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To put it in very simple words; They did not believe in Jesus, because they confuse His first coming with His third coming to earth, as a king of the whole earth, the new earth and new heavens that is. Even the disciples thought this. Acts 1:6 Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, "Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?" The disciples did not yet understand the nature of Christ

The verses you quoted DO NOT describe this mythical antichrist at all, Stephen1. These however DO describe the BIBLICAL antichrist. 1Jo 2:18

1 John 2:18 . Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour. The word

Why people think that the antichrist is a person? the Bible teach us that is a religious and political power; First of all, we can read in the book of 1 John, plainly says there are "many antichrists" (1 John 2:18) and a "spirit of antichrist" (1 John 4:3). John also wrote that any person who denies the true doctrine of Jesus Christ is "a deceiver and an antichrist" (2 John 7,9). I know Paul called the Antichrist, "the man of sin ... the son of perdition" (2 Thess. 2:3). It is primarily because of this verse that millions have come to believe that there will be only one super-sinister Mr. Sin who will rise to power after the Rapture. There are other equally inspired statements in the Bible which parallel Paul's expression, "the man of sin." Prophecy also refers to this same Antichrist as the "little horn" (Daniel 7:8), the "beast" (Revelation 13:1), "the mystery of iniquity" (2 Thessalonians 2:7), and "that Wicked" (2 Thess. 2:8). Do all of these expressions refer to one evil person who will rise to power after the Rapture? No, we need to read more deep into the word of God. Most agree that Daniel

Many times in the Bible we learn that God said things in a form of a question, like "Where is Abel your brother?" (Gen. 4:9) He wanted him to admit his sin. In Matt 19:17; Jesus does not disown His deity, as might at first appear, but rather clarifies and emphasizes the full significance of the young man

Can some one helpe me here? I am new here and there are somethings that I don't understand, for example I am trying to go to other posts; but I got this message: "Sorry, you do not have permission to reply to that topic" Am I doing something wrong?

Why not start with the Word? Seems like the best solution to me Well the word tells me that I don't have to keep the feast days, but I would like to know more, maybe I am missing something? I want to keep open mind

Like I said before, I don't know too much about the "feast days" So, I would like to study this topic; Can someone give a good website that I can research? Thank you and God bless you.

KNOWING MOTIVE WOULD HELP. AS FOR ME FOLLOWING THE SPIRIT IS ENOUGH. 1 John 4:1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

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Well my friend, I think that everybody had in one time the same problem, I was one of them, I had an addiction that was very difficult to let go and like you was not drugs or something like that. I talked to pastors, I talked with Church family, went to different churches etc. But now recognize my error, instead going to all this people first I was suppose to go to God first. Anyway to make the story short, one day I get in my knees and pray to my Lord for long time, and like never before, I pray from my heart, I ask for forgiveness and ask Him to create a new heart in me, I told Him my sins, and that I recognize the need of Him for strength and so on, I cry and I was I think for the first time very sincere. Anyway, after I finish I felt completely different, I knew that He heard my prayer and supplications, and I was convince that He will help me; And He did, the change was slow but sure, in a year or two I was walking in the right path. But I have to make changes in my life, I change friends, now my friends were from church, giving me a good advice all the time, going for hackings to the mountains, or nature walks, and constantly reading my Bible, which by the way that is how God talks to you and gives you the strength that we need. Hope that helps, please change bad habits, change friend if is possible, look for God all the time Remember this; your senses are the doors to your soul; if what you see is not godly, that is an open door for the devil to get in you; but if what you see is godly (Bible, Christian movies etc.) then that is a close door for the devil, same with the other senses, what you heard, what you smell or touch etc. Please close all the doors for the devil by sealing them with God.

It is well to consider this entire chapter in its context. Paul was writing about a problem of judging among the apostolic believers. Verses 4, 10, and 13 exhort against the sin of judging one another. And it was true that a serious division existed in that early church. The Gentile Christians were judging the Jewish Chrisitians, and the Jewish Christians were judging the Gentile Christians. Now, please notice how the previous verse strikes a the very heart of the issue. "Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way." Verse 13. So, what was the basis of the problem? Over what were they judging each other? The Gentiles who had come into the church from paganism were offended because the Jewish Christians ate food that had been offered in sacrifice to idols. And the Jewish Christians judged the Gentile church members becaue they had no regard for the ceremonial days that they still observed from Judaism. Some of the Gentile converts were so fearful of eating meat offered to idols that they ate only vegetables. Paul spoke of them in verses 1 and 2. The Jewish Christians thought that was ridiculous and apparently made divisive attacks against their fellow Christians. It was so serious that Paul addressed the problem again in 1 Corinthians 8:8-12. There he elaborated at length on the "weak brother" (the Gentile believer) who esteemed the food unfit ot be eaten. What was Paul's counsel to the Jewish members who wer judging the Gentile members? He told them no to eat the food offered to idosl if they were in the presence of those who thought it to be wrong. Even though they had knowledge that the idol was nothin, he told the Jewish converts: "And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? 12 But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ." (1 Cor. 8:11,12). One thing that has to be clear by readding the word of God is that the food offered to idols was NOT UNCLEAN FOOD (Acts 14:13), but was merely esteemed so by the Gentile converts It was not a moral issue. Neither was the matter of the ceremonial days, which Paul mentioned in Rom. 14:5. He told them to stop JUDGING over those issues and to get on with the work. These matters had nothing to do with the moral question of the forbidden unclean food. Remember this is a command of God, not an invention of man. Man can change their minds, but not God.

"hi Sheya and Preist4him, you raise a valid point that i was ignorant of and i conceed that Noah was aware of some creatures being unclean. Wether these are the same as given to the Jews is not so clear. We also do not know what it was that meant they were unclean. That Moses had to give a specific list of those clean and unclean does suggest that many were previuosly ignorant of this and did eat of both." Good question, see I believe that Noah new how to identify these animals; or perhaps this is the way he became knowledgeable? Remember that was God who call the animals to the ark. In the case of Moses; the Jews were slaves in Egypt a nation who didn

I was surprised enough by these two statements to reply to them. While the Law in Lev is the first listing given of the unclean animals by name, which animals were clean and which unclean was known long before Moses and the giving of the Law. How do we know this? Because way back in Gen 7:2, the LORD told Noah, 'Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.' How could Noah possibly obey the LORD in this if he didn't know which animals were clean and which unclean? That is wright, the instruction to take more clean than unclean animals with him into the ark presupposes that Noah knew how to distinguish between the two classes. It is clear that this distinction did not originate with Moses. It reached back to the very earliest times, to divine instructions concerning sacrifices, for which only clean animals might be used (see Gen. 8:20). Foreseeing the need for emergency food after the Flood had destroyed all vegetation, God knew man would need to eat, temporarily, the flesh of clean animals. Furthermore, they were needed for sacrificial purposes. For these obvious reasons God made provision to preserve enough clean animals that they might not become extinct. That in His first instructions to Noah (ch. 6:19) God made no distinction between clean and unclean animals can be explained by the fact that at that time, 120 years before the Flood, such minute instructions were not necessary.

There are a few verses in the Bible that "prophesied

Lekh, first of all the first 4 Commandments are for God; and the other six Commandments are for your neighbor or fellow men. Not 5 and 5. Second you said that the first ones were

Lekh, first of all the first 4 Commandments are for God; and the other six Commandments are for your neighbor or fellow men. Not 5 and 5. Second you said that the first ones were

KC02, you are confusing me very much, I am going to ask you a very simple question, because I would like to have a very simple answer. Do you believe that the ten Commandments still abide with us? (you said) I spelled out clearly that I believe Christians are to obey the Ten Commandments When I stated that the Law is indivisible, I mean only that we can't divide it into groups. I have met some who insist Christians must obey the "moral" Laws. Whatever that means. But it isn't so. If we fail to keep one of them, we have broken them all. (Dec 21). (Than you said) The only way to obey the Law is to love God and love others like Romans 13:8-10 teaches us. Law keeping can't be done any other way and that is all that is required to keep the Law. ( Dec 23) (Today you said) Scriptures that show the law is fulfilled only by loving our neighbor and Scriptures that show that Christians are no longer under such a system. So, do you believe that we should keep the Ten Commandments or not.

Support this. Sounds like you're advocating law AND grace. The two are mutually incompatible. I think is the other way around my friend, let see the word of God. What is sin according to the Bible? 1 John 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. So, clearly the word of God says that "sin is the transgression of the law" Even though it points out sin, it has no power to save from sin. There is no justifying, cleansing grace in it. All the works of all the laws would not be sufficient to save a single soul. Why? For the simple reason that we are saved by grace through faith, as a free gift.

Very good question, exelent! In this case Jesus not only is talking about the ten commandments (read vrs. 21), but is talking about all the scriptures, what we call now the OT. It is quite evident from the opening words of this text that Christ was reading the minds of His critics who were accusing Him of doing away with the law. He said "Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill." in nother words instead of abolishing it, He was actually doing the opposite. By the way for those who think that the word "fulfil" means destroy, or void; let me tell you that this same Greek word is use in Matt. 3:15 where Jesus spoke concerning His baptism "Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness." So, it is impossible that the word "fulfil" signifies "to bring an end to" or "abolish". like I said, the law and the prophets included not just the ten commandments, but all the Old Testament writings. Jesus fulfil all righteousness at his baptism, this does not means that we don't have to be righteous; He fulfil the law, this does not means we are not to observe it, don't you think so? And He was so clear when He said: Matt. 5:18-19. "For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. 19 "Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. The law being an expression of the will of God, and the plan of salvation an expression of the mercy of God, neither will fail.

The Bible makes the distinction between these two; the Decalogue is being distinct and totally unique because of its divine authorship; He didn't ask Moses to write them for Him, He wanted to write them Himself, while the other ones written by Moses. Lets read: Deuteronomy 4:13,14. "So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, the Ten Commandments; and He wrote them on two tablets of stone 14 "And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that you might observe them in the land which you cross over to possess. Please notice how Moses clearly separated the ten commandments, which "he commanded you," from the statutes which "he commanded me" to give the people. [...] Thank you for your elegant reply. I don't disagree with any of it. In fact, I spelled out clearly that I believe Christians are to obey the Ten Commandments (at the bottom of my last post). When I stated that the Law is indivisible, I mean only that we can't divide it into groups. I have met some who insist Christians must obey the "moral" Laws. Whatever that means. But it isn't so. If we fail to keep one of them, we have broken them all. I am sorry if I missunderstood, but anyway the message is for those who hate the Ten Commandments of God.

That is very interesting that some people don

The Bible makes the distinction between these two; the Decalogue is being distinct and totally unique because of its divine authorship; He didn

James 2:8-10. If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well; 9 but if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors. 10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all. The law is not a mere collection of isolated precepts; it is a perfect harmonious transcript of the divine will. All the precepts are manifestations of love at work, either to God or to our fellow men. To select that part of the law that is convenient and to ignore the claims of the rest, even if in only one detail, reveals a desire to do our own will and not God