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61 | Help! Unclean vs clean meat? | Acts | Tamara Brewington | 204921 | ||
Dear LRP 2008, I came Johnny come lately to this question here, but let me help you out a little bit more here; Romans 14:1 - 11,13 - 23 Now accept the one who is weak in faith, but not for the purposes of passing judgment on his opinions. One person has faith that he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats vegetables only. The one who eats is not to regard with contempt the one who does not eat,and the one who does not eat, is not to judge the one who eats, for God accepted him. Who are you to judge the servant of another? To his own master he stands or falls; and he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person regards one day above another, another regardds every day alike. Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind. He who observes the day, observes it for the Lord, and he who eats, does to for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God. For not one of us lives for himself, and not one dies for himself; for if we live, we live for the Lord, or if we die, we die for the Lord; therefore whether we live or die, we are the Lord's. For to this end Christ die and lived again, that He might be Lord both of the dead and the living. But why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you regard your brother with contempt? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God. Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather determine this - not to put an obstacle or a stumbling block in a brother's way. I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but to him who thinks anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. For if because of food your brother is hurt, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy with your food him for whom Christ died. Therefore do not let what is for you a good thing be spoken of as evil; for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. for he who in this way serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men. So then we pursue the things which make for peace and the building up of one another. Do not tear down the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are clean, but they are evil for the man who eats and gives offense. It is good not to eat meat or to drink wine, or to do anythign by which your brother stumbles. The faith which you have, have as your own conviction before God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves. But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and whatever is not from faith is from sin. I think this clears it up; Paul says all things indeed are clean, but don't make someone else stumble in their weak faith if they see meant as unclean and eat only vegetables, have your faith to your self as long as your meat eating does not offend your brother you do well, but if your meat eating offends them, don't make them stumble, you stop being stronger in faith than your brother. So then if your mother-in-law won't be eating meat anymore her faith is unto God and she shall stand, and as long as she is not offended that you keep eating meat you stand strong in your stronger faith than hers and you keep eating meat and you shall stand to God in your faith because the kingdom is not eating and drinking but righteousness and peace. God Bless God's day to you, Tamara |
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62 | Need good book series...entire bible... | Gen 1:1 | Tamara Brewington | 204868 | ||
Dear egosphist, By the way I like your handle, your bio in your profile was awfully non descript... Teacher progessor? Of? It would be nice to know. Let me scoop you a bit about how this site works... I am saying this after viewing the conversation that got started by your fisrt question and thinking you would be interested in what every body else had to say about it other than the folks who contacted you directly... Check it out... Go to any question that you have asked and scroll all the way down to the bottom of your screen, you will see something called threads. Check the date of your original post, look in there from time to time as members very often go down there to see what is up. Then they often click on a note that was an answer to your question and start talking to one another about your subject without contacting you. You can jump back in the conversation or just observe the conversation. Every day when you come in here click on the already answered questions in primary and look down at the threads, you can jump in at any point in the thread and respond to whoever posted a note in reply to the original question, or post a note to the original question in addition to whoever else decide to reply. Also go to where you see on any page a users name and click on it to read who they are and what they are about. If you have not filled in your profile in some detail yet please do. Also from time to time you will not be aware of a running conversation, go to the original front page, and on the left top is a window with every latest post whether question or note and you can click on and jump into what people were just talking about latest. Again, welcome to the forum Tamara |
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63 | Apology to Lockman and Users | 1 Timothy | Tamara Brewington | 204849 | ||
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64 | Apology to Lockman and Users | 1 Timothy | Tamara Brewington | 204847 | ||
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65 | The 7 Churches of ASIA | Rev 1:4 | Tamara Brewington | 204844 | ||
Dear Doc and Lookinforacity. Thank you for the reminder Doc, I was so busy gathering I forgot to site the all the various places this part came from and part of the second part too, but the very last part on the second post was all me. I aplogize to every one on the forum and to the Lockman Foundation. I got the majority of the quotes from wikipedia and the Catholic Enyclopedia. All of the parts at the end of the second post that had to do with interpretations whether allegorical or literal with the application was all me. God bless Tamara |
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66 | The 7 Churches of ASIA | Rev 1:4 | Tamara Brewington | 204843 | ||
Dear Doc and Lookinforacity. Thank you for the reminder Doc, I was so busy gathering I forgot to site the all the various places this part came from and part of the second part too, but the very last part on the second post was all me. I aplogize to every one on the forum and to the Lockman Foundation. I got the majority of the quotes from wikipedia and the Catholic Enyclopedia. All of the parts at the end of the second post that had to do with interpretations whether allegorical or literal with the application was all me. God bless Tamara |
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67 | The 7 Churches of ASIA | Rev 1:4 | Tamara Brewington | 204839 | ||
Thyatira - There have been a couple of differences of opinion about when the Thyatira era began and ended. Thyatira - Herman Hoeh (Hoeh, H. A True History of the True Church, 1959 ed.) and Ivor Fletcher (Fletcher, Ivor C. The Incredible History of God's True Church, 1984 ed.) both wrote that it began about 1000 A.D. However, the Worldwide Church of God (WCG) later changed to the belief that it began a little later, closer to the beginning of the twelfth century, with the Pergamos era transitioning out in the eleventh century. WCG also changed its view that the "last work" of Thyatira was around 1238 AD to around 1600. In Dr. Hoeh's book, he has Thyatira ending in the mid-thirteenth century, and remaining in hiding, until the Church re-emerges as Sardis beginning in the mid-seventeenth century. WCG's later correspondence course suggests that the work of the Thyatira era ended in the late sixteenth/early seventeenth century; which is the same position that the Living Church of God's (LCG) John Ogwyn took in his booklet. Sardis - I googled this to death too, nothing on the history of this church. Now that I have researched this for you I am going to have to buy a New Book somewheres on the history of the seven churches past the first century, thank you for giving me a new area of study to kill myself with. I appreciate it:):):) Philadelphia - I also googled this church extensively to no avail. Laodicea - I also googled this church to no avail. There has been a ton of allegorical and symbolic interpretation about the 7 churches, which is outside of a literal intrepretation of the Bible; 1)The message to the 7 churches represents 7 types of churches that present themselves through out all of the centuries as church types, and Jesus was giving good and bad examples as a warning to all churches from the 1st century on into the future. 2)The message to the 7 churches represents 7 church ages from the first century through the present, and Jesus was giving a picture of what the 7 church ages would look like and be characterized by. 3)The message to the 7 churches represents 7 types of Christians who are in the church body, and Jesus was giving good and bad examples of being a member in the churches. 4)The message to the 7 churches represents 7 types of churches in the first century, and Jesus was giving good and bad examples to all the churches in every where in the 1st century of how to run a church. There is only one literal intrepretation of the 7 churches in the Bible; 1)Revelation 1:3 Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and heed the things written in it; for the time is near, Jesus was giving His assessment of the character and actions of the 7 specific churches, which He choose according to His own counsel to give the 7 churches instructions in order to encourage them and to prepare them for persecution and to bring them back into the will of God wherever they had strayed. The application comes from Revelation 1:3; heed the message for the time is near - the time for the devil to mess around and the time for persecution is always now - we can give this literal interpretation; we should pay attention to the various admonitions Jesus gives the churches and be on the alert against the schemes of the devil and persecution from the enemies of Christ, and we can be cleanse our chruches of any defilement or wrong doing and go back to our first love of Christ. Agape, Tamara |
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68 | The 7 Churches of ASIA | Rev 1:4 | Tamara Brewington | 204838 | ||
According to the New Testament, Ephesus became an important center for early Christianity from the 50s AD. Paul used it as a base and spent there more than two years on his third missionary journey (Acts 19:8, 19:10, 20:31). He became embroiled in a dispute with artisans, whose livelihood depended on selling the statuettes of Artemis in the Temple of Artemis (Acts 19:23–41). He wrote between 53 and 57 A.D. the letter 1 Corinthians from Ephesus (possibly from the "Paul tower" close to the harbour, where he was imprisoned for a short time). Later Paul wrote to the Christian community at Ephesus, according to tradition, while he was in prison in Rome (around 62 A.D.) The Apostle John lived in Asia Minor (Anatolia) in the last decades of the first century and from Ephesus had guided the Churches of that province. After Domitian's death the Apostle returned to Ephesus during the reign of Trajan, and at Ephesus he died about 100 AD at a great age. Ephesus was one of the seven cities addressed in Revelation (2:1–7), indicating that the church at Ephesus was still strong. Two decades later, the church at Ephesus there was still important enough to be addressed by a letter written by Bishop Ignatius of Antioch to the Ephesians in the early 2nd century AD, that begins with, "Ignatius, who is also called Theophorus, to the Church which is at Ephesus, in Asia, deservedly most happy, being blessed in the greatness and fullness of God the Father, and predestinated before the beginning of time, that it should be always for an enduring and unchangeable glory" (Letter to the Ephesians). The church at Ephesus had given their support for Ignatius, who was taken to Rome for execution. Smyrna...Christianity was preached to the inhabitants at an early date. As early as the year 93, there existed a Christian community directed by a bishop for whom St. John in the Apocalypse (i, II; ii, 8-11) has only words of praise…There were other Christians in the vicinity of the city and dependent on it to whom St. Polycarp wrote letters (Eusebius, "Hist. Eccl.", V, xxiv). When Polycarp was martyred…the Church of Smyrna sent an encyclical concerning his death to the Church of Philomelium and others (Vailhe’ S. Transcribed by Lucia Tobin. Smyrna. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XIV. Copyright c 1912 by Robert Appleton Company. Online Edition Copyright c 2003 by Kevin Knight. Nihil Obstat, July 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York). Pergamum - I googled the church of Pergamum to death and found very little about the history of this church. Pergamum, also known as Pergamos, had a colorful history as a major city of Asia Minor. It was steeped in pagan idolatry, serpent worship, and Caesar worship. See Satan's Throne at Pergamum for a description of the influence of ancient Babylonian mysteries on the city. Pergamum means "thoroughly married." It represents the period of church history when the church became married to the world. Constantine, the Emperor of the Roman Empire probably meant well when he issued a decree that all his subjects should become Christians, but it actually did much damage to the church. The majority of people became Christian in name only, bringing their pagan practices and lifestyles into a compromised church. This merger of the church and state took place with the Edict of Milan in AD 313. This period lasted until about AD 500. During this time the Bishop of Rome assumed the title, Pontifex Maximus. |
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69 | Need good book series...entire bible... | Gen 1:1 | Tamara Brewington | 204829 | ||
Dear Egosophist, Welcome to the forum! OK you have finished your masters and are going on to your Phd. So what you will be looking for are exegetical commentaries, assuming your masters was in a religious area that is, and that you are moving on to a Phd. in a religious area... If you are moving from a masters in a non religious area to a Phd. in a non religious area you would be starting off with a study oriented commentary (don't get a devotional commentary you will be sorely disappointed). There are all kinds of series out there, but you have to know which type of commentary would suit your needs. For a good study oriented commentary there are a whole lot of series and authors and many series have books by differing authors in their series; New Testament Commentary 12 volumes, by William Hendrickson and Simon J. Kesetmaker - from the Reformed position. Keil and Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament 10 volumes. The Boice Expositional Commentaries on CD ROM. John MacArthur's Bible Commentary Series For The New Testament a whole lot of volumes, several for some books of the NT. Great Author's Works Martin Luther's Works on CD ROM. The John Calvin Collection. The Arthur Pink Collection. The John Owen Collection. The Jonathan Edwards Timothy Dwight Collection. The Charles Spurgeon Collection. The John Piper Collection. The Some of the Great Church Fathers - this is a short list of an exhaustive list; The Works of Augustine. The Works of Polycarp. The Works of Justin Martyr. The Works of Tertullian. The Works of Iraneaus. The Works of Thomas Aquinas. A good exegetical commentary is hard to find unless you already know your authors, this becomes a major drawback. Here are some very well known exegetical commentary authors, they have not all written a complete commentary series but some of them have covered almost all the Bible; The Works of Godet. The Works of Spinoza. The Works of Lenski. The Works of Lightfoot. The Works of F.F.Bruce. Exegetical Commentary Series - these types of series are hard to find but there are a whole lot more than these. New International Critical Series - a very good series. Anchor Bible Series - a good series. Blacks Exegetical Commentary Series - some authors are better than others. The Bakes Exegetical Commentary Series - some series are better than this one. I am just a student at a little non accreditated Bible School, but the professor's there have been a treasure trove of information about good study sources. I went looking for you through two years worth of scattered notes to find this stuff, but if you are really serious, which it seems you are, and if you have the money, it is all worth investing in. Don't ever sell your religious text books to get back the money, once you invest in them, they will stand you by for a life time. eamil me at whatdoyoubelieve.com for a page worth of online bible study tools if you are really going to study for a whole year in preparation, if you don't have these tools already, they will be invaluable. I hope this helped, God Bless, Tamara |
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70 | A fanatic, a zealot or a prophet? | Titus 1:1 | Tamara Brewington | 204819 | ||
Dear Shel Dee, Val is absolutely right. Is what she is saying lining up with the Bible? Did what she say before that seemed fanatical line up with the Bible? Another question, was what she said before a prophecy to edify the church, or an individual, or was it about herself? These are important questions to be answering, based on the answer she may or may not have pure motives. Another question, did whatever she said before come true in some way? Was what she said about something from the Bible to be followed or was it about something that was supposed to be hapening soon? The reaon I am asking all these questions is because one of the ministers on our pulpit does hear correctly form God. But what she receieves in always about the body of Christ in general or about the church specifically, or rarely about a person. What is important about that is that what she says always comes true and does not fail, and this has been going on with her, for her to edify for 30 years of being a believe. In other words she has been tested and not been found to be wanting. Deuteronomy gives the tests; 13:1-15, 18:20-22, and I Corinthians gives the qualifications for order; I Corinthians 14:3,24-26,29-33 Be careful there are many who believe they are hearing from God who have not proven to be true. She should be warned that if she prophesies falsely and it does not come to pass,then she has made herself a false prophet and spoken by the power of Satan. Such a sin is forgivable by Jesus as it is not a sin leading to death, not the unforgiveable sin, but causes her to lose her rewards in heaven and for her works burnt up. Warn her with this; I Corinthians 3:12 Now if any man builds upon a foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw. Each man's work will be evident; for the day will show it, because it is to be revealed with fire, itself will test the quality of each man's work. And warn her with Deuteronomy 18:20-22. God Bless and welcome to the forum, Tamara Ther |
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71 | Tell me how to get his info w/o the book | Ps 15:2 | Tamara Brewington | 204817 | ||
God' Day to you Mamaroo, Welcome to the Forum! Go to Christianbooks.com and order form there, the shipping should only take about three days for both books. Or try amazonbooks.com same thing. God bless, Tamara |
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72 | Jewish Holy Days | Romans | Tamara Brewington | 204798 | ||
Dear Lookinforacity, This was a real issue during the first century, I like this question Lookin.... I forgot to add God Bless you Tamara to the last post you just got, sorry.... Paul says this in Romans in answer to Christians in a mixed congregation of Jews and Gentiles who were facing this problem; Ramans 14:5-6,10-12 Apparently there were some who were celebrating the Sabbath and some who were celebrating on Sunday. In Acts we have a couple of instances where the disciples were meeting on Sundays to celebrate the rising of the Lord from the dead. However, it does not say that they did not also observe the Sabbath on Saturday. The early church saints were at first all Jewish and required that a non Jew become a Proselyte, take the vow, undergo circumsision, become a Jew first, before being allowed to be of the 'way'. We have accounts in Acts of the disciples going to the temple to worship and to preach and to teach in the synagogues and at the temple, that was where the disciples first were meeting, then came the church houses. They were all observing every Jewish holidays, they considered themselves Jews. As the church grew and became more Gentile Paul makes a point again and again for there not being a need to compel them to observe Jewish traditions, but the Jews in those congregations still did, hence the problems. The concern becomes now as it was then that whether or not Gentiles should be beholden to the traditions of Jewish worship in any form. Not now because of a perceived need to be legalistic, or the Law, but because our roots are all in Jesus and what He did and not in the Law and the Prophets to observe the ordinances created unto perpetuity for them. All these things you are considering are the ordinances for worship that stemmed from the Law and the Prophets and are representative of the covenants they were under. We are under a new covenant and have no need to be doing things that stemmed from an old convenant that never applied to us. We identify with the Jews in that we worship the God of the Jews and out of love for them revere them as being our true patriarchs. When you think about the significance of their Holy Days carefully I think you may see that they relate directly the covenants given to them. I do not think they would actually appreciate Christians observing their holy days along with our Christian days since they view us as worshipping a sorcerer and a blasphemer. I am not too sure they would see it as love, hypocrisy maybe, but not love. The reason we observe our holidays is because we worship Christ as the new covenant. We become one man with Jews when they become Christians. The OT saints are part of the same household we are in, but those who reject Christ are not true Jews in their hearts as Paul said in Romans 2. We demonstrate the Love we are told to have for the Jews by being a living witness to them of the forgiveness of the savior they reject and rejected. God Bless Tamara |
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73 | Jewish Calendar ? | Leviticus | Tamara Brewington | 204796 | ||
Dear Lookinforacity, The Christian Calendar The Christian calendar is the term traditionally used to designate the calendar commonly in use, although it originated in pre-Christian Rome. The Christian calendar has years of 365 or 366 days. It is divided into 12 months that have no relationship to the motion of the moon. In parallel with this system, the concept of weeks groups the days in sets of 7. Two main versions of the Christian calendar have existed in recent times: The Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar. The difference between them lies in the way they approximate the length of the tropical year and their rules for calculating Easter. What is the Julian calendar? The Julian calendar was introduced by Julius Caesar in 45 BC. It was in common use until the late 1500s, when countries started changing to the Gregorian calendar (section 2.2). However, some countries (for example, Greece and Russia) used it into the early 1900s, and the Orthodox church in Russia still uses it, as do some other Orthodox churches. In the Julian calendar, the tropical year is approximated as 365 1 to 4 days is 365.25 days. This gives an error of 1 day in approximately 128 years. The approximation 365 1to4 is achieved by having 1 leap year every 4 years. 2.1.1 What years are leap years? The Julian calendar has 1 leap year every 4 years: Every year divisible by 4 is a leap year. However, the 4-year rule was not followed in the first years after the introduction of the Julian calendar in 45 BC. Due to a counting error, every 3rd year was a leap year in the first years of this calendar's existence. The leap years were: 45 BC, 42 BC, 39 BC, 36 BC, 33 BC, 30 BC, 27 BC, 24 BC, 21 BC, 18 BC, 15 BC, 12 BC, 9 BC, AD 8, AD 12, and every 4th year from then on. Authorities disagree about whether 45 BC was a leap year or not. There were no leap years between 9 BC and AD 8 (or, according to some authorities, between 12 BC and AD 4). This period without leap years was decreed by It is a curious fact that although the method of reckoning years after the (official) birthyear History of the Gregorian Calendar The Gregorian calendar resulted from a perceived need to reform the method of calculating dates of Easter. Under the Julian calendar the dating of Easter had become standardized, using March 21 as the date of the equinox and the Metonic cycle as the basis for calculating lunar phases. By the thirteenth century it was realized that the true equinox had regressed from March 21 its supposed date at the time of the Council of Nicea,325 to a date earlier in the month. As a result, Easter was drifting away from its springtime position and was losing its relation with the Jewish Passover. Over the next four centuries, scholars debated the correct time for celebrating Easter and the means of regulating this time calendrically. The Church made intermittent attempts to solve the Easter question, without reaching a consensus. By the sixteenth century the equinox had shifted by ten days, and astronomical New Moons were occurring four days before ecclesiastical New Moons. At the behest of the Council of Trent, Pope Pius V introduced a new Breviary in 1568 and Missal in 1570, both of which included adjustments to the lunar tables and the leap-year system. Pope Gregory XIII, who succeeded Pope Pius in 1572, soon convened a commission to consider reform of the calendar, since he considered his predecessor's measures inadequate. The recommendations of Pope Gregory's calendar commission were instituted by the papal bull Inter Gravissimus, signed on 1582 February 24. Ten days were deleted from the calendar, so that 1582 October 4 was followed by 1582 October 15, thereby causing the vernal equinox of 1583 and subsequent years to occur about March 21. And a new table of New Moons and Full Moons was introduced for determining the date of Easter. Subject to the logistical problems of communication and governance in the sixteenth century, the new calendar was promulgated through the Roman-Catholic world. Protestant states initially rejected the calendar, but gradually accepted it over the coming centuries. The Eastern Orthodox churches rejected the new calendar and continued to use the Julian calendar with traditional lunar tables for calculating Easter. Because the purpose of the Gregorian calendar was to regulate the cycle of Christian holidays, its acceptance in the non-Christian world was initially not at issue. But as international communications developed, the civil rules of the Gregorian calendar were gradually adopted around the world. Anyone seriously interested in the Gregorian calendar should study the collection of papers resulting from a conference sponsored by the Vatican to commemorate the four-hundredth anniversary of the Gregorian Reform. |
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74 | understanding idolatory | Jer 17:5 | Tamara Brewington | 204793 | ||
Dear Susanna, Welcome to the forum! When you want to talk to Doc in reply, make sure to choose note my dear... I was thinking about what you are saying in your original post and see a coulpe of things I would like to share. There is Exodus 20:4 which says not to make an idol, but what I was seeing was the things God was saying not to worship by way of making an idol; what is in heaven, what is in the water, what is on the earth. what is in the heaven would inlude the universe as well as the angels, in the water would be all the creatures there, on earth though got me to thinking. How about all things that you could find on the earth, not just creatures and people, but social and intellectual things and the arts. While I am sure God meant created things it got to thinking, then I went to Romans. Romans 1:21,22 ; it says that they knew God but did not honor Him as God or give thanks- translation they exalated something anything above above God, that could be intellecuality, art, music, philosophy anything, career, car, house, whatever objects of affection people may have. Then there is that as a result they became futile in their speculations - they began to become fools and their heart became dark without the light of God in it. In their quest to worship whatever is not God they think they are being very wise and they become fools. I tried googleing idolatry but didn't get much. God Bless Tamara |
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75 | What is the job of the false prophet? | Rev 13:11 | Tamara Brewington | 204746 | ||
Jilly welcome to the Forum! Tamara |
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76 | What is the job of the false prophet? | Rev 13:11 | Tamara Brewington | 204745 | ||
Dear Jilly, See Revelation 13:1-18 first, the first beast is the Anti-Christ, the second beast is the False Prophet. But first must come the beginning of the Great Tribulation and the seventh seal of the judgments of the six of the seven trumpets; hail an fire burning up a third of the earth, a third of the sea turning into blood, a third of the sun moon and stars being struck making the earth dark for a third of the day and a third of the night, a literal eagle preachig woe woe over the earth, Satan falling from heaven and opening up a bottomless pit and loosing demons to torture but not kill for five months, four fallen angels released to bring three plagues to kill a third of mankind, and then the two witnesses who get killed and the raised from the dead after three days. All this happens in chapters 8 through 11 in Revelation. The job of the False Prophet is to deceive mankind with the power of the Anti-Christ and Satan to perform real miracles in order to make men worship the Anti-Christ. See Revelation 13:11-17, see Revelation 19:20,21, See II Thessalonians 2:3-4 where it talks about the Anti-Christ. The False Prophet makes people worship him and together the False Prophet, the Anti-Christ, and Satan form the unholy trinity in a mockery of the triune God, that is the other purpose of the False Prophet. God Bless, Tamara |
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77 | What do you think of Acts 5th chapter | Acts 5:1 | Tamara Brewington | 204730 | ||
HI happy 4th of July to you, Here you go; Acts 5:1-11 Ananias and Saphira were disobedient to the Holy Spirit and with held the full price of the land they sold to give to the apostles for distribution. A good view of how the church was functioning can be found in Acts 4:32-37 and Acts 2:43-47 where everyone was sharing all that they had and holding nothing back for those that needed land, houses, food, clothing, every material thing you could think of. The situation was that when a Jew became a Christian if they did not own their own businesses they were being cast out of their family and the family businesses as a result. Many Christians were poor and those who had were being directed to give those who had nothing. Barnabas is a good example of one who had enough to spare for someone who did not have enough to live on. The proceeds of sales of land and homes was also being distributed. The language in Acts 4:32-37 actually breaks down in Greek to pretty much this; :42 Every man diligently withdrew constantly devoting themselves to the Apostles for doctrine, for distribution with fellowship, for breaking of bread and worship. :43 Every soul by the Spirit of Life fear coming upon them by every means of awesome miraculous disposition and stupendous works of mighty miracles and powers kept on taking place throughout by the Apostles. :44 Every one that believed having faith present had needs the occasion of destitution requiring that all commonly share the distribution from employment as the occasion arose. :45 Every man whose possession was sold goods was required to part with them to every man through occasion of destitution. :46 Every man continuing earnestly persevering daily as one altogether with one accord in the sanctuary breaking bread from sanctuary to sanctuary did partake every man eating meat and nourishment with gladness and simplicity of heart. Because Ananias and Saphira lied to Peter and grieved the Holy Spirit, Peter confronts them and as soon as he does, God kills them dead at Peter's feet. Most commentators agree that they grieved the Holy Spirit and died an early death becuase of it but did end up going to heaven. Paul describes in I Corinthians 11 that those who do not judge themselves rightly bring judgment on themsleves and become weak or die (a number sleep). Acts 5:12-16 The apostles, by the power of the Holy Spirit, were working mighty miraculous wonders a the temple of Solomon, but the unbelievers who were of rank in the temple rendering their regular priestly duties dared not to associate with them, but the regular people held them in high esteem. And believers were being added daily to the ranks of the believers, so many so that the sick lay out in the streets on the street where Peter would pass on his way to the temple to preach and teach and his shadow was healing them all. Acts 5:17-32 The high Priest of the Sanhedrin and his associates, not the priests of the temple of Solomon, got jealous. They came and grabbed the apostles by force and tool them to jail. An angel came to them and released them telling them to go back and preach. The Sanhedrin council sent to the jail for them, but they were not found there. The Sanhedrin guards went and got the disciples peacably for fear of being stoned by the mobs of people gathered to hear the preaching and brought them to the Sanhedrin council. The Sanhedrin repeated their orders that the preaching cease and desist, but Peter says we must obey God rather than men and begins to preach again about the crucifixion and resurrection as witnesses of these things. Acts 5:33-42 The Sanhedrin were angered by this, but Gamaliel (Paul's teacher) gave orders to release them in case they were truly of God and not like the two insurrectionists that had come before claiming that God had told them to wage war on Rome leading the Jews astray. So then the Sandhedrin took Gamaliel's advice and had the disciples whipped, ordering them not to preach this message of Christ anymore. The disciples went away rejoicing that they had been persecuted for Christ and kept on going from house to temple preaching and teaching the Christ. Hope that answers the question. God Bless, Tamara |
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78 | Progressive Revelation | Eph 1:10 | Tamara Brewington | 204719 | ||
Progressive Revelation is the revealance to man of God through various forms. Progressive Revelation is not the gradual evolving development of history. Progressive Revelation builds upon latter revelations being built on the earlier revelations. One example is the sacrifices required by God in the OT resulting in the final sacrifice of Christ. Another is the General Revelation of what God has created as a witness to man that God is and then the Special Revelation of miraculous manifestations of God to man with Christ being the most special and ending with the Bible. A next form are the seven dispensations. Another form are the prophetic revelations from the OT resulting in Christ Jesus as the final revelations. Progressive revelation was first coined as a phrase by the Dispensational Camp. But the concept has been around since Paul wrote Romans where you find the first example of what a General Revelation is in chapter 1 and then Special Revelation as Christ in chapters 3-6. The concept of this then appeared in a certain form in the Epistle of Barnabas. Then elements appeared in the Dialogue of Tryphos by Justin Martyr. Elements appear in the writtings of the following church fathers as varying forms of Dispensationalism; Justin Martyr (A.D. 110-165) Iranaeus (A.D. 130-200) Clement of Alexandria (A.D. 150-220) Augustine (A.D. 354-430) The next persons to show elements of Progressive Revelation where; Joachin of Fiore Pierot Poiret John Edwards The persons who coined the term and see Progressive Revelation as only the seven dispensations; Charles Ryrie Isac Watts John Darby C.I.Scoffield The term has been much abused since the advent of dispensationalism. Systematic theologians see Progressive Revelation as the total of all the forms mentioned above and not just as Dispensationalism. There are scriptures which speaks of dispensations where a word in Greek means dispensation; Ephesians 1:10 with a view to an administration (dispensation) suitable to the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on earth. Ephesians 3:9 and to bring to light what is the administration (dispensation) of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God who created all things. Hope this helps Tamara |
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79 | Is Jesus the same God as God, or a God? | John 1:1 | Tamara Brewington | 204613 | ||
Dear heart, Go to John chapter 1, verse 1-5 and read them with the understanding that the word Word in Greek is Logos. They add the word a, making the verse read the word was a god. This is a referrence to Jesus Christ as being called the Word. This word means a number of things but the most important meaning is the Divine Expression, as in the Divine Expression of God. More important than that note what John is saying in verse 1; In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God. This literaly means that Jesus who is the Word is God. Start with that as the begnining of your argument. Move along to one of their favorite scriptures Colossians 1:15. The words creation and firstborn are two of their favorite words. They take this verse to mean that Jesus was a created being, the angel Michael, who came to earth and became an ordinary man as the first born of those who have risen from the dead. They miss a couple things here. One is that it says Jesus is the image of God, not made in His likeness as we are. The word in Greek doesn't just mean image, it also means, more correctly, representation. Jesus is the representation of God as God's exact image, not as made in God's likeness. That means Jesus has the same spiritual nature as God not one derived from God as made to be like God, Jesus is God. They love the word firstborn because they believe in something called the Sonship of Jesus, that Jesus is physically begotten by the Holy Spirit as a created son of God and that Jesus is first in the order of created beings as an expample of how to be a son of God. They love the word creation becuase to them this usage of the word here means that Jesus was created. They ignore that down in verse 18 that it is saying that Jesus is head as ruler of everything based on verse 16. They further ignore that verse 18 says that Jesus is the first born of the rising of the dead, but it means to be the first to rise from the dead to eternal life, which is what verse 15 is talking about. Take verse 16 which they like to ignore. This verse clearly states that Jesus created everything and that includes the universe, the earth, and all of the spiritual powers and seats of authority. Only God Himself has that power, therefore Jesus is God. They add the word other five times in verses in this passage and the most important place is in verse 16. This makes it say Jesus as a created being created all other created things, rather than that Jesus created all things. The first means Jesus is a creation who created other creations things, the original means Jesus as the sovereign creator created all created things which means He could not possibly be a creature. The Old Testament says the Lord our God is one God. Deuteronomy 6:4 says the Lord our God is one. Exodus 20:3 says you shall have no other god before me. Therefore God doesn't need or approve of their being another God which is what they say Jesus is. Genesis 1:26 has God talking to other parts of His own personality. They try to get around this by saying God was talking to some angels or talking in the third person for royal effect. The word for God in Genesis is Elohim in Hebrew and means gods plural. There twisting of scripture goes on and on. Try this; Go to http:, two slashes, bible.ca, add one slash, Jw-NWT.htm This is a site that will have a chart for you of every twisted scripture they use in their false Bible which serves to remove the deity of Jesus. Whereever it says in your Bible, the Son of Man, this was an expression of the Hebrews from OT times that meant the Messiah. Wherever it says in your Bible, the Son of God, the Jews in Jesus time knew that it meant that the son of God was made of the same nature, character, authority and power as God and therefore was God, which is why they put Jesus to death. Try this; Go to www.blueletterbible.com and type in the search engine those two phrases and read the entire passages where these two phrases come up to see where the Bible is saying Jesus is God. Nathaniel said it; John 1:49 and see Mathew 16:16 and see Hebrews 1:6 - who else is allowed by God to accept worship except God. Make sure you look at that chart, I bet they twist this scripture too. Try www.scriptureanalyzer4alland the free parts of the www.esword.net to see what the Greek words really are that make up the English text and compare that with your Bible and then their Bible and you will see they add and remove words to make their case. Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Jesus is the Son of God as the incarnation of the angel Michael. Nowhere does it say this is the truth in the Bilble. The Jehovah's Witnesses change the Bible at certain key points to make it say what they want it to say and take out key Greek word translations and replace them with whatever they want. Hope this helped. God Bless, Tamara |
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80 | can the SOTM be taken literally? | Matthew | Tamara Brewington | 204596 | ||
Dear SAKII, A couple of things would happen, lets see; 1)Verses 5:1-12 - humbleness and perseverance through persecution would be the result. 2)Verses 5:13-20 - remaining unstained by the world and being a light to the world would be the result. 3)Verses 5:21-48 - godly behavior would be the result. 4)Verses 6:1-15 - caring for Jesus in the form of others would be the result. 5)Verses 6:16-24 - being concerned with the internal as opposed to the external would be the result. 6)Verses 6:25-34 - focusing on seeking the kingdom instead of worrying about worldly needs would be the result. 7)Verses 7:1-28 - good moral conduct and focusing on being able to enter life would be the result. Does that answer the question? What here do you think you should not be taking literaly as a Christian I am definetely wondering? The part about suffering perhaps? I Peter 2:21-23 For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps, who committed no sin, nor was any sin found in His mouth; and while being reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept on entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously. Are you serious about whether or not one should be taking it literaly? Or was this a fishing expedition? Not judging. God Bless Tamara |
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