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You speak much about what God’s name means, but you stopped where Scripture does not stop. God said, “I AM hath sent me unto you” ~Exodus 3:14, and He alone says, “beside me there is no God” ~Isaiah 44:6. That is the line in the sand. Only the LORD bears that name. Then Jesus stands in the...

You can say you prefer a wording, but Scripture does not take orders from preference. Jesus did not say “before Abraham was, I was.” He said “before Abraham was, I am” ~John 8:58. Straightforward Greek there, ἐγώ εἰμι, present tense. Not a title used for convenience, but a statement of...

You’re not being kept out of heaven because you wouldn’t like me there. You’re outside because you don’t want God there. Scripture says, “The carnal mind is enmity against God” ~Romans 8:7. That’s the real issue. Not personality, not preference. The human heart does not naturally want Him. Jesus...

Sure, you are free not to believe in a God? You are free to choose, but not free from the consequence of the choice. God does not force belief. People reject Him all the time. Jesus said, “ye will not come to me, that ye might have life” ~John 5:40. So yes, you can refuse. But Scripture is...

First, you’re right about one part. It is God who decides. No human sends anyone to heaven or hell. Scripture says, “The Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son” ~John 5:22. But God has already told us the standard He will use, so it is not unknowable. Jesus said...

Nobody is asked to believe blindly or shut off thinking. Scripture never defines faith as accepting a claim because someone told you. Faith is trusting what God has testified and He repeatedly calls people to examine it. Jesus said, “If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I...

The news this week about the school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, Canada is heartbreaking. An 18-year-old who had a history of mental instability killed family members and then attacked a school, leaving multiple students and a teacher dead before taking their own life. Before anyone turns this...

I haven’t asked anyone to agree with my opinion. I’ve pointed to specific passages and quoted them in context. If what I’ve said is wrong, then show from Scripture where the text teaches something different. The standard is not my understanding or yours. The standard is what is written. “Let...

You are correct. There is a mixture that is illustrated in scripture. Jesus told us, “Let both grow together until the harvest.” (Matthew 13: 30) Some who appear to be wheat, are not wheat. “They went out from us, but they were not of us.” (1 John 2:19) However we also need to know when to make...

You quoted 1 Corinthians 2:9–14. Notice that passage answers your point if we actually read it in context. “But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit” (v. 10). Who is the “us”? Contextually, it is the apostles. “Which things also we speak”. They spoke what the Spirit revealed to them...

Paul did NOT have the completed New Testament laid out in front of him when he lived and preached. What he had were the Old Testament Scriptures (“the holy scriptures” in 2 Tim. 3:15). Several books of the New Testament were still being written during Paul’s life time. Paul wrote the majority of...

You’re asking questions from a denominational framework, not from what Scripture actually says. Scripture does not condemn someone based on tone, personality, or supposed extra spiritual experiences. God’s Word is the standard for truth. “To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not...

I’m not sure where some of this is coming from, because I never said what you’re responding to. I didn’t claim ongoing revelation, and I didn’t deny illumination. My question was simply whether spiritual growth is new revelation beyond Scripture or deeper understanding and obedience to what God...

There is so much wrong doctrine here that needs to be addressed for the sake of readers. Scripture does not teach that there was an “Oral Torah” given to Moses before Sinai which was later written down. That concept is Rabbinic, not Biblical. Scripture teaches that the Law was spoken and...

Notice how the discussion just shifted away from Scripture to background and affiliation. That move is telling, and Scripture does not allow it. The Bible does not ground truth in denominational labels or theological tribes. It grounds truth in what has been written in the Bible. Yes, believers...

This is simply false teaching. You are trying to redefine “believeth on Him” in such a way as to discard the work God sent His Son to do. Scripture never talks about believing in Jesus this way. Jesus defines what it means to believe in Him. “Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the...

That claim is false, and it’s dangerous, because it pits Scripture against Scripture and turns Paul into a private oracle. The resurrection was not “revealed only to Paul.” God revealed it before Paul was even converted, and Peter preached it openly. Peter preached the resurrection from the...

This is not complicated, and it is not a matter of interpretation style. It is a matter of reading what the text actually says. You say Peter did not preach the death and resurrection in Acts 10. That is flatly false. The passage says Peter testified that Jesus was slain and raised. Those are...

Yes, what you're saying can be true if we keep it within biblical guardrails, and those guardrails count. When someone is truly born again and steps into walking in obedience, Scripture becomes plain when it never did before. Jesus told us a man must be born again to see. ~John 3: 3 Paul told us...

This is not my opinion. What I am saying is what the Bible teaches, and what you are saying goes beyond it. Your, “agree to disagree” is not a biblical category when truth is at stake. Scripture does not say truth is settled by mutual tolerance. It says, “Let God be true, but every man a liar”...