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41 | what does hyssop mean | OT general | biblicalman | 229627 | ||
Hi Mary Welcome to the forum. Hyssop was almost certainly a flowering plant that grew on walls and cliffs. It could be plucked, a bunch of it dipped in blood sprinkled water (the water of purification), or sacrificial blood, and ritually used for sprinkling (Exod 12.22; Num 19.18; etc). When David said 'purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean, it was this ritual that he had in mind. Best wishes |
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42 | Does the Bible refer to Peter being hung | NT general | biblicalman | 227860 | ||
No, that is found in the Acts of Peter a late second century apocryphal work. The only indication in the New Testament is John 21.18. | ||||||
43 | Theology and ethics in Pauls letters | NT general | biblicalman | 228367 | ||
Why does Paul have of two main sections in many of his letters? Because to Paul the whole purpose of God in salvation was to restore man and make him holy. You shall be holy for I am holy. Thus Paul described that salvation, encouraged response to it and then gave guidance in the way of holiness. To him it was inconceivable that a man could be saved and yet not seek holiness. |
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44 | Angels | NT general | biblicalman | 229046 | ||
I suspect that the verse that you have in mind is Rev. 5.8 where the 24 heavenly elders (representing the 24 priestly courses of the Old Testament) offer the prayers of the saints to God. It is a reminder that the whole of Heaven is concerned about the welfare of God's people on earth. Are angels not ministering spirits sent to minister to the heirs od salvation (Hebrews 1.14). But we must not see them as omnipresent or omniscient. Their abilities and tasks are limited. They are angels, not divine beings. There is only One Who is always aware of all that goes on in Heaven and earth, and that is the Triune God. They are His servants to do His bidding when asnd where He says. Best wishes. |
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45 | Atonement | NT general | biblicalman | 229246 | ||
Am I right in assuming from your question that you have done something wrong to someone which no one knows about and now wish to atone for it in some way? If the harm done can be put right in no other way then you will have to confess to it. If, however, the harm done cannot be put right then all you can do is try to make it up to the person in some way. Hope I got your meaning right :-) Best wishes |
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46 | Different fathers of Joseph. | NT general | biblicalman | 229351 | ||
Hi Penn, Welcome to the Forum. As has been explained one possibility is that the genealogy in Matthew is that of Joseph, and that in the genealogy in Luke we have the genealogy of Mary. An equal possibility is that the genealogy in Matthew is indicating the line of heirs to the throne, whilst the genealogy in Luke is Joseph's bloodline. Where a king died without a direct heir the throne right would pass to a brother or a nephew, and they would in Jewish terms then be described as being 'begotten' by the deceased. Even an adopted child was descrinbed in terms of being 'begotten' by his new father. Thus in Matth 1.16 Jacob as Joseph's uncle may have died without an heir, resulting in Joseph becoming his heir by right of inheritancve, and thus being 'begotten' by him. The whole question is dealt with in depth in The Virgin Birth of Christ by J Machen. Best wishes |
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47 | What is your view on the Rapture? | NT general | biblicalman | 229397 | ||
What is my view on the Rapture? I think it wll be the most wonderful event in history. 'For the Lord Himself will descend from Heaven, with a shout of command, with the Archangel's voice, and with the trumpet-blast of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first, then we who are alive and remain will be caught up with them to meet the Lord in the air and so we wll ever be with the Lord.' (1 Thess 4.16-17). Imagine the picture, the graves opening, the resurrected saints in their new spiritual bodies rising to meet the Lord in the air, the living saints being instantly transformed and joining them in their triumphant progress, and all together meeting the Lord and seing Him face to face, and going in with Him to the marriage feast of the Lamb. What a day that will be. I don't want to spoil its impact by clogging it up with a lot of uncertain detail. 'We will not all sleep (die) but we will all be changed. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet, for the dead will be raised incorruptible and we will all be changed' (1 Cor 15.52). Thats what I want to turn people's attention on so that they will be ready. It is the one certain eschatological fact. What happens afterwards I will leave to God. Best wishes |
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48 | God sees us through the blood of Jesus | NT general | biblicalman | 229398 | ||
Hi Cyndig, Welcome to the Forum. There is no actual verse that says that God sees us through the blood of Jesus, but a numberthat say something similar. Jesus 'Whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through His blood to be received by faith' (Rom 3.25). 'Therefore we are now accounted as righteous through His blood' (Rom 5.9). 'Through Whom we have redemption through His blood even the forgiveness of sins' (Eph 1.8). 'The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses us from all sins' (1 John 1.7). 'To Him Who loves us and freed us from our sins in His own blood' (Rev 1.7). 'So Jesus suffered without the gate in order to set apart His people as holy through His own blood' (Heb 10.12). Best wishes |
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49 | How can you explain the SDA faiths? | NT general | biblicalman | 229491 | ||
The word baptizo means 'to drench', and derivatively 'to overwhelm' (looking at both Biblical and secular usage). What a word means is not determined by its root, but by how it is used. (The use of bapto is therefore irrelevant to its meaning). The Pharisees did not wash their hands they drenched them, pouring water over hands and wrists. Paul's use in 1 Cor 10 was metaphorical. The Israelites were not really baptised, thus whether they got wet or not is irrelevant. Paul is using the word as a technical term. Certainly in the UK you will not find any baptists that I know of who suggest that baptism saves. Indeed they could not, otherwise they would not allow a delay in baptism after salvation. I know of no UK baptist church thast insists on baptising people the moment they believe. Most would insist on a course of instruction to ensure that the person knows what they are doing. Salvation occurs through faith in Jesus Christ and His blood shed for us, not through baptism. Baptism is simply a final visible seal indicating outwardly that the person is claiming to have been sealed by the Spirit, baptism in water being important but not vital. The reason Baptists practise immersion is: 1) because they believe that that is how it is portrayed in Scripture. 2) because they believe it better portrays the idea of dying with Christ and rising with Him, which is the main meaning of baptism in Scripture. It is only a sacramentalist who would suggest that it mattered whether every part of the head and body were covered. Few UK baptists are sacramentalists. But of course as immersion means going right under the water it is difficult to see how any part could not be covered by water. Thus if there is absurdity, the absurdity that talks about a part not being covered lies with those who suggest otherwise. (It is a pity that Christians try to point to other Christians as having absurd ideas. Whatever they may be they are rarely if ever absurd. Baptists could say that sacramentalist ideas are absurd, some probably do, but I do not think it right to do so. Such ideas may be wrong, but they are not absurd. We should respect each others views). I write this not in order to promote baptists but in order to correct any fales impressions that may have been gained from what has previously been said. Best wishes. |
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50 | Where did Adam and Eve's find their wife | Genesis | biblicalman | 227908 | ||
They each married one of Adam's daughters (Gen 5.6). There were no genetic problems in those days. | ||||||
51 | Is there a pre-incarnate Christ? | Genesis | biblicalman | 228333 | ||
If you read the accounts where the Angel of the Lord is mentioned you will discover that he is equated with God. He was thus not just an angel. He was 'God's other self'. See Gen 16.7 ff.21.17ff. 22.11 ff Sometimes he appears separate from God. At other times he speaks as God. But especially in Zechariah 1.12 the Angel actually speaks to God. Thus there is a peersonal distinction between them In the light of New Testament revelation that has caused the belief to grow up that He was the second person of the Triune Godhead. |
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52 | old city names to current city names | Genesis | biblicalman | 228535 | ||
Edom and Idumea were not cities. Edom was the land in which the Edomites lived. Idumea was the region of southern Judah that they settled in when they were driven out of Edom. Jerusalem was sometimes called Zion. |
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53 | Where there Gen 1:24-31; 2:18-20; 4: 17? | Genesis | biblicalman | 228593 | ||
Man was probably alive during the dinosaur age compare genesis 1.21, 24, 26. Gen 1.26 describes the first creation of man, and that was Adam. so no, there were no true men before him After the resurrection true Christians will have a spiritual body (1 Cor 15.44). |
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54 | Creation of moon. | Gen 1:1 | biblicalman | 227640 | ||
The creation account does not say that the 'lesser light' (the moon) was created on day 4. The emphasis on day 4 is that God used the greater light (the sun) and the lesser light (the moon) in order to regulate the times and seasons, days and years. The fact that God 'made' them is stated but it is not said when. Only three acts of creation (bara) are mentioned in Genesis 1, the initial creation of Heaven and Earth, the creation of animal life and the creation of man. In the remainder of His activities the word used is 'made, fashioned'. Having created God then fashioned what He had created. When reading verbs in Hebrew we have to recognise that the Hebrews had little interest in chronology. They were interested in what happened, not when it happened. Thus Hebrew does NOT have a past tense, a pluperfect tense, a present tense and a future tense, It has two tenses, one signifying that something has been completed, the other that it is incomplete. Thus when it says that 'God made (or had made) the greater light and the lesser light' it is merely indicating that at some stage it happened, not saying when it happened. Having said that God used these lights to control the days and seasons on day 4 the writer then adds that at some stage prior to that He had made them for this purpose. But he does not say when. |
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55 | Did Jesus every deny his divinity | Gen 1:1 | biblicalman | 228278 | ||
hi No Jesus did not deny His divinity at any stage. He made quite clear His equality with the Father and the Spirit. Taking the verse you quoted it was the Son Who made all things (John 1.3). Best wishes. |
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56 | Did God create light twice? | Gen 1:3 | biblicalman | 229659 | ||
Hi In Gen 1.3 God brought into being the electro-magnetic waves which are the basis of the universe. In Gen 1.15 He used the sun and moon which He had previously made in order to control time on earth. It was then that days and seasons as we know them came into being. Best wishes |
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57 | Did God create light twice? | Gen 1:3 | biblicalman | 229705 | ||
There are two things we are wise not to be dogmatic about, the first is the beginning of all things, and the second is the end of all things. Both are outside the sphere of our understanding. We are told that in the beginning God created hashamayim (the heavens) and haaretz (the 'earth' or 'the place'). Now as angelic beings are introduced early on (in chapter 3) it is clear that this includes the heavens where they dwell. Nothing further is said about this creation. We are probably unwise to speak of 'before creation'. That assumes time, but time was created along with the universe. We can speak of eternal time, but humanly speaking that is impossible when looking back. There had to be a beginning. And here we are told that that beginning was in the act of creation. It is true that Jesus does speak of 'before the world was' but that is using human language to describe the indescribable. We simply have to accept things as they are recognising thst we cannot understand eternity. All the emphasis in chapter 1 is on the creation of ha-aretz. And it is soon apparent that this term includes the skies, and the heavenly bodies. Thus it does not strictly mean earth. Eretz is indeed a broad term. It can mean our earth, it can mean dry land as opposed to sea, or it can mean 'a country'. In other words it refers to what finally contains man. Thus prior to the creation of light and dry land it probably indicates 'the stuff of the universe' (it includes sun, moon and stars and the sky). We are told in verse 2 what the stuff of the universe consisted of. It was shapeless and empty and totally lacking in light, although at some stage prior to the creation of light there was 'the deep'. But that is probably intended to indicate simply that there was no land which was liveable on. The whole point of this description is that God was about to work on a 'blank canvas' (shapeless waste and uninhabitable) and create our universe. Darkness was not created. It was simply lack of light. God then introduced light by His word. What had been empty and waste and totally dark suddenly became changed at God's word. Light pervaded our universe. This is probably an indication of the creation of electro-magnetic-waves which are a form of light. Suddenly the stuff of the universe had form and substance. Let God withdraw light and the universe would collapse into nothingness. Holmes is right to suggest that this started the first yom. Thus the first yom did not have an evening and a morning. It started with light. This is a warning not to take evening and morning literally. It clearly simply means beginning and ending. As light had not been separated from darkness until in the midst of this first yom an evening and a morning were previously an impossibility. This also demonstrates that we are not to take the yom pattern as a 'day' in our sense of the term (strictly yom means a period of time). This is confirmed by the fact that times and seasons, days and years were not fixed until the fourth yom. There were no 'days' in our sense of the word before that. It was on the fourth yom that God caused the heavenly bodies to rule the times and seasons, days and years. That means that they had not done so before then. Nights and days as we know them did not exist until then. That was God's purpose in fashioning the sun and the moon and bringing them into play. But it should be noted that God did not create light on the fourth yom as well. What he brought into action were the 'lamps' that gave light for man. Thus there were not two creations of light. |
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58 | Can aliens be real? | Gen 1:6 | biblicalman | 227992 | ||
The impression given by Genesis 1 ia that creation built up to the creation of man and the remainder of the Bible described God's dealings with man. This would suggest that to God man is the central figure in the Universe. It really leaves no room for aliens. There are of course other spiritual beings but they are not of this universe. However be assured of this. If there are aliens we will never know. |
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59 | Go created world | Gen 1:27 | biblicalman | 229732 | ||
Hi Sassy lady, Welcome to the forum. Among evangelicals there are a number of interpretations for the framework of Genesis 1. Some consider that 'the evening and the morning' indicate days of revelation. That is, that the author received his revelation over six or seven days. It would put no limit on how long creation took. The problem with this view is that there is no hint of it in the narrative. Others consider that having stated that God created the heavens and the earth the author then says that the earth BECAME formless and waste as a result of some catastrophe, and that consequently God remade it in six literal days. The problem with that theory is that it is not obvious from the Hebrew (rather the opposite), there are no real grounds for suggesting such a catastrophe (which is often connected with the fall of the Devil), and it does not read like that. Still others insist that it means 'six 24 hour days'. But there are problems in that view in that there was no evening of the first day, and that length of days is specifically stated as having commenced in the fourth day. It makes God act rather artificially in the first three periods. Others consider it to be a parable of creation, with the detail not to be taken literally. Finally some point out that 'yom' means a period of time, and is not limited to a 24 hour day period (yom is used in at least three different ways in the narrative). Their view is that the writer is thinking of 'days of God', which can be any length that God chooses. A day is with the Lord as a thousand years, or as a watch in the night. Thus they see God as acting in His own time. God only creates three times, heaven and earth, life and then man. For the remainder of the time He 'fashions' from what is there. Best wishes |
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60 | Where did Lamech's wives originate? | Gen 5:4 | biblicalman | 228971 | ||
Hi learetha, welcome to the forum. Cain married his sister,as did Seth. They then had children, who also had children, so that by the time of Lamech generations later, there would be a wide range of women from whom to choose. Best wishes |
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