Common questions
Questions
Q1
Where is God in the midst of my trouble?
Snarky answer: Did he move?
Proper answer: God created all things good. He created a system where you reap what you sow. [1] Then he gave you the desires of your heart, and allows you to wallow in them. [2] You chose to be your own God; deciding good and evil for yourself. The suffering you produce is the calamity that God designed into his system, to nudge you back to him as you realize that He alone is God.
Your troubles may be caused by your own doings, those of another, or the collective suffering caused by having so many little gods in one place. They are designed to teach the flesh that God alone is God.
Miley's attempt to fill in-
Q2
What is salvation?
salvation ישועה
Genesis 49:18- I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
I guess we are attempting to explain without using the Hebrew letters, but I'm going to attempt to figure the word salvation. Fill me in BOB.
salvation ישועה
Miley- יְשׁוּעָה- Salvation - yesh-oo'-aw.
יְשׁוּעָה is the feminine passive participle of יָשַׁע
Interestingly- the word salvation in Hebrew sounds like Jesus A new creation יְ his word does not return void שׁ distinguish וּ became flesh עָ Heard but did not understand ה
--> fire, there is, foundation יְשׁ distinguish וּ aaa עָה
Interestingly, the New Testament did not mention what we are being saved from.
יָשַׁע- salvation
new creation יָ his word does not return void שַׁ became flesh ע
Q3
Can you lose salvation?
Q4
Why hasn't God answered my prayer? (keeps repeatedly debate in the church)
Q5
How to hear God's voice?
Miley- His sheep hear his voice.
Q6
Bob can you provide inputs as I'm writing through this
Who walked with Adam in the garden?
Genesis 3:8Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
John 1:18- No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father's side, has made Him known.
John 1:!- In the beginning, was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
1 John 5:7- For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
Jesus wasn't born then. According to Genesis 3:8, someone walked with Adam. That person was God in the form of the Word. Before Jesus was born, he was known as the Word. He is also known as the Son of God.
And He walked in the garden. Walking is a symbol of living. The path is the direction where we walk. The word for walking in Hebrew is הָלַך. הלך hlk - go, walk, come, dropped, traveler, toll, tribute
הל-ך tent הל of the Son of God in death ך
I am still confused on how you got the meaning for tent ה(ל)ך - smiting הל with the purpose of teaching ל [1] you mean to have a resh here?
ה-לך - the ה walk לך. [2] ה-ל-ך - ignorance ה of the teaching ל of the Son of God's death ך. [3] The travelers were ignorant of the teaching of the Son of God's death.
=Q6= The topic of evil Is there such thing as the fight between good and evil? Moral dualism believes that good and evil are equal but opposite. This is a deceived idea as it elevates the devil to be equal with God. The world is not a battle between good vs evil. This clarifies that Satan is not God's peer as many have believed. In fact, God repeatedly called out his creation was good in the beginning (Genesis 1:31- And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, [it was] very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.)
Matthew 5:39 - But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Jesus said do not resist evil. Love your enemies.
One may have a further question, looking at the govermental level, we need the rule of law system in each country, so how is what Jesus taught being applicable here?
Answer: There is a difference between the duty of an individual citizen and the duty of a government. The purpose of the government is to restrain evil. Government and laws are designed to constrain bad people from doing bad things. Jesus was speaking at an individual level where each individual learns to love their neighbors.
Is there evil in the world?
Isaiah 45:7- I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
The word used here is a calamity, in many version was translated as evil. The Hebrew word for this is רָעָה רַע Calamity is different from "moral" evil. To understand the word calamity, think of an example of the railroad tracks. At the station, it has tracks branching off. You chose the consequences base on which path you chose to walk on. God created the railroad tracks that have consequences. Each of these branches of tracks has the calamities which pertain consequences. God gives you what you want and let you wallow in your own consequences.
Q7
Since there are many religion, perhaps do we all wordship the same God? As some may not even hear of the concept of Christ before?
Help with study
Ex 15:17
Ex 15:17 - Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.
הר |
- ה-ר -
- C_הר - where you go to obtain the law, hear Jesus teach, etc
inheritance, stream נחלה
JP- said the mountain is the picture of the inheritance
Bob - The mountain is the place you go to meet God. The inheritance is the rest that you long for.
God will bring them in to the place where God is that gives them rest that they long for, the place that the Lord has made for them. in the sanctuary which the works of God have established.
You are the work of God [9]
Since God dwells within you, he gives you peace in the here and now.
- ↑ Job 4:8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
- ↑ [[Ro 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 Joh 10:3 To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Ge 3:9 ¶ And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where [art] thou? Ge 3:10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I [was] naked; and I hid myself.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Ge 8:15 ¶ And God spake unto Noah, saying, Ge 8:16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Ge 3:23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Ge 8:17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that [is] with thee, of all flesh, [both] of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Pr 16:22 Understanding [is] a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools [is] folly.
- ↑ Eph 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
