Paul's views on most everyting, including women. -Duck
The Bible teaches that in Christ, there is neither male nor female. Women however in the church Paul was addressing were interrupting the church services to ask their husbands questions. That is why Paul told the women to be silent during the services, as we ALL should be, and ask questions later. Also, women can have roles in churches, but the role of leadership should be given preferably to a man. If you find this sexist, you should consider that it was the woman who was deceived by the serpent, not the man.
The old and new testatment views on slavery. -Duck
Slavery is absolutely not cool with God, however it was already one of the biggest parts of the culture at the time. God made provision for this, and added many human rights to the lives of slaves. When we think of slaves, we tend to think of what happened to the black people, but that is simply not the case. 'Slavery' in Old Testament times was akin to having a live-in house maid, or someone who works your fields, mows your lawn, cooks your meals, etc. Did people abuse their slaves? Sure; people to this day abuse their wives and children, too. God made provision for the slaves and gave them rights they never had. God was not saying slavery is good, but that with certain rules it was perfectly fine.
The treatment of homosexuality as a sin. -Duck
Homosexuals are usually not homosexual to begin with. They usually start with normal sexual patterns, and even have a wife and kids. Then they begin watching pornography, or hanging out in the wrong places, and find themselves in the pursuit of lust. Lust, like all counter-fits, never satisfies like love does. So, they go into deeper, and darker perversions, until they reach homosexuality. God designed sex to be between and man and women; if we were all gay, we'd all be dead. Sickness, illness, and family retardation are just a few of the effects of homosexuality; it is not how God intended sex to be. Homosexuality is simply lust, a perversion, with nothing at all to do with love; the true design of God.
Venom, did the old testament predict the crucifiction of christ? -sisterX
Read Psalm 22, which Jesus quoted when He was on the cross. It is a picture of crucifixion, written hundreds of years before crucifixion was even invented!
Why can't it just always have been here? -jaej (refering to the universe)
Read my explanation of the infinite regress. This is a finite universe, and nothing finite can be infinite or eternal. We are clearly created, and even scientists acknowledge that with their 'big bang' theory.
Show me a prophecy that actually predicts specific events, events that came true. Not a vague, could be taken to mean anything prophecy. -jaej
Tyre: A Place For Fishing Nets
The 26th chapter of Ezekiel records a remarkable prophecy against Tyre. This ancient power had opposed God's people of Israel, and against it the prophet, in the name of God, had thundered Divine judgment. The Tyrians were told:
1. That Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, would conquer Tyre (vv. 7-1 1 ).
2. That the city would be made desolate (v. 2).
3. That it would be thrown into the sea (v. 12).
4. That it would become a place to spread nets upon (v. 14).
5. That its maritime supremacy would cease forever (v. 17).
Every detail of this prophecy had complete and wonderful fulfillment.
Few people today know anything about Tyre, so completely was the prophecy fulfilled. But in B.C. 596 when it was uttered, Tyre was the foremost sea power of the ancient world. Strategically situated on the coast of the Mediterranean, in what is now known as Lebanon, Tyrian ships dominated the seas for centuries.
Early in the sixth century B.C., however, Tyre incurred the wrath of Nebuchadnezzar and the rising power of Babylonia. Nebuchadnezzar determined that he would destroy the power of Tyre, and accordingly he marched against the city and besieged it. After a protracted siege that continued for some years, he breached the walls, and the city fell. When the Tyrians saw that resistance was futile, they transferred the bulk of their treasure to an island in their possession, half a mile from the shore. The old city was deserted and from her new water-enclosed fortress Tyre continued to defy her enemies.
Though the original city had been "made desolate" by Nebuchadnezzar as predicted by Ezekiel, the balance of the prophecy had not been fulfilled. Ezekiel (Ch. 26) had declared:
"They shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise; and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses; and they shall lay thy stones, thy timber, and thy dust in the midst of the water ... I (God) will make thee like the top of a rock; thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more ... I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee" (vv. 12, 14,19).
None of this was accomplished by Nebuchadnezzar, though he destroyed the original city. The prophecy spoke of an unnamed power as "they shall do it." History reveals that this was Alexander the Great and his Grecian warriors.
Meanwhile, for almost 250 years, the partly-ruined city of ancient Tyre remained on the mainland, whilst from the island fortress Tyrian power rose once more. Contrary to the requirements of the prophecy the stones, timber and dust of the ancient city had not been "thrown into the sea" as predicted, its site had not been made "bare like the top of a rock", nor had Tyrian power been irreparably broken. On the contrary, the riches of the world flowed through its gates to the east, and Tyrian influence rose once again to its previous eminence.
It must have seemed as though Ezekiel's prophecy had failed. But God is never in a hurry, and delay is but a challenge to faith. At last, Tyre made a fatal mistake. It opposed Alexander of Greece. In their island fortress, protected by their powerful navy, and surrounded by the blue waters of the Mediterranean, the Tyrians could afford to defy his land forces. But Alexander was determined that he would bring Tyre under his control. To do so he had to get at the island fortress, and that meant that he had to build a ramp connecting the mainland with the island across which his soldiers could march.
The stones, the walls, the pleasant houses of the ruins of the mainland city (the one Ezekiel said would be utterly destroyed and never rebuilt) provided him with a means to do this. He ordered that they be thrown "into the sea" (as Ezekiel had predicted) for this purpose. A clean sweep was made of the site, and not a remnant of the city remained. Nor was it ever rebuilt. God had decreed that this would be its fate, and His words were fulfilled to the very letter, though for 250 years every indication seemed to point to the contrary.
Today, the blue waters of the Mediterranean wash over the ruins of Tyre, which has literally become "a place to spread nets upon." Go to the site of ancient Tyre today, and it is possible to see Arab fishermen doing that which Ezekiel predicted they would do 2,500 years ago. Thomson, in his "Land and the Book", writes:
"The number of granite columns that lie in the sea is surprising. The eastern wall of the inner harbor is entirely founded upon them, and they are thickly spread over the bottom of the sea on every side. Tyre must have been a city of columns and temples par excellence . . . Should anyone ask incredulously, 'Where are the stones of ancient Tyre?' . . . they are found spread over the causeway of Alexander, in her choked up harbor, and at the bottom of the sea."
Alexander's attack was successful, and Tyrian sea power was destroyed. No longer did her fleets dominate the seas, no longer were her praises sung in the marts of the ancient world. As a nation she disappeared, never to rise again.
The causeway built by Alexander still connects Tyre's one-time island-fortress with the mainland, but so completely has every vestige of the original city disappeared, that its' position can only be ascertained by the distance measured from the ruins of the fortress. The mighty city of ancient Tyre was completely erased.
But the amazing thing is the detail in which the Bible predicted all this, and the wonderful way in which each point was finally fulfilled. Fallible man cannot predict the future with such certainty and detail, but the Bible does. It shows that this wonderful book can be thoroughly relied upon, and confirms that those prophecies which speak of the second advent of Christ, and the setting up of the Kingdom of God on earth will come to pass, even though the fulfillment might appear improbable to mortal man.
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