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41 | Why God bless a Roman soldier over a Jew | Matt 8:6 | bowler | 206375 | ||
PRAZINGOD Mathew 7:28, 29 is the end of the Sermon on the Mount which was preached to the Jews, a huge number of Jews. Mathew 8:5, 6 was Jesus blessing one Centurion, but there is no juxtaposition in Mathew 8:5, 6 bewtween Jesus blessing a Centurion and Jesus blessing the Jews. In fact Jesus had just finished healing a Jew in Mathew 8:1-4. In one instance Jesus heals man requesting to be made clean, in the other instance Jesus heals a Centurion's servant without even going to the Centurion's home because the Centurion had great faith. But that is not Jesus blessing one above another it is just different circumstances. blessings abound, bowler |
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42 | can someone give me their input | Matt 9:16 | bowler | 206684 | ||
Rufus III This passage is talking about why the disciples did not fast. The Pharisees were accusing Jesus that His disciples did not fast and Jesus tells a little story about why they don't do this. The verse are talking about Jesus being present in earth and that while His is still among the disciples they do not fast because they are happy His is there. Then Jesus talks about that no one puts new wine, which is Jesus, into old wine skins, which is the practice of fasting, and He means the same thing about the cloth. This is an anology of Jesus being a new covenant and the disciples leaving off an old covenant to take the new one. The phrase "unequally yoked" comes from something else in 2 Corinthians 6:14. This is talking about being bound with unbelievers because Christians are not in agreement with unbelievers about how to live, who to worship, how to act, what to do. For instance a believer should not marry an unbeliever once they believe. Or non-believers should not serve in positions in the church. Or believers and non-believers cannot go evangelize together (this has actualy happened on college campuses). Or single beleivers should not be room mates with unbelievers. Believers are called to be part of a lost society and witness Jesus to the lost, you can't come all the way out of the world and be doing the work of Jesus. But you can separate yourself from as much as possible from the unbelievers in practice while still reaching out to them in purpose while walking among them. blessings abound, bowler |
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43 | could this be a sign from above? | Matt 12:39 | bowler | 206459 | ||
maroon72 I mean you no harm or ill will, please be careful about seeing "signs" in things as to thinking that God is working in your life. The devil can perform "signs" and decieve you, you cannot be sure that what you see is good, or right, or from God. This is not meant to hurt you, this is just a verse about those who were seeking for signs in Jesus' day - Mathew 12:39 But He answered and said to them, "An evil and adulteress generation craves for a sign; and yet no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet." This was about the Jews seeking a sign from Jesus perhaps to see if He was the promised one, the Messiah. You are not after the same thing, but the principle of not seeking for a sign is there. You really have to get to know a person very well before you think that they are the one for you. That takes prayer and knowing that this is what God wants for your life becuase you take the time to see what the person is about and God confirming to you in one way or another that this is the one for you. blessings abound, bowler |
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44 | why did he ask this | Matt 16:13 | bowler | 206214 | ||
swella Jesus reveals the answer to your question in verse 17 - And Jesus said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-jona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven." The purpose Jesus asks the question is so that the answer will be revealed to the rest of the disciples. He was not so much testing them and it was not so much because of what the others in the crowds believed, but so that Peter would confess the Christ, as we see, Jesus says, God has revealed this to you. blessings abound, bowler |
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45 | Mark 2;21,22? | Mark 2:21 | bowler | 207065 | ||
Jesus Keeps Me I do believe Jesus is talking to the Pharisees about why the disciples did not fast. Jesus is using an illustration to tell them that because Jesus is with them there is no need to fast by talking about new patches of cloth in old garments and about putting new wine into old wine skins. The old covenant required fasting, the new covenant is Jesus. There was no need for the disciples to observe old laws, when a new covenant of grace was with them, it was time to do things differently. Just a worthless son. blessings abound, bowler |
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46 | Why Luke 6:20 they ommited the word sipr | Luke 6:20 | bowler | 207447 | ||
Dcmartin Mathew makes a point of speaking of the spiritual state of those who suffer for the sake of Christ down in verses 11 and 12 as to why he recounted verses 1 through 10. 1 through 10 are all spiritual states of the oppressed who will suffer for His sake. Mathew makes a point of talking about who will suffer for the sake of Christ; the poor in spirit, those who mourn, the gentle, those who hunger for righteousness sake, the merciful, the pure in heart, the peacemakers, the persecuted - he is making statements about spiritual people doing spiritual things. Luke makes different points. Luke contrasts the physically oppressed to those who are rich and happy; the poor, the hungry, the ostracized, the insulted, the scorned - in other words the outcasts, the oppressed by society. The contrast he makes are largely down in verses 27 through 38 of those who "hear" the word of God and recieve it and those who do not who swindle the poor and abuse them. The reward in Mathew is in heaven and is great. the reward in Luke is great and is to be sons of the most high. They are both talking about the same event from different points of view. It is like when two people go to the same birthday party and go tell different groups of friends two stories about the same event. One person talks about what stood out to him as important, and the other person talks about what stood out to him as important. The stories have some of the same exact elements in them, and some different ones too, but they do not contradict one another, or ommit anything, it is just different aspects of the same story. Hope this helps. Luke 6:27 But I say to you who hear, love our enemies, do good to those who hate you. blessings abound, bowler |
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47 | What does Mathew 5:3 and Luke 6:20 means | Luke 6:20 | bowler | 207467 | ||
Dcmartin I was looking backthrough your other questions on these passages to try to see what exactly you were asking. I see now that you were asking three different questions. I apologize for labeling one of then as a duplicate, as it was not. So now you want to know what each of the two verses in question mean standing alone, rather than what poor in spirit means, or why Luke leaves out the word spirit. I believe based on the surrounding verses in Mathew that Mathew is saying in your first verse that; those whose spirit's are sorrowfull, are sad, who are downcast in spirit, who are suffering spiritualy - these have been promised the kingdom of heaven, salvation is theirs, the will go to heaven. But all this is based on verse 11, that these poor in spirit are with Jesus, believe in Jesus, are persecuted for Jesus. I believe that based on the surrounding verses in Luke that; it means those who are poor in this world, those who have not, those who do without, those who live in poverty - these all have the kingdom of God, have salvation, will go to heaven. But this promise is granted to them because of verse 27, those who hear, who have the word of God in them, those who are saved, and based on verse 28 these same are persectuted for believing in Jesus. The way Mathew describes the suffering believer is saying that the believer has a spiritual state and that because of that will be blessed. The way Luke describes the suffering believer is saying that the believer has a state of poverty in this world and that the believer will recieve a different state of being - one in heaven. The broad idea of Mathew is that the Kingdom of the Son of God has come. The smaller idea in just that portioin of that chapter of Mathew is that the righteousness of the believer will be rewarded in the face of persecution. The broad ideas of Luke are that Jesus is the Son of God, Jesus has compassion on all the outcast groups; the ill, the women, the poor, the Samaritans, the sinners, the tax collectors and so on, and that Jesus is the savior. The smaller idea of that portion of Luke you are intereseted in is Jesus has compassion on the outcasts and the righteousness of those who believe. Luke 6:31 Treat others the same way you want them to treat you. blessings abound, bowler |
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48 | DOUBLE AND TRIPLE NEGATIVES OF NT | Luke 22:18 | bowler | 206986 | ||
Rolff I know very little about Greek, just simple word studied and a little more. I am assuming from your profile that you teach at a seminary, or work at one and teach students in a Bible study setting at night. I must admit to enjoying very much to trying to figure out what you meant. So I first went hunting on the web and came up with these two examples according to the information on the site - Hebrews 13:5 Luke 22:15-18 http://www.faithfulbible.com/ However, the site off course fails to explain why these two would qualify as being double or triple negatives. I like the few features of this site however, I bookmarked it. Now, I need to ask you to please teach me why these two examples qualify as double or triple negatives, if they really do, when in English and in Greek to English translations the English grammar "concpet" of what a double or triple negative is does not appear. Thanks. blessings abound, bowler |
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49 | Is jesus god incarnate? | John 1:14 | bowler | 206710 | ||
talien4444 Jesus is very God - Colossians 1:15-19 - Jesus was there before the creation of all things and then He created all things, whether things on earth or in the universe, or kingdoms, or principalities of powers - everything was created through Him and for Him. Verse 19 says all the fullness dwelt in Jesus - the fullness of being very God and the fullness of being very human. Incarnate - John 1:14 And the Word - the Divine Exression of God - became flesh and dwelt among us. Jesus was both the Son of God and to be worshipped - Hebrews 1:5 To which of the angels did He ever say "You are My Son, today I have begotten You?, 1:6 "And let all the angels of God worship Him". Only God can be worshipped, but God calls Jesus His only begotten Son and says let the angels worship Jesus. Verse 1:8 God says of the Son, Your throne oh God is forever and ever, and the righteous scepter of your kingdom. Jesus was fully God. Jesus was fully human - John 11:35 Jesus wept, John 19:28 Jesus was thirsty, Mathew 4:2 Jesus hungered, John 4:6 Jesus got tired, Mathew 4:3 Jesus was tempted, Mark 4:38 Jesus slept, Luke 23:46 Jesus died. Jesus is fully God and fully human and is He God incarnate. blessings abound, bowler |
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50 | once saved always saved? | John 10:28 | bowler | 207412 | ||
Jesus keeps Me There is a wealth of information here in this wonderful site! I often get lost in the treasures that are to be found in here using the search feature up to the rigth at the top. Try typing the words "eternal security" up in the search feature, you will recieve a real treat, there is so much there. John 3:16 John 10:27-29 Philippians 1:6 1 Peter 1:45 Romans 5:1 Ephesians 2:8, 9 There is a start, some of them you were given before I think. Hebrews 6:19 This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil. blessings abound, bowler |
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51 | Jesus weeping over Lazarus | John 11:35 | bowler | 206659 | ||
Minister Bethune quvmoh is right we can't know for sure that why Jesus wept. I have heard this preached different ways. The big question is why would God cry? He is knowing what He is going to be doing, that He will raise Lazarus from the dead. So why cry, what is the point of cryng over something you know you are going to be fixing? And over showing them you are God 11:14. But as man Jesus has the ability to have sorrow over the death of a man He loved dearly 11:36. So maybe what is going on is that we have Jesus as fully God and fully man. As God He had to need to cry, as man He did, He loved Lazarus and death, altough fixable, sorrowed him. Death comes from sin and the dying of Lazarus may have sorroed Jesus. I have heard that Jesus wept because the people did not believe. But why would that be? He did not weep all the other times no one believed He was God or that He would do miracles. It is true as quvmoh said though, that Jesus showed compassion by weeping and this points more and more to His full humanity. blessings abound, bowler |
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52 | Betryed by Friend | John 14:6 | bowler | 206413 | ||
CharlieH As it is true that God will use whomever He wants to draw a child of God to His throne of grace how ever He chooses to we cannot say that God would have or could have used someone better or different because it all didn't work out later. God only has a first plan to especially save each one of us, there is not a second plan to how we come to His grace. We can't really give advice here, but if your wife is a believer then perhaps you might be able to guide her to an understanding of at least how you feel about her safety. Ephesians 5:28, 29 - we are to love our wives as ourselves and that includes protecting them. As spouses we can't change the past and redo what got done, the good parts, or the bad parts, but we can let it go and walk in unity as one person. Ephesians 4:3 being diligent to perserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. blessings abound, bowler |
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53 | helping a friend | John 16:8 | bowler | 206647 | ||
BLESSED 136 Couple of things here. There are times, as I have seen in other churches than my own, where a preacher feels they are hearing from God that someone needs salvation pariticularly, as if some needed it more than others who also did not respond. In my humble opinion this is a bit sensational and does nothing to actualy prompt the lost to come forward as your friend is showing it does not. The Holy Spirit does all the work, the preacher just gives the call. Singling someone out just embarrasses them and does not help them to believe in Jesus. Why should your friend listen to these preachers? If your friend knows they can't believe yet going forward without believing won't help at all, it might result in a false confession, but not in salvation. When your friend asks what it means that they were singled out, it might be more profitable to explain what the call of salvation is for - to come forward because of seeing that they are a sinner who needs salvation. That is what the altar call is for, to recognize that you are a sinner and go forward to acknowledge that you are ready to ask Jesus for forgivness of sins, or that you did at home, or in the pew - you are answering the call to salvation. Praying with your friend that salvation will come some day? That would be something to do on your own for your friend. Question - why is your friend praying for salvation to come if they don't actualy come to Jesus? Salvation is a choice to make on the part of the sinner who wants to be saved. Either they are sure they don't want to be saved, or they are sure they do want to be saved, there is no such thing as a gray area. You need to ask your friend what is in the way of them taking the free gift. Is it impossible to believe Jesus died and rose again? Is it impossible to believe that Jesus is God? Is it impossible to believe that Jesus forgives sins? Is it impossible to stop arguing with God that the sins they, or someone else committed are realy wrong so they can't ask for forgivness? There has got to be a reason why this friend of yours is not taking the gift, and it has nothing to do with the altar call, and nothing to do with why the preachers keep aksing them to come forward. It has everything to do with them and God and whether or not they can accept God period. What is happening to your friend is that they are either on the fence and believe that Jesus forgives sins and is God and that they are a sinner, but have problems with God and what God will do to unrepentant sinnners, or they do not believe any of it anyway and and either wish they could or will never believe because they want to believe something else. The focus is not on the church, the preacher, or what does or does not happen with those two things, the focus is on your friend and whether or not they believe or not in Jesus, and then whether they are refusing to take salvation because they are fighting with God. The phone calls, the prayers, the going to church, the talking and talking about it all are a diversion from the truth of their true relationship with God. I would pray alone and take them to church and maybe offer to pray with them for Jesus to reveal Himself to them. You don't get saved without a revelation from Christ that He is God, there is no other way. It is not an understanding, it is not a feeling, it is not a conversation, it is very God and them. blessings abound, bowler |
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54 | God, Are You There? | John 16:8 | bowler | 207273 | ||
Micket's Mom I found a book for you I think will be good. Try googling it. It is "The Mystery Of The Holy Spirit", by R.C. Sproul. http://www.monergism.com/directory/link_category/Holy-Spirit/Work-of-the-Holy-Spirit/ Doc is a real gold mine of information, as are plenty of others on this site, he is where I got the site from. Judging from the names of the authors, you will find sound teachings there. Here are some scriptures about the role of the Holy Spirit I found - John 16:5-15 John 14:23-27 John 1:33 I Corinthians 12:4-13 2 Peter 1:21 I would like to be most careful in any attempt to answer your question outside of the confines of what scripture proscribes as the role of the Holy Spirit. So I gave you scriptures that talk about what His role is with us. In all humbleness, I notice that you hardly ever include scriptures with your questions? I don't think from observing everyone else that anyone here is so consistent as to "always" include scriptures. But, I can only speak for myself, I try hard to include scriptures wherever I can. It would be nice to know a little bit about who you are Mickys Mom, please fill out your profile so we can all get to know you! Just a worthless son. blessings abound, bowler |
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55 | pray to the Holy Spirit | John 16:23 | bowler | 207725 | ||
sureshtv In many places we see in the New Testament this model; To pray to the Father God in the name of Jesus. I have yet to see a model for prayer in the New Testament that has Jesus or anyone else praying to the Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus. We do have that you can pray directly to Jesus in Jesus name in John 14:14. Now, in all fairness this is the sorvereign Godhead we are talking about. God is God, and God is to be worshipped in Spirit and in truth, the right way that is. So even though the Holy Spirit is in the sovereign Godhead, if we don't see a model in the New Testament of anyone praying directly to Him, is it right to do? HHHMMM. I myself would err on the side of caution and stick to what Jesus said to do and the models for prayer we find all over the New Testament. I would therefore say no, it is not Biblical to pray to the Holy Spirt, soley based on the record of the New Testament. John 14:15 If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. blessings abound, bowler |
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56 | distance Temple to Mount of Olives | Acts 1:1 | bowler | 206687 | ||
rustman No one today can know that for sure because there is a discrepancy as to where the actual temple was then and where the ruins appear to be know. Here is a link explaining that. http://becomingone.org/templemount.htm Then there is information about the distance between the Mount of Olivet and the city - Acts 1:12. This is talking about a "sabbath's day journey" which is about one thousand yards, maybe a twenty minute walk or less. One other clue we have is that in John Jesus says, let us get up from here at the end of chapter 14. Then they all go on a long walk to Olivet and Jesus seems to talk and pray along the way there. blessings abound, bowler |
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57 | What must I do to be saved? | Acts 2:37 | bowler | 206709 | ||
Ashwood Acts 16:31 Believe in the Lord Jesus and be saved. Acts 2:38 Repent and be baptized. Romans 10:9, 10 Confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, believe that He was raised from the dead, you will be saved, with the heart you believe, with the mouth you confess, resulting in righteousness. Acts 8:22 Repent of your wickedness and pray that the Lord will forgive you according to the intention of your heart. Believe in the Lord Jesus, that He is God and that He died and rose again, repent of your sins outloud, ask Jesus for forgiveness outloud, and you will be saved. That is all there is to it. It is not a feeling Jesus coming into your heart is not a feeling, it is the recognition that you are a sinner who needs to be saved. It is not going to church, although you should. It is not loving God, although you should. It is not doing good works, although you should. There is only one God and only one way to get saved. If you can't ask yet for salvation then there is a problem between you and God. Many people can't believe Jesus died and rose again and that He is God. Others can't believe that it is fair for God to punish sinners and send them to hell if they do not accept Jesus. Still others can't get around that they know their sins were wrong because they felt they had to do those things to have a better life and not a ruined one. And even though the believe Jesus is God and that they are sinners who need salvation, they can't stop fighting with God about that what they did was most definitely wrong and repent. You have to admit you are a sinner who needs to get saved and then take the offer of salvation and repent to Jesus and to Jesus alone to be saved. There is no other way. Take the life boat, it will be much, much better than burning in hell for an eternity. blessings abound, bowler |
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58 | why must we been baptize | Acts 2:38 | bowler | 206557 | ||
Hennie Peter was preaching the gospel of the salvation of Jesus Christ to the Jews and then they asked him the following - Acts 2:37, 38 Now when they heard this they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, Brethren, what shall we do? Peter said to them, Repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Once they heard the gospel message they were convicted of sin and it grieved them so they asked what they should do about it. Peter tells them to repent of sins and be baptized. Jesus told the disciples to go out and baptized disciples - Mathew 28:19, 20 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I command you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. It is a command of Jesus that disciples of Christ, those who come to believe in Him and repent of sin, that they get baptized. Baptism is a symbol of going down into the death and grave of Jesus Christ because He died for your sins by going down into the water and you dying to sin, and coming up out of the water, out of the grave and of death and of your sin, to the resurrection of life in Jesus Christ as a symbol of His resurrection from the dead erasing our sins. Because Jesus was resurrected we too will be resurrected. Baptism is a public declaration of what you have done in Jesus, repented and been born again into eternal life by Him. If you have been saved, you should obey Jesus and be baptized by a body of believers and join a body of believers and learn more about Christ by fellow shipping with them. blessings abound, bowler |
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59 | question of interpretation | Acts 4:32 | bowler | 206969 | ||
tachminite Please go through the previous posts you made when you first came to see what others said to you in answer to part of this question. The same rules that were broken visa your very last post are the same ones being broken here and you need to do the same work to get the anwer. blessings abound, bowler |
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60 | Question on Interpetation | Acts 4:34 | bowler | 206968 | ||
tachminite The rule of making a literal interpretation based on the intent of the author to his audience was ignored. The rule of determining what type of Biblical literature it was was violated. The intent of the author was to give a history of what happened during the birth of the church - it is not a treatise on theology, or a letter about Christian normatives for behavior and practice. The rules that were broken should be followed. The response to the interpretation is the application - hermeneutics. The interpretation drives what applications fit the interpretation. In your original post when you first came here you wanted to know what to do about getting in an interpretation for those who believe that living communaly is a Biblical interpretation of Acts 4:32-36. The answer is going to come from understanding what the church was realy doing, the circumstances, and why the author wrote about it. blessings abound, bowler |
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