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41 | John the Baptist and Jesus cousins? | Not Specified | Rolff | 212322 | ||
Were John the Baptist and Jesus cousins? I have always been taught this but can't find it in Matthew or Luke's gospels. | ||||||
42 | John the Baptist and Jesus cousins? | Luke 1:13 | Rolff | 212325 | ||
Were John the Baptist and Jesus cousins? I have always been taught this but can't find it in Matthew or Luke's gospels. | ||||||
43 | Difference between Psalm and song | Not Specified | Rolff | 211927 | ||
Psalm 67:1 What is the difference between Psalm and song? Always thought they were one and the same in Hebrew. |
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44 | Difference between Psalm and song | Psalm | Rolff | 211943 | ||
Psalm 67:1 What is the difference between Psalm and song? Always thought they were one and the same in Hebrew. |
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45 | Murder vs Killing | Ex 20:1 | Rolff | 211888 | ||
John, Val and Doc, The answers to the question Re Deuteronomy 5 and 13 is one of the best interactions I have seen on this forum. I appreciated all the answers. We all answered within 30 minutes and I did not know others had posted or I would not have put my second two bits in. |
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46 | Murder vs Killing | Ex 20:1 | Rolff | 211885 | ||
kamschoolgrad, There are many sides to God. My father used to kid my mother about the husband that needed to hug, chalk and hug some more before chalking because his wife was so fat. In many ways, that is the way to look at God. In fact, that is how theologians look at God. We take what we call attributes and only look at one part at a time of the total of what God is, because we can't see all of him at one time. If we could understand God, He would not be God. I am not sure anyone can answer your question completely as it is in the heart of God. But the substance, when one peels off all the layers of God: is love. God is love, 1 John 4:8. God's love makes him love, at the fall this is what we lost. We do things and ask, what is in it for me? God not only made us when He did not need to but he gave his son to die for people that didn’t like him, because God is who He is. I might die for another, but I wouldn't give my children for another...that is how much He loved you and us. But there is another side of God after the chalk mark. God is a God of absolute purity that expects us to love Him. He is a jealous God. EXO 20:5 "You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, We can say this is unfair, but God makes the rules and he says that is the way it is. God's holiness demands holy. MAT 5:48 "Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. [Some translations use mature, which helps me sleep at night.] When I first read the article you wrote in your question, my first thought was this is immoral person. I am 2200 miles and five hours by air from Maui but I have heard Dawson McAllister and Josh McDowell both mention that people that have hidden sin need to disprove God to prove they are OK. If there is a God then they need to repent, which they have no intention of doing—so they say there is no God or he is a bad God, as the author of the article was trying to prove. You will not win this argument by argument. You will win it by ... love. God loved so much he died...talk about an oxymoron. Your husband needs to 1 Thessalonians 4:11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; Aloha, don dba Rolff |
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47 | Problem sharing our faith? | Ex 20:1 | Rolff | 211871 | ||
Dear kamschoolgrad, Your question in part, “Well, we all know how preposterous it would be for such a story to be true, yet this is exactly what the god of the Christian bible did. Deuteronomy 5:17, "Thou shall not kill." Deuteronomy 13:9, "but you shall surely kill him." When are the people of the real world going to realize that although some of the bible stories may be historically truthful, most of them are fairy tales that can't be taken seriously?" Mahalo, actually, this is one of the best reasons for donating the King James to the library of antiquities. I love the KJV, but it is a foreign language to 21st Century readers. Thou shalt (not even in my word-processing spell-check dictionary) not kill is not a good translation for 21st Century readers. Second, your question is about definitions. In Exodus 20:13, Deut 5:17 both read, "You shall not murder." NASB. The language the Old Testament was written in, Hebrew uses the same word in both verses, ratsach, which is murder. The same Hebrew word is used six times in the Old Testament, let’s look briefly at them. EXO 20:13 ¶ "You shall not murder. DEU 5:17 ¶' You shall not murder. PSA 62:3 ¶ How long will you assail a man, That you may murder him, all of you, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence? PSA 94:6 They slay the widow and the stranger, And murder the orphans. JER 7:9 "Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and offer sacrifices to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known, HOS 4:2 There is swearing, deception, murder, stealing, and adultery. They employ violence, so that bloodshed follows bloodshed. HOS 6:9 And as raiders wait for a man, So a band of priests murder on the way to Shechem; Surely they have committed crime. Regarding murder, Miriam Webster’s Online Dictionary states: “The crime of unlawfully killing a person especially with malice or forethought.” There were six cities of Refuge, given by God to protect the person that took the life of another without intent. The example that is used is if the ax head comes off while chopping an tree and another dies. The one living could run to one of the cities of refuge until the high priest died and then go home. Numbers 13:35f . A person died, but the life of the one taking the life was saved by God’s decree because it was accidental. War as horrendous as it is, is not forbidden in the Bible. War is not murder. Accidental killing, be it by car, stupidity or accident is not murder. Murder is a drive-by shooter taking the life of a friend of mine. Murder is intentionally taking a weapon and using it until it removes the life of another. In Deuteronomy 13:9 kill means kill. The Hebrew word is harag according to my Hebrew lexicon means kill. Miriam Webster’s Online Dictionary states, “transitive verb, to deprive of life : cause the death of “ Quell is from the same etymological root. Capital punishment is not murder. Which begs to your question; If one takes the life of another, Deuteronomy 5:17 that person should be put to death Deuteronomy 13:9. [When I was a boy there was little murder because the murderer was a dead man in short order. He did not want to die, so he didn’t take the life of another. The more lenient we get on murderers the more murder occurs. The Bible never talks about prison, but it does tell us to remove the murderer from among the living.] Aloha, Rolff |
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48 | Harmony between two thoughts. Joshua 7 | Josh 7:1 | Rolff | 211853 | ||
You are thinking as a western civilization person. I can't for the life of me understand why because the king died the country ran and lost the battle. After all it wasn't me and sorry it was him not me, but why loose the battle over one man no matter what his title. This story is in the history books of the Bible. In the Old Testament and to a great degree today in Asia it is group mentality. When one dies, all is lost. The group pays for the sin of the individual. Your question assumes they were inocent, there is nothing either way to assume Achan's doomed relatives were guilty or inocent. If my wife brings something large like a brick of gold and a closet full of clothes into the house, I and my children would know. These relatives proably knew about the sin and did nothing to expose the sin after all they were rich while the gold was under the floor. We as individuals are not to punish the children for the parents sin. It is a different perspective. Something to chew on while I run to church this fine California morning. |
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49 | Need feedback on Genesis? | Bible general Archive 4 | Rolff | 210609 | ||
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50 | Need feedback on Genesis? | Bible general Archive 4 | Rolff | 210604 | ||
Steve, Is the quote, ""God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him...Sin is what we do when we are not satisfied with God." from Desiring God by John Piper? If so I need to give him credit on my website. |
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51 | Need feedback on Genesis? | Bible general Archive 4 | Rolff | 210576 | ||
Homosexuality and Incest, read all about it in Genesis 19. Sin by any name is still sin. The farther we move from creation the less marriage between siblings was necessary. Actually, while it makes sense for Cain to marry one of his sisters, we don’t know where Cain’s wife came from; while I doubt it God could have created her. God knows more about sin than we know about sin; He has watched sin since creation. As much as God hates sin, he put the sin of the world on himself at the cross. Let’s praise God for his creation and cross work. "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him...Sin is what we do when we are not satisfied with God." Copied |
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52 | Need feedback on Genesis? | Bible general Archive 4 | Rolff | 210572 | ||
I missed your question. Let me go on a bit and you can refine your question if I miss. Genesis means beginning in Greek. Since Genesis is a Hebrew book, the Greek name was introduced in the Septuagint, a Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures. It is one of the first five books written by Moses called the Pentateuch. In Genesis we find the introduction to God, the beginning of light, stars, dirt, water, birds, bugs, Homo sapiens, both male and female. The beginning of the family, murder, nations, bigamy, war, incest, prostitution and gives hope thru the promise of a redeemer in Genesis 3:15 and 49:10. I am fascinated by the Angel of the Lord, introduced in Chapter 16. He talks like God, allows worship, can do miracles and yet is never called God. Genesis is about beginnings on earth. Revelation takes many of these same themes and shows the satisfaction and completion of the thread started in Genesis. |
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53 | explain John 4:13-14 | John 4:13 | Rolff | 210568 | ||
Leanee, welcome to the Study Bible Forum. I am studying 4:23-24 in depth and looked up the page to verse 13-14. Jesus, in John 4, the longest dialogue in John is talking to a Samaritan woman. He moves the conversation from the natural to supernatural. He is sitting at Jacob's well next to literal hydrogen dioxide and moves the conversation to spiritual water. We need to drink 8 glasses of water a day to stay healthy. But Jesus stated spiritual water doesn't need to be replenished. As an outcast woman of the community who came to the well at high-noon to avoid the stares and words of judgemental women, a water source that would keep her from coming to the well was worth investigating. Jesus knew exactly how to pull her in from her physical need to get her to talk to her spiritual need and eventually her village was saved because of this statement. |
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54 | time line for the rapture and after? | 1 Thess 4:13 | Rolff | 210493 | ||
Sue, Let me be the first to attempt an answer. First, the SBF has several rules and one is not to intentionally cause division. Your question by the nature of the question could be divisive as you attempt to understand the Bible. There are three views. The Pre-Tribulation theory. In a sentence this theory states that the Messiah will come before the tribulation. If so then the tribulation will be next in chronology. If you believe in the mid-Tribulation theory, then Christ will come in the middle of the tribulation and the last half of the trib will be next. If you are post-tribulation then the Millinium will be next. |
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55 | Is king solomon a black man | 1 Kin 2:1 | Rolff | 209954 | ||
You may be mixing up Solomon with the Queen of Sheba who came to visit King Solomon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheba, “[Sheba] is disputed between southern Arabia and the Horn of Africa; the kingdom may have been situated in either present-day Ethiopia or present-day Yemen, or both.” If in Africa the Queen of Sheba would most likely have been chocolate brown to black. We don't know what color any of the Kings of Israel/Judah were, but the Jews were 400 years removed from a 430 year stay in Egypt, which is in Africa. It is highly improbable that Solomon (950 BC) was dark but not impossible as Jewish people after the Diaspora (70 AD) are albino to black. |
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56 | verse-wewillrecognizeeachotherinheaven? | Rev 4:4 | Rolff | 209952 | ||
REV 4:4 And around the throne were twenty-four thrones; and upon the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white garments, and golden crowns on their heads. Moses and Elijah who had been in heaven for centuries still had their physical characteristics at the Transfiguration in Matthew 17. The 24 elders are recognized in heaven. Jesus will be known in heaven. Heaven and Earth are used together a number of times and they seem to be separate but closely linked. I.e. our physical characteristics will not change. Our bodies will be perfect, no sickness or crying, but we will be known. |
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57 | Why is Jeremiah as the weeping prophet | Jer 18:6 | Rolff | 209284 | ||
Jeremiah's message to Judah was to repent. If they didn’t' repent they would be punished. The next book in our Canon is Lamentations. This book was also written by Jeremiah after the fall if Judah. I believe Jeremiah was much like several preachers today. They see the corruption, speak the right words but no few are listening. The nation is determined to destroy itself in greed and corruption. JER 6:10 To whom shall I speak and give warning, That they may hear? Behold, their ears are closed, And they cannot listen. Behold, the word of the Lord has become a reproach to them; They have no delight in it. JER 6:17 "And I set watchmen over you, saying, 'Listen to the sound of the trumpet!' But they said, 'We will not listen.' JER 7:26 "Yet they did not listen to Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck; they did evil more than their fathers. JER 7:27 ¶ "And you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you; and you shall call to them, but they will not answer you. This is four verses in two chapters; there are 46 of verses like this in 52 chapters. Conclusion: Everyone wants to be appreciated, Jeremiah was not appreciated and even spent a time in the septic tank where he was slated to die--but he was rescued. He could "see" the downfall of his nation and watched his beloved nation fall but no one would listen to his message. Both and more were reasons he was called the weeping prophet. |
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58 | need information on galatians Chapter 6 | Heb 3:12 | Rolff | 209066 | ||
Blessings to you as you continue to study the Bible. The only reference I know of in my Bible to "falling away" is in Hebrews 3:12 and the context indicates it is one that followed Christ and then did not follow Christ. | ||||||
59 | who are the dead in christ | 1 Thess 4:16 | Rolff | 209064 | ||
The answer to your short question should go something like this. The Dead in Christ are Christians that have died. |
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60 | Where do angels sing in the Bible? | Bible general Archive 1 | Rolff | 208612 | ||
I wanted to thank you for sending me to their bio's and the links. Using the illustration Jesus used of the 10 lepers and only one returned to thank Jesus, I try to thank people that help me along the way. This I did whether they read it or not. Thanks again for your help in making my Christian Education page even stronger and better. | ||||||
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