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Just finished reading Revelations. I'll add the verses later but it occurred to me why people don't believe and it involves sex and time. Regarding sex; condemnations against homosexuality has to be seen as in the context of the Bride and Wife of the Lamb, who is made up of many men. Regarding...

There are many threads that delve into what the Bible says in its original language (OT Hebrew, NT Greek). English has never been my strong suit, let alone foreign languages of any kind and this got me wondering. I rely on English translations as an English speaking person. Is it even fair to...

I thought I'd start this thread to give a little reminder of Christian history. Some Christians seem to White Wash Christian history as being oppressed by Rome, then followed a never ending flowering of Christian peace upon the world stage. Only if it were so. Politically incorrect, still...

A meme said by not taking the vaccine, she is 100% safe from its side effects and 98.5% safe from COVID. Something to think about. In other threads, people have compared the benefits of taking the vaccine to not taking the vaccine. This is a slanted view, the diagonal of a 2 x 2 matrix. COVID...

Recently, a few new members started politically oriented threads. In those threads, some posts were thought to be personally attacking. And that experience motivated this thread. It seems to me this touches on the broader topic of rebuking, which is in Scripture, while not personally attacking...

Shocking phone call received at 4:20 PM Friday from a friend, going through a divorce. Despite the fact that his wife assaulted him and has a restraining order, the Magistrate ruled that he has to leave the house he's lived in for 23 years so she can move back in. And he has to be out by...

My pastor recently said that in his life he is only sure that God spoke to him about 2 things - and that was after becoming a pastor. A friend of mine, a Catholic for 5 decades said he never experienced the Holy Spirit talking to him. So, that got me wondering. How many here don't have a...

Just read a thread about war in heaven via Rev 12:7. Though I read revelations 3x, I confess I cannot keep it in my head. I even read a book by a Rabbi who did an excellent analysis of connecting the many figurative passages. The 1st time I read Revelations, I thought John must have been...

Using standard language usage and keeping 2 COR 1:13, in mind, (there is no hidden meaning in our letters) the inescapable conclusion or take away from the verse below is yes. Based on this verse, if you conclude the answer is no, what reading skills, logic and definitions supports that...

Seems like there are a few threads now on this point. Our passion for doctrine has become an idol. It is as if the new command Jesus gave is to proselytize endlessly to what your doctrine is. Fortunately, there is no doctrinal purity test to enter heaven, be saved, receive eternal life, etc. My...

A study note from NSRV Ex 20:3 speculates the purpose behind the wording is to dispense with the idea of a heavenly council. Yet, Jesus himself invoked Ps 82:6. The True God stands to preside over the heavenly council. He pronounces judgment on the so-called gods. Ps 82:1 Micaiah: 19 You...

I was witnessing to a young man who gave this rationale for him not praying. Although I know what the Bible says and I quoted various passages, I was disappointed in my overall response. So, how do you answer this question?

I was motivated to start this thread from another where a poster wrote about baptism as though it were some kind of mystic or magical thing. For the record, I reject mysticism and magic but to realize that with heavenly beings, we deal with supernatural powers. Do Catholics think there is some...

Not sure what got me thinking this. I heard on the radio someone in the Bible being filled by the Holy Spirit and compared that to me. It'd be a stretch to say I am filled by the Holy Spirit as I realize at times that I do not rely on God or pray as much as I could. I know I am sealed by the...

The CEV translation reads, "God loved the people of this world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who has faith in him will have eternal life and never really die." In this thread I want to explore 2 questions: If God gave his son, how can Jesus be with God still? Given God...

In another thread talking about second death and going through the lake of fire, I began to wonder about it's purpose. Without quoting a lot of Scripture, it is my understanding that hell is not the final location of the damned. Rather, hell is but a waiting room for the damned that on Judgment...

I just finished watching David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet, which is a Leftist Analysis of World Population Growth. Two points I want to explore: Confounding Fossil Fuel Economics with Population Growth Downplaying The Death of the West via Suicidal Birth Rates Near the end of the film...

In my Devotional Reading yesterday in 1 Chronicles, I came upon a passage that always disturbed me. It was when God, through the prophet Nathan, told David he will not be the one to build his temple since he has so much blood on his hands; that he was a man of war but the one who will build the...

A video I watched several months ago rhetorically asked this question. While it is absurd to suppose "the Father" is not THE Father of Jesus, Scripture is crystal clear it was the Holy Spirit. So, on what basis does one answer the question?

Today's devotional reading in NSRV included Psalm 144:1 Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle; But when one copies and pastes it, one finds a deliberate altering of God's word via technological manipulation. Blessed be the Lord, my rock...