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61 | 1 Timothy 2:8-11 for disruptors? | 1 Tim 2:8 | loavesnfish | 232282 | ||
Steve, Thank you for answering my question. I think I left a wrong impression. I didn't mean to suggest that Paul was trying to make the gentiles Jewish. Lifting up of the hands in prayer was a custom practiced by Jewish men and therefore the church, which began with Jewish people and added gentiles as more and more people of all kinds believed. Also, being excessively decorative in one's appearance would have seemed normal to gentile women and abhorrent to the Jewish women who had been raised all their lives to pursue good works over adornment. Paul seems to be trying to help Timothy get everyone on the same page to restore order rather than dictate a dogma. The page he puts them on just seems more in line with traditional Jewish practices, which were based on Scripture, rather than the idolatry of their gentile past. |
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62 | "Flaming sword" or 'blazing drought'? | Gen 3:24 | loavesnfish | 232281 | ||
Steve, Thank you for answering my question! First, I must say that I believe Eden to have been a real place and Adam a real man, not just symbols. What I meant was "enwrapping drought" or "enveloping drought." In Hebrew the word for "drought" in Genesis 31:40 and Jeremiah 50:38 and Haggai 1:11 seems to share the same root with the word translated "sword" here and with the word for "to parch." Apparently, it is a cutting off of water resulting in drought, and a sword also cuts things off, so they are related ideas. When one considers Genesis 2:6 and 10 which emphasizes water in mist and FOUR rivers, it seems clear that drought would be a real challenge for a man who has never had to cope with it or even thought of it. Genesis 3:17-19 mentions that the cursed ground grows plants which grow best in dry conditions, hence "parched" ground rather than well-watered. In Genesis 3:24 the cherubim stationed in the east do not have weapons, they simply watch to guard the path to the Tree of Life. Since it is contrary to God's plan of salvation to actually kill Adam or his children, a sword seems out of place since swords deal death. The idea was to keep Adam away from the tree and out of the garden so that he wouldn't try to solve his problem without God or frustrate the judgment against him. So, sending a drought when he tries to get back to Eden seems to be a better way to do this. I am not dogmatic on this idea, but it seems more in line with God's revealed character. loavesnfish |
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63 | God's plan of protection? | 1 Tim 2:13 | loavesnfish | 232264 | ||
1 Timothy 2:13-15 seems to be emphasizing doing things according to God's plan for protecting people from Satanic attack, so how did it get to be a male-female thing? Isn't the context one of quelling disruptions by reforming behavior? | ||||||
64 | 1 Timothy 2:8-11 for disruptors? | 1 Tim 2:8 | loavesnfish | 232263 | ||
1 Timothy 2:8-11 says that men should pray in a certain way and LIKEWISE women should adorn themselves in a certain way. Both of these sound like ways to control disruptive behaviors and institute a more Jewish style of worship for gentiles who didn't know how to pray or learn in the Jewish way as Timothy and Paul did. Is it correct to say that men were disputing instead of praying and women were busybodies instead of minding their own business? |
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65 | "Flaming sword" or 'blazing drought'? | Gen 3:24 | loavesnfish | 232262 | ||
Why is this translated "flaming sword" rather than 'blazing drought'? Since the point of Eden seems to be that it was well-watered and therefore everything grew there, and the punishment was to have to make a living cultivating cursed soil, isn't this a way of providing drought wherever Adam went so that he couldn't escape his punishment or find his own way out of it without God? Also, if he was looking for the path to the tree of life, what better way to hide it than to make the whole ground look like the path so that it disappeared? | ||||||
66 | Shame on Ham? | Not Specified | loavesnfish | 232241 | ||
Genesis 9:20-27 Is Ham guilty of dishonoring his father? Is that why Noah shames him by making Canaan a servant to Ham's brothers? | ||||||
67 | Shame on Ham? | Lev 20:11 | loavesnfish | 232265 | ||
Genesis 9:20-27 Is Ham guilty of dishonoring his father? Is that why Noah shames him by making Canaan a servant to Ham's brothers? | ||||||
68 | Was Samuel a priest?or just a prophet? | Not Specified | loavesnfish | 232239 | ||
I Samuel 2:18 says Samuel "was ministering before the LORD, as a boy wearing a linen ephod." What does this mean? What was he actually doing? I Samuel 3:1 says, "the boy Samuel was ministering to the LORD before Eli." Was he doing the same as in I Samuel 2:18? If not, what was he doing? Since his father was from Ephraim, didn't that prevent him from being a priest? Or was he a special case due to Hannah's vow? |
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69 | Was Samuel a priest?or just a prophet? | 1 Samuel | loavesnfish | 232348 | ||
I Samuel 2:18 says Samuel "was ministering before the LORD, as a boy wearing a linen ephod." What does this mean? What was he actually doing? I Samuel 3:1 says, "the boy Samuel was ministering to the LORD before Eli." Was he doing the same as in I Samuel 2:18? If not, what was he doing? Since his father was from Ephraim, didn't that prevent him from being a priest? Or was he a special case due to Hannah's vow? |
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70 | Was Jesus a Nazarite? | Numbers | loavesnfish | 232232 | ||
Jesus was not a Nazirite, but John the Baptist was (Luke 1:15 and Numbers 6:2-4) and John was also a priest (Luke 1:5-6, 13 and Leviticus 10:9). Jesus was called a Nazarene because He lived in Nazareth. |
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71 | name of one of sauls concubines? | 2 Sam 21:8 | loavesnfish | 232231 | ||
IISamuel 21:8 records that Rizpah, lost her own two sons (whom Saul had fathered) to pay for Saul's genocide against the Gibeonites. In verse 10 she spread sackcloth over their bodies and kept the birds and the animals away. Is that who you mean? | ||||||
72 | marry for sake of child? | Matt 19:8 | loavesnfish | 232222 | ||
Matthew 19:8-9 contains the short answer to your question: yes, it is wrong to "give up" on any marriage under any circumstances except adultery. Hardness of heart is not an excuse before God. He expects us to change our attitudes, seek Him and repent of sin, including our hardness of heart (see Hebrews 3:15 and 1 John 1:9). No matter what the reason was for getting married, once one is married, one becomes married for life in the eyes of God. In Malachi 2:16 divorce is equated with treachery. However, God knows our weaknesses (Psalm 103:14 and James 1:14) and is compassionate toward us in our struggles (1 Peter 5:7). If we commit ourselves to doing what pleases Him, we can expect Him to take a bad situation and transform it (2 Corinthians 5:17). If we give up, we lose the chance to see Him do a miracle. (See also 1 Corinthians 7:1-6 and Proverbs 5:18 and 18:22 and Ephesians 5:22-33.) Also, from a human standpoint, if the child is still alive, so is your reason to stay married. Divorce is a much poorer situation for raising a child, not to mention the damage to the child from having a home ripped apart. |
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73 | Who was Abraham's heir before Eliezer? | Not Specified | loavesnfish | 232207 | ||
In Genesis 15:2-3, Eliezer, Abram's servant, is the only one left who could inherit from Abram. 1. Was Abram resentful due to losing Lot? Previously, Abram sort of dragged Lot along with him wherever he went, despite God's command to leave his father's family behind. 2. Could this indicate that Abram had adopted his nephew when his brother died? 3. Then when Abram offered Lot his choice of land and he chose Sodom, was he receiving an inheritance of some kind? |
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74 | Who was Abraham's heir before Eliezer? | Genesis | loavesnfish | 232211 | ||
In Genesis 15:2-3, Eliezer, Abram's servant, is the only one left who could inherit from Abram. 1. Was Abram resentful due to losing Lot? Previously, Abram sort of dragged Lot along with him wherever he went, despite God's command to leave his father's family behind. 2. Could this indicate that Abram had adopted his nephew when his brother died? 3. Then when Abram offered Lot his choice of land and he chose Sodom, was he receiving an inheritance of some kind? |
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75 | Why did she feed Saul? | Not Specified | loavesnfish | 232184 | ||
In 1 Samuel 28:21-25 the medium insists on feeding Saul and Saul's servants agree with her. Why does she do this? Does the Bible ever tell what happened to her? | ||||||
76 | Why did she feed Saul? | John 6:48 | loavesnfish | 233336 | ||
In 1 Samuel 28:21-25 the medium insists on feeding Saul and Saul's servants agree with her. Why does she do this? Does the Bible ever tell what happened to her? | ||||||
77 | 1 Sam. 28:8 guilt by association? | Not Specified | loavesnfish | 232183 | ||
In 1 Samuel 28 Saul, king of Israel, visits the medium at Endor who had escaped his previous order to destroy all the mediums. Leviticus 20:6,27 and Deuteronomy 18:10-12 dictated that mediums and those who used them should be put to death. 1 Sam. 28:8 mentions the two men who went with Saul. Were they also guilty for going along? Should they have refused to obey? Or should they have reported Saul and stoned him? How could they have obeyed God in this situation? | ||||||
78 | 1 Sam. 28:8 guilt by association? | Lev 20:6 | loavesnfish | 232728 | ||
In 1 Samuel 28 Saul, king of Israel, visits the medium at Endor who had escaped his previous order to destroy all the mediums. Leviticus 20:6,27 and Deuteronomy 18:10-12 dictated that mediums and those who used them should be put to death. 1 Sam. 28:8 mentions the two men who went with Saul. Were they also guilty for going along? Should they have refused to obey? Or should they have reported Saul and stoned him? How could they have obeyed God in this situation? | ||||||
79 | What are the books of Revelation 20:12? | Rev 20:12 | loavesnfish | 232156 | ||
In Revelation 20:12 It says "the books were opened" and "the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books." Usually, I have heard the books interpreted as records of the deeds of the dead. Where did this interpretation come from? Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that these are the books of the Law which are publicly read to confront people with their sins as Ezra did in Nehemiah 8:1-9 and 9:3? Or as in modern courts where the laws are "on the books" and infractions of them are publicly judged? | ||||||
80 | Zech.14:16-17 key to Ezekiel 40:41, 43? | Not Specified | loavesnfish | 232112 | ||
Ezekiel 40:41,43 shows animal sacrifices on the tables in what many have called the temple of the messianic kingdom. Those who consider this the millennial temple agree that Hebrews 10 makes it clear that Jesus was the last sacrifce needed. These are explained as memorials. In Zechariah 14:16-17 there are mandatory sacrifices made yearly at Tabernacles as a sign of submission to God. Could these be the offerings pictured in Ezekiel 40:41,43? | ||||||
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