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Good point. There are no more prophets. The law and the prophets have been fulfilled in Jesus Christ.

Joseph Smith once asked God a question much like that right before writing a fictitious book and starting a cult. It pains people to understand that God's will is for us to be subject to fallible human leadership. Some go their entire lives trying to avoid this fact and chafe under human...

America used to be the shining city on a hill. All of the world's democracies are modeled after us. We've been a beacon for freedom from oppression for the longest time. We are now becoming the oppressor.

Up until the 1930 Anglican Lambeth Conference Protestants used to be firm in understanding contraceptives were wrong. After the Anglicans caved on the issue, so did other mainline denominations one after another. In a feckless attempt to defend opposition to contraceptives, some Catholics cite...

Haven't you been reading your "Left Behind" books? The magical mark appears on all Christians and can only be viewed by other Christians, but is invisible to the forces of the antichrist. Now we Catholics get a cross shaped smudge on our foreheads every year on Ash Wednesday.....but I have it...

Psalm 127:4,5 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: It's a question that bothers me greatly. When older people give an autobiographical anecdote, they often tell of coming from a family of 8 kids all...

Sorry for the long wait. Between work and family (wife entering 3rd trimester) there hasn't been much time for diversions. I've long debated on the topic of OSAS and from many different angles. I see OSAS as a battle against uncertainty and, more deeply examined, a deficit of trust. We'll...

This reminds me of an old book written by the late David Wilkerson. "Sipping Saints". In this book the famous founder of the Times Square Church launched into a rabid evisceration of any inkling that drinking is ok for Christians. He savages the claims that Jesus drank wine with alcohol in it...

I like your thinking and I apologize that I didn't understand your viewpoint. Exegetical discipline demands we recognize what Hebrews meant by "falling away" in context. The Jewish audience was tempted to return to observation of the law to gain God's favor and salvation which entirely...

If there's any irksome trait among Bible fundamentalists, it's quoting from the Old Testament as if nothing changed between then and now. Something has changed, and that "something" is the greatest event in the history of the universe, the incarnation of God; God becoming man. To pretend this...

Greetings Rach, I've been through this over and over as I'm sure you have too. Of course we could trade Bible verses and I already provided verses that indicate we are expected to endure in the faith until the end. I'm very familiar with the Bible and the passages used to defend OSAS, so...

So you got nothing. I never contested that Peter had a wife and you've failed to demonstrate that the passage of scripture you cited forever binds all bishops forever to a requirement to marry. You furthermore failed to demonstrate that there's a causal link between the Catholic celibacy...

Boy is this a target rich environment! 1. Please prove that Peter being married binds the church from ever restricting marriage, especially since most of the apostles were unmarried and Paul promoted the benefits of being single in ministry. 2. Please prove that a priest abusing a child...

I think you're on to something here. I've come to the point where I no longer believe that hell is a literal fire or that God is going out of his way to torture people in hell. Certainly in the parable of Lazareth and the Rich man, the rich man in hell was able to have a coherent conversation...

Good post. OSAS just like the "pretrib rapture" are doctrines that develop in areas of the world where the stakes aren't high, where people don't pay a dear price for their faith and persecutions aren't looming. The doctrine of cheap grace does not thrive where there is nothing cheap about...

I agree. The Christian motto is, "to live is Christ, to die is gain." Our hope isn't to go out in a blaze of hate, killing as many people as possible. Our hope is to die in the service of Christ, extending his love to humanity and every day short of that to express the love of Christ. The great...

One does not need to be Catholic to be Christian, but one does need to be in line with the timeless beliefs of the Christian church in order to reasonably be called Christian. Jehovah Witnesses are NOT Christian. There is no fellowship between you and I, no common ground by which to have...

I like the example of Paul because he was the most prolific teacher in the New Testament with an impressive depth of understanding. He was also as highly educated as a Jew could be in his day, receiving what would be equivalent today to an Ivy League education. And all this brilliance was...

I'm sorry, but this doesn't make any sense at all especially the second sentence. God is physical and the fullness of the godhead rests bodily in Jesus Christ as we are told in the first chapter of Hebrews. The incarnation wasn't a temporary embodiment, it was a permanent event. God became...

The Bible says repeatedly that men will be judged by their works whether they be good or evil. It doesn't bode well for Protestants who think entry into heaven is an exam that one takes and good works don't mean anything so they didn't do them. And in defense of this forum, its moderators and...