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Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Author: userdoe220 Ordered by Verse |
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61 | Jesus' early years? | Luke 2:52 | userdoe220 | 10564 | ||
There are a number of accounts written about Jesus' early years; However, most of them were written 150 plus years after his birth and are very fairy-tellish in nature ex. one account has Jesus as a little boy making clay pigeons, touching them and turning them into real pigoens. Other than the fairy-tellish nature of these accounts, I have a few other problems with them: 1.) The accounts usually paint a dramitically different picture of Jesus than the gospels paint: Some paint him as very ascetic (legalistic)person, others make him out to be a phantom type ghost, and one account even says he went to India to learn the Budhist philosophy and bring it back to Israel. Where is the historical evidence to support that is the greatest mystery! 2.) The next problem I have with these documents is they were all (well most of them) claimed to be written by one of the original apostles. They bear names like the Gospel of Thomas, The Gospel of Barnabas when they were written way after the deaths of the apostles. If it starts out as a lie, why would I believe the rest of the accounts? If you are a strong believer in Jesus and not easily swayed, I encourage you to get a book on Gnosticism, read it and check out the references in the back of the book. They usually qoute their sources and provide a little background information. You can also purchase a book entitled the "lost books of Eden." I would never buy this from a bookstore because I would never give my hard-earned money to support such nonsense. I picked mine up at a used bookstore, 75 percent off books, for under 5.00. The stories make for some very amusing reading, but I wouldn't put a pennies worth of stock into its historical accuracy. I hope this helps |
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62 | Jesus' early years? | Luke 2:52 | userdoe220 | 10572 | ||
One of my remarks (Jesus went to India) was actually directed towards a book titled, THe lost years of Jesus (I might have the book title a little crossed). This book was written recently, compared to the books I referenced, and is full of a ton of un-documented nonsense that people are taking for truth. Yes, I agree with you 100 percent: "The age of deception has not ended nor the capacity to deceive diminished." |
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63 | How could Jesus increase in wisdom? | Luke 2:52 | userdoe220 | 14532 | ||
This is a very good question and one that the church has wrestled with for many years. The typical response is: Jesus (Phil 2 passage) voluntarily set aside some of his divine attributes when he chose to become a man. The question philosophers in the Church have wrestled with is how could God give up any of his attributes and continue to be God? After all, God by definition does not change, knows everything and is everywhere at all times etc., If Jesus lacked any of these qaulities, how could he continue to be God? The solution to this problem was that Jesus just chose not to operate in some of his divine privieleges: Omniscience/Omnipresent/. He did not give them up, but rather chose not to utilize or take advantage of certain aspects of his divinity. There is more than one way to look at this issue. I am just supplying one I know you have probably heard of a million times. A number of these problems deal with our presuppostions about God that have been passed down through the church. The early church fathers, in an attempt to make Christianity relevant to the Greek culture, interpreted scriptures about God through the lens of Plato. Some of the concepts we have about God are more Platonic than Biblical! In fact, many scriptures are explained away by the church fathers as being anthromorphic and being written that way for the "dumb" saints within the church who couldn't comprehend who God really is. I am chasing rabbits so I will sign off for now. |
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64 | Can a believer lose his salvation? | Luke 8:13 | userdoe220 | 9678 | ||
Heb. 6:4. Please read. I have never once read, or heard a satisfactory response to this passage. I hear a lot of "you have to know the context" like I have not read and studied the passage in context. Also, the scripture gives plenty of examples of people "making shipwreck" of their faith. Paul telling others that he could become a castaway (1 cor.) and many other passages I could site. Those who come those passages and try to tell you that they do not refer to a loss of salvation are forcing those passages into their theological biases. |
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65 | Predetermined or Free Will | Luke 8:13 | userdoe220 | 9679 | ||
Of course he chose us to be holy and blameless in him before the foundation of the world. His predestined plan for all believers is a life of holiness! "He chose us...to be holy..." Of course he predetermined that he would adopt those who accepted him out of his own kindness. He predestined us (created a pre-determined plan)...to be adopted. I don't see how this passage backs up fatalistic salvation? |
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66 | How do you then interpret the verses... | Luke 8:13 | userdoe220 | 9681 | ||
Where do we get that man is totally depraved and cannot make a right spiritual thought? I read in a book that man is 100 percent spiritually dead because of Adam's fall. I thought Paul stated we were dead, "because all have sinned?" Paul even listed the spiritual spiral in chapter 1 of Romans. Why would he need to list the spiral if everyone is already at the bottom and will not acknowledge God? who is right? Paul or John McArthur? | ||||||
67 | Can a believer lose his salvation? | Luke 8:13 | userdoe220 | 9687 | ||
Paul said that he could! "Lest I preach to others and I myself become a casteaway" I think I beleive Paul's very plain statement on the matter. No one can force you out of God's hand...Jesus is right. They can take your life, threaten your life etc., and you will still be saved. They can even tell you that you are not saved and you will still be saved. But it does not do away with our free will to say to God, "God, I don't want to serve you anymore. In fact, I plan on opening up a radio station, light up a cigar, cuss people out and teach heresy!" And to repond with, "Well do you think a true believer would do that..." does not satisfy the many passages that seem to prove otherwise. Don't let JOhn McAruthur, Charles Ryrie/Stanley tell you what those passages teach. Read the Bible for yourself and ask, "If I never read about eternal security, How would I approach the many verses out there that seem to blow it out of the water?" |
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68 | How do you then interpret the verses... | Luke 8:13 | userdoe220 | 9688 | ||
Paul even admits there is a point in which a man will not acknowledge God in Romans 1, yet according to Tyndale commentary it is impossible for a "dead man" to have anything to do with responding to God. | ||||||
69 | Can a believer lose his salvation? | Luke 8:13 | userdoe220 | 9708 | ||
Continue reading past verse 27. Wow! context, context, context. No external force can drive me out of the fathers hand. Jesus was not convering the free choice of man. |
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70 | Can a believer lose his salvation? | Luke 8:13 | userdoe220 | 9709 | ||
It is the very natural reading of the passage. | ||||||
71 | Can a believer lose his salvation? | Luke 8:13 | userdoe220 | 9712 | ||
When I got saved in 1988 I did not grow up in church and for the first 6 months did not attend a church anywhere (I am not condoning this, just stating the facts). I read through the entire N.T. twice during this period and never once got the idea that once we were saved we were "always saved." I read the Bible without any pre-concieved ideas (No Charles Stanley this is how you should interpret verses that contradict how I believe manuals). In fact (show you how niave I was), I believe every Christian believed that you could walk away from your faith. I mean if Paul felt he could and the author of Hebrews I felt I was in good company. Well, finally I became gainfully employed at McDonalds (I was 16 at the time) and ran across my first "Once saved always saved" believer. He was married, cheating on his wife, smoked like a race horse and drank profusely. I began to share with him the salvation message with him and he told me he was saved! I said, "You must be crazy to think you are saved living like that!" after the, "Judge not lest you be judged" passage was quoted, he began to tell me that his pastor told him he was saved because he went down the isle when he was 12 (the age of accountability) and was baptized later that year. I told him that he needed to go to a Bible-Believing church and not get wrapped up in some cult (again, I don't believe you are a cult, this is the way I saw things back than.). I thought his church was completly false and his pastor was way off base. After all, how could someone read the Bible (the 1st year I was saved I read the entire Bible 2x and a number of books in the N.T. more than 3x) and come to that crazy conclusion. Since that expereince, I have ran into many people who believe that once you are saved you are always saved (and please spare me the "he did not truly understand the 5 points of calvanism and he was never truly saved to begin with...") I have read a number of books on this topic from the other perspective: So Great a Salvation, Ryrie Systematic Theology, Wayne Gruden. Systematic Theology, Hodge Chosen but Free, Geisler (at least he admits to a problem with calvanistic theology. His book tries to wed the two concepts.) Countless commentaries that mangle the plain meaning of a text to force a passage into thier belief system! and will admit that there are a couple(emphasis) passages of scripture I have to scratch my head on and leave it to the Lord: Jn 6 and Rom 8. The other worn out passages are easily explained by context. Over my studies I have ran across more than two scriptures with very little explanation offered by my opponants on this matter: Galatians 1:6-8 Heb 10:26-31 Heb 6:4-6 II Pet 2:20-22 Mt 10:22 Mt 13:21 Rom 11:20-23 II Pet 2:15 Jude 21 Heb 3:6 I Tim 4:1 And I could go on, and on and on. These are passages, unaided from some commentary trying to tell me what they should say, that I beleive firmly debunks once saved always saved. |
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72 | No one or no thing? | Luke 8:13 | userdoe220 | 9736 | ||
I am not moving from someone to something. Re-read my post. You have not even dealt with my content | ||||||
73 | water into wine | John 2:1 | userdoe220 | 11591 | ||
I wonder how many conservative Evangelicals would turn water into wine today? Assuming they could. | ||||||
74 | water into wine | John 2:1 | userdoe220 | 11688 | ||
"Wine is Wine is Wine is Wine." Jeffery Sief, Ph.d | ||||||
75 | water into wine | John 2:1 | userdoe220 | 11729 | ||
In referring to the passage in question: "Wine is wine is wine is wine" Jeffery Sief, Phd. You said it correclty, "it can refer to fermented and unfermented." In this passage I believe it was fermented. Please read Alfred Erdshiem (also a Jewish scholar like Jeffery Sief) who would very strongly disagree with your conclusion on this topic. Real wine (the kind with alcohol in it) is used today, as it has for 1,000's of years, in Jewish weddings. Only shallow, legalistic American Christainity has made it a "sin" to partake of wine(alcoholic kind.) I would agree that wine can make one stumble if taken in excess--hence the many warnings about abusing it in scripture--but nowhere is drinking alcohol forbidden. I really liked you study in the Hebrew word for wine (still not sure what relevance Hebrew is to the Greek language or the passage in question; nevertheless it was a nice study). |
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76 | curious about your response | Acts | userdoe220 | 9770 | ||
I consider myself part of the Pentecostal-charimatic movement and was wondering how you deal with their reasoning behind the "initial Physical evidence" belief? 1st argument: In the Book of Acts the accounts of people being "baptized (filled) in (with) the Holy Spirit" usually occur after a persons salvation. An example would be the day of Pentecost. So, the Baptism or infilling of the Holy Spirit must be a subsequent act follwing a believers Salvation. (Non-Pentecostals came up with a doctrine called the second-work of Grace after observing this pattern in the book of Acts. Salvation was the first work of Grace and Complete sanctification was the second work of Grace.) 2nd Argument: Every account recorded in the book of Acts except 2 follows with the Baptizee speaking in Tongeus. The 1st exception was the Apostle Paul who we know spoke in tongues because of his testimony in 1 Cor. and what better time to receive the gift of tongues than at his Baptism. The 2nd instance, Simon the Sorcerer saw something dramtic happen to the individuals who were baptized in the Holy Spirit and scripture records that he wanted to purchase the ability to administer the Baptism in the Holy Spirit. Something spectacular must have happened to solicit this response--I read one commentary that stated that Simon saw the "changed lifes of the believers" and wanted to have this ability. That is kind of weak in my opinion. Something more dramatic had to have happened than that to solicit that kind of response. 3rd argument: The gift of tongues covered in 1 cor. refer to a special gift used in church and is different from the tongues that accompany the Baptism in the Holy Spirit (surprisingly RC Sproul believes this as well!) I talked to my Pastor about this and he said that a person can speak in tongues one time at his baptism and never again and be considered "baptized in the Holy Spirit." I am very curios to your, or anybody else who is part of the Pentecostal-charismatic movement, response to these two arguments. I personally agree with you on this issue, but I guess 10 plus years believing a certain teaching will take time to work through. |
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77 | hoyy spirit bap. evidence tounges? | Acts | userdoe220 | 9775 | ||
In Acts 2 reference are you saying the diciples were not saved? The reason I ask is because you equate Spirit Baptism with salvation. There are 5 instances in the Book of Acts that mention the Baptism in the Holy Spirit. Almost all--if not all-- occur after a believers conversion (In Acts 8 Phillip preached salvation to the Samaritans and the apostles came down later to administer the Baptisme in the Holy Spirit--Again, this was after their conversion expereince. In fact the scripture records that they believed and werer Baptized). This observation has led to two seperate but related theologies: 2nd work of Grace and Pentecostal/charismatic Baptism in the Holy Spirit. Can you show me in the Bible where the term Baptism in the Holy Spirit is directly connected to salvation? If is is there, I would love to see it. |
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78 | What is Christianity? | Acts | userdoe220 | 9778 | ||
Hate to tell you this, but the Westminister Confession of faith is not the Bible. | ||||||
79 | What is Christianity? | Acts | userdoe220 | 9779 | ||
Good answer. I will only add one more statement: And the only accurate way we know who Jesus is and what he requires of us is through His teachings which are recorded in the Bible. | ||||||
80 | hoyy spirit bap. evidence tounges? | Acts | userdoe220 | 9811 | ||
The infilling and Baptized in the Holy Spirit are synonomous terms | ||||||
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