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61 | does revelation 6:9-11 teach that the im | Bible general Archive 1 | itiswritten | 82359 | ||
Dear Radioman2, It does not have to be "proved;" all I know that I for myself, am convinced. Many persons that I know also are convinced in their relationship with the Lord. I cannot convince anyone else about MY relationship with the Lord. I don't know what else to tell you except read I Corinthians 2:11-14, so that you may understand what I am trying to explain. Itiswritten |
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62 | does revelation 6:9-11 teach that the im | Bible general Archive 1 | itiswritten | 82261 | ||
I do not wish to argue but I feel compelled to comment that matters of faith can not be "proved." FAITH is what is required by God according to His own Word as He tells us it is impossible to please Him without faith and that everything that is not of faith is sin (Hebrews 11:6, Romans 14:25). I choose to believe what God, in His Word tells us, not what ANYONE or ANY RELIGION may state. His word also tells us that to be absent from this body is to be present with the Lord -II Corinthians 5:6-8. Sincerely, Itiswritten |
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63 | 3 non married people.. not Jesus or Paul | Bible general Archive 1 | itiswritten | 82253 | ||
One major character in the Bible that did not marry was Daniel. I dare say this was probably also true of Shadrach, Meschech and Abednego also in the Book of Daniel. Under the Babylonians, it was customary to castrate those who were to become servants or slaves in the house. Daniel and his friends were most likely teenagers when they were taken in the Babylonian captivity and there is no indication that any of them ever married. I hope this is of some help. Itiswritten |
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64 | who is james mother | Bible general Archive 1 | itiswritten | 82250 | ||
According to the Bible, Mary was indeed a virgin when she becane pregnant with Jesus and until after she gave birth to him. (Genesis 3:15, Matthew 1:25) However, the Bible also tells us that Jesus was the member of a normal family...that Mary and Joseph were allowed a normal married life after Jesus' birth and it names four brothers including James, and mentions also more than one sister. (Matthew 27:56, 13:55, Mark 6:3, 15:40,47, 16:1, Galatians 1:19. The teachings that the Roman Catholic Church gave on the perpetual virginity of Mary came from a time when sex was thought of as an evil necessity...The Roman Church began to get away from the Bible and thus the idea of Mary remaining a virgin seemed cleaner and holier to those leading the Church at the time. From what we see in Scripure...the marriage bed was always considered holy and children a blessing. So, why would God put Mary and Joseph in charge of raising One so precious and restrain them from a normal and fulfilling life with the blessings of more children? Anyway...Now that The Roman Church allows its members to read the Bible, this teaching from the church has begun to be questioned. The Catholic Church maintains Mary's perpetual virginity saying, that these are "cousins" and not siblings. I would say than why do we have in the scripture that John the Baptist was Jesus' cousin. Why did they not use the same terminology for Jesus" siblings as for him if this were the case? As far as I am concerned, we will not go to hell for believing on the wrong side of this issue as long as we realize that she WAS a virgin when she became pregnant and gave birth to Jesus. Though I was raised a Roman Catholic, I believe these were Jesus' siblings. I feel to believe Mary was a virgin forever is probably false and contributes to the veneration of Mary rather than turning people to Jesus as they should. And I believe that we should form our understanding of the Lord and our concepts, doctrines and behavior by what the Scriptures tell us over the teachings of any church, Roman Catholic, Protestant or whatever. I hope this has been of some help. Itiswritten |
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65 | How I do to stop sinning? | Bible general Archive 1 | itiswritten | 81566 | ||
Dear Talmid, I do not wish to make you sad, yes we can overcome, but we must believe the Word of God, not what we think things should be. Christ has conquered all but this body will not go into the next glorious life because it is flawed. We will receive a resurrection body. In Isaiah 64:6, we are told that all our good works are like filthy rags. That we all have sinned and all have gone astray. And in I John 1:8-9 we are told that if we believe we are without sin we deceive ourselves, however Jesus will continually cleanse us. Of course, Jesus was without sin, that is because He is God, that is because He came to save us...if any of us could have done so, He would not have had to come, become one of us and die. He truly did become a man so as a man He would be the perfect fit to pay our debt. I am sorry to say so, but from what I see of the scriptures, not sinning is a continuing struggle this side of the grave. Yes you can overcome certain sins, but there will always be another that you may not have noticed before. It takes keeping your eyes on Jesus and walking in the Spirit to overcome. I don't think you can find one perfect saint in all of the Bible and I believe this frankness of the Bible is for a reason...truth, AND encouragement. I see it as a glorious struggle, walking with Jesus each step of the way. I believe He loves us as we are and that we should always strive to overcome...but we will have to continue to strive to overcome in this life. Romans 9:24 If you look in the letters to the churches, in each one we are told of the blessings for those who overcomes - Rev. 2:7, 2:11, 2:17, 2:26, 3:5, 3:12, 3:21 etc. I believe we are expected to strive to overcome all the days of our lives. However, if we become saved and immediately die, nothing is required but our faith. We "get in" because Jesus paid the price, not because we have overcome or are good at all. Praise the Lord! This is what the good news is all about. One more thing. What you have said about Jesus is true but if you mean that we can become little Jesus's you may be on the wrong track. There are cults which teach that we can become or attain to becoming little christs. We cannot attain to Him. He is our creator God. He was not created. God prepared a body (Hebrews 10:5)for Him who was with him from eternity (John 1:1-3,14). We were created by and for Him and we should follow His model but our success is ever in His hands. Itiswritten |
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66 | What is the significance of this verse? | Mark 14:52 | itiswritten | 81483 | ||
As you can see, it is in the gospel according to Mark. Traditionally, according to some scholars, it is believed that this is an account of John Mark about himself. It may be that this was the only one of the saints that was aware of this occurrance. Surely the other disciples were preoccupied with their own emotions that night. It is believed that he was the son of the woman, Mary, who let Jesus and His apostles use the upper room of her house for the Passover. It is believed that he was a young man or teenager at this time and it shows the fear he must have felt that night. He later became the writer of this gospel and we see him in the Book of Acts and some of the epistles, as he traveled to spread the gospel during the time of the apostle Paul.(Acts 12:12, Acts 15:37, II Timothy 4:11). I hope this is helpful. Itiswritten. |
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67 | How I do to stop sinning? | Bible general Archive 1 | itiswritten | 81481 | ||
I would just like to add this. Remember Galatians 5:16 "...Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh." This is what this means to me: If I try to go on a diet, all I want to do is eat all the things I should not eat. Just the idea of focusing on the problem makes me want to do it more. If I focus on the fact that I should not say something, it's bound to slip out of my mouth. I believe this scripture is giving us a sort of formulae that will help us minimize our sinful tendencies. If I give the Lord each day at the beginning of each day, and I ask Him to show me what I am to do for that day, I will focus on that, and not on those things which tempt me so. If I am walking with him, practicing a consciousness of Him walking with me, I will not tend to sin as much as if I am focusing on that object which tempts me...or focusing on my self and my own desires. While we are in the flesh, I do not believe we can walk totally sinless. The flesh tugs on our fleshly nature all the time as we see in Romans 7:15-25. I read one of Billy Graham's books a long time ago where he described what it was like to be a born-again believer. He put it this way. There were two row boats in the river, one went along with the current or flow of the river and the other was rowing against the current. We all are in the same river but to walk with the Lord you are striving against the current. I hope this is of some help. Itiswritten. |
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68 | Was Luke one of the 12? | Luke 10:1 | itiswritten | 81427 | ||
Dear Ladylkh, Though he was a writer of one of the gospels, Luke, as well as Mark,was not an apostle. He may have been a disciple, Luke 10:1, but the first that we see reference to him is as a writer of a gospel, the book of Acts and in II Corinthians 13:14, Colossians 4:14, II Timothy 4:11 and Philemon 1:24. He was not active until the time of the apostles, after the Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus Christ. His name is not a Jewish one, but a Gentile one so it is believed he is the only Gentile writer of the Bible. He may never have actually met Jesus before the Resurrection as Jesus never met Paul before the road to Damascus. It is believed by many that he got the information for the early part of Jesus's life from Mary, Jesus' mother because at the time he wrote his gospel, Mary was staying near where he was, under the hospitality of John the apostle. And it was thought that he would have had opportunity to interview her and so have information of Jesus' early life that others would not have had. I hope this is of some help to you. Itiswritten |
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69 | salvation and Cath Church | NT general Archive 1 | itiswritten | 81418 | ||
Dear Stephanie, Honestly, I am not following you around, but I have been checking out the forum lately to see the newest questions and your questions always intrigue me. It seems you are being educated by the Lord in much the same sequence as the Lord trained me. Having originated from the Catholic Church myself, and having been saved for over twenty years now, I have always looked upon the Roman Catholic Church as very similar to the Jewish faith at the time of Christ. It had all the truth, but had drifted from the spirit of the truth and had become legalistic. It had all the truth but had added so many laws, traditions and concepts that it was hard to see the truth through the fog of the additions. I believe the Scriptures bare me out in Matthew 23: 13-29 and Luke 11:44...and those verses around these. I do not tell you that you should leave. I eventually did, as you know, but not right away and only as the Lord led me to. Meanwhile, it is not a cult. I hope these scriptures are helpful to you. Itiswritten. |
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70 | Lucifer cast down? | Luke | itiswritten | 81415 | ||
I would just like to add this: Isaiah 14: 12-15. I believe this scripture, though it is directed toward a man of the time, was also an insight as to the actions and fate of Satan or Lucifer as he was once called. In Luke 10:18 Jesus mentions Satan's fate as being in process. Itiswritten. |
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71 | salvation and Cath Church | NT general Archive 1 | itiswritten | 81250 | ||
Dear Stephanie, I agree with Joe!!! "Church History in Plain Language" is by far the best church history I have ever read (and I have read many). I was so impressed that I bought one for every single member of my Bible Study group. You can get it in paperback for about twenty dollars. It is the clearest account of church history without pro-Catholic or pro-Protestant bias I have ever come across. I highly recommend it. It is also helpful for a newly born-again person to share with family members so that they may understand the true history of the church and also without your having to worry about prejudiced (anti-Catholic)rhetoric that would be offensive to them. As a former Catholic myself, I found that the Roman Catholic Church, though it has many beautiful traditions from much further back in history than the Protestant churches, yet many of the doctrines do not have any Biblical base. This is why it doesn't always jive with the Scriptures. It had some periods of apostasy (or the leadership becoming corrupt) in its past and it's policy that the pope cannot make a mistake concerning faith and morals so that no matter what he decides is doctrine, and is considered the truth, has led to trouble in the past for he really is only a man. He is a man with the awesome responsibility of representing a large part of Christianity to the world. For instance there was a time when there were three popes. How can all three hold the absolute truth when their opinions conflicted?..and so, sadly, this matter of historical record, has caused error in some areas. The dogmas through some of these times have continued to be accepted as the teaching in the church, though it now is not in apostasy. I believe ALL church doctrine should come from Scripture. II Timothy 3:16-17 tells us "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in all righteousness. That the man of God may be perfect, thorougly furnished unto all good works." Read this in your own Catholic Bible if you have one...I have quoted from my KJV. "Church History in Plain Language" will help you sort out for yourself the true history of the church from its origins until now. Stephanie, I could not contain myself as this history that Joe recommends is so precious to me. I systematically have given it to each member of my Bible-study as each had a birthday over this past year. Itiswritten. |
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72 | Differing geneologies of Jesus? | NT general Archive 1 | itiswritten | 81189 | ||
Dear Punahele, One genealogy is from his stepfather's side and one is from his mother's. One is from Adam and one is the Messianic line from Abraham. Both Jesus' earthly parents were from the line of David which was significant from whatever point of view you had. The Gospel writers were making different points - they are not conflicting. I hope this is helpful. Itiswritten |
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73 | Searching for the truth | NT general Archive 1 | itiswritten | 81188 | ||
Dear FytRobert, In the time and culture of Christ, as He lived and walked among us in the flesh, everyone drank wine though it may have been frequently a very watered-down version. They did not have water-purification plants as we do and the water was not very pure and people did not get themselves intentionally drunk as they do in western culture today. And it was culturally much less an issue as fewer people drank excessively...certainly not to the extent as they do today. It is not a sin to drink wine in moderation, according to the word of God and it was even recommended in one situation. (ITimothy 5:23). Our culture has so abused drugs and alcohol that it has become common to use unfermented wine or grapejuice as a substitute rather than cause someone to sin or be tempted when he/she may not be able to handle and chemically digest it. This way many who would not have been able to partake of the communion table in both its solid and liquid form, now can. I hope this is helpful. Itiswritten |
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74 | John9:1-12 and Job1-2 | Bible general Archive 1 | itiswritten | 81168 | ||
Dear Sweet, Concerning John 9: 1-12- It was customary in the days that Jesus walked this earth as a man, that people reasoned that if a child were born deformed in any way or was born with any kind of handicap that God was punishing the parents' sin. The child in that case could not yet have done anything worthy of punishment. This passage was to let them know that this was NOT the case. It never said that it ever was God's policy (so to speak) to punish anyone because of their parents' sin. In the case of Job, all I know that this was a time before the grace of Messiah had come to us. Though all his children were taken, it does not say that they did not ultimately end up in heaven. It was a testing for Job when he was quite old enough and had walked righteously with God for many years. I think this story was more to encourage us that no matter how bad it gets, we should still have hope in God as He still may be merciful and in fact bless us yet.(read Romans 15:4) I have a friend who had German Measles when she was pregnant with her third child, her first son. Because of this, he was born deaf. For years she felt guilty and responsible for her son's handicap. It caused her to seek spiritual answers until she finally was saved and has a marvelous walk with Jesus Christ today. A couple of years ago, her son who is in his late thirties and has two children now, received an implant and now he knows his mother's voice, his father's voice and the voices of his wife and children. God has turned what had once seemed sad and awful into something truly beautiful in her's and her family's life. I hope this is helpful to you. Itiswritten |
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75 | Why does God bet with Satan in Job? | Bible general Archive 1 | itiswritten | 81165 | ||
Dear Birdee, I don't believe that God HAD to do anything. He chose to do it. Why? I really don't know. We are told that the Old Testament stories of the saints of old are for us to learn from so that in dire circumstances we will not give up hope as we are told in Romans 15:4. It also gives a clear example of Lucifer or Satan as the "accuser of the brethren" mentioned in Revelation 12:10. I hope this is helpful. Itiswritten |
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76 | What is Brokeness before God? | Bible general Archive 1 | itiswritten | 81164 | ||
Dear Rachclark, I believe "brokenness" before God means a right heart attitude of recognition of ones own shortcomings and true sorrow for sinfulness and desire to be right with God as is expressed in Psalms 34:18 and 51:17, in Isaiah 57:15 and 66:2. I believe that these are expressed best in the New Testament by Jesus when He gave the parable of the Pharisee and the publican in Luke 18:9-17. I hope this answers your question adequately. Itiswritten |
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77 | Where does the spirt dwell | Bible general Archive 1 | itiswritten | 81161 | ||
Dear Tdianne, According to the apostle Paul, for the Christian, to be absent from the body (to die or leave the earthly body) is to be present with the Lord. This is found in II Corinthians 5:8. I hope this is of some help. Itiswritten |
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78 | Help Me With Bible Study... | Bible general Archive 1 | itiswritten | 81159 | ||
Dear 1001 nights, I have been teaching the Bible for about 19 years or so. The reason for the name I have taken for this forum is because I believe the Word is the most important gift the Lord has given us from which we can navigate our lives in line with Him in this world. I try not to insist on my opinion of His Word but to give the scripture for any situation. I believe the Lord has answers for us through His word for any situation. I may not always find it but because of the time I have spent in His word and walking with Him, I may have enough to be able to help you get a good handle on it. This is what the Lord called me to do. I was born and raised a Roman Catholic of a Jewish mother and Roman Catholic father. I met the Lord while reading my Catholic Bible seeking Him with my whole heart. I no longer attend the Catholic Church but prefer an Assemblies of God denomination though I do not believe the Catholic Church is a cult or anything - I just feel that the Assemblies churches focus more on the word and the gifts of the Spirit which suits my understanding of the Word of God. From the time I was saved my life has never been the same. I continued to read His word and apply it to my life and have found that the Lord has never let me down. After being saved about seven years, and through a tragedy in the life of my family, He called me to minister through leading Bible study. As I have obeyed, most of those who have come to the study have been new Christians or they got saved upon entering our study. It has been a glorious blessing to me to have the privilege of watching these babes in Christ grow to maturity in their walk with the Lord Jesus. I would like nothing better than to share whatever the Lord may give me that could help you in your journey with Him. My attitude is that (Philippians 1:6)the Lord will finish what He has begun in you...that is not my job. However, if He so desires that I may be of some inspiration or help in this endeavor, it would be my privilege. Also, I encourage anyone in the studies that I lead to check the scriptures for themselves, to see if what I may say is true and if they disagree, that is their divine right. If this is at all what you are interested in, I would enjoy hearing from you maybe through e-mail we may be able to correspond with a limited study or I could answer some questions you may have. If this is at all what you may be seeking, you may reach me at marymac84@hotmail.com Itiswritten |
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79 | What exactly must a person to be saved? | NT general Archive 1 | itiswritten | 81087 | ||
Dear MPierce, I have not taken the time to read all of the correspondence that you have received from this question. Let me just say this. I was born and raised Roman Catholic. I went to Catholic schools all my young life, and got saved reading my Catholic Bible in my own living room while I was by myself when I was in my late twenties. I had a marvelous encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ that night and I have never been the same.I am now 55 years of age. One need not have an explosive encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved. One need only get the point and make a sincere committment. Romans 10: 9-11 is all that you need. I had come to that conclusion by the direction of the Holy Spirit and got saved even though I did not understand the modern terms such as "saved," "born again," etc. I no longer attend the Catholic church but the Lord has led me to teach a Bible study that has lasted more than 15 years. Mostly newly saved Catholics came in the early years - now Protestants some who were once Catholic as well as Protestants. The Lord has given me the privilege of leading many of those who have attended the study through the years to the Lord and I have been blessed to watch them grow in the Lord and attend several different churches - some even remaining in the Catholic Church. Let me say one more thing. Romans 10: 9-11 means this in a nut shell - You must be willing to admit openly that you believe Jesus rose from the dead and if you believe something you should begin to act like you believe it...and be willing to admit it to someone openly, publically... One must first of all be willing to admit that one is a sinner and needs a savior. That is why John the Baptist was sent first to prepare the people to realize their sinfulness and need of a Savior and then one must be determined with all the ability and grace God gives you to walk with Him as He teaches you from His word. My e-mail address is marymac84@hotmail.com if you think I can help you in your study of the Bible as I have a special affinity for those who were raised Roman Catholic as I have been and think I may be able to help you. One more thing. To be saved or born again is not a religion - it is a state of being. One must have a relationship with Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit; not belong to a denomination to be saved. God bless you, Itiswritten. |
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80 | YOU ROB GOD WITH TITES AND ODDEERING | OT general | itiswritten | 81084 | ||
I know it has been awhile but Abraham also tithed which is evident when we look at his encounter with Melchizedek. We can find these accounts in Genesis 14: 19-20 and Hebrews 5:6, 7:1-2 and read the verses all around these. Itiswritten. | ||||||
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