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May God grant you the healing you need, my friend.

The only way to obtain God's intended message is through accurate hermeneutics.

How can inaccurate hermeneutics result anything but inaccurate messages? "Judas went and hanged himself". "Go and do likewise". We can find a message in there, but it's not Biblical by a longshot.

The best way to maintain credibility in the sight of others is to answer the objections of those with whom you disagree...and not risk the credibility-destroying impression that you're unable to answer.

If mine lacks wisdom, then yours lacks wisdom along with common sense logic, reason, hermeneutical consistency, etc. Do you even read my stuff? Of course, "Abraham's bosom" refers to his chest area where we hug people. Which is why this is a parable: because it's not reasonable to claim his...

"Body" and "Spirit" are what comprise the "soul". Paul's saying he wants the parts as well as the entire whole blessed in like manner when mom used to say when we were kids, "When I get back I want the bathroom, the bedrooms, the entire house, cleaned top to bottom". He taught no such thing...

I prefer to let doctrines - not professions - be the the test as to whether we're on the right track. 14 contradictions ain't enough proof for you?

Vicarius = 112 Filii = 53 Dei = 501 The letters in the pope's miter, which mean "Vicar of the Son of God". You don't get any more "antichrist" aka "take the place of Christ" than that.

If you understood a "soul" is the "whole" that results from the union of its two parts - "body" and "breath of life" - then you'd know the "whole" ceases to be when the parts return to from whence they came at death. Correct. Correct. Wrong, because a "soul" isn't an "ghost" that inhabits a...

Nah, 100% parable - because of the many contradictions which arise by making it literal. Don't you guys care at all about hermeneutical consistency?

Cross out false ideas about the Scriptures and leave the Scriptures and the truth therein intact. If 2 Corinthians 5 plainly states there's only TWO kinds of bodies - the mortal and resurrection - the only explanation for why Jesus said the Rich Man, Lazarus, and Abraham have post-death...

So true. Even in colonial America, Protestant religious intolerance was a real thing, though no where near that of the papacy. It took a while for "religious freedom" to actually shake itself loose of bigotry, however well meaning they were. There was actually a requirement that a man could not...

Yes, but little by little, Protestantism purged itself of catholicism: Luther discovered the most important of all truths: salvation by grace through faith ALONE. Calvin brought the truth that we were predestined by God for higher, nobler existence to the forefront. Smyth and Williams brought...

The same "spirit" that God says He breathed into Adam DEPARTED from Adam the moment Adam died. "And the spirit shall return to God Who gave it". Can YOU or I return to the moon? Why not?

Inaccuracies? "Irreconcilable" is just that - attempts to reconcile what's irreconcilable is pointless. Therefore, the only way to maintain Scriptural harmony is to reject anything that undermines it - the very thing that happens when we take a symbolic parable with elements that are...

It would be plausible to suggest "Abraham's bosom" is some geographical location on some spiritual map - if not for the fact that we read Lazarus was carried "into the bosom of Abraham" which is clearly not a reference to some geographical location on some spiritual map - but to a physiological...

"Despise not prophesyings. PROVE ALL THINGS. Hold fast to that which is good." Proving what is true cannot but expose that which is not true...the 14 contradictions prove the Rich Man and Lazarus is no "evidence" for Immortal Soul doctrine.

Not sure where you get that definition from. When the Bible says "every living soul died in the sea" it's not talking about "invisible persons". Genesis 2:7 KJV defines a "soul" as the union of the Body and the Breath of Life - bodies are very much visible, even dead bodies, which proves the...

The solution to ending the appeal to the Rich Man and Lazarus as supposed "evidence" for Immortal Soul doctrine is simple: Stop using lame excuses as permission to ignore the 14 contradictions.

catholicism teaches salvation comes through the priesthood - not the blood of Christ. We should work hard to reach as many of our catholic friends with the truth as we can.