Bible Questions & Discussion PAGE 542

  • S Spencer - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Hi James.

    Maybe? Hebrews 10:5-10 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:

    In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.

    Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

    Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;

    Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

    By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

    Or perhaps John 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

    ?
  • Richard cain - In Reply - 1 year ago
    All of our conversations should be uplifting. we are the salt of the earth. if the salt has lost it savor how can the earth be salted.. maranatha..
  • Julie - In Reply on Revelation 22 - 1 year ago
    I like to think of the scripture absent of the Body in Presence of the Lord n the their whom owned up to his sins and Jesus told him he would be in Paradise n the one Like into the Angels we become is another fav but my favorite one is the one on The Last to go in Lake of Fire Death alit of grief I have had and almost 60 so hope you find what your looking for in ? Just felt like Sharing somewhat with what The Bible says on subject :)
  • S Spencer - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Nat.

    Jesus also "didn't" tell is to search out who ever wants to debate the trinity. We should be more concerned with spreading the Gospel.

    God bless.
  • Danny partin - In Reply on Revelation 22 - 1 year ago
    2nd Corinthians 5:8 [ absent from the body is to be present with the Lord]

    1st Thessalonians 5:10

    1st Thessalonians 4:13-18

    1st Corinthians 15th chapter

    Read also about thief on the cross Luke 23: 39-43

    Lazarus & the rich man Luke 16: 20-31
  • Giannis - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Dear James

    In 2 Timothy 3:16 Apostle Paul writes "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:" What is the scripture that Paul talks about? I mean the books of the New Testament were not written yet, not all of them, some Paul's letters were shared between churches when Paul writes his letter to Timothy. A long time will pass by untill all the churches at that time have a complete and organised form of what we call today New Testament.The Scripture that Paul talks about in Timothy is mainly the Old Testatment.
  • Lisa on 2 Esdras 6 - 1 year ago
    Do you believe that we are now in Tribulations? That we only have 7 years left on earth? Then the Rapture takes place.
  • Giannis - In Reply on James 1 - 1 year ago
    Hello Jesse

    About the people that have not heard of Jesus you quote Romans 1:20. OK but in those verses people will not have an excuse for not believing in the existence of God. But God who? Muslims believe in God, but in another God. So for the muslims that in the past never heard of Jesus but still believed in a God (the one they knew), how is God going to judge them? This is where, I think, verses in Romans 1:11-16 come in. In my understanding they will be judged according to their life, according to what they know it is right, according to what their consience says to them, and we all know that there is not a single man in the world who doesn't know what is right or wrong. How strict is God going to be to them? One cannot know really.

    But even for the other religions today who have heard of Jesus, is it enough that they have heard of Jesus? Is that considered that Jesus was preached to them? Ans if Jesus was actually preached to them, without any proof, say by those denominations like Catholics etc, is this enough? In verse John 15:24 it says "If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father." Which means, if I get it right, that if the one who preaches about Jesus is unable to bring forth a proof that God exists people do not sin if not believing. See what Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 2:4-5 "And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God."

    Paul's preaching was not just words but with proof of God's power. Paul Himself wouldn't believe in Jesus if Jesus didn't appear to him. Same with Sergius Paulus in Cyprus, same with the guard in Philippii. So we see that Gospel was preach with proof



    Now let's go to us nowadays. Is it enough that we preach the Gospel without the power that God showed in the early times?

    GBU
  • DANIEL HARRIS - 1 year ago
    Does the kjv bible tell the age of accountably
  • Adam - In Reply - 1 year ago
    A few possible verses:

    Isaiah 9:6

    Luke 24:27

    Matthew 5:17-18

    2 Corinthians 1:20

    Romans 10:4
  • Giannis - In Reply on James 1 - 1 year ago
    Part 1

    Hello Ronald

    I have read your post to Grae and I have everything into consideration. A few things i thought about...

    In the parable/real story of those two persons Jesus is recorded to use the name Hades (or Ades). This name really comes from the ancient greek mythology, it was a horrible place where the souls of the dead spent the eternity in a form of like shadows in a condition of semi-awareness. In Ades there was a place called the Elysia fields where the souls of heros and virtuous people live in joy. There was another place called Tartarus which was the most horrible and deepest place of Ades. The whole thing resembles a lot with the description in Luke. Also the name/place Tartarus (together with the name Abyss=bottomless in greek) is used by Paul as the place where demons are imprisoned if they disobey God. Luke was Greek, his gospel was written for the Greeks, so it is logical that he may have used pictures from their mythology to make them understand better what he talks about. Paul also used greek names since he mainly preached the gospel in Greece. Also the Septuagint ancient translation of the OT from Hebrew to Greek uses the name Ades where the Hebrew text uses the word "Sheol". So greek speaking Jews at that time were familiar with the word Ades and what it represants.. But I find it hard to believe that Jesus originally used greek names in his preaching to Jews. He most probably used the name "Sheol", and it seems very unlikely that He used greek representations to teach ordinary and mainly uneducated Jew people. He most probably used images from the Old Testament. So everything is in consideration... Nevertheless the point is that people who do not believe in Jesus and die in their sins will have a horrible end, which will last forever.

    To be cont..
  • Giannis - In Reply on James 1 - 1 year ago
    Part 2

    Ronald

    Now in verse Matthew 27:53 the word "egersis" literally means "rising" and is another way of saying resurrection, like rising from the dead. If I understand well, you mean that those people that were resurrected were the ones that Jesus meant in John 5:28-29 so as to prove to Jews that He is the Son of God? Right? But verse 29 says "And shall (the resurrected people) come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation." So it seems to me that Jesus talks about the future resurrection of the dead and the consequent judgement. Anyway ...

    Now I also have a question. What time was Jesus crucified? In Mark 15:25 it says 3rd hour, that is 6+3=9 o'cock in the morning. Right? But in John 19:14, it is 6th hour (12 at noon) and Jesus is still standing infront of Pilatus.

    GBU
  • James Bedsworth - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Thank You for your response. The one verse Jesus authenticates the entire Old Testament. If I find it I will let you know what it is.

    James
  • Nats - 1 year ago
    Yes it means we must take importance notice of Jesus says and not says .Gospel of John chapter twenty one verses twenty to twenty four show us it matters what Jesus says and does not says .Jesus says he is son of God never days he is God we say that but we are not Jesus we can't add words not said or take words away from what is said very important not do this .
  • Florence Jones on 1 Timothy 5 - 1 year ago
    When God looked at the blood atonement and saw it wasn't changing the Sun the Holy Spirit said prepare me a body and I will go down and give myself as an offering was it God that enter that body himself and came to earth himself and dwell among us for a short period of time
  • Jesse - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Grace,

    Matthew 13:55 gives us the names of Jesus' brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and Judas. He had sisters (plural) also but the bible does not give us their names or how many.
  • Jesse - In Reply - 1 year ago
    James,

    Perhaps Matthew 5:17-20?
  • JANET on Revelation 22 - 1 year ago
    Could someone tell me, when you die, do you go straight to heaven, or are you "in the grave" awaiting the Lord Jesus to raise you from the dead when he comes back again? I just feel quite confused as to what happens when you die.

    Many thanks,

    Janet
  • Randy McGuire on Romans 8 - 1 year ago
    I can't help to think of what scripture teaches us when reading and studying the book of Romans. All of God's creation is seeking deliverance but only those that have been born again will find this deliverance in Christ alone. Only those that have the spirit of God have hope when seeing death all around us. We see and know the world is fallen, and creation is groaning longing for God since the fall of Man. Creation itself teaches us that they is a God and that there is a curse. People will be without excuse teaching some other way to heaven and deny the Lord Jesus that hung and died for all that would believe in him. The world that is fallen a world full of religion has polluted the minds of so many by bring in damnable heresies. Yes, he is God, you bunch devils, you

    religious Pharisees and Sadducees. This is for the real religious that have not the spirit and those that don't believe in the resurrection. Hell Fire and brimstone preach let's preach Christ. Read how Jesus spoke to this crowd. Thank Lord for this it was good.
  • Daniel - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Amen. Victoria's answer is exactly how we should think regarding this. God asks we train them up (the children). This means that the parents have a choice of where their children are led to and whose hands they are put in the care in. God also holds both accountable.

    As much as it may seem like everyone knows about the LGBT teaching to children in schools today -- not all parents are aware of what that really means. The school system may have a stricter policy and sometimes the child comes home and says (let's say a boy), "Mom & Dad...I've transitioned into a girl." This has really happened and when the parents investigated into it -- turns out a teacher told them in secret. We have to be extremely careful with whom we trust to leave our children with these days. There's a great wickedness out there.
  • James H Bedsworth - 1 year ago
    I have tried to find the scripture which is a single verse where Jesus makes a statement that asserts and authenticates the entire Old Testament they all used was correct in every respect. My belief this scripture is in Matthew or Luke. Any help in finding the scripture that Jesus validated the complete Old Testament the Levites, High Priest, Priesthood, Sadducees, and Pharisees had used and relied on was what had been given and protected.

    Thank You,

    James H Bedsworth
  • Alex N - In Reply on 1 Corinthians 14 - 1 year ago
    Hiya Willie GBU...But under this new Covenant Gal 3:28....There is no more Jew or Gentile Bond or free Male or Female....WE are all one in Christ Jesus.

    .....Willie we are all the same,....we all have to be bornagain of an incorruptible seed even by the words of God the living word as Bro. Peter tells us...without Jesus seed the living word we cannot be bornagain....Thats y he has to know us....Thats when the good seed is sown in our hearts initiating a birth of Christ in us....The son of man...mankinds fruit unto God via hearing his voice...Whosoever receiveth not the Kingdom of God as a lil Child he will in no wise enter there in...GB
  • Grace Ajoke - 1 year ago
    What are the names of all the Jesus's siblings ?
  • Richard H Priday on John 9 - 1 year ago
    Predestination and John 10

    This entire chapter is based on the Pharisees; a blind man, the Disciples and a few others and Christ as revealed to them. along In a verse from the next chapter; Jesus states believe me; or if not at least on the WORKS I do ( John 10:38). Jesus selected or elected this man for healing; without him asking first which is noteworthy.

    Verse 2 starts out with the Disciples themselves blindly following a superstitious idea that someone had to have sinned in order for the man to be in this condition. This at least partially could have been a logical concept since others had been healed who were told not to sin lest a worse thing happen to them; for instance from John 5:14. Jesus answered this "one size fits all" concept of the fate of this man by giving God's glory as a reason; as well as a prophetic hint perhaps partially fulfilled at His crucifixion; with a final one after the end of the Age of Grace in v. 4-5.

    After he followed simple instructions; first his neighbors asked what had happened and if it was Him; then the Pharisees with their usual condemnation of Sabbath Day healings, they checked with the parents who verified his identity then sent him back to them; then further discourse as to Christ's character and repeated questions actually got the blind man to realize that Christ could not be a sinner as no man could do this miracle in that case. This led to him being thrown out of the synagogue; His revelation and acceptance and worship of Christ as SOn of God. Then comes the end where the Pharisees are told they remain in sin and the blind man sees spiritually and physically.

    Therefore; despite continuing evidence of God's divine nature in Christ's actions; the blind Pharisees continue to be blinded by the god of this world to Christ as Lord and Savior.
  • Ronald Whittemore - In Reply on James 1 - 1 year ago
    Hey Giannis,

    Hope you don't mind, I read your posts. I do not know if you read my post to Gary in this thread, but you commented on the Greek words in the, (my understanding a parable) Luke 16. And you spoke on Matt. 27:51-52. My understanding of this comes from what John wrote of what Jesus said.

    In John 8 they were pressing Jesus who He was, and He said this in vs. 28 he does nothing of Himself, but He said when you have lifted up the Son of Man then you will know I am He. Then In John 5:25-29 Jesus said the hour is coming and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God and they shall live. Now is not later Jesus is saying now which He is talking about what is written in Matt. 27.

    In vs 28 Jesus said marvel not at this for the hour is coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, (but He did not say and now is). This goes to your comment on the final resurrection, but I will not comment on that now.

    In Matthew 27 Jesus had been hanging on that cross since 9 AM going on 6 hours, and I am sure He was going in and out of consciousness and when Jesus cried out for the last time, He may have come to which in my understanding refers to the word resurrection used in vs 53. You will know the Greek better than me, but it is a different word than the other words used for resurrection. it is egersis, meaning resurgence not necessarily from death.

    But my understanding is when Jesus cried out all these things happened, the veil of the temple rent, earthquake, the rocks rent, and the graves were opened, many bodies of the saints which slept arose and went into the city and appeared to many. As you said like Lazarus.

    To me vs 54 confirms what Jesus said in John 8:28 truly this was the Son of God. Many knew they just killed the Son of God. "Then shall ye know that I am He"

    God bless,

    RLW
  • VOPS on Proverbs 3 - 1 year ago
    Prov. 3:11-12 speaks to me differently.

    "My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:

    For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth".

    Some troubles faced by us these days is as a result of lack of knowledge, which leads to punishment from our Lord and Creator because we have despised HIM.

    However, these punishments should be seen as an act of chastening by God so that we become conscious and get back to the right path, of which we should not be weary of. In fact, he is only correcting us with such punishments mainly because he loves us - our Creator is a forgiving God.
  • Jesse - In Reply - 1 year ago
    "Can be taken together" is what I typed. Not sure why it ended up can be amen together?
  • Jesse - In Reply - 1 year ago
    We'll Alex, Exodus 3:15 does not answer my question. Verses 13, 14, Ana 15 can be amen together and it's easy to see that God is not telling Moses His name is Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

    I have read through your explanation and it still doesn't add up. I will leave off from this conversation as the things you are saying are very foreign to me and I would have to throw away many years of study and start from scratch to be able to come up with the same things you are sharing. Right now I believe the Lord is putting it on my heart to stay completely clear from these things.

    And by the way, God does not have any grandchildren!
  • Wade Harrids on Romans 14 - 1 year ago
    Can you explain Acts 2:38
  • Jesse - In Reply on James 1 - 1 year ago
    Hi Giannis,

    Thanks for sharing. You make some very interesting points. I think we are slightly different with each other on some of these things, but hey, I guess there are probably a few other ways we can look at it also.

    To answer your question about people who never heard the gospel message of salvation through Jesus Christ, I would have to say that they are without excuse. They will not be able to stand before God and say "we never heard." Romans 1:20 says, For the invisible things of Him, (that is of God), from the creation of the world, (from the time of creation up till now), the invisible things of God, and notice the clarity: are clearly seen, no confusion!

    The comprehension: being understood by the things that are made, that is by creation. And then there's a clause at the end of Verse 20 that is an apposition to invisible things, meaning equal to. When it says for the invisible things of Him, I have to ask myself, what does he mean by that? He says even his eternal power and Godhead;

    But notice the conclusion: "so that they are without excuse." And as you are aware, the word excuse, Apologea, is where we get our word apologetics from it. It is a legal term that means defense. People have no defense whatsoever. Not one human being is ever going to be able to stand before God and say "I didn't know!" And we are not talking about what registers in the mind. We're talking about what God illuminates or enlightens in a person's conscience or spirit.

    Something else I take note of is Psalm 19:1-4, "The heavens declare the glory of God. And the firmament shows His handywork. Day unto day utters speech and night unto night shows knowledge. There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard." Verse 3 really stands out to me, "There's no language or speech that God's creation cannot reach."

    Again, no one will have an excuse. God uses creation to testify of His existence.

    Plus, I think most Muslims and Buddhists know of Christ but reject Him.


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