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But the Holy Spirit also said through Paul, that those who speak in tongues should speak one at a time and if there is no interpreter present, the one who speaks in tongues should be silent. (1 Cor. 14:28)

Well, not that much unity among Protestants as a general group. I have a lot of trouble being in unity with a United Methodist who believes in the Goddess Sophia. :( The "doctrines of demons" seem to be present everywhere these days. The only unity Christians can hope to have is in Scripture...

That is why it is a waste of time and energy to argue with Catholics. They have been assured that they are the only true church and that everyone else is beneath contempt.

That is because Bread of Life has been trained (brainwashed) to be contemptuous of those who hold to the primacy of Scripture. Obviously, there is much more concern there for the approval of the guys in his "club". He is similar to a modern-day Sadducee who was accused by Jesus, "No wonder you...

I don't know that it could all be passed off as demonic deception. I know people who used to go regularly, when the movement first started, at the Toronto Airport Vineyard. As usual, what often starts off good, the devil takes and pushes it to some sinful extreme. The main problem, according...

It also represents the cleansing of the Church "by the washing of the water of the word" (Ephesians 5:26). It is the Blood of Christ and the "birth from above" which makes it the "living water". The Church is thus cleansed in two ways--by the Blood which cleanses from sin, and by the "water of...

Not to worry. I see a LOT of misspelled words (and wrong words) among comments on the web. Even professional writers make a lot of glaring errors these days. Maybe they always did but there were better editors in the past--editing does seem to have gone by the wayside. Don't worry--I'm just...

I've never seen it personally, but I have talked to missionaries who have seen it in the mission field. We need to be VERY protective of our children because I'm told that the demons target Christian families in particular--especially those who are doing ministry. It is extremely important for...

One of the problems that we are seeing is that there are Christians who are indwelt by the Holy Spirit. And then there are "christians" who are not indwelt (so they cannot even say that they are Christians-->see Romans 8:9). We see some evidence of that in the NT. When Paul asked some...

Yeah, especially the "Bishop's Mitre". That was borrowed from the Philistines who worshiped the fish god, Dagon. The priests of Dagon used to dress up kinda like a fish and if you look at it sideways, you can see that the "mitre" looks like the gaping mouth of a fish. Can't help but LOL at...

Probably more for the incident with Uriah the Hittite and Bathsheba as anything else. God might not have wanted an adulterer/murderer to build His Temple. In any case, if we are going to carry the discussion further, we should probably start a thread on it, instead of continuing to derail this...

I guess you need to look at it again and make up your own mind. 2 Samuel 12:31 in various translations---> NIV: "and brought out the people who were there, consigning them to labor with saws and with iron picks and axes, and he made them work at brickmaking. David did this to all the Ammonite...

Snake worship was widespread among the earth's people groups, as it even is today among some. Christian missionaries have long warred against it because, of all pagan customs, the ones associated with snake worship were some of the worst. Perhaps it goes back to the Garden of Eden, and those...

Did for a brief period and then went to graduate school in another field.

Yes--I did get your meaning, but, what can I say, I was an English/Journalism major as a university undergraduate. ;)

I think what you have described is "tribalism" which was carried to extreme in ancient Israel, when even the Tribes of Israel went to war with each other. Because the wicked ways of their enemies had invaded them (after they failed to eradicate evil from their ranks as they had been warned to...

Yes, we flawed humans seem to come into this world with greater or lesser degrees of wanting to be "our own boss". I wonder if God is as amused by us as we are by a two-year-old who insists, "No! I do it myself!" ;) Of course, we are not so amused when our fourteen-year-old, tells us, "Butt...

Yes--I checked with a former-Catholic friend about who gets to drink the wine. She said, "Only the priest drinks the wine--I figure that's why a bunch of priests are alcoholics." :rolleyes:

You're probably right, but, if I remember correctly, he engaged me.

Which NIV--the original or the new one? And what don't you like about it?