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81 | Adam, Eve, plants, animals - what order? | Genesis | Jensen | 19883 | ||
Dear Steve....Genesis 2 does not present a different creation order than Genesis 1. The first three verses of Genesis 2 simply carry the narrative of chapter 1 to its final and logical conclusion, using the same vocabulary and style as employed in the previous chapter. It sets forth the the completion of the whole work of creation and the special sanctity conferred on the seventh day. Verse 4 then sums up the whole sequence that has just been surveyed by saying, "These are the generations of heaven and earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made heaven and earth." As we examine the remainder of Genesis 2, we find that it concerns itself with the description of the ideal setting that God prepared for Adam and Eve to begin their life in, walking with the Lord as responsive and obedient children. Verses 5-6 describe the original condition of the "earth" or "land", in the general region of the Garden before it had sprouted under the special watering system the Lord used. Verse 7 introduces Adam as a new occupant for whom Eve was prepared. Verse 8 records how he was placed there to observe and enjoy the beauty. Verses 9-14 describe the various trees and vegetation sustained by the water that flowed out of Eden to the lower regions beyond its borders. Verse 15 indicates the activity of Adam that was assigned to him as keeper. The first 15 verses of chapter 2 were never intended to be a general creation narrative. The animals are not even mentioned untill Adam is assigned his task (vv.18-20). But before this phase of Adams experience begins, he is brought into a covenant relationship with God, who grants him permission to eat the fruit of every tree in the Garden except one (vv.16-17) The structure of Genesis 2 was never intended to be a creation account at all, except as it related to the circumstances of man's creation as a child of God. Chapter 2 is built upon the foundation of chapter 1 and represents no different tradition than the first chapter. I hope this helps. Do not be surprised by Adams ability to name all of the animals in a short period of time. Since the fall everything has been deteriorating including our brains. Our capacity to think has been greatly diminished. It was Thomas Acquinas who said that our minds were exempt from this breaking down but the Bible says that all creation is affected. I relate this naming of the animals to todays computer speeds. It may just have been that our computers are no faster than Adams brain. You have heard that we use only a small percentage of our brains. We lose ability not gain it. Our tools are better not our brains. God Bless....Jensen |
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82 | What about those who have never heard? | Bible general Archive 1 | Jensen | 19798 | ||
And then there is mercy.....the discretionary power of a Judge to pardon; the compassionate or kindly forbearance shown toward an offender. We do have a merciful God after all and, just as a possible example, mercy may be shown to a very young child or infant after their death. God Bless....Jensen |
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83 | //////// | Exodus | Jensen | 19797 | ||
Personal Note...Ronscarpet I just happened to notice a pattern in the dates of your questions. Are you involved in an organized weekly Bible study on the Book of Exodus? Are these the questions that you were assigned to research? It just struck me that, with the way you ask your questions, you are educated enough so that you could have the answers yourself with a little effort. There really has been nothing controversial or very unclear contained in your questions. The answers to your questions could have been gleened from reading the passage. Are you just asking to confirm what you already suspect? I think the latter? Anyhow, it's a good study for me as I follow these threads :-) God Bless....Jensen |
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84 | Why'd the author put it 1Kings 19 | 1 Kings | Jensen | 19792 | ||
Dear Ronda...Welcome to the Forum :).. You may want to clarify your question to include which verse(s) in 1 Kings 19 you are refering to. Or did you mean 1 Kings 1:19 where the details of the feast that was planned by Adonijah were given.... "He has sacrificed great numbers of cattle, fattened calves, and sheep, and has invited all the king's sons, Abiathar the priest and Joab the commander of the army, but he has not invited Solomon your servant." which should be considered an historical record of the feast plans with no particular hidden meaning that I can see :) God Bless....Jensen |
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85 | Gap and Pre-Adamic Man theories | Rom 5:12 | Jensen | 19789 | ||
Dear Lambo...All of the thoughts you threw out are valid concerns. Your main concern however, considering the experience you had with your past church, is probably weather or not you can trust the teachers of your new church to line up with Scripture. That is something that we all must constantly check. But I just want to address one of your thoughts. The subjects being taught in your class are the "gap theory" and "pre-adamic man" theory. If there was a great "space of time" after creation that would mean that Adam and Eve, when they walked in the Garden, were actually walking on a graveyard. It would mean that death, which came about because of sin, had entered the world before Adam an Eve. If that is what they are teaching I do not think that the teaching lines up with the Bible because RO 5:12 says "Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned--.." So when did death enter the world. It entered when sin entered the world according to the Word of God. Here are some sites that you may want to check for this subject and some of your other thoughts as well. www.answersingenesis.org www.icr.org www.creationscience.com God Bless....Jensen |
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86 | Mark 1:6 ? | Mark 1:6 | Jensen | 19768 | ||
: Dear Casiv...The verse seems pretty straight forward to me. A good description of John. Since you connect it to 2 Kings 1:8, I suppose you might easily say that John and Elijah had similarities. But I am afraid to answer since you may take us on another wild ride. As for 2 Kings 1:8; Does the fact that the 2 and the 1 and the 8 add up to 11, and therefore indicate disorder according to your earlier posts, mean that you want to make some unapparent point? God Bless....Jensen |
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87 | Mark 1:6 ? | Mark 1:6 | Jensen | 19690 | ||
Dear Casiv...The verse seems pretty straight forward to me. A good description of John. Since you connect it to 2 Kings 1:8, I suppose you might easily say that John and Elijah had similarities. But I am afraid to answer since you may take us on another wild ride. As for 2 Kings 1:8; Does the fact that the 2 and the 1 and the 8 add up to 11, and therefore indicate disorder according to your earlier posts, mean that you want to make some unapparent point? God Bless....Jensen |
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88 | Mark 1:6 ? | 2 Kin 1:8 | Jensen | 19764 | ||
Dear Casiv...The verse seems pretty straight forward to me. A good description of John. Since you connect it to 2 Kings 1:8, I suppose you might easily say that John and Elijah had similarities. But I am afraid to answer since you may take us on another wild ride. As for 2 Kings 1:8; Does the fact that the 2 and the 1 and the 8 add up to 11, and therefore indicate disorder according to your earlier posts, mean that you want to make some unapparent point? God Bless....Jensen |
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89 | Salmon | Bible general Archive 1 | Jensen | 19757 | ||
Dear Steve...Welcome to the Forum :) 1 Kings 3:15 is where you should look. God Bless...Jensen |
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90 | Peace with whom? | 1 Pet 3:11 | Jensen | 19733 | ||
"Whoever would love life and see good days..." must seek reconciliations that produce non-waring conditions. This armistice is pursued by all of us and with all of us. Individuals, groups, and nations would do well to heed this advice even if they must suffer for doing so. We pursue peace by living for God. Living for God will result in peace, a state of mutual harmony especially in personal relations. God Bless...Jensen |
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91 | Overcome by the power of God? | Bible general Archive 1 | Jensen | 19726 | ||
Summary...Thusfar..... The KJV has "...they went backward, and fell to the ground." And has "I am" or "I am (he)" with a small "h". We have now looked at four translations. They are NIV, NASB, NLT, KJV. 1. The KJV has the best translation of the Greek according to the post of our own resident Greek expert(:)) Tim Moran. The NIV may be tied with the KJV. The KJV has "he" as a parenthetical and lines up with Tim's translation better for that reason alone. The NLT is furthest from the literal and, as an aside and only my opinion, is why the NLT should not be used for in-depth study. 2. There is no evidence, thusfar, that the detachment was "slain in the spirit." |
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92 | The different theories of Creation | Genesis | Jensen | 19638 | ||
Dear EdB...Some Sites 4U..... www.icr.org/ www.answersingenesis.org/ www.creationscience.com/ God Bless...Jensen |
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93 | Overcome by the power of God? | Bible general Archive 1 | Jensen | 19632 | ||
Dear Alp...Welcome to the forum :-) You quoted "'I am He'" from John 18f. But it may be "I am he" with small h. They were not asking for God but a man from Nazareth. They were acting on orders from their military superiors and being led by a civilian named Judas. They were carrying a lot of equipment (torches, lanterns, weapons) and I want to draw on some personal experience if you will indulge me :-) I remember the military service I performed. I was in the infantry and we walked everywhere. Long distances through various terrains were common. We were not sure, if we had a hint, of where we were going, and what the objective of this walk was for. We followed orders. But one thing I recall (with some humor due to the variety of clowns in our bunch and the circumstances)was when we finally reached our objective and were told to take a break by order, or by general acknowledgement that the objectives coordinates had been met, and dependent upon the situation at hand, many of us with me included, would just fall to the ground "in place",ie. wherever we were standing. Just fall in place. Is it possible that those who fell to the ground, not to include Judas (?), were just glad to be there. It was observed, it was recorded. It became a part of the historical record. Jesus was not a threat, was He? That may be the difference in reading the verse with a capital "h." But I am a history major, and have this mindset :-) So "slain in the Spirit" is not part of this verse to me. Due to my own experience in similar situations. and imagination is part of His Image. God Bless....Jensen |
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94 | How do you know there is a God? | Ps 46:10 | Jensen | 19481 | ||
Dear Maryann... Not only is there a God but He loves you and has a wonderful plan for the rest of your life and the life of your child as well. I want to add to the posts of heartfire and Reformer Joe since they went to the heart of the matter when they spoke of science. For someone such as yourself who is not sure if God exists sometimes the best proof can come from a scientific point of view. Most modern scientists begin with the premise that there is no God. If creation is true, they reason, scientific exploration has no further value. And if there really were a God then He may want us to do something that may change our lives, the way we think and act. So it is easier to have no God. But it was not always this way. Nearly every one of the early scientists were Christians or Jews. What they saw was Intelligent Design in nature. Such as the eye. If you have a mouse trap handy (or can imagine it) look how it is put together. There is a platform, a spring of some sort for tension, a u-shaped bar, and a place for bait, a trip mechanism, and some staples to hold it all in place. Now, what is the one thing you can remove from the trap and still have it perform its function (purpose) of catching mice. Maybe some writing which is not important to its function can be removed. Anything else? Well, no. It all must be there, and in its place to perform the function of catching a mouse. Now scientists say that given enough time these parts could all come together on their own and become, or evolve into, a mousetrap. Did you just laugh at that thought? That is because you recognize intelligent design when you see it. You and your child are intelligent designs. Who designed you? Today, some scientist (especially micro-biologists) recognize intelligent design in nature, but they do not know who the Designer was. Some speculate that life from another planet must have visited Earth and began life here. They are now recognizing, and acknowledging that nature is the result of a design. You see, Maryann, our bodies are made up of protein molecules. Each molecule is made up of several different kinds of amino acids that must be in perfect position to perform its function or the molecule will not survive and would fail to perform its function, like the mouse trap but with one big difference. You see it takes about 250 amino acids to make up a single protein molecule, the mousetrap has but a few. A protein molecule is the product of a complex intelligent design. Who do you think designed it? We go through some pretty hard times in our lives because something went wrong with the design. We were not meant to have such problems in our lives but something corrupted the design. We know that as sin. Sin entered the design through one man and none of us have escaped its' effects. Sin hurts and also keeps us from knowing our Maker as He wants to know us. Can you imagine someone designing a machine with no intended purpose, no function, and no way to tell the machine how it should behave? Can you imagine a Creator who has no way to communicate with His creation, no purpose for it, and no function to perform? There is a God Maryann, and He wants you to have a better life, free from tears or at least to have comfort in your times of stress. It is sin, yours and mine and everyone elses, that keeps us from coming closer to our maker. The good news is that He has sent us someone to make right all that went wrong and that will be our comfort. He has paid for our sins so that we are now seen as having no sin. Jesus has paid the price. Our Maker has told us the way to a better life while we are here and, more importantly, an even better life when we die. We are told to accept His free gift of this better life by accepting Jesus as our Lord, and our Savior. Maryann, do you know that if you died today that you would go to heaven? Are you sure or not? Would you like to be sure? God Bless......Jensen |
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95 | Juice/wine poll results? | Bible general Archive 1 | Jensen | 18763 | ||
The unofficial results are in!!! The people on the Forum are like everybody else :) First, I have no home church. Large, non-denominational churches that I attend universally use grape juice. Catholic churches I attend use wine. Smallest churches use either, and in my home we use wine. It is a curious thing for me. And as a newer believer, and Solo Biblia, I just keep coming back to the fact that Jesus blessed the wine not the grape juice. I wonder at what point the Protestant churhes began substituting. And why they began can not be that important. There was a camping trip for the youth of a particular church that used Pepsi Cola and cookies as elements while camping. Please do not give this much thought. Debate not divide. It's just da darndest thaaang :-) God Bless Jensen |
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96 | FATHER fixation? | Bible general Archive 1 | Jensen | 18720 | ||
PERSONAL NOTE - CHARIS I am fixing on the Father because I try to fix on God. When I think of God I think of the FATHER. When I think of JESUS I think of the Son knowing that God is implied to another Christian. When I think of the HOLY SPIRIT, I think of His image He gave me when I was Created, but God is still inferred by other Christians. I think that using all CAPS is giving praise to GOD knowing what the OT copiests went through before they wrote the name of God. God has our respect and we may choose to show it by doing little things as part of our daily lives, like using CAPS. Also, Sir Pent is trying to get us organized a bit. One of the suggestions was that we try real hard to stay on topic. I wouldn't even mention it but you have always been kind and respectful in your notes and so I believe you will take the suggestion in the right way :) GOD Bless Jensen |
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97 | Only seal and horse in same verse Rev6:5 | Bible general Archive 1 | Jensen | 18189 | ||
Chapter numbers and Verse numbers were added much later and well after the original manuscripts were written. There was no intention by the original writers for these two words to be part of the same number since numbers for verses were not condidered. So there is no importance to the coincidence. God Bless! | ||||||
98 | How do we know the Bible is the truth? | Bible general Archive 1 | Jensen | 18187 | ||
There are over 1200 Old Test. prophecies that have come true. None have been false. Thats a pretty good track record. Some are yet to be fullfilled. There is a lot of literature with all the specifics such as that which was mentioned "Evidence that demands a verdict" in any good book store. | ||||||
99 | Visions and ordans from God? | Bible general Archive 1 | Jensen | 18186 | ||
Visions from God - Some Old Test. - Gen 15:1, Num 12:6, 1 Sam 3:1, Isa 30:9, Lam 2:9, Some New Test. - Luke 1:22, Acts 9:10, Acts 10:9-19, Acts 11:5, Acts 16:9, Acts 18:9. I'm not sure of what you may mean to be called to do something. ] God Bless! ...Jensen |
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100 | Christian Primer Terms? | Bible general Archive 1 | Jensen | 18183 | ||
RE: first class in terminology. May I suggest the word "creation." You live in a land where all is a part of god. But, by definition, the Creator can not be part of His creation. And some of Him or His image is on the canvas. But He is not the canvas. (Gen 1:1) Jensen P.S. Thomas Jefferson reduced the Bible to what he believed to be essentials and was used by missionaries to the American indians, who were also Pantheists. Bless you in your work. |
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