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501 | Lionheart do you know this site better? | Matt 6:9 | Tamara Brewington | 203781 | ||
Lionheart, perhaps you would know this site better than I since I am a new comer... Where do I go to find the users profiles? And is there a way to veiw all the answers given to other's questions (I viewed answers to my own questions and found that all the answers I received were not there, only one of several). Also I noticed that one saint was able to talk back and forth with me, but I don't know how they did this. Perhaps you can help me learn how to use this site better. Thanks, Agape, Tam | ||||||
502 | how can i learn to pray out lound | Matt 6:9 | Tamara Brewington | 203774 | ||
Try the end of the Psalms and try the 23 Psalm and try the Lord's prayer from the New Testament, but most of all you have to pray in your heart to be led by the Holy Spirit how to pray! Romans 8:26! Try this technique; have in mind a definite thing to be praying about, start off by praising God for all the good things you can think of He has done, then name the thing you are praying about and present it to God, literaly say, I am presenting this to you God and I lay it on your altar of grace, then start talking about all the things that you know need to happen on earth concernin the thing you are praying about, then ask God to use His power to make the thing come true, end with thanks giving to God! The model I have given you comes from studying the parts of the Lord's prayer, remember the disciples were asking Jesus to teach them how to pray, the instructions are in the formula of that prayer! God bless! | ||||||
503 | hai friends...... | NT general | Tamara Brewington | 203773 | ||
The act of confession to Priests in the Catholic Church stems from the doctrine of the Catholic church that the power to remit sins comes from Peter and the Apostles. The scripute they base this on is John 20:22,23 where Jesus has risen from the dead and breathed the Holy Spirit on the apostles and told them to go out and that if they forgave the sins of people they would be forgiven and that if the retained the sins of any they would not be forgiven. NO ONE ELSE in scripture was given permission to do this only the apostles. But the Catholic churh has decided based on that the aposltes layed hands on people in order to anoint them for offices in the church in all of Acts that the actual power Peter had as an apostle is being transferred down from hand to hand since the first century to forgive or retain sins, although God never said anyone else had, or would have the permission and power to do this. This is a Catholic doctrine based purely on churh beliefs and tradition and became a doctrine because it was practiced and not because the scriptures say to do it. James 5:16 says for believers to confess their sins to one another in order to be healed of afflictions, it does not say to confess to the apostles per say, but is referring to the elders who come to pray over the sick. But the Catholic church sees this verse as talking about priests anointing the sick instead of elders and therefore say it means that you should confess your sins to the priest. The first century church which should be our model had no priests but elders and deacons, pastor/ teachers and so on, but priests were an invention of the Catholic church traditions and do not come from scripture. There is only one high priest in the Bible and everyone who also believes is a priest according to the Bible. Here, look and see; I Peter 2:5 you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. So you see we are all priests offering spiritual sacrifices to God through Jesus Christ. See here in, I John 2:1 where it says that if anyone sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. We don't have to go to anyone else to be forgiven, just to Jesus. There is only one high priest in heaven and on earth; see Hebrews 3:1 where it says that Jesus is the Apostle and high priest of our confession. So there is one high priest and the rest of the saved are all priests to God through Jesus Christ. The problem becomes are you going to believe the Catholic church doctrines for salvation above the word and blood of Jesus? The Catholic church teaches that if you don't believe in the authority of the pope and the Catholic church and their traditions you won't be saved. The Bible teaches that all you need to do to be saved is to Believe in Jesus; Acts 13:31 Believe in the Lord Jesus and be saved... Romans 10:9,10 where it says to confess that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that he died and was raised on the third day and you will be saved. The Catholic church has added tradition and said you can only get saved through Jesus plus... The work of the apostles and the type of power they had is confined to the first century and was not transferred hand to hand, you don't see any priest performing miracles or introducing whole groups types of converts like Jews, Gentiles, Samaritans, those who only had the repentance of John, or founding new churches to entire communities who never heard of Jesus do you? Think long and hard about another thing that is not in the Bible; Jesus said not to perform repetitious prayers(like the rosary) because they will not be heard, God said do not make an image of anyting in heaven or on the earth and worship it (like the statues and icons), Jesus said the only way to the Father is through Him and the apostles said Jesus is the only advocate (not Mary), the original language of the Greek in which the Bible was written said that Mary after she gave birth to Jesus had children by Joseph, it says Jesus had brothers and sisters by Mary, the Bible does not teach that Mary ascened into heaven, that is not in there; these are things that the Catholic church teaches that are not in anyone's Bible no matter what version you use you won't be finding them, it is the tradition of men who believe things that aren't true based off their traditions... | ||||||
504 | Satan in prison for 1,000 years? | Revelation | Tamara Brewington | 203772 | ||
This is a future event that has not happened yet, it happens after Christ comes back to rule the earth for a 1,000 years Millenial Kingdom after defeating the Anti-Christ and the False Prophet in Revelation 19-21. Nothing in Revelation has happened yet except chapters 2,3, contrary to popular belief, all we know is that we are seeing wars and rumors of wars, like Jesus said we would. However, the apostles thought they were near the end too for the same reason people do now. You can't even believe that Satan has been locked up yet, just look around... He is still on the job... | ||||||
505 | how do you understand rev | Revelation | Tamara Brewington | 203771 | ||
The word Revelation is Apocalypse in Greek, which means to unveil. John received this unveiling from an angel who received it from Jesus Christ. Revelation is broken into 7 parts; The Vision chapter 1, The Message To The Churchs chapters 2,3, A Revelation of Heavenly Vision chapters 4,5, God's Judgment on the Earth chapters 6-19, The Second Coming of Christ chapter 19, The 1,000 Year Millenial Kingdom chapter 29, The New Heaven and New Earth chapters 21-22. The characteristics of apolaypitic literature is that it includes synbolic discriptive language. Verse 1:19 gives us a picture of how the book is to be viewed,past; chapter 1-John writes about having been spoken to about the announcement of the revelation, present chapters 2,3 John writes to literal churchs a message for each in his present time, future chapters 4-21 John writes about events to happen in future. Next comes a book, actually a scroll, that no one can open except Jesus and in it are contained 7 seals of God's judgment on unbelievers sybolized as 7 trumpets that will be blown for real by angels at the beginning of each judgment to come; war, famine, death, martyrs, terror, the bottomless pit, army from the east, and the angels gathered to begin blowing the 7 trumpets of judgment, this is chapters 5-11. There is the woman who represents the bride of God the church and the baby is Jesus, there is the red dragon who is Satan, and there is the war in heaven between Arch-angel Michael and Satan the dragon and Satan is thrown down to earth for the second time forever(the first was in Daniel where he is described as the highest Cherubim)in chapter 12. There is the dragon, Satan on the sand of the sea (the multitudes of people on the earth) and the beast, the Anti-Christ comes up out of the sea (all the nations) and the Anti-Christ has all the characteristics of the nations (he was like a leopard and so on), and Satan gives the Anti-Christ his throne of power on earth and authority to rule the earth, then the Anti-Christ is killed and actully rises from the dead as a miracle to mock the power of Christ and the whole world is amazed and begins to worship the Ant-Christ, then the next beast arises on earth and this is the False Prophet who will testify of the Anti-Christ as God and he has all the authority and power of the first beast, this is chapter 13. There are the 144,000 real sealed human servants of God who are going to proclaim the gospel to the unbelivers. Then there are the 7 bowls of wrath; the giving of the mark to those who worship the Anti-Christ, the destruction of the sea by blood, the destruction of the rivers and springs by blood, the scorching of men on the erath by the sun, darkness over everything in the earthly kingdom of the Anti-Christ, the drying up of the river Euphrates to make way for the nations to come through for war against God, the greatest earhquake to ever come upon the earth, in chapter 16. Then comes the destruction of a real place on earth symbolically named Babylon where the Anti-Christ rules the earth from in chapters 18,19. Then comes the angels worshiping in heaven about the victory Jesus and God against the Anti-Christ and the whole world and there is the war that Christ will wage by Himself with all the raputured glorified saints from heaven looking on against the Anti-Christ, the False Prophet and the unbeleivers and the Anti-Christ and the False Prophet get thrown in the eternal lake of fire, in chapter 19. Satan gets bound for real and thrown in a pit for a thousand years for real and Christ sets up His 1,000 year Millenial Kingdom until He lets Satan out after 1,000 years, then Satan deceives the unsaved children of those who got saved during the Great Tribulation and wages war against Jesus and the saints (this includes regular people who got saved during the 1,000 years and the glorified raptured saint who come back to earth to rule with Jesus), Satan loses the battle and is thrown along with his followers into the eternal lake of fire and whoever's name is not found in the one book of life, but whose name is found in the many books of the damned will be thrown into the lake of fire at the Great White Throne Judgment, in chapter 21. Then God destroys the old earth and universe and remakes everything using what is left of what He destroys and there is a new heaven and a new earth, then a real city, New Jerusalem comes down to earth to replace the one that He destroyed and Jesus glory is so bright that it is the light of that city, consider the USA is 3,500 miles across, this new city is 1,500 miles across both width and breadth inside the city is the tree of life from the garden of Eden and the river of eternal life, then there is a parting message from John. | ||||||
506 | bible verse on prematial sex | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 203760 | ||
Simple, don't have it, I Corinthians 6:9-11, fornicators and adulterers will not inherit the kingdom of God. | ||||||
507 | should ministers have sex before preachi | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 203757 | ||
Romans 12:1 present your bodies as a living and holy sacrifice... II Corinthians 6:9-11 fornicators and adulters will not inherit the kingdom of God. If you are married have all the sex you want before you preach, but if you are not don't have any sex ever until you are married. Are you a minister? You should know this already, you should know your scriptures already. Are you not a minister but just curious? You should know better also what not to be doing, study and show yourself approved whether you are a minister or not... | ||||||
508 | Are we judged when we come to Jesus now? | 1 John 1:9 | Tamara Brewington | 203755 | ||
I John 2:1,2 says if we sin we have an advocate. The only sin that cannot be forgiven is to say that the works of Jesus done by the Holy Spirit were done by the spirit of the devil in Mark 3. God forgives the Prodigal son, don't worry, just believe and come on back, everyone will be glad in heaven and on earth in church that you came on back. | ||||||
509 | what three books did Luke right | 2 Tim 3:16 | Tamara Brewington | 203754 | ||
Luke wrote two, Acts and Luke, not three. | ||||||
510 | Researching a questionable verse | Matt 17:21 | Tamara Brewington | 203753 | ||
The translators were working with older manuscripts and later manuscripts. When the King James Bible was written they only had the later manuscripts, when the other translations got written in the past century they used the older manuscripts that got discovered after the King James was written in 1611 or so. There are altogether 5,300 Greek manuscripts, mostly fragments which are in bits and peices of the scriputres and what they did was to reconstruct accounts by trying to find the oldest ones with as many copies as possible saying the exact same thing. The originals don't exist any more, the manuscripts are all copies and copies of copies, but there are so many of them saying the same things that they are sure they are correct. What you should notice is whether or not the versions of the Bible that include the addtion have it in brackets, if it is in brackets that means that it was found in some manuscripts but not in others, but the translator used the best evidence to determine that it belongs. | ||||||
511 | Matthew vs Mark | 2 Cor 4:3 | Tamara Brewington | 203752 | ||
In both accounts Jesus fulfills 350 prophecies from the Old Testament that came true about the place and exact time of His birth, about him being the deliverer and Immanuel (God is with us), about the miracles He preformed, about the circumstance of His death, burial, and resurrection. Mathew wrote about the coming of the kingdom of God in Jesus, Mark wrote about the diety of Jesus as God. Principle of interpretation; Each writer wrote to a different audience from a different point of view. Question, if you heard from two different people what happened at a party would they tell the same stories with the same details? No, niether do these writers. For instance take the end account where in Mathew, Mark, Luke and John; there are two angels and then one angel at the tomb, and there is one woman, two women and a bunch of women at the tomb, then the angel sat on the stone, there was one inside, there was one outside, there were two inside, and on and on. Principle of interpretation; just because only one angel is mentioned in one account and two in another does not mean there weren't two there, it means one writer was only interested in writing about the particular angel that spoke, and all the women were there, but the writer only mentioned the one who was spoken to. You have to think carefuly to reconcile the different accounts but it can be done because scripture is inerrant and cannot contradict itself. | ||||||
512 | How many churches did Paul establish | Acts 16:6 | Tamara Brewington | 203751 | ||
Every church he wrote to except the church at Roman. Just read the beginning and ending of each letter to see who he was writing to and where he was writing from. And check out Acts for a clue, there is Antioch there, but there is probably more, all we have is what what letter there are to go by, who really knows.. | ||||||
513 | Sin unto death | 1 John | Tamara Brewington | 203750 | ||
The only sin that cannot be forgiven is saying that Jesus did the work of the HOly Spirit by the spirit of the devil. Mark 3:23-29. All other sins including not believing in Jesus, including speaking against Jesus and God can be forgiven, but not speaking against the Holy Spirit... | ||||||
514 | God Told Us To Follow Laws of Land | Rom 13:1 | Tamara Brewington | 203748 | ||
The entire chapter of Romans 13. Jesus sais render unto Ceasar what is Ceasars and unto God what is God's. | ||||||
515 | Why so some people treat pastors poorly? | 1 Tim 5:19 | Tamara Brewington | 203747 | ||
I Timothy 5:17-19 is the scripture, but remember they are no more special than any other part of the body and they are to held accountable to the body of Christ they are in. I did not see where it says not to attack the man of God, but check out David and Saul in I Samuel 24 and how David was reluctant to reach out his hand to harm God's former anointed even though God said, go ahead kill him if you will... | ||||||
516 | total prosperity | Rom 10:9 | Tamara Brewington | 203746 | ||
The Bible does not teach total prosperity, it teaches to remian unstained by the things of the world and not to love the things of the world... I John 2:15-18. Don't be fooled by the teachings of the Anti-Christ. See Luke 18:18-27 for a parable about a man and his money. Jesus and the Apostles taught that money is seen as evil and not good. Be careful of wolves in sheeps clothing trying to tell you to find scriptures to stand on and to "name and claim" the promises of God. The Bible is to be stood on, but the Bible is not something we access and then go tell God I have come to appropriate my promises, because if I say them it will move you to act. Beware of people who preach that God has no power to act until you speak His word into your life, your tongue does not have more power than His will, or He is not God. |
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517 | need a bible verse!! | Rom 6:15 | Tamara Brewington | 203745 | ||
Look in Romans 6, I forget which verse right now, but that is the right passage... use this in the future, saves time www.blueletterbible just type in the main word of what you are looking for and every thing pops up... |
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518 | Does God make Himself known to all men | Rom 1:19 | Tamara Brewington | 203744 | ||
There is General Revelation which is given to all men that God exists; Romans 1:18-32 and man is responsible to know that God exists becuase the very creation is man's witness that God exists, so if you are an Aborigine you are responsible to God for believing in Him and worshipping Him even if you never hear the gospel. Only problem is man is so depraved that every tribe that has only received General Revelation go worshipping false gods as described in Romans 1. Then there is Special Revelation, the manifestations of God recorded through out the whole Bible and the scriptures which everybody else did receive, but which most will reject too. No one is exempt from having been given a revelation of God. So He has come to every man and woman before they die, they just deny that He is. | ||||||
519 | Deceived or not? | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 203743 | ||
Bit of advice; when the Bible makes plain sense make no other sense or it becomes nonsense. When it comes to numbers the Bible has given so many exact prophecies using numbers that came true that it makes sense to take the Bible at it's word when it comes to numbers unless the prophet directly indicates that the numbers are allegorical. Consider, if God could make Jesus a man who is God come to earth which is the greatest miracle, then He could make the earth in six 24 hour days. I Thessalonians 4:13-17 and I Corinthians 15:50-57 tells us there will be a rapture and in Revelation after chapter 4 there is no more mention of any one from the church living on the earth, only unbelievers and then 144,000 Jews who start evangelising the message of the salvation of Jesus Christ to the world. And you don't see or hear of the church again until Revelation 19 when the raptured church comes back to earth with Jesus so He can rage war on the unbelievers and the Anti-Christ. You have to read the Bible to answer these questions you have and believe that it is the inerrant word of God without error. Want a good book on the Bible? Try John MacAruthur's Bible Commentary, google it... At christianbooks.com A literal interpretation of the Bible is leading towards the truth, a figurative interpretation of the Bible leads to false teachings. Get a Strong's Concordance of the Bible and start looking things up by searching for a key word, it will give you every passage on that word. Try www.blueletterbible, it will do the same thing... Try asking churches over the phone if they are Reformed, Liberal, Conservative, or Dispensational, the last two are your best bet in terms of accuracy in interpretations of the Bible. | ||||||
520 | Can a fallen angel be in God's presence? | Job | Tamara Brewington | 203742 | ||
Yes Satan according to Daniel was a Cherubim who was cast down from heaven to earth. However, considering the body of scripture on this, Satan gets cast down from heaven forever, note forever in Revelation. According to that account in Job Satan was going to heaven after roaming the earth to speak to God. The New Testament says that Satan is our accuser in Revelation 12:10 and in the same verse he he is cast down out of heaven for the second time for ever. We don't know why God would allow Satan to go back and forth, but Ephesians describes the devil and his followers as being in the world forces of this darkness of the heavenly places. Satan stands in heaven daily accusing the brethren. I believe we have a clue in Job as to why God keeps on allowing it... Satan prowls around seeking whom to devour, he told God in Job that he had been roaming the earth and then God says, consider Job a righteous man... I believe God keeps allowing it in order to show the devil that God's people will not renounce him even if God allows the devil to mess with them trying to devour them. | ||||||
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