Results 81 - 89 of 89
|
||||||
Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Author: Ancient Ordered by Verse |
||||||
Results | Verse | Author | ID# | |||
81 | Superior Hope | Heb 11:40 | Ancient | 127383 | ||
EdB, (Continued ...) 1 Corinthians 16:4 Let all that you do be done in love. Galatians 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love. Galatians 5:14 For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, "YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF." Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. (Compare these "fruits" to the description of love in 1 Corinthians 13 4-7) Ephesians 3:16-18 ... that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth ... Colossians 3:14 Beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity. 1 timothy 1:5 But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. James 2:8 If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, "YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF," you are doing well. 1 Peter 4:8 Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins. 1 John 3:11 For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another ... 1 John 3:14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death. 1 John 3:18-20 Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth. We will know by this that we are of the truth, and will assure our heart before Him in whatever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart and knows all things. 1 John 3:23 This is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us. 1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 1 John 4:12 No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us. 1 John 4:16 We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 2 John 1:5 Now I ask you, lady, not as though I were writing to you a new commandment, but the one which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another. Continued ... |
||||||
82 | Superior Hope | Heb 11:40 | Ancient | 127384 | ||
EdB, (Continued ...) To summarize the quoted passagese, according to love, I conclude the following results as according to plain scripture: If you love God and love your neighbor, you will live. There are no commandments greater than these, and all other laws are dependent upon the two for their very existence. Love is the commandment of Christ, and if you do that, everyone will know that we are his diciples. Love edifies, and all that we do should be done in love. In Christ, nothing means anything, except that it be by faith through love. Love is the fulfillment of the law; there is no commandment we have that is not summed up by it, and love does no harm to another. The things that define love are the fruits of the spirit, and there are no laws against such things. Through faith, and rooted and grounded in love, we can comprehend all things. Love is the perfect bond of unity, and it is the goal of the Apostles' instruction. If you are loving each other, you are fulfilling the royal law, and you do well. Love is the message we have heard from the beginning, and love covers a multitude of sins. We know that we have passed from death to life because we love one another, and it is by this sincere love that we will assure our hearts before God. If we love, we are born of God, know God ... we abide in God and God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us. This same love that nailed his own Son to the cross. If love does all these things, as according to plain scripture, then love is all you need. The root point of the "go to church" issue, and the reason for some of my questions stems from this truth. We all agree that going to church is a good thing, but if you miss church two weeks in a row, you have not sinned. You have missed church. In no way have you failed to love another by missing the assembly at the church house. If, on the other hand, you make it a commandment, then you have sinned if you miss it once, and this without harming anyone or failing to love your brothers and sisters even by accident. It is for this reason that church is not a command. It is a good thing to do. If it is a command, you are a murderer if you miss it once. Observe the words of James: James 2:10-11 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one, he has become guilty of all. For He who said, "Don not commit adultery," also said, "Do not commit murder." Now if you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. In other words, if you make it a command, and you miss it once, you are also a murder. Now observe the words of John: 1 John 3:15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. In short, if it is a command, then you are a murderer if you miss church once, and no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. If, on the other hand, it is exhortation, if you miss you are still loving those around you, but simply missed service. Love IS the law in all respects, and it never fails. 1 John 2:10 The one who loves his brother abides in the Light and there is no cause for stumbling in him. Ancient |
||||||
83 | Superior Hope | Heb 11:40 | Ancient | 127416 | ||
EdB, It is clear that you have not looked up any of the passages for context. You have not given my words any real weight. You are wrong! You are being argumentative and prideful. What you want is to win this debate at all costs, and I will no longer cast my pearls before swine. You are disregarding plain scripture. You have been taken in your own craftiness, and the Lord rebuke you. Good day to you. This conversation is at an end. Ancient |
||||||
84 | Superior Hope | Heb 11:40 | Ancient | 127423 | ||
EdB, In this post as well you have completely disregarded my attempts to be civil with you. You rejected everything with opinion, insulted me as usual, disregarded scripture, degraded the meaning of scripture, and you called the doctrine of Christ Humanism. Well get thee behind me Satan! You speak NOT the things that are of God. Good day to you. If you reply to me anymore with these nasty retorts, I will report you to abuse for harrassing me. Ancient |
||||||
85 | Why is the thread associated with ID# .. | 2 Pet 2:4 | Ancient | 127390 | ||
Country Girl, My first reaction when I saw this post was that the scriptures specifically state that God created evil. Upon looking at the thread, I find that Stultis also determined this and asked that someone answer to it. Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. It's a ying yang. Boy girl, on off, back forward, light darkness, good evil. Now, your example is good, and I would be inclined to agree, but demonstration is secondary to plain statement. He says he did it, and that's the conclusion, regardless of any secondary reasoning. To say, "It is a basic self-evident contradiction of His Word to think that God could have created evil and is thus banned as soon as the Foundation know of its existance," is not correct. It is not a self-evident contradiction. It is the Word of God. If they "are dedicated to God's Word and Its rightful claim to being the absolute Truth," then the Word of God must be acknowledged first and foremost over doctrine. I am not personally interested in this topic, so don't misunderstand me to argue towards any goal specifically related to it. My interst is in preserving sound study based on the Bible and the words it contains as opposed to doctrines and opinions. When people stop acknowledging the authority of the stated Word in favor of their prideful opinions and doctrines, they stop learning. This topic, as opposed to being banned, should have been answered to. If refutable, it should have been soundly refuted. If not refutable, then it should have been acknowledged so that all could be edified. Where is our humility? I speak not only to everyone on the forum, but to myself as well, who recently allowed someone to provoke me to the extent that I was harsh to someone I respected on this forum. Where is our love! We should be esteeming everyone as greater than ourselves. Why is this not happening? Love is not vaunted in pride, so why is the pride so thick as to be cut with a knife? Out of hundreds of posts over the last week, I've seen the words, "you're right," once. Can you folks tell me that everyone is right, and they arguing for no good reason at all? I have personally posted to two topics with sound scripture, and I have met with indoctrination and opinions. I have met with pride, anger, insults, name-calling, disregard for plain scripture, and just plain downright rudeness. What are we doing to each other? I say, answer Stultis' question. If you people that argue him have the right of it, then let's see it, because dismissing the question stinks of pride and stubborness. People deserve to know what the Bible says on the matter. Hiding it is not edifying anyone. If he is right, then restricting it is perpetuating misconceptions instead of finding out how to understand what is written. If he is wrong, then everyone needs to see why, so they can be edified and strengthened in their own discussions on the same topic. This is my voice on the matter, and I will otherwise silence myself in regard to this topic until/unless someone chooses to ridicule, criticize, or call me names over it. I'm getting quite used to that, and it's only been a week. Ancient |
||||||
86 | Where is God? | 1 John | Ancient | 126914 | ||
1st John 4:7-12 "Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God." John 13:34-35 "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another." John 14:21 "He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him." 1st John 2:7 "Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard." ... 1st John 3:23-24 "This is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us. The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. We know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us." Love those around you with sincere love, and you will both know and feel the presence of God in your life. 1 Peter 1:22-25 "Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart ... And this is the word which was preached to you." Ancient |
||||||
87 | Millions led by Satan equal Goat Nations | Rev 20:8 | Ancient | 126909 | ||
Wow, Lastday! That's a great theory. You've spent a lot of time on this, it would seem. Commendable effort. I am of a different opinion, but I see you are working hard to understand the mysteries. Myself, I am of a preterist view. I reckon the seven-headed beast to the Roman Emperors, the woman to Israel, and her child as being the Christ, or some representation of Him. I see the number of the name as Nero Caesar, while also recognizing him as the king that was currently in power. There are a lot of interesting thoughts to the preterist view, and it is worth investigating. Premillenialist advocates view Preterism as impossible because of their interpretations, and Preterists view Premillenialism as impossible for the same reason. Neither side has ever been able to convincingly argue their view. The debate has raged for at least 1500 years. Whichever way you look at it, you are still doing well in that you are seeking knowledge and mystery. Just remember, fear of the end is not the way to bring people to Christ. Many fire and brimstone preachers like to scare people into being Christians, but God is love. Perfect love casts out all fear, because fear is torment. Again, good job on the work you've put into your studies, but I would humbly advise that you keep this sort of information amongst believers. Love is the best way to win new souls. This was the message of Christ, and it drew multitudes. Ancient |
||||||
88 | Millions led by Satan equal Goat Nations | Rev 20:8 | Ancient | 126949 | ||
I'm sorry lastday, I don't want to converse with you on this. Like you, many over the years believed they had it all figured out in regard to the Revelation. I am not God to say beyond all doubt that you have not figured it out, but I have my reservations about theories suspect of speculation. There isn't a generation gone by that didn't think they were living in the end times, and this goes all the way back to the Apostles themselves who told everyone that the hour was at hand. I don't know the answer, and I don't care to speculate about it if you are fanatical. I'm sorry to offend. I just wanted to give you a little praise for your hard work. We all need a pat on the back now and then. Thank you for responding. May God keep you well. Ancient |
||||||
89 | Millions led by Satan equal Goat Nations | Rev 20:8 | Ancient | 126993 | ||
lastday, you wrote: [Ancient, Thank you for the encouragement. Mel Miller] Any time brother. We should uphold one another, and I don't believe that this only refers to upholding in weakness, but in strength as well. Love to you, Ancient |
||||||
Result pages: << First < Prev [ 1 2 3 4 5 ] |