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Unlike the tyrannical hierarchy at the top of your religion, my Baptist roots provide assurance that each Christian needs to determine, under the teaching authority of the Holy Spirit (1 John 2:27), what it is that the Bible is teaching. Some of your awful popes weren't even believers--why...

There is this as well, BoL: During a recent meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in late 2001 in Colorado Springs, Francis X. Gumerlock presented a paper entitled “Before Darby: Expanding the Historical Boundaries of Pretribulationism.” Gumerlock argues that Brother Dolcino and his...

I don't know why you put Dr. in quotes. Sherlin's credentials seem to be in order. He has a D.D. and is entitled to use the designation "Dr." In addition, he is a candidate for a Th.D. He might already have it by now. Why must you mock and belittle everyone with whom you disagree? Hardly...

Glad you asked, BoL. The History of the Pre-trib Rapture

Yes--apparently, a lot of them are fake. But, there are about a dozen (in private collections, of course) which are thought to have been fabricated by some kind of ancient-but-forgotten technology. There are other mysterious oddities, such as the steel "pillar" in India (similar to the...

For some reason, they are ignored by mainstream archeology and historians. Ever look up the "crystal skulls" online? There are photos of them, and they appear to be legitimate objects of history. But how were they made? They are "carved" of single pieces of quartz crystal and the technology...

I know a (raised RC) Lutheran pastor who I asked about his thoughts on pre-Trib, post-Trib, Rapture, etc. He replied that the Lutherans are officially amillennial, so he teaches that, but he is himself a believer in the Pre-Trib Rapture. When I asked him why he chose the Pre-Trib Rapture...

So what?! They still know what their experiences were. They were probably, "good Christians but bad Catholics", as Ravi Zacharias notes. ;) Actually, the former RCs whom I know, say that they started reading the Bible and realized that the version of "Christianity" presented by the RCC was...

Not me--I just report what I have heard from former RCs. Why must you constantly accuse others of lying? They might be mistaken but are unlikely to be deliberately lying. You are "bearing false witness" when you accuse them of lying without any way to verify that. And THAT is, at the very...

They had approximately 1,650 years from the Fall to the Flood. Even though they are unlikely to have had as much knowledge as we have (I may be wrong) I expect that they were more intelligent (many fewer genetic mutations--if any). Look at the technology mankind has developed over the last 200...

I agree in many respects. 1 John tells us that we don't need any teachers, if we have the Holy Spirit (1 John 2:27). I think most evangelicals believe pretty much the same things on major doctrines. They differ a bit on non-salvific issues but that is okay--none of us is a perfect vessel of...

Do they have "brain" emojis?

I know several former RCs who said that the Book of Revelation was never taught. When they asked their priests why, one of them said that the RCC is amillennial, so there was no particular need to spend much time on it. The other former RCs said that it might have been read but they couldn't...

I just heard about a church (in Minneapolis, I think) whose graveyard was near a Muslim neighborhood who covered up the crosses on the graves because they "offended" the Muslims! You can believe that, if the situation was reversed, the crescent moon would NOT be covered on their graves...

I hear you--a few years back, there was a mega church pastor who preached an entire sermon in clown makeup and costume!

Yes. Because there is steeply declining interest in Christianity in the Western nations, it seems that many "pastors" and "elders" have bumped Jesus aside and are erratically steering first here, then there in the hope of being more "relevant" to the lost (who aren't, for the most part...

Sadly, yes. But it has always been so for the most part. In the letters to the Seven Churches of Revelation you can see, early on, that developing scenario. I suspect that is why the refrain, "Anyone with ears to hear must listen to the Spirit and understand what He is saying to the churches"...

The only problem is that, if he is using the "official" RC interpretations for many passages, it is likely to just end up confusing his parishioners. :(

Yes, I often think of the churches of "Christendom" as being ships/boats in a marina. The Roman church is a very barnacle-encrusted old ship whose captain and crew are miscreants who have thrown their navigation equipment overboard. The mainline Protestant churches are newer ships but have...

RCs can be believers in spite of their church but this should not be so--would you agree? I agree that the gospel is there in the massive amounts of verbiage that the RCC spouts, but there is so much teaching that is frankly ridiculous or even un-biblical that it is no wonder that many RCs are...