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Jer 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you..." God is crazy about you. Think of a mother with her 1 year-old baby who is learning to walk. How does the mother react when the baby takes one halting step and then falls on her bottom with a thud? Does she feel like she's been let down...

So Christ founded a counterfeit Church?

There IS unity. Christ HAS kept his word. He founded 1 Church. It still exists as it did from day 1. Our job is to find it. There is only one Church that even claims to have continuous succession from the apostles.

My full time job is with the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology. I'm also an independent contractor for the Augustine Institute. I lead a bible study on Saturday mornings. I am a spiritual mentor and a sponsor for people entering the church. I contribute to the missions. All of that is...

What is our commission? The Great Commission: Matthew 28:19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

In John 17 Jesus prayed for unity. Why? 20 “I do not pray for these only, but also for those who believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that thou hast sent me...

One doesn't have to be perfect to admonish a sinner. Parents do it for their children all the time. The trick is to do it with love.

If you walked into a room with a pool table and the balls were rolling around the table, bouncing off the bumpers and each other, could you possibly imagine that they were just "always" moving. Something/someone started the motion. So it is with all things that are in motion--planets, stars...

Typology: the study of types. A type in scripture is a person or thing in the Old Testament which foreshadows a person or thing in the New Testament

The formation of Eve from the side of Adam is a type. Adam's bride is brought forth by God from the side of her groom. The Antitype is the the Bride of the Christ (the Church) is born out of the side of the New Adam. When Christ's side was pierced with a lance blood and water flowed out which...

RJP: PC Nazi: Someone who is politically correct to the extreme--wishing to throw anyone who violates PC rules into the ovens (figuratively, of course). Political correctness (adjectivally, politically correct; both forms commonly abbreviated to PC) is a term which denotes language, ideas...

Guestman, snore. taylor, I have a lot of trouble following your comments. You apparently want me to interpret Jesus' prohibition of "judging lest I be judged," as permission to decide whether someone is lost or saved (going to heaven or hell). Then, in the very next sentence, you seem say...

Guestman, (or should I say, watchtower man?) I have no answer to most of what you have said, because, quite frankly, it bores me. The core of my comment was that we, along with the Jews of Jesus' time, no longer pronounce the name aloud out of respect. When we pray to Him, in the intimacy of...

Guestman, It was the custom of the Jews never to pronounce the Tetragrammaton because this was disrespectful and even blasphemous. So whenever the scrolls were read in synagog, the reader would automatically substitute the word "Lord" whenever they came upon the Tetragrammaton. Now, ancient...

From the Navarre Bible: (which basically agrees with the above citation) The great Church writers have suggested three possible explanations. First: that it was not a matter of resurrections in the strict sense, but of apparitions of these dead people. Second: they would have been dead people...

Wow, I never heard that the seven Churches to whom John wrote in the last half of the first century were anything but churches he founded in Asia Minor (modern Turkey) where he ministered before he was exiled. As for evil popes...yawn. Which of the ten commandments have popes violated in every...