication and on which passage of the Bible you're talking about."...... The better question by far, and the one that at least makes sense, is "Should the Bible be taken as the truth of God?" To that question, as a believer, I'd answer with a resounding Yes......Lionstrong, with your observations I have no quarrel. --Hank | ||||||
4022 | Cain's Wife | Gen 4:17 | Hank | 14979 | ||
Gentlemen, Raymondo and Nolan, since Scripture in no place tells us who Cain's wife was and any poor footnotes we try to add is nothing but vain speculation, what do you say we drop this topic here and now and bury the hatchet before much ado about nothing brings on needless ill will and bickering. We don't need any more of that on the forum, do we? --Hank | ||||||
4023 | Order of events at the 2nd Coming? | 1 Thess 4:17 | Hank | 14965 | ||
Well, looks like most of my forum pals are having a Saturday evening jamboree, and I can't just sit here and let you have all the fun. Besides, the Razorbacks aren't playing tonight and this is more exciting than the Grand Old Opry, so open the gate, I'm coming in to sit with you for a spell.... There's a couple of guys on TV down here in my part of the world who talk about nothing but eschatology, only they quit calling it that after somebody reminded them that we don't need to be much concerned about eschatology here in Arkansas since we don't have any escalators anyhow. So they started calling it prophecy and that seemed to catch people's attention a little better. They make a pretty good living, I guess, peddling books, tapes and study courses on the end times and between commercials manage to throw in enough foreboding passages from Daniel and Revelation to scare the dickens out of their viewers. The first few times I watched the show, I was slightly intrigued by some of the things they said, but soon enough a touch of boredom set in and I kicked the habit of watching them anymore. In the first place most of the stuff they talked about that was going to happen was way off into the future, and I'm 66 years old now and don't expect to live to be 1066, so I decided it might be a trifle more important to me to do what I can to influence somebody to come to Jesus in the few years that I may have remaining to me on this earth..... Now this isn't to say that Jesus may not come tonight or tomorrow -- not at all. And I believe Him when he said he would come again. But Tim, you have it right, I believe. You used the word balance -- keep a balanced view about end times and present times, between the here and now and the there and then........ I don't think that when Jesus said to watch for His coming He ever meant for His disciples to be professional star-gazers day and night. We can watch out of the corner of one eye while we buckle down to try to do some serious work in his vineyard while the sun is still shining and we have the breath of life and the strength to perform...... It's fascinating business to think about what the future may hold, that's for sure. But our future is molded to some extent by how we conduct ourselves in the Lord's business day by day, here and now....... Thanks for letting me drop by on your Saturday evening tete-a-tete and, in spirit at least, I'll be with you in church tomorrow. --Hank | ||||||
4024 | how do I read the Bible | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 14824 | ||
Rhema, not to discount your statement about the Bible being written on a fourth-grade level, for that may well be true in a certain sense for certain translations, but what the publishers who write these blurbs for their translations are talking about really is that the vocabulary is such that the words themselves can generally be recognized by a reasonably bright fourth grade student and that the syntax of their translation is kept fairly simple. But their statement is somewhat inaccurate and misleading. While most of the WORDS may be fairly well understood at a fourth grade reading level, many of the IDEAS or thought patterns and concepts are far and away above the ability of the average fourth grader to grasp. Indeed, the Bible is written on so many different planes and degrees of complexity that a small child can read parts of it with full understanding but there are other parts that have challenged and even baffled the minds of many of our finest thinkers throughout the ages. So, when I see these simplistic blurbs on the cover or dust jacket of a Bible saying it is written at this or that reading level, I cringe. If I had small children (I did, but they got big all of a sudden!) -- if I had small children in the home, I'd sooner start them out on a solid Bible translation such as the NASB than to expose them to some of the paraphrased parodies I see taking up valuable space on store bookshelves. And I would pay no attention whatever to somebody's reading level rating scheme. I've seen fourth graders who could read many so-called college level books. I've seen college graduates who had a tough time reading a fourth-grade textbook. --Hank | ||||||
4025 | Will it be our generation? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 14819 | ||
Shortly after the death of the eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, someone asked Billy Graham if he knew how much money Howard Hughes left behind. The evangelist smiled and answered, "Why, yes, I certainly do. He left all of it."..... If someone asked Billy Graham if he knew when our Lord will return, I can imagine him smiling and saying, "Why, yes, I certainly do. He will return when He is ready to return."....... And that's when it will be, at a time appointed by God, according to His plan and his time frame. Anyone who attempts to fix a date for Christ's return based on world events or some fuzzy interpretation of the book of Revelation or a deck of tarot cards is a crackpot. --Hank | ||||||
4026 | Name of first Chirstinas 0-33 AD? | Acts 11:26 | Hank | 14763 | ||
Steve, indeed in the early days of the church to be called "Christian" was anything but complimentary. The label "Christian" has been worn with various degrees of acceptance or lack of acceptance by the world down through the ages. When I was growing up, to be called "Christian" was always considered to be a compliment. Now the pendulum has swung back pretty much to where it was in the early days of Christianity. At best Christians are called narrow-minded bigots or Jesus freaks; at worst they are, in ever-growing numbers around the world, being beaten or burned, stoned or shot -- all for the "crime" of believing that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Evil knows no bounds, shows no mercy, wields no justice. --Hank | ||||||
4027 | Name of first Chirstinas 0-33 AD? | Acts 11:26 | Hank | 14762 | ||
Good line, Bill Mc, about people in the world who still consider Christians "in the Way." I like your application, and would add that may we Christians ever be "in the way" of Satan's devices to deceive and delude the world into thinking that his way is the way to health, wealth and happiness. We who know Christ know a peace and joy that the world cannot match and a richness of life and love whose depth the world cannot fathom. The hedge that God puts around His people is not to keep them penned in but to protect them from the evil without. --Hank | ||||||
4028 | For Joe. | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 14685 | ||
Charis, I'm so happy you gave our friend Joe a cyber-pat on the back and don't think of him as an evildoer. Goodness knows Joe has burden enough being a Texan and having to support those Texas Longhorns. I'm so thankful we have a much better team to support here in Arkansas, the mighty Razorbacks :-) Sorry Joe. But you're always welcome to become a citizen of Arkansas and enjoy the good life in Hog heaven! I'll even teach you how to call them Hogs. --Hank | ||||||
4029 | How could Jesus increase in wisdom? | Luke 2:52 | Hank | 14542 | ||
Sir (Pent), I think your views on the self-imposed limitation of Jesus are sound and, insofar as it is revealed, scripturally grounded. I think where we run into a sand barge is when we attempt to put God in a box and say, in so many words, God MUST do this or act like this or think thus and so. God is God and if the incarnate God chose to limit Himself on earth in certain respects, who are we to say, No, you can't do that: it isn't God-like of you? God made man in His own image; it is not our burden to make God in ours...... As for as your comments and concerns about the posts of your correspondent, well specifically to him and generally to us all, I would add that we need to exercise common sense and our very best judgment when we post anything at all on this forum. The Internet has extremely long tentacles and we will never know who may read what we say to their edification or to their damnation. --Hank | ||||||
4030 | Offices today? | Matt 15:9 | Hank | 14508 | ||
Charis, beloved brother in the Lord Jesus, it's good to read a post by an old and trusted friend of the forum, one of the pioneers..... I've a quirky mind to be sure, and your post somehow sparked two items to remembrance. One concerns structured churches and one concerns members of churches....... Some years ago I served in some menial capacity as a lay leader under the auspices of an associate pastor whose main raison d'etre was to investigate the functions of the dozen or so standing committees within the church. So she (that was before I became a Southern Baptist) created another committee to investigate and co-ordinate the functions of the other committees and named me its chairman. Thus I became the head of what was possibly the first committee committee in the history of the church! It was along about then that it dawned on me that the mission of the church surely is not the busy work of organizing and investigating of committees. There just must be more to it than that. And yet I fear that, to more of a degree than we like to imagine or are willing to admit, it is for many churches just that and little more. Wooden churches. Bland. No Spirit. No Zeal...... And now to my other spark, the one about members of churches. In his book "Tobacco Road" about Georgia share-croppers, Erskine Caldwel depicted a crusty old farmer named Ty Ty who with the greatest of difficulty managed to eke out a living on the parcel of George red clay he called a farm. During a drought than which Georgia had seen no greater in 50 years, Ty Ty is out in the middle of his parched tobacco field, his arms pointed toward heaven, and he is praying. "Now, look here, Lord," he says, "You know good and well I need rain and I need it bad. I been praying all week and you ain't done nothing about it yet. So listen to me. I'm giving you till Sunday to send some rain, and if'n you don't, I'm going to take matters into my own hands."....... So how many members of churches are like Ty Ty? Rather than pray earnestly and wait on the Lord to send his Spirit into their midst to guide, goad, inspire and revive the wooden churches, are they not all too eager to take matters into their own hands? And they are acting every bit as ridiculous as Ty Ty. --Hank | ||||||
4031 | so in other words it's not wrong | Rom 8:38 | Hank | 14473 | ||
Steve, apparently the misunderstanding on this thread arose from your lack of understanding of what a double negative is and what it means. In short, you didn't understand the question. Why, then, did you answer it? And how can you presume to teach this forum in the nuances of meaning of the ancient Hebrew and Greek tongues when you yourself rarely post on this forum a single sentence in English that is free from either grammatical or orthograhic errors? --Hank | ||||||
4032 | Lifting up of hands? | Ps 63:4 | Hank | 14333 | ||
Right on, Steve! If I didn't have friends who have Bibles in Arabic and Japanese, I wouldn't be able to understand the eleven commandments. --Hank | ||||||
4033 | Are those He called always chosen? | Rom 8:30 | Hank | 14280 | ||
Ed, I basically agree that this issue is of such a complex nature that it will never be settled completely by anyone anywhere this side of eternity. There are more things in the Bible that offer more raw material for fruitful study and discussion than election and free will, or as we know it today, Calvinism and Arminianism. Frankly, I'm bored stiff with this issue being pounded to a powder on this forum. --Hank | ||||||
4034 | who did cain marry? | Gen 1:1 | Hank | 14203 | ||
You ask, Brian, where does it say (in the Bible) that Adam was the only man God created from dust?...... The answer to that, my dear fellow, is easy and can be found in the same group of Scriptures wherein it is said that Paul was the only Apostle Jesus appeared to on the road to Damascus, that Jonah was the only person ever to wake up in a fish's belly, that John was the only Apostle who wrote Revelation, and that Peter was the first Pope. --Hank | ||||||
4035 | completeness of the bible. | Rev 22:18 | Hank | 13700 | ||
False prophets are nothing new, of course. The Bible is sprinkled with warnings against them. Jesus had to deal with false teaching and hypocracy among the Jewish leaders, as did Paul and the other Apostles later among the early churches. You might show your friend these passages among others: Prov.12:17; Matt.24:24; 2 Cor.11:3-4, 12-15; Rev.20:10.... Let's pray that your friend at least will subscribe to the premise that the Bible is the authoritative, inerrant word of God. May the Lord be with you as you minister to your friend about Him. --Hank | ||||||
4036 | How human-like is God | Exodus | Hank | 13678 | ||
Brian, I don't believe I'm "reading more into your question" but attempting to expand and clarify it. Your question seems awkward and ill-contrived to begin with. The question, as I indicated in my former post, is better to be considered as How God-like is man? instead of How human-like is God? Man was created in God's image, not God in man's image. God is not "human" in any sense. God is God. So the proper consideration is How and to what extent did God create man in His image?...... As concerning my brief references to Christ, I hardly can see how it is possible totally to separate the image of God the Father from the image of God the Son. --Hank | ||||||
4037 | How human-like is God | Exodus | Hank | 13663 | ||
Perhaps a better question is, "How God-like are human beings?" At all events, the "image of God" can hardly refer to physical attributes since God is spirit, not flesh. Moreover, the Risen Christ in His victory over sin and death differed in some measure from the Suffering Savior on the cross; the Transfigured Christ differed from the Jesus of Nazareth; and in His second advent He will differ from His first. --Hank | ||||||
4038 | who did cain marry? | Gen 1:1 | Hank | 13511 | ||
Cain has been "married" on this forum so many times already that he must have more wives by now than Solomon ever dreamed of. --Hank | ||||||
4039 | was wine fermented | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 13510 | ||
JVH, according to a recipe handed down by my great-grandfather, to get fermented water you mix 1 teaspoonful of ferment in a gallon jug of water and let it stand in a swamp for 40 years. --Hank | ||||||
4040 | Does anyone really *do* this? | Luke 14:12 | Hank | 13469 | ||
Brian, I would suggest you devote your attention to the log in your own eye and not worry about the speck that is in Nolan's and mine. --Hank | ||||||
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