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What "weapon" is capable of causing an earthquake? (A genuine earthquake, rather than just the shock of an explosion)

Just because verse 10 comes after verse 11, it doesn't follow that the events in verse 10 cause the events in verse 11.

In an ideal world, we would all get baptised as soon as possible after believing, and would immediately join a local church. The believing, the baptising, and the assimilation into the Body would just be different aspects of the same event ("conversion") - which, theologically speaking, they...

Before the day I became a Christian I had only opened a Bible two or three times (other than in school RE lessons) When I was quite young I started reading the KJV from the beginning but got stuck in chapter 6 of Genesis because Noah was spelt "Noe". That confused me terribly, and there was...

I use my own reading plan because I've never liked any of the plans that are generally available. For most of my Christian life I've read the whole Bible through every year. My plan gave me five short passages every day - one from OT history, one from OT poetry, one from OT prophecy, one from...

And who is the original Author of prophecy? Whatever Isaiah, Jeremiah and all the rest of the prophets (and their contemporaries) understood by their prophecies, God was working on a much larger timescale. As someone else has said, patterns in Scripture are as important as words.

Not everyone takes all the details literally. "All the world", for example, could easily mean "all the world inhabited by humans at that time" - which could well have been a relatively small area. Again, Christians have different opinions concerning the timeline of Genesis. So the global...

There are very very few clear predictive prophecies about the Messiah (Zechariah 9:9 is one that comes to mind). Most of the OT texts that we call "Messianic prophecies" aren't prophecies in the sense that they say "the Messiah will do (or be) such-and-such." So the Jews don't consider them as...

The whole argument is completely illogical. For a start, no "scientists" were involved. Archaeologists, but not scientists. What evidence do we have that Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea? Two gospels, both written within the lifetime of people who knew Jesus in the flesh. What evidence is...

The beast in Revelation 13:1-10 appears to represent worldly power, which operates according to devilish principles. Its seven heads indicate that it has many ‘incarnations’: political fashions come and go, but the same potential for tyranny underlies them all, and the overthrow of one overlord...

We shouldn't trust in any theologian, ancient or modern, if that means accepting everything they say or write without question. Nevertheless, they can be valuable sources of insight. The particular value of the early Church Fathers is that Greek (the language of the New Testament) was their...

I do mean languages - I'm using 'tongues' as a technical term to specify the spiritual gift. Never heard of this before. Women are of course more likely to be Christians in the first place, so in terms of pure numbers one would expect there to be more women with this gift than men. The real...

One shouldn't leap to the assumption that these are two different accounts of the same event. It's not like comparing the Gospels, when the same story is being told by different witnesses and you would expect discrepancies. The two stories you mention - apart from the main point (David spares...

They are US - the whole Church

I haven't even started. My decorations usually go up about 7-10 days before Christmas.

"in a state of religious fervour"? I have often prayed in tongues while driving. It doesn't impair my concentration because it doesn't involve my brain - it's rather like listening to the radio, except that the sound comes out of my own mouth. I've no doubt that some people do speak in tongues...

I do

Not everyone who is filled with the Spirit is given the gift of tongues.

Yes, a bit, but I didn't learn until I was an adult. I have large hands because I'm very tall (5 ft 11 in).

I don't think that we're ever commanded to 'turn the other cheek' on behalf of other people. When we are the victims of injustice, we are to be meek. When we see others being victimised, we should stand up for them (although there may well be occasions when discretion is the better part of...