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881 | Rowdy, Rowdy, are you sure? | 1 Tim 2:9 | Rowdy | 132034 | ||
I'm not exactly sure what you're questioning "What am I sure" about? I could infer maybe from the previous posts on this thread but I'd rather be certain so please make it plain to me. Tell me exactly what you're trying to say in regard to my previous post. Thanks and God bless. Rowdy | ||||||
882 | is it wrong to wear fine clothing | 1 Tim 2:9 | Rowdy | 132046 | ||
"Land of Goshen" Did you wake up on the wrong side of the Forum, maybe in another universe? It seems you have gone off on the half of the world that doesn't agree with your jaundiced opinion. I would like to encourage to take maybe another minute of your precious time and study all of my posts and you'll see I don't make hasty judgments and I certainly don't take them lightly. In my post to EdB, I was giving praise where praise was due. I do agree with you, christian ladies displaying their bodies in such a matter so as to entice men to think lewd thoughts is certainly NOT what God prefers and I think EdB acknowledged as much in his post. However, apparently this lifestyle can be addicitive like drugs. So, I'm satisfied with the maturity that EdB has shown that he knows what he's doing with the souls of these young ladies. He understands the weight of such a burden and I'm certain he's in constant prayer about it all the time. My big question to you is What are you doing to eliminate this kind of sinful activity where you live? With an attitude in need of an adjustment like it is, I would suggest your moving to a big huge city where you can apply your skills and knowledge of God's Word and there I'm sure you'll be promptly humbled by God. I do hope this has been enlightening to you. Regardless, God bless. Do continue studying and praying on this matter and above all, pray for humility. When you post such a statement, please do the recipient a favor and be clear about what you're criticizing in their post. Please don't waste our time. Thanks and again, God bless. Rowdy |
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883 | I Tim 2:12 Paul's opinion or God's Word? | 1 Tim 2:12 | Rowdy | 123255 | ||
Like you say, when Paul is giving guidance that is only coming from him WITHOUT the Holy Spirit's sponsoring, he says so very clearly but in the Epistle to Timothy, he's very plain and straight forward. There's no room for interpretation. 1 Tim 2:9 Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments, 10 but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women making a claim to godliness. 11 A woman must quietly receive instruction with entire submissiveness. 12 But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet. 13 For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve. 14 And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression. 15 But women will be preserved through the bearing of children if they continue in faith and love and sanctity with self-restraint. I realize this is one of the reasons why so many folks, especially our ladies think Paul was chavenistic in his thinking but we must remember, it wasn't Paul but it's God that's giving these commands. God is doing here the same He's done throughout the whole Bible. Women have always "taken the back seat" or "played second fiddle" in God's World. He made women the weaker vessel and he made the men of the world to take the lead in all things, especially those in the spiritual world, including His Son's church and the worship assemblies. Hope this helps and God bless. --Rowdy |
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884 | I Tim 2:12 Paul's opinion or God's Word? | 1 Tim 2:12 | Rowdy | 123333 | ||
Just to give this thread a little more balance toward women, I should remind everyone of a few basic facts. Ocassionally, our God did shine His "light of approval" and showcased some of the women in the Bible for our examples. The most prominent I can think of was 1) Deborah as Judge of the Isrealite people, leading her people through some perilous times. 2) Esther as Queen who saved her whole country from destruction in a rather spectacular demonstration of heroic courage. 3) Ruth who showed an incredible amount of love devotion to her mother in law even when it meant leaving the only world she ever knew, her country and her fellow citizens. 4) Pricillia w/her husband Aquilla hosted Apollos and taught him more perfectly the Gospel of the Lord. 5) Phoebe who graciously acted as a courier between Paul and his beloved "children of faith" throughout Asia Minor. So you see, God does have a great amount of respect for the women in our world and His. We as men should follow His example, counting it an honor when one of them agrees to be our wife and partner for life...and keep us guys out of trouble and jail. God bless. --Rowdy |
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885 | I Tim 2:12 Paul's opinion or God's Word? | 1 Tim 2:12 | Rowdy | 123342 | ||
Stever, dear friend, It appears you are misrepresenting the facts but I'm going to assume you just made an honest mistake and will go on from there. Thus I cite my statement as it appeared as follows "Like you say, WHEN Paul is giving guidance that is only coming from him WITHOUT the Holy Spirit's sponsoring, he says so very clearly but in the Epistle to Timothy, he's very plain and straight forward. There's no room for interpretation." As an example of what I was talking about with this statement, I cite the following scripture 1 Cor 7:5 Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 6 But this I say by way of concession, not of command. 7 Yet I wish that all men were even as I myself am. However, each man has his own gift from God, one in this manner, and another in that. 8 But I say to the unmarried and to widows that it is good for them if they remain even as I. 9 But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion. 10 But to the married I give instructions, not I, but the Lord, that the wife should not leave her husband 11 (but if she does leave, she must remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband should not divorce his wife. 12 But to the rest I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he must not divorce her. Here we see Paul dealing with a very, very tough subject and several times, he goes back and forth giving guidance as speaking for the Lord and in other instances, just giving his opinion or stating his prefernce under the circumstances (which I believe he was referring to the amount of persecution christians were undergoing). Now that's done, let's go back to what you've done. For future reference so YOU don't ruin someone else's reputation or your own and get yourself "thrown off" the Forum, I would urge you to be more thorough in reviewing controversial posts such as mine, most ESPECIALLY if you're making a serious accusation as stated in your post. As you've already discovered, I don't hesitate to deal with some thorny issues and speak maybe just a little impulsively myself. But as I've stated many times before, my posts to this Forum will ALWAYS be Bible based or I'll try to make it clear I'm just stating my opinion. But even then my opinions will be based on inferences from God's Word and will be at least the best of my ability, based on solid logic therefrom. I do hope this is the end of this controversy. I look forward to a very long and fruitful ministry here on this Forum, including future discussions with you. God bless. --Rowdy |
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886 | I Tim 2:12 Paul's opinion or God's Word? | 1 Tim 2:12 | Rowdy | 123347 | ||
I'll agree with the overall sentiment of your statement but surely you're not trying to say that all of us should avoid marriage as per Paul's instructions. Again I say Paul's instructions were directed to a special audience to deal with a particular crisis. Now, when and if we have a similar crisis those words might be more applicable. But as it stands now Paul was clarifying his opinions from the Lord's commands. This kind of guidance allowed those folks options just as we have in today's world. Paul loved them so much, he just didn't want to see them get hurt. I'll have to stand by my statement and let the Forum Watchers make their judgment as they need to. When it comes down to following the words or men or God, I'm afraid I will always side with Joshua, his family, Peter, John and all the others in the Bible. I'll still pray for God to help enlighten you on this tough subject. God bless. --Rowdy PS: I'm sorry but I just gotta ask. IF you knew this much about this controversy, why did you copy only a portion of my statement which made it appear to be a misrepresentation to the casual observer? |
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887 | I Tim 2:12 Paul's opinion or God's Word? | 1 Tim 2:12 | Rowdy | 123365 | ||
I'll address this note to you and hope that Searcher sees it as he is joining with you in the same position. There's always going to be disagreements between Bible students; that's one thing is as definite as the Judgment Day. So we'll just have to agree to disagree. It seems clear with the amount of ambiguity as displayed in our posts and the scriptures supporting them, there's room for this disagreement. I'm just thankful it's not critical to a person's salvation. Thanks for the objective review and comments. God bless. --Rowdy |
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888 | I Tim 2:12 Paul's opinion or God's Word? | 1 Tim 2:12 | Rowdy | 123395 | ||
Thank you, dear friend. It does seem this fact has been overlooked. I'm so grateful for those with a level head for clear thinking and thorough reading. God bless. --Rowdy | ||||||
889 | I Tim 2:12 Paul's opinion or God's Word? | 1 Tim 2:12 | Rowdy | 123402 | ||
Cited once again for reference: 1 Cor 7:5 Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 6 But this I say by way of concession, not of command. 7 Yet I wish that all men were even as I myself am. However, each man has his own gift from God, one in this manner, and another in that. 8 But I say to the unmarried and to widows that it is good for them if they remain even as I. 9 But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion. 10 But to the married I give instructions, not I, but the Lord, that the wife should not leave her husband 11 (but if she does leave, she must remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband should not divorce his wife. 12 But to the rest I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he must not divorce her. So, let me understand you correctly. You are advocating that all single christians in today's world must remain as they are and NOT marry. How can you possibly defend this position? One more scripture I might submit as a help in this situation: 1 Pet 3:14 But even if you should suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are blessed. AND DO NOT FEAR THEIR INTIMIDATION, AND DO NOT BE TROUBLED, 15 but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence; 16 and keep a good conscience so that in the thing in which you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame. In verse 15, the Greek word for defense includes the concept of using our intellect in a logical manner so as to make the defense a solid one, based on a thorough understanding of God's Word. I would submit to you that this is a perfect command to us as christians to use our intellect and approach God's Word with a proper amount of emphasis on the context which includes the writer's identification, the recipient, the background or issue being discussed. Thus we see in the passage from Paul to the Corinthians, both instructions from God AND separate instructions from Paul. These two sets of instructions had very different purposes. God's priority with regard to marriage has always been to keep the marriage together as a couple, both partners faithful to each other. It is clear from these verses from Paul, that he thought it would be better "in view of the present distress" (v26) that his fellow christians avoid marriage. But Paul's instructions here were NOT from God or the Holy Spirit as he so clearly indicated. With that said, I do wish to end this controversy and would like to make this my last post to this thread. I think I've already proven my love and devotion to God and His Word. God bless. --Rowdy |
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890 | I Tim 2:12 Paul's opinion or God's Word? | 1 Tim 2:12 | Rowdy | 123419 | ||
I really do appreciate your maturity, your kindness and open mindedness. My wife has been telling me lately I'm spending too much time on this Forum to suit her anyway. So I think I'll follow Colin's lead and take a few weeks vacation and see what develops. If the Lord decides that I need to stay off the Forum permanently I can accept that. It's been a real pleasure reading your posts and exchanging ideas and opinions about God's Holy Word. Thanks for your support. God's richest blessings on everything you do and say. Keep the faith, dear friend. --Rowdy |
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891 | desperate for help | 1 Tim 5:8 | Rowdy | 118441 | ||
For what it's worth, I have to agree with EdB. Your husband needs serious help, especially if he's deceiving himself by thinking he's acting in a Christ-like manner. But I would emphasize that you need protection from such a brute. IF you're able to get both of you to a counselor, preferbly a christian, then you may be able to save your marriage. Your biggest trajedy is that you won't be able to re-marry if you find that you must leave your husband. But hopefully, if you still love him you can lead him by example to a closer adherance to the high standard Christ sets for all of us to follow. You probably know you're going to get a wide variety of responses on this Forum so like EdB says, go get some professional, christiain counseling, face to face from someone you can trust as being in the Lord. God bless you in this struggle. --Rowdy |
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892 | desperate for help | 1 Tim 5:8 | Rowdy | 118539 | ||
Ultimately, I have to agree with your overall assessment of the Forum. This is a great place for learning, discussing and maybe even debate but I agree (like I did in my earlier post) the Forum is a LOUSY place for counseling, especially such as this in a very personal situation. HOWEVER, that being said, since this is such a public type and almost completely anonymous Forum, one really should keep in mind the tremendous numbers of folks such as yourself who read our posts. When I write on this Forum, I do my best to remember that and be a small voice for God, among the many others. We should see ourselves as vessels of God, His conduits thru which His Light MUST shine to the rest of the world. In some cases, there are those that don't have God's Word available to them, at least not readily OR they choose to ignore the copy they have. So we should feel compelled to speak out for God and tell folks just the way it is as we see it in God's Word. And since a person has already "toughen" themselves about their personal situation and steps into this Forum for discussion, they show they can handle the plain honesty that is found in the Bible. I realize that the sanctity of the marriage is indeed a treasured thing. Personally, I think it's the most sacred institution on this planet, after the church herself. But I think it helps a person's (in this case, Emmy's) resolve to know what the cost will be if she decides her marriage can't be saved. A side benefit to all this discussion is hopefully that some other young folks will be inspired to study this subject in the Bible and confirm what I've said, thereby increasing the awareness and resolve to make their marriage better. By the way, goes for me, too. It does us all good to be reminded of the awful mess we humans sometimes get involved in. If we'd only learn to slow down, do more study of God's Word AND more praying to our God before making big decisions, this world would be a much better place. God bless. --Rowdy |
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893 | Visiting the neighbors. | 1 Tim 5:13 | Rowdy | 109963 | ||
There's several verses in Proverbs, making it very clear that God hates gossiping. But the scripture above makes it very clear. If that doesn't do the trick, you may resort to harsher means. It depends on how much this person's friendship means to you, hopefully NOT more than your relationship with God. I assume you might already know some little bit of truth about her background, something she's not particularly proud to share with everybody. Remind her that she wouldn't appreciate someone's sharing that with the whole neighborhood. Remind her that we're all human and have made mistakes in our lives. (Some of us, bigger than others; I know because I've made some whoppers.) As a last resort, you may have to warn her that her continued gossiping with you might have to cost her the friendship you share and you would appreicate if she would stop. I'm afraid that's all I can offer for advice. God be with you and be strong for Him. |
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894 | Is it okay to drink alcohol? | 1 Tim 5:23 | Rowdy | 111475 | ||
I don't have any specific basis for condemnation of alcohol or its consumption but the most important two areas of this subject is to consume it with moderation and avoid the obvious sin of drunkenness. The other consideration is that of the effect we might have on other christians in God's family. I would be the last to advocate that a "weaker brother" use his beliefs against the stronger and make him feel miserable for consuming a drink. But on the other hand, we the stronger should watch out for the weaker and try our very best to consume in moderation AND out of sight and knowledge of that other brother. Otherwise, we are also guilty of sinning. Like EdB recommends, it's best to avoid the whole problem by abstaining but that's a level of spiritual maturity that each of us should aspire to. It's not absolutely required and CANNOT be insisted upon with any kind of basis on God's word. God bless. |
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895 | 2Tim 2:15 Study dispensationally? | 2 Timothy | Rowdy | 109052 | ||
You bring up a very good point. It is long overdue for more christians to grow to the point where we take God's Word more seriously but remember the context of these words. These words are probably some of the last words communicated between two dear christian brethren, one of whom considered himself to be the spiritual father of the other. Apparently, Timothy at this time was probably a relatively mature christian, especially for that day but he had some tough times to go through. We should all adopt a ministry and not just coast into our heavenly home as that coasting might not get us there. We all need to see ourselves as actively and aggresively pursuing a relationship with God, our Father, in which we draw nearer and nearer so He will do the same. The only way we can do this is to stay in His Words and shine His Truth, through us to the whole world. Then, when we find error, we MUST do all we can to correct that error but just as important, we MUST do that correcting with love, God's kind of love. We must forgive as much as possible, in other words be prone to forgiving instead of not forgiving. We should always assume the best in people until it's proven absolutely otherwise. In regard to your reference to dispensations in this world, I don't see a tremendous need to address that fact. Yes, we need to acknowledge that Christ and His cross of Salvation is the major dividing point between these two dispensations. But I like to think that most all christians readily admit that same truth. God's Word and the Truth therein never change; it's all one big continuous series of love messages to us as His creation. We just need to see His Son's coming to the world as being the ultimate love letter, with a wonderful gift attached. Our job is to accept that gift and the responsibility that comes with it. That is to make a real committment to shine God's light through our lives, our words, our actions, everything we are, everything we hope to be needs to be toward God and for His glory. This life is short, far too short to be wrapped around the axle of life wasting our time on Godless chatter, for we're headed to an eternity with God. What specific topic do you see as being a priority? |
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896 | Are there different heavenly rewards? | 2 Tim 1:9 | Rowdy | 119303 | ||
1 Tim 5:17 The elders who rule well are to be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching. Apparently, elders will get some kind of special treatment according to this scripture. I can't think of any other special arrangements. God bless. --Rowdy |
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897 | Called According To HIS Purpose-Ministry | 2 Tim 2:15 | Rowdy | 121623 | ||
So can we hope you're going to fill in the blanks and tell us more about your background in your profile? You gain access to your profile by going to "Update User Info" on the left side of your screen. God bless. --Rowdy |
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898 | Called According To HIS Purpose-Ministry | 2 Tim 2:15 | Rowdy | 121654 | ||
I can only respond from my perspective. I've been a Bible student and a christian most all my life, but I must admit I've had to do more Bible studying in these last few months than I had in the previous 5 years. Especiallly tough for me is the controversial issues that plague Christianity. Again, since these issues are real and we all on the Forum believe strong in the Bible, we all gain and continue to learn a great deal. I have a goal of becoming a deacon in the near future and a long range goal of becoming an elder so I find this Forum to be tremendously beneficial to me as a "training ground" and get me some experience as well as the opportunity to grow in confidence and handling God's Word. I'd recommend that you stick with the Forum for similar reasons. I think you'd be benefitted also. But regardless of your decision, God bless in your struggle and growth toward the Lord. --Rowdy |
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899 | StudyBibleForum or MyOpinionForum? | 2 Tim 3:16 | Rowdy | 113877 | ||
Greetings Hank, I must conclude I must be one of the offenders you mentioned above. I must admit I'm not really good about quoting book, chapter and verse but I do think most of the scriptures AND the subjects seem to have been posted in the past. It also seems most people are not paying much attention to the whole Bible, when considering a particular subject. You know, it's the whole of God's Word that will be used to judge us on Judgment Day. And did you know that the division of the books of the Bible into chapter and verses is a modern innovation. They were originally written without that convenience. We really need to realize that God wants us to learn the spirit of His Law, His sacred Word. We supposed to commit It into our hearts and I know that's difficult to do, most of all me. But I like to think my posts are in accordance with God's Word. Have you read one of my recent posts, No 113863? There I describe how our God wants us as mature, spiritual beings to graduate from this physical world and look forward to the next. We also need to be open minded AND open hearted to ALL of God's Word on each topic of the Bible. I, too have noticed something on this Forum that's quite disturbing, something far more remiss than my "infraction." It's just not right for a person to pick and choose one or two obscure scriptures, possibly due to past interpretations, to support an unusual doctrine that CANNOT be supported by the whole Bible. Now of course, we must give special emphasis to the NT over the OT since the latter was fulfilled and no longer has any authority over us. BUT it's still a very valuable document for study for it shows us how we got the NT. It shows us the creation of the world and so much more. The most important point is the OT CANNOT match or out-rank the NT. Christ has been given all authority and then He passed some of that authority down to his representatives, His Apostles. Finally, I really don't think I've violated the parameters of this Forum any more so than some other participants. But I will beg for your forgiveness and look forward to your continued exchanges with me. God bless. |
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900 | StudyBibleForum or MyOpinionForum? | 2 Tim 3:16 | Rowdy | 113885 | ||
With my comment about the recent innovation on chapters and verses, I'm just trying to remind everyone that we really need to study God's Word and like you're saying, that process is a very, very dynamic process. Thanks for the encouragement. I'll try to "clean up my act," study a little harder and try to quote more scriptures. I agree it is a good habit, just tough for me to do. I do love what this Forum represents as I like to think only the best of the best of God's people come here to read and exchange their views. God bless. |
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