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41 | can't take Christ life - he gave it | John 10:17 | flinkywood | 117572 | ||
"For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again. "No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own initiative. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This commandment I received from My Father." (Joh 10:17-18) Colin |
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42 | the different between old and new | Rom 5:13 | flinkywood | 117104 | ||
I don't understand your question, could you please restate it? Colin |
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43 | why did jesus think God had forsaken him | Mark 15:30 | flinkywood | 116953 | ||
Minister May, when Jesus said, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?", He was quoting Psalm 22:1, a messianic Psalm, in order to tell us who He was and the nature of His sacrifice. It is not a statement of abandonment by God, but of redemption by God. Read the Psalm in context: "For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard." (Psa 22:24) Colin |
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44 | Looking for Bible Verse | 1 Pet 2:20 | flinkywood | 116907 | ||
Carol, Does this ring a bell? "For what credit is there if, when you sin and are harshly treated, you endure it with patience? But if when you do what is right and suffer for it you patiently endure it, this finds favor with God." (1Pe 2:20) Colin |
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45 | give me what you know about ressurection | John 20:1 | flinkywood | 116904 | ||
John 20:1-29 Luke 24:36-53 |
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46 | Why evil and suffering? | Jer 17:9 | flinkywood | 116866 | ||
I heard a Nazi death camp survivor reply when asked where God was in the Holocaust: "Where was man?" I recommend Corrie Ten Boom's book, "The Hiding Place" for answers to your question. Colin |
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47 | Meditation | Josh 1:8 | flinkywood | 116657 | ||
8788, "But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night." (Psa 1:2) "Meditate" Brown-Driver-Briggs' Hebrew Definitions: 1) to moan, growl, utter, muse, mutter, meditate, devise, plot, speak 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to roar, growl, groan 1a2) to utter, speak 1a3) to meditate, devise, muse, imagine 1b) (Poal) to utter 1c) (Hiphil) to mutter "of a deep (cf. Arab. hjj, depressum esse), dull sound, as if vibrating between within and without, here signifies the quiet soliloquy (cf. Arab. hjs, mussitando secum loqui) of one who is searching and thinking." (Keil and Delitzsch Commentary on the OT.) Meditation can get noisy. Colin |
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48 | Trying to find a scripture | 1 Sam 15:22 | flinkywood | 116655 | ||
8788, Does this ring a bell? Samuel said, "Has the LORD as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices As in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams." (1Sa 15:22) Colin |
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49 | analogies | Rom 1:27 | flinkywood | 116577 | ||
Ptgard, Nature and nurture are irrelevant, it's in the overcoming. (Romans 5:3-5) Christianity ain't a sissy religion. Colin |
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50 | ideas of psalm 32 support paul's argumen | Ps 32:1 | flinkywood | 116480 | ||
M-May, Where I wrote "Esau" in my first post, please read Ishmael. My mind was on Romans 9:12-13: "it was said to her, "THE OLDER WILL SERVE THE YOUNGER." Just as it is written, "JACOB I LOVED, BUT ESAU I HATED." Colin |
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51 | ideas of psalm 32 support paul's argumen | Ps 32:1 | flinkywood | 116392 | ||
M-May, Emmaus has hit the nail on the head. I'd like to expand a bit. In Rom 4:3 Paul cites Genesis 15.6, “Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness.” This “credit” occurs while Abram is a gentile, his righteousness deriving from his simple trust in what God has said. This credit also comes after many long years of Abram’s faithful perseverance under the whips and scorns of circumstance following God’s command that he up sticks and hit the trail from Ur. Perseverance in faith against all nastiness resulted in righteousness for Abraham, all this, while he was still, double-underline, a gentile—and before the Moral Law, no less. Major point. More to the point, however: “If you, Judaizer, think you get your ticket punched just cause God punched your daddy’s, think again. If you’re not imitating him, you’re not from him. It’s not by blood, but by faith. In fact (as Paul will demonstrate in Romans 9), if it’s by blood, you’re no different from the Arabs, who also descend from your father through Esau.” “Hey, wait a minute. We got the works of the law—circumcision, the feast days, the sacrifices; God said as long as we burn it, we earn it. The Arabs don’t have anything like our righteous-making technology.” Please click on Psalm 32, which is all about divine forgiveness, and which conspicuously lacks any mention of animal sacrifice in relation to same. The speaker, an abject sinner, is so shriveled by conviction of his own guilt that his body wastes away and he groans all day long. “How blessed,” he says “is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.” Divine forgiveness comes to this soul-sufferer only after he acknowledges his sin to God; does not hide his iniquity, and confesses his transgression to the Lord (V.5). He has not burned a thing because, and Paul knows whereof he quotes, “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.” (Psalm 51:17). Circumcision, the covenantal seal, is of the heart, not of the flesh — and it is directly related to our contrition. Paul has embedded “righteousness” in chapter 4 as part of his theme of salvation (a parallel theme to Psalm 32), but take a look back to V. 3:10-11: is it absolutely true that, “…none is righteous, not even one…there is none who understands…none who seeks for God” (Ch 3:10-11)? Does Paul believe that this verse applies universally? These verses, which Paul has taken from Psalm 14, are followed immediately in the Psalm by: “Do all the workers of wickedness not know, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And do not call upon the Lord? There they are in great dread, For God is with the righteous generation.” (Psalm 14:4-5). It is not the case that “none is righteous” (Simeon in Luke 2 is a prime example). Paul seems to deliberately tie contrition to forgiveness to righteousness to salvation in order to lay the groundwork for the tidal wave which will occur in Chapter 9. With these OT citations Paul evokes for the reader the real implication of Psalms 14 and 32: that God is with, and has always been with, the generation whose righteousness comes not through circumcision or observance of the Levitical laws, but though Abraham-like, obedient faith. This seems to be Paul’s purpose in specifically applying Psalm 32 here in Romans 4. Colin |
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52 | Quench the Spirit until extinguish? | Gal 5:17 | flinkywood | 116257 | ||
Lorenzo, According to Hebrews, there is absolute security in our salvation if we don't neglect it. "For this reason we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it. For if the word spoken through angels proved unalterable, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty, how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? (Heb 2:1-2). Colin |
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53 | Something positive from the Movie | 2 Tim 3:17 | flinkywood | 116223 | ||
Rowdy, Doesn't this question belong in a Christian chat room? Christians come here seeking answers, please don't make it appear otherwise. Okay? Colin |
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54 | Origin of God? | Gen 1:1 | flinkywood | 116183 | ||
That is THE question. God was not created, He is eternal: "In the beginning God... "Beginning" means precisely that. He also made everything that is, "...created..." Not only time itself, but also space and matter, "...the heavens and the earth." (Genesis 1.10) How can you come to know God? Find out about Jesus, His Son. In the Gospel of John, an amazing Bible book, really, John (one of Jesus' disciples) writes: "No one has seen God at any time; but the only begotten God," (eg. Jesus), "He has explained Him." (John 1:18) God gave us Jesus, His Son. Why did He do that? Look at the state of us. What in heaven or on earth possessed Him to send His most precious thing down to a hideous and murderous crew like us? When I was in a tight spot I started talking to God, something I'd never done in my life. Soon after, I met people who told me about Jesus. And here you are. You sound on the verge of something incredibly great. Colin |
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55 | looking for specific scriptures that tel | NT general Archive 1 | flinkywood | 115815 | ||
Hello, Classy, baby Christian. This is a great place to learn; however, some on this forum, though they quote the Bible, do not believe in Jesus Christ as the eternal, uncreated Son of God, and are very harmful to new believers. Jehova's Witnesses are a nasty case in point. The one with username Aniset is one of these. The Gospel of John is a great place to start to learn about Jesus. Colin |
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56 | Just brainstorming. Any lightning? | 1 Cor 2:2 | flinkywood | 115665 | ||
Rowdy, I heard a big-time pastor open a sermon with, "Christians aren't supposed to suffer..." Since you ask no question and invite our thoughts, I'll give mine. Christians are being tortured, persecuted and killed for the Faith every day. Your lament reminds me that we live in an America so blessed with TV, jobs, laws, money, health care, that a pastor can actually say there's no need to suffer and get away with it. It's a bit presumptuous to say, "We want," or "We can't," or "...it's difficult...for us...", unless you're a politician. It's handy to use the first person, that way you speak for yourself. I like how Paul put it: "For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified." (1Co 2:2) Colin |
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57 | possible for God to turn his back on Jes | Rom 5:4 | flinkywood | 114475 | ||
Leonore, Your Pastor may be interpreting Jesus's cry to His Father in Mark 15.34 as evidence of God's turning away from His Son. "At the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI?" which is translated, "MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?" (Mar 15:34) Jesus is quoting Psalm 22.1, which is a Messianic Psalm prophesying the sacrifice and redemptive triumph of a levitical messiah - Jesus Christ Himself. Jesus quotes the psalm to frame His sacrifice as an act of His Father's Divine Mercy, not as a moment of abandonment. "No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own initiative. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This commandment I received from My Father." (Joh 10:18) Jesus gave His life willingly. Colin |
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58 | Why do we no longer abide by the Levitic | Rom 3:28 | flinkywood | 114474 | ||
Hood Rat God imposed the Levitical laws upon Israel after their transgression with the golden calf. These laws were appended to the Moral Law (10 Commandments) as a kind of 2-fold penance, 1) To cleanse Israel of its idol worship through repeated sacrifice of the animal gods they’d worshipped in Egypt (cows, sheep, goats) and, 2)To keep the people "God Conscious". God made these laws impossible to fulfill so that Israel would be driven to seek God's divine mercy. The laws were meant to create a heart for God. But Israel quickly went off track with this Levitical system of animal sacrifice, and the rest is history, a beautiful history, thank God, culminating in Jesus Christ, through whom the old Covenant of Levitical works is replaced by a New Covenant of Grace through the ultimate sacrifice of God’s own blood in Jesus Christ. (Romans 3.19-26). “God gave us the Law so that we would see grace; and He gave us grace so that we would keep the Law.” St. Augustine. Colin |
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59 | What is the New Covenant and where do I | Luke 22:20 | flinkywood | 114471 | ||
And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, "This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood. (Luk 22:20) In the Old Covenant (Old Testament) God promised Abraham that through his seed all nations would be blessed (Genesis 22.18). That seed was a descendant of Abraham, Jesus Christ. In the Old Covenent (Old Testament) Jesus Christ is promised. In the New Covenant (New Testament) Jesus Christ is delivered. Colin |
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60 | Is Satan Jesus' brother? Gen 3:15 | Gen 3:15 | flinkywood | 114448 | ||
Tara1, Satan was created by God. Jesus was not. Satan is the author of death. Jesus is the author of life. If Satan were Jesus' brother, he'd be mine also and most of the people's on this forum. Don't ask me to defend your positon. The burden of proof is yours. Do you know the definition of heretic? It is "one who chooses." Your current choice is clear. Colin |
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