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81 | Why God bless a Roman soldier over a Jew | Matt 8:6 | bowler | 206375 | ||
PRAZINGOD Mathew 7:28, 29 is the end of the Sermon on the Mount which was preached to the Jews, a huge number of Jews. Mathew 8:5, 6 was Jesus blessing one Centurion, but there is no juxtaposition in Mathew 8:5, 6 bewtween Jesus blessing a Centurion and Jesus blessing the Jews. In fact Jesus had just finished healing a Jew in Mathew 8:1-4. In one instance Jesus heals man requesting to be made clean, in the other instance Jesus heals a Centurion's servant without even going to the Centurion's home because the Centurion had great faith. But that is not Jesus blessing one above another it is just different circumstances. blessings abound, bowler |
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82 | What does Ephisians as whole talk about? | Ephesians | bowler | 206343 | ||
Missvee Ephesians discusses the work of Christ as ruler of the church. Depending on who you read you get different concepts about what Ephesisans is about. Some say it is about 1:9 the mystery of His will as that is revealed in the unity and function of the church. Others would say it is about the theology found in the whole NT about the scope and rule of Christ. Still others will say that it is about the reconciliation of both Jews and Gentiles in Christ in the church. Paul's main intention seems from reading it to be of outlining Jesus' role in the lives of believers and of instructions about how to act together in a harmonious fashion. blessings abound, bowler |
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83 | questions for use in leading bible study | Genesis | bowler | 206312 | ||
klowry Wouldn't you need to have a scripture or passage in mind first? Your question can't realy be answered without first choosing a scripture can it? The questions should all come from the scritpure or passage. A good little book to study about how to lead a Bible Study is John Stott's, "Christ Basic Christianity", published by InterVarsity Press. This book contains six examples of how to lead a small group Bible Study. You need to be led by the Holy Spirit in order to lead one though. On pages 45 through 49 are guildelines for leaders. Here are some of them - Christ Basic Christianity, by John Stott, pages 45 through 49 - Ask God to help you understand and apply the passage. Get an overview of the passage at hand in order to explore the issues. Be ready for "open questions". Meditate and relect on the verses and consider how you would respond to questions. Don't skip over application questions. Here is something else to consider about forming the questions - The basic English questions of any type of writing or reading - Who is in the passage? What is going on in the passage? How is the event happening? Where is the event taking place? Why is this event taking place? And one extra question - Why does this matter? You can come up with plenty of questions if you just start there, more than ten. But you need to pick that passage first or you won't have any questions at all and the questions will be different from passage to passage. 2 Timothy 2:15 Be diligent to present yourself approved of God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth. blessings abound, bowler |
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84 | age 80 borrowed time | Ps 90:10 | bowler | 206291 | ||
Jazz1946 I found a verse, but it does not say we are on borrowed time, it speaks of the pride of life and of the fleeting quality of life. Psalm 90:10 As for the days of out life, they contain seventy years, or if due to strength, eighty years, yet their pride is but labor and sorrow; for soon it is gone and we fly away. blessings abound, bowler |
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85 | jews,gentiles,ethninticity??? | Gen 29:35 | bowler | 206247 | ||
believer32315 This link should help you out it is short but comprehensive about Jews, Hebrews, Israelites, and Gentiles, apparently Jews, Israelites, and Hebrews are not all quite the same thing, to hard to explain, see the site. http://www.keyway.ca/htm2005/20050219.htm Cush was most likely the first Ethiopian and perhaps dark, son of Ham, founder of the Cushites. Found that looking on the web, but this is not a quote. Somewhere in Acts is a verse, I can't remember where of something about the blood of the nations as coming from one man Adam, or such. blessings abound, bowler |
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86 | Were all names once in the book of life? | Ps 69:28 | bowler | 206236 | ||
Exodus 32:33 The Lord said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him out of My book". Psalm 69:28 May they be blotted out of the book of life and may they not be recorded with the righteous. Revelation 3:5 He who overcomes will thus be clothed in white garments; and I will not erase his name from the book of life, and I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels. But look what this says; Revelation 13:8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been slain. And this; Revelation 17:8 The beast that you saw was and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and go to destruction. And those who dwell on the earth, whose name has not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will wonder when they see the beast, that he was and is not and will come. This is a most nettlesome question indeed. We have here some scriptures saying that names were written in the book of life that could be blotted out. But then we have other scriptures showing that the names of the elect were written before the foundation of the world that cannot be blotted out. It is possible by putting the varying scriptures together to say that everyone's name was originaly in the book because we cannot undo the record of God speaking to Moses in Exodus, and recognizing that only the elect of God's have their names ultimately not blotted out and transfered to the many books recording all the deeds of the wicked who will undergo eternal punishment. But this veiw loses credibility when you consider that one set of scriptures says that "whose name has not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world". I think this is one of those mysteries of the Bible that may not be able to be resolved looking from this finite point at things of eternity and the end of things and the foundation of the world. The Exodus verse does not say the book of life, while the Psalms verse says the book of the living. I do not think that there were two different books for those who make it though, only one. blessings abound, bowler |
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87 | Is limited atonement needed in Calvinism | Bible general Archive 4 | bowler | 206216 | ||
achoo4 John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. Note that, "that whoever believes in Him shall not persish". God loved the whole world, but only those who believe do not perish. 1 John 2:1, 2 My little children, I am writing these things so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world. Note that; the Advocate is for the saved, the unsaved cannot avail themselves of the Advocate because they have not accepted Him. "He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only but also for those of the whole world." John 1:12 - John says as many as received Him, not all but to many. Mathew 22:14 - Jesus says many are called but few are chosen. John 6:37 - Jesus says all that the Father has will come, it does not say all will come it says the ones who will come. Acts 13:48 - Luke says that as many as had been appointed by God to eternal life believed. 1 Tim 4:10 - Yes God died for all men, especially for believers. Romans 9:22 What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? He died for all of them, but not all will be saved. 1 John 2:2, Only the saved have an advocate with the Father, the unsaved have not partaken of the heavenly grace to avail themselves of the privelege of forgivenss of sins until they repent to Jesus and call Him Lord. Limited Atonement is definitely necessary to Calvinism. And Arminianism has that Unlimited Atonement it necessary to it. The problem with Limited Atonement as that is taught in Calvinism is that God does say in the Bible without a doubt in the Greek that Jesus died for the whole world, for the sins of the whole world, as a propitiation, and that He desires for all men to be saved. There is another way to look at the process of salvation; you can have Unlimited Atonement without veiwing that the way Arminians do, as that God willed that all be saved, but that He does not save some because they chose to reject Him. That Arminian belief poses a major problem with the sovereignty of God; it says that God chooses us because we choose Him, which is Biblically backwards, wrong, and erroneous. Another way to view Unlimited atonement outside of Arminianism is to see that while God did indeed have Jesus die for the sins of all people, the whole world, God only decides to save some based on His choice and His choice alone, and by His choosing He sends the Holy Spirit to work on the unbeliever of His choice to choose God by their own free choice once they have been convicted of sin by the Holy Spirit. This allows for the fact that man has a limited ability to have free choice, like a bird which has the ability to be free to fly, but has a broken wing and cannot fly though it be free, it must be healed, and then be able to choose to fly. This is neither Arminianism, nor Calvinism, both schools of thought which take one set of scriptures to make a point, or system, without balancing the other scripture which bear on the problem. However, it is much safer to adhere to the majority of Calvinism as it comes closer to a true interpretation of scripture than does Arminianism which trods heavily upon the sovereignty of God. The scriptures state over and over again that God's will is that many will be saved and not all. So then we cannot confuse God's desire that all men be saved, and that God sent Jesus to die for all men, with God's will that only some of all Jesus died for will be saved. blessing abound, bowler |
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88 | Were the disciples saved, Born Again? | NT general | bowler | 206215 | ||
Immanuelsown Question - how could it be possible for the disciples to go out and do the works of Jesus if they were not already saved? It takes the power of God to perform healings, cast out demons, perform the miracles, which the twelve, and then the seventy, were sent out to do, and did accomplish. Many will want to argue or dispute that the disciples were saved before Jesus went on to the cross. But how would it be possible for them to to do the works of God without the power to do so? All people are either in the kingdom of the devil, or in the kingdom of Jesus. All people either operate by the power of the devil, or by the power of Jesus. Once you believe in Jesus and get saved you come out of the kingdom of Satan, no longer held and operating by its power and are in the kingdom of Jesus, of God. Jesus says to Nicodemus in John 3:5 Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." How does one become born again? One is born again of the water and the Spirit. You have to be naturaly born first and then spiritualy born second in order to be "born again". John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. Ephesisans 1:13 In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation - having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise. According to Paul as soon as you hear the message of your salvation, and you believe, you receive the Holy Spirit. Jesus said you have to be born of water and of the Spirit in order to be born again. Some confuse the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost to confer power to witness the gospel and to start the church with the activity of the Holy Spirit to save souls. The term "born again" that Jesus uses is Jesus saying, you were born once through your mother's womb (by water), now you have to be "born again" a second time by the Spirit to enter the kingdom of God. Not everyone agrees that water here refers to the water of the womb because of Acts 2:38, but one is not saved by being baptized, so it is unlikely that Jesus was referring to being baptized by water to be saved. It is also unlikely because Jesus did not come to baptize with water, He came to baptize with the Holy Spirit. John 13:10 Jesus said to him, "He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you." This was to signify that Judas was unclean, but that the rest were clean. Many take this to mean that the disciples were clean of sin, saved, born again. blessings abound, bowler |
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89 | why did he ask this | Matt 16:13 | bowler | 206214 | ||
swella Jesus reveals the answer to your question in verse 17 - And Jesus said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-jona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven." The purpose Jesus asks the question is so that the answer will be revealed to the rest of the disciples. He was not so much testing them and it was not so much because of what the others in the crowds believed, but so that Peter would confess the Christ, as we see, Jesus says, God has revealed this to you. blessings abound, bowler |
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90 | Is the world ending in 2012. | Rev 16:8 | bowler | 206212 | ||
Spike Revelation 16:8, 9 is about one of the bowl judgments and some who do not take a literal interpretation of the Bible do not believe it will happen as prophesied by John. A literal intrepretation of the Bible would mean that it is going to come true sometime in the future. I say future because Revelation, although it does use figurative language is a real prophecy and no prophecy that is in the Bible has failed yet. Revelation chapter 1 is about an angel announcing a Revelation to John from Jesus Christ. In Revelation 1:19 the angel tells John that this is about the past, the present, and the future. The past is Revelation chapter 1, the present is Revelation chapters 2, and 3, the future is Revelation chapters 4 through 22. The prophecy of the Great Tribulation starts at chapter 6 and lasts until chapter 19 when Christ returns. In the Great Tribulation are a series of real judgments that are described using some figurative langauge to describe real events - for instance there are locusts with faces that go out and sting people that may be demons, - the beasts have horns that represent people and, or nations, or kingdoms and there are figurative depictions of two different women one good, one bad that represent the church and the evil economic and spiritual empire of the beast. But the bowl judgments and the trumpet judgments are meant to be real things to happen in the future. The one thing about Revelation is that the bulk of it, the chapters 6 through 19 are suppossed to happen within 7 years split up into two parts and the judgments happen during this time. So where Revelation 16:8, 9 says that an angel pours out a bowl on the sun and that the sun scorches men with fierce heat and that they curse God, we can count on that it will happen because the Bible does not lie. Many have been saying for years that Jesus is going to come at a this date or that certain date. They got the first dates they came up with wrong, now they have choosen other dates. Jesus says - Mathew 24:36 But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, not the Son, but the Father alone. If Jesus did not know, and if the angels do not know, it is certain that these people cannot say with any certainty that te world will be ending in 2012. Another reason why this cannot be so is that all the things that have to happen in order, starting from chapter 6, would have had to have started in 2005, and they did not happen at all, so the end of the world cannot come by 2012 because we would have to be 4 years into a set of judgments that have not happened yet. blessings abound, bowler |
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91 | Still punishable today | NT general | bowler | 206210 | ||
topper Romans 8:1 Therefore there is not no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Romans 3:28 For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law. John 3:18 He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Your sins are forgiven, your eternal dues for sin have been paid and you will not undergo eternal punishment. Your sins are no longer to be punished. But the effects of your sin to you and others does not get erased; if you kill someone, God forbid, you still go to jail and undergo an earthly punishment and the person you killed is still dead. However, there is the judgment for the believer of the deeds they did, whether good or bad. 2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. 1 Corinthians 3:12, 13, 14, 15 Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each man's work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man's work. If any man's work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward. If any man's work is burned up he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. According to these verses the believer will undergo a judgment at the "bema seat" of Christ and there the good deeds and the bad deeds done in the body will be either burned up, or rewarded, but the believer will be saved regardless of the outcome. blessins abound, bowler |
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92 | sending or being sent? | Is 48:16 | bowler | 206208 | ||
Jeff I went searching through Bible Tools and a Bible with some translations for the Hebrew on this scripture for you. One is from the Concordant Version of the Old Testament in Scripture4all - Draw near to me! Hear this! From the beginning, I did not speak in concealment, nor in a dark place of the earth. From the era of its coming, I was there and now My Lord Yahweh sends me and His spirit. This translation goes to your English Standard Version. Then there is this from the Esword Interlinear Bible - Have not from the beginning in secret spoken from the time that it was I: and now the Lord God hath sent and His spirit. This goes to the English Standard Version. Then I found this on Scripture4all as the Hebrew word order taken from the Sublinear English transliteration of the Westminster Lenningrad Codex - Near to me hear you this not from beginning in concealment I spoke from time of to become of her there I and now my Lord Yaweh He sends and spirit of Him. This goes more to the English Standard Version that you have there. The New American Standard Bible says this - Come near to Me, listen to this: from the first time it took place, I was there. And now the Lord God has sent Me, and His spirit. This goes more with your English Standard Version. I would go with the Lockman Foundations translation here because it is known to be closest to the Greek of all the translations, which perhaps we are able to see from viewing the Sublinear Westminster Lenningrad Codex, the Interlinear, and the Concordant Version of the Old Testament the same thing as well - that it most likely reads, "the Lord God has sent me and His Spirit." What is not coming through clear here is whether or not the King James Version is really saying anything different. What I am seeing is that it is saying the same thing as the English Standard Version being - the Lord God has sent and His Spirit too - and the King James Version as saying the Lord God and His Spirit has sent. I am trying to see the same difference that you are seeing here as being that the English Standard Version is really saying that "he" and the Spirit both got sent? blessings abounding, bowler |
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