Was it? What are you basing that assertion on?
I think that God knew what Judas (or "someone") was going to do, and decided to make plans with that in mind. Just because God knew what Judas was going to do doesn't mean God forced Judas to do it. If God didn't force Judas to do it, I don't see...
Kindly explain how that logic is moot and doesn't address the OP's question of how "legalising one's beliefs can help bring members into the fold."
Also please point out the double standards I'd have to adhere to in order to make that post not moot.
Thanks in advance.
Just to clarify, "making gay marriage illegal" makes it sound as though gay marriage is currently legal, and people are trying to remove its legal status (and in doing so remove the "right" of people in a homosexual relationship to marry each other.) That's not the case everywhere. For example...
Yes.
Regardless of a potential mis-translation of Is 7, (besides which I still think Mary qualifies as a "young maid," and many "young maids" would have most likely been virgins anyway,) other parts of the Bible (eg Matt 1 and Luke 1,) make it obvious that Mary was a virgin when she conceived...
^ This.
That said, God has given prophecy to a variety of people as motivational, ministry and spiritual gifts, but they won't prophecy anything that conflicts with the Bible. To my knowledge, the Qur'an conflicts with the Bible on several fronts, ergo whatever Muhammad was writing wasn't...
To a standard that would satsify sceptics, you probably can't.
However, from a Christian perspective to which some degree of faith is fundamental, there are a few tests that can be done to see if the prophet is speaking a word from God. If the "prophet" fails in one of these tests, then it's...
I think it's a question of the differences between "The Church;" (the pearl, the Body, the Bride) and "that church;" (the place you go on Sunday mornings,) which is leading to the confusion.
What were the issues for which your thought's do not matter? And what were your thoughts on those issues?
It seems obvious from the scriptures that there are a great many lessons to be learnt from Jesus' life and ministry. However, according to a few of the gospels, Jesus acknowledged that at least one of the reasons He was on earth was to "offer His life as a ransom for many." Further to that, the...
The English translation of a Greek word meaning something close to "a good message" or "good tidings." The contents of that message is another question.
I personally don't consider all the different "versions" of the Bible to be the word of God, due to the seemingly irreconcilable differences between them (mostly due to Westcott and Hort stuff missing some of what I believe to be important verses. Apparently they've said that their translations...
:facepalm:No, that's not right (well, I don't think it's right.) Firstly, Noah's genealogy is detailed in Gen 5. Abram is shown to be one of Terah's descendants in Gen 11. Terah is not mentioned in Noah's genealogy. Jesus' genealogy in Luke 3 shows Terah (and Abraham) to have been...
This is something I've noticed too, though perhaps not to the same extent.
Not the whole of "church" in its entirety, but perhaps the sermon. In general, I agree they're becoming this way, or perhaps they've always been this way and as I'm growing I'm finding I want more meat. I’ve found...
When discussing biblical stuff I think it's important to use biblical definitions, so with that in mind...
Opposite of righteous
Not obeying god
One who doesn't tell the truth
Perhaps I should have responded "In need of what? Food; yes. Oxygen; yes. To attend a slide night comprising...
It appears I've got more questions to answer and things to clarify...
I'll concede that I haven't addressed the OP if you can show that none of my posts up to this point explain my reasons for disagreeing with the statement in the OP.
I think He was, but that aside, the Bible shows Him to be...
This thread seems to have digressed a bit from the OP, so I'll just answer the questions waitasec addressed to me, sum up my thoughts and leave it at that.
It's easy to show that Jesus' death on the cross has accomplished at least some of its purpose without needing to judge anyone...
No, I'm just willingly disagreeing with you about it. I've explained why I think that we're not all equal.
I never said we weren't all human. I was just pointing out that we are all different, and if equal means "the same," then by definition we are not all equal. This is why I pointed out...