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@CharismaticLady, I think, perhaps, you don’t have any poll results because its not the sort of “yes/no” question one can just tick. The two options given are ‘we are totally depraved before being born again, but not after’ and ‘we are totally depraved whether being born again or not’...

I would wish…If I could have one on these boards, I think…that people would just accept that it IS possible to have differing opinions on matters of doctrine that don’t necessitate them being either: damned, spawns of hell, liars in wolves clothing, purveyors of ‘men’s doctrines’….and the like...

Now, now. “This generation” can easily mean a generation two thousand years in the future. Because. Um. Race card? Or something. I’m not sure I actually followed the logic. :p

The article was interesting. Couldn’t get behind point number 2…totally took the verse out of context, which I thought was strange…there are plenty of other verses in Revelation that they could have used for environmental disturbances…not sure why they tried to link it with Rev 12. As a general...

That they will see it. Luke also gives us a version of that conversation, don’t forget. Luke 21:20-23 [20] “But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near. [21] Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are inside the...

They should not be mutually exclusive. Indeed, they ought to co-exist if you’re doing it right.

You do realise that this is talking about death. As in, physical death the first time. When Taken said that “physical bodies of the just and unjust RETURN” to the earth, I took the ‘return’ to assume he was speaking post resurrection. As in, post the verses that speak of these ‘just and unjust’...

Yes…that was my point. Salvation in Christ moves people from being spiritually dead, to spiritually alive.

“Hand in hand…but speak of division”. Where in this passage is the section that signals to us that we must divide our understanding here? John 5:24-25 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has...

:) Yes, it is fairly wordy. But, given the rather felt need displayed on this board, wordy is not a bad thing. The rather outrageous lack of understanding of the particular genre or willingness to engage with it, even though any scholar worth his salt or his letters would, says something.

Very rarely have I come across such a poorly laid out thought. You jump from idea to idea, accusation to assumption. None of them… thought or accusation, has the requisite grounding or proof…either biblical or historic, to be taken seriously. Thus, you appear here, on a Christian board, as...

Hi Curtis, yes, I’m aware of the parables. My conversation with David was somewhat convoluted. He argued that Noah and Lot were prepared for the disasters that came upon them. My argument was that even if they were in the OT accounts, that’s not what the NT parables were about. The NT parables...

Context, if you please! Did Jesus say ‘the hour is now here’ when talking about the resurrection? What IS he talking of? John 5:24-25 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to...

Well…I think we need to be a little careful how we term everything, just because how confusing it gets. I think National Israel is currently in unbelief. I think the tree is believing Israel…those elect…people like Paul, like the disciples. Those Jews who believed in Christ…they already WERE...

Wait. So…just because a book is written in a particular genre means it is then forbidden from using literary devices that belong elsewhere? So…when reading historical books, we’re not allowed to take some of the language as poetic or figurative? Like…when God tells Abraham that his descendants...

Well, yes, that’s what the word, apokalupsis, means. In terms of genre, I’d say it means something like this: “a genre of revelatory literature with a narrative framework, in which a revelation is mediated by an otherworldly being to a human recipient, disclosing a transcendent reality which is...

And I think that also depends on how you define it all. Are you talking about National Israel? Or Jews who come to Christ? Because I think, without a doubt, that the NT tells us that anyone, Jew or Gentile, who comes to Christ…IS part of the Church. But…I do believe that Paul still speaks of...

Okay. Show me. What are “the dots”? What bible passages have you linked together to prove solidly that the Restrainer IS, without a doubt, the Holy Spirit?