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DPMartin, Are you suggesting that God suffered more by being lonely before the creation of the world than in his humiliation and suffering in Christ? There is zero Scriptural support for this and it implies that God needs us and creation in order to not suffer from loneliness and receives his...

Its a farce to argue that secularism is void of religious proposition. "Rights" and laws are based on a moral framework, not simply a matter of convenience. In any event, none of that matters. What if our "secular" government decides to declare war as a means to get out of an economic pinch...

Thank you Jack. Yep. Wormwood gets a bad wrap. However, sometimes it is the uncomfortable and bitter things in life that God seeks to use to turn us toward the true source of living water. Be blessed!

Nothing like nit-picking the constitution to justify and protect actions that are egregious to God. It wouldn't make any difference to me if all the founding fathers were in homosexual relationships and wrote in favor of such things. It doesn't make it right, nor does it make the behavior...

Jesus is Immanuel, “God with us.” As the Apostle Paul said, “He is the image of the invisible God” (Col. 1:15a). There are a host of texts that point to Christ’s divine nature and his role as the Creator of all things. John tells us not only that Jesus was with God and was God in the...

Ohhhh. mmmm. yes. I see. Thanks for qualifying your previous statement spoken in haste. :rolleyes:

Yes, and the JW's and Mormons are two of these fragments from the 33,000 denominational groups. Their leaders started in denominations and broke off because of their own ideas (like individuals who formed the denominations they belonged to did before them). The only difference is that they...

Yeah, if you call trying to stone Jesus, "not an issue," because he was blaspheming and making himself equal with God, I guess you would be right.

Retro, There is simply no evidence of what you are proposing. Matthew, Mark, John, Paul, Peter and the author of Hebrews, all wrote the Scriptures in Greek. All the earliest manuscripts are copies from Greek, not translations of Aramaic. Moreover, these authors almost always quote from the...

Sorry Retro, I'm not gonna chase rabbits down this trail. Looks to be another one of those "secrets" for decoding the Bible. Show me some serious and well known scholars who affirm this theory of yours and I'd be happy to research it. All I know is that every Bible seminary and textbook I...

I don't have much time to respond (or a proper keyboard). I'm puzzled at your post Floyd. You claim I'm too rigid in my views but then tell Jack, "I'll never agree with your view..." The reason I wrote the forum is because Ive studied quite a lot. I'm always open, but I'm not blindly...

I find it interesting, aspen, that this does not at all seem to be the message Paul gives to the Areopagus in Acts 17 nor the message Peter gave in Acts 2. Let us not confuse what the Gospel is with what the Gospel does. Paul said the Gospel is the "power of God to save all who believe." Its...

In the midst of the lightness I try to maintain in this thread, I would like to offer a more serious note on this matter. I do believe this issue is of critical importance. I believe this issue is one in which salvation hangs in the balance. 1 John was written about those who were teaching...

Yes, I would agree with Jack on this one Marcus. If Revelation is not circular, how is it that we can have Jesus being given eternal reign over the world in Revelation 11:15 and then Jesus being born in Revelation 12:5? How is it that God is wiping away the tears from the eyes of the multitude...

You're funny. Does this protesting blood include those who wrote monogenes Theos? Oops. Better not go there. Still might be a little sensitive.

Ah yes. Well, you wouldn't have a "Bible" were it not for the "traditions" you so loathe. With this mentality, we can just dissolve the church as a whole. I think these views are much more the product of the more recent "tradition" of postmodernism. This obsession with individualism and...

Arnie, Thanks for the video. As you can imagine, I'm not a big fan of Chuck :). Let me respond to some of his points. 1) I agree that Jesus will rule on earth. I think that is what Revelation teaches that the New Jerusalem will come down from heaven onto the earth and there we will live...

Wow, lots to respond to. Thanks for all the responses. I'll try to address all the points the best I can. Just ask again if I miss something. Yes, I am not discounting the fact that it is a possibility to take the millennium literally (if I did, I'd fall into the camp of historic...

nothead, Well, once again, neither Wallace nor those who hold to Colwell's Rule in the grammar of John 1:1 would disagree this is a text referring to Christ's divinity. Your arguments are totally out of left field and have no backing from any reliable source. Just because there are different...

Marcus, I understand that and appreciate that approach. My comments were more directed at those who often charge Amillenialists as not taking the book "literally." I agree that John really saw what he saw and he was describing those things as they "appeared." My point was that pretty much...