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The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, IFCJ I cringe when I see and hear the advertising for this organization. How can any TRUE Christian associate with this organization or contribute God's money to it? "Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have...

I feel as though the old saying will be true for the US, starting next year: "The cure is worse than the disease". As an example - A son and his wife have maxed out their credit cards, and they are behind on the payments for that big, new SUV with the attached bass boat. Their mortgage...

What does the 2024 Republican Platform say on some important issues of Faith? It is not easy to find the actual, full text of the Platform, but the link follows these important quotes: From Chapter Nine - GOVERNMENT OF, BY, AND FOR THE PEOPLE 3. Republicans Will Defend Religious Liberty We...

The scenario, the young man is said to be cohabiting with another young man. When questioned by the Pastor, the young man replies, "If it is any of your business, I have always been attracted to other males, emotionally, romantically and sexually. I have never had such feelings for a female...

In verse five we find the expression, "But the rest of the dead lived not (again) until the thousand years were finished." This expression is not found in some manuscripts notably the Vatican and Syriac. But assuming that it is a genuine part of our text it will come up for some reference as we...

The internal evidences are in our estimation overwhelmingly in favor of the Neronian date. A few of these it is well to call in mind. (a) The messages to the seven churches disclose the fact that they were being subjected to the propaganda of Judaizing teachers. This indicates a date before...

According to the premillennialist, the seven churches of Asia spoken of in the second and third chapters, are seven periods of history from John's time, down till the time of Christ's return. The fourth chapter begins the Tribulation period at the beginning of which the righteous dead are raised...

I am becoming suspicious of the many problems popping up in Boeing aircraft. Is this a planned sabotage? I know they have not been without blame, but it seems that all the reported problems tend to be extreme, and I have my doubts. Has Boeing really been this untrustworthy? I do not think so.

Many Christians who hold to Once Saved Always Saved understand it the same as Perseverance of the Saints. The title of this thread concerns the dangerous abuse of the OSAS where some think once you do that "decision for Christ" at one point of time, and you can later be living like the Devil...

Thayer's on "agape" love - ἀγάπη, -ης, ἡ, a purely Biblical and ecclesiastical word (for Wyttenbach, following Reiske's conjecture, long ago restored ἀγαπήσων in place of ἀγάπης, ὧν in Plutarch, sympos. quaestt. 7, 6, 3 (vol. viii., p. 835, Reiske edition)). Secular authors from (Aristotle)...

I have come to using the NRSVue quite often, though at times I disagree or prefer the Marginal Note over the main translation. Is it okay to do the following: 2Th 2:13 NRSVue But we must always give thanks to God for you, [brethren] beloved by the Lord, because God chose you [from the...

I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the Lord, who does all these things. (Isa. 45:7) The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he wills. (Prov. 21:1) Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases. (Ps...

Joh 10:27-30 NRSVue My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, in regard to what he has given me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them out of the Father’s...

Eze 36:26-27 NRSVue A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you, and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will put my spirit within you and make you follow my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances. *It is God's...

Isa 55:11 NRSVue so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose and succeed in the thing for which I sent it. *The purposes of God never fail. Gal 1:4 NRSVue who gave himself for our sins to set us free from the...

Psa 65:4 NRSVue Happy are those whom you choose and bring near to live in your courts. We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, your holy temple. Eph 1:4-6 NRSVue just as he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love. 5 He...

Gen 8:21 NRSVue And when the LORD smelled the pleasing odor, the LORD said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of humans, for the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth; nor will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done. 1Jn 5:19 NRSVue We...

The 39 Articles of the Church of England, Anglican X. "The condition of Man after the fall of Adam is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith; and calling upon God. Wherefore we have no power to do good works pleasant and acceptable to...

The word "Creed" is from the Latin credo, "I believe"; so don't let anyone mislead you with the pious sounding "No Creed but the Bible"! A creed is a " system of belief", and the Bible is not written in systematic form as a systematic theology textbook, so "No Creed but the Bible" is somewhat...

No individual Christian is an infallible interpreter of Scripture, nor can he consistently & reliably come up with the truth without a teacher, as ordained by Christ(Eph. 4:11). A good use of commentaries is to look at the comments and arguments made from the various theological perspectives...