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I believe we, and me too, tend to become combative in these threads. I'm trying to arrange my thinking on these threads as to be more positive, stating why I believe a certain doctrine, rather than spending time fighting those who believe differently. If one reads my various posts and my...

Going back to the beginning, the OP, I see the battle for truth to be a cultural problem. How much of my understanding of God's word is objectively derived from the truth presented by Jesus Christ. I grew up from infancy in a religious culture and atmosphere; so I am tainted to some degree by...

Ronald, you are correct. I should have used the term "erotic love" to make my meaning accurate.

I check these verses first, to see if it is an evangelical translation, or a more standard translation - Ex. 21:22; has it been re-translated to something like "premature birth"; or left as it is meaning a miscarriage. And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that her...

Many Christians who hold to Once Saved Always Saved understand it the same as Perseverance of the Saints. The title of this thread concerns the dangerous abuse of the OSAS where some think once you do that "decision for Christ" at one point of time, and you can later be living like the Devil...

Behold, I've read the things you post in various threads, and I've come to believe you are either a troll, or extremely ignorant!

I have no idea where you are coming from. I agree, the Song of Solmon is full of sexual/love references. Yes, the NT was written in Greek, and the Jews translated the Hebrew OT into Greek, called the Septuagint, LXX. Explain in detail how I was playing word games. I quoted from recognize...

You write "Paul is talking to believers"; so, is that believers in Moses and the Old Covenant, or believers in Jesus and the New Covenant? "Therefore, brothers, holy partners in a heavenly calling, consider that Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, was faithful to the one who...

"But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both young and old, all the people from every quarter;" (Gen 19:4 ERV) The Hebrew here for "men" is enosh which means "mortals", in other words humanity. It was "all the people" who were involved...

You paraphrased that from Leviticus, but are you an Israelite, at Mt Sinai, after coming out of Egypt? Lev 26:46 RV "These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses." Lev 27:34 RV "These are the...

I'd be curious as to how many readers, who do not post, are impressed by the homophobic blather on here that seems to never present the Scripture upon which they base their humanistic approach to their religion. If it is not based squarely on God's word, it is homophobic blather: 1Co 4:6 RV...

The NRSV updated edition 2021 has "divorce" mentioned 33 times in 29 verses. How many men or women in the pulpit are divorced, and not with the moral exceptions given by Jesus in Matthew 19? How easily "divorce" has been accepted in fundamentalist/evangelical circles even in the pulpits; but...

The study of homosexuality, which word and concept was first developed in 1869, has been in a state of increased understanding over the years. It is a psychological topic. Therefore, since it is admitted in the field of psychology, definitions, words and understandings are changing; how is it...

You made the claim: "Sexual activity outside of the divine marriage institution is what constitutes sexual sin." In what verse do you find that? Where is that "law" written? The Bible tells us that sin is transgression of the law - "Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for...

Thayer's on "agape" love - ἀγάπη, -ης, ἡ, a purely Biblical and ecclesiastical word (for Wyttenbach, following Reiske's conjecture, long ago restored ἀγαπήσων in place of ἀγάπης, ὧν in Plutarch, sympos. quaestt. 7, 6, 3 (vol. viii., p. 835, Reiske edition)). Secular authors from (Aristotle)...

A heterosexual pair of humans commit adultery. Was it a sin because they were of opposite sexes? A homosexual pair of males engage in sex. Was it a sin simply because it was of the same sexes? Isn't the sin in both cases, the type of sexual conduct that is being condemned in the context? I...

Since Gal. 6:16 was touched upon, consider the following presentation of Rom. 11:17-27: "But if some of the branches(Physical Jews) were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot(Elect Gentiles), were grafted in their place to share the rich root(Jesus the Christ) of the olive tree(God's people)...

Those who have regular contact with someone from another culture and language today, see this problem. How often have you heard something similar to: "I can't think of a way to say that in English", so a broad description is given, a paraphrase. Imagine adding the gap of 2000 years to the...

Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool than to Speak and Remove All Doubt

Ad Hominem Fallacy Ad hominem means “against the man,” and this type of fallacy is sometimes called name calling or the personal attack fallacy. An ad hominem fallacy occurs when someone attacks the person instead of attacking his or her argument. This approach can act as a method of...