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Irrelevant in 2 ways: (1) You duck the key issue of the morality of aborting a human life. (2) You duck the relevance of the incompleteness of biblical revelation to the question of so-called "proof" of God's existence. For example. intellectual integrity requires us to invoke progressive...

The important point to know about biblical revelation is not the sense in which it is divinely inspired, but the fact that it is woefully incomplete. That's why there are so many theological academic journals to debate unresolved bibilcal issues. The Bible provides all we need to know about...

To refer to the universe as "God's work" commits the fallacy of begging the question. Physicists postulate the multi-verse t;heory as a potentially testable implication of the highly respected string theory and its discovery of extra dimensions. This theory is more "reasonable" than the God...

You must learn to read carefully in context. You miss the apologetic point that the ancient rabbis support the Gospel view that Mary was not married to Jesus' biological father. My New Testament professor was once asked, "What's the most certain thing about Jesus?" His reply? "Born of human...

Google the Youtube video "Did Jesus have a biological father? Sorting through the Pantera traditions."

Oh yes He was born too soon (i.e. prior to sex with Joseph); and Joseph was even considering divorcing her until the angelic intervention. And on the contrary, we should listen to the independent witness of the ancient rabbis because they allow us to rule out the greatest skeptical threat to...

The ancient rabbis and our Gospels agree on this point--that Jesus was born too soon and Joseph was not His natural father. One first century Rabbi claims that Jesus was the illegitimate son of Panthera, subsequently identified by Celsus as a Roman soldier. Thus. hostile Nazareth residents...

When I was a pastor, my organist died of cancer. Without consulting me, the board hired Jon to replace her, a gay Jewish Music director (a jazz group leader), who was a cocaine addict, who took the job just to make some extra cash. I never confronted John with Scriptures on homosexuality, as...

"Some men are eunuchs from birth (Matthew 19:12)." In ancient rabbinic Judaism the expression "eunuchs from birth" does not mean castration from birth; it refers to men who, for whatever reason, are born without natural heterosexual attraction. This would include gays. Notice that Jesus does...

Episkpos, I just watched your video testimony and consider it a prime example of what Paul meant by "experiencing a demonstration of the Spirit and of power (1 Cor. 2:4-5)." I was struck by your sense of "place" for the Spirit's anointing. During the Hebrides revival, passengers on passing...

Precisely! And that's the point you don't get about authentic revival. The Holy Spirit falls primarily on unbelievers in the Welsh and Hebrides revivals! You would be greatly helped spiritually if you opened your mind and heart and actually watched Youtube videos on both revivals! But as...

Cessationists here lack Scripture grounds for their claim. In 1 Corinthians Paul teaches the democratization of the prophetic charism: "I want you ALL... to prophesy (14:5) and "you can ALL prophecy one at a time (14:31)." Paul's wish that every believer prophesy is based on Moses prophetic...

These lectures on the Welsh and Hebrides revivals will change your life, if indeed you want more of God in your life. But alas, most posters hear don't want spiritual transformation; they just want to talk about transformation. The first lecture discusses the thrilling life of Evan Roberts...

You seem blissfully ignorant of the genesis of true mass revivals. They all begin with extraordinary prayer vigils. To fully grasp what that means, there is no substitute for studying the lives of the agents of true revival, revival more spectacular in scope than anything experienced in the...

No, what helps is evangelical apologist C. S. Lewis' famous insight: "The gates of Hell are locked from the inside." Would you be helped by a Bible study on this topic? Then start a new thread and stop diverting this one away from mass revival. Revival is a totally different topic from...

The great OT revival text: "If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, SEEK MY FACE' pray, and turn from their evil ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sins, and WILL HEAL THEIR LAND (2 Chronicles 7:14)."

It's a small world! I was born in nearby St. Boniface and grew up in adjacent St. Vital. My Dad was a soloist on Calvary Temple's "Faith to Live By," a local TV program, the longest continuous Gospel program in North American history. I left Winnipeg to attend a seminary in the the USA right...

No precious spiritual term has been watered down more than "revival." Revival expert J. Edwin Orr rightly claims that there were just 3 true revivals in the 20th century: the Welsh revival of 1904-06, the Azusa Street revival of 1908-11, and Hebrides revival of 1949-54. Orr points out that in a...

Both "walking in the Spirit" and "the fruit of the Spirit" are mystical concepts that cannot simply be reduced to accepting God's Word by faith and applying it to our lives. The 9-fold fruit of the Spirit are not simply the result of faithful striving to obey; they are imparted when one walks...

Due to tired scribal eyes, there are 400,000 variant readings in NT Greek manuscripts (MSS). As already noted, the KJV translators only had access to 5 late and highly flawed Byzantine NT manuscripts, an insignificant amount, given the legion new manuscript discoveries, many of which are far...