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Post by evafromgreece on May 7, 2015 16:26:51 GMT -5
"As far as why animals had to die, it wasn't so that humans wouldn't have to because humans did die because of sin. Before they sinned, Adam and Eve would not have ever died. They did not get "old" or "sick" before they sinned. Because they sinned, they immediately began to die, and eventually did die, just as all humans have ever since. The only difference now is that for those who have been saved, we don't ever really die, we will live forever; but because we are stuck with this body, we do have to give it up so we can get our new body that will never die. So that isn't why God chose to have animals sacrificed" Hmm, I am not sure then "Next, you said that the Holy Spirit transforms us, but you did not say how. Is it all like magic and just happens without us knowing?" We do know, we do pray for it, and it is up to us if we allow it to work on us or not. "On the question about faith, you are right, our faith grows as we study His Word and spend time with Him. You're also right about us all being part of the body of Christ, the church and everyone having a gift. You said you weren't sure if everyone has a gift or not. Read what Paul said again as he tells us we all have a gift. God doesn't play favorites. He gives everyone a gift, although not everyone uses their gift, and some use it in ways they shouldn't." ok I think you got my question about honoring others backward hon lol. I wanted to know what it would look like to honor others more then yourself. What you described was how to think you are better then others, which is the opposite of what God tells us to do. Yes, lets say we have free time and we are in a hurry to go for a walk near the sea. We see someone cry. We cancel the walk to help. That is an example honouring others About my last question about evil people and how we are to treat them: For example, let's say that some guy sees you and for no reason grabs you and beats you up so bad that others have to take you to the hospital. If I was unsaved and did not understand God's Ways, I would think you were crazy if you forgave the man that beat you up and especially if you went out of your way later to help him somehow. I would want to know why your God would ask you to be kind to such an evil person and why He would ask you to forgive them. Because we are not the one to judge them, this is Gods role Read more: fresh-hope.com/thread/16/ti-bible-study-chat-romans?page=2#ixzz3ZUPxKk32
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Post by evafromgreece on May 6, 2015 16:10:21 GMT -5
I start chapter 13
As we know God is the one who allows anything to happen or not to happen. So, we are to respect the ones that are in control, because God put them there for His own reasons weather we like it or not. So when we go against them we go against the will of God. If we do good works and respect the law of our country there is nothing to be afraid of. But if you do works agaisst the law you should be afraid. We should respect the law of our country, pay our taxes, and honour the ones who are in control everywhere. And we should love and respect everyone, thats the way to truly follow the law. If we choose to love others we wont fail to treat them badly and not follow our obligations over them. The end of this corrupted world is near, and we should deny this worlds works and way of view and way of life. We should work for our spirit and not to live according of the will of the flesh
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Post by evafromgreece on May 5, 2015 14:18:24 GMT -5
Very good explanation Eva! You did leave out a couple of important points which I'll ask about in a minute. I'd like you to answer the same questions I asked Barbara about the first part: Why did God insist on animals having to die? You said it foreshadowed what Jesus did, but why didn't God chose some other way of canceling out sin? I'd say I didn't understand why something or someone had to die.... I believe because the consequence of sin is death, so in order for not the person who sinned to die, someone else should pay the prize. Paul is especially talking about other members of the Church but is also including non believers. You did a good job of explaining what it means to offer our bodies as living sacrifices! The first point you left out was “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” (Romans 12:2) If I didn't understand this chapter, I would want to know how we are transformed or changed. The Holy Spirit transforms our lives, if we do let It do soYou also left out: “For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you.” (Romans 12:3) "When God gives us that faith, is that all we'll ever have? So if someone starts out with only a little faith, will they always only have a little faith?" I believe the answer is on the above. Holy Spirit will increase our little faith as we are transformedThe Next point you left out was in the next part, about all of us being part of the body of Christ, and the next point you left out was about spiritual gifts. So I would like you to explain both of those to me. Each one of us are a member of the same body, the church. And we have to do different works in order to give glory to God, and we should use our gifts in order to fulfill our purposeI asked Barbara these questions about this section: "how do I know what my gift is? Are you sure everyone has a gift? Do we only get one and is it always the same thing or can it change? If we don't know what are gift is, how can we cultivate it? I don't think I have one as I can't do anything very special...?" (I hear that last line from lots of people!) I am not sure about this My other question would be about honoring others before ourselves...I'd want to know what that means...or more accurately, what it would look like. Lets say you sing in a church choir. You are gifted, you sing so nice... All around you see you are blessed. One day you start compare yourself with the others and boast about how better you are. That is how it looks likeI'd also want to know just how far God expects us to go when He says to bless our enemies and those who are mean to us. Can't we just ignore them? I'd be thinking there was no way I could be nice to people that I hated and now you say that I'm not even allowed to hate them anymore, but before you said that God said to hate evil...these people did evil, so shouldn't I hate them...I don't understand... How can God ask these things of us? No one could do this!" That's how many people respond to this because they think it means that the bad person is going to get away with what they did and they don't like that idea. I don't understand the question But you did a great job explaining it so far! Read more: fresh-hope.com/thread/16/ti-bible-study-chat-romans?page=2&scrollTo=458#ixzz3ZI6mKHC8
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Post by evafromgreece on May 2, 2015 13:18:32 GMT -5
:( I don't know.... Everything I wrote, after I clicked post its gone! :(
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Post by evafromgreece on May 2, 2015 13:17:08 GMT -5
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Post by evafromgreece on Apr 27, 2015 15:23:18 GMT -5
Hello everyone!
Here is my view on chapter 12
Before Jesus died and rose from the dead for our sins, sacrifices should be done in order for someone to be forgiven for a sin. Blood was necessary. Now as long as Jesus paid for our sins, we should respect this sacrifice by not knowingly sin. We should worship God by doing our best to live our lives in purity and not in sin. And we should be different to the world. Everyday we will be transformed in the image of God, with the help of the Holy Spirit. Then Paul points out that we should be careful of pride. God has given each one of us some special gifts. We should use the gifts he offered us for His Glory and for serving the good, and not to boast about ourselves and also lying that we did this or that at the moment He is the one Who blessed us manage this or that. We should give love to everyone. He should be honest in this, not only try to be good because we have to, this should be an honest decision. God knows our hearts. We should support other people and members of the Church (or does he mean only members of the church?) We should do everything in our lives to bring glory to God. We should not be lazy, we should have hope and not get down when things are difficult and we should help eachother. We are to treat in a good way people who mistreat us, and not to be angry or look for revenge. We should have compassion for everyone. Be happy when others are happy and be around them to offer help when they are having problems. If it is possible and as long it depends on us we should have peace with everybody. And the Lord is the one Who is able to judje, this is not our responsibility, to judge or take revenge. And as long we treat well people who mistreat us, God see it and He is going to judge in a fair way, so we should not worry
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Post by evafromgreece on Apr 26, 2015 16:30:44 GMT -5
Hey guys! I made it . I am here. By 2morrow you will have also my explanation on the next chapter
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