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Problems arise when churches try to mold Scripture so that it corresponds to their particular agenda, rather than having their agenda correspond to Scripture. Some have even conspired to make it appear that Scripture is on their side through their taking verses and 1/2 verses completely out of...

I saw this same statement on another website recently. And the ultimate purpose there for it was as an argument in favor of the homosexual lifestyle. IOW, it was being used in order to argue that anyone who paid lipservice to Christ's sacrifice could live a lifestyle which was a direct...

This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one...

John 7:53-8:11 (the woman caught in adultery) and Mark 16:9-20 (Jesus appearance to his disciples following his resurrection) are seen by many as examples of Jesus' wisdom and his commission to his disciples. But they are also pure fiction. They are not found in the earliest manuscripts, and...

I agree. But does SelectThis define it in the same manner? Also, it is a prevalent belief that baptism must be by total immersion or else the person isn't really saved in many of the fundamentalist denominations/sects.

Select This- I suspect that when you refer to baptism, you define it as only a true baptism if it is by total immersion. Is this true?

Emotionalism and adrenaline rushes can give one a sense of exultation. But we need to remember that God wants the motivations which dictate our actions to conform to what his own Spirit implants in all who accept his Son's atoning sacrifice: So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not...

In the 1930's Hitler made nonaggression treaties with the nations around him. These treaties caused those nations (with the exception of the USSR) to consider themselves safe from attack. For this reason many of the nations which were the western border of Europe decided to 'go it alone' in...

The laws and commandments found in Torah (commonly called 'The Mosaic law') were never intended as a 'roadmap to heaven'. Instead, their purpose was as the means whereby the Hebrews could form a strong, cohesive society, where each member of that society would know what his rights and...

Moses describes in this way the righteousness that is by the law: "The man who does these things will live by them." But the righteousness that is by faith says: "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?' " (that is, to bring Christ down) "or 'Who will descend into the deep?' "...

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We Christians do have a code of conduct which we are to live by. But it is a code of conduct which we can only gain the ability to follow as a direct result of our accepting the gift of salvation exactly as God offers it: Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under...

Scripture teaches that murder is to be seen as a sign of being 'unclean' (Mark 7:20-23). We are also taught in Scripture that we are to show proper respect for the authorities and laws of the nation where we live (Romans 13:1-5). Romans 13:1-5 also teaches us that we are to expect punishment if...

When my wife died in 2008, I had a female priest read the burial office for her. I didn't have her do it out of a sense of wanting to appear politically correct, but instead because I knew the priest to teach Scripture as it should be taught. People who had known me for several years were coming...

The laws and commandments of Torah, including The Ten Commandments, were never intended as a means of attaining righteousness. Instead, they were intended as the means whereby a people who were little more than a mob when Moses found them could form a cohesive society. Even the promise which we...

The danger with belief in chastening doesn't lie in chastening itself. It lies in the desire of some to be the instruments of God's chastening. I saw this taught by a radical minister as the right of some who called themselves Christians in the late 1960's. However, they were actually white...