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61 | Knowing gay minister unequally yoked? | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 204018 | ||
Dear Quvmoh, Yeah I agree whole heartedly that the Bible condemns homosexuality out right and the qualifications for a minister/ overseer are the husband of one wife... The issue was most definetely self evident, although I wonder just how evident it is to the professor, he says he is just now getting ready to tell this minister that he is in rebellion against God. Gotta wonder why that would take three years to say... As to the verse about being unequally yoked; II Corininthians 6:14-16 Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? The context is any relationship, not just marriage. Paul of course tells us in another passage this; I Corinthians 5:9--11 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with immoral people; I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world, or with the covetous and swindlers, or with idolators, for then you would have to go out of the world. But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so called brother if he is an immoral person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler - not even to eat with such a one. Somehow this professor thinks he will win this man by hanging out with him and being his friend. And after three years of heated face to face and email discussion the professor has not taken it to the church (although they may not be in the same church), or taken a second brother with him to confront this man on his sin; Mathew 8:15,16 If your borther sins, go and show him his fault in private; if he listens to you, you have won your brother. But if he does not listen to you, take one or two more with you, so that by the mouth of two or three witnesses every fact may be confirmed. God bless and thanks for your reply, Tamara | ||||||
62 | Know any scriptures for Depression? | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 204020 | ||
Thanks Steve, Tamara | ||||||
63 | How do these accounts reconcile? | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 204179 | ||
This is a repost because I am looking for a complete answer , I received one partial answer, thank you, you know who you are. I am also reposting this because I received complaints that my posts were not concise and would like to comply and again receive a complete answer, if there is one. There is no bottom line to this question it is not simple. 1)On context; The gospels have conflicting accounts of events at the tomb of Jesus on the resurrection day. 2)On context; Angels, Mathew has one angel on a sitting on a stone outside the tomb, Mark has one angel sitting to the right in the tomb, Luke and John have two angels inside the tomb. 3)On context; Mary sees Jesus first at the tomb and then goes and tells the disciples immediately in John, Mary sees Jesus first after leaving the tomb in Mark, The disciples see Jesus first at the place where they were away from the tomb in Mathew, the two on the road to Emmaus are the first to see Jesus in Luke. 4)On context; Mary goes alone in John, Mary goes with the other Mary in Mathew, Mary goes with three women in Mark, Mary goes with a group of women more than three in Luke. 5)Question; can you reconcile all four gospel accounts if you can please? |
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64 | How do these accounts reconcile? | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 204201 | ||
Dear John, thanks for the link, I appreciate that John. This is a question that comes up often when I am talking to middle eastern Muslims, New York is full of em. I had tried to get Doc, Hank and Lionheart to take a look at my Islam tracts in order to give me an opinion of the contents, but got no answers back. I need help with this issue of answering their accusations and observations instead of continually telling them that if they don't take Jesus blood they are going to hell. That doesn't address their concerns about their inability to believe what our scriptures say. I don't assume you will be interested in helping out with this, but if you are my email drop is; whatdoyoubelieve@hotmail.com. God Bless, Tamara | ||||||
65 | Acts 13:1 | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 204203 | ||
Dear Jamison, plese don't keep quiet! This is an open forum and I am willing to hear what other Christians veiw things like. I don't know which part of the thread you caught, somewhere in there I acknowledged that they get this belief from a number of verses later on in the thread. In that same note I said that Jesus used the word sleep as a euphimism and that so did those in the OT use it as a euphimism. Somehow we need to find out not what our context is based on our theology, but what the historical context of the authors and the subjects of the stories were in order to understand how they were using the words. That should be driving how we understand what they said, not our theology today. It is your business if you see something say it, we are all trying to understand the Bible, there is room for unity in tolerance and room for unity in coming to understanding what each of us views things like. God Bless, Tamara | ||||||
66 | How do these accounts reconcile? | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 204206 | ||
Ok Doc point taken, when we evangelize our sucess depends not on whether they take the word they received and get saved, but whether or not we did what we were commanded. Is that why you included Luke 17:9,10? Oh, my I hope you don't think I was looking for browny points... Someone else who looked at the tracts felt it was too much information at one time. God Bless, Tamara | ||||||
67 | Four reasons Jesus was baptized? | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 204337 | ||
I love this sort of thing keep doing it. How about 5 reasons instead... 1)To fulfill righteousness - Mathew 3:15 2)To please the Father - Mark 1:11 3)To recieve the Holy Spirit - Luke 3:22 4)To be revealed to be the Son of God - John 1:34 5)To have the power to baptize with the Holy Spirit - John 1:33 God Bless the hat lady |
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68 | How do these accounts reconcile? | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 204346 | ||
Dear John, Pondered what you said here for about a while I guess. Here is what I was able to try to peice together; 2)On context; Angels, Mathew has one angel sitting on a stone outside the tomb, Mark has one angel sitting to the right in the tomb, Luke and John have two angels inside the tomb. There may have been three angels. There were perhaps two or three angels around at first when the women came one was standing on the stone, they didn't see the other one, or ones inside the tomb. The writers only metioned the angel who spoke in some accounts. When Peter and John came they saw the two angels inside and maybe one was hanging out side and had moved off the stone and stood by the door. 3)On context; Mary sees Jesus first at the tomb and then goes and tells the disciples immediately in John, Mary sees Jesus first after leaving the tomb in Mark, The disciples see Jesus first at the place where they were away from the tomb in Mathew, the two on the road to Emmaus are the first to see Jesus in Luke. Perhaps Mary saw Jesus twice, once at the tomb and once on the way back to the disciples. Every account has someone different seeing Jesus first or in a differnt place because they were writing telling the story from a different point of view. 4)On context; Mary goes alone in John, Mary goes with the other Mary in Mathew, Mary goes with three women in Mark, Mary goes with a group of women more than three in Luke. All the women were there it's just that some writers only mention the woman who does the speaking and others simply only mention some of them. God Bless, the hat lady |
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69 | How do these accounts reconcile? | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 204396 | ||
Dear John thanks for the further clarification as to where you are at. This is not an adomonition to you John, just an observation. Lionheart said something interesting to someone about reconciling things... He said that it is important to reconcile what appear to be conflicting accounts, or scriptures because of what Paul was saying to Timothy; II Timothy 2:15, 3:16,17 and II Peter 1:19-21. I hear you about not speculating and that you don't engage in it. But there is nothing unBiblical (not that you were saying there was) about attempting to reconcile accounts, or apparently conflicting scriptures based on who the author was, his intent in writing, who his audience was, what the subject matter was and how different authors in the Bible address the subject. It is all part of proper exegesis John (not trying to push you around here, sincerely). I am not offended, every one sees things through the central motif of their own theologial lens... I hear your concern about the over arching message of the gospel of Jesus Christ. There are plenty of concerns a person could legitmately have about the Bible than just the end message. The Bible has a lot of parts and there are a whole lot of areas of study concerning the Bible that go into varying aspects of the message. The history in the Bible, the actors in the play, the long progression of how the end message came to be, and on and on. I personally am interested in every facet of these things as they all pretain to or have bearing on the central message you are concerned with. There is room in the body of Christ for a great amount of diversity in all things pretaining to Christ and everything you could possibly study about the Bible is ultimately about Christ. I respect your point of view and it accounts for the content of a whole lot of your replies in answer to some of my questions and notes. Thank you for the clarification for the second time (I think). Ephesians 1:9,10 He has made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him with a view to an administration suitable to the fulness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heaven and things in the earth. All things will be summed up in Christ, us together as members of one another and the body of Christ and each of our own dedication to understanding the word of God to the full. God Bless, the hat lady |
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70 | How do these accounts reconcile? | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 204401 | ||
Laughing out loud John, we will get it all together as one, don't worry, I will try the linkn again, I had trouble with it... Tam |
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71 | What does God want other than 'obedience | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 204440 | ||
Welcome! Just adding my two cents in Try these Mathew 22:37-39 the two great commandments centering around love I John 4:15,16 about the need to confess Jesus and believing in the love of God and that abiding in love is abiding in God and God abides in the believer. The others are right too, we were created to worship God and to give Him glory. God Bless, Tamara |
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72 | Jesus meant what in Matt 10:23 16:28 | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 204442 | ||
Hello RC, I am going to answer this since no one else did (now don't anybody go getting ruffled out there the scriptures were never addressed). Your question; What did Jesus mean in Mathew 10:23 16:28, 26:64. please no Theology just plain and simple literal interpretation. There is no such thing as answer to this that will not require a bit of theology, it just is not possible to get a literal interpretation without examinig the grammar and the contexts. But I will try to minimize it all for you if I can (no insult intended). Mathew 10:23 is Jesus talking about the disciples undergoing persecution and that they won't be able to finish preahing the gospel until His return. Without getting too theological it becomes clear that this cannot be referring to Jesus coming back after the resurrection because they had not gone out to all the regions yet. It can't be referring to the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD becuase Jesus didn't show up again. It is most likely referring to when Jesus will make His second appearance or even third appearance because the disciples never finished preaching to all the cities in Israel and we haven't finished now either. I say even third coming becuase you have to figure in the 144,000 who will do the last work of preaching to every nation and region and they will be bringing in Jews who will have fled to Israel before the Abomination of Desolation occurs in the new temple at Jerusalem. Do you see, now, Doc's apparent frustration at your request for no theology, but just a literal interpretation? The theology is impossible to avoid here because a literal interpretation can't be garnered without a bit of work on what the grammar is saying in context with future history from then and now. Mathew 16:28 This is Jesus talking about the disciples seeing Jesus in his royal majesty (talk about theology, you have to check the Greek grammar on this to see it) with power and that they would see this phenomena before they died natural deaths. This is referring to when the disciples saw Jesus at the transfiguration exhibiting His majesty and power while He was talking to two of His royal subjects, Moses and Elijah (see the Markan version for this and check the Greek grammar in 9:1, no pun intended, do you see how you can't avoid some theology with this thing?). Mathew 26:64 Jesus is talking to the Sanhedrin and they ask whether He is the Son of God and He is telling them that after they are done with their doings concerning Him the next time they will see Him is when He returns and makes His third appearing when every eye will see the one whom they have pierced. God Bless, hope that answers it, Tamara |
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73 | Why did Jesus not want the evil spirits | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 204969 | ||
Dear SBG, Welcome to the forum! I think John makes an excellent point there that it is impossible to say directly from scripture why Jesus kept on saying to various parties not to tell that He was the Son of God, the Christ, the Son of Man. We may have a clue though in one of the scriptures John gave you; Luke 9:21,22 But He warned them and instructed them not to tell this to anyone, saying, The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the cheif priests and scribes, and be killed and be raised up on the third day. Jesus says the two things together at one time which has led many commentators to see each other instance of Jesus saying this; to the demons who kept saying it, to those He healed, to the disciples, because He did not want His opponents given cause to seek His death too early in the game. His opponents were already seeking to kill Him because of healing on the Sabbath and His claims to deity and for the people to start going around and spreading the news that He was God, the Christ, the Son of God would have incited those who were against Him to act before the appointed time for Him to go to the cross by hastening the process along too soon. Just a thought... God Bless, Tamara |
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74 | Does God want us to belong to one church | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 205063 | ||
Dear Jesus Keep Me, Welcome to the forum! We have a couple in our church who were both believers but were in different churches. The wife wanted to be in a place where sound Biblical preaching and teaching was going on, the husband was serving as a deacon at the other churh which had many programs and a lot of evangelism. He eventaully left that church because the teaching and preaching was not sound Biblically and came to our little church and serves on our deacon board. The Lord blessed them while they served in different churches in their marriage, but now He is blessing them even more since they are serving together. Word of caution, if your husband is perhaps not saved, then it might be better to go with him to the church he chose in order to follow his leadership. As long as it is a sound Bible believing church you should respect your husband, revere your husband, follow your husband as unto Christ. Your behavior in doing this in all things will help to win him over to Christ all the way as he observes your behavior. We should remember that the husband and wife are one flesh, one person, not two people in one marriage, but one person in one marriage, as Christ is with the church. I believe God would be more pleased to see that the two of you act as one. God's Day to you, Tamara |
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75 | Does God want us to belong to one church | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 205067 | ||
Dear Lionheart, Hebrews 10:25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near. Of course this doesn't say that you have to remain in the same church, but it does say we should not forsake fellow shipping together. Of course there are those who do not believe this is true, like Harold Camping, who believes the age of the chruch is over and that you would be better off in a whore house (his words, not mine). However, if we were to take the first century church as our model, then it would seem that folks belonged to particular gatherings, house churches, met regulary, had names of churches they belonged to and so forth. I would take that as my model, that it is a good thing to be in one congregation after a careful search and remain there. The reason is, you will experience the dification and reciprocate it to your brethren of the body of Christ over a prolonged period of time and that is essential to your growth as a Christian. If you dont' belong to a particular church, and you are going about from church to church you may become like a waterless cloud, lacking sound foundations for lack of a consistent diet on consistent doctrine and consistent relationships where you will be required to engage in the working out of your salvation. Fellow ship in one congregation is essential to the full Christian expereience in my experience. I was in a church for 6 years and then left out to go see about other churches and church hopped for 4 years because I was having trouble with my family in church. I left a good church and was never satisfied with the doctrinal teaching I exposed myself to and went back despite family problems and will never be leaving again, it has been 4 years since I went back to my church home. There is one other very good reason not to go floating around as a husband and wife, or even as a single believer, accountability to the body of Christ to follow Christ. When you as husband and wife, or even as a single person stay in one place you are accountable for your actions as a Christian to the body of Christ and not just to Christ. God's Day to you, Tamara |
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76 | Does God want us to belong to one church | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 205074 | ||
Dear Jeff, Am I to understand that you mean for this woman to wear a hat if her husband is saved, but not if he isn't? Or that she should simply wear a hat because she is a married woman? You have me very curious as to what you are saying here. Note to forum members; this is not an attempt to bring up the hat issue agains as if it had not been discussed, but is an attempt to udnerstand Jeff's position on the scripture he gave as advice to Sissy. God's day to you Jeff, Tamara the hat lady |
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77 | If a person hurts you and ask forgivenes | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 205237 | ||
Dear Katielee, Mathew 18:21,22 Then Peter came and said to Him, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Up to seven times?" Jesus said to him, "I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven." Forgiveness is a requirement of being a Christian, if Jesus tells us to love both our neighbors and our enemies then we are to forgive both. Being a doormat for punishment and abuse that is not for the sake of preaching and teaching of the gospel is not required of Christians. Luke 17:3 "Be on your guard! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. And if he returns to you seven times a day, and returns to you seven times, saying, 'I repent,' forgive him." There is another thing to think about, forgive them if they repent and ask for forgiveness. A non Christian or a non repentant Christian you may want to forgive just so you don't walk around angry and continuall hurt all the time and to make sure you are in the right with God. But according to this verse, if they don't repent, you are not required to forgive them. I had a lot of trouble (this is not a comment of frustration to forum members or snide remark about messages I may have recieved as a result) when I first came in here because I kept on including my personal circumstances with my questions. I had to learn to refrain a bit and rephrase my questions around the issue without going much into the situation the question came out of. I noticed that no one said anything like what was said to you regarding a man asking what to do about a situation with his mother in law, very very interesting, nothing got said to him, everyone just pitched in to help, and the thread went on and on for a while. Sometimes folks react to you differently after hearing personal things, be carefull what you say in here, you don't want what you reveal to color people's impression of you and your questions. Keep asking questons, God Bless, Tamara |
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78 | names and events | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 205239 | ||
Dear ardmore, You received very good advice, I would add that the more times you read the passage, or the whole Bible, the better you will remember it. I would also add that if you start doing word studies with a concordance of names and events in the OT you will find that you start to remember them becuase you have studied them in depth. You could start by looking up the word Elisha in the concordance for instance and go to each place where his name appears and start reading before and after where his name appears. That will reteach you what his life was all about and familiarize you with the passage, the events, the other people and so on. Then in about two weeks go back and do the same word study over again, I guaruntee you will find out something new each time about the events, the people and so on. Here is another technique to try, stop highlighting your Bible for a while if you have been. Go looking up an event like Nehemia eating grass like an ox in the concordance firs, then the Bible. Trace what happened before and after for a few pages, then go look up another king who rebelled against God and another, until you have looked up 5 of them. Don't mark your Bible when you do this, try to commit the chapter numbers to memory, and close the Bible. Open the Bible back up and go find everything again without using the concordance at all to find anything, when you get stuck use the concordance one king at a time. Go do the same exact study the next day and the next, by the end of the week you will know by heart where these 5 rebellious kings are to be found without any trouble at all. I have done this with both the NT and the OT, for people, for events, for topics for everything it works... I have never marked my Bibles in 13 years of studying because I demand of myself that I will now where everything is one day, I practice and practice until I know where things are to be found. Bible study is not a piece of cake, it is hard work. Here is for you; II Timothy 2:15... God's day to you, Tamara |
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79 | what approach did paul take | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 205272 | ||
Dear Beanna, Welcome to the forum! Paul started out by reasoning with the all the Athenians and the strangers gathered at the Aeropagus where all would gather to talk about things new. He speaks of having observed that the men of Athens are very religious people in all respects. Then he begins to reason with them about the Unknown God and how they were worshipping this god in ignorance. He goes on to describe the qualities of this Unkown God for many verse. One could even say Paul used wisdom in the way in which he choose to reveal who the Unkown God is. However, a switch in mode occurs in verse 31 as Paul stops reasoning and begins to give a very short straight forward declaration of a man who has been appointed a judge of the world by the Unkown God and prooved to be so by being raised from the dead. This is about the shortest testament of the death and resurrection of Jesus that can be found in the whole NT, but it is a declaration of His death and resurrection and the judging of men through Jesus. What Paul does not use the other elements that he and Peter usually employed; the proof that Jesus rules eternally on the throne of David and that David does not and is dead, the crucifixion story, the OT prohecies come true in the life, ministry, and person of Jesus. But he does say Christ died and was raised from the dead, however short, he does give the central message of the gospel, in one very short sentence. He began with reasoning and wisdom, but ended up in a declarative sentence containing the essence of the gospel message of salvation. You will find other instances in Acts where it is said of Peter, of Paul and of Steven that wisdom or reasoning was used to approach the unblievers. What you will find is that except in instances where they are presenting a defense to prosecution, examination by kings and rulers, and while presenting an accusation to those who are about to stone the speaker to death, the central message of the death, or crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus is presented as what consist of the message preached, whatever the means of delivery may be. God's day to you, Tamara |
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80 | Why did satan dispute over moses body | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 205310 | ||
Dear dscott1, Quote, MacArthur Bible Commentary, John MacArthur, pg.1983, par.1; :9 Michael...archangel. The chief angel of God who especially watches over Israel (Dan. 10:13,21; 12:1) and leads the holy angels (Rev. 12:7). Nowhere else in scripture is this struggle over the body of Moses mentioned. Michael had to fight Satan to do God's bidding, a he did on other occasion in Daniel 10:13 (see note there). the devil. Another name for Satan which means "accuser" or "slanderer" (cf. Rev. 12:9,10). body of Moses. Moses died on Mount Nebo in Moab without having entered the Promised Land and was secretly buried in a place not known to man (Deut. 34:5,6). It would likely be that this confrontation took place as Michael buried Moses to prevent Satan from using Moses' body for some diabolical purpose not stated. Perhaps Satan wanted to use it as an idol, an object of worship for Israel. God sent Michael, however, to make sure it was buried. This account was recorded in te pseudepigraphal Assumption of Moses (see Introduction: Interpretive Challenges). Hope this helps, By His Grace, Tamara |
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