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(8) My next NDE is so unique that it is surely one of the most faith-inspiring. It seems to involve divine control of a tractor. Pastor Dave replaced me after I retired. He shares the testimony of a farmer who lived in the Colfax, WA region. The farmer was ploughing one of his fields, when he...

Auntie Jane overlooks the "hina" purpose clause in 11:32 which imples that God's purpose of "imprisoning" us ALL in disobedience is to save us ALL through mercy and grace. More seriously, she ducks 11:36, which clearly implies that God's purpose will ultimately be realized: For from Him and...

Here is just one of Paul's many universalist texts in which both "alls" are parallel and therefore universal: "God has imprisoned ALL in disobedience, in order that He might be merciful to ALL (Romans 11:32)." "imprisoned" implies a lack of freedom to choose otherwise and makes God responsible...

Many Fundamentalists whine that modern translations take the Trinity out of the NT. This false claim is giggle-worthy for 2 reasons: (1) Why, then, wouldn't they remove the trinitarian baptismal formula in Matthew 28:19-20? (2) Ancient scribes often tried to improve on the Greek text when...

You just can't read. It is an ancient Greek NT manuscript--not me-- that claims Aristo of Pella forged the bogus ending of Mark! The KJV ending of Mark is missing in key early Greek manuscripts. That's just one of the reasons why the evangelical scholarly consensus recognizes 16:9-20 as a...

Correction: according only to the bogus ending of Mark forged by Aristo of Pella! God's actual Word teaches that "tongues are NOT a sign to believers (1 Cor. 14:22)."

"If I am lifted up, I will draw ALL PEOPLE unto myself (John 12:32)."

Duh. I said I'm a tongues-speaking Pentecostal, but the gifts of the Spirit don't make me a better Christian than Christians who don't speak in tongues. What you dpn't get is the distinction between spiritual gifts and "signs" of the true believer. .

Duh, I'm not one of the "worldly people," but rather a tongues-speaking Pentecostal who is grateful for that spiritual gift, but recognizes that speaking in tongues is not a "sign" of the true believer, as Mark's bogus KJV ending teaches.

So you KJV Only types agree with Appalachian Christians who drink rat poison to test Jesus' promised "sign" of a true believer? And no, nothing in the text suggests an accidental ingestion of poison. One Greek manuscript even identifies the forger of this KJV ending in Mark (16:9-20) as Aristo...

So you care more about the lyrical quality of the KJV than preserving the purity of God's original Word. Actually, the first English Bible was the Tyndale Translation.

I find it so ironic that the very fundamentalists who pride themselves in having the highest view of biblical inspiration insist on using the most corrupt translation. Due to the tired eyes of ancient copyists, there are 400,000 variant readings in NT manuscripts and the KJV is based just 4...

(7) A SHARED ADC: The book, “Lighted Passage,” was brought to the attention of an agnostic friend of mine by a colleague who worked with him at HUD and was a relative of the author, Dr. Howell Vincent. Dr. Vincent, a Presbyterian minister, wrote this book, about his daughter Rea and her death in...

Roger, and I became friends through an anti-Christian metaphysical site. Roger was a very bright executive with the U. S. Federal agency HUD. But Roger remained an agnostic even though I convinced him that he had experienced a supernatural rescue when he was an 8-year old boy. Roger and an...

Yep, you're the only one who understands Romans 7. I wish at least one other Christian understood it. Sigh!

Psychology is the rational study ("logos") of the mind or soul ("psyche"). Used philosophically (as in John 1), "logos" refers to the rational self-expression of God as opposed to God in His unknowability. In this sense it contrasts with Isaiah 55:7-8: "For my thoughts are not your thoughts...

What many evangelicals don't get is the close link between confession to other believers and spiritual healing (James 5:16). Jesus gives "the keys of the kingdom of heaven" to Peter and no one else. Jesus gives the authority to bind and loose and to grant and deny forgiveness to the church...

V I'd like to challenge your friend to read all the numbered examples of paranormal experiences in my thread "My Life Journey through the Lens of My Many Charismatic and Paranormal Experiences" in the "Testimonies" section. Tell him that the most evidentiary of these experiences convinced an...

Nope. Peter and Paul were executed by order of Nero around 64 AD. Our first Gospel, Mark, was written around 67-70 AD and Matthew and Luke later use Mark as one of their sources. That is one of the first facts you learn at any evangelical seminary

Paul does not consider his epistles "Scripture." Thus, on the subject of virgins he merely offers his non-binding "opinion," not the Lord's commandment (1 Cor. 7:25). Our Gospels never claim divine inspiration and nowhere does the NT claim they are divinely inspired. )