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Clapping is not the only biblically sanctioned use of the hands in worship. Do you lift up your hands when you pray just as Paul wants you to do? "I desire that in every place the men SHOULD PRAY, LIFTING UP HOLY HANDS without argument (1 Timothy 2:8)." Do you recognize the biblical principle...

Mark 16:17 is part of 16:9-21, which is a bogus later addition to Mark written by Aristo of Pella and therefore should not be invoked in this discussion. But let me play devil's advocate. This is how believers in baptismal regeneration would make their case. First, they would quote Peter's 2...

If you had read a single academic scholarly New Testament Introduction, you would have discovered the scholarly consensus, both evangelical and progressive, that NONE of the Gospels were written by eyewitnesses. Read one, amy one, and respond to their many stgumemts and your responses might...

From the Council of Jamnia on (96 AD), Jewish rabbis established the OT canon written in Hebrew that Protestants embrace. But the Greek OT outside Palestine included the apocrypha and their Bible was basically accpeted as the Catholic OT. The Apocrypha were even acknowledged as Scripture by...

But Reread your question, to which I responded: "How can individuals write a gospel hundreds of years apart without being divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit?" Your phrase "write a gospel" wrongly implies that Ezekiel is a Gospel! Scholers categorize written Gospels as examples of the...

They confuse "John the Seer" (author of Revelation) with John the son of Zebedee. But modern Bible scholars recognize that the literary style of Revelation is so dramatically different from that of the Fourth Gospel that it is certain that different authors are at play. You are obviously...

I'm not arguing for more or less than our 4 Gospels. But the intellectual issue is complicated by these 2 questions: (1) None of the 4 Gospels even claim to be divinely inspired. That decision was made by Catholic church councils centuries later. How do you know that none of the other first...

OSASers pervert Scripture and turn a blind eye to great soul winners who displayed the fruit of the Spirit, who later encountered intellectual problems with biblical inspiration and felt the need to renounce their faith as a matter of personal integrity. A tragic mistake that evidences the...

Nick, a chemist was the finest Christian I ever encountered in my first 21 years. After every Sunday evening service, Nick was weeping for the lost in our prayer room. I once stumbled onto his travailing prayer before our high school Sunday school class which he taught. He was confessing his...

Back in the late 1940s and early 1950s, many thought Chuck Templeton showed more promise as a successful evangelist than his close friend, Billy Graham. Chuck co-founded Youth for Christ, an organization that won countless souls for Christ. He drew thousands to his evangelistic crusades. He...

This is marks way of confessing how lonely his ideas get.

I wanted to see if any one would post (1) and (2) below: (1) Jesus declares 3 times that on the Day of Judgment, He will tell believers who thought they were serving him to get lost: "Depart from Me; I never knew you (Matthew 7:23; 25:11-12; Luke 13:27)." The phrase "I never knew you" clearly...

Irrelevant. The issue is our relationship with the risen Jesus, not the earthly Jesus. The exalted Lord is the "Logos," that is, the rational Self-expression of God as opposed to God in His unknowability. That status does not in itself make our relationship to the Logos "personal." And my...

Nope. In Revelation the Greek"aggelos" always refers to an angel and elsewhere is never used as a title for a church leader. The point is that this letter does not address the question of whether a believer who is not part of a church can experience a personal relationship with Christ.

The verses you express the doctrine of an indwelling Spirit and Christ, but not necessarily an intimate personal relationship that transcends a mere matter of faith and theology.

My suspicion has been confirmed that most evangelicals aren't clear about which verses support the possibility of an intimate personal relationship specifically with Christ. I'm not talking about NT promises of an indwelling Christ or Holy Spirit. The 2 exceptions are: "Those who love me will...

m My friend would dismiss all of the texts you cite as articles of faith, not references to an identifiable intimate personal experiece. The one cited text worth discussing is Rev. 3:20. but that verse addresses a particular church as a whole, not individual believers.

An evangelical friend complained, "I know I'm saved by grace through faith in Christ's atonement. But I have never experienced a persona An evangelical friend pointed out that the phrase "personal relationship with Christ" is not found in Scripture. He has not experienced such a relationship...

Emmanuel Swedenborg can be deemed the father of astral projection in the West. He experienced awesome verifications that he was talking to the discarnate humans of the recently deceased. He celebrates the loving presence of Christ everywhere in the heavenly astral realms. But even he...

Clearly you are clueless about the incompleteness of biblical revelation. The Teaching of the 12 Apostles was composed in the NT era and its prohibition of abortion (4:2) is unchallenged in subsequent early Christian history. So it reflects the moral values of the NT church. LOL. Your lack...