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The passage in John 1 v 12 is better rendered, To as many as take or get hold of Him, to them He gave authority to become children of God, to the ones believing into His name... Which does not suggest one is receiving him into our hearts. As for Rev. 3 v 20 and Colossians 1 v 27, you are...

Yes.....so what?

There is no mention of receiving Christ into your heart in those verses. You are reading into it what is not there.

What is clear that in the Acts of the Apostles which is a record of what the New Testament Church said and did, salvation is spelt out very clearly. Repent, be baptised and receive the Holy Ghost. Not once does it mention about receiving Jesus into your heart? From that, the evidence is very...

My body will go six feet under. As for my Spirit still working on that one.

But they did disobey the government because they were told to shut up about Jesus and they didn't shut up about Jesus. They kept preaching that he was the Messiah and that they needed to repent and be baptised and be filled with the Holy Spirit. As they say, there is more than one way to skin a...

An interesting point. In a discussion about democracy, one person suggested that a benevolent dictator was the best option. I can't say yes or no to that as I haven't come across one yet as they are usually brutes. I know that several have started out with the intention to be benevolent but it...

I may be saying this tongue in cheek but some of the most stable people earth are autistic. Because the emotional part of their brain does not work as most other people do, they approach things purely from factual evidence. If the evidence is not factual, just a philosophical discussion, and not...

In every democracy, there is a lot going for it and a lot going against it depending on who is running the show at any given time.

I am not convinced that a person will not go to hell because they are a nice person. The scripture is clear when it says except a man be born again he CANNOT see the kingdom of God. Doesn't say except a man/ woman is nice they cannot see the kingdom of God. The sad thing is that too many...

But the fact is the bible was not written for those who do not live in North Korea. If it says to obey the authorities that applies to whatever country you live in.

And that begs the question of why it is OK to disobey the government?

Your arguments are unconvincing Josho because you haven't given a rationale for them. So perhaps I can do that. Yesterday I read an article about John MacArthur who defied authority and opened his church for meetings. He was asked why he defied the civil authorities when the bible tells us not...

I will take your word for it. I m reading a book at the moment "Understanding the Times" and the authors go into marxism; modernism; post modernism; secularism; islam; christianity and old uncle Tom Cobley and all. Talk about brain drain. My head is in a right spin. How people believe some of...

Now apply that to the government of North Korea where you can be thrown into prison for owning a bible.

The New Testament Church did not have the New Testament to draw on. The Old Testament was of little use because most could not read. Its source of authority and direction was the 12 apostles, who had spent three years with Jesus. Paul who had spent three years in the wilderness getting his...

What does a Naive Dialectic mean?

Sometimes prayer can change the tide. I remember to this day that the Thursday before the Federal Election in Australia which was held on the following Saturday, I sensed a tide of prayer going up for Scott Morrison to win the election. For a few weeks, it had been billed as the unlosable...

Yes, he is if you subscribe to the Calvinist point of view which he does. Basically their idea is that you are chosen before the foundation of the world so that seals the deal. If I look back on my conversion, I was 11 at the time. I was attending kids' meetings run by Open Air Evangelists and...

Well said.