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According to Peter, the "surest" word we can offer a non-believer is prophecy, which he says is more compelling than what we see or hear (2 Peter 1:19-21 KJV). Any atheist who gives honest consideration to this will be compelled to agree that an Intellect foreign to our planet must have been...

Brother, your entire argument stems from a belief that some aspect of US, THE HUMAN CREATURE, is immortal and continues living after we die. The problem is that Scripture says God "only hath immortality" and we "who by patient continuance in well doing SEEK for...immortality". I'm here to...

You will search the Bible in vain for a duration-specific time prophecy which fails to conclude itself at the time God said so. He said there would be: ...120 years that His spirit would strive with the Antediluvians until the flood and 120 years there were. ...7 years of plenty in Egypt and 7...

Let's say one day your child comes to you and says, “Daddy daddy, may I have a puppy dog?” You think about it for a minute, and then you decide, “OK, you can have a puppy dog.” So, you get the child a puppy dog and one day you go next door to chat with the neighbor and when you come back you...

Amen, we are the light of the world, as Paul was in his day, and is why it makes no sense for Paul to have held back from the world the "light" of the truth that the Holy Spirit in His church is Restraining the rise of Antichrist. Of course, if we believe what the Early Church Fathers say Paul...

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A Miami area travel agent once booked a Cuban immigrant on a vacation to Los Angeles for a family visit. The agent told him that it was only about a 500 mile trip so the man happily got on the road and after he'd driven the 500 miles he realized that Los Angeles was no where in sight. He stopped...

If you count 483 years from the decree of Artaxerxes of 457 B.C., you come to 27 A.D., the year Jesus was baptized according to the Syro-Macedonian calendar that Luke employed elsewhere and likely employed to reckon the 15th year reign of Tiberius. The 483 began with the decree and ended with...

The "day of the Lord" that comes as a thief in the night is the simultaneous Second Coming destruction of the earth and Rapture of the saints, for which we are to "watch and be ready". The tribulation is the Seven Last Plagues which we will go through protected by God (just as Noah's family...

Hello, brother, the confusion surrounding this issue burdens my heart, so please let us lay aside commentators for a bit and focus on Scripture alone. The Bible says that Satan (undeniably personified as the "king over all of the children of pride" Leviathan) will never make a covenant with any...

The reason why it doesn't make sense is that it is assumed that Jesus has already come as a thief before the plagues fall. This is not the case, seeing that the passage clearly shows that after the sixth plague, Jesus still has yet to come. The church will go through the tribulation, though...

What evidence is there for a Pre-Trib Rapture?

It is incomprehensible how non-Catholics who reject the teachings of Roman Catholicism for its innumerable errors have willfully deluded themselves into believing that an institution that has failed to gain even a correct position on the most fundamental teaching in all of Christendom –...

While it's true that they became "Hellenized" in their thinking, this was at best the source of religious confusion (ie. "body shell from which the 'immortal soul' escapes at death") but certainly was never a vehicle by which the Jews again descended into idolatry, which was comprised of prayer...

Where is your evidence that the Jews, whether those who remained in Babylon or those who returned to the promised land, fell back into idolatry? If such evidence exists, then why do scholars agree with me that the Babylonian captivity cured them of it? If you are suggesting that nothing less...

Hi, bro, thanks for your thoughts. The captivity so cured the Jews of their idolatry that they returned and set up schools of Mosaic instruction, imposed upon the people rigorous laws that Jesus eventually condemned, and shut out the Gentiles' corrupting influence so as to preserve them from...

Did you know that Charles Wesley wore out the floorboards of his bedroom in prayer? Or that Luther said if he didn't pray at least 3 hours a day, he couldn't get anything done? I think "ludicrous" is a bit strong a word in characterizing the Historicist view which was held by these two and...

"The Reformers Were Historicist by H. Grattan Guiness" where he lists the testimony of St. Augustine, Tertillian, Chrysostrom, etc. Lack of evidence? The unanimous belief of the ECF paired with the absence of whatever nebulous ideas bouncing around today is more than enough to warrant serious...

The Early Church Fathers unanimously agreed that Paul identified the Restrainer as the Roman Empire and such unanimity can only be the result of either carefully handed down information or a carefully orchestrated ruse to mislead posterity. Tradition teaches that the early church actually...

"Reprove" means to "punish wrongdoing". "Restrain" means to "prevent (wrongdoing) from occurring". The two are not the same thing. To claim that the words of Paul that entered the ears of the men of the early church were "Holy Spirit filled church", but came out of their mouths in their...