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61 | I agree with you 100 percent. But... | Hebrews | bjanko | 1184 | ||
Well, I'm sorry if I have offended you. I do not mean to assume anything. But I also do not see that there is much to be gained in discussing the predestination/freewill issue with you, since our feet our firmly planted on opposite sides. Maybe on some other issue, we will be able to discuss things more fruitfully. Many regards. | ||||||
62 | I agree with you 100 percent. But... | Hebrews | bjanko | 1176 | ||
That's funny. I told you EXPLICITLY that I believe you care more about your own opinion rather than what the text actually says. Now, you write back "assuming" that I will not discourse for some other reason. You took my explicit statements and twisted them around. I will gladly discourse about any text; but I will no longer discourse with you because you not only turn Scripture inside out as it pleases you, but you turn my own words around. You take things as you like to see them. I do not believe you are sincere, but merely want to bait me into a conversation where you can expound your own views. So forget it. |
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63 | I agree with you 100 percent. But... | Hebrews | bjanko | 1172 | ||
There would be no point, because you would just proceed to tell me that what is in the text is really not there, read your own meaning into it, and then insist that the context supported your view, even though it clearly didn't. I believe you are more committed to your own views than to the text. |
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64 | I agree with you 100 percent. But... | Hebrews | bjanko | 1170 | ||
Well, that's not what the verse actually says, but I suppose you can believe whatever you like. | ||||||
65 | I agree with you 100 percent. But... | Hebrews | bjanko | 1164 | ||
Wow! NO ONE can snatch us out of the Father's hand -- that sounds like He has a pretty good grip on us; but somehow we can just happen to "somehow" forget our way into hell. Very strange way to look at it, indeed! | ||||||
66 | Executive privilege? | Matt 18:17 | bjanko | 1147 | ||
I would not agree the sin must be particularly heinous; it simply must be repentant. The caps were in the NASB translation when I did a search for the verse. It was not my emphasis. They are in caps because they are words taken from the Mosaic Law in the O.T. and the NASB always caps those to indicate them. I don't know how many rules we can work out to come up with exact rules, which why we need leaders with wisdom living by God's rule. Ministers not ought hold back. If they do, then THEY should be disciplined by those over them. (Of course, many ministers have no one over them unless they are in a Reformed church.) vv. 18-20 are not verses merely about prayer, as is commonly misunderstood. Taken in context, they are referring to the prayers of two or three church authorities, binding and loosing, exercising authority over the church, with powers to admit into the church or to excommunicate. I believe the Scripture gives great authority to spiritual leaders and of course there's danger in that and men should be tested and examined very carefully before they are ordained. I'm not really sure what your main point or bottom line is, so I'm not really able to answer any more succinctly than this. I also agree that excommunication is not a glib or light thing or something that should be rushed into without first full and earnest pleading with the offender to repent. |
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67 | I agree with you 100 percent. But... | Hebrews | bjanko | 1143 | ||
Well, I was just wondering what your reply was. I do not believe a person could renounce their salvation. After all, the verse does say "no one" can snatch them out; and if you try to leave, then you are merely trying to snatch yourself out. If someone else can't pull you out, how could you possibly manage to jump out on your own? Of course, you don't know why anyone would renounce their salvation because those who are saved have a new heart and they are glad to be saved and grateful. The person who renounces their salvation merely shows evidence he was never saved to begin with. But anyway, I have also had this conversation with someone else somewhere around this forum and you can read that as well, if you like. |
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68 | A pastor who is there? | NT general Archive 1 | bjanko | 1141 | ||
IN THEORY: if a mega-church existed where it was subdivided and there REAL pastors and elders who shepherded their assigned portions of the flock, then I suppose all would be well. Unfortunately, mega-churches seem to operate much in the way you describe and so I do not think they are healthy. Theoretically, there could be an exception, but it is certainly very difficult to consider it a wise rule. It is more biblical, because you do have a pastor familiar with the individuals of his flock, if you have a smaller congregation. I am in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. The Presbytery, which covers So. California and some of Arizona is really what is called the "church." So, in that sense, it is indeed a mega church. However, the Presbytery oversees Sessions, which are two to four trained men -- a teaching elder, a couple ruling elders and perhaps a deacon or two. These men are usually over a smaller congregation, from say 50 to 200. And the number of men to congregants is sufficient for their to be proper care and feeding of the sheep. If the proportion is not adequate for that, then they should make two smaller churches out of it, in my opinion. |
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69 | The church involved? | Matt 18:17 | bjanko | 1140 | ||
Matt 18:15 "If your brother sins, go and show him his fault in private; if he listens to you, you have won your brother. Matt 18:16 "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. Matt 18:17 "If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. Matt 18:18 "Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven. Matt 18:19 "Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven. Matt 18:20 "For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst." Matt 18:21 Then Peter came and said to Him, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Up to seven times?" Matt 18:22 Jesus *said to him, "I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven. *********** This section covers all your concerns. 1) "if your brother sins against you" - it doesn't specify type of sin, it just says "sins" 2) the church should be informed about the matter -- maybe not every gory detail, but the main thrust of the issue; the verse explicitly says it should be made known to the church; I'm just inferring that the church not be told so much that it might lead to gossip or an ungodly disdain toward someone they ought all should desire to see come to repentance vv. 18-20 show clearly that there is an ecclesiastical authority; an authority the church leaders -- ministers and elders -- have that the laity does not have vv. 21-22 is paradoxical. Jesus tells Peter he should forgive the brother basically without any limit, (i.e., the hyperbole seventy times seven). I think this is resolved though by taking the view that while we might forgive the brother, we -- the church -- ought not let him profess to be a Christian if he lives in sin and will not repent. The excommunication is to cause him to desire repentance, just as the exile of Israel was meant to cause them to desire to return to their God. |
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70 | Jesus closes the door? | Matt 18:17 | bjanko | 1104 | ||
The Matthew verse says to treat them like Gentiles and tax collectors; in other words, they were to be excommunicated; this is plain because they were the lowest scoundrels in society. I agree with your point, but let me clarify. The only good tax collector was a repentant one, to borrow a phrase. The image of the tax collector is to emphasis that they should be put out of the church. The issue you are raising now is different? You seem to really be asking, "How should we treat the apostate, those who are excommunicated?" And here is where we agree: we should treat the excommunicated as Jesus did, offering the gift of God's free grace and inviting them into the Kingdom; however, the church officers cannot allow them into the kingdom until they are will to repentant and believe, which also implies coming under church authority. In excommunication, the door is always open for reconciliation and repentance. But only those who actually do repent and believe should be allowed back in through the door. |
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71 | I agree with you 100 percent. But... | Hebrews | bjanko | 1098 | ||
I agree with you 100 percent. But how do you respond to the person who says, "Yes, no one can snatch them out of the Father's hand, but that doesn't mean they can't leave of their own freewill"? | ||||||
72 | Who wrote the letter to the Hebrews? | Hebrews | bjanko | 1096 | ||
I do not know the arguments. I have also heard that Mark might have possibly been the author. It is certainly a "heavenly" letter as are Paul's are, but it's style doesn't seem to me -- at least in its English translations -- to be similar to either Paul or Mark. So, I suppose that's why it could be Barnabas or someone else. I believe its canonicity was sometimes disputed over the centuries and I'm not sure, but I wonder if this authorship question could be part of the reason. This shouldn't be a hindrance though. There are many books in the Old Testament for whom we are also unsure as to who was the author. Anyway, Hebrews is properly a canonical book and, being part of Scripture, was therefore ultimately written through "whoever" by the Holy Spirit. So God, being the ultimate author, should give us assurance as to its truths. |
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73 | Is Bible for or against birth control? | Bible general Archive 1 | bjanko | 1092 | ||
Nothing. Though, if we are supposed to be living a life of faith in God, and life and death are in the hands of God, then it is reasonable that this matter be left in God's hands -- in other words that we take no action to prevent pregnancy, but to trust God with what He wants to give us. I think it is Proverbs that says children are a blessing from the Lord. To prevent pregnancy is to dishonor God by refusing His blessing, by handing it right back to him. Which one of us would dishonor the host of a dinner by refusing the food offered to us? | ||||||
74 | What would be considered the age? | Bible general Archive 1 | bjanko | 1091 | ||
All are sinners and under the wrath and curse of God. Remember that God has the right to judge all mankind, not only for their own sins, but for the sins imputed to them in Adam. So, if by some miracle, you had never ever sinned, you would still be guilty by virtue of the sin nature you have inherited. This goes for young and old, male and female. All babies are sinners and subject to the same wrath. This is where the destructive views of Arminians enter in. Because they think man is able to choose God, they must make up an "age of accountability" where this must happen, and also excuse all infants and say God must be sending them to heaven. However, the Bible teaches that we are saved by faith, not that we give to ourselves, but that faith is a gift from God. GOD REGENERATES US BEFORE WE ARE ABLE TO BELIEVE; or, put another way, we are enabled to believe because regenerates/saves us. For those who cannot choose -- like the mentally ill or infants -- are they different than us? Not at all. No man with all his usual capacities is able to choose God. God elects those whom He will save. Those who are able will express that new life by exercising faith in Christ. Those who cannot show the expression of their salvation -- such as babies, etc. -- are still saved because God has saved them. |
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75 | Flood in the air? | Gen 1:1 | bjanko | 1090 | ||
Of course it receded into the atmosphere. The Bible says so. | ||||||
76 | Excommunication? | Matt 18:17 | bjanko | 1089 | ||
The Matthew verse is in reference to excommunication. The Thessalonians verse is not as a extreme -- it's simply a disassociation, to shame him for his disobedience, not fellowshiping. The Thess. verse is not excommunication because the very next verse says to "admonish him as a brother." If he is to be treated "as" a brother, then he must still be in the visible church; if he were excommunicated, you would need to treat him as a non-brother, i.e. a Gentile or tax-collecter, (see the Matthew passage again). | ||||||
77 | sin vs. sins vs. iniquity vs. dead works | Bible general Archive 1 | bjanko | 1080 | ||
I'm not sure there is much difference between sin and sin. Although remember there is the sin which we actually commit ourselves in addition to the sin nature we inherited by imputation from Adam. Iniquity just seems like another name for our personal sins which we commit. Dead works is sinful in only an indirect way. Dead works are the works we do to try and earn merit before God. They might even be good works, but in terms of making us right with God they are totally dead because they are not from faith. |
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78 | Does God want big churches? | NT general Archive 1 | bjanko | 1079 | ||
I don't think God wants churches that are so big that the minister, elders and deacons are unable to properly provide for the individual members of the flock in a personal one-on-one way. | ||||||
79 | How can Jesus be tempted if He is God? | Heb 4:15 | bjanko | 822 | ||
Jesus is fully man and fully God. He is one person with two distinct natures. God cannot be tempted because He is God and not a man. Jesus' divine nature cannot be tempted either. Jesus' human nature can be tempted because He is human like we are and can sympathize with our condition. He cannot be tempted to the point of sin because He is God in the flesh and is sinless. But in His human nature He can be tempted in a way that He cannot be in his divine nature. | ||||||
80 | Predetermined or Free Will | Luke 8:13 | bjanko | 512 | ||
I'm sorry to see that you refuse to deal with the issue. | ||||||
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