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81 | 3 brothers descendants changed | Col 1:16 | Tamara Brewington | 205678 | ||
My Dearest Val, Thank you very, very much, this is exactly te verse I was looking for about the blood... Thank you for finding that, I have a feeling the curse of Ham thing is way off there, but I am not sure... Val do you no anything about this idea and whether or not it had roots in the Bible? Or is it just racist slave owner garbage? Thanks in advance, God's Day To You, Tamara |
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82 | 3 brothers descendants changed | Col 1:16 | Tamara Brewington | 205662 | ||
Dear du, Colossians 1:16 For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and the on the earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities - all things have been created through Him and by Him and for Him. We have to just trust that Jesus made everything including the that He is responsible for the nations the tongues the colors and the cultures. I was looking for two things I could not find, one that Ham was black due to a curse which I had heard before, but I cannot find in, and two that God created man with the blood of all the nations whithin him, but those are not quite the right words and I cannot find it becuase that is not quite the right phrase - perhaps if Pastor Moran is still awake he will know where this is... God's Day to YOu, tamara |
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83 | Praise Dance Wrong Worship? | Ps 149:3 | Tamara Brewington | 205658 | ||
Dear Cheri, Here is something for you in return then, when you look to the side you will see as you scroll down that there are praise dancers of eveyr shade in this thing! Enjoy! Are you familiar with the praise dacing that is done in white face or black face depending on your color with white gloves that is done as a kind of mime dancing? These dancers use no facial expression and use their hand and body motions to praise the Lord to music! It is fascinating and freeing to watch this, but I don't know where to go on line to send this to you. I am going to enjoy this link you sent me very much! Thanks Cheri! you always edifify!, Tamara http://www.christianartistsonline.net/artists-home/task,videodirectlink/id,1711/ |
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84 | Christians Demon Plagued? | Mark 16:17 | Tamara Brewington | 205657 | ||
Dear Cheri, My friend did not preach a visiting Arch-Bishop did... I am not talking about Peter's denial I am talking about Mathe 16:23 where Peter had said to Jesus God, forbid it Lord! This shall never happend to You? About Jesus saying He was going to be crucifed. How do you say Peter was not sealed with the Holy Spirit? Are you saying that the disciples, the OT saints somehow got saved without the actions and work inside them of the Holy Spirit? What about the teaching that the blood of Christ and the works of the Holy Spirit towards salvation were working backwards in time from the of the cross and that Pentecost was specifically as Jesus said it was, "you will recieve power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses, etc."? What about Ephesians 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. How then is it that those who were saved before Jesus died whether disciples or OT saints did not receive the Holy Spirit? If you do not have the Holy Spirit you aren't saved! Here, II Peter 1:21 for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God. Are you going to say that these men were not operating by the power of the Holy Spirit, or that they weren't saved? Jesus does not say in Acts that He was giving a seal of salavtion does He? He says the Holy Spirit will be coming with power so they could witness, there is a difference, the Holy Spirit was definitely working through them all when they were casting out demons and healing the sick... By what other power do you think they were doing it? Yeah okay Turetz, then why after they got they demon out of her was she suddenly healed? God's Day To You, Tamara |
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85 | Praise Dance Wrong Worship? | Ps 149:3 | Tamara Brewington | 205650 | ||
Dear Forum members, What do you think of praise dancing? Have you ever seen it done? I have seen churches of all denominations and colors doing this? Some churches see this as shaking your bottom in public and think all dancing is the work of the devil. I personally like it and it has been done in my church by the youth from time to time although I strongly objected to the choice of music and wonder despite the lyrics how such music could be said to even be praise music based on the music, if you could call it that. We know David danced right out of his clothes in a praise mode and his wife couldn't stand it and felt it was unholy. What do you all think? God's Day To You, Tamara |
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86 | Evidenc of Signs in 2008 Valid? | Mark 16:17 | Tamara Brewington | 205649 | ||
Dear Forum members, I already know what I think of the Pentecostal belief that speaking in tongues is evidence of the Holy Spirit having entered one and I know all the scriptures to refute that understanding of scriptures. I wonder though how should we understand Mathew verse 17 and 18 - are these signs just to be applied to the first century - the tongues, the casting out of demons, the not being affected by poisons or deadly snakes? Or do you think it is possible that these things could still apply now? Please don't answer with stuff about snake handlers or refutations of crackpot practices in phony bony churches - I am well aware of what types of charlatans are out there, I am well grounded and not in any danger of falling prey to false doctrine. Please try to craft your answer around some scriptures if you can.. God's Day To You, Tamara |
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87 | Christians Demon Plagued? | Mark 16:17 | Tamara Brewington | 205647 | ||
Dear Forum members, I have a friend from school who is a minister in a Pentecostal church, I am Baptist always have been always will be. I went to a function at his church tonight to fellow ship with him and his lovely wife. I heard a number of things I have heard before that I wonder if some of you know more about than I do... Here is the deal; the visiting preacher was talking about a situation where a member of his church who had confessed the Lord Jesus and asked for forgiveness of sins was plagued by demons. Here is what she was doing that was the outward sign, she stripped naked to the nothingness of nakedness several times during services while he was preaching very quickly before the ushers could stop her. This man is an arch-bishop of a Pentecostal church, he had interviewed this woman to make sure she was saved as best he could and had baptized her immediately after her profession of faith and repentance the same day she confessed the Lord Jesus. The deacons in his church were highly upset saying how very fast she took all those clothes off, remarking that she never had any undergarments to hinder her haste and saying as how she seemed to be a demon plagued Christian and some said a demon possesed Christian. I am not so stupid or so new as to think that a Christian could actually have the spirit of the devil and the Holy Ghost at the same time. He never said she was possesed, he said she was demon plagued and that the demon had to be cast out of her in the name of Jesus before her sanity returned to her. We know from the Bible that folks who are saved can actually do things by the spirit of Satan, like Peter did and still be saved, which means the spirit of Satan is operating through them, working through them, even though they are sealed by the Holy Ghost. What do you all think of this? Do you see anything here according to what I have said that you could illuminate by the scriptures on? God's Blessings Tam |
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88 | Christians Demon Plagued? | Mark 16:17 | Tamara Brewington | 205646 | ||
Dear Forum members, I have a friend from school who is a minister in a Pentecostal church, I am Baptist always have been always will be. I went to a function at his church tonight to fellow ship with him and his lovely wife. I heard a number of things I have heard before that I wonder if some of you know more about than I do... Here is the deal; the visiting preacher was talking about a situation where a member of his church who had confessed the Lord Jesus and asked for forgiveness of sins was plagued by demons. Here is what she was doing that was the outward sign, she stripped naked to the nothingness of nakedness several times during services while he was preaching very quickly before the ushers could stop her. This man is an arch-bishop of a Pentecostal church, he had interviewed this woman to make sure she was saved as best he could and had baptized her immediately after her profession of faith and repentance the same day she confessed the Lord Jesus. The deacons in his church were highly upset saying how very fast she took all those clothes off, remarking that she never had any undergarments to hinder her haste and saying as how she seemed to be a demon plagued Christian and some said a demon possesed Christian. I am not so stupid or so new as to think that a Christian could actually have the spirit of the devil and the Holy Ghost at the same time. He never said she was possesed, he said she was demon plagued and that the demon had to be cast out of her in the name of Jesus before her sanity returned to her. We know from the Bible that folks who are saved can actually do things by the spirit of Satan, like Peter did and still be saved, which means the spirit of Satan is operating through them, working through them, even though they are sealed by the Holy Ghost. What do you all think of this? Do you see anything here according to what I have said that you could illuminate by the scriptures on? God's Blessings Tam |
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89 | Idiom? | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 205643 | ||
Dear Cheri, I agree the substance of the thing is the most important part above the consideration of timing here or trying to understand what Jesus said and what it meant. Here is a question about that timing and explanation you got there... If any part of a day constitutes a day, then why could it not be that; He was crucified Friday morning before the Saturday Sabbath begins, dies before sundown and is buried before 7 at night. He is in the grave by 7 on Friday night when the Sabbath begins counting as day one. He lays in the grave all Saturday and this counts as day two. He lays in the grave through 7 on Saturday night which counts as the beginning of day three and therefore this counts as one whole day. He gets up sometime before Mary arrives still in day three. In this way because any part of a day constitutes a whole day He indeed stays in the grave three days and three nights because any part of a day counts as one twenty four hour period? I don't know what you think of this and please like others in here that mean no harm, but don't understand why I always seem to say something different than what is presented to me, please don't take this as disputing your point or arguing or disagreeing. I am only trying to understand you, but also to see what the Bible actually meant to say... God's Day To You, Tamara |
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90 | Idiom? | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 205639 | ||
Dear Cheri, You spelled everything real good Cheri as to how things work! Could you explain more according to this that you have written about the actual timing of this thing? Need help understanding. I realize you might be at work, get back when you can Cheri... God Bles, Tam |
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91 | Idiom? | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 205632 | ||
Dear JIM, I hear you loud and clear, but then what is your account for the time? Are you saying this was a Thursday crucifixion? Help me to understand please what you mean and not what I think.. God Bless, Tam |
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92 | what does verse 4 chapter 18 mean | Gen 1:1 | Tamara Brewington | 205631 | ||
Dear Jim, I may have been wrong, I was going by the verse picked as Gen. 1:1 thinking that person meant Genesis 4:18! Good point, good point! Tam |
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93 | Profile on the 12 Apostles | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 205616 | ||
Dear S, See Mark chapters 1 and 2 and Luke chapter 5, then go to Acts and prowse through that to see about Peter and Paul. Look up every reference for each aposlte in the concordnace and read those. A good source is the Biblica Bible Atlas by Barons. A list of hard covers; http://www.allaboutjesuschrist.org/history-of-the-apostles-faq.htm A chart of the apostles major work and manor of deaths; http://members.aol.com/h777888999/apostles.htm A site with the oringal writings of the church fathers; http://www.zeitun-eg.org/ecfidx.htm Hope this helps, God Bless, Tamara |
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94 | what does verse 4 chapter 18 mean | Gen 1:1 | Tamara Brewington | 205613 | ||
Dear mhigh, What we have here is the first genealogy of the Bible that is the very beginning of the lineage of Jesus! What you have stumbled onto is the beginning of the line of Jesus, most folks think that it begins with Abraham because God have Him the promise that He would bless His seed in all the nations. Others trace it from David who was given the promise of an heir to the eternal throne. Here is what I found studying this; Genesis 5:1-32; Adam to Noah. Genesis 10:1-32; Noah to Joktan. The important person to trace here is Shem he carries the genealolgy of Jesus. Genesis 11:10-32; Shem to Abram. The imprtant person to trace here is Abram who becomes Abraham he carries the genealogy of Jesus. Genesis 12-49; Abraham to Isaac to Jacob to Judah. Mathew 1; take all the names after Judah and look then up them up in the Strong's Concordance to see what book they appear in all the way up to Jesus. Hope this helped, God Bless, Tamara |
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95 | who torments in the lake of fireer | Revelation | Tamara Brewington | 205612 | ||
Dear n8, I do believe that God is the owner of hell and the lake of fire, two different places though; Jesus speaks of hell in Luke 16 as being a place of torment, then in Revelation we hear of the lake of fire in 19. God made the heavens He made heaven itself, since He created everything He also created hell and the lake of fire for the wicked. Hell is going to get thrown into the lake of fire though and who ever is in their in hell is going to come out and receive immortal bodies capable of buring for ever as they are resurrected to receive the Great White Throne judgment - John 5, Revelation 20. God who created all of the elements in the lake of fire and of hell set these places up as places of infinite and eternal torment and of burning fire. Is it not God who punishes all sin? Is it not God who has a promise to visit wrath on the unjust? I don't think God stands there in hell stoking fires, or that He needs anyone else to either, I think He set it up as a place that is perpetually burning as how He set it up to keep operating and give folks an immortal body to endure puniishment forever. God's Day To You, Tamara |
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96 | OT via Jesus? | Matt 5:28 | Tamara Brewington | 205609 | ||
Dear Thomas8, I think that what we have here is that Jesus clarifies the scope of the law to include the alliliations of the heart. When we look at the Ten Commandments we see ten things we are not supposed to be doing in obedience to God as if they are bad actions to take. Jesus goes a step beyond and tells us that sin is a matter of the intentions of the heart, and by attrition, God will not just judge our actions, but our hearts and minds. We tend to think of sin in terms of actions taken, as I say again, but we don't understand where sin begins, in an inside rebellion against God by placing something else inside where God shoud be. I like Romans 1:18-32 a lot because it shows where all depravity begins, in setting up something to revere above God, anything we place above God and following God cause us to be given over to a depraved mind to sin, any kind of sin, not just gross sexual sin, but any sin is the action of depravity, and it starts in the heart and in the head doesn't it? I like your transition of covenants, I think this is a correct view of the situation. Jesus is about to go to Jerusalem in a few years and switch up covenants on us, He will replace and old one with a new one and also enhance and old one, the covenant of faith. No longer will any have to keep struggling with law to become righteous the righteous will have the law writen in their inward parts, in their hearts to do it. God's Day To You, Tamara |
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97 | May we claim rewards for tithing? | Mal 3:10 | Tamara Brewington | 205579 | ||
Dear rgarden1, We don't claim things we read in the Bible we receive things we read in the Bible, Malachi was speaking of receiving a promise of God by obedience to His word, not claiming rewards. The Holy Spirit is not waiting around for people to act before He will though, He is already working through people. The question is what is He trying to do? Evangelize always, guide us always. I think the issue of giving to the needs we see around us is important though, but what is the primary role of the church? I will not answer that I will leave room for you to do that... The New Testament teaches grace giving you are on track... II Corinthians 9:7 Each must do as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. However, no one according to this text should be compelled to give for any reason, it has to be from their heart. The Holy Spirit has to do a work in people's hearts before they will open up and give though, just letting people know others need something more than they do won't get people to open up their hearts to give to these needs. Not every church and not every members is called to be a missionary or a missionary church either. Not all pastors except money either, and not all pastors let their boards run them into the ground, or the "stockholders" either. Not all pastors have a second job in a big church and you should not muzzle the ox while he works... It is interesting what you say about reaching out to address needs though, that is a first century church model for sure, see Acts 2 and 4 at the ends. Most folks would not be willing to part with things in order to follow that model, but it is the model... That has always bothered me... That we no longer operate like that, everyone is out for his own interests to make a living and don't think much or often about using what God gave us to do what Jesus said; hungry you fed Me, naked you clothed Me, homeless you housed Me. Ain't nobody gonna take a homeless person off the street are they? They might give em a few bucks, but not a track of land to sell to go get an apartment... Even Christians are not running around doing this for Christians these days. God's Day To You, Tamara |
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98 | Help! Unclean vs clean meat? | Acts | Tamara Brewington | 205578 | ||
Dear Steve, I believe if you want to be removed to the Forum you could try the link provided to make a complaint about a user and tell them you want to be unregistered. I tried once to ask a question using another link that supposedly was there to contact them, I had a question, they wrote me back that that link could not be used to communicate with them about concerns and to use the other link, it was not about anyone else, but about myself. But this part of your post is a head scratcher! You want to be removed, but didn't stop posting! ARgh? There is a feature in here you can use per post after you press preview follow up on the preview page you have the option of choosing to not receive an email back to your post, this works per note, per answer! Does this help any? God Bless, Tamar |
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99 | Help! Unclean vs clean meat? | Acts | Tamara Brewington | 205577 | ||
Dear Colt 045, I do believe there is a simple very simple answer to your question once one is willing to set aside the issue of whether or not it was in the origanal text... And then I will tell you about the places in your Bible where a text was not found in all manuscripts that make up your Bilble and try to exlain to you how it is that things get put in the Bible in the frist place so that you can see that men don't add or take away a part of a text, but that some manuscripts contain some things and some don't. But that is not the problem here with the verse you are interested in. You have to consider that when Jesus was speaking when Peter was near, He never said the words, "(Thus He declared all foods clean.)", or else they would be in red! What is going on here is that the writer, Mark added in words later to illustrate the meaning of what Jesus actually was saying to Mark's readers. This is an excersize in grammar- taking the parts of the grammar of the text and breaking it down into its harmonious parts and then putting it back together to make better sense of what the text means. So, Mark quoted Jesus, the red part, and then Mark made a comment to his readers summing up what Jesus just said; that food going in cannot defile a man, and then Mark takes what he learned their and states that because of what Jesus was saying before Jesus meant that all foods were clean. How many times did the disciples hear what Jesus said and not understand it? More than once! More than twice? Yup! They understood most of it later, when the they were teaching it and writing it! We can't assume Peter understood it when it was spoken based on his actions later can we? No, in fact we can conclude that he did not understand it at all... By the time we get to Acts 10, Peter is still practicing Judaism at the same time as all the Jewish Christians; they went to temple, they went to synagogue, they ate kosher food, they stayed away from the Gentiles, they considered themselvs Jews who believed in Jesus. The word Christian and the concept of being separate from Jews are two different things. They were first called Christians at Antioch by folks in that city and it was not a compliment. There was great division between Jews who were Christians and Gentiles who were Christians over food for a while, they did not eat together, they did not eat the same thing. When Peter got to that vision he did not go out and start eating any old thing, he understood all people can be made clean by God even Gentiles. Peter took a long time before he went and ate anything unclean and then when the Judean Jews came to Galatia, he backed right up and stopped eating Gentile food, and he and Paul fought about it. Now to the question of texts and what are in orginal texts and what are in copies, which make up our Bible. This is an area called textual criticisim; There are two sets of manuscripts used for the construction of the New Testament. The Latter Texts and The Earlier Texts. The Latter Texts were used to write the King James Bible, the very first one. These manuscripts were copies of the original texts written by the original authors and those are called the original autographs. These orginal autographs are gone now, they were around in the first century when they were written and then copied many, many, many times. Altogether there are upwards of 5,300 Greek manuscript fragaments which are portions of the New Testament used to construct the New Testament into one whole canon. The Latter texts were all discovered first, but they were not the oldest copies, they were the youngest copies - and from this we get the King James Bible. The Earlier Texts, the earlier manuscripts are more in number and contain less differences in textual content per passage and contain less copyist errors. From these Earlier Texts which are more reliable manuscripts and higher in number and which are older manuscripts we get the NASB, NIV, ESV, TNIV, NRSV, NASU, NAB, NJB, GNB, REB, which were all written in the last century or so. Our dear translators have a wonderful guide at the beginning of the NASB describing Explanation of General Format, but they left out one very important thing, the use of brackets in the all Bibles written in the last century or so. They talk about notes, cross referrences, paragraphs, quotation marks, and so on, even asterisks. Here is why everyone has brackets all over their Bible and it is the only reason. Where ever you see brakets, like in Mark 16:9-20 and the after note, it is because a set of manuscripts referrenced by the body of translators of your particular Bible came accross a situation where one set of manuscripts leave out that part of the verse, but the other manuscripts contain that part of the verse. Make sure to understand this only refers to brackets and not to parenthesis. Hope this clears it all up for you, God Bless, Tamara |
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100 | Idiom? | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 205572 | ||
Dear Jim, Hi there guy! We have to accept first what scripture said, scratch our proverbial heads a bit and then try to make sense of what the words meant to them when it was wriiten to them, not what it means to us reading it now. Fact - Jesus said Jonah was in the belly of the sea monster for three days and three nights, that makes that part fact, right? Fact - Jesus said He too would be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights, that makes that part fact, right? Okay now turn to Mark 15:42-47 - Jesus was buried the day before Sabbath could begin, the Sabbath begins on Saturday, so Jesus was buried on Friday. Look down at Mark 16:1-6 - Mary and the women came on the first day of the week to anoint Jesus and get told, He is risen that morning of the first day of the week. That is Jesus in the tomb before the sun went down - Now, see John 18:28 - The Jews wanted to hurry up and get Jesus crucified before sundown so they could eat the Passover with clean hands. So Jesus was crucified before the sun went down on Friday and got up sometime early Sunday morining that is a fact. But you have to look at the fact of that time frame of from Friday evening to Sunday morning and realize Jesus could not be mistaken about it being three days and three nights no matter how it looks. So the question is never did He get crucifed on Thursday (did not say you said that), He did not the text shows He did not. The only possible question there could be is what did Jesus mean by three days and three nights? It has to be exact, but it also has to fit the real time frame of being somehow not three full days, right? It is exact and it does fit the time frame. Here is why... The New Testament is written in Greek, Jesus spoke Aramaic. Whatever the Aramaic word for day that Jesus used Mathew knew what He meant by the word day. Mathew chose a word, the Greek word Hemera, number 2250 in the Strong's - it's actualy translated as literally - the time space between light and dark, or the whole twenty four hours, figuratively a period of time as any part of a day. So if you look at that very real definition there is no reason why we can't understand what Jesus was really saying in light of what really happened. What Jesus actually was saying was accurate when you factor in that what He meant was figuratively a period, not twenty four hour periods. This issue is about a figure of speech, it has to do with the use of the word Hemera as being it's last listed meaning - a figurative period. You are wondering what in the heck I am saying by now aren't you because it does not seem to add up yet does it? Here is what we now have to turn to to understand how Jews calculated time in Jesus day. This is fact, not speculation, not conjecture, the Jews did count any part of a day as constituting the whole day, this is an historical fact. When we go back to the beginning, Moses uses the word Yowm in Genesis to describe a day. The definition of Yowm number 3117 is - the warm hours, from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next, or figuratively a space of time. When Moses used the word he meant night and day a twenty four hour day, but the word can mean a figurative space of time as any part of that day as well. Let's look at Mathew 17:23 and they will kill Him and He will be raised on the third day." Again Jesus uses the word Hemera as that any part of each of the three days constitutes a day unto itself and therfore it is correct that He rose on the third day whether they were three twenty four periods or parts of days. Mark 4:35 the word Hemera is used to describe part of a day - On that day, when evening came, etc. That the word Hemera can mean part of a day and not the whole day is not an idiom as John Gill purports but is a correct translation of the word Hemera as used by Jesus to mean part of a day as being one day. It is not about what scripture can intrepret that three days and three nights means 24 hours, 2 minutes, and 72 hours. It is about that Jesus meant part of one day as counting for a full day according to the Greek meaning of the word Hemera. Hope this helped, Tamara |
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