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Sure, easy one. What this verse means is that John Mark deserted the missionary trip of Paul at Pamphylia and this left Paul believing that John Mark was unfit for the work, while Barnabus, John Mark's relative, being gifted as an encourager must have believed that he could encourage John Mark...

I forgot something in my previous post, and it has to do with a passage that I have rarely heard preached, the very last passage in the Bible and from the book of the Revelation. People assume that only those who enter into the Holy city, the New Jerusalem, are saved by God, but this isn't what...

Good. Perhaps you can tell me what this means: "I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; "that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.

Maybe we can make an attempt to get back to the topic; that would be God's rules for the prophet. Would it surprise you that Jesus' rule for approaching a sinning brother applies to the prophet as well? 15. "Moreover if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and...

I think that God would prefer the statues be torn down, but that would have to be by the Catholics (at least some church vandalism has been committed by over zealous individuals taking the scripture literally and desiring to please God.) Here's a question for one of the RCC apologists. How is...

If you press them for an answer they'll also tell you that they don't believe Jesus is God, but this isn't something that they offer when trying to recruit more potential wealth for their church.

Ok, but I can review my 900 posts if you'd like and point out the ones where we clashed over the simple meaning of the text and what has been taught by certain denominations as "proper interpretation." However, that would be a tremendous waste of time. I'm curious about two things with regard to...

I haven't much to say about your topic as the airways are full of self righteous opinions about "Christians" that "live a life of sin." The most vocal that I've encountered in the last 20 years are usually the most sinful themselves. (The Lord has most certainly given the wicked over to the...

It must be wonderful being you. Have you ever read the scripture?

Read the link and it might be so, but I can tell you with 100% certainty that some illegal venting of SO2 didn't cause the volcanic eruption in Alaska that occurred on the same night further up the San Andreas fault.

You'll be instructed by me or by God. I'm a lot easier and a lot less painful.

Wormwood wrote: Now, my original point was to address the means by which a prophecy comes to a prophet...or how an individual is declared to be a prophet. We simply do not see, anywhere in the Bible, someone assigning to themselves the title of "prophet." God spoke to them, they didn't decide...

Absolutely. There's laws against releasing sulfur dioxide into the air industrially and they come with substantial fines. That's no proof that the stink was'nt from some man made source, but I'm not sure what that would be in the SF bay area. I've personally seen mercury polluted streams in...

Stranger, no one really has to answer anything if they don't want to and I suspect that there are a number of miscommunications going on in the process. I haven't seen much of anything to disagree with you in these posts and there's nothing wrong with asking for clarification on a statement made...

I'm not seeing a prophet receive revelation through other mechanisms in scripture except by God's finger writing (God wrote the ten commandments on the tablets that Moses provided with His finger (and did it twice.)) However, other participants in the discussion have already mentioned a few...

Actually, I'd heard preachers teach that Jonah changed the message and left out repentance, but looking at the book again (which I've read dozens of times) I couldn't actually find a place where God's message for Nineveh even included repentance, so perhaps "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be...

As I recall, you were making requests for proofs, something tangible to verify not my statements, but those of another participant in the conversation. Whatever is of sight is not of faith and Jesus certainly knew this. I have no real intention of discussing scripture with you in particular...

Thank you for your contribution to the discussion. I've been avoiding giving lists of scripture with specific references as they tend to require that a person go to each reference and read the entire passage in context to actually be sure that the verse makes sense. In John's gospel we have a...

True enough, but if God wasn't willing to give this information, why would he give any of His children the desire to know it? You said, "the prophet speaks for God, not himself as a prophet" and this is true when the prophet is speaking as a prophet, but it would be foolish to think that...

Thank you for your participation in the discussion and yes your statement here is entirely true. I always found it a little puzzling that the Lord has used prophets to make conditional proclamations, knowing that the conditions wouldn't be met. We see this at least as far back in scripture as...