We really CAN'T answer some of these

[FHII]

This is the exact reason I went back and spent almost three weeks on trying to answer these questions rather than just going by what I have been told to say over the years..

Did you come up with an answer to #25?

 

[Roger Beutel]

A few weeks ago, I posted a link to a book entitled "75 Questions Your Instructors Pray You will Never Ask," Mostly, the whole thing was dismissed as beneath the dignity of a "true Christian" to bother to respond to. (I also felt this way...… UNTIL I actually tried to answer some of them.)

I am posting just the questions (none of the book's answers) here to see if any of you run across the same dilemmas I did in trying to HONESTLY defend many of my doctrinal positions in replying to these questions.

Willie T, I have a reply format question. What would be the best way to respond? Meaning, make one reply and enter answers under the questions, or one question per reply? I'm a newbie, hence the question.

 

[Enoch111]

My avatar isn't Dirty Harry... But it's the same guy!

Same guy who was "the man with no name" or "the Stranger". Clint (in real life) is one of the very few good guys in Hollywood.

Anyway, why waste time on those Calvinistic questions when there are a lot of bad guys to round up?

 

[charity]

A few weeks ago, I posted a link to a book entitled "75 Questions Your Instructors Pray You will Never Ask," Mostly, the whole thing was dismissed as beneath the dignity of a "true Christian" to bother to respond to. (I also felt this way...… UNTIL I actually tried to answer some of them.)

I am posting just the questions (none of the book's answers) here to see if any of you run across the same dilemmas I did in trying to HONESTLY defend many of my doctrinal positions in replying to these questions.

Hi @Willie T,

I have copied your questions, to look at offline.

Thank you
In Christ Jesus
Chris

 

[bbyrd009]

Perhaps the book should be entitled '75 questions that if you cannot answer, or are unwilling to answer, you have no business being an instructor or teacher of the Bible to God's people'. I read all the questions. Many are just 'yes' or 'no' answers. Some require explanation. All are answerable.

Stranger

I dunno strange, I didn't see too many that weren't irrelevant, tbh. I mean unless you're reading Paul like Peter said.

 

[Willie T]

Willie T, I have a reply format question. What would be the best way to respond? Meaning, make one reply and enter answers under the questions, or one question per reply? I'm a newbie, hence the question.

Well, the way the Calvinist who wrote the book did it is one that I DO NOT approve of.

After asking each question, he displayed a usually fairly brief answer some Dispensationalist must have given, sort of "off the cuff"... then he replied to THAT question with his own much longer and deeper response.... which, of course, comes across sounding much more thoughtful and studied.

That method was a little disappointing in many respects, but that is how he chose to present it.

If you will pick one of the questions, I will post exactly what is in the book so you can see what I mean. (But, it will be awhile before I answer, since I have two doctor's appointments and a gym workout scheduled for this morning.)

 

[bbyrd009]

That "Unqualified to be teaching if you won't answer" was really the whole premise of the book.

ha really makes

Let the blind lead, the blind

mean something huh.

 

[bbyrd009]

Willie T, I have a reply format question. What would be the best way to respond? Meaning, make one reply and enter answers under the questions, or one question per reply? I'm a newbie, hence the question.

I'd go with boxes, and make sure the corners are 90 degrees
ntmy

 

[Willie T]

Did you come up with an answer to #25?

"Yes, I did." But, as probably would be the case with most people's answers, there are "qualifications" as to how my answer relates to what, specifically, was intended to be asked by the wording "all men."

 

[bbyrd009]

Did you come up with an answer to #25?

wow, you mean someone has justified a "no" for that one? Fascinating

 

[Dave L]

(continued)
31. How Can We Accurately Define Sin if We Deny God's Law?
32. Does God Answer Prayers of Lawbreakers?
33. Do We Really Love the Brethren if We Disobey God's Laws?
34. How Can We Identify Christians if We Ignore God's Law?
35. How Can We Know if We are "Dead to Sin" if We Ignore God's Law?
36. How Can We "Walk in Newness of Life" if We Disobey God's Law?
37. How Can We Stop "Serving Sin" if We Disobey God's Law?
38. Since God's Law Can't Kill Us, Won't it Help Us to Live?
39. How Can Sin Still "Reign" in Us if We Obey God's Law?
40. Aren't Those Who Disobey God's Law "Instruments of Unrighteousness"?
41. What Does "Under Grace, Not Law" Mean?
42. Are We Free to Ignore God's Law if We are "Under Grace"?
43. Is a Christian's "New Spirit" Opposed to God's Law?
44. Is the Law of God "Carnal," or Holy, Just, and Good?
45. How Can We "Walk After the Spirit" if We Disobey God's Law?
46. Isn't a "Carnal Mind" One Which is Opposed to God's Law?
47. How Can We "Mortify the Flesh" if We Disobey God's Law?
48. Didn't Paul Believe that the Specifics of God's Law Still Apply?
49. How Can We Separate the "Moral Law" from God's Laws?
50. Doesn't Faith in Christ Establish God's Law? 62
51. Aren't Those Who Obey God's Law the "Salt of the Earth"?
52. Isn't a "City on a Hill" to be an Example for the World?
53. Should We Limit the Areas to be Illuminated by Our "Light"?
54. How Can Christians be Resurrected Before the Millennium?
55. Doesn't God's Kingdom Grow Slowly Until it Fills the Earth?
56. Doesn't "Leaven" Mean Victory?
57. Didn't Christ’s Kingdom Begin Before the Crucifixion?
58. Wasn't Satan Cast Out of Heaven During Jesus' Earthly Ministry?
59. Isn't Faith Progressively Productive Until Christians Win?
60. How Can Satan Rule the World if Power Comes from Righteousness?
61. Aren't Christians Supposed to Crush Satan?
62. What Can Possibly Interrupt Christ's Dominion?
63. Isn't Christ's Kingdom in this World?
64. Doesn't the New Testament Teach that Christians are Powerful?
65. Aren't Christians Supposed to Execute Judgment?
66. Why Shouldn't Christians Become Civil Rulers and Enforce God's Law?
67. Doesn't the Bible Require an Appeals Court?
68. Won't the Resurrection Take Place After the Millennium?
69. Won't Men Live Longer as God's Kingdom Progresses?
70. Doesn't Christ's Kingdom Expand Over Time?
71. Doesn't God Want His "Heirs" to Inherit Everything?
72. Didn't The Prophets Foresee the Church Age?
73. Didn't David Foresee the Church Age?
74. Didn't Moses Foresee the Church Age?
75. Aren't There Two Kinds of Salvation?

This is good up to a point. But the author is a "Christian Re-constructionist" (Think "Christian version of the Taliban or ISIS when pressed to the limit") SO he does not understand Law and Grace as it plays out in the NT.

 

[Willie T]

wow, you mean someone has justified a "no" for that one? Fascinating

You would be surprised at how much contradicting and opposing rationalizations there were for almost ALL those questions.

 

[Willie T]

This is good up to a point. But the author is a "Christian Re-constructionist" (Think "Christian version of the Taliban or ISIS when pressed to the limit") SO he does not understand Law and Grace as it plays out in the NT.

I consider you smart, but actually, in holding to the typical unresearched view here, you are WAY off base on this.

 

[Dave L]

I consider you smart, but actually, in holding to the typical view here, you are WAY off base on this.

Study Gary North the author. And "Christian Reconstruction-ism" These people are way off their rockers. But most of the questions I can answer confidently.

 

[Ezra]

I put this into two posts because the other thread with all 75 questions never showed up for me.

Now, 5 minutes later, they all showed up. But, I am just going to leave both up.

these questions are enough to spark a war lol .i am going to look more close try to answer for my self

 

[bbyrd009]

You would be surprised at how much contradicting and opposing rationalizations there were for almost ALL those questions.

Willie, I pray you don't end your days trying to convince people bent on their own destruction bro, and I also wish you the best ok

 

[Willie T]

Study Gary North the author. And "Christian Reconstruction-ism" These people are way off their rockers. But most of the questions I can answer confidently.

As I said, "unresearched." Reading things by detractors is far from "researching." I don't agree with a lot of their ideas... and Gary North is a pompous ass and totally arrogant in a lot of ways, but they are probably closer to pleasing God than most of us would ever believe.

 

[bbyrd009]

Study Gary North the author. And "Christian Reconstruction-ism" These people are way off their rockers. But most of the questions I can answer confidently.

God help us, Clint is here I guess. "Confidently" is what ppl are looking for huh

you should maybe get the reek of smoke off you first dave

 

[Willie T]

these questions are enough to spark a war lol .i am going to look more close try to answer for my self

In truth, much of the book WARNS college students to keep their mouths shut, so that the school administration doesn't expel them just for possessing a copy of this small book.

 

[Dave L]

As I said, "unresearched." Reading things by detractors is far from "researching." I don't agree with a lot of their ideas... and Gary North is a pompous ass and totally arrogant in a lot of ways, but they are probably closer to pleasing God than most of us would ever believe.

I think the Postmillennial Calvinists (including North and the extreme fringe) are off along with all other millennial theories. Only Amillennialism is true to scripture.