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41 | I need to know if this is a cult? | Titus | userdoe214 | 8434 | ||
Donnag, Are you sure the person said Peter, or did he say Paul. It's important, try to remember. mrk |
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42 | I need to know if this is a cult? | Titus | userdoe214 | 8431 | ||
Dear Donnag, You don't need to tell me anymore details, I only ask that you find a place where your heart has a home. There is only one church in all the earth, and just because you move to another congregation, doesn't mean you are discrediting anyone. Sometimes it's time to move and you really don't know exactly why, you just know your heart says move. If that is true with you, then don't worry about what comes next. God is you guide. mrk |
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43 | I need to know if this is a cult? | Titus | userdoe214 | 8429 | ||
Bother EdB, Don't be ridiculous! This stuff is damn serious. Interpretation of dreams is from God, not hearing the evidence. I can't talk that way to her, for she is in such real danger, but I will to you, for you are confusing spiritual warfare with social problems. If you don't know or have forgotten the difference then it's time you wake up. Have you ever cast demons out of people? Have you ever knowingly had conflict with demons? These things are not sitting around, and they mean to hurt us...That's why I say if she does not have experience with this kind of conflict then move on to a safer place. I've been in Donnag's place, but I will not give the details, lest I give our enemy unpaid advertising, but it was way weirder than movie special effects. I am not afraid of demons, but there is a time and place for direct conflict and there is a time for strategy. Something has gone way wrong when hell is at the churches gates. mrk |
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44 | I need to know if this is a cult? | Titus | userdoe214 | 8419 | ||
Dear Donnag, The interpretation of your dream is too clear to me to keep my mouth shut. The satan worshippers around the building are not people but actual demons. In this situation you and your congregation are under attack. The Lord is revealing this to you (Dan. 2:22) so you can see the source of these troubles--remember our battle is not against flesh and blood (Eph. 6:12). Just a word of advice: Sometimes such attacks are the result of people being out of order. I think God is telling you either get out, or be ready for a very serious fight. If you do not have much experience in this area, please seek a place of peace--another congregation. Please don't pass this dream off as nothing, God speaks in dreams. He's done it though out history, and the Bible is full of guidance by dreams. mrk |
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45 | What Cities are Refered to in Jer. 4:26? | Genesis | userdoe214 | 8416 | ||
OK DocSpock, I'll try to avoid celebrity issues, but I can't promise to behave myself politely. Maybe it's the chafe of this camel hair shirt I've been wearing which distracts me from the rules of polite behavior. mrk |
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46 | Cities of Judah or Cities of Demons? | Genesis | userdoe214 | 8388 | ||
Noland, Calvinest are some of the toughest skinned souls you could meet. Don't worry, they can handle a little jab (even from a Shogun) and loose not one drop of blood. We'er brothers, not a riotus mob. mrk |
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47 | What Cities are Refered to in Jer. 4:26? | Genesis | userdoe214 | 8378 | ||
Dear DocSpock, You're right to say this is not the proper forum to make personal attacks on a brother (really no such forum exists), but bother Hinn has said so many things which are clearly contrary to the words of Scripture that it invites a question of his motives. I was fortunate enough to be close to a very publicly known minister (truly nation wide) and to witness his life. In the area of money he was beyond impeccable. I saw him give almost every penny he made on best selling books to struggling ministries. He is a riveting preacher who could drive home a heart issue so effectively, whole congregations would be slammed down seeking heart purification. I can't tell you how much I saw in secret which I wish others could have seen, for he is in every way a good man. But he is the worst interpreter of the Bible you can imagine. Sometimes I would almost go cross-eyed trying to read the scripture the way he did. Sometimes it was funny, but more often it was just a pure amazement. Now my point. This good and godly man never expounded a false doctrine to my knowledge. His strange way of reading the Bible never led to a weird idea, least of all false doctrine. I contend his good heart toward God and man was his protection. Which leads to my problem with many of these public ministers who have been publishing very strange ideas which cannot be substantiated by Scripture or history, and even claiming that God revealed it to them, in Joseph Smith fashion. If they keep doing it, I must suspect that they have come out from under the protection, and are quite likely being influenced by demons. I worry for their souls, and I can't, be completely unsympathetic with their critics. Sometimes I wish the whole thing would just disappear: the closest I can come to it is turning off the TV, changing my radio to a Classical music station and avoiding my local Christian book store. mrk |
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48 | I need to know if this is a cult? | Titus | userdoe214 | 8368 | ||
Dear donnag, Your letter struck me much like if it had been a girl writing a question like this: I'm having problems with my boy friend, she wants to have sex before marriage. Quite naturally I would want to deal with the gender issue before premarital sex. I've been in a few 6 membered churches and it was very good, because it was so much like a family. Now if your church is not close and people cannot get along with the pastor, that is not normal. Possibly there is more than a small problem with the very nature of your congregation's authority structure. I don't want to say a woman cannot be a pastor, for I have read some convencing arguments for the possibility of women in governing authority, but you must admit it's not an easy argument to support with Scripture. So if it's not working, just move on. You don't have to call it a cult, or even say they are wrong; just find that place where your heart says family. mrk |
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49 | Examine yourselves! | 2 Cor 13:5 | userdoe214 | 8315 | ||
Dear Hank, This is such an interesting discussion, and not just because I like to hear (read) my own thoughts. After speaking (writing) my mind, I realize a crucial piece of evidence I over-looked which brings into question some things I've said: Jesus' parable of the sower. That is a clear statement about faith self-evaluation. It's not exactly saying see what the Bible says, but it does say that we can know if we are out of the game, disqualified, warming the bench, good for a base hit now and then, or really putting the ball in the stands: we can know by looking at our batting average. And just in case you or anyone reading thinks I'm taking a stand against you: if you ever grow hoarse yelling "People saved or not, know your Bible!" I'll gladly supply a P.A. system to extend your reach. Untold numbers of hardened sinners have come to the Lord reading it or hearing it read. It has not only led to the salvation of souls but nations, for the Bible has worked wonders everywhere it's read to bridle the insanity of humanity. It's great literature, it's great history, it's great sociology, it's great psychology...it's a great education, but most of all it IS the work and word of God and a bless'ed gift to humanity. It's a shame we find ourselves encouraging people to know the Bible: it's like telling people to breathe. Hope that sets you mind at ease about me, but if you feel like praying for me, please do. It's so much easier to write than to live. mrk |
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50 | Examine yourselves! | 2 Cor 13:5 | userdoe214 | 8301 | ||
Dear Hank, It's not easy to answer without sounding like a religious feely-guy with no content. So "lend me you ear" and I promise not to yell in it and return it deaf. I can't agree because of my personal experience, which I do not believe is unique. I came to faith in Jesus without a knowledge of the Bible. I'm not going to say I never heard the Bible or that what I had heard was not seed that gave life to me. But I honestly do not believe the Scriptures led me to Christ. I had an encounter which utterly changed me. No need to go on, you know what I mean. Now I came to correct faith (yes I had and have a lot to learn) when I met Jesus. Then when I read the Bible I was jumping around and saying Right! The Bible gave me objective confirmation of my experience, and I'm confident if the Bible were in error I would have rejected it then and there. I am NOT saying to trust deepest feelings (I do not) I'm saying our relationship with God is more real than our objective confirmations (just like my relationship with my wife is more real that our marriage lisence--which by the way is without error). The Jesus in the Bible is the Jesus in my life. Jesus is not a concept that can get cloudy and needs redefinition, He is the definition of all things. I just can't see it any other way, and I really don't believe I have some special revelation. In fact if I did believe it, I would be in error. You've probably seen many people go off in the wrong direction and disregard the direction of Scipture (if not you must be living on a desert island), but I still contend that error starts by turning from God. We've all met people who are intellectually orthodox, but could pass for an empty church. That's not Christianity. It's error every bit as poison as the most famous cults. Jesus is the Christian faith, and the Bible exists because He lives, and it actually scares me to get close to any thought which could lead to The Faith exists because of the Bible. Here's your ear back Hank. mrk |
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51 | Why didn't God prevail? | Gen 32:25 | userdoe214 | 8287 | ||
Dear Prayon, I think I'm getting addicted to your questions, for I really have something else to do. Why didn't God prevail? Hopefully you are not as Jacob like as I, but it is possible to wrestle with God and prevail, but after it's all over the stubbornness of heart may still be there, but the energy to keep butting against God's commands is all gone. Remember what Jesus said to Paul? "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads." Paul had the good sense (what Jacob seldom demonstrated) to give up the fight. It is interesting (don't you think) that from that time on Jacob was called Israel, and that he could add to his boast that he strove with God and prevailed, but at the same time couldn't hide the limp. mrk |
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52 | Examine yourselves! | 2 Cor 13:5 | userdoe214 | 8283 | ||
Dear JVH0212, I know I'm way late in the game, but your question is certainly not a simple one; and I'm not saying any of the answers you received thus far are simple or incorrect. But I wonder if referring to Scripture was what Paul was meaning? They certainly didn't have the New Testament; which best defines our Faith (I mean our as in all believers, not in the sense of the individual believer). Could it be (as I believe) that Paul was meaning look at your heart--your seat of affections, love and place of worship--are you still in love with God? Or is your heart full of strange gods? We safely (and wisely) consult the Bible to test ourselves, but fundamentally it is our relationship with God (which is more real than any other relationship in our experience) which tells us if we've moved from left field to some place out of the ball park. Testing yourself is looking in your heart to see if it is the temple of the one God. Is God in your temple, or have you replaced Him with one or some of the gods of the nations? mrk |
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53 | Why the angels? | John 1:51 | userdoe214 | 8280 | ||
Dear Prayon, I'm hoping you get a lot of responses to this one. Mine must be brief. I've always felt like Jacob got it wrong about this vision, when he said "Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it." His life might have turned out differently if he had realized, "The Lord is every place, and I didn't know it." But there is a message he could have gotten out of that, for to my knowledge he never sought help from an idol. The message was, even though God is in all places, there is only one way to Him, and that way is an active connection between Heaven and Earth. Jesus says, I am that connection. I'd give anything if someone out there can tell me if the Talmuds comment on what the BC teachers were saying about that ladder, for to put Himself in the place of that ladder must have had great significance to Phillip. Oops! I didn't answer your question: why were the angels ascending and descending? Angels brought answer to prayer, prophetic words, correction and direction in times past. I think it's safe to say those are when angels are descending. And I guess they would go back (ascending) after their job was done. What's most interesting is, what ever we ask in Jesus Name, the Father will do. It seems that says the request and the answer comes through (or in ladder language, up and down) Him. mrk |
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54 | Why did Rachel want the mandrakes? | Gen 30:14 | userdoe214 | 8274 | ||
Dear Prayon, You sure ask a lot of interesting questions. It is very possible that the plant spoken of produces hormones similar to those used today to boost a woman's fertility. The context doesn't seem to make that interpretation impossible. But as an aphrodisiac it's a different issue. My dictionary refers to a mandrake as follows: A short-stemmed Old World plant of the nightshade family with narcotic properties. I've been suspicious that Jacob might have begun to loose interest in sex due to the family strife of 4 wives and being passed back and forth like some prize bull. Maybe the drug in the mandrake so cloud his mind from his present unhappiness so as to regain what we might call his amorous feelings. But if you just read the text, and leave out the psychobable I just conjured up, I have the feeling it was something closer to a drug deal on one of our big city street corners, but instead of money being the medium of exchange, it's sex (with a chance at another heir). mrk |
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55 | EXPLAIN REPLENISH | Genesis | userdoe214 | 8272 | ||
Sorry Tim, I just had an urge to stand on a soap box on this busy street. It's surprising how often someone says to me "I think I understand what you're saying." I don't consider myself capable of original thought, so it must be my confusing misuse of commas, semicolons and my inattention to run-on sentences. But more than once I've gotten this response when I took the God first, human help second (if at all) approach to certain problems. mrk |
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56 | EXPLAIN REPLENISH | Genesis | userdoe214 | 8267 | ||
Dear Tim, You said "I think that good common sense and sound exegetical skills will protect Christians against theological heresy or lack of balance." But in my experience it's the other way around: common sense and sound exegetical skills are qualities found in those who are protected from error by their relationship to God. I'm kind'a playing with words (and not really disagreeing with you), but I am serious. I notice that some of the simplest believers have a profoundly solid view of Scripture and what we call common sense view of life and things theological. I only bring this up because there seems to be a common opinion on this list that we have to protect ourselves from error with all kinds of study helps and reliance on great teachers, but it seems the Bible judges people in some way blame worthy for "falling" into error, and I submit that it starts by some evil appeal to the flesh. I don't think I'm stretching Scripture to say heresy is a work of the flesh; for in Gal 5:20 (NASB) list factions and it is the word we also transliterate into the English language as heresy. I know that Eve appears to be judged differently than Adam (for she was deceived-I Tim 2:14), but we all know that Eve knew better. And I doubt I am the only person that believes she sacrificed her relationship with God for a fashionable thought, delivered by an authority wearing a fancy suit. So when I meet someone who's brimming with weird ideas, I assume they are more attracted to the New Age books than God, and I ask myself the question, "Who's to blame?" Surely God (you know, our Shepherd) is not responsible for people believing lies. We can blame the devil (and I do), but he's only the tempter not the doer of human sin and waywardness. mrk |
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57 | EXPLAIN REPLENISH | Genesis | userdoe214 | 8259 | ||
Dear HeirofGod, I sure wish brother Hinn would stay in hospitals praying for the sick, and not comment so freely about issues of theology. God bless him, but he's really got it scrabled up-stairs. mrk PS--Nice hearing from you Sho-nuff...er..a...I mean Shogun. |
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58 | Eternity; Heaven or Earth? | Acts 3:21 | userdoe214 | 8221 | ||
The work of Christ will finally be the restoration of Earth the way it was suppose to be before our parents fell (or maybe it's better said, before they jumped). I've been putting off really studying this out, but this question (the long and the short) started working on me years ago when I was taking a class in Ancient Philosophy. The topic was Plato and his teaching on the triune nature of man. The prof stopped midstream and made it clear that Plato's body-soul-spirit view of man should not be confused with the Christian view, because the Greeks held that the body is the prison house of the soul, and death was an happy escape, where as Christians believe death is an enemy (ICor 15:26). What he, my prof, seem to be telling us was that the resurrection of the dead is fundamental to the Christian faith and foreign to the Greeks. Remember how unthinkable the resurrection was when Paul was explaining the Faith in Athens(Acts 17:32)? To my knowledge the resurrection of the dead, rather than a population of after life phantoms, is unique to the Bible. If I understand right that the resurrection is fundamental to Bible faith, it makes me think that after we're raised from the dead we will take up our residence on Earth (New Earth). This probably sounds like pointless speculation. If someone (there must be many) has worked on this, please speak up. |
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59 | Is the Word-Faith movement biblical ? | John 10:27 | userdoe214 | 8215 | ||
Dear Radioman, You break my heart. Forgive you? You are no way near the 7 X 70. I love a hot head, it's proof of a soldier's heart and if you look at the 12 Jesus chose, two were the Son's of Thunder, one was a Zealot and we all know about Peter. Jesus keeps company with the likes of you; calling you friend instead of servant. By the way, your stray bullet just might have been ordained for me (Ps 76:10), for much of what you said was a warning how close I get to a line I should never cross. Friends? I sincerely hope so. Brothers? I pray you judge me so. mrk |
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60 | Is the Word-Faith movement biblical ? | John 10:27 | userdoe214 | 8171 | ||
Dear Joe, Yes it reads very much like a personal remark. This brings up a point I'd like to make. How about we not respond to each other's posting like we are taking a chance to vent our pet peeves, or our pet doctrines, but rather always respond to what the person says. Case in point is the diatribe I got from Radioman. I couldn't take it personal, for it was largely not a response to what I said, but what it made him feel. OK enough scolding, I'm too far away to take it personal, and I have no doubt you are in the trenches dealing with people who do not know the Lord, and those system of lies whose sole purpose is to keep them blind to the Person we love. I guess it's simple enough: Our faith is not in a body of truth, but in the Person who embodies the truth, and our zeal is for Him. mrk PS. Sorry, but I like signs and wonders, but not on TV. I like the ones that come out of my own hands. |
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