Hey everyone, I couldn't come with a better topic title lol. I have several questions that are all over the map. I hope that these questions are clear to understand.
1. Did speaking in tongues occur at all before Pentecost?
2. How can someone act as a Interpreter for someone else that is speaking in tongues (1 cor 14:27-28)?
3. What are the marks of a false church?
4. I have heard from some church members and others over the years that Jesus will have the mark of the nails in his hands and side for all eternal. Is this true or mere speculation? Is it Biblical as far as scripture-based?
5. What does the apostle paul mean in 1 Tim. 2:12 "I do not allow a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; instead she is to be silent"? Does this mean a woman can't be a pastor? In referring to this question, I have heard both arguments (Complementarianism and egalitarianism). Personally, I am in limbo about this question. I don't have a personal opinion.
6. Does God have one specific person for you to marry (idea of a soulmate)?
7. In regards to Matthew 24:36... Did Jesus not know the time of his coming while on earth but does he now know since he is glorified, exalted at the right hand of the father?
8. Will we see the trinity depicted in heaven?
9. Where was Jesus for the three days between his death and resurrection?
1. Did speaking in tongues occur at all before Pentecost?
No because that is when the Holy Spirit came.
all of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in tongues Act 2:4
2. How can someone act as a Interpreter for someone else that is speaking in tongues (1 cor 14:27-28)?
Someone doesn�t act. They are given the gift of interpretation.
0to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues 1Corth 12:10
5. What does the apostle paul mean in 1 Tim. 2:12 "I do not allow a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; instead she is to be silent"? Does this mean a woman can't be a pastor? In referring to this question, I have heard both arguments (Complementarianism and egalitarianism). Personally, I am in limbo about this question. I don't have a personal opinion.
8 I desire, then, that in every place the men should pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or argument; 9also that the women should dress themselves modestly and decently in suitable clothing, not with their hair braided, or with gold, pearls, or expensive clothes, 10but with good works, as is proper for women who profess reverence for God. 11Let a woman* learn in silence with full submission. 12I permit no woman* to teach or to have authority over a man;* she is to keep silent. 13For Adam was formed first, then Eve;
I would go with what the Word of God says and that is No women should not teach/Pastor.
I have a question about the verse above that. I understand women should dress modestly and decently in suitable clothing. but the part about the hair braided, wearing gold and pearls. I believe that's what the women did back in that time. Today they could dress modestly with a gold ring on but still profess reverence for God.
What do you think about that? Should women not wear gold or pearls? or braid their hair?
Another think false churches teach is the prosperity gospel...which is not the gospel according to scripture. Here is a video exposing the preachers of the prosperity gospel...which is pretty much the word of faith movement as well.
But there are so many false teaching. Basically any church that distorts the gospel can be a false church. Churches that make much of men and less of Christ are false churches.
4. I have heard from some church members and others over the years that Jesus will have the mark of the nails in his hands and side for all eternal. Is this true or mere speculation? Is it Biblical as far as scripture-based?
I'm not sure
5. What does the apostle paul mean in 1 Tim. 2:12 "I do not allow a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; instead she is to be silent"? Does this mean a woman can't be a pastor? In referring to this question, I have heard both arguments (Complementarianism and egalitarianism). Personally, I am in limbo about this question. I don't have a personal opinion.
Here is a video sermon from John Macarthur...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uolWyghsHxw
6. Does God have one specific person for you to marry (idea of a soulmate)?
I haven't studied this enough, however scripture does speak of the high view of marriage that God has. It is to be an example of the relationship between Christ and the church. We know that God works all things for the good of those who love Him. I tend to lean on the side that God is actively orchestrating events in our lives both for our pleasure and mainly for His glory.
7. In regards to Matthew 24:36... Did Jesus not know the time of his coming while on earth but does he now know since he is glorified, exalted at the right hand of the father?
Here is part of a sermon from John Macarthur...
>Now the better manuscripts of Matthew indicate to us that it also should be included in the text "nor the Son...nor the Son." In Mark 13:32 which is the parallel passage, it is definitely included by Mark, "Of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no not the angels who are in heaven neither the Son but the Father." And it would be best to include here in Matthew. I think in the New American Standard and the New International version they correctly do include it. Jesus says, "Even the Son of Man doesn't know...even I don't know."
And, of course, this has created all kinds of interesting discussion. How is it that Jesus Christ who is God cannot know something? How is it that Jesus Christ who is God, who is omniscient--which means He knows everything--can't know something or doesn't know something? Well, that's--I believe--rather easily explained if we understand the meaning of His incarnation. Jesus Christ is fully God, very God of very Gods--as the theologians used to say--very God of very God, He is God fully and totally because you can't be part God, is all God. But when He became a man, He voluntarily restricted the use of His Godhood, of His divine attributes. It wasn't that He laid the attributes aside, it wasn't that He set His deity aside, it was that He restricted the use of those things. He had them as instruments but chose not to pick them up and use them. So He lived, as it were, without using His omniscience, unless the Father told Him to use it.
We know He was omniscient on some occasions. John 2, He says He needed not that anybody should tell Him what was in the heart of a man because He knew what was in the heart of a man. We see Him in John 3 answering a question that Nicodemus doesn't even ask, but it's in his mind. There are many indications of His great knowledge, of His divine knowledge. But He restricted the use of His omniscience to those things which the Father desired Him to know. That is the design of the incarnation. When the Bible says He became a Son, He took upon Him the form of a servant, it means that He submitted Himself to that which the Father wanted Him to do, that which the Father wanted Him to say and that which the Father wanted Him to know. That's why in John 15:15 you have a very, very important verse in understanding Christ. It says this, Jesus speaking to the disciples, "Henceforth, I call you not servants for the servant knows not what his lord does. But I have called you friends--now listen to this--for all things that I have heard of My Father, I have made known unto you."
In other words, Jesus' knowledge in His incarnation was qualified by what the Father had revealed to Him. And the Father revealed things to Him through Scripture, that is the Old Testament, as He studied the Scripture, through experience as He walked in the world and saw the moving of the power of God, and through direct revelation. But Jesus limited His knowledge to what the Father chose to reveal to Him. He didn't have to do that but He chose to do that to play the role of a servant to accomplish the redemption of mankind. It's a very important concept so that when it says He humbled Himself and took upon Him the form of a servant, was made in fashion as a man, and so forth, it means that He limited the use of those attributes. And if you studied, for example, in the passages that deal with His early life, you will remember that it says "Jesus grew in wisdom and stature," you remember, "and favor with God and man." He grew in wisdom.
You'd say, "How could He grow in wisdom if He was God?" Because He grew in wisdom in the sense that He limited His knowledge to what the Father revealed to Him so as long as He lived the Father was constantly revealing things to Him so He was growing in wisdom. You understand that? That was a self- imposed, if you will, humiliation of the divine nature to accomplish your redemption and mine. And so, as you look at Him here, in a sense He is still growing in wisdom. He is still increasing in knowledge because the Father has yet not revealed this to Him.
Now it is my own personal feeling that after the resurrection this was revealed to Him. That when He came out of the grave in the glory of His resurrection life, it says in Matthew 28:18 He said to His disciples, "All authority is given unto Me in heaven and earth." And I think what that's saying is nothing is missing, I have authority over all things. And then in Acts 1:7 He said this, "But unto you it is not given to know the times and the seasons which My Father has put in His own power," and He doesn't include Himself anymore. He says unto you it isn't given. So it may well be that after the resurrection, His knowledge was complete. It's as if the Father only revealed to Him the next great even and He never revealed to Him the full moment of His Second Coming until He had already come out of the grave and accomplished the resurrection. And then the Father opened to Him the next event in His marvelous, marvelous work.
And so, He says people don't know and angels don't know and for now even I don't know, to show the tremendous unexpectedness, suddenness and mystery of the moment of the coming of Jesus Christ. And then at the end of verse 36, "But My Father only." And remember, He always called Him Father except for one occasion when He says, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me," because He was dying on the cross and separated from God. Every other time He spoke to God, He spoke to Him as Father. That was His favorite term for God. And "only" is emphasized. He's the only one who knows. And, of course, that's why I believe that when Jesus entered into His glory, if not immediately after His resurrection, certainly after His ascension, He then was entered back into the fullness of that which He had before the incarnation and this moment right now, He knows fully when that Second Coming moment will be. But in the midst of that incarnation, that had been abandoned in favor of learning what the Father would tole Him...would tell Him and nothing more.<
Hey brother.......allow me to take a shot at your questions. I will go thru them one by one.
1) to my knowledge speaking in tongues did not occur before pentacost. I think speaking in tongues was meant to be a sign that the holy spirit had come upon the people, therefore proving that jesus was the messiah. So no tongues didnt happen at least not in that fashion that we know of before then.
2) i dont think you can act as an interpreter for someone speaking in tongues unless god gives that ability to you. Tongues are not an important part of your wLk with Christ anyway. I dont even use them.
3) as far as what the marks of a false church are, there are so many things i could say but it would take forever to list them all. What i will tell you is this.......study the words of jesus and the new testament apostles alot. Because once you have a good knowledge of what they taught, you will easily weed out false churches and false believers.
4) as far as women pastors go, i have no reason not to believe that Paul meant what he said there. Women shoukd not be pastors. However, i believe he meant this one as a general rule. So for this one i think there are exceptions to be made. Women were not supposed to be rulers either, but we alk know the story of Deborah. So in this case, as a general rule , women are not supposed to be pastors. However, if there are two pastors in your town, one being a woman and the other a man.......and ifbthe woman teaches truth while the man preaches false doctrine, then by all means go to the woman pastors church.
5) does god have one woman picked out for each of us? The answer is no......... He allows us to find someone we are compatible with. However there are some cases where god chose a certain man for a certain woman. So the answer to this is yes....kind of....... But not for everyone. Just my opinion. But god can make any relationship beautiful.
We dont actually know where Jesus was during those 3 days. He was in Sheol, but Sheol simplu means abode of the dead. If i were to guess, id say he was sitting with the father taking instruction about what to say when he is ressurected. Thats only a guess though
2) i dont think you can act as an interpreter for someone speaking in tongues unless god gives that ability to you. Tongues are not an important part of your wLk with Christ anyway. I don't even use them.
There is one time only and one place in time for a christian to not be full and stay full of the holy ghost, and that is after we have left the earth.
The church has been instructed to be full and stay full.
PJ I agree with you on both..Reformed Theology and Speaking in
Tongues. Its sad how many young people are thinking Reformed Theology is the way to go.
Holding...You are taking much from all these different preachers and other peoples reviews and opinions. I would take it straight from The Word of God!!
