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Results from: Unanswered Questions
On or After: Thu 05/9/13 ordered by Date
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john called the heart of christian revel |
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Ceil |
Sat 05/18/13, 7:20pm |
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Why is John oftencalled the heart of Christian revelations John 1:14 |
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cornerstone and morning stars |
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ian123 |
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Job 38:6
On what were its bases sunk?
Or who laid its cornerstone,
?. Who or where is this cornerstone?
Job 38:7
When the morning stars sang together
And all the sons of God shouted for joy?
?. Who where these morning stars that sang together?
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Results from: Answers, Notes
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Scriptural Selectivity |
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Jude 1:17 |
DocTrinsograce |
Sat 05/18/13, 4:55pm |
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"Heresy is not so much rejecting as selecting. The heretic simply selects the parts of the Scripture he wants to emphasize and lets the rest go. This is shown by the etymology of the word heresy and by the practice of the heretic. 'Beware,' an editorial scribe of the fourteenth century warned his readers in the preface to a book. 'Beware thou take not one thing after thy affection and liking, and leave another: for that is the condition of an heretique. But take everything with other.' (sic) The old scribe knew well how prone we are to take to ourselves those parts of the truth that please us and ignore the other parts. And that is heresy. --A. W. Tozer (1897-1963), from his book "We Travel An Appointed Way" |
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Making Light of Sin |
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Jer 8:11 |
DocTrinsograce |
Sat 05/18/13, 4:46pm |
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Hello, friend...
So many faulty presuppositions here, I scarce know where to begin. I guess I will just deal with a couple major ones, for the sake of the many silent readers.
Because some have fallen into the left hand ditch of an unbiblical libertinism does not require a leap into the right hand ditch of an unbiblical legalism. An unbiblical error is still an error.
When people abuse a truth, it has utterly no impact on the validity of the truth. If not, every truth would stand in jeopardy!
All religions in the world are about man finding ways to connect to God. Christianity is the opposite: It is God redeeming a people for Himself who cannot help themselves (Titus 2:11-14). Nothing we do can make God love us more or love us less. Yes, we are saved by works, but not human works. God's own work.
Look back through all those "overcome" verses you cited -- look even outside of Revelation. Who is doing the overcoming? People??? I trow not!
A few years ago I had the pleasure of hearing Conrad Mbewe speak. Many others over the centuries have expressed the same thing, but I think that Pastor Conrad says it in a very clear fashion for the modern ear. He said,
"I think that the number one principle in seeing through the subtlety of error is learning to handle truth in its biblical context. As someone has said, 'A text without a context is a pretext.' -- it is a lie! It is often pretty clear to any discerning mind when a text has been wrested our of its comfortable context in order to say what someone else wants it to say. When I listen to many preachers today and they state something which makes my hair stand on end, I will often wait for them to prove it from the Bible. I often find that all I need to do is dig around the verses they would have quoted and I find that there has been a gross misapplication of Scripture. The Holy Spirit was saying one thing when He inspired the sacred writer, and the preacher is saying something totally different.
"When the context is not able to help, the second principle is that obscure passages of the Bible must be interpreted by those passages of the Bible that are more perspicuous. In other words, Scripture does not contradict itself since its primary author is the Holy Spirit. So, if a false teacher quotes Scripture to suit his situation but it contradicts the clear teaching of another passage of the Bible, it should send all the warning signals that you are in danger and ought to tread carefully. Is that not how the Lord Jesus handled Satan when he tempted Him using the Scriptures in Matthew 4? Jesus simply referred to other Scriptures that were clearly being violated by the meaning that Satan was putting upon the Scriptures he was quoting. We should do the same!"
See post #158836.
In Him, Doc |
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Making Light of Sin |
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Jer 8:11 |
Jesusfriend |
Sat 05/18/13, 3:32pm |
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Doc, I don't know how you came to that conclusion reading my post. The bible, which all Christians should take as the only means of true salvation is the only place I get my information. You will very rarely hear me quoting anybody but scripture. I have spent my life studying the bible. I have read many famous Christian authors to my utter disappointment, but on the other hand reading Christian authors gives one the assurance that following man will not lead us to God. I am not saying that reading other Christian writings outside the bible are bad, BUT! we must have our priorities straight and match every word we read about God to His loving word, not the other way around. There are many places in scripture where we are admonished to be perfect, not in a man made sense of "I will sin until I die and still be 'saved'", but in a "he that sinneth is of the devil".
I have one question for you sir, When you ask for forgiveness from God during a whole night of praying on your knees before God, or even just a short prayer of forgiveness, how many sins do you have left? Are you not sinless at that moment, if you say you are not sinless at that moment you do not believe Jesus promises and therefore your faith is presumption which has been handed down by man and not God's word.
Spurgeon was a great author, but he along with the majority of professors of Christianity are in great error on the most important subject for any Christian, which is "what must I do to be 'saved'". It matters not who preaches the error, it is still error. Jesus did say that the majority of Christians will be lost, and this is the reason. There is nowhere in the bible that tells me I can not ever stop sinning, but it does say that if I do live without sinning and brag about it then I am sinning. I will never say that I am sinless, because a Christians life is all about others not self. When self is dead, which is what baptism is all about, there is no sin. There is no half death either. Most people who are baptised are burried alive, and come out of the water the same as they went in. The thought that we can never overcome all sin in our lives is from the devil not God nor His word. Please read all the overcome verses in Revelation. What must we overcome to receive these blessings? a couple sins? or all sin in our lives. Remember only few followed Jesus when He was alive, and He promised that only few will be "saved". |
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According to Jesus, can we eat pork? |
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1 Tim 4:4 |
DocTrinsograce |
Sat 05/18/13, 9:59am |
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Hi, onthebrink...
I taught my children to distinguish between the words, can, may, and ought. The words are so different that it will make a huge difference in the answers you are seeking.
A Jew could eat pork if he chose to do so.
A Jew might eat pork at some point in the future.
A Jew ought never to eat pork for it is proscribed by the law (Leviticus 11:7-8).
I will assume that you are using the colloquialism "Can we eat pork?" (sic) to mean, "Is the eating of pork prohibited in the New Testament?"
The Biblical basis of our liberty would be:
"And He [Christ] said to them, 'Are you so lacking in understanding also? Do you not understand that whatever goes into the man from outside cannot defile him, because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and is eliminated?'" (Mark 7:18-19a) Then Mark asserts "Thus He declared all foods clean." (Mark 7:19b) Paul additionally asserts, "I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself" (Romans 14:14a NASB). Nonetheless, we limit our liberty to eat and drink anything in deference to the conscience of our brothers (Romans 14:21).
I would go on to add one more point relative to the pastoral epistolary references:
Prayers of consecration do not transform unclean food into clean food. (Doing something in the natural in order to achieve a supernatural affect is what we call magic. We surely want nothing to do with that kind of junk.) Paul writes, "For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude; for it is sanctified by means of the word of God and prayer." (1 Timothy 4:4-5 NASB); and, as Paul states in another epistle, "To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their mind and their conscience are defiled." (Titus 1:15 NASB) The impurity is not inherent in the nature of the food itself, rather the issue is in the heart of the person eating -- food is impure when eaten without gratitude to and dependence on the Father; i.e., failing to honor and be grateful to God in His Providence like heathens do (Romans 1:21). On the contrary, the apostle says of the redeemed, "he who eats, does so for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who eats not, for the Lord he does not eat, and gives thanks to God." (Romans 14:6b NASB)
In Him, Doc |
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The Truth Offends the World |
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Acts 7:54 |
DocTrinsograce |
Fri 05/17/13, 5:48pm |
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"Jesus was not revolutionary because He said we should love God and each other. Moses said that first. So did Buddha, Confucius, and countless other religious leaders we've never heard of. Madonna, Oprah, Dr. Phil, the Dali Lama, and probably a lot of Christian leaders will tell us that the point of religion is to get us to love each other. 'God loves you' doesn't stir the world's opposition. However, start talking about God's absolute authority, holiness, Christ's substitutionary atonement, justification by faith apart from works, the necessity of new birth, repentance, baptism, communion, and the future judgment, and the mood in the room changes considerably." --Michael Horton |
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