Bible Questions & Discussion PAGE 384

  • Jesse - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Brother Chris,

    Very well said, Amen and thank you!
  • Chris - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Thank you brother Jesse for sharing those comments & particularly this passage which is so precious to me ( Philippians 2:5-8).

    The point of Paul's teaching here is Jesus' Servanthood. His Coming in the flesh was purely as a Servant & a Sacrifice, for how could God ever present His Glory, Divinity & eternal Nature to secure man's redemption, unless He first condescended to man's finite, lowly estate. Thus that glorious Nature was hid from the world (though in time, some realized that He was no ordinary Man) and then coming to full realization of this Truth with great joy & power, as God's Spirit made the full Person of the Godhead clear to them.

    How would Jesus' Life, Ministry, & Sacrifice worked out if His Divinity wasn't veiled from the people, & of course Him not taking on human flesh? To the pagans, they might have easily exclaimed, "the gods have come down to us in the likeness of men", but to the Jews, Jesus would never be given any platform or voice as it would be preposterous that God would come to Earth. But as a Man, not only to be able to give up His Life, but to show to His people that indeed God had appeared to them by Word & demonstration of His Power, Jesus was in every way a Man, but came veiled so that they could see Him for Who God wanted them to see. The clear-thinking, clear-seeing Jew would have seen a truly holy Man, serving others in every way by word & deed, and that God was with Him & speaking to them. "A prophet?" Maybe, "more than a prophet", to some.

    Had Jesus held onto His Glory & Position, He could never take on the "form of a servant", for these positions oppose each other. Jesus knew that he could not 'grasp/tenaciously hold onto' (= "robbery") His Glory & Position & then identify with His people in their sufferings, grip in sin & ignorance, and their need for salvation & new life in Christ. So it seems, Jesus chose the path of Servant-hood, that which was necessary; a display of pomp & power would surely negate God's Plan.
  • Chris - In Reply on John 8 - 1 year ago
    Hi Deniyzce. God is wholly a Spirit Being ( John 4:24), hence He, or any of those in spirit form are color-less. Likewise, we too might have color because of skin pigmentation, but our spirits know no color.
  • Jesse - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Hello GiGi,

    No worries. When I read what you sent me, I was thinking oh no, I gave the wrong impression on who I believe Christ is. I believe we're on the same page.

    And my apologies for not responding to you by name. I'm not sure why I did that. Probably because I was still working on my first cup of coffee.
  • Gerald - In Reply on John 14 - 1 year ago
    Given the medium and the time misunderstandings can occur . My apologies then.

    The number of questions I have raised should not be taken as being troubled by any question the Bible may throw up . But rather they were put to provoke thought not needlessly stir up dust or in anyway undermine peoples faith in the Bible .

    But rather to show that many long held thinking and concepts do not hold up in the light of scripture .

    Sound doctrine always does .

    But you know the seed that fell by the way side in the parable of the sower?

    I think that is a well trodden path of our own thinking or passed down and accepted without scrutiny .

    So well an habitual way of thinking that no seed can last and the fowls of the fair simply take it away and produces no fruit .

    Nothing wrong with the seed " but by our traditions we make the Word of God of none effect "

    The world is going crazy and millions are chained to the chariot of the devil and are on their way to hell.

    I fear the church is too busy ' celebrating' to notice .

    When in truth such good news should be bursting at the seems of the church .

    Just as all the angels of heaven being a very disciplined lot held their peace while the message was given but once given heaven could no longer restrain itself and burst its banks in giving glory to God for having fulfilled His promise to mankind in the garden of Eden .
  • Gerald - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Given that there is no male or female IN Christ . How then does our spiritual nature be both man and woman?
  • Richard H Priday on Psalms 55 - 1 year ago
    Psalm 55. An impreccatory Psalm; not mincing words about destruction and hell for the wicked. This Psalm also has prophetic implications as well.

    The first five verses show at the very least an anticipation of death; verse 4 discusses the "heart is sore pained within me."...The description of this could be David himself but also as with many other passages in Psalms could also be describing Messiah's sufferings.

    Verses 6 through 8 reflect the desire to escape such as was stated by other Prophets and by David himself in 1 Samuel 27:1.

    Verses 9 through 11 also discuss a general observation of Jerusalem; which was particularly true before God's judgments such as with the Babylonians; although it could apply to other times as well.

    Verses 12 through 15 describe a prophecy of Judas Iscariot and betrayal; although conceivably it could describe a friend of David's as well. ( Matt. 26:21 and 30 other verses discuss this in the N.T.)

    Verses 16 through 18 talk of the importance of prayer and deliverance. Verse 19 and 23 talk again of the destruction of the wicked. Verse 22 just beforehand gives the opposite promise that He will "never suffer the righteous to be moved."

    Verses 20 and 21 could very well signify the Antichrist himself with the 1st Seal behavior also mentioned in Daniel 9:27. It is not evident that this had any relation with a direct experience David was having.
  • Deniyzce on John 8 - 1 year ago
    what color is God
  • Sammi - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Thanks , you too .
  • S Spencer - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Amen Sammi.

    Welcome to the site and if at all possible find you a bible teaching church along with what you have here.

    May the Lord bless you on your journey.
  • Brittany Green on Revelation 12 - 1 year ago
    It's Israel, because the twelve stars represent 12 tribes. See Genesis 12:9: "And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.". The church does not have 12 stars, but SEVEN: "The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches." ( Revelation 1:20). And as for Mary, she does not represent all twelve stars, save in the fact that she's an Israelite.
  • Alex1939 - In Reply - 1 year ago
    alex1939...Amen Gerald Hebrews 11:1 is the best description of faith, Its simply a spritual pregnancy that precedes the New Birth...The Child is the H.G. THE Child of Promise...When a woman is pregnant she has the substance of things hoped for the Evidence of things not seen...But in the spritual realm the bridegroom is Jesus and his words are his seeds...Thats y he has to know us, Thats when the good seed the living word is sown in our hearts...Forming Christ in us...My lil Chidren of whom i travail in Birth till CHRIST IS FORMED IN YOU...Thats y he always refers to himself as the son of man...Impling mankinds fruit unto God as Romans 7:4 tells us...Thus the Wheat is truly a baby Christ...Simply b/c the sower of that heavenly seed is Christ the bridegroom...Our hearts is the womb in the spirit...Thats y he is saying that which is born of the spirit is spirit thus the Child IS OUR NEW INNERMAN the H.G. the multiplication/regeneration of Christ in us..The Child is the Evidence we have known the bridegroom.

    .....But this is gonna initiate war in heaven...Its gonna be Kingdom against Kingdom...Simply b/c satan is gonna sow a tare in

    us which is satans seed...Remember satan the dragon the tare wanted to kill the woman with Child Rev 12:5 a great warfare with in us...This war rages in our hearts and minds simply b/c the Kingdom is gonna be with in us...The woman is the world as God so loved the world but she is also bride the good ground where the good seed was sown impregnating her with that heavenly seed...The Children of Promise an Israel of God...But these things are hid from the wise and prudent and revealed unto babes...Thats y Jeremiah saw all men in travail and birth pains... Jeremiah 30:6...Men & women are gonna birth a baby Christ...Kings shall be your nursing father and women are gonna be your nursing mothers..Faith under this New Covenant is gonna fulfill the great promise of multiplication n regeneration in humanity....ok lemme go
  • Sammi - In Reply - 1 year ago
    My wife is a lapsed catholic , so that's a definite no for me . The only thing I still really miss is the bread and the wine . That's such an enormous privilege to me , and of course the great sermons from someone who really knows their Bible . However ! This site is keeping me stimulated in that area so I'm very glad to have found it , thanks to you all , past and present , for so many illuminating posts , please keep it up folks ! I'm guessing that maybe I'm not the only one on here who isn't able to attend a church and is getting their spiritual food from here . This site is a very special place and important to a lot of people I think .
  • Sammi - In Reply - 1 year ago
    This all happened a long time ago so I'm over it now . Bizarrely , since then , my Biblical understanding and appreciation has grown so much . I'm a totally different person to the one I was twenty years ago . Maybe I just grew up and that would have happened even if I had stayed in my congregation . When I left , I was determined to stick with my God , I was so afraid of loosing myself in this world that I clung even tighter to my Bible . So it all worked out in the end . My denomination is very tolerant in many ways except for a couple of strict rules about marriage / divorce , homosexuality and criminal behaviour . This site is a joy to me and I love reading posts from different people with different perspectives and I really appreciate you all . Keep up the good work !
  • GiGi - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Good Morning Jesse,

    Thank you for explaining. It makes more sense to me now.
  • Falldown7standup8 - In Reply on John 14 - 1 year ago
    I think you misunderstood me Gerald. I was simply seeking to praise the lord! Brother Gerald, you asked me 11 questions?! I see you are passionate about god and his word brother. I pray god gives you the wisdom of when to speak and when not to speak. We as Christian men and women need to be able to express ourselves in love to one another. Not every word we say is going to be perfect, brother Gerald. I pray god wraps you in his love today! We need more AMENS! More alleluia's! Christ must reign. Yes, brother Gerald! I'm saying AMEN to you brother! I pray joy over your life! Moreover, I pray peace in your heart from anything that is troubling you. Jesus loves us Gerald! I appreciate your comments and questions very much! May the lord bless you in all you do!
  • S Spencer - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Great Post Gerald.

    Thank you and God bless you.
  • Jesse - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Good morning,

    I agree with what you're saying. Deity can never be broken. I did also say that He came in the fullness of who God is, but He approached this earthly life like a slave.

    Where I said He emptied Himself, that is what it literally says in the Greek text. I will never dispute the deity of Jesus Christ.

    We're told in Philippians 2:6, Who, being in the form of God, and the word being means while existing in the form of God. That's who He is. He thought it not robbery to be equal with God:



    He did not rob God by proclaiming Himself and presenting Himself as equal to God. So Jesus is not part of who God is. He's God.

    Now when we get to Verse 7, and our English Bible doesn't give this to us, but where it reads "But made himself of no reputation"literally, it is translated but He emptied Himself.



    What, of being God? No!



    Of coming here and taking on human flesh, He emptied Himself of the presentation of "I'm God, and I'm here and you should worship me!"



    His approach to this earthly life in His first time coming here was He chose the low road. When He had a choice, He chose to sleep in the garden.



    That is not very enticing for some people to say "Where does your pastor live." Well, he lives out in the park. "Where was he born?" In a cave.



    All of the things associated with the Lord's path in His approach to this life was I don't want any glory from man. I don't want to be made a king from the earthly standpoint. I don't want to be treated for who I am. I want to be the servant of all.



    So this was God Himself taking the low road. He emptied Himself having taken upon Him the form of a servant, or slave, and having been made in the likeness of men.
  • S Spencer - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Wow! That's tough Sammy.

    They only can put you out the building. Christ is in the midst of all believers. When the last person exit the building, so has the Holyspirit.

    Have you tried to fellowship at your wife church?
  • Geraldine B. Gaddis on Luke 2 - 1 year ago
    I was challenged to read the book of Luke starting today. I was amazed that I learned things about the conception of Jesus that I didn't know and about Mary's related that God blessed with a child called John, too. A Bible Challenge is a good idea. I am proud of my cousin for doing this on FaceBook. I love my online Bible. I post scriptures every day for others to read. I love this website.
  • Alex1939 - 1 year ago
    alex1939..Hi Gerald..I enjoy reading your post... Numbers 14:31-...God told Israel your LITTLE ONES who you said will be a prey them will i bring into the land.

    ....This is a beautiful Picture of Salvation under the New Covenant...Where we must be bornagain of an incorruptible seed giving birth to the babes and sucklings in our hearts...Our new innerman, Our new hearts and new Spirits...Unless you receive the Kingdom of God ( the Promise land ) as a lil child you will in no wise enter there in...Our New Hearts and spirits is the H.G. the Children of PROMISE that resulted from his death... Zech 13:7..Smite the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered then i will turn my hand to the little ones...The babes and Sucklings which are spirits the H.G. that are gonna be as the stars of heaven in multitudes...That was the great Promise that Christ wd be multiplied as the stars of heaven...Thats y Jesus refers to the H.G as the promise he is the multiplication of Jesus/God...God swore by his very self when he made that Promise...Thus the babes and sucklings are Spirits the H.G...A number no man can number...Is what John saw standing before the throne in white raiment..But these things are hid from the wise and prudent but revealed unto babes....Unless you receive the Kingdom of God as a lil Child you will in no wise enter there in... Numbers 14:31 The little ones that you said wd be a prey them will i bring in...k lemme go
  • Gerald - In Reply - 1 year ago
    I fear the church has reduced the salvation of God to simply being BORN again.

    In truth if we are found before God spotless in the Bride adorned we are still ' saved ' and will be through all ages .

    But for now we have been delivered from the power of sin ( the law) and the consequences of sin (eternal separation from God )

    The second death .

    But then from the very presence of sin .

    We were not only saved From we are also saved unto God .

    To get out of Egypt by the Word of God ( to Abraham) the blood of a lamb and by the Power of God ( in a day) .

    Is to be Born again ,a no people becoming a people .

    But we are saved for a purpose it is not to wander in the wilderness .

    If you took the word Salvation we have but touched the S of our salvation .

    It is as some hardy sailors having landed on some great continent where the weather is perfect the surroundings beautiful and the tree line containing all we might need and we have sat down and built our camp there and at at ' peace'. Not knowing that behind that tree line is a great continent ,full of so much more .
  • Gerald - In Reply - 1 year ago
    While you must be ' persuaded' to exercise your faith the true definition of what faith IS is found in Hebrews11.

    " Now faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things as yet unseen "
  • Gerald - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Lol ,technology is fine but only when it works properly !

    I'm not a fan of predictive type either . :)
  • Gerald - In Reply - 1 year ago
    ' Man has the right to life'

    An absurd assertion now made wicked by putting it on the statute books .

    But which denies the very simple truth " That a man's life is in his nostrils".

    Who has no more ' right' to that breath than any he has received before it or how many he might after .

    It is a gift of God .

    No man can unlawfully take the life of another , A judicious death penalty for crimes worthy of death is not murder .

    But if you take a deep breath and hold it ,that's yours and what you or I say or do with it we can .

    Though there are always consequences .some eternal.

    But while you are holding your breath wondering what to say or do ,consider when if ever you had to work or labour ( unless Ill) for any breath? When did you ever earn it? Or deserve it ? Never . It is a gift of God .

    In truth everyone is in some small measure in a love debt to their mother who while not giving life worked very hard and laboured so that you and I might take or receive that first breath .

    We are all then in a love debt to our mothers .

    How much more then are all men in a love debt to God ?

    Each breath proving just how good He is ,patient ,long suffering not willing that any should perish but that all should come to a knowledge of the truth .

    For man curses God and man and by his very life denies the existence of God .

    Stripped of all its vain glory and empty promise it basically says ' No matter what evil I do no evil will come'

    Or is like a man sitting on a very small branch of a very great tree and he is sawing it off and saying this is mine!
  • S Spencer - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Hi Gerald.

    Oops I meant well spoken!

    I'm trying something new, "Using voice command from the cell phone.

    It's not going well.

    God bless.
  • Gerald - In Reply - 1 year ago
    While no doubt you were referring to something else . It is worth noting that Hod himself instituted the death penalty under the Law .

    There is more to this than meets the eye ,I think .
  • S Spencer - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Amen Gerald.

    Well token God bless you.
  • Gerald - In Reply - 1 year ago
    It might surprise you to learn that there are no denominations in heaven we have but one book one faith one baptism one Lord .

    The denominations arose since the reformation not because each sound doctrine they taught was wrong ,but rather like Peter thought there revelation and understanding was the be all and end all . He going so far as to contradict the Lord who began to give more light which in Peters thinking did not fit . A warning then . For the Lord had to give him a severe rebuke " get behind me Satan for you.." not many would accept such a reproof . But shows clearly he was not infallible nor THE Rock upon which the eternal church of God is built upon.

    But each denomination like Noah's generation thought this is a nice place let us build us a tower and a name for ourselves etc. and stayed where they were put instead of going out into all the world .

    Each defending their patch to the death but rejecting the whole truth .

    You don't say what denomination you ' married into' but as long as it is not heretical and teaching false doctrine then find a church that believes in the " whole council of God".
  • S Spencer - In Reply on Isaiah 45 - 1 year ago
    Nice Post Philip.

    Thanks

    GBU


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