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So having started this thread I think I will try and answer my own question. However difficult it may be to put into words.
I see original sin as defined as a depravity or an inclination towards sin that did not exist before the fall of man in the garden. There is a depravity or a tendency...
Some kids are involved in too many activities. I use to see that all the time when I would volunteer to work with kids in the church. Sports all year around, scouts or other groups, camping trips, family trips, friends birthday parties. It makes me dizzy just thinking about it. When is there...
some of them. But even very dedicated christians that I have seen have problems with a lack of joy. In many cases, perhaps it is because a spirit of legalism has taken root
I didn't really think about spiritual things outside of church for most of my childhood. I grew up going to church and my mom read the Bible to me when I was a kid, but I don't remember really thinking about it much until my teenager years.
I don't have to defend Christ's sacrificial death on the cross on this forum to you. Neither do other members. It is one of the tenents of our faith and maybe one of the few things most of us would agree on. I'm not going to debate this with you. It is beyond debate. It is the core of who...
The book of Hebrews makes the comparison because unlike the priest in the Old Testament who had his own failures and sins, Jesus is our High Priest now and has an eternal priesthood
Jesus said in John 10:7-10
7 So Jesus said to them again, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. 8 All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. 9 I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find...
When I was a teenager I went on a weekend retreat with our youth group. The whole weekend they were teaching us about the end times and the rapture. I think it was a Saturday afternoon I was sent to the main house to get something and when I came back to where the group had been they weren't...
The school system where i worked was closed today due to snow so I am sitting at home doing my notes and making phone calls. I can't remember the last time I was caught up on Wednesday with my notes. I don't think that has ever happened
Questions remain.
Did he get his instructions about how to worship from God himself? Such as sacrifices?
How did he know the nature of God?
Is this a preincarnate Christ as some have said?
How did Abram know him and who he was?
I believe the intention of the rapture is that God makes a difference between the saved and the lost. The scripture that comes to mind is in Genesis 18:24-26 where God and Abram are speaking and Abram is pleading for Sodom, in part because he knows Lot lives there. He says
24 What if there...
Abraham offered a tithe to Melchizedek and it says that he was a priest. This was before the Levitical priest had begun or the Bible written. They didn't even know God's name at the time. Here are some scripture references for Melchizedek. Who was he and how did he get his authority to be a...
there is lightning and thunder going on outside right now and they say it may snow an inch between now and 10 am tomorrow (next 11 hours). The county I work in to the north of me is expecting 1-3 inches of snow. School has been delayed three hours in the morning and it hasn't even started...