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...not even a casual statement... |
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Col 1:25 |
DocTrinsograce |
Tue 06/18/13, 4:37pm |
237284 |
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"For concerning the divine and holy mysteries of the Faith, not even a casual statement must be delivered without the Holy Scriptures; nor must we be drawn aside by mere plausibility and artifices of speech. Even to me, who tell thee these things, give not absolute credence, unless thou receive the proof of the things which I announce from the Divine Scriptures. For this salvation which we believe depends not on ingenious reasoning, but on demonstration of the Holy Scriptures." --Cyril (313-386) |
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SEARCHING FOR THE TRUTH |
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Ex 23:24 |
FytRobert |
Tue 06/18/13, 12:22am |
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Hi EdB, I am now more at ease after having ead all the verses quoted by you. Thanks. |
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Communion Central to Church Life |
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Eph 1:22 |
DocTrinsograce |
Mon 06/17/13, 5:09pm |
237273 |
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"If we see communion as central to the life of the church, we are going to have an important place for mission. And this is reflected in the ancient fourfold structure of worship: gathering, proclaiming the Word, celebrating the Eucharist, and going out into the world. The last, of course, is mission. But mission takes its place within a larger structure. It is this sense of communion that the evangelical world especially needs. Communion is not just introspection or fellowship among ourselves. It involves, ultimately, seeing God and seeing the heart of God as well, which is His love for the world." --Simon Chan (2007) |
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can you be thankful for everything? |
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1 Thess 5:18 |
DocTrinsograce |
Mon 06/17/13, 1:26pm |
237270 |
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Dear Ed,
Thank you for your encouragement. That was very kind of you.
I try to keep in mind that our every idle word will be judged; therefore, I try to say what I mean and mean what I say -- and all that, with thought and prayer, in the light of the Word. What is that old saying, "If it is new, it probably isn't true; if it is true, it probably isn't new." I would rather say something verifiably true, than something worthy of note. Consequently, if I get something right, by God's grace, don't hesitate to use it without accreditation. Besides, the truth God dispenses freely; anything else should be disposed of promptly with impunity.
In Him, Doc |
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can you be thankful for everything? |
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1 Thess 5:18 |
EdB |
Mon 06/17/13, 7:53am |
237264 |
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Well said! IN particular I like the last paragraph. We are to give thanks but we are not required to be giddy over it.
I would like to quote that in another arena with your permission. |
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Did Job's knowledge come from written sc |
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Job |
Jo T |
Mon 06/17/13, 7:48am |
237263 |
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That is the conclusion I came but could not find it confirmed anywhere. Thanks |
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Established Truth of the Word |
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John 5:25 |
DocTrinsograce |
Sun 06/16/13, 2:15pm |
237260 |
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"Nor did we evade objections, but we endeavored as far as possible to hold to and confirm the things which lay before us, and if the reason given satisfied us, we were not ashamed to change our opinions and agree with others; but on the contrary, conscientiously and sincerely, and with hearts laid open before God, we accepted whatever was established by the proofs and teachings of the Holy Scriptures." --Dionysius (265 AD) |
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Return to the God of the Word |
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Jer 4:1 |
DocTrinsograce |
Sun 06/16/13, 1:51pm |
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Wonderful! I am glad that you enjoyed it enough to want to read it a second time, too. |
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Return to the God of the Word |
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Jer 4:1 |
azurelaw |
Sun 06/16/13, 9:40am |
237258 |
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It's interesting to see you quote from the book which (Chinese edition) I bought and finished reading in 2010 :-)
I am planning to re-read it too.
Thanks for the quotes.
Shalom
Azure |
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Return to the God of the Word |
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Jer 4:1 |
DocTrinsograce |
Sat 06/15/13, 10:50am |
237256 |
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"We have turned to a God that we can use rather than to a God we must obey; and we have turned to a God who will fulfill our needs rather than to a God before whom we must surrender our rights to ourselves. He is a God for us, for our satisfaction -- not because we have learned to think of Him in this way through Christ but because we learned to think of Him in this way through the marketplace. In the marketplace, everything is for us, for our pleasure, for our satisfaction, and we have come to assume that it must be so in the church as well. And so we transform the God of mercy into a God who is at our mercy. We imagine that He is benign, that He will acquiesce as we toy with His reality and co-opt Him in the promotion of our ventures and careers. Thus do we presume to restrain Him in a Weberian 'iron cage' of this-worldly preoccupation. Thus do we tighten our grip upon Him. And if this sunshine of His benign grace fails to warm us as we expect, if He fails to shower prosperity and success on us, we will find ourselves unable to believe in Him anymore.
"What has been lost in all of this, of course, is God's angularity, the sharp edges that truth so often has and that He has preeminently. It is our fallenness fleshed out in our modernity that makes us God smooth, that imagines He will accommodate our instincts, shabby and self-centered as they so often are, because He is love.
"In a psychologized culture such as ours, there is a deep affinity for what is relational but a disease with what is moral. This carries over into the church as an infatuation with the love of God and an embarrassment at His holiness. We who are modern find it infinitely easier to believe that God is like a Rogerian therapist who emphatically solicits our knowledge of ourselves and passes judgment on none of it than to think that He could have had any serious business to conduct with Moses.
"This peculiarity of the modern disposition, this loss of substance and vigor, betrays our misunderstanding of God's immanence, His relatedness to creation. We imagine that the great purposes of life are psychological rather than moral. We imagine that the great purposes of life are realized in the improvement of our own private inner disposition. We imagine that for those who love God and are called according to His purpose, all things work together for their satisfaction and the inner tranquility of their lives. Modernity has secured the triumph of the therapeutic over the moral even in the church.
"The fact is, of course, that the New Testament never promises anyone a life of psychological wholeness or offers a guarantee of the consumer's satisfaction with Christ. To the contrary, it offers the prospect of of indignities, loss, damage, disease, and pain. the faithful in Scripture were scorned, beaten, imprisoned, shipwrecked, and executed. The gospel offers no promises that contemporary believers will be spared of these experiences, that they will be able to settle down to the sanitized comfort of an inner life freed of stresses, pains, and ambiguities; it simply promises that through Christ, God will walk with us in all the dark places of life, that He has the power and the will to invest His promises with reality, and that even the shadows are made to serve His glory and our best interests. A therapeutic culture will be inclined to view such promises as something of a disappointment; those who understand that reality is at heart moral because God is centrally holy will be satisfied that this is all they need to know.
"We will not be able to recover the vision and understanding of God's grandeur until we recover an understanding of ourselves as creatures who have been made to know such grandeur. This must begin with the recovery of the idea that as beings made in God's image, we are fundamentally moral beings, not consumers, that the satisfaction of our psychological needs pales in significance when compared with the enduring value of doing what is right. religious consumers want to have a spirituality for the same reason that they want to drive a stylish and expensive auto. Costly obedience is as foreign to them in matters spiritual as self-denial is in matters material. In a culture filled with such people, restoring weight to God is going to involve much more than getting some doctrinal truths straight; it's going to entail a complete reconstruction of the modern self-absorbed pastiche personality. The cost of accomplishing this may well be deep, sustained repentance. It is our modernity that must be undone. Only then will the full weight of the revealed truth of God rest once more on the soul. Only then will we recover our saltiness in the world Only then will God genuinely be known in His church." --David F. Wells, "God In The Wasteland" (1994) |
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Prayers of the Saints |
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Rev 8:4 |
DocTrinsograce |
Fri 06/14/13, 8:31pm |
237227 |
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"Prayer is essentially a partnership of the redeemed child of God working hand in hand with God toward the realization of His redemptive purposes on earth." --Jack W. Hayford (1934-) |
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Cities visited by paul |
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NT general |
jlhetrick |
Thu 06/13/13, 9:26pm |
237214 |
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:o) |
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Divine Grace |
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2 Cor 7:9 |
DocTrinsograce |
Thu 06/13/13, 5:59pm |
237213 |
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"Though we always and on all occasions make this grace to precede, to accompany and follow; and without which, we constantly assert, no good action whatever can be produced by man. Nay, we carry this principle so far as not to dare to attribute the power here described [self-determination] even to the nature of Adam himself, without the help of Divine Grace both infused and assisting." --James Harmensen (1560-1609) |
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Cities visited by paul |
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NT general |
EdB |
Thu 06/13/13, 9:15am |
237209 |
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I think you got them! Good work! |
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how many children did Joseph and Mary ha |
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Mark 3:31 |
EdB |
Thu 06/13/13, 9:14am |
237208 |
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Beaware that there are those that interpret the word used here as brethren or close associates with Jesus instead of actual brothers. And if viewed in context of the whole passage this has some validity.
Our Catholic friends believe Mary remained a virgin.
What is important is the fact that Mary was a virgin when she conceived Jesus by the Holy Spirit. The rest is open for discussion but has no effect on our belief in Christ and that Jesus was the Son of God. |
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psychic |
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Leviticus |
EdB |
Thu 06/13/13, 9:06am |
237207 |
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Good answer! |
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Meditating on His Doings |
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Ps 143:5 |
DocTrinsograce |
Wed 06/12/13, 5:38pm |
237205 |
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"'To read and not to mediate is unfruitful; to meditate and not to read is dangerous; to read and meditate without prayer is hurtful.'" --Richard Greenham as quoted by Simon Chan in "The Puritan Meditative Tradition" (1982) |
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Those Marked Out for His Service |
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Luke 14:9 |
DocTrinsograce |
Tue 06/11/13, 4:51pm |
237198 |
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"Isaac wanted to bless Esau and Esau was eager to receive his father's blessing; but they failed in their purpose (cf. Genesis 27). For God in His mercy blesses and anoints with the Spirit, not necessarily those we prefer, but those whom He marked out for His service before creating them. Thus we should not be upset or jealous if we see certain of our brethren, whom we regard as wretched and insignificant, making progress in holiness. You know what the Lord said: 'Make room for this man so that he can sit in a higher place' (cf. Luke 14:9). I am full of admiration for the Judge Who gives His verdict with secret wisdom: He takes one of the humblest of our brethren and sets him above us; and though we claim priority on the basis of our asceticism and our age, God puts us last of all. For 'each must order his life according to what the Lord has granted him' (1 Corinthians 7:17)." --John of Karpathos (680 AD) |
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SEARCHING FOR THE TRUTH |
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Ex 23:24 |
FytRobert |
Tue 06/11/13, 11:43am |
237197 |
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Thank you,Doc. You have relieved a ton of worries from my shoulders
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Sharing in the Death of Christ |
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Mark 1:8 |
DocTrinsograce |
Mon 06/10/13, 7:20pm |
237190 |
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"By dying to sin in baptism one could say mystically that he shares in the death of Christ (cf. Colossians 2:12). Join me in observing how appropriately the symbols convey the sacred. To us death is not, as others imagine, a complete dissolution of being. It is, rather, the separation of two parts which had been linked together. It brings the soul into what for us is an invisible realm where it, in the loss of the body, becomes formless. And the body is hidden in earth and undergoes a change from corporeal shape and is withdrawn from its human appearance. Now because of this it is quite appropriate to hide the initiate completely in the water as an image of this death and this burial where form is dissolved. This symbolic lesson therefore sacredly leads the one who is baptized into the mystery that by his triple immersion and emersion he imitates, as far as the imitation of God is possible to men, the divine death of One Who was three days and nights in the tomb, the life-giving Jesus, in Whom, according to the mysterious and hidden tradition of Scripture, the ruler of the world found nothing. Next they put bright clothes on the initiate. His courage and his likeness to God, his firm thrust toward the One, make him indifferent to all contrary things. Order descends upon disorder within him. Form takes over from formlessness. Light shines through all his life." --Dionysius the Areopagite |
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