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I presented the gospel with the scripture I quoted in the OP. Please reread. Look at Romans 10:9-10. one of my main doctrinal objections to the new trend is that it leaves out the resurrection. 'Not a religion but a relationship' is not there in Paul's summary of the Gospel in I Corinthians...

We shouldn't assume that God's morals and goals are in line with modern liberal American goals. I heard a sermon where a pastor talked about repenting for not giving women the right to vote. Biblically, is there any reason to think that God requires that anyone have the right to vote? Is it...

Exodus 20 1 And God spake all these words, saying, ... Exodus 21 7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do. 8 If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange...

I infer monogamy from Matthew 19. If getting a divorce and remarrying is divorce because two shall be one flesh, why would it be not adultery if we remove the divorce part? Concubines in Israel were actually wives, wives obtained by lifting a slave from the status of slave to wife...or...

That reminds me of this guy who had started going to a church with preachers with a 'tell-it-like-it-is' attitude. He was from a family that stole cars and had spent time in prison back in the day. The DA did not like him and investigated and found out that he'd sold cars with open titles, not...

II Samuel 12:8 And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.

Paul never called himself an elder or bishop. He did imply that he pastored, but he did not call himself 'a pastor.' The Bible tells elders to pastor and certain apostles either said they pastor or were told to. But the Bible does not equate pastor with elder or pastor with apostle or apostle...

I was responding to the OP, but the Bible says to let the bishop be a man.... a one woman man. Old Testament elders were 'bearded ones'.

This is the part I was responding to

My post was about the rules in Christianforums.com. Are you in charge of that one, too?

Would you agree with talking about relationship without mentioning the resurrection of Christ or even the mentioning cross, because that is what is going on in a lot of churches. In some places, they mention the cross, but don't explain the gospel. They expect the audience to already know the...

That is a valid question, but Paul did remind the Corinthians of the gospel in the passage I quoted, too. Many churches still think of the church building as the place for evangelism. We are supposed to assemble and exhort one another and to break bread. But if we are going to present the...

How can a woman be a man, much less a one-woman man?

I write about the presentation of the Gospel here. I have been to many churches that have altar calls, or nowadays challenge people to pray at their seats. What seems to be the norm is to follow the script below: - Preach a sermon that is not really salvation-focused. - Do not explain to...

And I do not see any scripture which, reasonably interpreted, argues that prophecy or other gifts will cease when the Bible is complete, but that sounds like a topic for the debate or other forums if you are interested. Debate forum posts do not have to follow formal debate rules do they?

As you should. There are people that are fearful that people who are not being led by the Holy Spirit will claim they are. But creating rules not allowing people to follow the leading of the Spirit is not a Biblical way to deal with that problem. The tendency to make such rules is a problem...

Since Paul was single, it obviously does not apply to all Christians. Men and women are allowed to be singles. Women cannot be husbands, especially since the word for husband means man. If some crazy doctor does plastic surgery on certain parts, she's still really a woman. I read the Old...

If you agreed to the new rule against prophesying, is it possible you violated it by sharing a scripture the Lord gave you? From a pragmatic point of view, a forum that wants to have Presbyterians and Charismatics on it should not have a rule that prevents them from offering Biblical advice in...

I would love to be prophesying left and right, the real thing of course. I have gotten the occasional word of knowledge in the past. Maybe some of it was prophesying, but I do not go around with thus-saith-the-Lord words. I respect others doing so if the word is genuine. What I see in...

I had no idea they were the same people. Maybe they will get my message here. I don't know what their ad revenues are like, but it is smart from a business perspective to keep costs down by getting volunteers to moderate for free if they are still doing that. I think they had a different...