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861 | parenting | Prov 22:6 | Rowdy | 111460 | ||
I like the christian slant as reflected in most of Dr. James Dobson's books. He and his staff have some very practical and Bible based strategies for dealing with today's kids in a very, very difficult world. My two boys are grown now and on their own but we had our struggles. The single bit of advice that I would offer is the tremendous strength that comes from a united couple, husband and wife, father and mother. They must be united first of all with alligence to the same God and worship together in the same precious faith. Second, they must agree to appear completely united in front of their kids and disagree in love and out of earshot of those kids. Finally, never stop praying and seeking after God's advice from His Word AND His earthly appointed spiritual leaders, the elders in your church. It pays to show your spouse and your kids that you have an open mind AND an open heart. It does wonders when you mess up and make a mistake with your kids, for you as a parent to make a sincere apology to that child. That's all I can think of at this moment. God bless. |
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862 | Smile and say Jeez? | Ex 13:21 | Rowdy | 111459 | ||
When I saw this exchange, I could only respond with the words from our Lord as recorded in Matt 5: 33"Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, 'Do not break your oath, but keep the oaths you have made to the Lord.' 34But I tell you, Do not swear at all: either by heaven, for it is God's throne; 35or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King. 36And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black. 37Simply let your 'Yes' be 'Yes,' and your 'No,' 'No'; anything beyond this comes from the evil one. But then again I guess this could apply to myself and just about everyone on this Forum. I do think we could all use some restraint and let our responses reflect a little more love from God and less influence from "the evil one." What do you all think? God bless. |
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863 | Where does it say "MUST be baptised" | John 3:5 | Rowdy | 111399 | ||
I'd like to refer you to my post, with which I responded to Hank, No 111393. Thank you. Let me know what you think. God bless. | ||||||
864 | John 3:1-7 how can you say it's not true | 1 Cor 1:17 | Rowdy | 111397 | ||
I'd like to offer my opinion as to why there is this seeming contradiction. If one does a thorough and serious study of the life and teachings of Apostle, you have to come away with a strong conclusion that he most certainly did believe in baptism for the remission of sins and I think it can be inferred correctly that baptism for this reason is required to obey God's terms of His plan of salvation. However, we still have Paul's statement to deal with. Basically, I think by this time in Paul's life, he has recognized he has a very short time to live upon this earth and is also recgnizing his main talent is to spread to good news of the Gospel to all the world and let others do the baptizing and teaching thereafter. He is merely recognizing priorities just as we do in today's world. He was also delegating as his right to do so. Remember, Paul could see into the future and knew there would be a period of the apostecy, when men would fall away from the church. He was most traumatized over this as shown in his last gathering with the elders in Ephesis. One more thing and I'll hush. There's seems to be a great tendancy for us as men to demand all kinds of extra details such as this kind of explanation from God about all these kind of controversies in His Word. We seem to forget that God expects us to grow up as spiritual beings and realize some of this CAN be figured out on our own. We don't need to argue about it, at least NOT to the length of time and the degree of hurtful words I see posted on this Forum. I agree, this kind of bantering over such small matters doesn't do us or the Lord's church any good. Thanks for "listening" and God bless you all. |
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865 | Talking about the Church he left! | 3 John 1:9 | Rowdy | 111394 | ||
I can only say Amen to this advice. We all should follow Christ's advice concerning differences between members of God's family, Matt 18:15-17 and then when all else fails, warn him about God does to those who cause division, Rom 16:17-20. God bless those who study God's Word AND OBEY His Words. | ||||||
866 | Rowdy's Right Reason? | John 3:5 | Rowdy | 111393 | ||
My basic motivation stems from my philosopical approach to Bible study in general. Hopfully, I made my position clear in my previous posts on the subject "Better safe than sorry." Reference Post 111225: I'll try to answer as best I can. 1) A dissertation on the terms of a last will and testament isn't covered completely in the Bible but it's referenced briefly in Hebrews 9:16-28. This also covers the subject of those who lived before Christ. Jesus was the one and only, perfect sacrifice for all time, past, present and future to the end of time. His sacrice and His Father's covers all the sins of all those who did have, now have and all those in future who will have faith in God and whatever plans He's got for us. We don't know many of the details on this subject but we see the best of the best in the OT. We see plainly that Abraham had unshackable faith when he completely gave up his son so totally. There are other examples but I think you already know them as well as I do. 2) Now about the thief of cross, please let me say here publicly, his case is NOT and should NOT be given as an example to follow. So speculation about his baptism or anything else, including the terms of his making it to Paradise should be of great concern to this Forum or its participants. I don't really think it would be wise for me to continue this item of interest any further. As I've mentioned on other recent posts, there's many scriptures on both sides of this issue about baptism so apparently they and I aren't going to change your mind. But do let me urge you to keep studying and praying on this subject and do take another serious moment to study God's subject of "Better safe than sorry." Even our Lord recognizes there are matters in His Father's Word that outweigh others, Matt 23:23-24. God bless you in your study of His word. |
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867 | Where does it say "MUST be baptised" | John 3:5 | Rowdy | 111289 | ||
There are a multitude of scriptures on this subject posted on the Forum, easily brought up by plugging in the word baptism or its variations into the search engine. One must study diligently and pray over this subject quite a bit. As you've already sumised, there's a tremendous variety of opinions on the matter, spanning the full spectrum so I can only encourage you to be open minded to God's Word and use His Word in its whole. I would encourage you to stay on the Forum and keep studying but ultimately you must make up your own mind and face God with that decision. That's why I think it's best to go with the more safe option and be baptized for the right reason, rather than face Judgement Day without it. In answer to your specific question about "Must" I don't think you'll find that kind of specific command in God's Word. I believe that's God's way of maintaining his position of complete freedom of choice He gives us. I do infer we can take His Words on this matter and the examples of baptisms in the Bible as being imperative but it probably couldn't be proven in a court of law. I think that's the way God prefers it. So, God bless you and I would be interested in your response. |
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868 | owning a house is debt?? | Matt 10:34 | Rowdy | 111259 | ||
I'm sure this is a tough question for all Americans to face. We claim to be a christian nation but we really aren't, not any more. There's just too many distractions for the average American like our jobs, or our hobbies or even our families. Our Lord made it very clear: If ANYTHING takes top priority over and above Him and His Father, then we're not fit for His kingdom. Christ used the word hate in making this statement but that's just a realtive term and the translators had difficulty with it. The bottom line is we must mature as God's children and grow spiritually to see that God MUST take first place in our hearts. It should be obvious to anyone that really knows us that we would choose Him above all else. Otherwise, He's not really worth dying for and spend eternity with Him in heaven. In Matt 10:34-39, the Lord describes a person who loves Him above all else, even his own blood family if it comes to that. And remember, Jesus also strongly endorsed the OT guidance about honoring one's mother and father. But in the grand scheme of God's world, He and His Son must come first. I hope this helps, study this for yourself and pray about it. God bless. |
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869 | Water, baptism and John 3:5/Titus 3:5 | John 3:5 | Rowdy | 111215 | ||
I think if a person were to actually count all the scriptures posted on this forum, there would most likely be just about as many in favor of baptism as those that SEEM to be or are at least a little questionable about it. But I really don't want to antagonize. I'll let you have the last word but I'll still pray for you. God bless. | ||||||
870 | Where the Scriptual proof? | Mark 16:16 | Rowdy | 111210 | ||
I could only repeat the words previously cited in my post 110437 and 107920. God bless. | ||||||
871 | Isn't baptism needed for salvation? | Mark 16:16 | Rowdy | 111208 | ||
I too am TRYING to be good and remain silent but I must insert this quote from the book of Acts and then I'll hush. I insert this once again in an effort to balance the scale here. Acts 5: 28"We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name," he said. "Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us guilty of this man's blood." 29Peter and the other apostles replied: "We must obey God rather than men! 30The God of our fathers raised Jesus from the dead--whom you had killed by hanging him on a tree. God bless ALL of you in your studies. |
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872 | True fasting | Matt 6:16 | Rowdy | 111200 | ||
I think it would be best to quote from our Lord, as recorded by Matthew: 16"When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. 17But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, 18so that it will not be obvious to men that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. After studying this and all the other scriptures, I have to conclude that our Father would rather that we fast in a private manner as far as He is concerned. After all, what we're really after is to gain a much closer relationship with Him. If it's for any other reason, then we know what that reward is already. It seems pretty clear from God's Word as what our position should be but I'd love to see other opinions about this subject. God bless. |
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873 | searching for wisdom | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 111177 | ||
In addition to the comments/suggestions from Prayon and BradK, I would like to add my encouragement to you. My wife and I have been around the world and the country with the military and Government jobs. I've seen a lot of heartache and grief in the Lord's church. Some of it I must admit we brought on ourselves and sometimes we were victimized just as you seem to have been. Even if you were just a little bit guilty of fault, I can only encourage you to seek the forgiveness of those whom you've wronged. On the other hand, after you've prayed on this matter ernestly, preferably with your husband, you really must come to a decision. Just remember that you MUST "grow where you're planted." If you conclude that the Lord would rather re-plant you and your husband in another group of christiains, accept His will and His guidance but I would urge you not to break fellowship with this congregation. Hopefully, this congregation will grow and realize where they went wrong and maybe even miss you to the point that they will try to re-establish that close bond you've enjoyed in the past. There are other benefits to moving from town to town or across country and joining hands with different families of God's children. You get to expereince different levels of maturity and see the many different ways God would like you to use your talents. In some congregations in the past, I've been a deacon, I've always been a song leader since 15 years of age. In other areas, I taught a class of young people and now I'm teaching a class of adults older than myself. Try to look at this trying time in your life as a test, an opportunity to be refined as our beloved Peter encourages us in his epistle as follows: 1 Peter, Chapter 1: 6In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7These have come so that your faith--of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire--may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. 8Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, The other benefit might be the opportunity for you to form a closer bond with your husband. Both of you would be encouraged to seek out another group of christians who might have more in common with you two. I've found that different congregations of christians have their very own distinct personality, some younger, some older, etc. The bottom line is...stay strong and stay on the Lord's side. He's got a plan for you but you've got to stay in the fight and don't let this difficulty get you down. God bless and all of us on the forum are praying for you. |
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874 | Is baptism for salvation? (Mark 16:16) | Mark 16:16 | Rowdy | 111176 | ||
All I can say is Amen!! Good job and God bless. | ||||||
875 | Major critical problem with 3 John? | 3 John 1:1 | Rowdy | 110937 | ||
I can only guess you're referring to the portion about Diotrephes, as follows: 5Dear friend, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers, even though they are strangers to you. 6They have told the church about your love. You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God. 7It was for the sake of the Name that they went out, receiving no help from the pagans. 8We ought therefore to show hospitality to such men so that we may work together for the truth. 9I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will have nothing to do with us. 10So if I come, I will call attention to what he is doing, gossiping maliciously about us. Not satisfied with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers. He also stops those who want to do so and puts them out of the church. A word of caution is warrented here. All of the harsh treatments that are shown throughout the Bible almost always have the assistance of the Holy Spirit. For example: the punishment of Ananias and Sophira for lying about money and Simon the Sorecer made blind by Apostle Paul. With the help of the Holy Spirit, these individuals were identified as being motivated by evil or the Devil, thus they were dealth with rather harshly. We on the other hand, CANNOT see into the hearts of our fellow christians or even sinners. We can only inspect and ask them about their actions and their words. So we talk gently with people and try to find out their true motivation. If a person proves over and over again, his only motivation is to merely get all the selfish gain out of this world, then we should "shake the dust off our shoes" and leave him, give him up to God. HOWEVER, if we don't have that proof of this persons attitude or the condition of his heart toward God then we should always assume there's reason to hope he or she might repent. Thus we must tread lightly, ask the right questions, know God's word but above all, love the souls of God's children for if we don't we jepordize our own soul's ultimate home for eternity. I hope this is close to what you're looking for. If not, how about elaborating and give us a few details. God bless. |
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876 | Once we enter heaven Can webe thrown out | Matt 8:12 | Rowdy | 110711 | ||
I would refer you to Matt 7:15, then to Acts 20 as follows: 25"Now I know that none of you among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom will ever see me again. 26Therefore, I declare to you today that I am innocent of the blood of all men. 27For I have not hesitated to proclaim to you the whole will of God. 28Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers.[1] Be shepherds of the church of God,[2] which he bought with his own blood. 29I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. 30Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them. 31So be on your guard! Remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears. Jesus throughout His ministry referred to the Kingdom of Heaven in His parables and other sayings. With that phrase, it's obvious he's referring to all those who are part of God's family, trying to abide by God's will. Now we all know there are false teachers from the prophecies in the Bible as cited above. So, after becoming a christian, a child of God can be deceived and start following the Devil instead. He or she can become "wolf in sheep's clothing" deceiving other naive christians or unlearned of God's Word. That's the only way I can interpret this passage. What are your thoughts on it? God bless. |
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877 | what happened ? | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 110709 | ||
I'm not exactly sure what you're saying and if there's a specific question but I'll take a shot and respond. I do sincerely think God intended for His Word to be spread throughout the whole world as indicated in the Great Commission to the Lord's disciples who later became Apostles. However, there is provision for without the words of our God as cited in Romans, Chapter 2. 12All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. 13For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God's sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous. 14(Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law, 15since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them.) 16This will take place on the day when God will judge men's secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares. Apparently, our God, the perfect Judge will judge us according to how well we listen to our conscience, our soul which is the image of God installed in all of us, since creation. So, if we've heard of Jesus and His Father as mentioned in the Bible, then we really should feel compelled to check out the whole story and make up our minds. If, on the other hand, a person dies, never having heard the name of Jesus and doesn't know a single thing about the Bible, then it seems pretty clear that God will judge that person without the words found therein. Again, that simply means he'll be judged by how well he or she obeyed his conscience. I'm a firm believer that all human beings (with the possible exception of a few mentally handicapped) are born with a good and functioning conscience. It tells us when we do the right thing or when we do wrong. If a person lives a good life, abiding by the normal morals of his world, to the best of his ability, asking forgiveness to the God that whispers His existance in all hearts, how can we see such a person go anywhere but Heaven. You may ask about all those other religions, such as Jewish, Islamic, Hinduism, Buddism and all the many others. Ultimately, I would reserve that kind of judgement (without knowledge of Bible) to our God. He'll make those tough decisions; I'm thankful you and I won't be making them. I would be very interested in see more discussion on this topic or maybe you may have some other question in mind. God bless. |
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878 | Acts 2:38 Repentance and Baptism? | Acts 2:38 | Rowdy | 110622 | ||
Thanks for the encouragement. I'll let you have the last word. Do keep studying my friend. Hope to see you in Heaven. | ||||||
879 | For this cause shall a man leave father | Matt 19:4 | Rowdy | 110621 | ||
Remember, most scholars agree that Moses wrote the first 5 books of the OT, with the help of inspiration from the Lord. So everything is written from his perspective, at least several centuries after the events in Genesis took place. |
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880 | Explain Romans 8:29 | Bible general Archive 2 | Rowdy | 110608 | ||
Romans 8:29 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; I'm not certain as to which exact phrase you're referring to but I'm guessing you may be referring to the controversy surrounding Predestination. That is another concept from the Reformation that is NOT supported by God's Word. This concept goes against the very clear message from God that he gives us complete freedom of choice in our alligence to His Son or to the Devil. So what does this scripture mean? I believe it should be compared to the predestination that all good, Godly and loving parents have for their own children. We as parents pray every day of their lives that they will do well in school, and then finally find a loving spouse, settle down and parent a family of their own. We might hope they go to college, get a degree and become a doctor, a lawyer or maybe president of the USA. We have in our minds a destiny that we would like for them to fulfill. To this very day, my mother and father still talk to me almost every time I visit them about the progress (or the lack thereof) in my pursuit of their destiny for me. They've always hoped I'd be the one single person in our family to finish college with a degree. I'm close and really should finish but then that's another story. More important, our Father in Heaven wants us to imitate His Son in our attitudes about life and the way we treat each other. He wants us to trust Him so completely that we'll accept His gift of salvation on His terms and then come home to Him after we die. Now, whether we do all of this is up to us. It's up to each individual to choose to be a law abiding, hard working, dedicated and solid addition to the community of sincere, ernest people of this world. On the other hand, we can choose to misbehave, break the law, bring kids in this world and then abandon them either physically, emotionally or spiritually or all three. Similarly, it is our choice to see ourselves in a spiritual way and look forward to an eternity in Heaven with the ultimate Father or settle for all time with deceptions of the Devil and die an eternal death with him. Yikes...it seems like a rather overly simplistic portrayal of black and white. I guess I'd have to agree with you except for the fact that the grey part between the black and white is the here and now. As long we draw a breath, we can hope that God will forgive us when we obey Him. But after death, that's black and white time. Hope this helps. It's really not that scary after putting all your faith in God. Blessings to all. |
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