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You are trying to rewrite the scriptures to support anti-Semitism and your wicked distortion is clear - "...and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses." (Acts 3:15, NRSV) "But we speak God’s wisdom, secret and hidden, which God decreed before the...

This thread appears to be a debate between two false teachings. One is making water baptism a requirement for salvation, some form of baptismal regeneration. The opposing view being stated appears to be neonomianism. To understand the scriptures mentioning baptism, it helps to keep in mind...

You wrote: "We give, Faith in CHRIST....., and God responds with "the gift of Salvation"." That is making faith something you gave to merit the gift of salvation. WRONG! Faith itself is God's gift to the elect. "For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only...

I have always viewed Mike Lindell the Pillow Guy with suspicion as he pedals his pillows mixed with his Christian testimony. The pillows are good and I sleep on one. But, I never trust public figures flouting their supposed Christian witness. One of my news sites I was is offthepress.com where...

The replies to the OP I've seen so far have confirmed what I have suspected about the modern translations of this passage. One remarked about the error of setting up a gay category, and I agree, that is the big problem. I quoted from the NET Bible to make a point, but I'd NEVER use this...

"...to the church of God that is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, and called to be saints, with all those in every place who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours." (1Cor 1:2, NET2.1) To the Christians, as the verse preceding the passage in...

In response to Harold's OP Title, I'll add 3 passages myself on how to be saved - "Now I would remind you, brethren, in what terms I preached to you the gospel, which you received, in which you stand, by which you are saved, if you hold it fast—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to...

It is useless to attempt reasoning with a homophobic person whose "credentials" seem to be only his twisted hatred. The verse reads: "the men, leaving the natural use of the woman" which means in our terminology, heterosexuals leaving their women. That is shown in the historical context as...

The word "homosexual" was created in 1869 and began to be seen in English around 1900 and was NEVER seen in an English translation of the Bible until the 1946 RSV, and the word was then removed in the 1972 revision. The older English translations like the KJV, RV, ASV and YLT have the...

"Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying, 'The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and believe in the gospel.'” (Mark 1:14-15 RSV) Obeying the the command to repent and believe the gospel is to obey the gospel! No...

Those of us who are not scholars in the NT Greek and the textual variants are not without helps to make a decision on textual matters for ourselves. Just as I do not study from a single denominational source, but compare arguments, I can do the same with the questions on the Greek. For...

The image and likeness of God as described in the NT- "Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have stripped off the old self with its practices and have clothed yourselves with the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of its creator." (Col 3:9-10 NRSV) "You...

Daniel B. Wallace has a page online where he addresses "Fifteen Myths about Bible Translation", which begins as follows: "1. Perhaps the number one myth about Bible translation is that a word-for-word translation is the best kind. Anyone who is conversant in more than one language recognizes...

Isaiah, approximately 740-681 BC, wrote of the future glory of the New Covenant church, the true Israel consisting of the elect Jew and Gentile, the New Covenant believers - "But far be it from me to glory except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to...

What are you saying the scriptures teach? 1. A 7th Day Sabbath is commanded of all men from the creation, and continues in the New Covenant? or 2. Honoring one day after six days of work are by example given for ALL men, not just Israel? or 3. If one honors the 1st day of the...

As a last post for awhile, I'll leave with these remarks - The 70 weeks of Dan. 9:24 are thought to be 490 years and that ends in the 1st century. To separate the 70th from the 69th week by over 2500 years is moronic. Whoever thought of that scheme back in the history of the church... you...

My friend, "what it says" takes hard work and study in these areas of doctrine. It is wise to get views from various perspectives and see what their biblical reasonings are. We form our understandings by study, and if we are wise, we keep examining and revising as we learn. I confess, as I...

In biblical prophecy the language is often figurative, symbolic and apocalyptic, not to be taken literally. True time-tested scholars of Scripture are humble and do not express an 'all knowing' assurance of the meaning of such passages. Interpretation of these passages must be kept in...

Revelation 6:9, comes in the period leading up to the destruction of the temple in 70 AD; not our future today, 2000 years later. When the book gives us the timing "things which must shortly come to pass" 1:1; "the time is hand" 1:3; and repeated in the last chapter, "things which must shortly...

Thank you for your scholarly exposition of the texts under consideration. It certainly adds depth to a serious discussion among believers, and prompts one to continue with replies!