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61 | Did Jesus ever drink wine? | Matt 11:19 | srbaegon | 215877 | ||
Hi Tim, True they did, but in both cases it was a conclusion based on what the Lord was doing or saying. In John 7:1-24 the Lord was the Jews that they were plotting to kill him. The crowd responded that he had a demon; nobody was trying to kill him. This sounded like lunacy, therefore the demon comment. Later in John 8:48 the Jews repeated the accusation because Jesus had said they were children of the devil, not Abraham to whom they could prove natural lineage. Again Jesus' comment sounded like lunacy on the surface. In the same way, one cannot be a glutton or drunkard without eating and drinking those things that could be used to bring an accusation, however unfounded. So both types of comments were disparaging and fueled by hatred, but there was some outward act that prompted them. That's all. :-) Steve |
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62 | Leave possesions to realize GOD | Genesis | srbaegon | 215112 | ||
Hello Mike, True enough. I just wanted to stay within the scope of the original question. As C.H. Spurgeon used to preach it--salvation is all of grace. The work of atonement is complete by the shedding of the Lord Jesus' precious blood which covers and removes all sin. There is no more work to be done. Steve |
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63 | Why did God tell Abraham to kill his son | Gen 22:2 | srbaegon | 215002 | ||
Hello, When teaching Bible in my church, I am rather strict in making the class speak accurately of the text, so no, God did not tell Abraham to kill his son. He told Abraham to offer Isaac as a burnt offering. I know it's a fine point, but I will be adamant about it (in a nice way). This is the reason I belabor the point. God's plan was to provide the substitute for Isaac. He just never let Abraham know the plan until the very end after everything had been prepared to offer Isaac as a sacrifice. Abraham built the altar, laid the wood, bound Isaac (remarkable in itself), laid him on the wood, and took the knife. Notice it does not say that the Lord interrupted as the knife was coming down or anything like that. It just says everything was prepared. At that point God reveals the substitute. So no, your friend cannot destroy his family. All he can do is make preparations and expect a substitute. If none arrives, God was not speaking to him. And really the only acceptable substitute would be Christ himself who already paid the price. Steve |
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64 | Why did God tell Abraham to kill his son | Gen 22:2 | srbaegon | 214996 | ||
Hello, The reconciliation between Gen 22:2 and James 1:14 is that the passages have nothing to do with each other. James is speaking of temptations that come from within and tear us and others down spiritually. Genesis 22 is a test to prove and increase faith. We know from looking at this side of the story that God never intended for Isaac to die. In order for your friend to mimic the command to Abraham, he would have to stop at the last moment and kill a ram instead. Steve |
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65 | Why did God tell Abraham to kill his son | Gen 22:2 | srbaegon | 214975 | ||
Hello, You may be comparing apples to oranges between Abraham and this friend. Is God asking the friend to offer the family members as a burnt offering? That would be the only possible justification your friend would have. As to your question concerning God's request which would end in a person's death: God does nothing in violation of his character. If he did, he would cease to be God. We know God hates murder, and he had already promised that Isaac was the promised son through whom he would be the father of many nations. That being the case, God's command to Abraham could not possibly end in Isaac's death. One of two things must occur: God stops Abraham, or God resurrects Isaac. In either case, the immediate end of the journey is life. Now, does God command people to kill other people? Yes, he does, but only as an act of defense or as a tool of divine judgment. But that is looking at Abraham's situation from our understanding with the totality of Scripture. The capital punishment described in the covenant with Noah was to deal with retribution for unjust killing. I am willing to bet your friend does not have assurance that his family members will live physically immediately after they have been killed. Steve |
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66 | Why did God tell Abraham to kill his son | Gen 22:2 | srbaegon | 214965 | ||
Part 2 F. W. Grant, Genesis: In Light of the New Testament (Speaking of Abraham and Isaac as pictures of God the Father and the Lord Jesus) "Isaac is undoubtedly the living type of Christ which gives Him to us most in the work He has done for God, and thus for us. For a moment, as it were, from the solemn institution of sacrifice the vail is almost removed. Man for man it is must suffer: man, but not this man. Isaac is withdrawn, and faith is left looking onward to the Lamb that 'God will provide for Himself' as a burnt offering. But if Isaac be the type of this, another comes no less distinctly into view. It is a father here who gives his son. Abraham seems, indeed, the most prominent figure, and necessarily for the type. It is the father’s will to which the son obediently gives himself. In the anti-type, the God who provides Himself the lamb answers to the father in this case. It is the Son of God who comes to do the Father’s will. But what a will, to be the Father’s! We wonder at this strange testing of a faith God held precious. Was it not worth the while to be honored with such a history? This was his justification by works now, God bringing out into open sight before others that which He Himself had long before seen and borne witness of. And then how wonderful to see in this display of a human heart the manifestation of the Father’s! How all is measured out to Abraham! But who can fail to see that in these elements of sorrow that filled to the brim the father’s cup we have the lineaments of a sacrifice transcending this immeasurably? Let us not fear to make God too human in thus apprehending Him. He has become a man to be apprehended. . . . Through all this trial of Abraham’s we must not miss the fact that the faith of resurrection cheers the father’s heart. The promises of God were assured in him, of whom He had said, 'In Isaac shall thy seed be called.' If therefore God called for him to be offered up, resurrection must restore him from the very flames of the altar; and 'in a figure,' as the apostle says, from the dead he was received. The figure of resurrection here it is very important to keep in mind, for it is to Christ in resurrection that the events following typically refer. In fact, Isaac is spared from death; and here occurs one of those double figures by which the Spirit of God would remedy the necessary defect of all figures to set forth Christ and His work. Isaac is spared; but there is substituted for him 'a ram caught in a thicket by his horns.' Picture of devoted self-surrender, as we have seen elsewhere the ram is; he is 'caught by his horns'—the sign (as others have noticed) of his power. . . . In a figure, however, Isaac is raised from the dead; and as risen, the promise is confirmed to him,—'In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.' It is Christ raised from the dead who is the only source of blessing to the whole world. The value and necessity of His sacrificial work are here affirmed. Death has passed upon all men, for that all have sinned; only beyond death, then, can there be fulfillment of the promise, however free." Steve |
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67 | Why did God tell Abraham to kill his son | Gen 22:2 | srbaegon | 214964 | ||
Hello bibleman12, You have been given several reasons. You just do not like them. Here are more. Barnes' Notes: "Abraham must have felt the outward inconsistency between the sacrifice of his son, and the promise that in him should his seed be called. But in the triumph of faith he accounted that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead. On no other principle can the prompt, mute, unquestioning obedience of Abraham be explained. Human sacrifice may have been not unknown; but this in no way met the special difficulty of the promise. The existence of such a custom might seem to have smoothed away the difficulty of a parent offering the sacrifice of a son. But the moral difficulty of human sacrifice is not so removed. The only solution of this, is what the ease itself actually presents; namely, the divine command. It is evident that the absolute Creator has by right entire control over his creatures. He is no doubt bound by his eternal rectitude to do no wrong to his moral creatures. But the creature in the present case has forfeited the life that was given, by sin. And, moreover, we cannot deny that the Almighty may, for a fit moral purpose, direct the sacrifice of a holy being, who should eventually receive a due recompense for such a degree of voluntary obedience. This takes away the moral difficulty, either as to God who commands, or Abraham who obeys. Without the divine command, it is needless to say that it was not lawful for Abraham to slay his son." Lawrence O. Richards, The Bible Readers Companion "God did not intend for Abraham to sacrifice Isaac. The command was a test: a test of how far Abraham would trust the Lord with his most precious possession." James Montgomery Boice, Genesis "How could this problem be resolved? There were only two ways. Abraham could have concluded that God was erratic, wavering from one plan to another because he did not know his own mind. This had not been Abraham’s experience of God. The long wait for the son had taught him better than that. Or Abraham could have concluded that, although he—being finite and sinful—was unable to see the resolution of the difficulty, God could nevertheless be trusted to have a resolution, which he himself would certainly disclose in due time. This was the harder of the two solutions to accept, but Abraham’s experience of God led in this direction. Abraham acted in a manner consistent with his knowledge of God. That is, he trusted him, concluding that whatever God’s purposes may or may not have been in this situation, God had at least shown that he could not be his enemy. God was his friend. When the command to sacrifice Isaac was first given, Abraham did not understand how, if the command were carried out, the promise could be fulfilled. But that was all right. Abraham left the difficulty with God, which is the essence of true faith. What is faith? Faith is believing God and acting upon it. This is what Abraham did. God had shown that he could be trusted, so Abraham believed God and acted, even though he could not understand the solution to the difficulty." Steve |
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68 | Moabites forbidden and Ruth allowed?? | Deut 23:3 | srbaegon | 214590 | ||
Hello MJH, This is well done--thank you. As an aside, I question one part: "While a Roman could be a member of the 'Assembly of the LORD' (ie. church in the New Testament) yet remain a Roman citizen..." I disagree only because Paul states that "our citizenship is in heaven" (Phil 3:20). Therefore the status of the Christian is as a sojourner (or resident alien) but not citizen. I see Paul's own use of Roman citizenship when arrested as more to hold the Roman guards accountable to their own laws rather than claiming something for himself. Steve |
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69 | did apostles disobey jesus' commission? | Matt 28:19 | srbaegon | 214473 | ||
Please do not speak in vague generalities. Specific details of specific occurrences are related in Acts. This does not mean that the apostles never baptized using three names. The best you can say is that Acts does not give any accounts of it happening. Steve |
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70 | ... | John 8:58 | srbaegon | 214471 | ||
If Jesus is: * the image of the invisible God; (Col 1:15) * the firstborn of all creation; (Col 1:15) * the author, vehicle and power of creation; (Col 1:16-17) * the head of the body, the church; (Col 1:18) * the dwelling place of all the fullness of God (Col 1:19; 2:9) * the vehicle of reconciliation (Col 1:20) * the recipient of reconciliation (Col 1:20) If he is all these things (which can only be attributed to God alone), how is it that he has a God? Steve |
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71 | ... | John 8:58 | srbaegon | 214465 | ||
What did you mean that "Jesus does have a God"? Steve |
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72 | can Satan plant thoughts into our minds? | 1 Pet 5:8 | srbaegon | 214464 | ||
These are good verses, but none of them, separately or together, proves what you stated. Steve |
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73 | dogs or cats in heaven (pets) | Bible general Archive 4 | srbaegon | 214459 | ||
Where is the Scripture that proves the eternality of God's word equates to the eternality of plant or animal species? Steve |
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74 | Soul the mind and Spirit the emotions? | Bible general Archive 4 | srbaegon | 214456 | ||
Scriptural basis, please? Steve |
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75 | can Satan plant thoughts into our minds? | 1 Pet 5:8 | srbaegon | 214453 | ||
Hello dieselcowboy, Terms of Use dictate that answers are to be Scripturally based. Would you please provide the Scripture to uphold the claim that "Satan chose your head as a dwelling place but God chose the heart?" Steve |
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76 | why gen. 27: 39 differs in kjv vs nasb | Gen 27:39 | srbaegon | 214451 | ||
Hello dieselcowboy, Ad hominem attacks will not be tolerated. Please discontinue them. Steve |
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77 | What does judgement look like | 2 Cor 5:10 | srbaegon | 214002 | ||
Hello bill0624, Actually, Jesus did say that the work to be done was to believe whom god had sent (John 6:29). And the focus on the great commission is to "make disciples." That is the active verb in the sentence. Going, teaching, and baptizing are modifiers. What Jesus said about salvation cannot be divorced from the rest of Scripture. If we listen only to him concerning salvation, then what do we do with the statements Moses, Samuel, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Paul, Peter, John, etc? Are they to be ignored? The life of faith is one of obedience from beginning to end, so I'm not sure what distinctions you are trying to make. Steve |
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78 | Soul winning scriptures | Mark 16:15 | srbaegon | 213933 | ||
Hi Eric, As for scope, check out "About the Forum" in the Information box on the left. I especially would like to point out this part of it: "it's not a discussion group or topical survey, but an ever growing 'expository repository'" So the forum is not so much a place for "What motivates you?" but rather "How do I understand this Scripture in order to apply it?" And believe me, the line gets crossed rather often. Steve |
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79 | How Holy Is Marriage? | Matt 16:6 | srbaegon | 213622 | ||
You had a question on Val's comment: "'but each man/women was held responsible for their choices and decisions' Can you verify this statement with scripture?" Here is my response from Ezek 18:19-20 (ESV) Yet you say, "Why should not the son suffer for the iniquity of the father?" When the son has done what is just and right, and has been careful to observe all my statutes, he shall surely live. The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself. Steve |
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80 | Iam having some questions | John 17:1 | srbaegon | 212473 | ||
Hello KcabmI4, You stated: "Where is it saying these peoples of the Old Testiment 'they were saved by the grace of God' meaning Salvation. Salvation is through faith Christ Jesus. According to the Scripture. The people in the Old Testiment were not saved as we know salvation." 1. Abraham was counted righteous because he believed (Genesis 15:6b). Paul says that Christians receive salvation for the same reason as Abraham (Romans 4:1-12). 2. Abraham believed in God's word (Genesis 15:6a). Paul says that Christians receive salvation for the same reason as Abraham (Romans 10:5-17). 2. The righteous man lives by faith (Habakkuk 2:4). Paul agrees it is the same for Christians (Romans 1:16-17). So you see, salvation is a result of faith from beginning to end according to what God had revealed. That being the case, the only possible difference between Abraham and us is that the Lord Jesus fulfilled all that the Law required for an atoning sacrifice. We believe on that finished work rather than believing on the works of the Law. Steve |
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