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I have been debating atheists on the web for most of this year. This is what I have found. ONE. They have got where they have because no one has taken them on to expose their lies.As the year has progressed and their rubbish has been challenged they have gone to water, for the simple reason...

Hallo Selene. I would like to respond to your original post as it seems you have done what most do and that is make the scripture fit their theology and practice rather than make their theology and practice fit the scriptures. I am not going to respond to every point you have made, rather I...

Some good points and some not so good points. I will make some comments as we go. Thankyou Charles and I will throw in one more thing. Not once will you find a so called pastor being brought in from outside the local church to be in charge of it.

Since I discovered these truths in scripture, I have been "church watching". It is noticable that we may be experiencing the next move of the Holy Spirit as there appears to be an abandoning of organised religion which is being replaced by organic religion where people meet in the home to...

But, water baptism is not necessary for salvation. Scripture teaches us that we are justified by faith alone, not by works (Romans 4:1-8, Ephesians 2:8-9). “For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel …” (1 Corinthians 1:17). You are making the scripture say what you want it...

You are not alone is this. My reading over the last few months has indicated that christians are leaving the church in droves and using houses to gather together. It is so important to get our foundation right. As I see it, you don't go to church, you are the church so you can't go to yourself...

NEW TESTAMENT ELDERS “According to the New Testament concept of eldership, elders lead the church, teach and preach the word, protect the church from false teachers, exhort and admonish the saints in sound doctrine, visit the sick and pray, and judge doctrinal issues. In biblical terminology...

I woulkd like to suggest that this pure speculation and has no basis in scripture.

Common practice of many churches. In other words it is not Jesus building HIS church, it is man building HIS church.

I am not sure that you have adequate evidence for this claim which basically is made on a false premise invented by man. I don't tithe to a church because there is no church to tithe to. We meet in homes without paid clergy so we have no expenses. That means all my giving is made to suffering...

I am not quite sure what you are alluding to here. I was looking for what they did right in my study as opposed to what they did wrong. Until you know what they did right, you can't know what they did wrong as you have to have some yardstick to make your judgments by. The fellowship I have...

Sorry it has taken some time to reply. i have been living it up in the big smoke in honour of my wife's &*%^* birthday. Yes, what you say is a correct understanding of my findings. I believe they met from house to house (not in the so and so pentecostal or baptist church). All the people meeting...

It depends what you mean by the law. If it is the ordinances that were given to the Jews, no we don't keep them because they were done away with at the cross. If you mean the 10 commandments, they are not the law, they are the commandments and Jesus said "if you love me, keep my commandments."...

NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH I spent two years studying the New Testament to see what it had to say about the New Testament Church. A lot of my study was informed by the original Greek so as to avoid modern English impositions in the meaning of words. I wanted a complete picture so I looked at...

Now to deal with some comments already made. This is like saying the NT never once says its wrong to go out and buy pornographic DVD's, so it's ok to do it. NOTE: This comment is not relevant as pornographic DVDs were not available in the NT. Taken to its logical conclusion, we should not be...

I have found this discussion very interesting and would like to make a positive contribution. To do that I need to set some basics and then sort out the wheat from the chaff in what has been posted so far. I will respond to some comments without naming names. The most important thing to...

A danger which this topic clearly emphasises, is that too many denominations make your doctrine the basis of fellowship or not as the case may be. When you are asked "which church do you attend" it is a loaded question. Primarily the person is wanting to know if you are of the same spiritual...

One is what God has done and the other is what man does. God gave ALL scripture as in 2Tim 3:16 but man, in putting his own interpretation on it is saying whether they understand that they are or not, that they believe their interpretation of the Bible is the word of God. If three people are...

Thankyou John for your OP on the subject of tongues. It is very useful to make you think and study the subject. I am of the belief that you don’t know what you believe until you are challenged, that is why I spend a lot of time debating atheists. I thought I would add a few thoughts as it...

Unless I have misunderstood what you have said, I would like to make a few comments. LOGABE: The people would always know when Friday was, because there would be twice as much manna to carry them through the Sabbath, when there was no manna at all. In other words, the timing of the Sabbath was...