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Results from: Answered Questions, Answers, Unanswered Questions, Notes
Author: wdc ordered by Date
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Is NASB better than other translations? |
Note |
2 Tim 2:15 |
wdc |
Wed 11/11/09, 10:29am |
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If the NASB is so literal, why are there so many footnotes that say "lit" meaning literally? If that is what the scripture says literally, why didn't they print that? I want a Bible that says what it says literally, regardless of how it reads, that is why I am currenlty studying the Greek language, I hope to eventually be able to read the Greek text. I don't know if this will solve the battle going on in my heart, but maybe it will help. |
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His holy and great name. |
Answer |
Ezek 36:23 |
wdc |
Fri 06/24/05, 8:09am |
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I don't see any difference.
later...wdc |
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What about those who have never heard? |
Note |
Rom 1:16 |
wdc |
Fri 11/14/03, 12:09am |
103570 |
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Hank.
What are you doing up this late at night? I'm at work, what's your excuse?
I agree whole heartedly that Jesus is the only way. What I see there is that if man will acknowledge God without the knowledge of the gospel, God will obligate Himself to that man to get the gospel to him. There will never be another way to get to God, but some don't know the way. God is not willing that any should perish, and will do whatever it takes to get the gospel to them. Sometime that first step of faith on man's part may be as simple as saying, "You know, this world didn't just happen." I believe if we are faithful to the light (knowledge) we have, God will give us more, and lead us to repentance unto salvation if we will follow.
Thanks for you input.
wdc |
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What if? |
Note |
Rom 7:17 |
wdc |
Thu 11/13/03, 11:16pm |
103568 |
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Steve,
I know this is old, but I go back and review these things and think about them a lot.
That is what is wrong with man outside of Christ, he is stagnate and dead. It is only the breath of the Spirit that brings life to us.
John 3:7 through John 3:8
7Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. 8The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
What do you think?
wdc |
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what good is it to Ahaz |
Note |
Is 7:14 |
wdc |
Thu 11/13/03, 11:08pm |
103567 |
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Ray,
I see the duality of the prophecy and it makes sense in that light.
Thanks,
wdc |
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what good is it to Ahaz |
Note |
Is 7:14 |
wdc |
Thu 11/13/03, 11:04pm |
103566 |
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Thanks z4, that verse clears up some things for me. Sometime I get to thinking about one thing so much that I forget everything else.
wdc |
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When ever you want to |
Note |
Ex 21:10 |
wdc |
Thu 11/13/03, 10:59pm |
103565 |
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You make a good point. I agree that it was because of the hardness of the heart that these things were done, as is the case with most, if not all sin. I still have a problem with the frequency that we see acts of sex outside of marriage in the O.T. We never read in the N.T. that Paul was going down the road to Colosse or some place and stopped off by the way because he saw some woman on the side of the road. I think maybe the difference could be the presence of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the N.T.
wdc |
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To understand one verse ! |
Note |
1 Cor 11:16 |
wdc |
Thu 11/13/03, 7:21am |
103473 |
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I find this happens a lot when I study the different translations of the Bible. So I started to study Greek to help my understanding, and I found out that not all translations or based on the same Greek text. In other words, there is more than one Greek text also. Now I really got a headache. I don't like using the KJV, but the Church where I pastor is KJV only, and they get really upset if I read a passage and it says something different from what they are reading. I prefer the NKJV or the NASB, but I get confused sometime when read verses and a wording is different, even as small as "the" in some places. Some places I read, the word "the" makes a lot of difference to me in the meaning of the verse. O well, I'm rambling here. I don't have the answer to this question, I wish I did. I use the KJV because it keeps peace in the Church and I believe that is what the Lord would have me do. Maybe one day He will lead to a place where it is not believed that Jesus spoke in the 1611 English language.
later...wdc |
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To understand one verse ! |
Note |
1 Cor 11:16 |
wdc |
Thu 11/13/03, 7:11am |
103472 |
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EdB,
Excellant answer.
wdc |
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What about those who have never heard? |
Note |
Rom 1:16 |
wdc |
Thu 11/13/03, 7:05am |
103471 |
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Hank,
Here is what I wrote.
Subject: The Gospel the sole means of salvation?
Note: Pagans are not damned without an oppurtunity to believe. My understanding of Rom. 1:14-21. God reveals Himself to all mankind through various ways.
v. 16 the gospel
v. 20 in creation (I understand this to mean that if any man will just look around, he will come to the conclusion that this world did not happen by chance, that there is a master creator. God says He has revealed Himself in creation, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:"
I believe that every person is born with the knowledge that he and this world did not just happen, he is born with a longing in his heart for more, or something else, and that something else is what died in man when Adam sinned, the spiritual part that communed with God. As sinners, whether in some dark remote part of the world or in America, we are dead in our trespasses and sins and cannot communicate with God as such.
I believe the whole passage hinges on the last part of verse 17, from faith unto faith. The righteousness of God is revealed from faith unto faith. When anyone, even someone that has never heard the gospel, acknowledges that this world and himself did not just happen, but there must be a God or supreme being that controls it all, that is the first step of faith. And I believe God obligates Himself to that person to give him more revealtion, leading eventually to the gospel of Jesus Christ. God may use a missionary, a book, a tract, radio, who knows, because God is not limited in His power nor creativity. But I believe that God does obligate Himself to that person that takes that first step of faith.
The problem comes in verse 21, many choose not to believe what they see. They ascribed the world to false god's, to some big bang or evolution, or something of their own vain imagination.
When they knew God, had that first knowledge of Him that comes from what God has revealed to them, they did not worship Him as God, and therefore they damn themselves.
On the other hand, I believe it is our part to make sure they hear. As Paul says, we debtors, verse 14, we must tell them.
This is my understanding of this passage and how the gospel works, even in places where they have not heard.
I just wanted your thoughts on this.
wdc
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What about those who have never heard? |
Note |
Rom 1:16 |
wdc |
Wed 11/12/03, 9:38am |
103376 |
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Read my posting in this string a few lines up. I am kinda late getting in on this.
wdc |
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What about those who have never heard? |
Note |
Rom 1:16 |
wdc |
Wed 11/12/03, 9:36am |
103375 |
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Hank,
Read my posting a few lines up and let me not what you think.
wdc |
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The Gospel the sole means of salvation? |
Note |
Rom 1:16 |
wdc |
Wed 11/12/03, 9:31am |
103374 |
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Pagans are not damned without an oppurtunity to believe. My understanding of Rom. 1:14-21. God reveals Himself to all mankind through various ways.
v. 16 the gospel
v. 20 in creation (I understand this to mean that if any man will just look around, he will come to the conclusion that this world did not happen by chance, that there is a master creator. God says He has revealed Himself in creation, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:"
I believe that every person is born with the knowledge that he and this world did not just happen, he is born with a longing in his heart for more, or something else, and that something else is what died in man when Adam sinned, the spiritual part that communed with God. As sinners, whether in some dark remote part of the world or in America, we are dead in our trespasses and sins and cannot communicate with God as such.
I believe the whole passage hinges on the last part of verse 17, from faith unto faith. The righteousness of God is revealed from faith unto faith. When anyone, even someone that has never heard the gospel, acknowledges that this world and himself did not just happen, but there must be a God or supreme being that controls it all, that is the first step of faith. And I believe God obligates Himself to that person to give him more revealtion, leading eventually to the gospel of Jesus Christ. God may use a missionary, a book, a tract, radio, who knows, because God is not limited in His power nor creativity. But I believe that God does obligate Himself to that person that takes that first step of faith.
The problem comes in verse 21, many choose not to believe what they see. They ascribed the world to false god's, to some big bang or evolution, or something of their own vain imagination.
When they knew God, had that first knowledge of Him that comes from what God has revealed to them, they did not worship Him as God, and therefore they damn themselves.
On the other hand, I believe it is our part to make sure they hear. As Paul says, we debtors, verse 14, we must tell them.
This is my understanding of this passage and how the gospel works, even in places where they have not heard.
wdc |
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On What Should the Sinner Focus? |
Answer |
Rom 1:16 |
wdc |
Wed 11/12/03, 9:06am |
103371 |
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Hank,
A sinner should focus on nothing but the cross of Jesus Christ. That is the only thing that can save him and take away his sin and guilt. Paul said in Rom. 1:16 "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believes:..."
There is no mention of anything else, the gospel tells us that Jesus died on the cross for our sins and the only way to be saved is to come to Him in repentance and faith. There is no mention of water. We are baptized out of obedience to Him because we are saved.
Everything the sinner finds in salvation is wrapped up in what Jesus did on the cross. The power to overcome sin comes through the cross, not water, Col. 2:13-15 "And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses; blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to His cross; and having spoiled principalities and powers, He made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it."
Everything we have comes by the cross. I could go on and on, but you get the point.
wdc |
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what good is it to Ahaz |
(?)Answered |
Is 7:14 |
wdc |
Thu 11/6/03, 8:27am |
102865 |
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I agree with the virgin birth translation. But if it is only a prophecy of the virgin of birth of Jesus, (and it is a prophecy of the virgin birth of Jesus) what good is it for a sign to Ahaz?
wdc |
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When ever you want to |
(?)Answered |
Ex 21:10 |
wdc |
Tue 11/4/03, 4:44pm |
102734 |
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Here is what puzzles me. All these guys in the Bible were used of God and even in David's case was called a man after God's own heart. But adultry didn't seem to be a problem to them. I mean David was just out one night starring at the stars or thinking about some kingly business, and saw this woman and decided to have sex with her. Naturally it led to other problems, but what was he thinking? Adultry was wrong then, how could he have so easily done this? And Judah in Gen. 38, he was just going down the road to work and saw a woman of the side of the road and decided to have sex. But today such a big deal is made over a pastor that is divorced or married to a divorced woman (it's almost as if that is the only qualification given in the N. T. for pastors and deacons)that it causes me to wander, if the men in the O.T. could take sex so lightly and God still blessed them and used them, how come it is so serious in the N.T.? It seems that Paul mentions sexual sins every few verses. I am not having immoral thoughts or wanting another wife, I have just always wandered about this. Any ideas or thoughts?
wdc |
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Can anyone see Jesus in this life |
Note |
1 Tim 6:16 |
wdc |
Tue 11/4/03, 3:39pm |
102725 |
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Gentlemen,
I don’t hold with most of the dreams and visions that we hear about today either. I would just like to share a thought here for I have been approached by some friends with questions like this also. They are members of an evangelical movement, and had a vision of Jesus telling them some new doctrine and some new understanding of some scripture verses. What Jesus was supposed to have told them did not agree at all with other scripture and it had to do with salvation and the endtime.
John 14:21
21He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
Jesus promises to manifest Himself to those who has His commandments, keeps them, and loves Him. Strong’s says manifest means to exhibit in person or disclose by words.
In verse 22 Judas ask’s how Jesus will manifest Himself to them and not to the world, probably since the world doesn’t keep the commandments of Jesus or love Him. Jesus answers in verse 23 that He will make His abode with that man. I understand this to mean or indicate the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
The indication here is also a strong love not only for Jesus, but for His word, the Bible. If someone claims to have seen Jesus, and received a message from Jesus, that message will without a doubt, correspond to the Words of Jesus, the Bible.
1 John 4:1 tells us that there are many spirits and voices out there doing their best to get our attention and to lead us away from the truth. We have to have a guide line or a plumb line if you would, to anchor us in truth so we don’t get lead astray, and God gave us two. The indwelling of the Holy Spirit to lead us to truth and away from error, and the second is the Bible, God’s inerrant word to man.
I am not smart enough to cipher through all the voices that are calling to me in the world today, so I meditate daily on the word of God and keep my ear tuned to the leading of the Spirit.
My friends told me that Jesus told these new things and that I should listen to them and follow these new teachings or I would be backsliden and ought of step with the work of Christ. They were exceptionally bold in their assertions because they believed their new teachings had come straight from Christ. They would not listen to reasoning to them from scripture, because what they had received superceded scripture.
Needless to say, I don’t fellowship with them on a regular basis anymore. We must very careful in this day and age.
Just a thought on this subject.
Your brother in Christ, wdc
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dating seven year older lady |
Answer |
Gen 2:18 |
wdc |
Mon 07/28/03, 8:38pm |
91163 |
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This is not Biblical, but I hope that maybe it will help you. My wife is 7 years older than I am and we will celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary this November. WE have been very happy and have served the Lord for 22 years. I have pastored for 20 years.
God has blessed us. If you believe that God has put you together, than go for it. Only seek God's will.
WDC |
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why |
(?)Answered |
NT general Archive 1 |
wdc |
Tue 06/18/02, 3:40pm |
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If there is no scriptural basis for it, why do Bible believing people and Churches practice it?
I cannot see into a man's heart, how can I know that he/she has unrepentant sin so as not to serve them?
I see some serious problems here.
later...wdc |
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Closed Communion |
(?)Answered |
Not Specified |
wdc |
Tue 06/18/02, 2:10pm |
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I need some help understanding closed communion. Closed communion being that only memebers of the local Church (those with their names on the roll) can praticipate. Is this what it is? Why is it practiced? Is there any scriptural basis to it?
Can anyone help me? I did a search and came up with nothing.
later...wdc |
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