Scriptural questions

[David FCC]

Hello all,

I am hoping some of you on here can help me out.
I am looking for questions related to scripture that will require much study of the scriptures.

For example I was asked recently why God says I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob rather than saying I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel due to his name being changed.
I don't think there is a definite answer but I came up with one that i'm happy with.

I would like questions so that they can be put out in times of fellowship for conversation and to get people reading and discussing the word.

If this is in the wrong section could admin change it to the right location please.

Thanks in advance

David

-----Added 1/23/2009 at 04:13:19 EST-----

Come now friends, surely someone has a hat full of biblical questions on this board.

Maybe this is in the wrong section.
Is there a question section that i'm just not seeing?

 

[A.J.]

Questions I have in mind:

1) Does Romans 11 teach that God still has a future plan for ethnic Israel? (Some Reformed theologians would say yes. Some would say no.)

2) Who are the "spirits in prison" in 1 Peter 3:19?

3) What is the message of Daniel 9:24-27? What does it say about the Lord Jesus?

4) Which of the events in Matthew 24 have already occured, and which ones have not yet occured?

5) In the missionary accounts of the Gospel of Acts, in what way did the Apostles adjust their proclamation of the Gospel to different groups of people (i.e., Jews or God-fearing Gentiles or idolatrous Gentiles)? What do these accounts tell us about how we are going to evangelize?

 

[Wanderer]

Hello all,

I am hoping some of you on here can help me out.
I am looking for questions related to scripture that will require much study of the scriptures.

For example I was asked recently why God says I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob rather than saying I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel due to his name being changed.
I don't think there is a definite answer but I came up with one that i'm happy with.

I would like questions so that they can be put out in times of fellowship for conversation and to get people reading and discussing the word.

If this is in the wrong section could admin change it to the right location please.

Thanks in advance

David

-----Added 1/23/2009 at 04:13:19 EST-----

Come now friends, surely someone has a hat full of biblical questions on this board.

Maybe this is in the wrong section.
Is there a question section that i'm just not seeing?

Hmm. I'm thinking that though God did change Jacobs name to Israel, that if he used it in the verses that your are thinking of it could be confusing, since Israel in Moses day would most likely be seen as a reference to the ethnic nation of Israel. Also, it reads better using Jacob.

 

[David FCC]

Hello all,

I am hoping some of you on here can help me out.
I am looking for questions related to scripture that will require much study of the scriptures.

For example I was asked recently why God says I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob rather than saying I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel due to his name being changed.
I don't think there is a definite answer but I came up with one that i'm happy with.

I would like questions so that they can be put out in times of fellowship for conversation and to get people reading and discussing the word.

If this is in the wrong section could admin change it to the right location please.

Thanks in advance

David

-----Added 1/23/2009 at 04:13:19 EST-----

Come now friends, surely someone has a hat full of biblical questions on this board.

Maybe this is in the wrong section.
Is there a question section that i'm just not seeing?

Hmm. I'm thinking that though God did change Jacobs name to Israel, that if he used it in the verses that your are thinking of it could be confusing, since Israel in Moses day would most likely be seen as a reference to the ethnic nation of Israel. Also, it reads better using Jacob.

I don't go with that line of thought as they would have understood who it meant due to knowing (as we do) that his name was changed by God.

 

[David FCC]

I'm really disappointed with this response on a board that has so many scripturally knowledgeable people there are next to no responses about biblical questions.

 

[Grymir]

What city in the OT was said to have destruction coming and is still standing and the prophecy not fulfilled yet?

How does the passage in James that talks about a dead faith confirm the perseverance of the saints?

How do the first 11 chapters in Genesis jive with science and dis-prove evolution?

Where do you find time, matter, and possibly energy being created?

When the Ark came back from the Philistines on a cart, what did Israel do wrong from the get go?

Who's the only king of Israel that we have his royal seal, and was he "saved"?

Who's the last Prophet in the Old Covenant?

Which prophet was the great-great grandson of Hezekiah?

 

[nicnap]

How does Moses go against the general tone of pagan philosophy in the first verse of Genesis? How does the Genesis creation account differ from say the leading Greek creation myth? How does the Christian show forth the uniformity of natural causes in our system? What are the implications of revealed theology in apologetics (as opposed to arguing from reason alone or piecemealing evidence)?

(Not necessarily textual questions alone, but they should provoke Bible study and thought.)

 

[David FCC]

What city in the OT was said to have destruction coming and is still standing and the prophecy not fulfilled yet?

How does the passage in James that talks about a dead faith confirm the perseverance of the saints?

How do the first 11 chapters in Genesis jive with science and dis-prove evolution?

Where do you find time, matter, and possibly energy being created?

When the Ark came back from the Philistines on a cart, what did Israel do wrong from the get go?

Who's the only king of Israel that we have his royal seal, and was he "saved"?

Who's the last Prophet in the Old Covenant?

Which prophet was the great-great grandson of Hezekiah?

How does Moses go against the general tone of pagan philosophy in the first verse of Genesis? How does the Genesis creation account differ from say the leading Greek creation myth? How does the Christian show forth the uniformity of natural causes in our system? What are the implications of revealed theology in apologetics (as opposed to arguing from reason alone or piecemealing evidence)?

(Not necessarily textual questions alone, but they should provoke Bible study and thought.)

This is exactly the kind of thought provoking questions I am looking for, thank you very much and keep em coming.

I'm off to start searching

 

[Wanderer]

Hello all,

I am hoping some of you on here can help me out.
I am looking for questions related to scripture that will require much study of the scriptures.

For example I was asked recently why God says I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob rather than saying I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel due to his name being changed.
I don't think there is a definite answer but I came up with one that i'm happy with.

I would like questions so that they can be put out in times of fellowship for conversation and to get people reading and discussing the word.

If this is in the wrong section could admin change it to the right location please.

Thanks in advance

David

-----Added 1/23/2009 at 04:13:19 EST-----

Come now friends, surely someone has a hat full of biblical questions on this board.

Maybe this is in the wrong section.
Is there a question section that i'm just not seeing?

Hmm. I'm thinking that though God did change Jacobs name to Israel, that if he used it in the verses that your are thinking of it could be confusing, since Israel in Moses day would most likely be seen as a reference to the ethnic nation of Israel. Also, it reads better using Jacob.

I don't go with that line of thought as they would have understood who it meant due to knowing (as we do) that his name was changed by God.

Are you so sure? You must remember that at that when God made that statement to Moses, not even Genesis had been written.

Clearly, our understanding of the whole of scriptures and the understanding of Moses' understanding at the time God spoke those words to him are completely different. We have the completed scriptures. Israel at that time didn't even have two words put together on a piece of stone. What my understanding is that the only thing they had was oral traditions. That is if you believe that Moses wrote the first five books. Also, one must remember that most likely that Moses didn't even have the benefit of those oral traditions while growing up. I would theorize that the only thing that he knew about God prior to the burning bush was most likely relayed to him by his father-in-law. Which against was most likely oral traditions and incomplete knowledge.

 

[OPC'n]

My favorite one I want solved is 1 John 5:6 "If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life—to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that. 17 All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that does not lead to death."

 

[discipulo]

Why Paul circumcised Timothy? Acts 16:2

Who were the sons of God in Genesis 6 Who were the Nephilim?

Any relation to 1 Peter 3:19-20 ? How?

 

[David FCC]

Hmm. I'm thinking that though God did change Jacobs name to Israel, that if he used it in the verses that your are thinking of it could be confusing, since Israel in Moses day would most likely be seen as a reference to the ethnic nation of Israel. Also, it reads better using Jacob.

I don't go with that line of thought as they would have understood who it meant due to knowing (as we do) that his name was changed by God.

Are you so sure? You must remember that at that when God made that statement to Moses, not even Genesis had been written.

Clearly, our understanding of the whole of scriptures and the understanding of Moses' understanding at the time God spoke those words to him are completely different. We have the completed scriptures. Israel at that time didn't even have two words put together on a piece of stone. What my understanding is that the only thing they had was oral traditions. That is if you believe that Moses wrote the first five books. Also, one must remember that most likely that Moses didn't even have the benefit of those oral traditions while growing up. I would theorize that the only thing that he knew about God prior to the burning bush was most likely relayed to him by his father-in-law. Which against was most likely oral traditions and incomplete knowledge.

Hmmmmm Interesting, Very interesting for the old grey matter