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61 | Luke 16:19-31 | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 209278 | ||
Hi Malisa: What happened to the rich man, how did he live and how did he end up? And what happened to Lazarus? What was the story about? Did the rich man end up okay with God at the end of his life of luxury in which he did not care about the poor man, Lazarus? Can you tell me what you think? Have you read it? We would be happy to help you understand it, if you have some specific questions. It's really a very short read Malisa, only 12 verses long. :-) God bless you in your studies. John |
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62 | where is the joy of my salvation? | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 210241 | ||
Dear Linda: I see this is still a burden to you as you asked this a couple months ago. Don't be discouraged my dear, it's a pretty natural progression in the life of a Christian. As we learn and grow we often will wax sorrowful for the lost. This is good because; what kind of person would not be sad for them? It shows you have a real heart my friend, so don't put yourself down for it, and don't listen to those who say we need to be happy ALL the time. It's not natural to be happy all the time, it's just not realistic. The good news is we can have peace in our sorrow, and it should be faith building because, God is the one who puts that burden on our hearts to care and pray for the lost. The unsaved just don't do that! So chin up, keep caring and praying for the lost, it's shows your love for them and your love for God. Your doing fine. How often do we contemplate their plight and destiny without anguish of heart? Should we not be ashamed, that we could contemplate these souls, lost to eternity, that it does not rend our very hearts from our chests! Oh Lord! Give us that sacrificial love, which you expressed, and exposed, to our hearts, at the Cross of Christ! For your sake, and for your glory, dear Lord, give us Agape, and a deeper loving and caring heart, that we should quake with broken hearts, at the very thought of our enemy, on their ever downward spiral to perdition! – Keep caring and keep praying God bless John |
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63 | Forum in Spanish | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 210548 | ||
Hi Milena: Welcome to the forum! I don't know of a forum in Spanish, but you can use a free online translator to help you with your questions from Spanish to English at this website http://www.worldlingo.com/en/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html There are many, many others as well, all you have to do is 'google', ( free online translation ) and you will see a whole lot of them, so you can try some out until you find one you like. I hope this helps you Milena, and that you please stay and study God's word with us. ¡Amaríamos hacer que usted permanezca y que estudie la palabra del dios con nosotros! God bless John |
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64 | how many heavens are there? | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 210626 | ||
Dear James: Welcome to the forum. When the Bible talks about the third Heaven it does not mean that there are three Heavens where God has a throne and where we think of it as the Heaven in which God dwells. It simply means that that is where Paul was caught up to. i.e. The Heaven where Jesus sits at the right hand of God, as opposed to the other places in Scripture where the word Heaven means something else. The first Heaven would be what we call our atmosphere, or where we find air for birds and planes to fly in. Gen 1:20 Then God said, "Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens.” The second Heaven would be outer space, where we find the stars. Job 12:7, Job 35:11, Ps 8:8, Ps 79:2, there are many other verses that refer to the, “Birds of the Heaven’s” also there are about 25 verses that talk about the Stars of Heaven. I hope this clears it up for you. God bless John |
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65 | Christian principles | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 210687 | ||
Dear Milena, You are very welcome mi amiga! I hope I'm correctly guessing your gender from your name? ¿hablo español? Muy, muy poco mi amiga! Yes, I did use worldlingo, if I could say 50 words in Spanish it would surprise me. :-) I see Azure has given you a very good suggestion to teach children, but not only the 2 great commandments, the Ten Commandments are what we would call the moral law, and are good to teach children of all ages. I have recently been asked to teach Sunday-school and before I start my lesson-plan every week I listen to J. Vernon McGee's Thru the Bible, (A Través de la Biblia) it is very good very down to Earth and easy to understand for all ages, and, the good news is; they have it available in Spanish at this web-address. http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/Thru_the_Bible_Spanish/ McGee's teachings have been a great help to me and give me a good deal of information to build my lesson on. I use other commentaries as well, but Vernon McGee is my favorite for getting a real simple to understand foundation to build my lesson on, and I am very thankful to our God for giving him to us! To your question; I'm not sure exactly what you are saying, but I'm sure it would be a sin to break any of God's moral laws, regardless of wether we apply a principle to it or not. Ignorance of the law or even the principle of said law, is no excuse for breaking the law; it would still be sin, regardless. I hope this helps you. Just a side note, you may just hit the note button to reply to a post, you don't need to put it as a question, and that way it leaves the home page open for other questions to the forum in general. Would you please give us some information in the user profile? It's always good to know someone a little better then just what we can learn from reading their posts. Milena, I'm so happy to see you are deciding to stay and study God's Word with us. This place is such a blessing to me, and I hope it will be a blessing to you too! God bless John |
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66 | What are God's views on marriage/divorce | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 210719 | ||
Dear Karin, I must say I agree with what Brother BradK said to you. May I suggest too that you find solace in your Bible. When I feel troubled I have learned to trust God and I often just read the psalms, and meditate on Him and His Word. My dear old mom had her share of troubles, and as a boy I would often find her reading in the Psalms, finding comfort in her world of woe. --"Born in the East and clothed in Oriental form and imagery, the Bible walks the ways of all the world with familiar feet, and enters land after land to find its own everywhere. It has learned to speak in hundreds of languages to the heart of man. It comes into the palace to tell the monarch that he is a servant of the Most High, and into the cottage to assure the peasant that he is a son of God. Children listen to its stories with wonder and delight, and wise men ponder them as parables of life. It has a word of peace for the time of peril, a word of comfort for the time of calamity, a word of light for the hour of darkness. Its oracles are repeated in the assembly of the people, and its counsels whispered in the ear of the lonely. The wicked and the proud tremble at its warnings, but to the wounded and the penitent it has a mother's voice. The wilderness and the solitary place have been made glad by it, and the fire on the hearth has lit the reading of its well-worn pages. It has woven itself into our dearest dreams; so that love, friendship, sympathy and devotion, memory and hope put on the beautiful garments of its treasured speech, breathing of frankincense and myrrh." —Henry van Dyke Along with Bradk be assured that there are many that read along and will hold you up in prayer as well. May God bless you and give you peace in your time of trouble. John |
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67 | Similar Barak in Judges - Barack Obama. | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 210753 | ||
Hello Saved4ever: Welcome to the Study Bible Forum. You know, Saved4ever, I don't mean to be flip, and I especially don't mean to dampen the enthusiasm of a new user of the forum, but sometimes a question comes across that just doesn't make any sense at all. I'm very sorry but I have no idea what on Earth you are talking about. There are no fundamental similarities between the two, so how can we possibly see a coincidence when there is none to be seen. Please remember too, this is a Bible study forum and not an opinion/speculation forum, nor do we encourage the discussion of politicks. Sorry. God bless John |
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68 | Any info on colossians 3:1-4 | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 211409 | ||
Hello, vision of hope, and welcome. So often we are drawn away from what Scripture teaches from Scripture, to speak on "topical issues" rather then the massage that God has given us, and what He desires for us to learn from reading the Word, good to move away from that and a commendable one too. It is indeed far too often we feel need to speak on topical issues, then, going to our Bibles and finding Scriptures to back up what it is "we" would like to say, rather then just sticking to expositional teaching and preaching to teach what it is "God" would like to say. To find out what I really mean by expositional preaching or teaching, please go to, http://marks.9marks.org/Mark1 where you can read lessons and listen to lectures on expositional preaching that can really help to build a healthy Church ministry. Here too are some good comentarys you may not have had the opertuinity to read that I aslo pray will be of some help to you. http://eword.gospelcom.net/comments/ God bless John |
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69 | Did Israel reach out to other nations? | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 211418 | ||
Nope. | ||||||
70 | i want my family back | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 211454 | ||
Hey, russh: Why don't you give 'em a call? :-) Shalom John |
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71 | Where is "The Heaven" ? | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 211662 | ||
It is imposable to say since we have no information as to "where" it is or weather it even has a "phisical" location. We do however know the phisical location of the first and second Heaven. | ||||||
72 | How did they handle their son? | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 211761 | ||
Hi Happy It's pretty tough trying to go on what you gave. I'm not familiar with such a family from my limited knowledge of Scripture. Can you give us more to go on? Verse, chapter, book? |
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73 | "ask God to bless palns" verse in bible? | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 211819 | ||
Hi John, Welcome to the forum! John, it's not really about our plans. I'd say it's more about God's plan. And when we get in line with God's plan, 'then' we will be sucsesful. God bless John Mark 16:15 And He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. |
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74 | do you need to fasten | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 211866 | ||
Pray tell us, what do you mean by "fasten"? | ||||||
75 | Prayer Request from My Family | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 212048 | ||
Please leave this up for a little while. My dear friend, Stanley, a diabetic for the last 37 years is really struggling with it now. Kidneys failing, 3 heart attacks this year, neuropathy, etc, but mostly it's a problem with his body absorbing (or not absorbing, I can't remember) his insulin from his pump 3 days each week. Everytime he changes sides for his pump every 3 days, if it goes to his left side, we pretty much know he's going to have problems because either his tissues are absorbing the insulin and the medicine is not able to do what it's supposed to do, or else it isn't absorbing like it's supposed to (I'm sorry, right now I can't think straight which way it is). But, anyway there you have it, for about 3 days each week he's pretty much going without much insulin at all (he's type 1 - dead pancreas). I sent him, about an hour ago by ambulance to the ER with blood sugars almost at 500. I'm waiting for the doctor to call me now. (Stanley doesn't like me to go there with him, so I stay by the phone.) Please pray that somehow the doctors can figure out about the absorbtion problem with his insulin. Thank you very much for keeping him in your prayers, he's a dear brother. Cheri p.s. Please do NOT remove this until it has had time for some prayer to go up for Stanley! |
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76 | belly of a whore? | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 214238 | ||
Hi ...erdun You can tell your coworker with confidence that that proverbial phrase is not actually found in the Bible. I cant tell you where it came from, maybe someone else here can help with that, but it's definitely not biblical. John |
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77 | Please define prophecy. | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 214270 | ||
Easton's Bible Dictionary http://www.christstudy.net/dic/easton/ |
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78 | dogs or cats in heaven (pets) | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 214298 | ||
Hi Mariel Try the link below, it should answer your question. John http://www.gotquestions.org/pets-heaven.html |
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79 | Soul the mind and Spirit the emotions? | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 214307 | ||
Hi heseeshisson, The line between Soul and Spirit is hardly a clear one: Soul: is sometimes said to be that part of us that is our consciousness, our wants/desires, our feelings, our very thoughts, that which we perceive as, ‘self’, is sometimes said to be our soul, it has been called, the seat of appetite. Spirit: sometimes is used to mean breath, so indicating that which is vital to life, also sometimes used in describing a tendency toward a particular behavior, (e.g. he has a lying spirit), or, a leaning toward, or, an untruthfulness in spirit. Spirit and soul have both been looked at as, that part of man that is unseen and sentient, yet consciously aware of the fact that we are alive, and, perhaps, even the very thing that is life itself. (Of course true life is found only in Jesus Christ) Just what are the tangible differences between the two? Scripture pants a pretty fuzzy line at best. And, while some commentary/Scripture's, tend to keep the line between them though it remains quite unclear, others clearly seem to wipe it out altogether. Anyway, that was my two cent's :-) John --------------------------- Here's some more to chew on. “ While outwardly man is a physical being, living and moving in a material universe, there is also a spiritual reality. Finite, physical creatures could never truly relate to an infinite, spiritual Being so when God created man, he formed yet a third facet to our nature, a spirit. The soul, comprised of our thoughts, emotions and will, combined inextricably with this spirit to form a creature unlike all others, higher than the animals and a little lower than the angels; Unique in all Creation. It is this amalgamation of spirit and soul that survives our physical death. It is the essence of who we are as a person and will never cease to exist.” – gospel.htm: Part of http://www.tlogical.net Copyright ©2005 John M. Fritzius --------------------------- Hree's something Doc wrote, that's quite good I think. :-) “Scripture uses the word "soul" and "spirit" interchangeably. For example, in John 12:27, our Lord says, "now is my soul troubled." However, in a very similar context, in the next chapter, John tells us that Jesus was "troubled in spirit" (13:21). There are a number of places where it is used in Hebrew Parallelism; e.g., Luke 1:46-47. Dead people are both spoken of as "spirits" (Hebrew 12:23; 1 Peter 3:19) and "souls" (Revelation 6:9; 20:4). At death, Scripture says either that the "soul" departs or the "spirit" departs (cf Genesis 35:18; 1 Kings 17:21; Isaiah 53:12; Psalm 31:5; Luke 23:46; Ecclesiastes 12:7; John 19:30; Acts 7:59; etc.). The Bible says that the "soul" can sin or the "spirit" can sin (cf 1 Peter 1:22; Revelation 18:14; 2 Corinthians 7:1; 7:34; etc.). Indeed, everything that the soul is said to do, the spirit is also said to do and vice versa. This includes thinking, feeling, choosing, and worshiping. In Jewish thinking human beings are not bipartite or tripartite creatures. Dividing of the various components is such a difficult thing, that no human can untangle the parts or even find the dividing lines. (Hence the surgical imagery of Hebrews 4:12.) Just as today we'd not be able to find the dividing line between our minds and our bodies. The trichotomy of man was an idea introduced by the Greeks -- Aristotle in particular. (Not that it isn't "true" -- only that it has its origins from extra-Biblical sources.) Later Gnostic thinking liked this idea, as they deemed that pure reason was higher, more noble, and distinct from baser attributes. Even later, Augustine argued that the image of God's triune nature was reflected in a triune nature of man. The Roman Church still holds to this perspective, although with a bit of a Gnostic twist. Even our language reflects some of our opinions regarding the components of a man. The ancient Hebrew thought of the heart the same way the average American thinks of the brain. The modern man does not expect to cut into a brain and find the real person. In the same way, the Hebrew would not have expected to cut into a heart and reveal the real person. Yet both understand that a blob of tissue exists, but both tend to think of it as somehow containing a person's essence. This is a deep and complex subject. Theologians and philosophers for multiple millennia have discussed it. The Scripture tells us things that we could not have known by introspection. However, it does not entirely settle all of the questions. What we can say definitively, though, is that man is a being who thinks, feels, acts, and communicates. Furthermore, we know that the soul/spirit can be separated from the body in death, but that that is an abnormal state -- one that won't exist when God restores creation, for every soul/spirit will be joined with their resurrected body.” -- DocTrinsograce |
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80 | Praise Him! | Bible general Archive 4 | stjohn | 214380 | ||
--Hallelujah--Hebrew liturgical expression meaning "praise ye Yah" ("praise the Lord"). It appears in the Hebrew Bible in several psalms, usually at the beginning or end of the psalm or in both places. In ancient Judaism it was probably chanted as an antiphon by the Levite choir. In the New Testament it appears only in Revelation 19, where it occurs four times. It was translated in the Septuagint (Jewish Greek version of the Bible made in the pre-Christian period) and became "alleluia" in the Vulgate (4th-century Christian Latin version). The early Christians adopted the expression in their worship services, and it appeared in Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Anglican, and some Protestant liturgies and in hymns.-- Encyclopedia Britannica --Hallelujah--praise ye Jehovah, frequently rendered "Praise ye the LORD," stands at the beginning of ten of the psalms (106, 111-113, 135, 146-150), hence called "hallelujah psalms." From its frequent occurrence it grew into a formula of praise. The Greek form of the word (alleluia) is found in Rev. 19:1, 3, 4, 6.--Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary |
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