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Is this simply a superstitious ban on the word "Trinity"? Is it also a ban on quoting from the Ecumenical Creeds along with the supporting scripture? Is the phrase "Triune God" also banned? Does the ban extend to a collation of verses organized by topic that describe the One God, and that...

Merriam-Webster "Christianity, noun 1 : the religion derived from Jesus Christ, based on the Bible as sacred scripture, and professed by Eastern, Roman Catholic, and Protestant bodies" What is professed in agreement by the Eastern, Roman Catholic, and Protestant bodies? It is the Ecumenical...

What are you talking about? Where is regeneration or being born again or born from above mentioned in Acts 2? Be specific what you stating.

Our words if wrong or evil are condemned right along with fornication, indecency and greed. In the ASV this statement by Paul is one single sentence though in 2 verses. These three translations give us a pretty good picture of what Paul was condemning. "But fornication, and all uncleanness...

Robert, an excellent OP! It seems Catholics wish to blend sanctification with justification; but justification is an instantaneous declaration of God based on the active and passive obedience of Jesus Christ in the place of the elect. Sanctification in the sense of being made holy is a...

Reading a full sentence from John chapter one clears things up about being "born from above". "But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, even to them that believe on his name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of...

"When, as you advance, the Lord your God exterminates the nations whose country you are entering to occupy, you will take their place and settle in their land. After they have been destroyed, take care that you are not ensnared into their ways. Do not enquire about their gods, saying, ‘How used...

QuietThinker, you mention interpretation and I wish to follow-up on that. I've been stunned at the bizarre, and frankly delusional posts I see in this Christian forum. To increase the danger, these weird, heretical posts are presented with such pontifical certitude; you would think they must...

"So, I did what came naturally. I began to drink. Not publicly. I was the guy you see at the convenience store who buys the big can of beer, hides it in a sack, and presses it against his thigh so no one will see as he hurries out the door. My store of choice was on the other side of the city...

The Bible miracles authenticating the man of God and the message are not empty claims and hearsay, they were certain and definite. They could be judged by the senses "As they were talking about all this, there he was, standing among them. Startled and terrified, they thought they were seeing a...

"You study the scriptures diligently, supposing that in having them you have eternal life; their testimony points to me," (John 5:39, REB) "There were indeed many other signs that Jesus performed in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. Those written here have been...

I have a sincere question for you. You seem to be in an English speaking country, so why do you write "Yahava"? I have a couple close friends who come from other countries with much different sounding names. One uses an English name that is a transliteration or similar to his home country...

I believe Paul gave us a good passage on that question - "Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk,— that ye abound more and more. For ye know what charge we gave you through the...

It is of human nature that any translation is going to have a bias, sometimes doctrinal and at times cultural. But, I saw no doctrinal bias in these verses I quoted from the REB and GNB, even though the Dynamic Equivalence translations are more interpretive. I find the RV/ASV to be the most...

Yes, you missed something in my OP. "If women have not taken over the rule in defiance of Gen. 3:16, and the Apostle Paul directly, they have done so indirectly as recorded in the OT - “Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the mountain of Samar′ia, who oppress the poor, who crush the...

I've never heard the phrase a "Gentleman God", but I do not find 2 Peter 3:9, 15 to to say what most seem to get out of them. "Is the will of God subordinate to the will of humankind?" Depends on which will of God you reference. Left on his own, every man is a "will not"... only by being...

I suppose God's word is a "woman rant"? God can and does place women in roles that are ordinarily for men. That is God doing it and nowhere in the Bible are we told to choose or elect a women for any leadership or ruling capacity. God may do this sort of thing to shame the men for abdicating...

In the NRSV, the phrase "says the Lord" is found 236 times in the Bible, and "says the LORD" is found 575 times. Do we follow the "says the Lord", and the "says the LORD"; or, do we believe and follow, "says that particular culture"? "First of all you must understand this, that no prophecy of...

Behold, let me see if I can add or expand on your post in a manner where we can find agreement. :) "For Christ is an end of law for righteousness to every one who is believing, for Moses doth describe the righteousness that is of the law, that, 'The man who did them shall live in them,'" (Rom...

On this, there are a couple of points that strike a chord with me. It seems that in v22 when Jesus replies to Peter "what is that to thee", he is telling him it is none of his business. Before that reprimand, Jesus says 'If I will that he tarry till I come..." which speaks to the future from...