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41 | natural disasters | Mark 13:8 | Robin Hass | 158235 | ||
You are citing Matt 24 and Mark 13, these passages do indeed state 'that just before the second coming there will be an increase of wars and natural disasters'; there is no such parallel passage in Revelation although of course God unleashes wars, famines and other manifestations of His wrath in the Tribulation period. Do not make the error of 'chasing after the wind', recognising in contemporary events, such as the recent storms and the Iraq war, the ushering in of the end of the world. There has been a lot of bad weather and wars over the last two thousands years, so it's best to keep our feet on the ground. The time is near and has been for quite a while! We have been in the 'last days' since the First Coming (Heb 1:2) Do not follow the false "Bible prophecy teachers" and their errors. The world could be around for centuries more, but for us who are alive, we are called to live as if "the time is at hand" (Rev 1:3) as it has been since the Ascension. Eternity for mortals is always a single breath and a single heartbeat away. |
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42 | Criticisms please. | Matt 14:13 | Robin Hass | 158159 | ||
Dear DocTrinsograce, You wrote of Gill, 'that, his orthodoxy is will be more sound than the other suggestions you've received.' I wrote 'On what grounds do you doubt the soundness of John Nolland.' There is no way I am misquoting you. Robin |
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43 | Criticisms please. | Matt 14:13 | Robin Hass | 158106 | ||
Dear DocTrinsograce, On what grounds do you doubt the soundness of John Nolland, or Trinity Theological College ("All the academic courses at Trinity are mounted in partnership with Bristol Baptist College. The faculties of the two institutions work as an integrated faculty for the mounting of the various courses, and Baptist and Trinity faculty members are frequently involved in the team teaching of modules."): http://www.trinity-bris.ac.uk/index.php You can find Noland under 'Faculty' Furthermore, I would like to give Caloy the benefit of the doubt, but my interpretation of the angle his question is coming from, is that he is making a challenge on the Evangelical position on Bible as the inerrant Word of God; he wants to lauch into a discussion on modern biblical criticism. Caloy, correct me if I'm wrong. Robin |
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44 | Criticisms please. | Matt 14:13 | Robin Hass | 158099 | ||
Dear Caloy, If you need such a indepth study on Matthew 14:13ff you need to get hold of some serious books. John Nolland has a new 1600 page tome The Gospel Of Matthew (New International Greek Testament Commentary) published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company (September 15, 2005). This should get you started. Robin |
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45 | Women less sinful than us?? | 1 Tim 2:14 | Robin Hass | 157955 | ||
I'm fully aware that there are bad women around, I carefully worded my post. But what about the 8:1 ratio in the prisons. When was the last time your friend was glassed in the eye by a women. Do women shoot people in drive bys. Do divorced women kill their children to hurt their ex-partners?? | ||||||
46 | Women less sinful than us?? | 1 Tim 2:14 | Robin Hass | 157951 | ||
Why is it, that women seem to be far less sinful than men? Women swear less, they don’t generally get into fights, they are rarely ‘violent drunks’, they seldom abuse children. Prisons are full of men (the ratio is 8:1 I think); most serial killers are men. When women are jailed for murder often there is some ‘svengali’ male character involved that influenced and led them. Most churches are full of women too, whether Protestant, Evangelical, Orthodox or Catholic. I have observed and pondered this many times. What exactly is going on? it seems really odd to me that half the human race seems to be less affected by their fallen nature. I reflect on the situation in Northern Ireland where the Catholics and Protestants (men) hate, kill, shoot and blow each other up. It always seems to be the women that are the ones desirous of peace. Why is this? |
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47 | Sex before marriage and lesbian passages | 1 Cor 6:16 | Robin Hass | 157940 | ||
Dear Ben Sex outside marriage is specifically referred to in Scripture as ‘fornication.’ Here are a few examples: (Mat 15:19) "For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders. (Mar 7:21) "For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, (Act 15:20) but that we write to them that they abstain from things contaminated by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood. (Act 15:29) that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication; if you keep yourselves free from such things, you will do well. Farewell." (Act 21:25) "But concerning the Gentiles who have believed, we wrote, having decided that they should abstain from meat sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication." (1Co 6:9) Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, (Heb 13:4) Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge. Sex outside marriage is wrong because when a man and women have intercourse they are joined together, not only on the physical level, but also spiritually. 1 Cor 6:16 warns that anyone united in sexual intercourse with a woman becomes one with her, whether she is your wife, a drunken female student, or a prostitute: ‘for it is said, "The two will become one flesh.’ God has designed this level of spiritual and physical binding together, for you and your future wife only. You do not want to be united in the spiritual realm with strangers; it will lead to great pain and sexual diseases. Sex outside marriage with immoral women often leads to pregnancy and to the women procuring abortions. Aborting unborn children is murder. Women who have abortions suffer from a lifetime of guilt and suicide is sometimes the result. No good consequences can come out of such grave sins. God calls you to a chaste life. Chastity means abstinence before marriage and sex with your spouse alone when you are married. You will not find the word ‘Lesbian’ is in scripture, but the practice is clearly condemned. Romans 1:26 states, ‘God gave them over to degrading passions. Even their females exchanged their natural sexual function for one that is unnatural.’ This is surely referring to female homosexuality and other perversions. (No one here will criticize you for poor spelling or grammar, but in the computer age why not write your post in Microsoft Word as I do; it has an inbuilt Spelling/Grammar function.) Robin |
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48 | Against gays, plse supply sup scripture | 1 Cor 6:9 | Robin Hass | 157929 | ||
Hello Etricia Christians are not 'against gays' anymore than they are ‘against sinners.’ Christians are called to love gays. Jesus loves gay people. Groups such as neo-Nazi’s and bigots are ‘against gays’. I have visited Nazi concentration camps in Europe (which are now museums) where gay people were murdered and turned to ash along with Jews. Christians hate sin and love sinners, because sinners are people of infinite worth made in the image of God. The difference between hating the sin not the sinner is the difference between light and darkness: it is infinite. In today’s world where people are generally “benevolent humanists” (especially here in England) homosexuality is virtually accepted and people who are against same sex relationships are considered to be unloving and bigots, comparable with racists. This view has infiltrated, and indeed divided, the mainline liberal Protestant Churches who often argue that the Church needs to learn from the world, and to be against homosexual love fails to show Christ’s love. I often find myself arguing against homosexuality; it is like a ‘touchstone’ dividing conservative (orthodox) from liberal (unorthodox) Christians. All Christians who place God's Word above contemporary culture condemn homosexuality. However, whilst homosexuality is a very serious sin it is no worse than many other sins; all sins are worthy of death. Homosexuality is certainly no worse than heterosexual adultery. I can be smug that I am not a homosexual but Jesus said if I look at a woman with lust for her I have already committed adultery with her in my heart…and in danger of my whole body being thrown into hell (Matt 5:28-9) The “wisdom of the world” believes we have evolved from slime into monkeys. When people believe they are animals they have a belief system which allows them to act accordingly. Everyone does what is right in his own eyes! However reality is not so simple, every fallen sinner possesses to some degree the ‘image of God’ and people have an inherent intuition concerning homosexuality as they do about bestiality—that it is wrong because it is unnatural. It feels wrong, homosexuals feels guilt about their acts, unfortunately this makes them more and more vocal in promoting homosexuality, they reason that they hate what they do because a bigoted society has made them feel that way. Anyone who believes the creation accounts in Genesis should easily be able to see that homosexual sex is a perversion and a misuse of the human body. In Genesis 1, God made a man and a woman for each other, he made them perfectly and biologically compatible for each other, and he made them with the powers of procreation. Homosexuality is unnatural and any sane person who acknowledges we are the product of our Creator knows this is so. ‘The rejection of homosexual behavior that is found in the Old Testament is well known. In Genesis 19, two angels in disguise visit the city of Sodom and are offered hospitality and shelter by Lot. During the night, the men of Sodom demand that Lot hand over his guests for homosexual intercourse. Lot refuses, and the angels blind the men of Sodom. Lot and his household escape, and the town is destroyed by fire "because the outcry against its people has become great before the Lord" (Gen. 19:13). Jude 7 records that Sodom and Gomorrah "acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust." Lot even offered his two virgin daughters in place of his guests, but the men of Sodom rejected the offer, preferring homosexual sex over heterosexual sex (Gen. 19:8–9). An explicit condemnation is found in the book of Leviticus: "You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. . . . If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them" (Lev. 18:22, 20:13). The New Testament forcefully rejects homosexual behavior. Romans 1, attributes the homosexual desires of some to a refusal to acknowledge and worship God. He says, "For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct. . . . Though they know God’s decree that those who do such things deserve to die, they not only do them but approve those who practice them" (Rom. 1:26–28, 32). Paul also wrote, "Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God" (1 Cor. 6:9–10).’ |
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49 | Is Allah the God of Israel? | Acts 28:2 | Robin Hass | 157864 | ||
Of course, I am a Trinitarian Christian. I fully subscribe to the definitions of the early Ecumenical Councils specifically Nicea 325 AD. No one has of yet made an attempt at the etymology of the word Allah. Is it simply a semitic impersonal noun for 'theos' or is it more complex than this, is it the personal name of a demonic entity. |
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50 | Is Allah the God of Israel? | Acts 28:2 | Robin Hass | 157842 | ||
God in His wisdom instructed us to baptise in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, not the name of God, which prevents the name of a local foreign deity being used. Robin Hass |
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51 | Is Allah the God of Israel? | Acts 28:2 | Robin Hass | 157818 | ||
Maltese Christians baptising in the sea at the place where Paul is believed to have been shipwrecked, and where he was bitten by a viper. http://www.fgpc.org.mt/images/BaptMellieha04A.jpg |
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52 | Is Allah the God of Israel? | Acts 28:2 | Robin Hass | 157815 | ||
Dear MJH, This is basically a very good post. I agree with all of what you write, I have no ax to grind for Islam; I was just fascinated whilst on vacation this summer to come across Maltese Christians using the word Allah for God in their language. The only problem with your post is it needs backing up with some proofs. What is the etymology of the word Allah? It boils down to whether Allah is the personal name of a Arabic demon or simply their word for theos. If you can give proof that Allah is a personal name like Beelzebub then the case in closed; the Maltese Evangelicals are in error. I understand that the Maltese were under the rule of Islam in the medieval period, perhaps the word Allah wrongly came into their language at this time. If they were using it at the time of Paul's visit and right back to Babel then it is a true generic and totally legitimate. Paul perhaps encountered it when he engaged these people of 'barbarous' tongue on his missionary visitation. I seem to recall hearing that the Bible Societies whose job is to translate Scripture into hundreds of languages sometimes have problems with finding a word for theos; some ethnic groups may only know demonic personal names and have no word for God available. Going back to part 2 of my question, are you not of the opinion those non-Christians who speak of God and understand this to mean the Creator ARE referring to Yahweh. Surely even atheists who deny there is a Creator/God are denying the Christian God. Mankind's generic concept 'God' is Yahweh. The Maltese Christians are certainly using the word Allah to translate theos, here is proof: http://www.fgpc.org.mt/bible.htm Robin |
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53 | Is Allah the God of Israel? | Acts 28:2 | Robin Hass | 157793 | ||
We are talking about the Malti (semitic) translation of the Greek word theos: which is Allah. | ||||||
54 | How should theos be translated in Malti? | Acts 28:2 | Robin Hass | 157792 | ||
What word in Malti (a semitic language)would Maltese evangelicals translate 'theos' as then? God is an English word; Allah means God in their language. They can't use God, its an English word. They can't use Yahweh, it is not the translation for theos. They've been using Allah as their noun for God for thousands of years. Your fully justified hatred of Islam is spilling over into a prejudice against semitic languages. Robin |
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55 | How should theos be translated in Malti? | Acts 28:2 | Robin Hass | 157791 | ||
What word in Malti (a semitic language)would Maltese evangelicals translate 'theos' as then? God is an English word; Allah means God in their language. They can't use God, its an English word. They can't use Yahweh, it is not the transaltion for theos. They've been using Allah to mean the noun God for thousands of years. Your fully justified hatred of Islam is spilling over into a prejudice against semitic languages. Robin |
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56 | How should theos be translated in Malti? | Acts 28:2 | Robin Hass | 157790 | ||
I appreciate we are mixing English and Malti to some extent in this debate. What Malti word would Maltese evangelicals translate theos as then? God is an English word; Allah means God in their language. |
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57 | Is Allah the God of Israel? | Acts 28:2 | Robin Hass | 157785 | ||
Yahweh is His personal name. God is an English noun, Theos is a Greek noun, Bog is a Slavonic noun. Allah is a Arab noun. I think the latter four are equivalents. The Maltese need a word to translate theos: translating Yahweh is a different matter. Robin. |
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58 | An Unknown God? | Acts 28:2 | Robin Hass | 157784 | ||
Hi Kalos, Your opinion contradicts Act 17:23-27 "For while I was passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' Therefore what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you. "The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; Any pagan, heathen or Muslim who holds the concept of the God who created the universe holds the concept of the monotheistic God. Acts 4:12 refers to salvation which cannot be obtained from the 'generic God' except by His Son Jesus. Muslims hold an inadequate and incomplete picture of the Creator God, but I disagree with you that their God is someone else. Yes, they worship Him in ignorance and they are not saved. Robin |
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59 | Is Allah the God of Israel? | Acts 28:2 | Robin Hass | 157780 | ||
When on vacation recently in Malta, following in the footsteps of the Apostle Paul - Acts 27-28, I visited an Evangelical fellowship: http://www.fgpc.org.mt/bible.htm The pastor was bi-lingual and I was surprised to find out that the Maltese people, a Semitic race, Syro-Phoenicians I think, refer to God in their native 'barbarous' tongue, Malti as Allah! I thought I had heard in the past that the name Allah is a NOT a generic name for God but the name of a demon, and there is some story behind the name. Any thoughts? Furthermore, I believe that Islam is a non-saving false religion but that their concept of God/Allah (Creator) is still the real God. I would say that our God is the same God as the Deists, or the Greek philosophers but that they have no access to him nor any way of appeasing His wrath. Is this correct? Robin |
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60 | 'double imputation' | Rom 3:23 | Robin Hass | 157779 | ||
My question is about 'double imputation' of sin. Are unsaved men worthy of hell because they are born with original sin (and are guilty at conception) or for the sins they themselves commit (and are guilty at some age of culpability)? | ||||||
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