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Winston Churchill is famed for his comment "America and Britain are two great countries divided by a common language". I have reread my post several times but cannot for the life of me find a way to rephrase it to eliminate the ambiguity that you and Enow clearly see. I'll go away and have...

John 19:22

If God himself were to tell me that what went on in that video was 'of the Holy Spirit', I would become a 'Pologramist'. And before anyone asks, Pologramism is an undiscoverable religion to which I alone have been given the key, as a safeguard against a time of need. At which time I would become...

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I think I am right in saying that "God is not a God of confusion" only occurs once and is used in comparing opposites. In this verse the comparison was with 'peace', the opposite of which is 'tumult' (as distinct from 'confusion'). And I would back up this alternative word by considering that a...

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Hi Oligos, Your avatar brings to mind the song "you can't get to Heaven in an old Ford car";)

Little children, try harder (just a tiny bit harder will be OK for starters) to understand what each other is trying to say. We each (surely) believe as we do (but often express ourselves inadequately) with heart felt sincerity, but with 'words of the mouth or keyboard' which do not truly...

So far so good. I identify with that and trust that I too walk in the same direction as you, along the same narrow path. Nevertheless I "bestow greater honour to my lesser brethren" and hold their hands tightly as they too try to walk on the same path and in the same direction; even though they...

Fantastic....ideal as part of a signature line. Also I totally empathise with your "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" avatar. I've started reading through your posts and, as yet, I can find nothing that challenges my hope that I am seeing a 'man after my own heart'. Helen shared a...

But so many posters have already been dogmatically reproving one another by throwing scriptures into the mix.

The thread started well but quickly turned into dogmatic bigotry.

Now that's a coincidence. I'm just in the middle of wondering about how to interrelate Corinthian's Judgement Set of Christ with Revelation's Great White Throne. I suspect it may well be one event seen through a glass darkly by Paul and then later revealed more clearly to John.

Exactly what is the purpose of this thread in resurrecting the great controversy of the early middle ages? Is to strengthen the Christian faith, or is it to undermine it? "Christians have divided as a result of the breakdown of the apparent consensus. This happened between the Byzantine East...

I was not saying what I believe, or lining up alongside what someone else believes. I was just alluding in a lighthearted way to the hyper application of contextual contention.

Ernest T. Bass (post #3) If your contextual contention is valid then it must apply equally to most of what Jesus said to his disciples and apostles (at least prior to his transfiguration) maybe excluding things which might have been clearly stated or strongly implied to apply more widely. In...

I don't speak for others but, for my part, I simply don't involve in "debunking". I try my best to live by the pacifist teachings of Christ's Sermon on the Mount.

If you "rightly divide the word of truth" by cherry picking verses and passages which suit what you want to belief, then you can be a Universal Reconciliationist, an Annihilationist, one who believes that the vast majority of mankind will be eternally tormented in a Lake of Fire, or even a Hyper...

I’ve only speed read through the thread but, unless I’ve missed it, no one has alluded to the references to ‘the second death’ in Revelation. Those whose names are not written in the Lamb’s Book of Life are thrown into the Lake of Fire for the purpose of perishing in their second death, as...

Personally I place great reliance on 'Christ Within' coupled with the hymn "The dearest idol I have known, what ere that idol be, help me to tear it from thy throne, and worship only Thee". In which respect I see any such idol as being what you call "replacement for Christ" ('Christ Within' as I...