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4061 | From Ooze or from God? | Gen 1:1 | Hank | 11556 | ||
And you know, Nolan, one of the primary reasons for the popularity of the "we came from ooze" persuasion has nothing to do with logic, or true science, or anything else except that this idea "frees" human beings from accountability for the way they lead their lives. As you point out, if there is no Supreme Being, then we may as well live our lives as we wish. For those who deny the very idea of God and the authority of the Bible, there is no good or evil, no such entity as sin, and no moral absolutes..... The idea of being fully accountable to God for our thoughts and deeds has never set very well with fallen humanity. On the contrary, "eat, drink, and be merry" continues to be the ages-old marching song that countless men and women have chanted and chant still as they slosh their way to destruction. What fools we mortals be! --Hank | ||||||
4062 | Was Jesus On A Secret Mission? | Mark 1:34 | Hank | 11483 | ||
Steve, I believe your reference to Acts 16:16-18 is very germane to this thread, because Paul and the other apostles, not unlike in their reasons to Jesus himself, did not want a cloud surrounding them that could remotely suggest that they were empowered by demons or other satanic influences. The slave girl, while in possession of a spirit of divination kept crying out, "These men are bond-servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation." What she said was true, of course, but how much weight did it carry coming from her, in view of her less-than-desirable credentials? Her testimony could, in fact, do more harm than good. So, the Scriptures tell us, Paul was greatly annoyed, turned and, invoking the name of Jesus Christ, commanded the evil spirit to come out of the slave girl. And one has only to read the rest of this narrative in Acts 16 to find out what consequences befell Paul and Silas in the wake of this incident. --Hank | ||||||
4063 | From Ooze or from God? | Gen 1:1 | Hank | 11384 | ||
Here's a tid-bit of scientific information you can share with your evolutionist friends: In the second it takes to turn the page of a book, you will lose about 3 million red blood cells. During that same second, your bone marrow will have produced the same number of new ones..... Was this remarkable ability spontaneously acquired by mere chance by an organism as complex as the human body which, say the evolutionists, emerged by degrees from primordial ooze? Or does it make more sense to think that the Divine Creator had a hand in it? --Hank | ||||||
4064 | How long since Adam and Eve? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 11229 | ||
Thanks, Norrie, and I'd add my favorite to your list: icr.org. Actually, no one has been able to prove when the earth came into being, or when God expelled the first couple from Eden, with anything remotely approaching pinpoint accuracy. I mean, no one can say that on Wednesday, March 4, 6883 B.C. at 3:14 p.m. Eden Standard Time, God said to Adam and Eve, "Your lease is up; time to move out."......... Blessings to you and your daughter on her baptismal day. I know you're a happy mom. --Hank | ||||||
4065 | The "Big BAM" | Gen 1:1 | Hank | 11103 | ||
There's a delightful Saturday column in our local newspaper called "Kids Talk About God." In today's column, some kids were asked the question, "How did God create the world?" Kris, a 7 year old replied, "God is so powerful He just said 'BAM' and there it was." Did he get it about right? We've all heard of the Big Bang theory. But I like the Big BAM answer much better. Seven year old Kris understands it better than all the Big Bang scientists put together. --Hank | ||||||
4066 | spirit/soul | John 1:14 | Hank | 11101 | ||
So, you're ready for a new, glorified body, Norrie? Me too. If you see a bald-headed, pot-bellied "mature" citizen in line, it will probably be me! I love the way evangelist David Ring, who has cerebral palsy, speaks of the day when the Lord will give him a new, perfect, disease-free and imperishable body. Of course, none of us can really understand fully what it will be like to live in heaven with the Lord, but we who believe have the blessed assurance that it will be wonderful and glorious beyond description. --Hank | ||||||
4067 | Who is the 'lady'? | 2 John | Hank | 10961 | ||
John, when I really want to know something, I ask my thermometer. It has more degrees than any of the experts!..... But seriously, you and I (and others on the forum) have been on the same page on this, that it is singularly unwise not to avail ourselves of the excellent scholarship and insights made abundantly available to us by a number of sound Bible teachers. As I've said before about 74 times on the forum, the Bible is a complex and difficult body of writings, and none of us has the time to devote the aggregate number of hours that even a half dozen professional Bible scholars have devoted to the study of the manuscripts in their original languages, to the background of Bible times and peoples, etc. These people like John MacArthur and Charles Ryrie are our teachers and fine ones at that. While it isn't incumbent upon us to agree with their every point, it is incumbent that we make dead sure that our position is the right one and not hasten to our own conclusion on the matter. I feel that if I should adopt a position on a biblical matter that is contrary to the soundest and best time-honored orthodox teaching, I stand in dire need of re-examining my own view. It could be possible, but not in the least likely, that God would reveal to me a truth that He has kept hidden to the rest of mankind for countless ages. --Hank | ||||||
4068 | Should women be pastors? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 10942 | ||
Sorry you had problems locating the references to women in the church. Please go to Search at the top left of the home page, scroll to the boxes and type in "women church" and you will find a number of posts dealing with your question. Prayon is most cooperative with everyone and she would have answered gladly, but felt it better to direct you to a number of posts, and I also feel it would be better for you to get a fuller view of this subject than could be treated in a single posting. Please don't give up on us! And if you have additional problems finding what you want, or more questions, please let us know. God bless. --Hank | ||||||
4069 | "Mere Christianity" | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 10797 | ||
I'm in the process of re-reading "Mere Christianity" by C. S. Lewis. What follows is an excerpt from his Preface that some of us may wish to ponder: "Ever since I became a Christian, I have thought that the best, perhaps the only, service I could do for my unbelieving neighbors was to explain and defend the belief that has been common to nearly all Christians at all times..... The questions which divide Christians from one another often involve points of high Theology which ought never to be treated except by real experts. I should have been out of my depth in such waters. I think we must admit that the discussion of these disputed points has no tendency at all to bring an outsider into the Christian fold. So long as we write and talk about them we are much more likely to deter him from entering any Christian communion than to draw him into our own." ....... Wise words from C.S.Lewis. --Hank | ||||||
4070 | Church is a safe place to be | Heb 10:25 | Hank | 10792 | ||
And, dear Nolan, that's what I meant for you to do! | ||||||
4071 | Church is a safe place to be | Heb 10:25 | Hank | 10789 | ||
Nolan, I don't know much about statisticians and their time schedules, but I'd say off-hand they devote to their work much the same kind of energy and dedication that you devote to the forum. They get paid in money here and now; your pay will likely be deferred and credited to your celestial retirement fund :-) --Hank | ||||||
4072 | Choosing a Bible translation | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 10787 | ||
Thanks, Ray. I'm happy you liked my little attempts at humor. We've both seen the times when the forum could have used a little more humor and a little less rancor, haven't we?......And so maybe Nolan is becoming a "Capitalist" too? My goodness, I hope no one tries to convert me, an old Southern Baptist, into a Southern Sprinkler or something. :-) Ray, it's a pleasure to be on the forum with such a good-natured person like you. God bless. --Hank | ||||||
4073 | Church is a safe place to be | Heb 10:25 | Hank | 10779 | ||
These statisticians! They tell us that 40 percent of all fatal accidents occur in motor vehicles, 17 percent in the home, and so on. But only .001 percent of all deaths occur at church, and they are largely deaths from natural causes. Conclusion: Go to church. It might save your life. In more ways than one. --Hank | ||||||
4074 | Can a woman speak in church? | 1 Tim 2:15 | Hank | 10730 | ||
Hello, John (JVH0212): In pointing out the distinction between "may" and "can" you sound like my favorite professor of English. But keep sounding that way! Semantics holds a major key to one's ability to extract proper meaning from the written word. In no other body of writing that I can think of is this more important than in Scripture. I recall having read an essay once, whose title and author have long since escaped by recolletion, in which the author proposed the thesis that a great deal of our inability as human beings to understand each other revolves not around the fact that there are many languages in the world, but that we who presume to speak the same language do not, in fact, do so -- that there is a wide variance of understanding among us of the exact meaning of English words. I believe the forum is a rich laboratory in which this author's thesis is proved true day by day. -- Hank | ||||||
4075 | Can a woman speak in church? | 1 Tim 2:15 | Hank | 10724 | ||
My friend, please don't presume that I understand more than I actually do. In this case your observations are probably right and I defer to them. In any event it was neither the most enlightened nor the dumbest post I've ever made to this forum. Thank you for your counsel. --Hank | ||||||
4076 | Choosing a Bible translation | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 10716 | ||
Hello, Ray. Excellent point about gift Bibles with tiny print that will likely never be opened once the recipient gets home with it. My pastor is always saying that Bibles, regardless of color, should be read. We have in our foyer at home a giant Michelangelo "family Bible" that weighs a ton. We've had it forever; it may have been in the foyer when we bought our home 25 years ago for all I know. I daresay not one entire chapter has ever been read out of that Bible. It's a beautiful Bible but it's mere ornamentation. The only time it's touched is when my wife struggles to lift it off the table when she is polishing the furniture. I recently saw a Michelangelo Bible in a catalog for 400 dollars. With that kind of money you could buy a decent-sized Bible reference libarary -- something that would stand a far better chance of actually being used. --Hank | ||||||
4077 | What Event in Jesus' Life? | Is 53:11 | Hank | 10599 | ||
What you say, Ian, is gloriously true, as we who are saved by the blood of the Lamb will aver. So the burden of the Gospel writers was to present in vivid detail the real mission of Jesus the Messiah, not to entertain us with stories of the life of the young boy Jesus, in the manner Mark Twain does with "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn." So what do you think is ultimately the more important thing, the life He lived or the death He died on the cross? Or is one no more important than the other? --Hank | ||||||
4078 | What are Calvins and Arminians? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 10573 | ||
Dear Norrie: Your writing is fresh and delightful to read, and you have a decidedly disarming conversational style that is very attractive. "Till the cows come home" is as good a way as anyone could describe the way some issues have been agrued on the forum and will, I suppose, continue to be argued by Christians. Still and all, we Christians do agree on many if not most really important issues and on the one crucial issue: Who is our Lord and Savior?....... I'm a Baptist too, Norrie (Southern Baptist, ma'am!) and had usually considered the term "Baptist Christian" to be redundant, something like saying "widow woman." But you do make a perfectly good case when you say you consider yourself a Christian and only incidentally a Baptist. So, come to think of it, maybe the term "Baptist Christian" is not so redundant after all. There could be (but I hope not) a Baptist or two around who calls himself a Christian but who really doesn't have a saving knowledge of Jesus, so he wouldn't be a Christian then, would he?...... Now about this Calvinism-Arminianism (election-free will) issue -- well, I know some people who are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Saved, I say. Children of the King. But they don't know beans about either doctrine. Doesn't that put these issues in a little better perspective?..... One book other than the Bible itself that's good to read in order to get away from the trees of denominationalism and see the forest of Christianity is "Mere Christianity" by C. S. Lewis. That man knew how to write and he had some worthwhile things to say. Blessings to you in your life and walk with the Lord. --Hank | ||||||
4079 | Jesus' early years? | Luke 2:52 | Hank | 10569 | ||
Dear Schwartz-km: Interesting account of some of these spurious gospels and other fanciful literature that were written during the early centuries of the Christian age. I quite agree with you, that they are unabashedly whimsical, wryly amusing, and totally false. But lest we think that the age of gospel fairy tales came to a close with these writings, we need to take a second look. In our time there have been, and continue to be, books written, published, read, and believed that claim to be revelations from God but are no less a compilation of farce, lies and fairy tales than these ancient fables were. The age of deception has not ended nor the capacity to deceive diminished. --Hank | ||||||
4080 | Choosing a Bible translation | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 10563 | ||
There are so many translations of the Bible that it is easy for us, especially new believers and others who may not be up to speed on all the new translations, to become confused about which translation to choose. These are some random ideas that I've found helpful. (1) The first important step is to study the translators' preface or introduction. This will be found at the front of most Bibles. Learn all you can about who the translators were and how they view the biblical text: Do they affirm their belief that the Bible is the inerrant word of God? What is their translation philosophy: Do they attempt to render the text into the receptor language as literally as possible or do they use "equivalence" or paraphrase liberally?........ (2) Read critical reviews of the translation (not the publisher's claims) by known and trusted Christian scholars. (3) Consult your pastor or someone else whom you know to be qualified and trusthworthy to give you good counsel. (4) Go to a library or borrow a copy of the translation under consideration and read large portions of it. If you don't understand one word in ten, it's not the translation for you. Try another. (5) Many Christians have chosen a certain translation as their mainstay but periodically consult a number of other translations as well. I consider this a wise practice and find that it frequently is a valuable aid in a better understanding of difficult passages. (6) Most importantly, talk to God about it. --Hank | ||||||
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