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Everything that you've said sounds reasonable and could be the way of things to come. The Pastor of the church that I was once a member of, a fellow named Randy Smith who "the bridge" listeners may be familiar with, told us during his first visits to that church that he held to a mid-tribulation...

Thank you for giving such detailed responses and yes, I actually read them, though I didn't follow everything you wrote and would have to spend a bit of time going back to the passages to look at them in context. There were a couple things that I found confusing, but at least part of the problem...

Now that's Calvinism. ;) I don't know if I'm loosing it or lost it a long time ago, so good evening and God bless.

I certainly believe in the gathering together of the elect and the sudden transformation to our new spiritual bodies, but its the timing that I have a problem with, given what we find in Revelation 20:1-6. The way I understand the text is that the multitudes which come out of the great...

I forgot to mention that I am sorry if my responses are not fast enough for you, this is an on line forum, not a chat room, and I actually have a life which involves more than answering heretical views on a Christian forum. My wife was quite upset with me for spending an entire holiday on the...

Paul taught what Christ taught. Jesus said through the prophet Isaiah, 700 years before He inhabited the body that was prepared for Him: 5. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed...

Darby is also credited as the primary creator of the doctrine called dispensationalism (which I consider complete hogwash: The Lord does not change.) Darby also felt it necessary to write his own translation of the New Testament, which is usually more about making the word of God more palatable...

Sorry I didn't read all the comments as they seem mostly argumentative and insulting, but my simple answer to the OP is "fear." I'll add that this "fear" comes from a lack of faith or understanding in the power of God to preserve his own. I'm inclined to give silly anecdotal stories in my posts...

The "gospel of grace" hadn't been pronounced prior to the death of Christ, nor could it be since His death and resurrection are essential components of the gospel. However you'll find the gospel presented by Paul in an abbreviated form in chapter 53 of the book of Isaiah which came to Isaiah by...

You might consider taking a course in logic. The statement "God is love" is not mutually exclusive to the statement "God is Holy" (also found in scripture) or to the statement "God is righteous." But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for...

If you're suggesting that Paul wasn't commissioned and sent by God, then you're also suggesting that the largest part of the new testament is deception, including the gospel of grace itself. I would recommend that you avoid that on a Christian web site, though you might be welcome to make such...

In what way does the church restrain lawlessness anywhere but within the church? I think that Law restrains lawlessness. If this weren't the case, why would the antichrist try to change law?

There is no such thing as ghosts. If you're talking about the Holy Spirit which was mistakenly translated as Holy Ghost in some of the early translations of scripture, check the original language with a concordance and maybe you'll loose some of that confusion.

No argument there. But I would say that I've seen a real hunger for understanding among new born again believers in the churches that I have attended, including the one that I attend now. Within my limited experience (my wife and I don't like to church hop, but we have,) the church leadership...

I've never met more than a few hundred Christians personally and there were a surprisingly large percentage of well taught (in scripture) attending at least one church which we had in common and most of these had some understanding of how to make and understand a logical argument. That formerly...

"Does anyone actually believes the devil/AC is going to have "POWER" over the "BODY OF CHRIST"?????" I'd say that he already does to some extent, but through deception, such as the pre-tribulation rapture doctrine. The catching up of the church is described as happening after the dead in...

The Lord can do whatever He wants in heaven or upon the earth, but teaching doctrines that include obvious error coming from a lack of understanding only contributes to the world's view that Christians are uninformed, ignorant, and superstitious at best, crazy at worst. Our Lord is concerned...

I don't know where you're getting your interpretation from but where do you find 660 meaning "firery serpent" or 6 meaning past? Conventional understanding is that 6 is the number of humanity (or something less than the complete number 7 which comes with the rest found in Jesus Christ, our...

The Israel of God, as defined by the Apostle Paul, is not the nation of Israel, but the descendants of Abraham by faith (those who share a common faith in the God of Abraham who is Jesus Christ). There are certainly people within the visible church that are defying God, but defiance is not the...