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I have enjoyed the discussion up to this point and I have one more interpretation to throw into the mix.I think that it is very possible that Christ is using the petros/petra Greek wordplay to refer to Peter as being part of the rock. Certainly Peter, as Christ's mouthpiece on the earth after...

(thesuperjag;54120) Can you explain why Christ uses the word flesh in John 3:6 after the word in John 3:5 then?And your last paragragh difinately sounds like a Mormon teaching. There is no such as "Baptism for the dead" in God's Words. No dead people can be baptized by people who is still living...

For the record, some churches believe that there are apostles, prophets, and evangelists on the earth today, acting as they did in New Testament times.One church I know of that believes in the same organization that existed in the primitive church is the Mormon Church, officially known as The...

I agree with TallMan on most points, though I am not sure about the gift of tongues being in John 3:8.Baptism is indeed required for salvation. In John 3:3, Jesus speaks of being born again. In verse 4, Nicodemus asks how to do it. Verse 5 is Jesus' instructions on how to be born again. It takes...

These are all good questions, and for some of them there are no definite answers. I do think, however, that there are hints of the weekly worship of Christians being shifted to the first day of the week in scripture, and there were good reasons for doing so.As you have hinted, it appears to me...

Excellent reply, Rudy.I think that it is sometimes the most difficult to share our beliefs in Christ with the people that we associate with every day. I spent two years as a missionary in Japan talking to strangers about Jesus Christ and found it rather easy, but now in everyday associations...

Good post, ForYou. I think it is always instructive to compare the things of God with things that are around us every day. The Savior did that a lot in His teachings. He taught the people in parables about things that they would understand.I think that the comparison between air and God is...

Okay, here is the answer to your real question, in a last-ditch effort to keep you from being frustrated out of the forum.The Joseph Smith translation of Matthew 5:21 reads:"Whosoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so to do, he shall in no wise be...

I see the Law of Moses as being a subset of the law of Christ, that is, the gospel of Jesus Christ that existed from the beginning. In Matthew 5:19, Jesus speaks of the consequences of disobedience to the fulfilled law, that is, the higher law of Christ. While the Law of Moses was good, it was...