How can you tempt Christ? If you do will one die of snakebites.?
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Simple answer:\n\nThere are at least 4 different meanings for the word tempt in Greek.\n\nThe word "tempt" in question in 1 Cor. 10:9 is the word "ekpeirazo" in Greek and it means: Trying or challenging (God). \n\nIn the verse the word is in reference to "tempting" or testing/trying/challenging God. It had and has nothing to do with actually tempting God since God cannot be tempted. That's because temptation is the idea of one being drawn away to do something bad or evil. Since God is the definition and therefore standard of goodness it is impossible for Him to be drawn away from Himself and perform evil (which as you wrote wouldn't make any sense and be contradictory). But that's a topic for a different question.\n\nIn the verse in question Paul is merely reminding us not to challenge God, and references us back to the time of Moses. At that time the freed slaves of Israel were grumbling and complaining about being given the same food by God every day, day in and day out, and out of ungratefulness tempted (or Challenged) God's goodness to provide for their every need and by doing so made God unhappy. In the same way we should not test or challenge God's goodness for ourselves because God is always trying to provide for our every need. So one more time, the word and verse means we are told not to tempt or test God meaning casting doubt as to the goodness of God and/or Christ (They are one and the same).\n\nAs to your second question about the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil.\nIt is hard to determine exactly what is meant by the tree of the knoweldge of good and evil (hereby rendered Tree for the remainder of this writing). We cannot be too dogmatic about the Tree since there's not much known about it. There are several different interpretations for what it meant, some include:\n-The Tree actually gave knowledge of good and evil.\n-The Tree was a normal tree but was given to simply test that by eating from it when God said not to they now performed evil and thereby now knew evil experientially.\n-The Tree allowed a person who never performed evil to know evil like God did. Meaning that God doesn't know evil because He's ever performed it or will ever but because He has seen the evil done by humans and fallen angels.\n\nSo in reality it's not so important what exactly the Tree was, whether it bestowed mystical knowledge, but what was important is that it was a test given by God and taught humanity a valuable lesson; that given a perfect life with no problems suffering or sickness in God's direct presence we would still disobey Him.\n\nI hope this answered your questions and helps.
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get it to bite you .if you die you know its poisonous
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ok \nRomans12:1I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 2And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
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"Well first you might ecept Jesus into your heart ,stay in church and get baptize... "\n\nAnd look to Jesus to send you the woman that He wants you to have. in Christ, sassy
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Pray to the Lord for His strength, wisdom, and will to be done.  \n\nIs it possible that God may have placed you there by design? Yes it is.  You may be their only hope for every coming to the Savior.  If they died tonight in their sins, where would they spend eternity?  If the Lord gave you the chance, are you ready to share Jesus Christ with them?  Notice, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." is not a gift, it is a command.  If we love the Lord, we will do what He commands.  If we love Him as we say, we will pray to Him, not that our life would be made easier, but that He would give us the grace and strength to be a light in a dark place.  Read Matthew Ch. 6 before your head hits the pillow tonight.
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1.  I must realize that in my present condition I am a sinner bfore God. "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God (Romans 3.23.)\n2. I cannot save myself from eternal punishment in hell  "For the wages of sin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord: (Romans 6:23)\n3.  Christ has paid for my sins and my punishment with His death on the cross.  "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him (Jesus should not perish, but have everlasting life: "(John 3:16)  \n4.  I must accept His crucififixion as payment for my sins, personally.  "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved" (Romans 10:13)\nIf you would like to have assurance of eternal life, then pray this prayer:  "Lord, I know I am a sinner.  I believe Your Son, Jesus Christ, died on the cross for my sins.  Please forgive me of my sins and make me a new person.  I commit my life to you today. Amen,"\nIf you prayed this prayer you can send for Dr. Stanley's booklet, "The Only Door to Heaven."  www.intouch.org.\nWhen you are saved, you are sealed with God's Holy Spirit for eternity.  You cannot loose your salvation because you are now adopted into the family of God.  \nIt is important to find a bible teaching church and become part of the body of Christ to help you grow in your walk with the Lord.  Read the Bible daily.  You will find it easier to understand if you read it with a daily devotional magagine such as The Daily Bread or In Touch by Dr. Charles Stanley, which is on line at the above web site.  Set at time aside daily to talk to God in prayer.  Your prayers should include 1. Affirmation of God's character, confession, thanksgiving and supplication. (ACTS).  If your church is a bible teaching church, they should practice believers baptism.  You should be baptized out of obedience to Christ, but it is not required before salvation, but should be done after you become a believer.  Welcome to the family of God.  God Bless you in your walk with Him.
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First you must confess your sins, accept the Lord into your heart and be baptized like he was...pray pray and pray!! and live your life according to Jesus...you got to believe that he died for all our sin's and you have to have faith...\nyou have to forgive the ones that have hurt you, and be willing to love your enemies no matter what, just try to do your best...after all there's only one PERFECT PERSON and that is the Jesus, he does not expect us to be perfect but he does want us to attend church when possible and to keep his commandments...hope this helps! God Bless You!!
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you will have a horrible slow death you asshole\n\nDont diss Jesus, he died for your idiotcy so you could be free of sin and you dont believe in God, God is my homey, you are a piece of shit dude.
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Christians are commanded to ‘abstain from blood’\n\nActs 15:28, 29: “The holy spirit and we ourselves [the governing body of the Christian congregation] have favored adding no further burden to you, except these necessary things, to keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled [or, killed without draining their blood] and from fornication. If you carefully keep yourselves from these things, you will prosper. Good health to you!” (There the eating of blood is equated with idolatry and fornication, things that we should not want to engage in.)\n\nAnimal flesh may be eaten, but not the blood\n\nGen. 9:3, 4: “Every moving animal that is alive may serve as food for you. As in the case of green vegetation, I do give it all to you. Only flesh with its soul—its blood—you must not eat.”\n\nAny animal used for food should be properly bled. One that is strangled or that dies in a trap or that is found after it has died is not suitable for food. (Acts 15:19, 20; compare Leviticus 17:13-16.) Similarly, any food to which whole blood or even some blood fraction has been added should not be eaten.\n\nOnly sacrificial use of blood has ever been approved by God\n\nLev. 17:11, 12: “The soul of the flesh is in the blood, and I myself have put it upon the altar for you to make atonement for your souls, because it is the blood that makes atonement by the soul in it. That is why I have said to the sons of Israel: ‘No soul of you must eat blood and no alien resident who is residing as an alien in your midst should eat blood.’” (All those animal sacrifices under the Mosaic Law foreshadowed the one sacrifice of Jesus Christ.)\nEph. 1:7: “By means of him [Jesus Christ] we have the release by ransom through the blood of that one, yes, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his undeserved kindness.”\n\nHow did those who claimed to be Christians in early centuries C.E. understand the Bible’s commands regarding blood?\n\nTertullian (c. 160-230 C.E.): “Let your unnatural ways blush before the Christians. We do not even have the blood of animals at our meals, for these consist of ordinary food. . . . At the trials of Christians you [pagan Romans] offer them sausages filled with blood. You are convinced, of course, that the very thing with which you try to make them deviate from the right way is unlawful for them. How is it that, when you are confident that they will shudder at the blood of an animal, you believe they will pant eagerly after human blood?”—Tertullian, \n\nBlood Transfusions\n\nDoes the Bible’s prohibition include human blood?\n\nYes, and early Christians understood it that way. Acts 15:29 says to “keep abstaining from . . . blood.” It does not say merely to abstain from animal blood. (Compare Leviticus 17:10, which prohibited eating “any sort of blood.”) Tertullian (who wrote in defense of the beliefs of early Christians) stated: “The interdict upon ‘blood’ we shall understand to be (an interdict) much more upon human blood.”—The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. IV, p. 86.\n\nIs a transfusion really the same as eating blood?\n\nIn a hospital, when a patient cannot eat through his mouth, he is fed intravenously. Now, would a person who never put blood into his mouth but who accepted blood by transfusion really be obeying the command to “keep abstaining from . . . blood”? (Acts 15:29) To use a comparison, consider a man who is told by the doctor that he must abstain from alcohol. Would he be obedient if he quit drinking alcohol but had it put directly into his veins?\n\nIn the case of a patient that refuses blood, are there any alternative treatments?\n\nOften simple saline solution, Ringer’s solution, and dextran can be used as plasma volume expanders, and these are available in nearly all modern hospitals. Actually, the risks that go with use of blood transfusions are avoided by using these substances.  \n\nAll ty
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YOU WiLL GET A FRiEND THATS NOT..BUT YOU CAN HAVE ONE FRiEND THAT WiLL NEER STAB YOU iN THE BACK..JESUS TALK TO HiM HE WiLL LiSTEN
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The Bible teaches that followers of Christ will be riddiculed and will suffer for their beliefs. Consider the fate of 11 of 12 apostles - murdered for their belief. satan is the god of this age, the prince currently ruling. As such, all goodness and light is despised by those he claims and rules. Recognize that the things of God are "as foolishness" to those whose eyes are blinded and hearts are hardened. Pray for them. Good luck - and do not grow weary while doing good - galatians 6 6-10
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MainWorry I thank Jesus and His Holy Mother Mary for answers like yours. \n\nJesus protects us from evil and if God is with us who can be against us.\n\nEvil cannot affect us. If we eat poison unknowlingly but bless the food first nothing will happen to us. \n\nThank you for your question DrTroup!
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do they have snake charmers at this church?
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answer the door with a big kitchen knife in your hand, and ask them which one is prepared to die for Jesus
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What a good question. \n    I have now idea. Maybe (since i am a woman, i should know) she might have because we women really like to talk. We could talk to a tree if we needed to. But I think God's plan was to have Satan as a snake. \n    I will probably think about this for days to come. I will also ask my church friends about this question. Good thinking and to answer your question, I don't even know.\n\nMERRY CHRISTMAS....and keep the Christ in Christmas:)
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Don't worry my dear, very soon I shall be sending something your way that will test your faith, and only the strong of faith and mind will survive. I have great confidence that you will survive, but many of those of whom you speak... I should say no more, I have already said too much. People who are not strong in their own faith will always try to find others to make them stronger. But it does not work that way, as I am sure you know. They would even send Me, the center of their cult, (which, by the way, I am fairly certain I warned against iodizing in My 10 Commandments. In fact, if I am not much mistaken, it was the First, and the most important.) threatening Instant Messages, telling Me to have respect for Myself. They would try to save their own Lord and God.
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"I beseech you therefore brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice holy, acceptable which is your reasonable service.\n\nAnd be ye not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good,and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."  Rom. 12:1-2\n\n"Let this mind be in you which is also in Christ Jesus."  Phil. 2:5\n\n"I will set no wicked thing before my eyes."  Ps. 101:3\n\n"As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he."  Prov. 23:7\n\n"Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are TRUE, whatsoever things are HONEST, whatsoever things are JUST, whatsoever things are PURE, whatsoever things are LOVELY, whatsoever things are of GOOD REPORT; if there be any VIRTUE, and if there be any PRAISE, THINK ON THESE THINGS."\n\nThe aforementioned verses are Biblical principles regarding our minds and  "right" thinking.\n\nI do not watch horror, graphic sex (or any movie rated above PG), or anything that would have little value.  In fact, I do not have TV, therefore no cable, and I RARELY go to the movies for the reasons listed in the verses above.\n\nGod gives us principles and guidelines all throughout scripture for the best way to live.  Your choices are not stacking up.  According to God's principles, you are not acting like a follower of Christ.  You love the world too much.