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41 | Is Moses in Heaven or Hell | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 117394 | ||
I would say at this point Moses is wherever Jesus is and I think we can safely say that is heaven. He was obvioulsy concious and in communication with Jesus even before the Resurrection based on the passages of the Transfiguration, where he was speaking with Jesus along with Elijah, "about the exodus He was going to accomplish in Jerusalem".(Luke 9:28-36) So obviously Moses and Elijah, although not yet resuurected in the body, at that time were concious, even if they were then residing in what is variously called Hades, Sheol and Abraham's Bosom. This is further supported by the parable of the rich man and Lazarus in Luke 16:19-31. The rich man and Lazarus were both in Hades or Sheol, but Lazarus was on the happy side(the Bosom of Abraham) while the rich man was on the other unhappy hot side. They were separated by a great chasm, but both were concious along with Abraham who spoke to the rich man. Emmaus |
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42 | Bible version can become an idol? | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 117680 | ||
Rowdy, Some websites are designed to work better with a specific web browser: Explorer or Netscape. If you have more than one browser, try the other one. Emmaus |
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43 | Cup Passed? | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 118087 | ||
Rowdy, I would like to make just two comments. "It's difficult to come up with all the reasons but I think one of them was the fact going to the cross for Jesus was going to be the first time in His existence of His being separated from His Father. Remember although this plan had been in God's mind before the fall of man in the Garden of Eden, Christ had never had the sins of the world heaped onto Him which forced God to turn his back to His own Son." Since you know that "this plan had been in God's mind before the fall of man" if would seem an unfortunate choice of words to say that the Father "was forced" to turn his back on the Son. God is not "forced" to to anything. His will is accomplished and His will cannnot be forced or acted upon by any other will or power. I assume you do not believe any different from this must merely made an unfortunate choice of words. "Jesus was going to be the first time in His existence of His being separated from His Father" Jesus was at no time separated from his Father in his divinity. The Father and He are one in being with each other and the Holy Spirit.(John 14:7-11) In experiencing death Jesus was experiening death as a man: the separation of his body and his human soul. That is enough to cause plenty of anguish to Jesus, a true man. But it was his confidence in the Father that carried him through his ordeal in faith. "Father, into your hands I commend my spirit, you will redeem me Lord, faithful God!" Psalm 31:6; Luke 23:46; Acts 7:59 In his Divine Person, the Son, the Word still possesed His body and soul though they were separated from one another for a time in order to accomplish the divine plan of salavtion. For the Son, Jesus Christ is one Divine Person with two natures and only his human nature suffered the separation of its two integral pasrts, body and soul, but the one Divine Person was never separated into two, for there was never but one Divine Person incarnated and taking on a human nature comprised of body and soul. Emmaus |
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44 | Cup Passed? | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 118092 | ||
Rowdy, Psalm 22 in Luke 27:46. Matthew's other allusions to Psalm 22: Matt 27:35(Ps 22:18); Matt 27:39(Ps 22:7); Matt 27:43(Ps 22:8). Psalm 22 is depict the plight of a righteous sufferer who, although innocent, is mocked and scorned by his ungodly persecutors. He turns to God in his distress, relying on God for his deliverance and final vindication. This is what Jesus is doing when he prays Psalm 22 on the cross. He trusts God (Matt 27:43) and surrenders his spirit to God (Luke 24:46) believing that God with turn his humiliation and apparent defeat into victory.(cf Luke 24:43). The big picture: "Jesus handed over according to the definite plan of God" 599.Jesus' violent death was not the result of chance in an unfortunate coincidence of circumstances, but is part of the mystery of God's plan, as St. Peter explains to the Jews of Jerusalem in his first sermon on Pentecost: "This Jesus [was] delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God."(Acts 2:23) This Biblical language does not mean that those who handed him over were merely passive players in a scenario written in advance by God.(Cf. Acts 3:13) 600. To God, all moments of time are present in their immediacy. When therefore he establishes his eternal plan of "predestination", he includes in it each person's free response to his grace: "In this city, in fact, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place."(Acts 4:27-28; cf. Ps 2:1-2) For the sake of accomplishing his plan of salvation, God permitted the acts that flowed from their blindness.(Cf. Mt 26:54; Jn 18:36; 19:11; Acts 3:17-18) "He died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures" 601. The Scriptures had foretold this divine plan of salvation through the putting to death of "the righteous one, my Servant" as a mystery of universal redemption, that is, as the ransom that would free men from the slavery of sin.(Isa 53:11; cf. 53:12; Jn 8:34-36; Acts 3:14) Citing a confession of faith that he himself had "received", St. Paul professes that "Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures."(1 Cor 15:3; cf. also Acts 3:18; 7:52; 13:29; 26:22-23) In particular Jesus' redemptive death fulfills Isaiah's prophecy of the suffering Servant.(Cf. Isa 53:7-8 and Acts 8:32-35) Indeed Jesus himself explained the meaning of his life and death in the light of God's suffering Servant.(Cf. Mt 20:28) After his Resurrection he gave this interpretation of the Scriptures to the disciples at Emmaus, and then to the apostles.(1 Pt 1:18-20) "For our sake God made him to be sin" 602.Consequently, St. Peter can formulate the apostolic faith in the divine plan of salvation in this way: "You were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your fathers. . . with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. He was destined before the foundation of the world but was made manifest at the end of the times for your sake."(1 Pt 1:18-20) Man's sins, following on original sin, are punishable by death.(Cf. Rom 5:12; 1 Cor 15:56) By sending his own Son in the form of a slave, in the form of a fallen humanity, on account of sin, God "made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God."(2 Cor 5:21; cf. Phil 2:7; Rom 8:3) 603. Jesus did not experience reprobation as if he himself had sinned.(Cf. Jn 8:46) But in the redeeming love that always united him to the Father, he assumed us in the state of our waywardness of sin, to the point that he could say in our name from the cross: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"(Mk 15:34; Ps 22:2; cf. Jn 8:29) Having thus established him in solidarity with us sinners, God "did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all", so that we might be "reconciled to God by the death of his Son".(Rom 8:32; 5:10) http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p122a4p2.htm#II Emmaus |
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45 | Cup Passed? | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 118093 | ||
Colin, Psalm 22 in Luke 27:46. Matthew's other allusions to Psalm 22: Matt 27:35(Ps 22:18); Matt 27:39(Ps 22:7); Matt 27:43(Ps 22:8). Psalm 22 is depict the plight of a righteous sufferer who, although innocent, is mocked and scorned by his ungodly persecutors. He turns to God in his distress, relying on God for his deliverance and final vindication. This is what Jesus is doing when he prays Psalm 22 on the cross. He trusts God (Matt 27:43) and surrenders his spirit to God (Luke 24:46) believing that God with turn his humiliation and apparent defeat into victory.(cf Luke 24:43). The big picture: "Jesus handed over according to the definite plan of God" 599.Jesus' violent death was not the result of chance in an unfortunate coincidence of circumstances, but is part of the mystery of God's plan, as St. Peter explains to the Jews of Jerusalem in his first sermon on Pentecost: "This Jesus [was] delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God."(Acts 2:23) This Biblical language does not mean that those who handed him over were merely passive players in a scenario written in advance by God.(Cf. Acts 3:13) 600. To God, all moments of time are present in their immediacy. When therefore he establishes his eternal plan of "predestination", he includes in it each person's free response to his grace: "In this city, in fact, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place."(Acts 4:27-28; cf. Ps 2:1-2) For the sake of accomplishing his plan of salvation, God permitted the acts that flowed from their blindness.(Cf. Mt 26:54; Jn 18:36; 19:11; Acts 3:17-18) "He died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures" 601. The Scriptures had foretold this divine plan of salvation through the putting to death of "the righteous one, my Servant" as a mystery of universal redemption, that is, as the ransom that would free men from the slavery of sin.(Isa 53:11; cf. 53:12; Jn 8:34-36; Acts 3:14) Citing a confession of faith that he himself had "received", St. Paul professes that "Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures."(1 Cor 15:3; cf. also Acts 3:18; 7:52; 13:29; 26:22-23) In particular Jesus' redemptive death fulfills Isaiah's prophecy of the suffering Servant.(Cf. Isa 53:7-8 and Acts 8:32-35) Indeed Jesus himself explained the meaning of his life and death in the light of God's suffering Servant.(Cf. Mt 20:28) After his Resurrection he gave this interpretation of the Scriptures to the disciples at Emmaus, and then to the apostles.(1 Pt 1:18-20) "For our sake God made him to be sin" 602.Consequently, St. Peter can formulate the apostolic faith in the divine plan of salvation in this way: "You were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your fathers. . . with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. He was destined before the foundation of the world but was made manifest at the end of the times for your sake."(1 Pt 1:18-20) Man's sins, following on original sin, are punishable by death.(Cf. Rom 5:12; 1 Cor 15:56) By sending his own Son in the form of a slave, in the form of a fallen humanity, on account of sin, God "made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God."(2 Cor 5:21; cf. Phil 2:7; Rom 8:3) 603. Jesus did not experience reprobation as if he himself had sinned.(Cf. Jn 8:46) But in the redeeming love that always united him to the Father, he assumed us in the state of our waywardness of sin, to the point that he could say in our name from the cross: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"(Mk 15:34; Ps 22:2; cf. Jn 8:29) Having thus established him in solidarity with us sinners, God "did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all", so that we might be "reconciled to God by the death of his Son".(Rom 8:32; 5:10) http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p122a4p2.htm#II Emmaus |
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46 | Cup Passed? | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 118096 | ||
Rowdy, See my post # 118081 Angelsn apparently posted the question twice and I answered on the other thread. Emmaus |
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47 | Cup Passed? | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 118102 | ||
Colin, It is interesting how the Holy Spirit speaks through even the wicked who oppose God. Like the High Priest in John 11:49-52 and Baalam in the OT. Emmaus |
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48 | IM PREACHING ON SUNDAY.................. | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 119392 | ||
Hank, This quote, "Preach the Gospel always and if necessary use words", is often attributed to St Francis of Asissi. Whether the attribution is accurate I do not know. Emmaus |
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49 | What is the Dark Ages | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 119456 | ||
CDBJ, Thanks. Nowdays it is rather common for most people to equate the Dark Ages with the Middle Ages. But it is more accurate to equate the Dark Ages with what is called the Early Middle Ages. The entire Middle Ages generally covering the time between Classical Antiquity and "Modern Times" starting in the 16h century. Emmaus |
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50 | What is the Dark Ages | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 119463 | ||
CDBJ, Dark as in the absense of the light of Christ and the absence of the light of pagan Classical civilization and knowledge. Also in terms of the darkness of ignorance and violence of the Barbarians. But generally sepaking secular historians are thinking of the absence of the light of Classical culture and civilization and education. Christian historians also include the light of Christ and Christianity. The light of secular classical knowlege and the light of Christ was gradually restored in the West by missionary monks send out from Italy and Ireland where the faith and learing had survived and been preserved in the monasteries and the cathedral schools. Secular historians historians define the "Modern Age" as beginning at the fall of Constantinople around 1450 A.D. Christians tend to think more aroud the time of the Reformation about 75 years later. So the Middle Ages are defined and bracketed by the Fall of the Wetern Roman empire in 476 A.D and the final Fall of the Eastern Empire in 1453 A.D. My degree is actually in Theater Arts from a State University the late 60s and early 70s.. It was interesting to hear, even that most secular and non Chritian environment, how even the renaisance of modern drama and theater came from the Catherdral Schools of the Middle Ages and their Morality Plays also known as Cycle Plays. The one most English speaking people are familiar withis Everyman, which was pasrt of Cycle group of Morality plays. Ancient Greek Theater also grew out of Greek the ancient Greek religion. In fact a study of history will show that almost all if not all civilizations and their cultures are rooted in religion no matter how political and entwined with politics they may be or become as they develope. Emmaus EMMAUS |
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51 | The rest of us? | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 122782 | ||
"The church even went so far off track as to make a mere human being the Pope of the Catholic faith, and allowed him to declare himself equal to God." Rowdy, When did that happen. I missed it. So did the popes. Someone should let them know. Emmaus |
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52 | The rest of us? | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 122791 | ||
"If you're even half the Bible student you seem to be, I'm sure you already knew about this. But I hope this clarifies the issue for everyone and God bless. --Rowdy" Clear as mud to me. Emmaus |
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53 | correct spelling for shabak praise | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 124099 | ||
Hank, I searhed it with one b and it came up. I was somewhat surprised myself. maybe this is one that is spelled more than one way. Emmaus |
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54 | SEX and MARRIAGE | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 124567 | ||
Why does your friend not take into consideration what the NT has to say? Is it because it may disagree with him or her or some other reason? If so, what is the reason? Anyway, check out Leviticus for lots of situations that call for punishment. It is not all about men and men. You might also want to look at all tha passages that decribe the relationship between ancient Israel and God and Christ and the Church as a marital relationship. It is a covenant relationship, which is a different thing than a mere contract. A contract involves an exchanges of goods and services. A covenant is involves giving our very selves in every dimension to each other. the difference diffenrence between a contract and a covenant is like the difference between a man and a prostitute (exchange of goods(money) and services)and a marriage between a man and a woman as husband and wife, a total unconditional irrevocable donation of self to one another. So what was your friend's response to the logical questions? And how does he or she define marriage other than having sexual relations? How does your freind define fornication if it is not sex before marriage? You might want to get all the verses that mention fornication. It can't be fornicaation and marriage at the same time can it? St Paul says "the marriage bed is undefiled." That must mean that the marriage bed is different than other beds where sex is taking place that are defiled. So sex alone cannot be the only defining aspect of marriage. If this person is involved in such a situation, I still don't thing verses will matter because rationalization is going to take place to justify the behavior that the person is enjoying at the moment. Emmaus |
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55 | Jehovah's Witness Question | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 124903 | ||
VictorA, 1) How would you define angel? The literal definition is a messenger. 2) How would you define archangel? The literal definition is a lead- or head- messenger. 3) Is Jesus the "only begotten god" of Jehovah as John 1:18 says? "The title "Son of God" signifies the unique and eternal relationship of Jesus Christ to God his Father: he is the only Son of the Father (cf. Jn 1:14, 18; 3:16, 18); he is God himself (cf. Jn 1:1). To be a Christian, one must believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God (cf. Acts 8:37; 1 Jn 2:23). "Following this apostolic tradition, the Church confessed at the first ecumenical council at Nicaea (325) that the Son is "consubstantial" with the Father, that is, one only God with him. The second ecumenical council, held at Constantinople in 381, kept this expression in its formulation of the Nicene Creed and confessed "the only-begotten Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, light from light, true God from true God, begotten not made, consubstantial with the Father". 4) Is Jesus the "only begotten son" of Jehovah? He is the only begotten Son of god. See answer to number 3. 5) How many heavenly sons does Jehovah God have? All believers and the unfallen angelic host. "The Word became flesh to make us "partakers of the divine nature":"For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God." ..."The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods." 6) Was Satan a son of God before he rebelled? Yes, but unlike Jesus, a created rather than begotten son of God. Now here is my question for you. Does the passage below describing the Arians sound like the Jehovah Witnesses to you? "From apostolic times the Christian faith has insisted on the true incarnation of God's Son "come in the flesh".But already in the third century, the Church in a council at Antioch had to affirm against Paul of Samosata that Jesus Christ is Son of God by nature and not by adoption. The first ecumenical council of Nicaea in 325 confessed in its Creed that the Son of God is "begotten, not made, of the same substance (homoousios) as the Father", and condemned Arius, who had affirmed that the Son of God "came to be from things that were not" and that he was "from another substance" than that of the Father." Thank you Victor. Emmaus |
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56 | Jehovah's Witness Question | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 124904 | ||
VictorA, "The Myth of God Incarnate,” Have you read the book? No. "I personally talk to hundereds of Catholics and Protestants regularly and most do not believe what the Trinity is either. Their leaders may but they tell me they don't." How sad. Since I wasn't there I can't really agree or disagree on your personal statement. But the distinctive of Christianity is a believe in the Trinity. maybe some of the people you spoke to are mislabeling themselves. Emmaus |
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57 | Jehovah's Witness Question | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 124979 | ||
"Thank you for responding to me. Please explain "begotten not made" to me a bit more if you can before I can comment on your question to me." VictorA, In the context of the Trinity, the term begotten is not quite the same as a man begets since men need women and a man does not beget within himself. In the Creed it means that the Son was always with the Father as the Word or Logos, consubstnace, "one in Being" with the Father." So te Son is uncreated and eternal, always existing with the Father and the Holy Spirit. After this evening I wll be away for a while and may not be able to respond. Emmaus |
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58 | Jehovah's Witness Question | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 124980 | ||
VictorA, A little more on your question. "Thank you for responding to me. Please explain "begotten not made" to me a bit more if you can before I can comment on your question to me." It is also worth noting that in John 1 "In the beginning, the Word was with God and the Word was God." We will not focus on the elusive article "a", but rather on the past tense "was" in relation to "the beginning" of time and creation that is. The Word "was" before the beginning. Past tense, already eternally existing. ALWAYS WAS, ALWAYS WILL BE. Now, how about that answer to my single question. Emmaus eMMAUS |
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59 | What Is The Meaning Of Life? | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 125954 | ||
Ah! The good old Baltimore Catechism, Grade 1, Lesson 1. See question and answer number six. 1. Q. Who made the world? A. God made the world. Genesis 1 and 2 2. Q. Who is God? A. God is the Creator of heaven and earth, and of all things. Genesis 1 and 2; John 1. 3. Q. What is man? A. Man is a creature composed of body and soul, and made to the image and likeness of God. Genesis 2:7; Matthew 10:28. 4. Q. Is this likeness in the body or in the soul? A. This likeness is chiefly in the soul. Gensis 2:7. 5. Q. How is the soul like to God? A. The soul is like God because it is a spirit that will never die, and has understanding and free will. Gensis 2; Matthew 10:28. 6. Q. Why did God make you? A. God made me to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in this world, and to be happy with Him forever in the next. Deuternomy 10:12; Luke 10:25-27. Emmaus |
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60 | ok to sin because of the flesh | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 126352 | ||
Interesting screen name. Saint N Says (Satan Says). How did you come to choose the name? Emmaus |
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