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Personally I think that if you have now become a Christian, you should be baptised as a believer (ideally by immersion, but it will depend on the practice of the church that you join). You should join a church! You are now part of God's family, so you need to put this into practice! Maybe not...

These are all external things. It's your heart that needs to change. You become a Christian when you submit to Jesus Christ as your Lord and let Him rule your life. You can do that any time - even before you go to church. But go to church anyway, to meet other Christians.

I'm afraid I have to take issue with your study on a couple of points. First of all, selling one's possessions is not a 'law' in the same sense that the Torah was law for the Israelites. It's a calling, not a rule. Second, if you read the book of Acts carefully, you find that the first...

Theologically, "It is not good for the man to be alone" (Genesis 2:18) Eve wasn't created just so Adam could make babies; she was to be his companion, assistant and friend. Biologically, sex isn't just for procreation. It's also for what biologists call "pair-bonding" - it helps to glue your...

And how is using one's full name deceitful? I don't understand that at all. It's my surname that I use, not anyone else's. And it's as much a part of me as my first name.

True. Iron only prevents iron-deficiency anaemia. Vitamin B12 is also essential, and it's ONLY found in foods of animal origin. Vegans have to take special vitamin supplements or eat artificially fortified foods (to which vitamin B12 has been added).

Ah, but government agencies, hospitals, banks and internet sites are not "people of familiarity", are they? That's why they need to use our full names! Did you choose your own surname? Not many people do. We receive it from our parents or (if married) from our spouse. No-one forces me to change...

No, but you gave us this information: "My mum and dad named me. Neither have ever addressed me as MR ADAM SMITH (all in black capitals) so why do all corporations?" "Priority" and "personate" (do you mean impersonate?) are very odd words to use. I don't "personate" a "legal" name; I have a...

I think the author is no linguist. "Yet another instance of the significance of the aleph-tav () symbol is found in the Book of Ruth. Ruth's name is used 12 times in the book. The first 10 times there is no aleph-tav () symbol in front of her name. After she is redeemed by Boaz the next two...

Even in New Testament times, there were so many Marys and Jesuses around that they had to be given extra identifiers - this is why Jesus is so often referred to in the Gospels as "Jesus of Nazareth", and why we have "Mary the mother of Jesus" and "Mary Magdalene". Eventually these evolved into...

Make your mind up - two letters, or two words? The Hebrew interlinear that you linked to clearly shows that the two letters make up a single word. And remember or research your Hebrew grammar!

This little word "אֵ ת" occurs in a high proportion of Hebrew sentences - it's what grammarians call a "particle", and its function is to mark the word coming after it as the object of the sentence. We don't have an equivalent in English, which is why it isn't translated. So it doesn't have any...

I'm not a Catholic, but I know that God has expressed a similar statement: "'Oh, that one of you would shut the Temple doors, so that you would not light useless fires on My altar! I am not pleased with you,' says the LORD Almighty, 'and I will accept no offering from your hands.'" (Malachi...

Never bother with them

So you don't know Hebrew, evidently. The word translated 'everlasting' is 'ad', which actually means 'always' or 'for ever' (or 'everlasting'). It's also used to describe mountains in Habakkuk 3:6. The translators of the Bible don't make silly mistakes because of a supposed 'Trinitarian bias'...

You may well find it ludicrous; but that is, nevertheless, what we believe. Jesus (the Son) is God, the Father is God, and the Holy Spirit is God; yet the Son is not the Father, and the Holy Spirit is neither the Son nor the Father. That is the most concise definition of the Trinity that I know...

If the early chapters of Genesis are 'literal', then they teach this lesson (among others). If they are not 'literal', they teach the same lessons. Ultimately, it makes no difference. I am puzzled as to why you think every word spoken by God must be 'literal'. Didn't Jesus tell stories? Doesn't...

You should know that no Trinitarian believes that Jesus is both the Son and the Father.

I was trying to make to clear that they don't doubt creation. God created the world; that's non-negotiable. But why can't Moses write 'allegorically' in chapter 1 and historically in chapter 12 onwards? There were, after all, no witnesses to what happened in most of chapter 1, so it can't be an...

Well, I shall just have to give up trying to understand you, then. If John was from Galilee, then he wasn't a Judahite; Judah was a different place, so they are mutually exclusive categories. If by 'Judahite' you meant 'Jewish', why not use the normal word 'Jewish'? "please tell me where I went...