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No word can be translated 'just as one prefers'. 'Katharizo' means 'to cleanse, purify, make clean, declare clean, or set free'. NOT 'cherish, impact, or retain'! Look it up in any Greek dictionary. καθαρίζω | billmounce.com

But in practice, each group of Christians (aka church) has to decide when/how often they are going to do it - because it requires a minimal degree of organisation. You could call this a 'rule', but what's so terrible about that kind of rule? Groups can't function easily without them.

Not so. The word 'katharizon' can be translated either as 'purging' or as 'declaring clean'.

You can't baptise yourself - some other believer has to baptise you. So that's at least one other person (and ideally a lot more as witnesses) who must be present. I suppose you could take bread and wine on your own - but you don't find believers doing that in the New Testament. It would be a...

Jesus said, "Do this..." He didn't add, "if you feel like it".

You don't have to. He goes through Mark's Gospel from beginning to end, so you just scroll down (like I did) until you get to Mark 7:19.

Taking Communion is another thing that I should have put on my 'sharing' list. One can't observe the sacraments on one's own. But there are so many things that could have been on the list...

I can't take this seriously. You are twisting my words and forgetting your own: Here is the article I referred to. The guy is an expert in Greek texts, so somehow I don't think he'll be imagining what he reads there. http://www.willker.de/wie/TCG/TC-Mark.pdf

Well, I did google it - and I found articles referring to variant readings of Mark 7:19 in many different manuscripts! If it's in lots of manuscripts, it can't simultaneously be only in one. That is the normal definition of food. There's no separate "Bible definition" - that's your personal...

Are you taking issue with a catchy title?

This is not true - the verses added in the Codex Bezai are the end of Mark 16. Where did you get this info from? If Jesus "declared all foods clean", that's a good enough reason to consider them edible. The dietary laws of the OT do not apply to Gentile Christians. That's an interesting...

Does anyone "prep" outside of the USA? Presumably the rest of us just get on with living a Christian life. Jesus told us not to worry about tomorrow. He also told us not to stockpile 'treasure' - which presumably is what you're expecting all this food and stuff to turn into! There are many...

The penal substitution "theory" predates John Calvin by about 4 centuries! It was first put forward by Anselm. So it's incorrect to link it with Calvinism. And it's only one way of looking at the atonement: Atonement I believe not only in penal substitution but also in the ransom and in the...

There does come a point, though, when you do have to tell the other person that you think they're wrong - otherwise very little evangelism would get done. Paul may have started his sermon on the subject of the altar to an "unknown god", but he immediately went on to say, "The God who made the...

The only people who "know" that they are condemned to eternal damnation are the people who don't care.

Yet it is still the case that "the whole world is under the control of the evil one." (I John 5:19)

And those things as well. They are the consequences of dealing with our sin. That God should go to war on our behalf is a sign of great love, I would say.

That's an argument that looks impressive at first glance but becomes less convincing the more I think about it. The number of witnesses is only one factor - the quality of the witnesses is arguably more important. Five eyewitnesses would carry much more weight than 995 people whose only evidence...

No, it's because I applied some common sense and critical thinking. I find the evidence for those assertions too flimsy to be taken seriously.

Thankyou, but I've seen it all before - and researched it - and discovered that every single argument used by the KJV-only movement is fallacious.