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81 | Jesus according to Paul, vs. the Gospels | 1 John 1:1 | LuckyCharm | 42768 | ||
Jesus according to Paul, vs. the Gospels? The following question was posed to me elsewhere, and I was wondering whether anyone here has done any study or knows of any good sources on the subject: "My personal point of view is that the (later-written) Gospels present a version of Jesus that is developed along a certain line from the (earlier written) authentic letters of Paul. The authentic letters of Paul are consistent with a spiritual/non-historic Jesus who is the focus of a mystery religion. The Gnostics, who claim Paul's teaching as one of their primary sources, and for whom other non-canonical Gnostic gospel versions of Jesus exist, may have been the "true" christians and the canonical-gospel-following christians the heretics, but since the canonical-gospel-following christians got to write history, it was the Gnostics who were branded the heretics. Paul's letters could be interpreted to fit both (although I find them more consistent with the Gnostic view). All that said, I wouldn't recommend interpreting the writings of Paul based on the later-written and tangentially developed Gospels." Appreciate any input! --Cheryl |
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82 | what are justifys divorce? | 2 Corinthians | LuckyCharm | 41968 | ||
Sorry, I was trying to post this as a reply to the original question. But thanks for your question -- I personally don't think there's a limit on the love that is asked of us, just as there is no limit on forgiveness. :-) --Cheryl |
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83 | what are justifys divorce? | 2 Corinthians | LuckyCharm | 41966 | ||
I found an interesting thread by searching on "abusive," too, titled "How much submitting must a woman do?" FWIW. Peace, Cheryl |
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84 | Where is God when I need him? | Bible general Archive 1 | LuckyCharm | 41699 | ||
Hi unsure, Your question reminds me of a poem written by a 22-year-old woman close to the Pentagon right after 9/11: ONE NATION UNDER GOD God where were you yesterday? I looked for you everywhere You were so hard to find my father came home from Bible study dropped his car keys, a bag of groceries, his Bible to the counter and looked at me "This is a crazy world," he said in a voice pained and flat I did not understand until he turned on the T.V. God did you see? the television flashed black and white footage two hijacked planes flying into New York crashing into the World Trade twin towers God where were you? when New Yorkers ran through the streets tucking their faces in their shirts and ash and smoke, death and dying all around in my America? a women on the radio said it was like confetti white confetti falling from the skies I thought of Virginia's white snows in winter the silvery fall from the skies was that what death was like? Virginia winter confetti there were men, women did you see them God? jumping from the buildings like birds with clipped wings did you hold their hands when they made the leap into your world? the Trade buildings came tumbling down like a child's wooden block tower God did you see? another hijacked plane crashed into the Pentagon and still another crash in Pennsylvania? were you sitting next to the woman who called her husband on the cell phone and said good bye did you know there were children at school studying Geometry, History - the neat type-set of grammar texts did you know some of these children came home, fatherless or motherless, changed in one day? God I tried to eat yesterday but my bowl of cereal tasted like and ash and death God I tried to sleep yesterday but my heart hurt and I kept waking to the memories of police officers pulling people from the wreckage like treasures from a buried chest brave firefighters choking on smoke and tears fighting the fires, the death Americans saving themselves, each other and then I found you God later " Attack on America" was the headline I tried to say it out loud but the words sounded strange on my lips in my America? land of the free , the 4th of July, desert storm, the America I pledged to in grade school the 50 stars I counted over and over from my desk the flag I learned to fold in Girl Scouts parades and campaign buttons, the field trips to DC museums and monuments the pride in my voice on the trip to Europe when the German man asked where I was from and I smiled back and answered "Ich bin von den Vereinigten Staaten" "one nation under God-Liberty and Justice for all" dear God this all happened in my America did you see the tears of Americans I thought I heard you crying with the country You were with us yesterday and today when we move through the debris waking from a terrible dream yesterday is a toss and tangle of sheets Mayor Guiliani is on the screen his face is drawn like a dark curtain his shaking hand is squeezed by another leader and he speaks sadly but proudly insists we go back to life live as normal as possible eat at restaurants, drink coffee at cafes talk, walk the streets holding hands but also pray, give blood pull the last of the living from the rubble God this happened in my America but so did the saving, the prayer services the candlelight vigils the long line to donate blood the officers giving their lives You were with us yesterday God you are with us today and I need to feel you, remember the saving in my America because my dad said this is a crazy world and I'm only 22 God learning to put trust in a world I can't always trust for now I'll put my trust in you and my trust in America because this is still my America my waving flag of the stars and stripes, my promised freedom God I see you so clearly today You are holding my America crying for my America opening your hands You set my America free because we are ready to fly on our own because God was with us yesterday and God lives in America today --Kirsten Porter God be with you today, unsure -- He is Emmanuel. Peace, --Cheryl |
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85 | Human misery and the presence of God | John 9:1 | LuckyCharm | 41694 | ||
Hi Francisco, Your question reminds me of a poem I saw, written by a young woman shortly after 9/11: ONE NATION UNDER GOD God where were you yesterday? I looked for you everywhere You were so hard to find my father came home from Bible study dropped his car keys, a bag of groceries, his Bible to the counter and looked at me "This is a crazy world," he said in a voice pained and flat I did not understand until he turned on the T.V. God did you see? the television flashed black and white footage two hijacked planes flying into New York crashing into the World Trade twin towers God where were you? when New Yorkers ran through the streets tucking their faces in their shirts and ash and smoke, death and dying all around in my America? a women on the radio said it was like confetti white confetti falling from the skies I thought of Virginia's white snows in winter the silvery fall from the skies was that what death was like? Virginia winter confetti there were men, women did you see them God? jumping from the buildings like birds with clipped wings did you hold their hands when they made the leap into your world? the Trade buildings came tumbling down like a child's wooden block tower God did you see? another hijacked plane crashed into the Pentagon and still another crash in Pennsylvania? were you sitting next to the woman who called her husband on the cell phone and said good bye did you know there were children at school studying Geometry, History - the neat type-set of grammar texts did you know some of these children came home, fatherless or motherless, changed in one day? God I tried to eat yesterday but my bowl of cereal tasted like and ash and death God I tried to sleep yesterday but my heart hurt and I kept waking to the memories of police officers pulling people from the wreckage like treasures from a buried chest brave firefighters choking on smoke and tears fighting the fires, the death Americans saving themselves, each other and then I found you God later " Attack on America" was the headline I tried to say it out loud but the words sounded strange on my lips in my America? land of the free , the 4th of July, desert storm, the America I pledged to in grade school the 50 stars I counted over and over from my desk the flag I learned to fold in Girl Scouts parades and campaign buttons, the field trips to DC museums and monuments the pride in my voice on the trip to Europe when the German man asked where I was from and I smiled back and answered "Ich bin von den Vereinigten Staaten" "one nation under God-Liberty and Justice for all" dear God this all happened in my America did you see the tears of Americans I thought I heard you crying with the country You were with us yesterday and today when we move through the debris waking from a terrible dream yesterday is a toss and tangle of sheets Mayor Guiliani is on the screen his face is drawn like a dark curtain his shaking hand is squeezed by another leader and he speaks sadly but proudly insists we go back to life live as normal as possible eat at restaurants, drink coffee at cafes talk, walk the streets holding hands but also pray, give blood pull the last of the living from the rubble God this happened in my America but so did the saving, the prayer services the candlelight vigils the long line to donate blood the officers giving their lives You were with us yesterday God you are with us today and I need to feel you, remember the saving in my America because my dad said this is a crazy world and I'm only 22 God learning to put trust in a world I can't always trust for now I'll put my trust in you and my trust in America because this is still my America my waving flag of the stars and stripes, my promised freedom God I see you so clearly today You are holding my America crying for my America opening your hands You set my America free because we are ready to fly on our own because God was with us yesterday and God lives in America today --Kirsten Porter |
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86 | Who caused injury in order to rescue? | John 9:1 | LuckyCharm | 41693 | ||
I can't think of any such example. But we are told that a man was born blind from birth "so that the works of God might be displayed in him." Peace, --Cheryl |
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87 | Are gays/lesbians bound for hell? | Rom 5:8 | LuckyCharm | 41282 | ||
Hello Marquita, Let me start by saying that I feel for you, having to struggle with the weight of this heartrending burden... The first question you need to answer for yourself is: Is this conviction you're feeling coming from the Holy Spirit, or from some well-meaning but overscrupulous fellow Christian, or maybe from the Holy Spirit speaking through your fellow Christians? You need to get with God and His word and do some honest and fearless soul-searching, because He wants the best for you, and you will never be happy with less. Having said that, I will say that I would never presume to say who's going to hell and who isn't. The Bible does provide some very clear guidelines in some areas, and yet in some the lines are not quite so clear, and we need to meditate prayerfully in order to discern God's perfect will for our own lives and souls. There are a few web sites I wanted to share with you that may be helpful: http://members.aol.com/gunnyding/christ.htm http://www.dignityusa.org/faq.html#3 http://www.melwhite.org/biblesays.html http://members.aol.com/gunnyding/christ4.htm These sites present a different viewpoint than what you're probably used to hearing from "mainstream" Christianity. I am not saying that they will contain the answer for your own situation. I am only presenting them as a possible alternative viewpoint. Only God holds the destiny of your soul in His hands. I pray He will give you light for your path, and peace in your heart as you choose His will and His ways. In His Grip, Cheryl |
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88 | Was Satan on earth before Adam | Bible general Archive 1 | LuckyCharm | 41052 | ||
Jesusman, you say "I have never understood where the idea came from to not believe the miracles took place because they couldn't be proven by science. The very definition of "Miracle" is that it is an event which is "supernatural" or beyond nature. Science is the study of the natural. By their very definitions science and Miracles are incompatable." C.S. Lewis actually has an excellent chapter on this subject in his book, "Miracles" (chapter 7, Miracles and the Laws of Nature). "Miracle is, from the point of view of the scientist, a form of doctoring, tampering, (if you like) cheating. It introduces a new factor into the situation, namely supernatural force, which the scientist had not reckoned on... The necessary truth of the laws, far from making it impossible that miracles should occur, makes it certain that if the Supernatural is operating they must occur. For if the natural situation by itself, and the natural situation *plus* something else, yielded only the same result, it would be then that we should be faced with a lawless and unsystematic universe. The better you know that two and two make four, the better you know that two and three don't." I recommend this classic of Lewis's for anyone interested in miracles. He is an amazing writer. --Cheryl |
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89 | Please explain Mathew 21:28-32. | Bible general Archive 1 | LuckyCharm | 41032 | ||
But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first and said, ‘Son, go, work today in my vineyard.’ He answered and said, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he regretted it and went. Then he came to the second and said likewise. And he answered and said, ‘I go, sir,’ but he did not go. Which of the two did the will of his father? They said to Him, "The first." Jesus goes on to explain, "Assuredly, I say to you that tax collectors and harlots enter the kingdom of God before you. For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him; but tax collectors and harlots believed him; and when you saw it, you did not afterward relent and believe him." It seems clear that Jesus is drawing a sharp distinction between lip service and true service. Elsewhere He says, "Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven." (Matt 7:21) James echoes this principle in his letter: "But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does." James 1:22-25 Does that help? --Cheryl |
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90 | Reliability of the Bible? | 1 Cor 15:3 | LuckyCharm | 40879 | ||
Thanks, Jensen! Sometimes they come at me so hard and heavy, I'm almost tempted to give up before I start... You're right, of course, and I should have recognized the simple point you bring up myself... Thanks for being an encourager! God bless, Cheryl |
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91 | Reliability of the Bible? | Not Specified | LuckyCharm | 40857 | ||
Regarding Bible tampering: Someone elsewhere has put the following question to me: "The entire book of Joshua, for example, is written to justify Judah's claim to the northern territories during the political vacuum created by the collapse of Assyria. The archaeological record indicates that the various cities of Canaan did not fall at the same times, nor all at Hebrew hands. The entire book of Daniel is also false from start to finish. For a New Testament example, Paul in I Cor. says that Peter was the first to see the risen Jesus, denying that there was any such scene as women at the empty tomb: this is to undercut the Magdalenic faction among early Christians." Does anyone have any information on these objections, or suggestions for further research? Thank you, Cheryl |
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92 | Reliability of the Bible? | 1 Cor 15:3 | LuckyCharm | 40872 | ||
Regarding Bible tampering: Someone elsewhere has put the following question to me: "The entire book of Joshua, for example, is written to justify Judah's claim to the northern territories during the political vacuum created by the collapse of Assyria. The archaeological record indicates that the various cities of Canaan did not fall at the same times, nor all at Hebrew hands. The entire book of Daniel is also false from start to finish. For a New Testament example, Paul in I Cor. says that Peter was the first to see the risen Jesus, denying that there was any such scene as women at the empty tomb: this is to undercut the Magdalenic faction among early Christians." Does anyone have any information on these objections, or suggestions for further research? Thank you, Cheryl |
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