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Only what authority they agree to give to an Elder/Pastor/Overseer/Bishop. I wonder, though, why this is an issue for you. It's one thing to be very careful who you install as a spiritual authority in your life, but its quite another to resist all authority, refusing to be taught or led by any...

They do so, though, because modern believers in North America remain spiritually-juvenile, believing that truly knowing God well happens only for the "expert" who's been to seminary and obtained academic credentials. These believers have an understanding of their faith that is a "mile-wide but...

Well, the Bible sets out all sorts of beliefs and practices for the Christian either to avoid or to adopt. Some of these beliefs, though, are more...tertiary, they "orbit" the core of the Christian faith, like the moon around the earth, having an effect on Christian thinking but not of an...

Being a godly leader in the Church means very often that such a leader must act contrary to the carnal majority. This was Paul's experience. He did not follow the trends of the majority, or even the example of fellow apostles, when those trends or examples diverged from what Christ had taught...

No. Yes. I don't know what you mean by "speak out," but a woman is forbidden in Scripture to be an Elder/Bishop/Overseer/Pastor over men, teaching them in this role. Women may teach each other and even provide co-ed training, say, in evangelism, or apologetics, or perhaps speak to an entire...

If a wood-carver makes a knife capable of carving wood, unavoidably he makes a knife capable of penetrating and cutting human flesh, too. His intent in making the knife is to make beautiful works of art out of pieces of wood, however, not to harm human beings. If his knife is stolen and used to...

Responsible? In what sense?

The only people in the NT who are given spiritual authority over other believers are Elders/Pastors/Bishops/Overseers. Peter enjoins all believers to "be subject one to one another" (1 Pe. 5:5) adopting an attitude of humility toward their Christian brethren, but this is different, I think, than...

You asked in your OP: I think my answer addresses what you described/wondered about here.

Is aionios only ever translated as "age" or "this world" in Scripture? No. According to Strong's, this word in the KJV is translated as "eternal" forty-two times and as "everlasting" twenty-five times. The instances you cite above are, I think, all that there are in Scripture of aionios being...

Do you believe what the Bible says about Jesus dying "once for all"? Do you believe he is the Savior of all mankind throughout the last two millennia? If not, why not? If you do believe that Jesus is the Savior of us today, why wouldn't his truth given to his first disciples not be pertinent...

What if the verse I quoted contains a translation error? Does it? I don't know that it does. Do you? One of the great things about how the Bible has been preserved to today is the vast number of ancient manuscript copies that exist of the Bible (and the NT, in particular). We don't have just...

It isn't good works that make a woman beautiful in the way God intends, but His Spirit in control of a woman and manifesting in her the character of Christ (Ga. 5:22-23; 2 Co. 3:2-3, 18; 4:7-11; Ro. 8:29). Such a woman is a "true beauty" in the highest, best sense. But she does all this...

This is very sad to read. It is so far from what God tells us in His word is the way to deal with sin in our lives. Consider: Romans 6, Galatians 2:20; 5:16, 25; 6:14; Philippians 2:13; 3:14; Colossians 2:10-13; James 4:6-10; Romans 8:9-14; 12:1. No Christian can remedy sin by the effects of...

I believe in what the Bible says, which is that the everlasting punishment of the unrepentant wicked is, in fact, everlasting. Matthew 25:46 46 And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life. This punishment isn't referring to permanent annihilation...

What is certain is that those believers who don't "stand up" in the smaller but more frequent situations that challenge their allegiance to Christ and God's Truth, will never do so in a graver, perhaps even deadly, circumstance. The best way to prepare to die for Christ physically is to learn to...

??? He tells us what he meant. Just read verse 24. Or, read Matthew 16:23-24. The "cross" we take up is the crucified life of self-denial. See Galatians 2:20; 5:24; 6:14; Romans. 6:1-11; Colossians 2:10-13, etc. I give up my life every day, living by faith in my crucifixion with Christ...

"Because in that time many considered themselves under the Mosaic Law..." This is not stated in the text of Ephesians 2, nor is it implied. In fact, in the first and second chapter of Paul's letter to the Ephesian believers, there isn't a single mention of the law of Moses. But Paul does, in...

You're entitled to your opinion. I think I "formulated" things perfectly well. Because the passage I quoted served to ground my point as it was. Why else? Is there some particular point you wanted to make by posting this section of Titus 3? The "right obliged order"? According to who? I...

You aren't "focusing" here (to use your language) on what I'm actually writing. I wrote: "Actually, in 1 Corinthians 15:35-36, Paul wasn't talking about the nature of the resurrected, "spiritual" body we'll have but the means by which we obtain it. Like a grain of wheat must die in order to...