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You know full well that if the last time you saw someone, he was brutally beaten, fatigued, with blood and agony on his face, and then he died, with the features sunken down, and the second time you saw him,in the full bloom and radiance of youth and immortality then you would have a job...

You cannot be serious. He travelled x miles just to make this point? Sorry, that makes absolutely no sense. I agree that renaming is important. But you forget that the renaming of Peter took place at the beginning of Jesus ministry, nowhere near to the time of Mt 16.18 - and therefore had...

Here are the facts: The 2 words petros and petra are different, though they come from the same root. Petros is a movable stone as in the sentence: 'leave no stone unturned' That is the word used of Peter in Mt 16.18. You are petros Petra is a huge rock, cliff, boulder or similar. The...

This is a strange post. What do you make of: 2 Tim 3.16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. and Acts 17...

The meaning of the text in Isa 17 is extremely plain and unmistakable. 1 ¶ The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. Isa 17:3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria...

Jesus did say that to Peter - but Peter was most certainly NOT the rock on which the church was founded. How could he be? Peter means a little stone. The 'rock' in this passage is the word for a gigantic boulder or some such. And in any case, Jesus was alluding to Isa.28.16 Therefore thus...

You're kidding me, right?

But we can imagine an angel that was cast out of heaven changing into a serpent, talking, tempting, saying God was a liar, and that you'd be perfectly safe eating this fruit here, which He said you mustn't. You happy with that?

So how do you know Jesus said that? Precisely the point. Where does it say that? In Scripture, or elsewhere?

How about He looked different?

How is this an answer to the question? Actually, now I think about it, how do you know you have a father?

Are you sure that those verses you quoted are dependable scripture? If you are sure, then why are you so sure, if as you said above, you have doubts about what is scripture or not?

The above posts are wonderful illustrations of what happens when the scriptural precedents in the NT are totally ignored and man's thinking substituted. Consider: 1 Where are the paid 'priests', 'theologians', 'ministers', 'bishops', 'archbishops', 'cardinals', 'popes' etc etc in the NT...

'Edward' is a mythical 'christian' who claims and objects to certain things in the Bible, on the grounds that God couldn't have said or done some of these things. Strangely enough, he accepts other things - like 'love thy neighbour', and thinks that Jesus couldn't be cruel and unkind. He...

I'm afraid that it isn't as clear as maybe you might like it to be. Did the ground have any moral sense? "Cursed is the ground for thy sake..." And under the law, an ox that gored someone to death was to be killed, but if the owner knew all about it, he was ALSO to die. Ex 21.28 If an ox...

You seem to be saying that the 'ruler of this world' is satan. Are you sure? Doesn't it say in Daniel 4. 25 that 'the Most High ruleth in the kingdoms of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will'? It seems to me that Jesus could well have been talking about Himself and His own death. He...

I did not say that the Bible (Paul and Peter in this case) demeans women. I think your assumptions that Eve was simple minded, easily led, more susceptible to temptation etc etc are not biblical concepts. She was the mother of all living, and deserves some more respect. You again fail to ask...

Introduction It is quite startling to see how many intepreters of scripture will take this passage, and with any number of doctrinal prejudices interpret it with absolutely no attention to the principles of interpretation which common sense and attention to the details of the passage would...

You fail to draw the correct inference from Paul's words. I've done so above. Eve was deceived. Under the Law of Moses, that would be described as a sin of ignorance, and not worthy of death. The ringleader, Adam, however, was not ignorant. He was not deceived. He acted in full possession of...

Hi Marksman Thanks for your reply. I like people who talk straight - I can usually understand what they mean and where they're going. So is Paul, a straight- talker. And I think he's perfectly clear on the point: ! Tim.2 .11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. 12 But I...