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I think I sort of get the point...

Well, of course Paul kept the 7th day Jewish Sabbath, because he was a Jew! That's not rocket science. But that was when he was fellowshiping with fellow Jews. Luke's reports in Acts clearly states that when Paul went to a town or city where there was a synagogue, he went and attended, Paul...

It is an historical fact that Roman law was an integral part of the founding of the Roman republic and superseded all previous laws in the provinces that were annexed by Rome. The only province that was permitted to have Saturday as the day off work was Judea, because Roman Law respected the...

In threads like this a bit of fun is needed. Exaggerating an error in a fun way is effective in drawing attention to it without becoming horrible about it.

In my younger days I worked with a woman who was a nasty bully. She was about the closest to a dragon that I have ever seen.

The Mormon friend said that it had noting to do with his church. All he did was to translate the writing. One of the translators thought that the plates may have been in the possession of an early Millerite missionary who arrived in the 1840s and was attacked by a local Maori tribe, and so he...

There was a signature on it which was partly obscured. Some letters were decipherable: THE PR[unknown]PH[unknown]CY OF E [unknown] [unknown]E[unknown][space][unknown]HI[unknown]E. The "unknown" parts are where the letters were undecipherable. One translator thought it might have read "ELLEN...

When I was digging a grave for my poor departed ginger cat Mitten, I found some golden tablets written in a strange Egyptian language. I had them translated by a local Mormon friend and this is what was written on them: "God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son so that...

I think that Calvin has been misrepresented by many who call themselves Calvinists. I carefully read his commentary on Romans, 1 Corinthians, John's Gospel, 1 John, and 1 & 2 Thessalonians, and am currently reading through Isaiah. What I observe is that everything he says is totally...

I recently read an interesting commentary on 2 Thessalonians where it mentioned the antichrist. The commentator said that the antichrist does not refer to an actual person, but a kingdom within the established Church. Actually the Scripture says that the antichrist was around in the 1st...

Calvin's commentaries were taken from his lectures. He had three scribes take down everything he said, and then the three versions were compared to ensure that it was an accurate record. Then Calvin edited the draft to correct anything that needed correcting. When giving his lectures, he...

The best times of prayer that I have had are when I have been walking on a long lonely beach with my hands in my pockets just chatting to the Lord about what has come to mind. Sometimes it seems as if the conversation goes two ways because in the process I am stimulated with fresh insights and...

That puzzles me, because after extensively reading his commentaries I must have missed the contradictions. I haven't seen anywhere he has contradicted the Bible.

If there was an option, I would have rated your post as "informative". I understand your reasoning. However, the spanner in the works may be where the Holy Spirit said in Acts 13:2, "Separate me Paul and Barnabas..." etc., which suggests that Luke viewed the Holy Spirit as a person who could...

Greek gender is grammatical and does not necessarily mean human gender. So to build something on whether a noun is masculine, feminine or neuter in Greek is pretty tenuous. Personification of a noun is a literary strategy to give greater impact for what is being said. Just because someone...

So you go along with Mormon and JW doctrine in this as well?

So, you subscribe to the Arian view of Christianity?

It may have been that they had a profession of religion but not the Holy Spirit. Oil is a figure of the Holy Spirit. The ones who are truly prepared to get to heaven are the ones who ensure that they have the Holy Spirit dwelling in them. Many people put on the Christian "badge" but don't...

Pretty close to Arianism: Arians have been called the “archetypal” Christian heretics; accusations of Arianism have been made in almost every century since the fourth. Taking its name from an Egyptian priest, Arius, this heresy holds that Jesus, while the son of God, is neither eternal nor as...

"I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the LORD, who does all these things. “Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain down righteousness; let the earth open, that salvation and righteousness may bear fruit; let the earth cause them both to...