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1) I have apparently come late to the discussion because I do not recall your actual posting of the Book, chapter and verse of any of your points. How would plain standard speech and clearly stating your points with the customary citations be to "rub one's nose" in anything? I "acknowledge"...

I wish there was a "do not like" button on this website.

I have no idea what you think this means.

It is the Lord Jesus you are insulting. He said that He had come to bring life to His sheep and to bring it more abundantly. I'm sure you think you know what you are talking about. You make the truth of Scripture into a lie and then expect believers to somehow respect what you do? Quote the...

That is just silly. Where were the Two Witnesses preaching for 42 months and then the gift-giving, in celebration of their deaths? When was the world terrified when the Two Witnesses were seen to be resurrected? Where was the 200 million-man army? Where was the great battle between the...

In the OT, false religion--especially pagan religion, was compared to prostitution. The Book of Revelation leads one to believe that false religion will be used by the Kings of the Earth to take totalitarian rule over the earth's people. Then it tells us that once they have used "her" to get...

You might want to go to the Bible and read it, Anthony. You should pay special attention to Galatians. One can be under the law or under grace, but not both. If you are saying that a Christian, with the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit (see Romans 8:9) keeps the superior law of love...

Of course.

He claims that he is not saved, because I saw that he said just the other day, "If I ever get saved..." or something similar. One thing I know is that he is not a prophet. Revelation 19:10--->"For the essence of prophecy is to give a clear witness for Jesus."

I'm sure you feel very comfortable up there in your tower of religious outrage.

No--I am just saying that, even though one is free to get one, it might not be beneficial for a number of reasons. It might offend another Christian. It might be an item of regret eventually. It might be seen as a bit of "trying to please men rather than pleasing God". I know that this is a...

The second commandment is clearly speaking of idolatry--I doubt whether Nancy worships her avatar. As for "profane" let's look at the definition: adjective characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious. not devoted to holy or religious purposes...

bbyrd reminds me of a few atheists I have known who think that they will be able to analyze the brains of believers. I suspect that when bbyrd mocks the faith of believers by calling it "death more abundantly" that is his way of insulting them without them catching on. It apparently reinforces...

I don't think He was literally saying that His soul was dying--more that His soul was greatly saddened by what lay ahead. He said that we should fear the one [God] who could destroy both body and soul in Gehenna. Perhaps He was anticipating the spiritual agony of seeing the suffering and...

Hey--if you think that's bad, check out the "wearing of the Brown Scapular" that is taught by the Sisters of Carmel. They claim that on July 16, 1251, the Virgin Mary told them that they needed to teach that "Whosoever dies invested with this scapular shall be preserved from the eternal flames...

Not really. Paul gave lots of advice in the NT. He said that while we were free to do the things that Judaism forbade, not everything would be beneficial. In Paul's day, the Judaic prohibition on eating pigs made sense strictly from a biological standpoint. Pigs are scavengers and will eat...

While God Himself does not change, that does not preclude His changing the way He deals with one group of people or another, one individual or another. He is totally free to change His mode of revealing His glory and whom He glorifies. We can see from nature that He is a God of variety--that...

And after all that, an RC might figure that there is no point in staying a Catholic. I think that is usually what happens.

There are objective criteria that even non-believers can see. One is the matter of the Genetic Entropy that will, within a few decades, cause the world's population to shrink drastically (if the End of Days does not come sooner). John Sanford, Ph.D. has done a very interesting work on it that...

Here's the thing, though. The RCC is so large and diverse that it resists becoming a real cult.