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41 | who did cain marry? | Gen 1:1 | Jensen | 39251 | ||
OR....Conceivably....a granddaughter, or even a great granddaughter. How many years would have been needed for a new born female to come to maturity? I do not believe anyone can say for sure. Lets ask the Lord when we see Him :-) God Bless….Jensen |
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42 | who did cain marry? | Gen 1:1 | Jensen | 39253 | ||
WRONG....It is always about scripture. That is why we are here studying the Bible and not studying the social interactions of the modern age. You seem to think that using the word "wrong" is extreme. But it's use is never extreme when it used in the defense of the Bible and especially in the above case. We are here for the intellectual not the emotional. Do not FEEL sorry for Hank but, rather, THINK of what he wrote. God Bless....Jensen |
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43 | The GAP theory could be true. | Gen 1:2 | Jensen | 20171 | ||
Dear CDBJ...I used to be where you are right now on this subject. I just want to point out that when God created the earth it was all very good, complete with gold, and silver, and coal, and pitch. The gap theory has too many gaps in it when one looks at the science. By your own admission you do not know the science. Save yourself some time. Start with the premis that the Bible is correct just as it is written. Now go to the sites you mentioned and equip yourself. Hurry Please :-) The more young earth creationists in the world the more souls can be won to Christ. God Bless....Jensen |
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44 | The GAP theory could be true. | Gen 1:2 | Jensen | 20237 | ||
Dear CDBJ...Thanks for your reply... You said that the pitch and coal were still organic "no matter how you slice it" but you miss the point of creation. Creation Ex Nihilo, "out of nothing', is what occured. We know that when the heavens and earth were created God said it was "very good" meaning that His work was just what he wanted. Did His work include diamonds, and gold, and pitch. Was the Earth "ready to go" or not? Was His work complete or not? Were all the elements present or not? Was pitch created or not? What makes you think that oil and tar were not part of the original creation? When God planted the Garden, was it from seed? Perhaps, but where did the seed come from? You would say that the seeds could only have come from earlier trees? Either you believe that God created all, or not. If you will permit I want to try to illustrate the danger, yes danger, of the "gap theory" as we look at the Gospel of John. John 19:41 At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid. 42 Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there. INSERT GAP THEORY HERE---Some of the men who followed Jesus came to the tomb that night and removed his body (small h since he is no longer God) They decided to bury the body in a secret location. They carried the body to the secret location leaving behind the grave clothes. Once they buried the body they retuned to the tomb to close the entrance with the stone they had rolled away earlier that night. But when they arrived back at the tomb they saw someone coming eventhough they were still under the cover of darkness. They ran away to their homes. JN 20:1 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. 2 So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have put him!" INSERT MORE GAP THEORY HERE-- Even Mary knew that there was something done to the tomb by men. Please study the science that supports your Lord's work before going on with this evolutionary thought process. I know that once you are familiar with the science you will be comfortable with the Biblical account of human origins. God Bless....Jensen |
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45 | The GAP theory could be true. | Gen 1:2 | Jensen | 20413 | ||
Dear CDBJ...WE Agree....:-) You wrote... "This discussion on thy doctrine of ((creation)) has gone far enough!! It is getting out of hand and I refuse to go any further because of the issues that were brought up, that have nothing to do with my original comment. In love, CDBJ" Lucifer (Satan) was good at one time. You wrote... ": Jenson, I would like to point out that I think everything that God does is good, even Lucifer was good at one point." WE agree, on a different thread, but we agree afterall. So why do you want to stop the debate on creation. I have no "technique", really, and my hearts desire since coming to the Lord a short time ago is that I have fallen in love with Creation, as a study. I have no formal education of any note in the "hard sciences" so I am pretty much sell taught. ( I mean led :)) When you and I can agree on such a basic understanding that God did not create evil, certainly we should be able to discuss creation. I am open to your points, in fact. I am willing to listen. I just took the Book literally when I first read it. If what I learned in John 3:16 was true, why would this creation story not be believed also? But please don't hang up the phone. God BLess....Jensen |
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46 | Contrary View........ | Gen 2:2 | Jensen | 20757 | ||
You wrote concering Gen 2:4..... "This verse would have been a better verse at which to start chapter two." GE 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. .....is an introductory sentence and a beautiful transitional verse. In my opinion, it summarizes the foundation set in Chapter 1. I agree that there are questionable chapter breaks in the Bible, from a literary point of view, but this is not one of them. The question "Doesn't chapter 2 tell of a different creation order than told in Chapter 1" is asked due to a misunderstanding of the focus of the individual chapters. One being on the succesive creation events, and the other on man's place in the creation. God Bless....Jensen |
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47 | Enter the Dragon! | Gen 3:1 | Jensen | 20020 | ||
Dear Lionstrong...Thanks for your reply. Oh please, I do not subsribe to the Gap Theory. My goodness!!! How did you get that. I am sorry for not being more clear. No, I do not deny Ex 20:11. My goodness again!!! Satan was outside time when he fell. Spirits are not shackled in our time. The spiritual battle rages on for "ages" but the ages are ours. The spiritual battle is, ...timeless. "Nice try, Jensen", you wrote. But I was not trying anything, really. But do you believe that God created evil? Do you not believe that it was the choice of Satan to "fall." A result of his free will. (Did Adam, then, have free will?) I did re-read my post and I am not sure of where we disagree when one considers that I do not deny your interpretation of the Sciptures you offered. My point was simply that our perception of "time" is not the same as how God views time, which is just a small part of His creation in the final analysis. God created time and put us in it. Like a painter is not a part of his painting yet he leaves a little of himself on the canvas, God has left His image, on us. But He is not the picture, He is not in time or concerned with time, at least like we are. He already knows how things will come to pass. He already knows my future and what choices I will make, and the "times" He will pick me up:) The spirit world is outside of time. Mat17:3 "Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus." A long amount of time had passed from the death of Moses to the life of Jesus. But time is not important here. Time is relative. Elijah and Moses were not so old as to be unrecognizable by the apostle. Time had no effect on them the way we would think it should. They were not in their owntime, but "transported" to the time of Jesus. Time is our possession, and not necessarily that of the heavens. Satan could have taken a thousand years to fall if his time was measured by how we understand time. In our time, he fell quickly. But again, so did Adam. Science has demonstrated the effect of gravity on time, God has demonstrated in the above verse that time is relative. As for your main question; You may believe God created evil while I may believe God did not. But that would be our only point of disagreement. Or do we have a disagreement at all :) God Bless....Jensen |
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48 | Enter the Dragon! | Gen 3:1 | Jensen | 20137 | ||
Dear Lionstrong...Peace indeed.. I agree again. "The heavens and everything in them were created sometime between the first and sixth day." There is no "other time" as you have said. Time is our possession as I said. You said, " ...and then you said a time different than ours." But I never wrote that. Take the time now to re-read the post and you will find that I never wrote what you said I did. So I agree, we are having a difficult time communicating. You seem to want to do battle, I want to simply offer an explanation, supported by the science, that time is relative. You said that I sound like I may believe that "spirits might show signs of aging while we wait for the resurrection of our bodies!." But I never wrote that. So again I agree with you. What I have failed to make clear is what time is itself. The science is difficult but it is on our side. It is just a matter of the math. As you may remember, math is an exact science. It is the only exact science. It does not err. Science has shown that, for example, the further you are away from a gravitational pull the faster time will appear to the observer. If you will indulge me I want to offer an illustration. We begin with an astronomer and an astronaut. The astronaut is wearing a wrist watch. The astronomer is in his observatory with his powerful telescope and also has a clock on the wall. Both time pieces read 2:00. The astronaut has blasted off from Earth and is flying thru space towards regions unknown while the astronomer is watching him through his telescope. The astronaut moves further and further away from Earth. The astronomer sees the wristwatch that the astronaut is wearing. It says 2:15. And when he turns to see the clock on his wall he notes that it reads 2:14. As the astronaut moves even further away the scientist gets bored and takes a nap. When he awakes he notes from the clock on his wall that his nap took about 3 hours. It is now 7:00. He decides to check on the astronaut. When he zooms in on the wristwatch it says 7:08. But how could this be? He decides to take a few weeks vacation. After his vacation he once again zooms in on the astronaut to see how he is doing. What he sees is the wristwatch now is spinning. The minute hand is a blur and the hour hand is going very fast indeed. 1, 2, 3, 4 hours on the wristwatch has taken just a few seconds for the scientist to observe. This is the effect of gravity on time first observed by scientists who noticed that two identical atomic clocks were reporting different times. It was just nano-seconds but there was a difference. They did further experiments and repeated them several times. Time is affected by gravity. Meanwhile, back in space, the astronaught takes out his special telescope and looks back at the scientist in his lab. He observes that the scientist is standing still and does not move. He sees that the clock on the wall seems to have stopped or greatly slowed. The astronaught takes a nap. When he awakes 4 hours later, according to his watch, he looks back at the scientist and observes that the scientist has still not moved. Both are in their own time. They both age according to how long they have lived. The astronaut will die of "old age" long before the scientist moves away from his telescope. The scientist will stand on the exact same spot while the astronaut lives a long and healthy life. This is the effect that gravity has on time. Time then is relative. It is not something static that can be measured universally. The time we are in is not the same as the time that our astronaut friend is in. We have performed and observed the experiment. Our understanding of the Laws of Nature (God) has changed because of these observations. It is not something which is in question. I hope that I have not muddled the issue further. I know that what the Bible says is true. All true. But as mere humans with diminished capacity due to the Fall, we leap to embrace the science that shows that the Bible was correct all along. Not for us, but for those who do not believe the Bible but do believe the science...it is a way to equip yourself to be prepared to give an answer for why we have hope. I use science as a witness to the power and glory of our Lord. And then my hearer is more receptive to the Gospel promise. I do not want to battle. My whole problem is my lack of ability to express my ideas clearly. I sometimes will take too much for granted. And now to the nut if you will allow me. Do you, or do you not, believe that God created evil. It is a simple question that you neglected to answer in my earlier reply. The rest of this debate about time can wait. But the meat is in the question. Please reply. God Bless....Jensen |
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49 | Enter the Dragon! | Gen 3:1 | Jensen | 20242 | ||
COMMENT...........It is not the science that we need to discuss. Please answer the question from my earlier posts. Luv ya'. God Bless....Jensen |
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50 | Did God create evil? | Gen 3:1 | Jensen | 20269 | ||
Dear Dalprad...Thank you for your reply and I am happy to see that you are following this discussion. Your input is not to be "pardoned" but welcomed. You are correct. I was/am looking for a straight forward answer, yes or no, to my question to Lionstrong. He does argue for a "yes" but, so far has not said so. He may realize that God can not be the creator of evil. God is, by His nature, the standard of all that is good. God can not sin. Jesus was/is the sinless sacrifice. Unblemished. To create evil would be a sin by definition. Any other thoughts? God Bless....Jensen |
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51 | who created satan? | Gen 3:1 | Jensen | 20272 | ||
Dear LoveJoyPeace...Welcome to the Forum :)... I am having difficulty finding the Scripture that you referenced in your answer. I like your answer that "he was not created evil" and I would be missing a very strong support for my position if what you wrote is accurate. I do not have all the various Bible translations at my disposal so please tell me the Translation used as well as the Book, Chapter and verse(s) that you reference. Waitin anxiously :-) God Bless....Jensen |
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52 | Enter the Dragon! | Gen 3:1 | Jensen | 20408 | ||
Dear Lionstrong...We agree, ...again:-) You wrote... "To answer to your question, did God in fact create Satan as such; I can give the politically discrete answer of saying that the Scripture does not make that point explicit,....... Peace, Lionstrong" And peace indeed! (now to the second part of your thought...) God Bless....Jensen |
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53 | Enter the Dragon! | Gen 3:1 | Jensen | 20521 | ||
Dear Lionstrong...Now to part two of your closing thoughts. You wrote... "...but it would not be contrary to the goodness of God if he had created Satan evil." By writing "..if he had created Satan evil." you have acknowledged that there is no proof that can be offered. For IF is a very big word. God did not create evil according to all the evidence in the Bible. So what now. We probably should not go outside the Bible to explore this point. We both agree that the Bible is true and just about the only written work that can be fully trusted by us both. So when we look for proof of what you postulate we find none. I will deny myself the opportunity to give examples of IF. So the question becomes, by defaut, was Satan created good. What proof do we have? You wrote that you did not buy the interpretation of EZK 28:15-17. You will also have to deny this... ISA 14:12 How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! (And why did he fall from heaven? Was it because of something he chose to do, or something he was programed to do?) ISA 14:13 You said in your heart, "I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain. ISA 14:14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High." Lionstrong you already know this. Satan wanted to put himself at the center of the universe, denying the need for his Maker. Adam tried it too! "You will not surly die." says the father of lies. Men today like to do the same thing. But we do not know more than He wrote to us, either in His word or on our hearts. His Word does not prove your point, that leaves your heart. God Bless....Jensen |
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54 | What was/is a temple prostitute? | Gen 38:21 | Jensen | 21244 | ||
Dear EdB...Thanks for your answer. I still have some confusion that I know you can address. It is my understanding, according to your post, that temple prostitutes were common to several religions. (They even exist today in certain sects located in California.) My concern is only with the kingdoms of Israel and/or Judah. 1)Your answer seems to indicate that Israel did not employ (no pun) temple prostitutes. But Hosea seems to indicate that Israel did utilize them. If you can clear this point up I would be grateful. 2)Do you know if the prostitutes worked for the temple directly. Did the temple or shrine play the same role as a modern day pimp? Did the temple keep all the money paid to the prostitute, and was there, to your knowledge, a part of the temple or temple grounds that was set aside for such service? 3) Were those who paid for the prostitute members of the same cult, or could anyone employ them with the proceeds going to the temple. (As an aside...There is a carnival set up on the grounds of a Christian church near where I live. Some of the prizes awarded include soft pornography and strong alcoholic drink. The proceeds from the carnival support the church. Curious!) God Bless....Jensen |
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55 | What was/is a temple prostitute? | Gen 38:21 | Jensen | 21319 | ||
Dear Tim...If you have time...Would you please review my post to EdB above and see if I am on the wrong track. God Bless....Jensen |
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56 | What did the lord tell moses? | Exodus | Jensen | 20632 | ||
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57 | Was Paul Eloquent? | Ex 4:10 | Jensen | 27069 | ||
The question was on Paul...Not Moses... This is a nice exposition but has nothing to do with the eloquence of Paul. Why not just say that many Bible teachers say stupid, unfouded, unsubstantiated things. :) The fact is that the teacher mentioned does not know. He may have heard it on TBN late some night. The fact that Paul was educated does not mean that he was eloquent. You may want to look up the definition. You have also directly quoted from a source without giving credit to the source. I can tell because I have read some of your other posts. Give credit where credit is due...I'm sure it was just an oversight :-) God Bless....Jensen |
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58 | read job it will bless you | Job | Jensen | 31918 | ||
Dear prophet ezra brown....Welcome to the Forum:-) You are preaching to the choir:-) Separately, I am curious about your screen name. Why do you choose "prophet" as part of the name. Additionally, if you plan to stay on the Forum you may want to provide some personal information on yourself by going to "Update User Info" button under Information on the left of this screen. It is a courtesy that helps respondents to put things in perspective when replying to your future posts. I hope and pray that you add your voice to this Forum on a regular basis. God Bless....Jensen |
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59 | Are Modern Prophets Always Accurate ? | Job | Jensen | 32184 | ||
Dear Eprophet....Welcome to the Forum :-) .... You Wrote...."Just compare the prophecy you hear with the one and only truth, The Bible."...and you wrote... "Prophets are still out there." It will be nice to have your input on the issues facing Christians today. One of those issues concerns the very existence of modern day prophets. I confess I am recently dedicated to the Lord and have little experience outside my own local non-denominational church were there are Christians who practice several of the Spiritual Gifts as listed in the New Testament letter to Corinth. I recall about twenty and one is the Gift of Prophecy. My question is not concerning the reality of the Gift but with its’ range: How many Prophets are there and how does the Christian know the true from the false. Rev 20:10 "And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever." ..is a prophecy I believe. It is in His Word. It occurred to me that the one way to tell who is genuine is the fact of a self-described prophets’ accuracy. Can a prophet be wrong? I mean no question dead wrong, and still call themselves a prophet of God? I come to this Forum to learn about Him and His Church so please forgive me if my questions are unclear. You said to compare the prophecy with the truth of the Bible. But I can recount a number of prophets from the Bible who did not line up with the Scripture in existence at the time of their prophecies. In other words they themselves were the only source for the prophecy...the first of its kind without foundation in their own current Scripture. "Jonah obeyed the word of the LORD and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very important city...a visit required three days. 4 On the first day, Jonah started into the city. He proclaimed: "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned." 5 The Ninevites believed God. They declared a fast, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth." Jonah 3:3-5 Where in Scripture would this prophecy be based. The Ninevites believed God by what standard? Do we hold the prophets of today to a different, higher standard than the Ninevites held Jonah? Jonah was a reluctant prophet of God. I have only come across Christians(3) who are only too eager to be known as a prophet. “Hi. I’m Parker. A Prophet of God.” Tell me, since you also call yourself a prophet (EProphet): Have you ever been wrong? Or are your prognostications so far in the future that this generation will never know the truth of the future events you proclaim. The Bible, as you know, has both. What about you? And are you a member of a church that has many prophets, percentage wise, as some churches are 95 percent blessed with the Gift of Tongues? Are they also accurate? Generally? And if so then please point me to the entrance, where may I also find such a church? I am very interested in this topic and would much appreciate your time and effort. Finally, I know I have asked a lot of questions, pick any two or so :-) God Bless....Jensen |
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60 | Are Modern Prophets Always Accurate ? | Job | Jensen | 32187 | ||
Dear prophet ezra brown.... Praise God for your Gift. Please tell us if you can what you see. I observe Acts 17:11 "Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true." So please tell me where the Scripture is that talks about the Prophets and which you quoted . I am having a hard time finding it. You Wrote…. "BUT THE BIBLE SAYS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE SHALL A WORD BE CONFIRMED." Is that OT or New? Please help. God Bless....Jensen |
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