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Q: I was told by a friend that the only way you were Christian was if you "asked Jesus into your heart." What is my friend talking about? A: He is talking about having a conversion experience in which one prays to God or Jesus and asks to be forgiven of one's sins on the basis of Christ's...

TEXT without CONTEXT is a PRETEXT. The BIBLE without the CHURCH is just an EXCUSE! 2 Timothy 3: [12] Indeed all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, [13] while evil men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceivers and deceived. [14] But as for you...

Acts 15 (KJV) 7 And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe. 8 And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them...

you addressed me with let it go... The absolute benchmarks are the fruits of the spirit. One of them is humility. If you bear this fruit, you don't go around bragging about how you "indwelt" you think you are, and you don't stomp all over ones beliefs. Humble indwelt Christians try to...

Well excuuuuuze me. Let's see how many Protestant scholars I can find that have become Catholic in the last 20 years. You can be sure Saul, the great scholar of the Pharisees, who got knocked off his horse, knew more Greek than Mounce or any other modern day scholar. You still haven't proven...

Perhaps you read my thread starter: TRUTH. Jumping up and down in church has it's place. Yelling in tongues has the right ordered time and place. Devotional prayer alone with Jesus every day is essential. Daily reading of the Bible is important. Spiritual formation and doctrinal development...

"... Our society is at a turning point. Are we going to undo the mistakes of the past thirty years that have given us an epidemic of divorce, fatherlessness, drugs, and violent and promiscuous children? Or are we going to continue the legitimization of same-sex unions by giving them the same...

You are using an obscure Greek text book that cannot be verified by the average reader, therefore it is a safe conclusion you are cherry picking its application and applying it to Luke 1:28 because it fits your paradigm. I am not saying Mounce is wrong, I'm saying you are taking it out of...

Faith is a grace 153 When St. Peter confessed that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, Jesus declared to him that this revelation did not come "from flesh and blood", but from "my Father who is in heaven".24 Faith is a gift of God, a supernatural virtue infused by him. "Before this...

30. The lack of a definitive teaching authority in Protestantism (as with the Catholic magisterium) makes many individual Protestants think that they have a direct line to God, notwithstanding all of Christian Tradition and the history of biblical exegesis (a "Bible, Holy Spirit and me"...

TEXT without CONTEXT is a PRETEXT. The BIBLE without the CHURCH is just an EXCUSE.

"One can equally note in the two accounts the cry of the people and the cry of Elizabeth ["She spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou . . ."]: . . . (2 Sam 6:15; Luke 1:42). The verb `anaphonein' - `to make a sound, reverberate' is not used in the New Testament except in the...

I'll bet this quote of yours does not refer to Luke 1:28, but to some other aortist reference. Check the context of page 279. There are at least 30 different perfect participles in Greek, how many are passive? Prove the contention of your repeated quote with an on-line Greek reference that the...

the perfect stem of a Greek verb, denotes, according to Friedrich Blass and Albert DeBrunner, "continuance of a completed action" (Greek Grammar of the New Testament [Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961], 66). Mary, therefore, continues afterward to be full of the grace she possessed at...

Congratulations on attaining your brown belt. I had an orange belt in wado kai but it was so long ago it's meaningless. The first step is admitting you are an alcoholic. Your life didn't get worse when you got sober...hers did. She was/is dependent on you being an alcoholic. When that fell...

I am in agreement with Xian's OP. Rom. 3:20,28; Gal. 2:16,21; 3:2,5,10; Eph. 2:8-9 - many Protestants err in their understanding of what Paul means by "works of the law” in his teaching on justification. Paul’s teaching that we are not justified by “works of the law” refer to the law of Moses...

I was simply providing evidence for my previous statement that Satanists will desecrate a consecrated hosts stolen from a Catholic church, previous to that I was giving ample proof text supporting the Real Presence, and you responded with is: You have no authority to call anyone's Holy Spirit a...

God's Image In the Mentally Ill Person Cardinal Lozano Barragán's Address at World Day of the Sick ADELAIDE, Australia, FEB. 18, 2006 Here is an excerpt of an address Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragán, president of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers, prepared for World Day of the...

Isn't that the point? That might encapsulate our difference. I would "read" it as coming from God through the mouth of an angel. You just see text. The aorist (Ephesians) expresses past completed action. All it tells you is that an event occurred and nothing more. It's "undefined." [/color]...