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Jesus said, "Do this..." He didn't add, "if you feel like it".

You don't have to. He goes through Mark's Gospel from beginning to end, so you just scroll down (like I did) until you get to Mark 7:19.

Taking Communion is another thing that I should have put on my 'sharing' list. One can't observe the sacraments on one's own. But there are so many things that could have been on the list...

I can't take this seriously. You are twisting my words and forgetting your own: Here is the article I referred to. The guy is an expert in Greek texts, so somehow I don't think he'll be imagining what he reads there. http://www.willker.de/wie/TCG/TC-Mark.pdf

Well, I did google it - and I found articles referring to variant readings of Mark 7:19 in many different manuscripts! If it's in lots of manuscripts, it can't simultaneously be only in one. That is the normal definition of food. There's no separate "Bible definition" - that's your personal...

Are you taking issue with a catchy title?

This is not true - the verses added in the Codex Bezai are the end of Mark 16. Where did you get this info from? If Jesus "declared all foods clean", that's a good enough reason to consider them edible. The dietary laws of the OT do not apply to Gentile Christians. That's an interesting...

Does anyone "prep" outside of the USA? Presumably the rest of us just get on with living a Christian life. Jesus told us not to worry about tomorrow. He also told us not to stockpile 'treasure' - which presumably is what you're expecting all this food and stuff to turn into! There are many...

The penal substitution "theory" predates John Calvin by about 4 centuries! It was first put forward by Anselm. So it's incorrect to link it with Calvinism. And it's only one way of looking at the atonement: Atonement I believe not only in penal substitution but also in the ransom and in the...

There does come a point, though, when you do have to tell the other person that you think they're wrong - otherwise very little evangelism would get done. Paul may have started his sermon on the subject of the altar to an "unknown god", but he immediately went on to say, "The God who made the...

The only people who "know" that they are condemned to eternal damnation are the people who don't care.

Yet it is still the case that "the whole world is under the control of the evil one." (I John 5:19)

And those things as well. They are the consequences of dealing with our sin. That God should go to war on our behalf is a sign of great love, I would say.

That's an argument that looks impressive at first glance but becomes less convincing the more I think about it. The number of witnesses is only one factor - the quality of the witnesses is arguably more important. Five eyewitnesses would carry much more weight than 995 people whose only evidence...

No, it's because I applied some common sense and critical thinking. I find the evidence for those assertions too flimsy to be taken seriously.

Thankyou, but I've seen it all before - and researched it - and discovered that every single argument used by the KJV-only movement is fallacious.

Victory over Satan The whole Bible is the story of a war - a war that begins in the book of Genesis and ends in the book of Revelation. Way back at the beginning of human history, the first human beings were tricked into rebelling against their Creator - and thus the whole of our species joined...

No need to get all excited over this... the "missing" words are in verse 4 (which is where they originally came from) and can be found there in all the modern versions.

Redemption Redemption is a technical term. In ancient times, the usual reason for becoming a slave was bankruptcy. It was like pawning a valuable article, only that article was yourself! You sold yourself into bondage, so in order to be set free again you had to be bought out by someone. This...

I think we're saying effectively the same thing but defining our terms slightly differently.