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Recently, a few new members started politically oriented threads. In those threads, some posts were thought to be personally attacking. And that experience motivated this thread. It seems to me this touches on the broader topic of rebuking, which is in Scripture, while not personally attacking...

Shocking phone call received at 4:20 PM Friday from a friend, going through a divorce. Despite the fact that his wife assaulted him and has a restraining order, the Magistrate ruled that he has to leave the house he's lived in for 23 years so she can move back in. And he has to be out by...

My pastor recently said that in his life he is only sure that God spoke to him about 2 things - and that was after becoming a pastor. A friend of mine, a Catholic for 5 decades said he never experienced the Holy Spirit talking to him. So, that got me wondering. How many here don't have a...

Just read a thread about war in heaven via Rev 12:7. Though I read revelations 3x, I confess I cannot keep it in my head. I even read a book by a Rabbi who did an excellent analysis of connecting the many figurative passages. The 1st time I read Revelations, I thought John must have been...

Using standard language usage and keeping 2 COR 1:13, in mind, (there is no hidden meaning in our letters) the inescapable conclusion or take away from the verse below is yes. Based on this verse, if you conclude the answer is no, what reading skills, logic and definitions supports that...

Seems like there are a few threads now on this point. Our passion for doctrine has become an idol. It is as if the new command Jesus gave is to proselytize endlessly to what your doctrine is. Fortunately, there is no doctrinal purity test to enter heaven, be saved, receive eternal life, etc. My...

A study note from NSRV Ex 20:3 speculates the purpose behind the wording is to dispense with the idea of a heavenly council. Yet, Jesus himself invoked Ps 82:6. The True God stands to preside over the heavenly council. He pronounces judgment on the so-called gods. Ps 82:1 Micaiah: 19 You...

I was witnessing to a young man who gave this rationale for him not praying. Although I know what the Bible says and I quoted various passages, I was disappointed in my overall response. So, how do you answer this question?

I was motivated to start this thread from another where a poster wrote about baptism as though it were some kind of mystic or magical thing. For the record, I reject mysticism and magic but to realize that with heavenly beings, we deal with supernatural powers. Do Catholics think there is some...

Not sure what got me thinking this. I heard on the radio someone in the Bible being filled by the Holy Spirit and compared that to me. It'd be a stretch to say I am filled by the Holy Spirit as I realize at times that I do not rely on God or pray as much as I could. I know I am sealed by the...

The CEV translation reads, "God loved the people of this world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who has faith in him will have eternal life and never really die." In this thread I want to explore 2 questions: If God gave his son, how can Jesus be with God still? Given God...

In another thread talking about second death and going through the lake of fire, I began to wonder about it's purpose. Without quoting a lot of Scripture, it is my understanding that hell is not the final location of the damned. Rather, hell is but a waiting room for the damned that on Judgment...

I just finished watching David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet, which is a Leftist Analysis of World Population Growth. Two points I want to explore: Confounding Fossil Fuel Economics with Population Growth Downplaying The Death of the West via Suicidal Birth Rates Near the end of the film...

In my Devotional Reading yesterday in 1 Chronicles, I came upon a passage that always disturbed me. It was when God, through the prophet Nathan, told David he will not be the one to build his temple since he has so much blood on his hands; that he was a man of war but the one who will build the...

A video I watched several months ago rhetorically asked this question. While it is absurd to suppose "the Father" is not THE Father of Jesus, Scripture is crystal clear it was the Holy Spirit. So, on what basis does one answer the question?

Today's devotional reading in NSRV included Psalm 144:1 Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle; But when one copies and pastes it, one finds a deliberate altering of God's word via technological manipulation. Blessed be the Lord, my rock...

A number of years ago I befriended an old man at the YMCA. We became close. He's like a surrogate father to me now. At one point, his wife said that I am now a friend of the family. At 85 yo, she has suffered from dementia, incontinence and cannot walk and can barely stand. Looming large in my...

Trinitarinians deny the big reveal of Jesus' ministry is that he is the long awaited Messiah, chosen by God to reconcile humanity to God and was never about revealing God incarnate. (Every Epistle makes clear that God, in his unitarian nature, is the Father alone, whose will is carried out by...

This question came up on the radio on the way into work. The hosts said responding with 'none of your business' is overly aggressive. A caller said the question is rooted in fear and we should not respond to fear but simply answer the question, yes or no. The host objected to the claim the...

I've been wanting to praise various translations for some time because I have found not one translation always speaks the most to me. Just wanted to share a couple of verses from a few translations that came alive for me: VOICE A. Ephesians 4:29 Don’t let even one rotten word seep out of your...