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  1. Brakelite

    Friendly Bible Study - participants must agree to Nicene Creed.

    Just for some encouragement and affirmation as to how important sharing our testimony is.... KJV Revelation 12:10-11 10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast...
  2. Brakelite

    Friendly Bible Study - participants must agree to Nicene Creed.

    No. It's not that. The early Catholic church very quickly developed a full and complete dogmatic justification for persecution of heretics... And official sanction for this was granted then by Justinian. And the Vatican still believes they are fully justified in persecuting unbelievers and...
  3. Brakelite

    Friendly Bible Study - participants must agree to Nicene Creed.

    An article I wrote several years ago on the Word based on the following scriptures... Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Psalm 33:6 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth...... ....9 For he spake, and...
  4. Brakelite

    Friendly Bible Study - participants must agree to Nicene Creed.

    They were mechanically simple. We dumb Kiwis could understand simple.
  5. Brakelite

    Friendly Bible Study - participants must agree to Nicene Creed.

    I drove my 1957 Humber 80 for a year on only 2 cylinders. Didn't go well. But it goed.
  6. Brakelite

    Friendly Bible Study - participants must agree to Nicene Creed.

    The contents themselves of the creeds I won't discuss... The issue I have is the force and compulsion, from Constantine to Justinian and "converted" pagan rulers on behalf of the established church, used in order to establish the various versions of the doctrines as expressed in those creeds. On...
  7. Brakelite

    Friendly Bible Study - participants must agree to Nicene Creed.

    The purpose of coming together to study is that we may together be in the presence of God and come under his influence. If personal healing, self knowledge, and growth is the result of fellowship, then that is not only not off topic, but God's working and will.
  8. Brakelite

    Friendly Bible Study - participants must agree to Nicene Creed.

    The Lord already knows who we are, understands all our fears and weaknesses (and we all have many), so there is nothing we can tell Him about ourselves that He doesn't know. But being completely open and honest about our innermost feelings and anxieties, is the first step in healing...
  9. Brakelite

    Friendly Bible Study - participants must agree to Nicene Creed.

    3 days and 9 pages already! Slowly working my way through everyone's testimonies. Two things stand out. A. No-one is beyond hope. We all come to Him, or the rather He comes to us, wherever we are, and meets with us in the gutter. That gutter, and our love and attachment for the things that float...
  10. Brakelite

    Trolling Smart People With Dumb Comments For Fun

    Ask him which is older. Tap dancing or taps?
  11. Brakelite

    Where does the Pope get his authority?

    So only your church is the one church? I'm not talking about ecclesial division. I'm talking about apostasy from God. That took place in the same manner that Israel divorced themselves from their Husband... KJV Isaiah 54:5 5 For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy...
  12. Brakelite

    Where does the Pope get his authority?

    It doesn't. How can we possibly condemn anyone? Particularly those that God calls "My people"? If the reformers knew what their legacy would turn into through the comprising and worldliness of modern man, they may not have begun what they did. So yes. We appeal to those reformers who through...
  13. Brakelite

    Why its important to keep the Sabbath

    Quote from above......So, for no apparent reason, God created creatures that were to be considered loathsome to humans… I'm curious about this loathsome word you keep using. Who is claiming that any animal is 'loathsome'? Unclean, yes. Not fit for consumption, yes. But my dogs are not loathsome...
  14. Brakelite

    Why did God...

    The careers of Genghis Khan and his son, Ogotai, and their friendly relations to the Church of the East, belong more to the history of Asia as a whole. This story has already been told. The story of the three nephews of Ogotai — also emperors and conquerors; namely, Mangu, Kublai, and Hulagu —...
  15. Brakelite

    Why did God...

    @APAK It is remarkable that in the time of Patrick, as later testimony from Alphonse Mingana will point out, there were large groups of Christians stretching all the way from the Euphrates to northwestern India. Furthermore, in 411, when Patrick was at the height of his work, the recognized...
  16. Brakelite

    Where does the Pope get his authority?

    Although there is a connection between the authority of the church and the trinity doctrine promulgated in the 4th century and beyond, I am loathe to discuss that on this thread as it will result in total derailment, and the present discussions on authority are important and interesting. I would...
  17. Brakelite

    Where does the Pope get his authority?

    And again, when He bringeth in THE FIRSTBEGOTTEN into the world, He saith, And let all the angels of God worship Him (Heb 1:6) "Who is the image of the invisible God, THE FIRSTBORN of every creature (Col 1:15) "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the...
  18. Brakelite

    Where does the Pope get his authority?

    What is so illogical about that? It isn't a theory, it's what happened. And that's what I mean by your word games. Calling historical facts 'theories'. Unless of course you think Righteousness by faith is error as discovered by Luther. Or perhaps full immersion baptism is an error? Is prayer as...
  19. Brakelite

    Why its important to keep the Sabbath

    Don't equate 'meats' with food. If something was unclean, it was never intended to be food. How come the above isn't a direct contradiction to your counsel just before? You must have a specific scripture in mind then if the entire Bibles message is, be moderate in all things. He didn't have...
  20. Brakelite

    Where does the Pope get his authority?

    Indeed. That's what scripture teaches. As well as a final destruction of the wicked, not ECT. As for the Godhead issue, I would take great care and much circumspection before coming down too hard on Protestantism for their variety of beliefs while you deny the Lordship, the Divinity, the Deity...