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41 | Because he betrayed Jesus? | NT general Archive 1 | Country Girl | 127769 | ||
I like to emphasize to people with whom I'm studying to convert or strengthen their new life as a christian is the tremendous contrast between Peter and Judas. All of us are human and are guarenteed of not coming anywhere close to meeting God's standard for Perfection, like His Son did. The important thing for us to remember, both these men and all the other disciples failed Jesus miserably, just like we all do. The main difference between the two is: Peter recognized his faults, "brushed himself off" and got back up on that journey with his Lord whereas poor Judas just couldn't handle what he'd done in spite of his Lord's willingness to forgive him. Yes, good question. Blessings to you. Country Girl |
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42 | Because he betrayed Jesus? | NT general Archive 1 | Country Girl | 127834 | ||
I have to agree with your statement. You do a good job of covering all the major point as I see them. Blessings to you. Country Girl | ||||||
43 | What are the duties of a pastor? | NT general Archive 1 | Country Girl | 128356 | ||
I'm confused. You said Pastor means the same as shepherd. Elder means the same as bishop. Elders are overseers and shepherds. Pastors are not mentioned as being elders. There are always multiple elders in a church. My response: 1) Pastor equals shepherd 2) Elders equals overseers and shepherds but 3) Pastors cannot equal elders I seem to recall in algebra, trigonometry or one of those mathematical courses so long ago in school that if 1 and 2 above are true, then the end product of both are equal to each other. I don't want to be a dumb blonde about this but it seems that God's Word is fairly clear on this, His Apostles were talking about the same office when any of these words were mentioned or derivatives therefrom. The one thing I agree with you most emphatically is that of multiple elders per congregation. The Lord NEVER meant for a single man to run, lead or govern a congregation of the Lord's church. Elders are always spoken in the plural in a congregational setting throughout the Bible. Most organizations using Pastor in some other office or title are referring to the one that does the preaching, proclaiming God's Word from a pulpit in Sunday morning worship assemblies. This function sounds like the NT word for preacher or prophet which throughout most of the Bible means "mouthpiece of God." There are separate passages/verses describing duties and ideal qualifications for this office. I also agree this is a good topic for discussion thus good "food for thought." I do appreciate your response and blessings to you. Country Girl |
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44 | What are the duties of a pastor? | NT general Archive 1 | Country Girl | 128372 | ||
I'm thinking maybe you're a little confused as Paul's guidance here to the Ephesians was given for all christians throughout all time, yes I agree. Eph 4:11 And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, Eph 4:12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; Eph 4:13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ. But since we don't have anyone who can meet the qualifications of an Apostle as cited in Acts 1, we don't have any potential Apostles. All the other positions are certainly valid in today's world. Of course, like I mentioned the word prophet in Bible language meant "mouthpiece of God" as in the case of a preacher, minister from the pulpit or TV either one. He could also be a evangelist like our missionaries we send to other parts of the country or across the ocean. Notice that Paul left out deacons and those with miraculous abilities to heal. Apparently, Paul didn't cover the whole entire subject, listing all the different positions, titles or their qualifications as he did with Timothy and Titus. But I still must emphasize my previous point about the synonyms for the office of elder or pastor. They're both referring to the same person or function within the local church at the congregational level. At least this is what I've experienced all my life and the Lord's pattern works just fine when it's done in accordance with God's Word. This is further endorsed since like you mentioned pastors CANNOT be seen properly to run the Lord's Chruch by themselves. We all know what abuse that leads to, as shown by the Catholic organization over the centuries. Hope this is clear and blessings to you. Thanks for your response. Country Girl |
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45 | The New Birth - A Survey | NT general Archive 1 | Country Girl | 128940 | ||
Since you've now re-qualified your question and left out the word "regeneraion," I would have to repeat that yes, very definitely I repented of my sins, confessed my Lord and Savior and was baptized as a teen-ager many years ago. I did all this in a very passive and submissive frame of mind so put me down as passive. Hopefully, you're going to give us the results of your survey with some numbers and/or percentages? I'm looking forward to your results...should be very interesting. Blessings to you. Country Girl |
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46 | The New Birth - A Survey | NT general Archive 1 | Country Girl | 128957 | ||
Since repentance is an action of reversing our attitude and lifestyle so that we determine to live a life patterned after our Lord, that would have to be an active role on our part. Of course I believe that we have to repent of our sins on a daily basis, at least those days we're above ground. Blessings to you. Country Girl |
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47 | Do deacons and pastors need be married? | NT general Archive 1 | Country Girl | 129379 | ||
I'm afraid I have to respectively disagree with you, dear friend. If we start making exceptions to God's Word, that just leads to trouble. 1 Tim 3 and Titus 1 are quite clear on this matter. In both cases, elders (aka pastors) and deacons are to be the husbands of one wife each. Obviously, God's Wisdom is far above ours and He knows married men are better qualified to provide complete and Godly leadership in the Lord's church. It's always better to trust God's pattern in such matters. As in all things, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound (or more) of cure." I speak from experience as I've been a part of congregations in the past where we appointed men with questionable qualifications and we ended up regretting that decision. Blessings to you. Country Girl |
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48 | Do deacons and pastors need be married? | NT general Archive 1 | Country Girl | 129421 | ||
It's true about the more strict qualifications for an elder (aka pastor, shepard, overseer or bishop) in comparison to a deacon. But one of the strict qualifications they both share is to be the husband of one wife. I'm glad we're in agreement. We should all aspire to follow the pattern of the NT church as much as possible. Blessings to you, dear friend. Country Girl |
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49 | Deacon/Pastor divorced before saved | NT general Archive 1 | Country Girl | 129747 | ||
I'm not a Baptist but we just call ourselves christians. As I mentioned, the congregations of which we've been part have various opinions about this subject. As I'm sure you know it's being debated so much, there's even some folks who go ahead in direct opposition to God's Word and install women as deacons or some as elders. But again, I must emphasize all of us must obey God's Word if we're going to please Him and go to Heaven. Only those who obey His commands will be comfortable in Heaven anyway. Those who insist on having their own way would be very uncomfortable praising and worshipping Gof for eternity. Blessings to you. Country Girl |
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50 | The Making of the King James Bible | Gen 1:1 | Country Girl | 129312 | ||
I'd like to think we'll all be very interested in your digest and recommendation concerning the book. Please feel free to share. Thanks for the head's up. Blessings to you. Country Girl |
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51 | The Making of the King James Bible | Gen 1:1 | Country Girl | 133479 | ||
Emmaus, my friend I noticed it's been a little over a month since your post on this subject. Do you have a digest for us? How about an evaluation? I might be interested in buying the book myself. Let us know and Blessings to you. Country Girl |
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52 | The Making of the King James Bible | Gen 1:1 | Country Girl | 133554 | ||
Thanks for your note. I'll have to check it out and think twice about paying for it. Looking forward to reading it regardless. Blessings to you. Country Girl |
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53 | Freewill before the fall? | Gen 2:9 | Country Girl | 126000 | ||
I'd have to agree with Mommapbs. Although God does hope to entice us into obeying Him, He certainly does NOT force our hand or our decision. I'm convinced each of us has 100 percent complete and total freedom to choose as we would like. Yes, the fish is forced to live the life of a fish but notice he's free to swim and roam the whole world depending on his species, freshwater or saltwater. In the same regard, yes we humans must live in a finite world and stay here on earth UNLESS we take our own supply of food and oxygen with us. Thus we can choose to make of our life what we like both physically and most especially our spiritual lives. We can choose to live the lifestyle of a chirstian and do the best in following the Bible, OR we can choose to follow any other course like the Devil or just not choose which is really a cop out. Those are the only two choices we have. And of course, God will hold us accountable for our choices. Hope this helps to clarify and Blessings to you. Country Girl |
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54 | Do you believe in being chosen? | Gen 2:9 | Country Girl | 126087 | ||
I've seen these scriptures before as I've studied this subject quite a bit. I noticed you didn't really address the points in my post. I was hoping to get your specific response to those points. Meanwhile, you may be interested in my response to your points and scriptures here. I've been taught the only way one can reconcile these scriptures and the other scriptures/examples I could offer is as follows. Our parents in one way or another have all pre-destined that we be successful in this life, stay out of prison and maybe grow up to be President of the USA or maybe something close to that. However, try as we might, most of us disappoint our parents and score somewhere quite a bit less than our own lofty goals and most especially those of parents. But that doesn't stop our parents who keep on hoping and praying that we'll succeed somehow. To this day, my parents keep after me, urging and prodding me to finish my degree. Now my spouse gets in on the act and urges me also. How can I lose? Well, I must admit I really should finish and probably will one of these days. So you see, our God and Father in Heaven has pre-destined a wonderful place for us to retire. He really hopes and wants all mankind to come Home to Him on Judgment Day. He has made definite plans to accommodate EVERYONE who will obey Him and comply with His Son's Last Will and Testament. It's really not all that different from our own parents here on earth. The big pivotal point in this discussion is on us. Which one will we choose? A life committed to Him on earth and then forever with Him? Or something less and thus waste our lives both here on earth and forever in Hell? My big question to you is...How do you reconcile all the scriptures you quoted in your post with all the rest of the Bible which clearly gives mankind a choice between these two lifestyles? Blessings to you. Country Girl |
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55 | Country Girl: Scripture...or Opinion? | Gen 2:9 | Country Girl | 126529 | ||
Theo-Minor, thanks for the kind words and support. I do hope you'll be able to come back to the Forum, maybe after some to re-group. I've enjoyed reading and responding to your posts. I'd like to think that Hank means well. Apparently, he's had a rough life in his relationship with God and other members of the faith. I really don't know but all of us wish him well. Hank, I've taken another look at most of the posts with your name associated with them over the past few months and it does seem you're just a little overly harsh with several well meaning people who have a different view from yours or maybe even the majority. I'd like to think that God is still interested in all of us, even those of us who have some different opinions about a few things. Along those lines, our Lord did say "to let the wheat and tares grow up together and they would be sorted out on Judgment Day." Paraphrased from Matt 13. I would like to encourage you to be a little more forgiving and open minded toward your fellow sojourner in this temporary and physical world. Blessings to you. Country Girl |
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56 | Country Girl: Scripture...or Opinion? | Gen 2:9 | Country Girl | 126547 | ||
I know at least just a tidbit of what you went through. I've seen the same kind of treatment before to others that have some new and innovative opinion. We don't have a good time on this Forum but then again Jesus warned us about this kind of persecution. I must admit, I too was aghast when I first saw it but at least we're in good company. I hope sometime in the future to see your posts again. Until then and beyond, I pray God's blessings on you. Country Girl |
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57 | Country Girl: Scripture...or Opinion? | Gen 2:9 | Country Girl | 126571 | ||
I agree with you that our biggest priority on the Forum is to shine the light on God's Word as much as possible. But I also think it's OK to occasionally cast at least a flash light on other topics closely related as long as the discussion is Bible based in Spirit. Our Father in Heaven expects us to use our brains and the Spirit of His Word to figure out some tough answers to tough questions that are NOT clearly answered in the Bible, at least not easily found. Sometimes it seems our Lord left us some things for us to figure out in this manner with this kind of discussion SO THAT we could grow, mature AND come to a greater appreciation for one another. But it seems as I alluded to earlier with Theo-Minor, that instead of growing and appreciating one another, we see a lot of harsh put downs, name calling and a lot of immature and rash statements. I do hope someone will be inspired to look at all the posts over these last few weeks/months and encourage us all (including me) to grow up and start acting like we have a Father in Heaven watching us. I'm thinking right about now, He's ashamed of all of us. Blessings to you all. Country Girl |
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58 | Country Girl: Scripture...or Opinion? | Gen 2:9 | Country Girl | 126601 | ||
My E-Mail address is richsherry1@juno.com. Blessings to you. Country Girl | ||||||
59 | Do you believe in being chosen? | Gen 2:9 | Country Girl | 126662 | ||
Of course you're correct in that God does not worry and isn't anxious about anything but I am convinced He does want all mankind to obey Him and thus come Home to Him in Heaven. But I'm afraid I'll have to disagree with you about predestination. If God has already predestened everyone into their respective places, Heaven or Hell, then there would be no real useful purpose to our lives or our attempts to carry out the Gospel message to the world. No, my friend there's just too much scripture and too many other main themes throughout the Bible in opposition to this rather weak position. But I do realize there are many folks who hold to it. I would just encourage you to keep studying on it and be open to all the rest of the Bible. I would emphasize yet again, most of God's Word is simple so that the vast majority of mankind can understand it and reach the goal God has intended for us and that is to become one of His. Your position on predestination is just too confusing and convoluted to believe it could come from the God and Father who had His Son come to earth and live such a simple, humble life and die such a simple but cruel death on a humble cross for a dying world. No our Lord, His Son died too horrible a death for this world for people who have already been condemned to Hell and have no chance for Heaven. It just doesn't make sense. I still pray God's blessings on you. Country Girl |
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60 | Why does God send storms? | Gen 3:17 | Country Girl | 133160 | ||
There's no scripture that could be used to support the idea as cited in your question. Instead I would cite Matt 5:45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. God doesn't use the forces of nature to punish as He is NOT "a respector of persons." It's on Judgment Day that all will get the reward in Heaven or the their condemnation to Hell. Blessings to you. Country Girl |
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