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Correction: according only to the bogus ending of Mark forged by Aristo of Pella! God's actual Word teaches that "tongues are NOT a sign to believers (1 Cor. 14:22)."

"If I am lifted up, I will draw ALL PEOPLE unto myself (John 12:32)."

Duh. I said I'm a tongues-speaking Pentecostal, but the gifts of the Spirit don't make me a better Christian than Christians who don't speak in tongues. What you dpn't get is the distinction between spiritual gifts and "signs" of the true believer. .

Duh, I'm not one of the "worldly people," but rather a tongues-speaking Pentecostal who is grateful for that spiritual gift, but recognizes that speaking in tongues is not a "sign" of the true believer, as Mark's bogus KJV ending teaches.

So you KJV Only types agree with Appalachian Christians who drink rat poison to test Jesus' promised "sign" of a true believer? And no, nothing in the text suggests an accidental ingestion of poison. One Greek manuscript even identifies the forger of this KJV ending in Mark (16:9-20) as Aristo...

So you care more about the lyrical quality of the KJV than preserving the purity of God's original Word. Actually, the first English Bible was the Tyndale Translation.

I find it so ironic that the very fundamentalists who pride themselves in having the highest view of biblical inspiration insist on using the most corrupt translation. Due to the tired eyes of ancient copyists, there are 400,000 variant readings in NT manuscripts and the KJV is based just 4...

(7) A SHARED ADC: The book, “Lighted Passage,” was brought to the attention of an agnostic friend of mine by a colleague who worked with him at HUD and was a relative of the author, Dr. Howell Vincent. Dr. Vincent, a Presbyterian minister, wrote this book, about his daughter Rea and her death in...

Roger, and I became friends through an anti-Christian metaphysical site. Roger was a very bright executive with the U. S. Federal agency HUD. But Roger remained an agnostic even though I convinced him that he had experienced a supernatural rescue when he was an 8-year old boy. Roger and an...

Yep, you're the only one who understands Romans 7. I wish at least one other Christian understood it. Sigh!

Psychology is the rational study ("logos") of the mind or soul ("psyche"). Used philosophically (as in John 1), "logos" refers to the rational self-expression of God as opposed to God in His unknowability. In this sense it contrasts with Isaiah 55:7-8: "For my thoughts are not your thoughts...

What many evangelicals don't get is the close link between confession to other believers and spiritual healing (James 5:16). Jesus gives "the keys of the kingdom of heaven" to Peter and no one else. Jesus gives the authority to bind and loose and to grant and deny forgiveness to the church...

V I'd like to challenge your friend to read all the numbered examples of paranormal experiences in my thread "My Life Journey through the Lens of My Many Charismatic and Paranormal Experiences" in the "Testimonies" section. Tell him that the most evidentiary of these experiences convinced an...

Nope. Peter and Paul were executed by order of Nero around 64 AD. Our first Gospel, Mark, was written around 67-70 AD and Matthew and Luke later use Mark as one of their sources. That is one of the first facts you learn at any evangelical seminary

Paul does not consider his epistles "Scripture." Thus, on the subject of virgins he merely offers his non-binding "opinion," not the Lord's commandment (1 Cor. 7:25). Our Gospels never claim divine inspiration and nowhere does the NT claim they are divinely inspired. )

Who is Jesus' God? The heavenly Father. How does Jesus rate compared to the Father? "The Father is greater than I (John 14:28)." So who then is Jesus? The Son of God in the sense of a Messiah descended from David: "I will establish the throne of His [David's] kingdom forever. I will be his...

(1) Robert Pate overlooks the fact that John excludes the words of Institution of Holy Communion in his chapter on the Last Supper (John 13) precisely because he prefers to include Jesus' words on the subject in 6:53-58. Jesus teaches that He becomes uniquely present to those who eat His body...

If you asked your agnostic friend, "What might it take to motivate you to launch a burning quest to discover the truth about Christianity?" which of these options might best represent his response? (1) I would need to increasingly feel that my current secular worldview is inadequate for a...

Atheists like Howard Storm have been converted through NDEs. Muslims never see Muhammad and one non-Christian Jewish woman saw Jesus during her NDE.

I believe in and celebrate Jesus' resurrection. But the evidence for NDEs is far superior to the evidence for Jesus' resurrection and, in fact, makes that Gospel evidence more credible. For that reason, internet NDE discussions can be an effective tool for Christian apologetics. Great harm to...