Are you one of those that assert you don't know the name of Elohim/God or not Allowed to Pronounce it? The meaning of Elohim/God is what is important. What Elohim/God means to one person means something different to another. Elohim/God has given itself many Different names as there are many...
Paul's message was the gospel of grace/cross, in which the law was nailed to a cross, and as such he now is ruled by the evil within him (Romans 7), such as I didn't do it, the devil inside me did it, and by his concept, he can sin with his flesh, yet is somehow be free by serving his mental...
According to the scriptures a teaching of lawlessness is indeed a teaching of the devil (1 John 2:3-4). Sin is defined in the scriptures as breaking Gods law and not believing and obeying what Gods Word says (1 John 3:4; James 2:10-11; John 3:36; Romans 14:23). There are however unstable people...
None of this responds to my observation that the more fervent a Christian is the less they follow Jesus as a teacher.
I'm not sure why you think these words are relevant. I made the point that many atheists behave as if the follow Jesus' example, while we observe many Christians who behjave as...
That's so foreign to I conclude you don't seem sure you are Christian, and here is why.
Sounds more like preaching to atheists.
Is that your true experience?
If we tested it, would your claim prove true, that many atheists "have a similar moral and loving character that is consistent with what...
Well, they both exist, and I am either one or the other. I can't be both. However, it doesn't require guessing.
I did that a while back, but I don't know how to find thread I created.
So, briefly...
A Christian is a follower of Christ - his teachings and example.
Wikipedia defines Christianity...
I think we can trace man's religious beliefs back to ancient Babylon, thus today we see man's similar or overlapping wrong religious ideas spread throughout the known world.
There came a time too when un-faithful Jews began mixing with non-Jews and the un-faithful ones adopted the world view of...
If you did read that in my post, It would be understandable if you came to such a conclusion, but since you didn't read that, I don't understand how you could have arrived at such a suggestion.
I'm saying to you, that Jesus is not clueless regarding who belong to him - in other words, his...
As an aside: how do you suggest demonstrating that the bible is God's word? Where are the tens of thousands of Christians who after attending sermons then go and share their lives with stupid poor people who probably will never be able to repay the act? They are almost nowhere to be found, but...
I have a question for you, a thought experiment
Say there was an isolated tribe of humans who could read and understand English
Imagine that an English edition of The Holy Bible materialised within their midst and they went about studying it and that they considered it to have been given to...
I don't get that impression. I've seen your posts.
Do you consider yourself stable in mind?
Picking and choosing what you like, and what you don't is like trying to make your own Bible.
How can that work?
Why won't such persons consider throwing it away like many people have, and just declare...
[Jhn 13:34-35 NIV] 34 "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."
We must know by the love for one another, which is a fruit of the spirit. If this is absent...
Since the thread is titled "Truths in Scripture", this is the right thread to discuss whether made up things has any basis at all, as opposed to scripture. Especially if one claims to accept scripture.
What's a fundamentalist to you? I hear that applied to so many things, in the same way people...
I believe I had a heart attack in July from blocked arteries. From time to time I will have a little chest pain and once had shortness of breath which is another sign of a possible heart attack. I probably have more blocked arteries but so far the doctors are not looking for them.
I believe you...
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Muffled I hope all is well.... You point me to scriptures, but they do not prove the rapture!
Matthew 26 “So if anyone tells you, ‘There he is, out in the wilderness,’ do not go out; or, ‘Here he is, in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. 27 For as lightning that comes from the east is...
Science cannot tell us whether or not it is moral to engage in certain acts because science does not deal with questions of moral licitness. As for alienating people, let them be alienated. The truth (if Catholicism is indeed true) is what it is and if the majority reject then so be it. 2...
Case of deliberate deafness CG?
Did God know that they would turn evil?
The Bible does not say God exercised his foreknowledge regarding choices the angels, and subsequently people, would make.
The account regarding Abraham is a good example. Genesis 22:12
If he did, was that part of his plan...
Are you seriously saying that there was some kind of communication between Israelites back then and bushmen in Africa. Seems unlikely to me. And the "through all the earth" sounds more like hyperbole than literal truth.
They can't all be right I guess. And that kind of prophesy is very easy to...
That's okay. :)
Since the Bushman in Africa had ancestors... who were not ape-men, by the way, they learn from those who carried the news.
(Joshua 6:27) So Jehovah was with Joshua, and his fame spread through all the earth.
"the vast majority of Christians" are not true Christians.
That's...