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I sure hope you are not arguing for two Holy Spirits. Also, can we finally rid ourselves of the American Indian word "tongues" for the modern word "languages"?

This is the belief of the Jehovah Witnesses or the Mormons, can't remember which one came my house and presented this teaching that I consider bizarre.

Can you name two scholars who agree with this? A new church and ANOTHER new church of the body of Christ?

See Matthew 16.18 where Jesus says: And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overpower it. Note that Jesus said that he WILL (Future Tense) build his church. The church is said to be a future event from Jesus' ministry on earth...

I disagree with your reply. The Church that Paul was persecuting was made up of believers in Christ, Christians as we know them. The Church Age began at Pentecost. Peter mentioned that the Church Age began at the beginning of Pentecost. I am sure you know the passage in Acts. On Pentecost, the...

In Acts 7:38, the "church in the wilderness" refers to the assembly of Israelites during their exodus from Egypt and journey through the wilderness under the leadership of Moses. Last two are the same. They are what I am referring to.

The Mystery is none other than the Church Age.

the first statement is definitely a heretical conclusion (YHWH was created). God the Father is not the Creator, Jesus (YHWH) is. GJohn 1.3, All things were created by him/the Word, and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created. This is a irrational statement. Which means...

What!?

I don't know how many commentaries there are on Hebrews, but most of them put their guesses in concerning who the author is. I certainly don't know and would never speculate as to who it is. But, I can eliminate those who did not write it. I wrote a post on the cessation of miracles based on the...

The only way I see it is that if a believer sinned by rejecting God's offer of salvation, he could be removed from the body of Christ. Of course this would be a huge sin. And here is the crux: sin does not eternally condemn us. Christ paid for all sins, not most sins, and rejecting God's offer...

How do we believe God if his book is biased by the translators? The best solution I know of is to discipline yourself and take a little time each day to learn the Greek NT.

No such thing as an unbiased translation. And you know what, you can see bias in the manuscripts and dictionaries.

Dan and I were at a bar in London, where I drilled him for a few hours with questions. This statement was said to me by Dan. However, this statement appears in a few of his articles and books. I have almost all his books and articles, so I will invest some time into looking through my library to...

I think one should emphasize that we do have the originals WORDS of the autographs. In other words, we do not have the old pieces of paper, but we have recreated those manuscripts in the Critical Text. Dan says we actually have 103% of the words of scripture, what work needs to be done now is to...

When I was about 18, a friend of mine witnessed to me for about 3 nights in a row. The last night, I tried to go to bed, but I was under conviction. I felt scared. I looked out the bedroom door and "kind of saw" a dark shadow moving in my direction. I went back to bed and accepted Christ then...

I worked for the author of the source you mentioned. I took Textual Criticism by Dan during our travels to Europe. You said that none of the manuscripts are identical, but I think you misunderstood what Dan said. No two mss are identical from beginning to end. The thousands of manuscripts agree...

I wonder if Jesus looked the same to all 200. Just curious. I do believe that God uses supernatural ways on rare occasions to bring people to Christ, like Saul. We are told in Hebrews that some have entertained angels without knowing it. This is actually like the angelic evangelism that occurs...

That was my mistake. There are two different gifts, for lack of better categories, they are Spiritual Gifts, each believer has at least one gift. The Sign gifts are more miraculous. They point to something else. The sign gifts ceased in the first century, but some of them appear to happen...

This is a common misunderstanding. We do have the words of the original autographs. We do not have the pieces of paper that they were written on, but we definitely have the original words.