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  1. bdavidc

    Why the great chain?

    There is a difference between asking a question and using a question to overturn the text. Scripture already answers the issue. Satan is bound “that he should deceive the nations no more” ~Revelation 20:3. The nations are still deceived ~1 John 5:19. Satan still blinds minds ~2 Corinthians 4:4...
  2. bdavidc

    WHICH CHURCHES WERE IN VIEW IN GALATIANS 2 AND ACTS 15?

    Here you go again with the same false teachings, but a new thread. Please stop it with your false teachings. You are forcing Scripture to say what it never says. There is no verse anywhere that teaches two churches running side by side. Not one. What you call the “little flock” is what Jesus...
  3. bdavidc

    Why the great chain?

    I have no issue with honest questions. Scripture invites them. “Come now, and let us reason together” ~Isaiah 1:18. What I am pushing back on is not curiosity, but conclusions that go beyond what is written. There is a difference between asking what Scripture says and reshaping Scripture to...
  4. bdavidc

    Why the great chain?

    You are just trying to push a falsehood that it is consistently taught by amillennial, postmillennial, and preterist teachers who refuse to let Revelation say what it says.
  5. bdavidc

    Why the great chain?

    The Bible does not ask us to speculate about the chain. It tells us why it exists. Satan is bound “that he should deceive the nations no more” ~Revelation 20:3. That condition has never existed yet. Right now the nations are deceived ~1 John 5:19. Satan still blinds minds ~2 Corinthians 4:4. He...
  6. bdavidc

    I SEE TWO CHURCHES IN ACTS 15

    @Doug, this is where your argument finally shows its hand. You are no longer arguing about verses. You are arguing that unity in Christ did not exist until Paul, and that everything before him operated under a different church. Scripture does not allow that. Paul never says the body of Christ...
  7. bdavidc

    I SEE TWO CHURCHES IN ACTS 15

    @GRACE ambassador, here is the truth, plain and Scripture-first. You keep saying “rightly divided” like it is a master key that lets you lock parts of Jesus’ words in a back room. But “right division” is not permission to divide Christ, divide His commands, or divide His people. Paul said...
  8. bdavidc

    Be cautious of those who identify as Christians but whose beliefs stem from personal opinions...

    Be cautious of those who identify as Christians but whose beliefs stem from personal opinions and emotions rather than the teachings of God's word.
  9. bdavidc

    I SEE TWO CHURCHES IN ACTS 15

    @Doug, the problem is not that Scripture creates two churches. The problem is that you are forcing a false dilemma by refusing to distinguish audience, timing, and purpose while still affirming one body. Scripture does that without inventing parallel churches. First, Acts 15 does not show two...
  10. bdavidc

    I SEE TWO CHURCHES IN ACTS 15

    You’re not asking honest questions. You’re stacking verses, ripping them from their context, and jamming them together to force a conclusion. That’s not dividing Scripture rightly. That’s twisting it. Jesus told the apostles to go and teach everything He commanded to all nations ~Matthew...
  11. bdavidc

    I SEE TWO CHURCHES IN ACTS 15

    What you teach is false teaching. Jesus Christ is supreme. Period. “And he is the head of the body, the church… that in all things he might have the preeminence” ~Colossians 1:18. There is only one Head. If you give headship to Peter over some church and Paul over another church, you have...
  12. bdavidc

    I SEE TWO CHURCHES IN ACTS 15

    ~Ephesians 4:4–5 “There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism” ~Ephesians 2:14–16 “For he is our peace, who hath made both one… to make in himself of twain one new man… that he might reconcile both unto God in one body...
  13. bdavidc

    IF THERE IS JUST ONE CHURCH THEN WHO GETS HEAVEN?

    This is the same error again. You are twisting Scripture to preserve a division God says He has already removed. You keep lifting Israel language out of context and forcing it to exclude believing Gentiles, even though Scripture says Christ “hath made both one” ~Ephesians 2:14 and that there is...
  14. bdavidc

    IF THERE IS JUST ONE CHURCH THEN WHO GETS HEAVEN?

    You keep changing definitions to preserve a split Scripture never makes. Yes, “church” means assembly. Acts 7:38 uses it generically for Israel gathered at Sinai. But when Jesus said, “I will build my church” ~Matthew 16:18, He was not redefining Israel. He was speaking of something future He...
  15. bdavidc

    I SEE TWO CHURCHES IN ACTS 15

    Here you go again, teaching falsely and not what the Bible says. This is not what Acts 15 teaches. Acts 15 does not reveal two churches. It reveals false teachers inside one church being corrected by Scripture. Luke calls them “certain men” who went out without authorization, and the apostles...
  16. bdavidc

    THE BODY OF CHRIST WASN'T FORMED AT PENTECOST

    Scripture says it. Christ’s body was born at Pentecost. Jesus told the apostles the work of its formation had not yet taken place, but was about to take place. Jesus told the apostles, “John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence” ~Acts 1:5...
  17. bdavidc

    Chaos in Minnesota...ICE agents attacked, protester shot

    The protestors did not just protest outside of a church. They disrupted an ongoing worship service, terrorized worshippers including children, and trespassed into a house of worship. These actions aren't protected, they're outright disorderly and can be prosecuted under federal and state...
  18. bdavidc

    Chaos in Minnesota...ICE agents attacked, protester shot

    You can clearly see the agent in front of her car, and one with his hand on the door handle, which she could have ripped off his fingers. You can also hear the agent telling her to get out of the car. That is what she should have done, not try to run over the agents! It is time for people to...
  19. bdavidc

    IF THERE IS JUST ONE CHURCH THEN WHO GETS HEAVEN?

    That reply does not correct the point. It sidesteps it. Hebrews does not say Abraham merely expected something heavenly to pass through on its way to earth. It says he desired “a better country, that is, an heavenly” and that God “hath prepared for them a city” ~Hebrews 11:16. The text defines...
  20. bdavidc

    IF THERE IS JUST ONE CHURCH THEN WHO GETS HEAVEN?

    This teaching has already been corrected from Scripture. The cited passages speak of unity and reconciliation in Christ, not two redeemed peoples with separate destinies. Scripture is clear that God has made one body and one people in Christ ~Ephesians 2:14–16; ~Ephesians 4:4. This will not be...