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Twenty first century Christian computer dogmatics and doctrine... When you notice another says and or dares believe the same thing(s) as you, you get offended and humiliated, throw a tantrum and by hook or crook make the other guy look like some stupid hypocrite.
 

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Its one of the reasons I advise not to believe anyone here and go look some of this stuff up on your own. Other than that, don't
converse with those that are trying to push this stuff on you.
You can judge the doctrine, however, by the fruit that is borne by those who carry it.

Therefore, finding out the realities through conversations on the internet can be useful; because those who carry the truth will not bear briers and/or thorns. So you can judge the doctrine being preached by whether the people who carry it are bearing the fruit of love, joy, peace, longsuffering, goodness, gentleness, faith, meekness, temperance...or not.
 

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Good policy... :)

Yes...it's good to do. As long as you have the discernment to see Or...your senses trained, because when someone is saying something hard for us, something we haven't quite learned yet, there IS going to be a little argument, I mean they're trying to help us, and what we're saying isn't quite right, and we don't like to hear that o_O so we will push back a little (or a lot :confused:.)

Now if we don't have our senses as highly trained, everyone who disagrees with us will become a battle.

Hopefully, we learn to go away peaceably and think about it with God rather than just continue dismissing everyone, throwing away the obviously bad along with what could help us.

Remember the man who said if someone is one or two steps beyond us, we will admire them. If they're many more steps beyond us, we will think them quite evil.
 

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Yes...it's good to do. As long as you have the discernment to see Or...your senses trained, because when someone is saying something hard for us, something we haven't quite learned yet, there IS going to be a little argument, I mean they're trying to help us, and what we're saying isn't quite right, and we don't like to hear that o_O so we will push back a little (or a lot :confused:.)

Now if we don't have our senses as highly trained, everyone who disagrees with us will become a battle.

Hopefully, we learn to go away peaceably and think about it with God rather than just continue dismissing everyone, throwing away the obviously bad along with what could help us.

Remember the man who said if someone is one or two steps beyond us, we will admire them. If they're many more steps beyond us, we will think them quite evil.

Good morning...did you get any sleep?
 
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I have to get back to vacuuming. Nielsen coming today to pick up their equipment. I guess its okay to tell people you were a Nielsen family after the fact?

Anyway, if anyone is going to enter the house, it must be utterly spotless, mom's you know? o_O

I'll check back in on breaks. I have a fellowship too in about an hour and a half. Excited!

Have a good day, GH!
 
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I have to get back to vacuuming. Nielsen coming today to pick up their equipment. I guess its okay to tell people you were a Nielsen family after the fact?

Anyway, if anyone is going to enter the house, it must be utterly spotless, mom's you know? o_O

I'll check back in on breaks. I have a fellowship too in about an hour and a half. Excited!

Have a good day, GH!

You too.
 
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Ah...my thought was just that if Satan had no idea that God was coming in flesh, he would not have tried so hard to wipe out the line and then when he failed at that, to have Jesus killed by men he worked through. I wasn't giving a theological argument. More a common sense argument. (My common sense, admittedly). It also says he will go after men again because he knows his time is short. In Rev.
Are you saying satan had Jesus killed?
I must have misunderstood you.
Jesus died because He was meant to die from the beginning of time.
Genesis 3:15

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Are you saying satan had Jesus killed?
I must have misunderstood you.
Jesus died because He was meant to die from the beginning of time.
Genesis 3:15

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It was foreknown and foreordained from before the beginning of time; but surely Jesus died because the devil murdered Him.
 

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Are you saying satan had Jesus killed?
I must have misunderstood you.
Jesus died because He was meant to die from the beginning of time.
Genesis 3:15

??

Calm down sis. :D:p

Yes, that was Gods good plan from the beginning, but evil works in a way that it thinks it is hindering God and in the end, that doesn't happen. Because it can't. Because...God already foresaw everything.

Its like...Joseph's brothers did what they did to him with the intent of harm. But in the end it could be seen that it doesn't matter what the intents of evil are because God meant it for good, to save many people during the drought.

Can you kind of...catch that wave and ride it? :)
 

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It was foreknown and foreordained from before the beginning of time; but surely Jesus died because the devil murdered Him.

I see it like that. The devil worked through men to try to hinder Gods plan. But light always overtakes darkness!
 

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It was foreknown and foreordained from before the beginning of time; but surely Jesus died because the devil murdered Him.
Oh my.
No.
This goes against everything Christianity teaches.
Jesus died because He is the propitiation for our sins.
God Father knew always that God Son was going to die for our sins.

Jesus went willingly to His death.

Mathew 26:1
1When Jesus had finished all these words, He said to His disciples, 2“You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man is to behanded over for crucifixion.”


Mathew 26:11
. 11“For you always have the poor with you; but you do not always have Me.


Mathew 26:21
21As they were eating, He said, “Truly I say to you that one of you will betray Me.”


Mathew 26:29
29“But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father’s kingdom.”


Mathew 26:39
39And He went a little beyond them, and fell on His face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; yet not as I will, but as You will.”


Mathew 26:53-54
53“Or do you think that I cannot appeal to My Father, and He will at once put at My disposal more than twelve legions of angels? 54“How then will the Scriptures be fulfilled, which say that it must happen this way?”
 
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Calm down sis. :D:p

Yes, that was Gods good plan from the beginning, but evil works in a way that it thinks it is hindering God and in the end, that doesn't happen. Because it can't. Because...God already foresaw everything.

Its like...Joseph's brothers did what they did to him with the intent of harm. But in the end it could be seen that it doesn't matter what the intents of evil are because God meant it for good, to save many people during the drought.

Can you kind of...catch that wave and ride it? :)
I'm always calm...I'm really sorry if the written word (mine!) doesn't come off that way.

And, yes, I can catch that wave and ride it.
It's a truthful wave.
God is in control.
Nothing happens without HIS permission.
 
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Oh my.
No.
This goes against everything Christianity teaches.
Jesus died because He is the propitiation for our sins.
God Father knew always that God Son was going to die for our sins.

Jesus went willingly to His death.

Mathew 26:1
1When Jesus had finished all these words, He said to His disciples, 2“You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man is to behanded over for crucifixion.”


Mathew 26:11
. 11“For you always have the poor with you; but you do not always have Me.


Mathew 26:21
21As they were eating, He said, “Truly I say to you that one of you will betray Me.”


Mathew 26:29
29“But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father’s kingdom.”


Mathew 26:39
39And He went a little beyond them, and fell on His face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; yet not as I will, but as You will.”


Mathew 26:53-54
53“Or do you think that I cannot appeal to My Father, and He will at once put at My disposal more than twelve legions of angels? 54“How then will the Scriptures be fulfilled, which say that it must happen this way?”
Satan entered into Judas Iscariot to accomplish Jesus' final betrayal.

Of course it could not have been accomplished if it were not in the perfect will of the Father.

But it wasn't the Father who killed Jesus...it was most certainly the devil who sought His death 2,000 years ago.
 

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Satan entered into Judas Iscariot to accomplish Jesus' final betrayal.

Of course it could not have been accomplished if it were not in the perfect will of the Father.

But it wasn't the Father who killed Jesus...it was most certainly the devil who sought His death 2,000 years ago.
What did the devil gain?
 

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@Grailhunter

I'd like to go through the following.
Will take some time...

What Is Belief?
Belief or faith in Yeshua is more than a person believing a man named Yeshua once lived. Believing that Yeshua was merely an historical figure will not help you. You must accept and believe in Yeshua as your savior, this is the power of Faith. And as your savior He accomplished all of the above items. If you do not believe that Yeshua delivered you from sin, then you’re not saved. If you are a Christian and still think you are capable of sinning against God the Father, you might want to look for some animals to sacrifice because Christ will probably only be crucified once, (once for all sins.) (Rom. 6:10, Hebrews 10:12) If you do not believe that Yeshua established a New Covenant between God and Man then you are not offered the grace of the New Covenant. If you do not recognize Yeshua as the Son of God you are not saved. If you still hold on to the old relationships with God, as the Jews do looking to the Law as a moral guide, you have not accepted the provisions of the New Covenant and you are not saved.
Although I agree with all of the above, I always have in mind persons that I know to be saved that have never read the bible.
They accept Jesus as Savior, even though they may not understand the CONCEPT of this action. They know nothing of the New Covenant and still are offered God's grace to continue in their faith life since God will always give grace to those that need it or want it.

Now,, having said that...all future comments will be based on theological understanding of the N.T.

IOW, they may not know about the N.C. but they are still saved.

Also, whether a Christian truly understands the N.C . or not does not make him saved or unsaved. I just don't believe doctrine saves us...Jesus does.

Many believe that the phrase “New Testament” means New Text or New Book, when in fact the phrase “New Testament” is a misnomer. The Old and New Testaments refer to the Old and New Covenants. Some people understand this but they do not know why the Church labeled them Testaments and I am not going to get into it....
Can we just say that Testament means WILL as in last will and testament,,,and we'll leave it at that.

The N.C. became effective when Jesus died.

There is a reason why the Old Covenant is called the OLD Covenant. Because it is the portion of the Bible that tells of the time when God’s people “ONCE” lived under the Laws of the OLD Covenants….the Old Agreements, with a very wrathful God. Paul made a distinction between those that are under the Law and those who are not under the Law, but rather faith. (Romans 3:19-21 & 4:14 - 16, Galatians 4:21, 1st Cor. 9:20) The Old Covenants and the Old Covenant Laws was a testimony that their was something wrong. They prescribed overtly violent acts, hideous rituals, and the Laws that pertained to women were hateful at best. God promised his people that compliance to the Law would insure many Earthly rewards and His blessings, but some of the things it involved was unthinkable. I have said it before but the reader should read through the 613 Mosaic Laws and determine for yourself. Would you want to read these Law and rituals into Church?
I'd like to make two comments:
1. Not all the 613 laws were God-inspired.
Some were man-made and Jesus attested to this.
"You have heard it said"

Won't go into detail unless you wish to, or I'll never get thru this!
I think you'll understand my statements.

2. I do believe that the persons in the O.T. attributed everything that happened to God even though God did not CAUSE those things to happen. Now, we could say this is still true; however, they attributed even evil to God, and we know this cannot be. He only ALLOWS evil (we don't know why).

Now the Apostle Paul like all of us made his mistakes, but as he made his way through the journey of salvation he learnt as he went. Towards the end of His ministry he learnt the advantages of females and angels. He also realized that salvation had many elements and aspects and he wrote it down,


· Faith

· Love

· Forgiveness

· Grace

· Justification

· Sanctification

· Adoption

· Glorification

· Reconciliation with God the Father

· A dynamic relationship with God’s begotten Son

· Eternal Life
Agreed.
I'm not sure what you mean by his learning the advantages of females.
Highlighted above.



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