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"Now fear the Lord and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your forefathers worshiped beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers...

Ernest Bass- "Suppse one of you had a servant plowing or looking after the sheep. Would he say to the servant when he comes in from the field, 'Come along now and sit down to eat'? Would he not rather say, 'Prepare my supper, get yourself ready and wait on me while I eat and drink; after that...

Ernest Bass- What is your education in Greek? Can you even read Greek? If not, your argument against any translation of Scripture commonly accepted is based on nothing but bias. As for being required to obey the law in order to be saved, are you referring only to the 613 laws and...

Ernest Bass- Whether it's called 'the works of the flesh' (KJV), 'the deeds of the flesh' (NASB), or 'the acts of the sinful nature' (NIV), it is still our original nature. Your arguing against it will not make it any less real. It is who we all are, including yourself. That is why our...

If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our...

Our salvation is obtained one way, and one way only: Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law...

There are certain denominations and sects which use the knight-works-exegesis argument, which is what the OP is defending. They take verses and 1/2 verses completely out of the context of the passage in which they are found, and then stitch them together in a quiltlike fashion. They then use the...

Was Jesus a Greek? No, he was not. Instead, he was a Jew who was reared in Galilee. As such he would have spoken to his apostles and disciples in Hebrew and Aramaic, not Greek. And therein lies the problem. There are denominations which teach that we must be baptized by total immersion...

Whenever I have seen a denomination insist that we must accept the creation stories (there are 2 seperate stories) of Genesis as a literal event, I remember 2 ministers whom I met in the 1960's. One insisted that I must accept the creation stories as literal, accept The Great Flood as literal...

River Jordan- They have not denied that there have been impacts, but they have denied that any of them could be classified as ELE's. In fact, I listened to one professor who is a diehard evolutionist state categorically that the only thing that took place when the meteor struck in Chesapeake...

DP Martin- Are you perfect? Can you say that you have never committed any sins whatsoever in your entire life? If you cannot answer, "Yes," to these questions, then you are among the lost souls, as are all of us. With God there is no such thing as being 'good enough', so anyone who is not...

Orthodox evolutionists that I have heard claim that after the extinction level event (ELE) which took place 65 million years ago this planet has been safe for animals to evolve to the species that we have today, including ourselves. However, actual scientific discoveries have contradicted this...

None of us would survive God's justice, because it requires absolute perfection in order to 'pass muster'. That's why God himself drew up the blueprints to an event which would satisfy that justice, and then carried out the plan to its completion via his Son, Jesus Christ: Now we know that...

The creation stories of Genesis (there are two of them) were never intended to be a scientific statement. Instead, their purpose was as a rebuttal in order to demythologize a much earler creation story the Hebrews were familiar with, namely, the egyptian creation epic...

Idolatry does not need to have a statue which certain people claim to be the representation of a deity. Any belief which replaces trusting in God with trusting in it can be seen as an idol. So science can be seen as an idol in the same manner as Baal and Molech were.