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Don't repent of being tempted and resisting it. James 4:7, resisting the devil means you're submitted to God. However, your situation is conducive to my point because you certainly weren't capable of doing so. Paying 10% of one's income is great when one can afford to do so, but to think...

Every epistle writer was writing to a specific audience. But their letters became part of the canon of Scripture and its benefits made available to a much wider audience. Your belief that Peter's or any Apostle's letters were intended for an exclusive audience is predicated on your belief in...

I see you bypassed my arguments, every one of them, in your inaptitude to address them intelligently. And then come back with bumper sticker slogans strewn about in sottish blocks of colored text. Every point I made is correct, has validity, and can't be swept away by spirited eccentricity...

Jesus said blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. It's a teaching so profound that it's understandable that many people miss the reciprocal implication, that those who live lives unmercifully shall NOT receive mercy. God is sovereign and will have mercy on whom he will. He's...

I agree with your assessment of demon possession. Crazy doesn't necessarily mean evil. I know people with mental illness who are about the kindest people I know and would do anything for me. Doctors try to diagnose evil, but evil isn't a mental illness, it's a sheer act of will. People wince...

I've explained this elsewhere on another site. Not all of Genesis was written as an allegory, and some parts, such as the account of creation, was written as a pourquoi. Truth is more in the general concepts than in the details. But some key profundities that can't be ignored are that God...

A humorous and well played point. In order for men to repent, God must be willing to woo them to repentance. Calvinists take this too far by suggesting that some receive this invoking and others are eternally denied it by predestination. But God calls all men to repentance, not willing that...

The issue of tithing is a thorny one, often because guilt is used as a cudgel to get people to tithe. I don't need to preach a sermon about how God wants a cheerful, willing giver, submitting all one has in obedience to him. You've already heard that sermon. My problem is the tithe itself...

I haven't had time to read through all the responses so I don't know if anyone has discussed yet the motive for claiming Jesus wasn't a Jew. Christian Identity, the racist, bigoted, anti semitic group espouses this belief, and I have no doubt that the OP is spreading CI propaganda or that of a...

Using 1Corinthians 6:19,20 as a prohibition against smoking: " Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies." I've heard this "your body is...

I hope you're referring to "materialism" as described by C.S. Lewis; not obsession with having things but a mistaken belief that reality extends no further than what can be seen, heard, or touched. A lack of belief in the spiritual dimension causes a vacuum that must be filled, for we are...

I can't stress enough that cultural conformity has always been the one temptation that's worked best to compromise Christianity both in the days of the Bible, the early Church, and today. Christians should know by instinct that those who propose conformity to the world don't belong to Christ...

It's an alarming thing in our culture. I see people saying "universe" in place of where people used to speak of God, even those who weren't believers. "The Universe has a plan" and "The Universe will take care of me". I hear these things so often and I cringe because such godlessness is...

It grieves me that satanic lies are making inroads into Christian belief. We have to go no further than the beginning chapters of Revelation to see that the Christian church has always struggled with the temptation to be influenced by the world around it. Christians are called to be the salt...

Two men cannot love each other the way a man can love a woman and a woman a man. This is what I mean by "reality". Homosexual relationships are a hybrid of unnatural lust and romanticized fraternity. God created us male and female and only when we follow the design of the Creator can we...

Just to be polite, I'll tell you right now that I'm not going to engage you in debate, lest you waste your time, and you'll note I wasn't addressing you. As I just said, the debate was settled in the 3rd century meaning I'm under no obligation to fight that battle over again 1800 years later...

Other versions use the words discord and dissentions. None of it applies to denominationalism without seriously abusing scripture. Christian unity is a concept that was given birth when Jesus prayed to the Father that Christians would be one just as He and the Father are one. But even among...

Trying to argue with a JW is like sweeping a dirt floor. The problem as I see it is making the Bible the highest authority when it comes to determining Christian doctrine. From the beginning, the Bible has never served this role, the Church has which is why Jesus invested his authority in his...