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Holy Scripture does not require us to defend it, first and foremost. Secondly, please clearly define attacking Holy Scripture so that it covers all conceivable/possible realities. Please also clearly define the difference between a legitimate query and an illegitimate one that attacks, while...

This is one of those things that you can go too far to the right or the left on, certainly. I'm somewhat troubled by the idea that you must have certain credentialing to be a minister or serve in certain roles within the church. We do not have Jesus to mentor our church leaders, but running a...

http://www.firstthings.com/article/2013/10/our-lady-of-wheaton I find myself in agreement with this article. We Protestants make too little of Mary, but the Catholics too much.

The Institute on Religion & Democracy posted this up yesterday. I've heard a number of rumblings about the Mahdi, but this makes a little more sense of the chaos. I don't believe that a political motivation alone could sustain the energy over there...

Welcome to the community Asyncritus! We have Christians of a variety of stripes and interests, so I think you'll find discussion on these topics.

Bavinck wrote this in an introduction to sermons by Ralph Ebenezer Erskine. Ostensibly, this was written to readers of the work, but I wouldn't limit this criticism to just Bavinck's Reformed camp. I'd apply this to a variety of denominations and even larger camps. Such as, in the Evangelical...

I wouldn't so easily dismiss a hermaphrodite as simply a physiological issue. There are numerous examples of these people going through psychological issues as well, such as confusion about which gender they identify with. It's not simple and it's not something that I believe we can simply...

The phrase, at least in context of this quote, would refer to an intimate knowledge given by God. Something that is spoken about in passages like Luke 10:22.

This, to me, is brilliant:

My short reply would be the notion of antinomianism, jiggy. A larger response would be simply the mystery of salvation. Yes Christ has redeemed us, but Christ is also redeeming us and will redeem us. We are a work in progress, a working being sanctified. Sometimes the Eastern Orthodox face has a...

1 Timothy 4:10 ESV For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe. I do not subscribe to universalism, but I've always thought this verse interesting. Clearly Jesus died for all, but also...

I would term this a common struggle. At the end of the day, the Holy Spirit plays a key part for me in discernment. Proverbs 14:8 ESV The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deceiving. Romans 12:2 ESV Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by...

With all due respect my dear, you proceed to tell me the verse is not about gluttony but then proceed to say God "warns us against letting our bellies rule over us..." which is indeed a form of definition of gluttony. It does clearly have a larger application (as does any piece of Scripture)...

I'm totally confused as to how you could be 100% AOG, 98% Reformed Baptist and then 94% Freewill. The mind boggles. :wacko: My results: Presbyterian Church USA (100%) Methodist/Wesleyan Church (98%) Presbyterian Church in America/Orthodox Presbyterian Church (93%)...

I think there is a natural surface tendency to grade sin. The simple reason for this is that it gives us the consolation that someone out there is worse. They are more evil and have a darker heart. The notion is somewhat comforting, and it results from an incomplete understanding of where men...

The head of the The Episcopal Church (TEC) in the US remarked: "Some have judged our smaller numbers as faithlessness but it may actually be the Spirit's way of pruning for greater fruitfulness." (Link...

http://theresurgence.com/2013/08/22/why-mars-hill-uses-the-esv-bible I thought the above article made the case of the use of the English Standard Version (ESV) from a fairly reasonable standpoint. Obviously, there are statements to quibble with, but this didn't seem, at least, to have as much...

No, the beasts of the field were created to be fruitful and fill the Earth (Genesis 1:22). They were created prior to Adam, as Angelina points out. Just a bit later, in Genesis 1:28-30, God pronounces man's dominion over the beasts. At that point, I don't know how you can argue that God desired...

I don't know why we would try to read anything into a very simply stated verse already there: Genesis 2:18 NLT Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him.” Adam was alone, and so God created a help. Adam went through and...

In theory you should be able to post the link and it will dynamically imbed the video into a player. Let me know if that doesn't work, as we seemed to have identified an older browser issue where this sometimes doesn't happen.