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Well, none of the gifts are for everyone - otherwise we'd all have every single gift and we wouldn't need each other! No one gift - not even the gift of tongues - is a sign of God's special favour. He gives all of us gifts - but they are different for each person.

This is nothing new. C S Lewis was well aware of it.

All semen emissions are natural. An abnormal discharge in a man is usually a symptom of a sexually transmitted infection.

Offerings were prescribed only for UNnatural discharges (Leviticus 15:1-15) Any natural semen emission just made a man unclean for the rest of the day (verses 16-18) It was the same for a woman: a normal period made her unclean just for a week and didn't require any offering to be made (verses...

So how do you explain Jesus' words, then? Was He Himself confused? "I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to help you and be with you for ever - the Spirit of truth.... Anyone who loves Me will obey My teaching. My Father will love them, and We will come to them and make...

Oh yes He is! "For where two or three gather in My name, there I am with them." (Matthew 18:20)

I can ONLY belong to one church at a time, because I can only be in one place at a time. That involves making a choice between the churches available to me locally. It DOESN'T mean that I think all the others are wrong. The denominational label means very little to me (other than the...

How could He have been a man "just like us"? He was born of a virgin!

You have some very strange ideas about Protestant beliefs. I find it illogical that a Catholic can believe in the immaculate conception of Mary yet won't allow us to believe in the immaculate conception of Jesus.

In my Bible He says both.

Dear Ed - you need to learn some Greek grammar. These aren't "five words" for God. It's one word - θεος - in different forms (cases). And none of the ones you have listed is plural! They are not all pronounced the same, either. You have missed El-Shaddai out of your Hebrew list.

Our flesh may not have been created evil, but it's definitely fallen now. "The flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other..." (Galatians 5:17) "Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God."...

Josho, it's very hard to tell whether someone is worrying or not, just from the face they show to the public. As you say, Joel Osteen "always seems to be getting through life in a breeze" - but "seems" is a key word here. Even ordinary people can go smiling to church when in reality they are...

Did they believe only in a "visionary Jesus"? How do you come to that conclusion? Peter had spent much time with the "historical" Jesus, as the gospels tell us (even though they were written down later). Paul was converted only a year or two after Jesus' death and may well have seen Him 'in the...

Who says that people have to confess their sins every day? That sounds a bit excessive to me - unless you're really struggling with a major problem like drug addiction. I've never met any Christian who has admitted to doing it that often!

Josho, this may sound a bit pedantic, but... I wasn't implying that faith is limited to salvation. We can appropriate all kinds of things by faith, if God wants to give them to us. As you have listed, there are many passages in the Bible that encourage us to pray in faith. I was just pointing...

But that isn't what Hebrews 4:2 is about. "We also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them because those who heard did not combine it with faith." The 'word' is God's promise of salvation, first spoken to the Exodus...

Cornelius was saved before he was baptised, but not before he met Peter. The angel had said to him, "Send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter. He will bring you a message through which you and all your household will be saved." (Acts 11:13,14) So his good works pre-dated his conversion!

Because it was irrelevant and did not require replying to.

But that's not what I said, is it? The Holy Spirit is not given to those who merely claim to be Christians.