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They made changes a little while back.
I remember I also had to re-register.
I had to post under my first name.
"Steven"
It had something to do with having to sign in.
God bless.
As Hemorlan replied, 'Acts is the transitional book (rightly dividing) OT & NT. For the OT laws were for the Jews i.e. before Jesus DBR (death, burial & resurrection). NT is for All Jews & Gentiles. Christ shed His blood & died for All who choose to believe & All sin past, present & future. Making us All one in salvation.
As you point out, Romans 15:4..Paul is stating 'For what was written in the past was so we learn from past mistakes & come out unscathed by the world around us. To be strengthened in our hope/faith through patients for the evil around us & be comforted knowing God was w/them then as He is w/us now'. As for 2 Tim3:15, that's partial scripture & is best interpreted/understood if you read entire meaning not merely one verse, 2 Tim 3:12-17.
As for Matt 5:17-20, Jesus is speaking to the disciples on how things are related/differ tween the OT(Gen-Acts12) & how things will be upon His DBR to come (NT) Acts 13-The Revelation. In Matt:17, He didn't come to destroy anyone/anything but to fulfill prophecy of His Father. God does not make us choose Him, We have 'freewill'. Satan on the other hand will continue to torcher us & those around us till we choose evil. Put on the Armor of God Eph 6:10-18, being guarded from satan devouring souls simply for he knows his Eternity & is angry wanting revenge. Loving God w/all our being, Mark 12:28-33 & of course John 3:12-21. It's not hard as prosperity preachers would have you believe. I for one enjoy learning truth. With His blood, Christ Himself said it best .. "It is finished".
Good to hear from you again also. Thank you for your thoughts.
Last time we conversed, you asked me some questions I did not answer. I have not forgotten. As you probably realize, I'm a bit sporadic. A lot going on, so even when I feel encouraged to write, I sometimes won't, because I feel as I will become too busy
or tired to follow up.
I always enjoy having a discussion with you. You definitely give me things to seriously ponder.
Briefly, in response to your recent post to me: I consider "withdrawing" as a form of limiting. I don't think the Holy Spirit ever limits His giving. Simply, we limit our receiving.
Peace be with you
Again, thank you for your thoughtful reply.
I believe that the search for truth is but the honest searching out of what interferes with truth, and that truth must be true throughout if it be true. It cannot contradict itself, nor be in some parts uncertain and others sure.
I also believe everyone on this site, with very few exceptions, genuinely desires to understand truth and draw nearer to God. Perhaps I come off contentious , and seemingly ask foolish questions. One may consider being careful though, not to use Titus 3:9 as a tool to possibly make people seem or feel foolish because of their questions which one may have mistakenly judged as contentious. How can one be certain this is not an opportunity provided by the Holy Spirit to lovingly lead another towards God's perfect love and healing.
I've been reading and contemplating the Bible off and on for well over fifty years, and yet I still reluctantly find myself perceiving conflict within it. I've spent too many years in church and in fear of asking these questions I would like solid answers to. I would like nothing more than to have the Bible make perfect sense to me. If you or anyone doesn't want to, or CAN"T convincingly answer my seemingly foolish questions and/or comments within what I would consider a simple dialogue, I'm ok with it.
For the majority of my life I have consistently genuinely asked the Holy Spirit for truth according to the One and Only God of Perfect Love. I don't see myself as special in this sense, as I'm certain most of us here desire and ask this in their own way.
God Is
Peace
Maybe what you're thinking of is like a study book (as one could use in a Sunday School class) where both the study narrative & questions to ponder & discuss are given at the end. Just a quick look around on the Web, I found 'Bible Study Lessons' gives studies (or passages to read) & then sets of questions to the Bible book chapter; but like everything, always make sure that the Site is one that stays faithful to God's Word.
You quote Job 39:12 and you assign the "seed" to being the word of God. What you are doing is 'spiritualising' a statement of God to Job that was a literal question being put to Job by God that required from Job a literal answer. As Job had none aren't you being somewhat presumptuous here in your claims as to what the seed and the barn mean? An illustration of God's questioning of Job is shown in the verses below:
Job 39:1 "Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth [their offspring]? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? 2 Canst thou number the months that they fulfil [their gestation]? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?"
Anyone can spiritualise scripture to make it say whatever they want it to say - but it doesn't mean that it is true. Therefore, I reject what you say about this verse.
In regards to your view on John 12:24, although Jesus compares Himself to a grain of wheat as you say, His death was aimed to bring "many sons to glory" ( Hebrews 2:10) through the new birth ( John 3:3-8). Jesus could not establish a glorious church on Earth through His people unless He died and was glorified ( John 7:37-39; Acts 2:33; Eph. 1). Christians today are expected to die as Christ did - but NOT in the physical sense but in the spiritual sense:
- In this, we are to crucify our 'Old Man' nature until "he" is DEAD - Romans 6:6.-
- If we haven't, then spiritually speaking, God sees us as "walking in the flesh" ( Romans 8:1, 7).
However, if we are truly "born-again", we will share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with others so as to bring more lost souls into God's kingdom. By doing this, we (as being that "corn of wheat) will then "...bringeth forth much fruit" - meaning, the lost souls into God's kingdom through personal evangelism, "...some [corns'] an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold. 9 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear!" ( Matt 13:3-9).
That's how I see it, Plaintalk.
I will take it with pleasure. It is a very good advice.
Blessings.
Just for information.
The greek for this type of "mark" is "charagma". This is a mark that is done by engraving, like the ancient people used to engrave letters on stones or marbles using sharp pencils. So it will be ON the right hand or ON the forehead. Now what maybe the interpretation of that...?
GBU
Let me give you an example. If you have a car that goes top speed 100 miles per hour and you put your foot on the pedal expecting to go 150 and you keep pressing your foot on the pedal, the only thing you will get at the end is to burn the engine, it will never go 150. We have limits all of us. Yes we must lengthen our limits/broaden our hearts but they will always exist.
Yes God has made us partakers of His Spirit. Which means that He gave us a means to grow spiritually and produce a fruit in our lives. But that Spirit has not transformed our nature. We are still human. Have you ever thought why we will be sinless in Heaven? We don't know really, do we?. Some say because of the new body we will be given. But satan has got no flesh but he still sinned and is still sinning although his is a spirit. So the sin does not only originate from the flesh, but it originates from our spirit as well.
My assumption is that we will be sinless because we will have God's Spirit with no measure, like Jesus had it. The presence of God inside us will be infinite and will not allow any sin coming inside us. But in this life we have the Spirit partially. (Well this is just thoughts, we don't really know). If God wanted to make us perfect in this life, He would had done it in a split second, But He didn't and He will not. We have to wait untill we enter our heavenly country.
Well some thoughts of mine. Blessings.
James 5:16, "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much."
1 Timothy 6:12, "Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses."
I just wanted you to understand that I did not report you in any way.
If others choose to do so, I guess that is allowed on this forum as well.
Thank you for the encouragement concerning prodigal children. I believe that God will not abandon the work of His hands, but will accomplish what He has foreordained for my sons.
I agree we are the body of Christ, but not in the same way you do. We are still individual beings and will always be so, but being in Christ is that we have become one with Him as in marriage. A husband and a wife become one flesh but still remain two separate beings, but the union God performs when people get married is a mystery and not perceivable to the natural eye. Same with our union with Christ. He is still one person and we all are our own separate persons in Him, but the unity is not physically perceived, nor a physical reality.
Earl, I hope you are doing well. I am happy to know that you are here with us and if you mention that you are Earl in your posts if you post under a different name, that will help me to know who I am speaking with when I respond. That is important to me. It is not as if we haven't developed some relationship over the past year and a half, and I want to keep this in mind when I read your posts and when I respond. God's blessing to you tonight.
Light and darkness are not divine entities, neither is evil and good. Before creation there was neither light nor darkness. God created these at the beginning of creation. As to evil and good, God is forever good, but evil is the absence of good. So, if He withdraws His goodness (blessing, provision, protection) from any being He created it is because the created being has chosen evil by sinning.
I just wanted to make these points to you today. I hope you are doing well and growing in the Lord each day, taking in His Word with a heart open to the Holy Spirit.
Just one question. Personally are you in a sinless state? And when I say "sinless' I mean that you never sin? Have you reached such a stage in your spiritual life?
The definition of a "sinner" can be either:
1. someone who lives a sinful life.
2. Someone who strives to live holly but he fails sometimes, then repends, asks for forgiveness and washes himself with Jesus Blood.
Both the above are sinners, in the sence that people in both categories do sins. But who is considered by God as a sinner? Definetely not the second case. Why not? Because they cleaned (and are continously cleaning) themselves from the sins they do and so they are considered by God as "righteous" So they are eligible to enter Heanen. This is anyway what the gospel is all about. If it were about being sinless just because we are given the Spirit of God so to avoid doing sins, then what was the reason that Jesus sacrificed Himself? Only to clean us from what we had done till we were born again?
New birth. Regeneration and new creation/new birth do not mean a sinless state by no means.
Old natute. When the Bible talks about "the old man" does not mean old nature but it means the sinful person we were before getting to know Christ, the "new man" is the man that strives to live holy.
Often christians, especially the ones who are new in faith, due to an ignorance of God's Word put a big load over their shoulders. I used to be one of them. Although they strive to live holy, they are never pleased with themselves and think that God doesn't approve them. Why? Because they think that they should never fail any more, as if that was ever possible. They expect too much from themselves (more than God does). This is called "weak consciousness" in my language. And that origininates either due to an ignorance of the Bible, since they are new in faith, or due to their character.
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I believe Richard H Priday provided another good example of answering your question where he said:
"God did create hell as well; but originally it was meant for the Devil and his angels. ( Matt. 25:41). Clearly; men enter in there because they are following their master; namely Satan rather than God. Therefore; all things work out for the good for those who love God ( Romans 8:28); but conversely; there is no peace for the wicked ( Isaiah 48:22; other passages)."
For you to reject these Bible-based 'Contrasts' depicted in the Bible to then ask questions like:
- Would you agree that whenever Light enters darkness, the darkness is abolished?
- If yes, then if God is darkness as He is Light, then He must be capable of abolishing Himself.
- Light abolishes darkness merely by showing us the darkness is not there. If this is true and God is responsible and the Source for both Light and darkness, then He would literally abolish Himself into non existence.
COMMENT: It seems your desire is to enter into "...foolish questions...and contentions" that I am not prepared to enter into on the following basis:
"But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain." ( Titus 3:9)
Sorry, One eighty, but I m trying to be helpful here and not offensive.
Thought to PONDER ON.
In your comment:
When we observe SIN such as ANGER .....
Did Jesus ever get angry? Was he angry when he called them a generation of vipers?
John 2:15 And when he made a scourge of small cords, he DROVE THEM out of the temple .....
Was Jesus angry when he drove them out?
Yet he was without SIN.
Food for thought.
God Bless You!
I never said nor believed you complained to administration, others read your comments and can react to those comments.
We are ALL the BODY of Christ, by the resurrection of Christ, ALL have become ONE, even our prodigal sons, even though they have not AS YET come to that truth, they will be DRAWN back to CHRIST.
God speaks of things that ARE NOT, as if they ALREADY ARE.
John 12:32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, I WILL draw ALL MEN unto me.
Genesis 18:14 ... at the TIME APPOINTED, I will return to thee, according to the TIME of LIFE ....
John 14:6 I am the way, the truth and the LIFE.
God Bless YOU
I am not trying to hid my identity, whatever the problem, the site ceases to let me log in and make comments without creating a new account.
God Bless you.
God bless you.
I, too, do not report people because I want people to be free to participate on here.
My first post to you was seeking to know why you post on here with so many different names. I would love it if you would go back to posting as Earl.
The absence of youth and young adults in our churches has been going on for decades, but is more pronounced now in some congregation than in others. Having brough our children up to know the Lord and participate in church fellowship, they walked away in their high school years and have not returned. Sadly, this is a common story for so many believing parents.
I do not truly know how to remedy this in our churches, but, as you said, prayer is certainly a main factor. The draw of the world is so very strong with our children especially due to social media/internet services that are and instant "feed" for their desires. The increased busyness of being "on the go" constantly makes it difficult for children to accept a slower pace of thinking through ideas, analyzing information, and spending time in worship and reading of the Word (or reading in general!). I wish we could turn back the clock a bit and redo some of our approaches to family life now that we know how what we have done impacts our children, youth, and young adults. But we cannot. My hope is that God cares for the children and wishes to bless them despite how they have been brought up. But as an adult population, we certainly have need of repentance and seeking God's counsel in how to minister to the children, youth, and young adults in our sphere of life and influence.
The rapture is an English word made up from the "Latin biblical word rapio". If it happens in our time you'll know 2 ways..1st cuz 1/3 of the world suddenly disappears just like in Kirk Cameron's movies Left Behind (not the other woke version).
Then, AFTER that (the 2nd proof) the anti-christ makes it mandatory EVERYONE get the 'mark of the beast' (bible says in several verses from chapter 13 - chapter 20, IN the right hand or IN forehead, Not on) to be able to buy or sell to survive. So not a tattoo, pin, watch or sharpy pen.
Best thing to do is be rapture ready. Search His word not believing others yet, Believe & Receive Christ shed His blood for you "that who ever believes in Him will not perish yet have everlasting life" John 3:16-21. If you wait, the bible also says what happens to anyone Left Behind. Tho 1 final chance to Repent is given YET ONLY GOD knows this day & time..in the blink of an eye.! He knows your heart better then you. Not a chance I'm willing to take cuz our flesh is weak & in the blink of an eye is faster then you'll be able to SAY 'Jesus' much less time to repent.
Protect ppl NOW by teaching Gods word sheilding them w/His full suit of armor Eph 6:10-18. God will bring them to their knees in His time for His glory. Any child under the age of accountability (i.e. being able to KNOW the difference, not merely being told to choose) is going so no need to fret over their precious souls simply love them as we are to love God w/All our being. For EVERY knee will bow Phillipians 2:10. I choose to now so my life on earth is more peaceful, no matter the pain. God bless & be with you, Texsis.
If they locked you out because someone reported you for changing your name, they would have had to report you six times.
They have moderators that unlike most of us, review every post and reply and you do stand out.
Here's one of the guidelines they enforce;
Use a consistent name and valid email for one account. Commenters are welcome to use a username instead of your real name, but it is not allowed to change this name in effort to conceal your identity or to have more than one identity. The email address entered must be a valid email address you can receive an email to. A valid email will allow you to know when you receive a reply, will allow you to manage and download your comments, and allow for easier technical support. Only one account is permitted per person.
They will allow you to use a consistent name no matter what you teach.
God bless.