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5001 | Is it because we are afraid that the per | 2 John 1:10 | EdB | 74411 | ||
John You absolutely right we need to present the gospel. However in the case of cults they are trained not only resist this presentation but to to respond in a way to turn the presentation into a comparison of the two beliefs. Their focus is not on what you say but how to use what you say to where they want to go. They then guide the conversation to such things that are beyond human ability to explain such as the trinity. Or guide the discussion to a point that beyond the ability of most people to explain such as where did evil come from. Then provide pat, logical and fleshly pleasing answers to those questions. Many do not know this but a cultist is debriefed after every visitation session. They review what was said and where they made mistakes or missed opportunities. If you watch they usually travel in groups with one remaining mostly silent to observe and critique. How many Christians would go to the bother of rehearsing their gospel presentation much less review after the fact their shortcomings? My statement to the original question was and still is, unless your well rooted and established in Christianity, familiar with the traps the cults use, your time would be better served witnessing to agnostics. Most Christians don’t know what they believe. Ask you church friend the two EE questions, If you die tomorrow where would you go. And when you get to heaven if someone asks you what got you here what would you say. You will find most do not know the answer and to the shame of the church will answer incorrectly However the cultist not only knows the question, they know the correct answer, and know how to take the conversation to the point their beliefs are more logical and therefore more acceptable by the flesh EdB |
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5002 | Is it because we are afraid that the per | 2 John 1:10 | EdB | 74425 | ||
John Your right it is a spiritual battle. One fought in the spirit realm not in the physical. Prayer is far more effective against these cultist than all our learned words. However there are many that have no cultic leanings that need to hear the word. Haven't I been saying that? EdB |
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5003 | Is it because we are afraid that the per | 2 John 1:10 | EdB | 74441 | ||
John I'm not denying the power of the gospel. I'm saying the average cultist that will visit your door will probably know the scriptures you are going to give them, be better versed in their cultic understanding of them than you are in the orthodox understanding and will have rehearsed responses to your usage of those scriptures. Look at the exchange between Satan and Jesus in the wilderness. Jesus did not the dialogue move to anything but the word of God. There was no comparison between what he knew was true and what Satan was saying. In fact there was little dialogue. I suggest if your going to "witness" to a cultist you need to remain at that level. If you are going to dialogue your time would be better spent on a none cultist. EdB |
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5004 | Is it because we are afraid that the per | 2 John 1:10 | EdB | 74499 | ||
Hank Bingo!!!! Thanks! EdB |
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5005 | What do we believe? | Jude 1:3 | EdB | 117033 | ||
colin I dion't know but I suspect you have one too many zeros. I think the actual number of denominations is closer to 3300. Which is still way too many, and leads one to think of chaos. Every man did what was right in his own eye Judge 17:6. EdB |
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5006 | What do we believe? | Jude 1:3 | EdB | 117148 | ||
Aixen7z4 What percentage of the Christian church has ever read the entire Bible? My guess less than 10 percent. My favorite radio pastor J Vernon McGee once said that less than 65 percent of the church was saved. I started to think on that and the more I searched and the more people that understand those types of numbers I asked the lower percentage became. One Pastor referred me to the story of the sower where 25 percent of the seed fell on rocks sprouted wilted and died, 25 percent the birds ate, 25 percent fell in among the thorns and were choked and 25 percent produced a crop. He took that number. I have since asked this question of many pastors and the almost to a man their guess is 10 percent. If that number is right or 25 percent or even 65 percent what percent has then read the Bible? Look at this forum the junk that keeps getting posted. People simply do not love Jesus enough to read His Word. That is why evey wind of doctrine that Kalos is always fighting keeps showing up. Judges 17:6 In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes. I beleive this is truer to day in the church than it was in the days it was written. EdB |
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5007 | What do we believe? | Jude 1:3 | EdB | 117286 | ||
Aixen7z4 In the past people didn't read the Bible because they couldn't they were illiterate. Today people don't read the Bible because they are lazy. In the past the problem was dealt with in a various ways and I think they need to be reinvestigated as I believe they will work today. People are hungry for Biblical truths look at the response to the movies the Passion today or Ten Commandments in past. However as most know these movies fail to provide true Biblical accounts. “Hollywood liberties” are taken to make them more exciting or believable. In the times past to teach people the gospel men and women wrote hymns that told gospel truths. Today we sing songs that make us feel better. we need to begin writing and singing songs once again that are doctrinally sound and are filled with Biblical truths. Another way is the one that brought us to this point. Creeds and doctrinal statements. Once again the church needs to make it a practice to recite the creeds and/or doctrinal statements that teach, reinforce and cause people to memorize by rote repetition scriptural truths. Lastly preaching needs to change from the just trying to draw large congregations through eloquent dissertations designed to entertain and impress and get back to preaching that teaches biblical truths. Lastly the church needs to call sin, sin. We have so marginalized sin in a effort not to offend we have actually opened the door to sin. We talk about relative truth and situational ethics but we offer no cure. People actually long for exacting standards but they want them only when they are universally applied to everyone. That is not to say they won’t rebel from time to time but they accept being drawn back in. EdB |
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5008 | could this scripture be related? Zech3:1 | Jude 1:9 | EdB | 64537 | ||
Pastor Glenn How true yet so many of our churches are filled with false teachings. Presented by men not called to the gospel but looking for a easy way to make a rich living. How awful to gain the world and lose the soul EdB |
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5009 | Why did Satan want Moses bones? | Jude 1:9 | EdB | 85261 | ||
Scribe Moses' body might have been taken to heaven???? Satan would oppose the legality of this???? What, do you think there is a supreme court watching the conflict between God and Satan??/ Show me one place in the Bible where it says God has to do things according to legality. Or that God wanted to take Moses' body home. Your talking with authority about things that God has not revealed to us and frankly you know nothing about. We do not know why Satan wanted Moses body or why God didn't want Satan to have it. Best guess I have is because Satan knew Israel would worship Moses body and would have been easily lead in idolatry through it. It could also have been because Moses was special to God and God didn't want Satan to have anything to do with Moses' body. This I will say if God wanted Moses body and not see corruption God could have done it with same impunity God enjoyed when He took Enoch and Elijah. God does not have to do things legally, what God does establishes the standard. EdB |
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5010 | STILL entertaining? | Revelation | EdB | 1500 | ||
I'm not sure I have anything against Tim LaHaye, but I do question his series of books Left Behind. They paint a picture of excitment and adventure during a time when I think the world will be turned unside down. People will be living in despair and fear, begging to die. It will be a dog eat dog kind of existance. I also question how many non Jews will be saved. I think the real thrust of the 144,000 will to evangelize the Jews. If people will not accept Jesus now while it is easy to do, I question how many will when it will cost them their lives. | ||||||
5011 | Only 144,000 virgins in heaven? | Revelation | EdB | 10696 | ||
Unless Jehovah Witnesses have changed their teachings (again) that is exactly what they taught. Only the 144,000 that was in the church in 1874 were going to heaven the rest were going to stay here on a perfect earth and they are called 'Jonadabs'. They also beleived Jesus returned and has been reigning since 1914. | ||||||
5012 | Spirit of the Lord Go to white house | Revelation | EdB | 16654 | ||
I believe this is exactly what the bible says it is in 2 Tim. 3:1-5 "But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. [2] For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, [3] unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, [4] treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, [5] holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these." Of this I am sure, each day we live is one day closer to the return of Jesus Christ! |
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5013 | Isn't the computer bad? | Revelation | EdB | 16870 | ||
Debbie You may be right! LOL Ed |
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5014 | U.S.A. in Bible Prophesy? | Revelation | EdB | 18795 | ||
As I said there are many imaginary references. However even a casual reading of the above references will reveal more holes in the authors logic than is needed to sink their ships. I really enjoyed the last one where it is talking about sparsely populated areas and said US fit the picture. Remember the reference was written in 1955. Sparse by whose terms? A person in India? Yes! A person on Greenland? No! Surely we are not going to take a term like sparsely populated and say that defines the USA. |
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5015 | U.S.A. in Bible Prophesy? | Revelation | EdB | 18832 | ||
Yes, the United States of America is not mentioned in the Bible. While God mentions many lands it is obvious that Jerusalem is His main interest. Therefore He writes about what directly effects Israel and apparently the US doesn’t. Many ask why? Two reasons I can think of is, one the US has been rendered unimportant, for anyone of a number of reasons, such as; natural disaster, man made disaster, economic collapse, war, internal war, or a return to isolationism. Two the US is included as one of the countries in the Antichrist’s confederation and has surrendered all power to the Antichrist and therefore has just become another pawn. To try to connect a biblical description to the US does a terrible injustice to the Bible since there is nothing that remotely points that direction. The first rule of exposition is context and all three of the websites you mentioned tear their proof text out of context and hence make it pretext. EdB |
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5016 | U.S.A. in Bible Prophesy? | Revelation | EdB | 18843 | ||
First of all your talking replacement theology. If you don't think God still has his hand on Israel and Jerusalem what do you think is going on over there now? Can't you see how God has moved to preserve and protect that country? Can't you see how the Arab nations acts against Israel just as the Bible said they would. Can't you see the countries slowly withdrawing from Israel so that one day she will stand alone and be forced to cry out to God? I'm not sure how one gets convinced of re[placement theology but to me what is taking place before my eyes convinces me it isn't so. As far as the US being included in the unholy confederation, I said it could be one explanation of why we see no mention of her in the end time prophecy. As I said before there is no mention of the United States in the Bible either to support your theory nor mine. You on the other hand stated that it was mentioned. But fail to prove an sound proof other than some text taken out of context. |
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5017 | Isn't the computer bad? | Revelation | EdB | 23282 | ||
Brianna Your right about the computer wrong about Jack Van Impe. this man sat on TV for over 6 months claiming the end of the world with Y2K. Nothing happened, yet he repeatedly said God had shown him. I also know for a fact many experts and and theologians went to Him and asked that he stop scaring people as a way to sell his material he refused. He was wrong and to me that makes me question everyhing he says. In fact in the Old Testament days I think they would have called him a false prophet. Now he claims the world will never end and that God revealed this to him 2 years ago. Yet 2 Pet 3:10 and 1 John 2:17 clearly say this world is passing away. Listen to him if you want but please don't say he knows what he is saying. |
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5018 | What is 666? | Revelation | EdB | 23285 | ||
Bianna Would you please give the bible verse that shows the mark of the beast is a computer chip. If you say jack Van Impe said it remember Jack Van Impe prophetized the end of the world at Y2K and is now saying God has shown him this world is eternal. You know them by their fruit and his fruit stinks. Also look up what God says about men that say "God said" and it doesn't come to pass, I think you find something about stones. |
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5019 | What is 666? | Revelation | EdB | 23333 | ||
Debbie Look what they are talking about a national ID card and an Iris scan. Using a Iris scan you don't have to implant anything (which costs money) and you can track people where ever they go. The computer can contain all the data. I expect to see this replace money and credit cards if they go with it. There will be no need for either to buy or sell. All you will do is enter the amount look into a scanner and your account will credited or debited the exact amount and no one can steal or use your card. However is this the mark of the beast? Absolutely not. The Bible says the mark will show those that worship the beast. I suspect it will be something simple like a tatoo and will probably start as a cultish fade thing to do to show honor to a great leader, but soon that leader will demand everyone to have the mark and worship him. Those without the mark won't be able to buy or sell because without the mark everyone will be afraid (at penalty of death) to deal with you and since all transactions will be done by computer with iris scans the government would know instantly. I don't believe the mark of the beast will have anything to do with commerce or computers or id. The mark will be an act of worship. EdB |
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5020 | computers... | Revelation | EdB | 23402 | ||
Casiv Your a treat! The numbering system is hexadecimal or base 16 not "hex". Casiv I don't know where you got my fear factor from but I assure you the only thing I fear is not representing God as I should. And that fear is not that God will get mad at me but rather that I might tarnished the name of Christianity (as so many have today). Rest easy my friend I live and breath and have my being in Christ Jesus and I in Him comes a peace that passes all understanding. Now about labeling you. Casiv I never intended nor attempted to label you. I merely said that you evaded direct questions and by that action I felt you lost some credibility with the forum and with me. As to the mark of the beast you said you had the answer, I respectfully requested you to tell me that answer, You provided “a” answer but when I mentioned what I saw to be a conflict between your answer and Bible and asked for you to resolve that conflict you got hostile. My question still stands if the mark of the beast is Ideology as you stated then how will it be taken and how will anyone know where you stand? I think the Bible clearly indicates it will be some form of physical mark. If you don’t see this fine help me understand what you see. There is no reason to get hostile. As for the number eleven that my friend was a spoof (an attempt at humor). I thought it to be very funny evidently you mistakenly took it as real. I’m sorry it was lost on you. :-) EdB |
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