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After seeing his last post to you, I think you're right. Excellent post btw. I would just add that the KJV was a product of the Church of England. The following excerpt from their 39 Articles of Faith should help add clarity to the question at hand. The Church of England viewed the apocrypha...

Oh boy, here we go. What does the KJV have to do with this? What in the world are agnostic scriptures? Do you mean gnostic writings? There is no such thing as 'agnostic' scriptures.

Aspen's questions and view of Scripture are designed to allow Aspen to 'spiritualize' or 'mythologize' those things in Scripture that Aspen doesn't like. It's that plain and that simple. Aspen is certainly not alone on this board in forcing Scripture to conform to his/her subjective personal...

Unfortunately, your praise is about as clear as mud. What exactly in Aspen's post is 'spot on?'

No Selene, Abraham did not come to the knowledge of God through faith. Faith is the act of believing or trusting and that belief or trust requires an object. When it comes to faith in God that object is God's self-revelation. Faith in and of itself does not reveal God to anyone. God reveals...

Your Scripture quotations affirm what I said rather than contradict it. I said, "Faith is 'all about' holding all that God reveals as true and acting accordingly". Hebrews 11:1-2 affirms that faith is trust in God's promises and Hebrews 11:8-10 affirms that the believers actions are based on...

The written word of God existed long before the fourth century AD and was recognized as such in its various stages. For example, Peter refers to Paul's writings as Scripture in the first century. Nevertheless, this is all irrelevant to the topic at hand. No, Abraham and the others you mention...

Ah yes, the false dilemma. The ultimate in logical fallacies. You can't separate God from his communication any more than you can separate a man from his for, "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks." (Matt. 12:34) What a man speaks is a reflection of the man and what God speaks is...

Selene, 2Ti 3:16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 2Ti 3:17 that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work. The idea that God is higher than his own self-revelation and...

If Scripture says an event took place, who are you to deny it? This is pure subjectivity on your part. This is a backwards and highly subjective approach to Scripture known as eisogesis. Reading your personal presuppositions and philosophical views into Scripture will only amount to creating...

2Ti 3:16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 2Ti 3:17 that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work. I'm surprised that any who consider themselves to be believing Christians...

Wrong! The necessity of being 'born again,' also known as 'spiritual regeneration,' can be traced immediately back into the Old Testament era. Deu 30:6 And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the LORD your God with all your heart...

Col 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. Col 1:16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities--all things were created through him and for him. Col 1:17 And he...

Who said anything about God hearing the prayers of the unrepentant? The question asked by the OP concerns the propriety of believers offering prayer for President Obama, or any other leader for that matter. Paul tells us very plainly in 1 Timothy 2:1-2 that this is exactly what should be done...

Your proof-text says absolutely nothing about Jesus being born again and being born again has everything to do with spiritual regeneration. Joh 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Tit 3:5 he saved us, not because of works done by us...

Yes, we should pray for Obama. Praying for our leaders is thoroughly Biblical. 1Ti 2:1 First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, 1Ti 2:2 for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet...

Incest was forbidden under the Mosaic Law. Lev 18:6 "None of you shall approach any one of his close relatives to uncover nakedness. I am the LORD. Lev 18:7 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother, you shall not uncover...

Where did you get the idea that Christians worship Jesus without God? Jesus is God. He is the Son of God, the second person of the Holy Trinity.

Unlike pneumatikown and pneumatika in 1 Cor. 12:1 & 14:1 respectively, which are plural substantival adjectives, the word pneumatikon is a singular attributive adjective. Unlike substantival adjectives, attributive adjectives will modify a term known as the head noun and hence Paul's use of...

I'm afraid that the one who doesn't understand is you. You really should stop playing with Greek because you don't know what you're talking about. Just because a word doesn't have a Strong's number doesn't mean that it's not implied by the word that comes before it. The Greek words found in...