Recent content by Wormwood

APAK, This post is troublesome to me. We are not divine, nor will we be made divine. This thinking sounds like Mormonism that argues that God wants what is best for us and what can be better than being made gods? There is one triune God. We are "clothed" with Christ and are partakers of...

Helen, I agree I do not want to argue with you, especially if your mind is made up on the matter. I am familiar with the texts your are referring to and I would disagree that contextually they are talking about rewards. Perhaps we can agree to disagree. :) Oh, and also I don't mean to say...

ByGrace, I appreciate your post but I disagree with your comments. Certainly there are believers who may be fearful and live in guilt and anxiety, but in my experience, that happens for both OSAS camps and non-Calvinists. For OSAS it just comes across as, "Yes, I believe once saved always...

junobet, First, I think that is a real mistake to compare Jesus' cleansing of the Temple with someone trying to sell a theological book online. A website is not the Temple of God. An online space is not preventing Gentiles from being able to pray to God in a holy place that was designated by...

T- 1. I don't believe Jesus came to destroy or do away with the Law. As Paul indicates in Romans 7-8, the Law is good. Jesus did not come to advance lawlessness. However, Jesus DID come to fulfill the Law. Jesus met the mandates of the Law on our behalf. Thus, we are not people who are wed...

Jay Ross, I apologize. I had you confused with Revelation 2012’s post. I’ll try to address your comments this evening.

The Law is good, but our relationship with God is not based on Old Covenant commands (as you indicate). Our relationship with God is based on grace. Grace is not a license to sin, but neither is it just a rehashing of the old covenant that was ineffective and incapable of helping us. The...

So your understanding is that our relationship with God is still based on keeping the Old Covenant Torah regulations God gave to Israel? My understanding is that the New Covenant is not based on following a list of instructions, but in submitting to and accepting God's grace in Jesus Christ.

Where do you read about a "rapture" in the Scriptures, let alone a particular year and season for it to occur? You need to write this out and not just link articles and videos if you want to have a discussion. I can just link books for you to read, but that is not really useful for having an...

Do you feel we should observe the OT Law as a means of maintaining a proper relationship with God?

Jay Ross, I would disagree with your post. It seems the Apostles were prepared for Jesus to come back any minute and did not anticipate such a distant coming. Revelation 2012, I disagree with your post. Although you may not be claiming to be a "prophet" you are suggesting that the Bible is...

junobet, I have not read this person's information or visited the site. However, I disagree strongly with you in principle. Simply because someone is selling a book or asking for a donation for their research or ministry does not make them "a den of robbers" or someone who worships mammon. I...

F2F, Sorry for the slow response, I have been ill recently. I think this is a real stretch and does not accurately reflect either the Greek or the concept of the Trinity. 1. Hypostasis indicates the "essence," "nature," or "basis" of something. Essentially, it is what makes something what...

I agree that no one verse spells out the Trinity, especially as you want to demand. However, the point here is that Jesus is clearly portrayed here as having the same essence as God. I don't know how you can say this is a "fanciful notion" when the very word for essence/nature is used in this...

I think you have to do some real hermeneutical gymnastics to not read the Son into the first 5 texts....not to mention multiple other Scriptures that clearly indicate Christ preexisted as a person. “Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see...