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41 | Why did God test Adam and Eve ? | Genesis | swerv | 153616 | ||
Well Hank: I respect your view but choose not to take your advice. I use many different forums and you have the choice to use others as well. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO ANSWER ! But if you choose to I will be willing to "reason" the various views within the Christian community. So instead of making personal attacks on myself and views that I hold - how about answering the question. Why did God give a command when there was yet sin present in Adam and Eve ? Searching for truth, Swerv |
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42 | Why did God test Adam and Eve ? | Genesis | swerv | 153536 | ||
Hey Doc: Thanks for the ANSWER !!! But feel free to not respond if you so desire !! In hope we all find truth in our search, Swerv |
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43 | Why did God test Adam and Eve ? | Genesis | swerv | 153384 | ||
Sorry for typos : Final part of questio should read: If so, then why do so many Christians argue so strongly that we are no longer required to be obedient to God's instructions ? Note: This requirement (test of obedience) given by God was prior to there being a sin committed by Adam and Eve. Although sin existed in Satan and angels - Adam and Eve were "sinless". In love and truth, Merv |
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44 | Why did God test Adam and Eve ? | Not Specified | swerv | 153382 | ||
Why did God give Adam and Eve the instruction not to eat from the "tree of knowledge" ? Was it not for a test of obedience ? If so, then why do so many Christians argue so stongly that we are no longer reuired to be obedient to God's instuctions ? | ||||||
45 | Why did God test Adam and Eve ? | Genesis | swerv | 153383 | ||
Why did God give Adam and Eve the instruction not to eat from the "tree of knowledge" ? Was it not for a test of obedience ? If so, then why do so many Christians argue so stongly that we are no longer reuired to be obedient to God's instuctions ? | ||||||
46 | Why two tablets ??? | Is 33:22 | swerv | 152795 | ||
Hi Doc: Again, I appreciate to qutoes (non-biblical) but I do not think I can rely on them to justify your position on faith, grace and justification. Heb. 11:8 - says by faith Abraham obeyed Heb. 22:18 - Abraham obeyed Heb. 11:17 - by faith Abraham offered up his only son James 2:21-22 - Abraham justifies by works, "seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect" Doc, you are correct that Rom.4:2 clearly teaches that justification is not by works or the law BUT as James 2:22 says "by works was faith made perfect". See these things are clearly taught in the NT to show that it is the heart that God sees not the outwardly acts or "works or law". But we cannot use this as an basis to teach that "works and law" are not expected by God. God clealy expects our loyal obedience which is "obedience of faith" (see Rom. 16:26, Rom. 21-22, Acts 6:7, and 1 Samuel 15:22. We must see consistency throughout the Bible. Even Christ was sinless which revealed His obedience to God and His commandments. (Phil. 2:8) Lastly - see what Jesus said at Mark 7:9. I respect our discussion and look forward to more !! In love, Merv |
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47 | Why two tablets ??? | Is 33:22 | swerv | 152786 | ||
Hi Doc: I appreciate the quotes but this is my problem: Many doctrines have been developed within Christianity based on human understanding. I do not say this includes you - but I am going to come to find "truth" by "reasoning" the scriptures. I would be the first to admit that I read interpretations by others but in the course of our discussion I suggest we stick to "reasoning" the controversial scriptures. How do understand 2 Peter 3:9, Ezekiel 18:32, Jeremiah 13:23, Revelation 22:17. These verse are absolutely clear that God will not control our free will to love Him. It is just like our human relationships - a person cannot control our heart. Just like the Pharisees they could outwardly show obedience to God but their hearts were hardened. We have a free choice !!!! God "can" but He will not control our love. Now of course once we do "freely" choose to follow Him then He will lead us to make good choices and avoid sin. In love, Merv |
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48 | Why two tablets ??? | Is 33:22 | swerv | 152784 | ||
Hi Doc: This all just does not make sense. If God can control our will to repent and save us - or - "God's saving us by changing our will" - then why would God not just change the devil's will after he rebelled. And even before that - if God controls will then why not just not let the devil ever rebel. You see how the arguement does not make sense. I fully agree God can act on our will to make us do things to fulfill His plan. But never can God change a person who willfully does not want to repent. He can reveal His love to us and that can assist us in seeing God as our Saviour. But if we do not want to recognize God as our creator and only opportunity to have life after death then that is our "willfull choice". Our will can be softened by God but ultimately we are created individually to make the choice to follow Him by repentance. Now I am not saying God is not all powerful but He wants our worship which comes from our love and thankfulness towards God. There is absolutely now way anyone can look at the Bible as a whole and conclude that we do not have a free choice to accept or deny God's love and grace. God has power to do anything but His plan is to have people love Him because He revealed His love to them. In order to rid the world and universe (including the angels) of sin -He chose to reveal His awesome love through His Son's death and by revealing this love and grace He "wishes" all man to come to know Him and love Him but He knows that is not possible since man and the devil have a free will to work evil rather than to show love. Once His plan is fullfilled as prophesied in Daniel the whole creation (universe, angels, man ..) will know His loving kindness and result of sin will be so obvious that never again will there ever be sin - THAT IS AN AWESOME THOUGHT !!! Sin will never ever be again because God has not controlled the "will" of sin but instead has overcome it by His reavealed love which is greater and more powerful than evil. His "creation" will never resort to sin again because God has let sin takes it course and the outcome is love overcomes sin. Seeing the ugly result of sin in comparsion to the beauty of God's love - will justify God's judgement of sinners and exault His mercy to the redeemed. In love, Merv |
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49 | Why two tablets ??? | Is 33:22 | swerv | 152596 | ||
Doc: I agree - I will pose some question from my prior note. I will follow-up on your note shortly but do not have time now but wanted to thank you for great respose. But I think we both agree that I am not saving that God's grace does not exist or work prior to a willful choice to accept that grace. My major point on grace is that we must choose to accept the grace and act upon it by repenting. But God's grace is not going to saved an unwilling heart. Also I am not "anti-Christian" in what I said about Jesus. Jesus's act of his death is what atones or "saves" us. But unless we accept this we cannot be saved. This was my point. God could of it he wanted too - make an ark big enough to fit all mankind but He did not ask Noah to do this -- WHY !! God knew the hearts of the wicked and unrepentive people !! Noah spread the work of the flood but he could not save them unless they wanted to get in. I hope we are clear now on my points of grace and Jesus "saves". I will provide the scriptures you wanted shortly and add new threads. Merv |
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50 | Why two tablets ??? | Is 33:22 | swerv | 152510 | ||
Doc: I do agree that Abraham did break God's commandments - but that is why we are all sinners - we have all broken at least one commandment. Abraham did not have the power of the HS as we have today to overcome all temptations to sin. That being said - Abraham and Noah were "righteous" in the eyes of God - that is why God gave them grace. As I have stated before in many responses - we must get a good grasp of what is "God's grace". It is not God's will of salvation imposed on individuals (OT or NT). Grace is God's willingness to forgive a repentant sinner and as well to give the opportunity to the sinner to gain forgiveness by repentance and change. David is a great example of one who should have died for his sins but he was so repentive - God did not require his death like many other times in His theocracy but gave him life and forgiveness. Our world would not be where it is today if God did not give grace to Adam/Eve after they sinned. The only reason God did not destroy even Noah in the flood was because Noah found "grace" in the eyes of the Lord. You say faith is given and God's gift is justification - BUT this I disagree with. Faith is shown by our heart and our actions. Justification is given by God because of our own personal choice (will) to repent and change our sinful life - to a life following the commands of God. God chosing Abraham is a reflection of Abraham having a heart for God. If we did not have to reveal our love and obedience for God then - Why would not God save everyone ????? I agree that all men have an understanding of God's law which is within us - BUT it is the obedience of that heart that reflect our love for God or our love for ourselves and the world. I disagree that the "Lord Jesus alone saves" - We cannot be saved unless we are willing to be saved. God gave us free will to either obey or not. That was the whole purpose of the forbidden fruit in the garden. Would man obey God or Satan. But I will agree that the death of the Perfect Lamb (Jesus) is what atones for our sins and only this sacrifice on His part can save us from our sins. The result of our sins is death. Therefore to accept Jesus death and realize there is nothing we can do to atone for our sins is a reflection of our faith in that atonement. But once we accept this God expects our loyalty to Him now and this is shown by not committing sin. We are to live like Christ. We have the power and knowledge now to overcome temptation and flee from sin and Satan. The 4th commandment is the longest commandment. I would seem logical to me that the first 4 commandment relating to God - be on the first tablet and the last 6 commandments - be on the second tablet. In fact, looking at the first 4 there are all pretty long - while the last 6 are each fairly short. It seems quite plausible to me that this is why Jesus summarized all 10 into two summary commandments. This is the same logic I see in saying that we must follow God's guidelines in diet if He already stated it clearly in the OT. In love and look forward to your response, Merv |
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51 | Are these offerings in the future? | Ezek 43:18 | swerv | 152475 | ||
Agree !! Sacrifice only came about due to sin. God actually did the first killing in the bible to cover Adam and Eve. Symbolic of covering there sins. They tried with leaves but was not good enough so God used animal skins to symbolize the atonement which was to come through Christ. God had a plan as soon as sin entered the world by having His Son to die for sins. NT clearly teaches that blood of animals cannot take away sins. But God used sacrifices in OT to show Israel the pain and suffering of killing Lambs to atone for sins. This punishment placed on an innocent lamb was to show them the burden that Christ was going to have to take on to take away the sins of mankind. That is why God expects us to now live sinless since He has given us the power of the Holy Spirit to overcome temptation. We are to live as Christ and Christ did not sin. That obviously does not mean we are sinners - of course we are - but once we accept the death of Christ we are to "go and sin no more" as Jesus told the woman. In love, Merv |
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52 | Was the temple curtain repaired? | Heb 9:1 | swerv | 152470 | ||
So this is a good example of a note to be ignored !! | ||||||
53 | Was the temple curtain repaired? | Heb 9:1 | swerv | 152468 | ||
Good Point !! Question has been added !!! Merv |
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54 | Why two tablets ??? | Not Specified | swerv | 152442 | ||
Do you think God - Himself (Ex.31:18)- writing the 10 commandments on the (2) tablets has any correlation to the 10 commandments being summarized by Jesus into (2) broad commandments. The commandments written by God regarding our relationship to Him on 1 tablet and the commandments written by God regarding our relationship to our neighbours written on 1 tablet. The point here is the NT does not re-invent the law but instead repeats the moral law (10 comm.) of the OT. Is.42:21 clearly says Christ would magnify the law. And Ps. 40:7,8 says Jesus delights to do the will of God and thy law is within Jesus's heart. That is why He led a Perfect life on earth and therefore died a sinless man and paying our debt. The law written on our hearts as part of the NT covenant is the same as the law written on Jesus's heart. This is the 10 commandments. The same moral law Abraham was keeping (Gen. 26:5) prior to any written law at Sinai. |
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55 | Why two tablets ??? | Is 33:22 | swerv | 152478 | ||
Do you think God - Himself (Ex.31:18)- writing the 10 commandments on the (2) tablets has any correlation to the 10 commandments being summarized by Jesus into (2) broad commandments. The commandments written by God regarding our relationship to Him on 1 tablet and the commandments written by God regarding our relationship to our neighbours written on 1 tablet. The point here is the NT does not re-invent the law but instead repeats the moral law (10 comm.) of the OT. Is.42:21 clearly says Christ would magnify the law. And Ps. 40:7,8 says Jesus delights to do the will of God and thy law is within Jesus's heart. That is why He led a Perfect life on earth and therefore died a sinless man and paying our debt. The law written on our hearts as part of the NT covenant is the same as the law written on Jesus's heart. This is the 10 commandments. The same moral law Abraham was keeping (Gen. 26:5) prior to any written law at Sinai. |
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56 | Was the temple curtain repaired? | Heb 9:1 | swerv | 152440 | ||
Dear Doc: "I will be the first to admit pride if I ignore scripture that is clear. But scripture must be reasoned and put in context. Many positions held are in error because people do not reason and "prove all things". I did not say Kalos was prideful. I was generally saying that pride can get in the way of honest and true reasoning. I do not intend to personalize any of my comments. Kalos made a general comment that someone was not providing verses on a certain percentage of notes. I think this is wrong. If you have an issue with a response - then ask a direct question instead of - in my opinion - getting personal by putting down a person's general way of responding. Again, I think this is a great forum and I completely enjoy the feedback and topics discussed. But being direct on asking questions or giving feedback is much better than trying to make personal attacks. We should all respect the views of others and if we wish to not respond directly to scriptural issues - then we should reflect the commands of God. I will be the first now to apologize if I have not followed this advice and will strive to do so in the future. In search of the truth, Merv |
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57 | Was the temple curtain repaired? | Heb 9:1 | swerv | 152432 | ||
Hank: We are all free to add "notes" or pose "questions". I welcome your responses but let us try to keep it to scriptural issues. This was your first comment on this string and it is all about me. I would rather discuss issues and if you are not interested I would look somewhere else in the forum to make your comments. I feel my comments fall within the guidelines. But we all have our own opinion. Here is a question: Do you think God - Himself (Ex.31:18)- writing the 10 commandments on the (2) tablets has any correlation to the 10 commandments being summarized by Jesus into (2) broad commandments. The commandments written by God regarding our relationship to Him on 1 tablet and the commandments written by God regarding our relationship to our neighbours written on 1 tablet. The point here is the NT does not re-invent the law but instead repeats the moral law (10 comm.) of the OT. Is.42:21 clearly says Christ would magnify the law. And Ps. 40:7,8 says Jesus delights to do the will of God and thy law is within Jesus's heart. That is why He led a Perfect life on earth and therefore died a sinless man and paying our debt. The law written on our hearts as part of the NT covenant is the same as the law written on Jesus's heart. This is the 10 commandments. The same moral law Abraham was keeping (Gen. 26:5) prior to any written law at Sinai. Look forward to your comments. In love, Merv |
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58 | Was the temple curtain repaired? | Heb 9:1 | swerv | 152397 | ||
Ok Doc. - I fully agree. I just don't like comments made without posing a question from scripture or giving a scripture reference. If anyone on the board has an issue they should ask a direct question - instead of making general comments. I have been accused of promoting a certain view about diet and the Sabbath but unfortunately I have been providing scripture. It always comes down to "reasoning" as Paul demonstrated in the NT. We were all given a brain to reason. The problem comes when we let our pride get in front of truth. In love, Merv |
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59 | Was the temple curtain repaired? | Heb 9:1 | swerv | 152387 | ||
Maybe we should just stick to asking questions or making notes on specific verses - instead of judging answers given. | ||||||
60 | If all sacrafices ended, then why Acts 2 | Heb 9:1 | swerv | 152386 | ||
True but it was the non-believing Jews who continued to sacrifice. The city was not destroyed because God's prophecy of 70 weeks of years (490) of probationary time for the Jews to repent was not completed until 3.5 years after Jesus's death. Sacrificing makes Jesus' death of no affect. Merv |
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