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Absolutely brilliant article. Read and be blessed! I came out at New Year ... as a Christian

My U.K. church is affiliated to the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches www.fiec.org.uk Here is that fellowship's take on the roles of women in churches. Women in Ministry - FIEC In Titus 2:1-8, it interesting that Titus is to reach the older men, the younger me and the older women...

Well I'll take that as an apology and accept it. I have had other people telling me that my beliefs are some tradition that I learned whereas their superior understanding comes from their own study. It's an obnoxious form of oneupmanship and I tend to react against it. Let's move on. If you...

You miss the point entirely. You have no idea whether that thought just popped into my head a moment before I wrote it; whether I was taught it as part of my PhD in theology or whether I find it very clearly taught in the Bible after detailed study. So where do you get off telling me that I...

Well this is cheap and easy, isn't it? You know nothing whatever about me or what I've been, or not been, taught. I could just say the exact same thing about you. And if you can't keep a civil tongue in your head, I have no desire to debate with you. You didn't learn that anywhere, I think...

May I suggest that you make your points in a new thread and link my name. I will then try to answer them. I think you're off-topic on this thread. But I will say this: if Christ has not saved me then I am not saved. Any works that I do in my own strength are inevitably flawed and...

2 Corinthians 5:19. '...That is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.' Bye bye bbyrd.

@John Caldwell, As I was walking my dog this afternoon, it occurred to me that we might not be as far apart as perhaps we imagine, at least on the subject of 'forsaken.' Perhaps, just as my understanding of 'separate' is not what you imagine it to be, your definition of 'withdraw support' might...

Insofar as she is separated from me during the time apart, yes. She has to have faith that I am not off seeing some other woman and that I will meet her again at the appointed time (I, of course, have to have similar faith in her). No analogy can be pressed too far, but the separation between...

I most certainly copied and pasted from my blog https://marprelate.wordpress.com/2018/03/26/penal-substitution-and-the-trinity/ I have had no time to compose post of that length and in any case it says what I want to say. Those posts (#123, 124) are not specifically addressed to you; they are...

Yes.

Sometimes my wife and I go into town together. We then separate from one another while she goes into one shop and I go into another. During that time we have no contact with each other, but we meet again at a pre-arranged time for lunch, coffee or whatever. But the fact that we have separated...

[Continuation] We should now consider the various references to the Lord Jesus drinking a cup. In Mark 10:38, He asks James and John, “Are you able to drink the cup that I drink and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” Then in Gethsamene, ‘deeply distressed and troubled’ Mark...

The Lord Jesus tells us that He and His Father mutually indwell each other (John 14:11; c.f. also John 10:38; 14:10, 20). The technical term for this is perichoresis. This implies both union and distinction between Father and Son. One of the many problems with polytheism is the idea that...

This will depend what definition of 'separate' you are trying to ascribe to me (and Spurgeon, Lloyd-Jones etc., etc.). Let's look at a couple of the other uses of ἐγκαταλείπω 2 Timothy 4:10. 'For Demas has forsaken me.......' What has Demas done? He has abandoned Paul, separated himself...

Well people earn PhDs by writing about the 'Colossian Heresy,' but I don't think you'll find that it was a Jewish sect. It seems to have been some sort of proto-gnosticism that was inflicting the church in Colosse, a 'Christ Plus' amalgam of different ideas, but I don't think it can be argued...

Thank you for agreeing that enkataleipo means to 'forsake' or 'abandon.' 2 Corinthians 4:9. 'Persecuted, but not forsaken.....' 2 Timothy 4:10. 'For Demas has forsaken me.......' 2 Timothy 4:16. '......But all forsook me.' Hebrews 10:25. 'Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together....'...

Whether I prefer one reading to another, or whether I find one easier to understand than another is beside the point. The question is, which do I think is more likely to be what the Apostle wrote. It is the Critical Text supporters who have the zany view that the more difficult reading is...

I spent a considerable amount of time looking at the usage of enkataleipo, and you have nothing to say about it but "'Tain't so!" That is frankly pathetic on your part and no way to conduct a discussion. This is, after all, a discussion forum. Psalms 22:1-2 says very clearly that He did. It...

Hello HiH, The fact is that the vast majority of the extant Greek texts, 800 or so, support the Received Text, while the grand total of ten, according to the apparatus in my UBS Greek Testament, support the Critical Text. I tend to support the majority, so I'll go for the T.R.