Recent content by tallycello

Thank You for your insight on this. One thing does stand out to me in Paul's writing that you quoted here. Not to get off topic, but I really am interested in understanding this better. Paul wants to deliver their bodies to Satan so that their souls may be saved on the day Jesus returns. Forgive...

You bring up an interesting point about sin - I believe I studied these a little bit but I would like to know if you consider them to be the primary ways in which a person can fall from grace. Maybe there are many more sins as well....It seems to me that if you do not know you are sinning, it...

That looks like the end of this debate- it was fun everyone-thanks for entertaining my philosophical temperament!

Ground Zero- Yeah, I don't pine over these rebuttals 24 hours a day and the list of complaints concerning my questions keeps growing so it got lost in the deluge of messages. First off, I am open to seeing how people respond , time permitting and am welcome to the fact that I could be terribly ...

I disagree with the statement that I am not responding to what is being argued to me. I am not one who has been born into a rigorous faith and must admit that I may be ignorant of some of God's revelations to humankind. In order for me to understand God, I question those who know about their...

Here is my problem with where we are at in this debate- the argument coming back to me is that everything Paul wrote in his letters was the Holy Spirit speaking through him and that makes everything he writes as perfect as anything Christ said or any good work that Christ has done. This is to...

And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his...

Strat- if you read the entire dialogue that I began to where we are now, you will, again see that I agree with you about Paul's decision in Corinth being correct and I understood this better as the debate continued. As for you accusing me as trying to pass myself off as a cutting edge radical-...

I was simply pointing out that Jesus is where all the Bible leads to- his life, death and resurrection...I hope we can agree on that much! And furthermore, that Jesus is the most important figure in the Bible....the Alpha and the Omega - the son of our living God! So, in saying that, the works...

I don't see why holding the words of Jesus to a higher regard than anything else written in the Bible is really such a radical idea. Paul even says in Ephesians: 15 For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, 16 I do not cease to...

Weird, you quoted me actually sympathizing with Paul's decision and then said I am in danger of corrupting Christ's Body , or the Church- this is what I said: "I believe, Strat, that your feelings were how Paul must have felt in dealing with Corinth. It is painful and difficult for someone who...

This brings up an interesting point in my mind- when I thought this topic had reached the end to be honest with you. My question is this: Should we hold what Jesus said , in the Bible, to a higher, equal or lesser pedestal to what Paul had to write? We could say that it is all God speaking...

I believe this to be true as well, I also know that many Christians follow Christ and try to do his work, but being critical of someone who is following Christ is a good way to understand where they are coming from. My original post in my blog tried to look at finding anything that I could...

If that is easy for you to do Mark S. I commend you because it is my experience, doing what the Bible tells us to do is easier said than done. Plus, it is hard for me, personally, to know what the Bible is telling me or asking me to do at times. That is, my understanding is that the bar is set...

I believe, Strat, that your feelings were how Paul must have felt in dealing with Corinth. It is painful and difficult for someone who is trying to grow the Kingdom of God and see that there are those who wish to continue and bend the Church into something that suits their needs rather than...