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That's one witness ... Matthew 18:16 [NKJV] "But if he will not hear, take with you one or two more, that 'by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.' ... quoted from Deuteronomy 19:15 [NKJV] "by the mouth of two or three witnesses the matter shall be established"

I think it important to note that there are no "successful" polygamous marriages in the Bible ... it is NEVER a blessing for the family and it almost always (perhaps even always) results in trouble. Isaac and Ishmael Joseph and his brothers the House of David God knew what He was doing.

[First a quick aside, as a Baptist I agree with EVERYTHING that you wrote about Local Church autonomy and the Biblical Offices and the headship of Christ ... so it is not quoted because we are in complete agreement and there is nothing to discuss.] Since we are drifting away from the subject...

To be fair, most "Organizations" survive the passing of their founder, but few "works of God" are passed down as an ongoing anointing. The Salvation Army (for all its good) is not what God anointed William Booth to do when he was alive. Heck, which of our local churches really looks more like...

If one goes back to the OT, God paints a clear picture of who and what it means to be a man and to be a woman. He explains what a man needs to THRIVE ... work and affirmation. He explains what women need to THRIVE ... Proverbs 31 (an excellent wife). Homosexuality (the lifestyle forced by the...

One of the few problems that I managed to avoid. I never had to wonder if I was reprobate before "but God" [Ephesians 2:4] ... I knew it for sure.

Bingo!

May I play? I think "Homosexuality" is a mental illness ... evidence that someone is "broken" on a very deep level (perhaps irreparably so). It COULD come from an organic abnormality (very rare), or a childhood trauma/dysfunctional situation (too common), or it could have "spiritual roots". I...

Actually, I have a real world problem and opportunity to elevate someone out of poverty. Tyrone is a friend of mine that owns a Used Car Lot in Tampa. Tyrone's needs employees that can transport cars from one location to another, learn to detail cars, and (if interested) learn to sell cars...

As a Particular (5-point Calvinist) Baptist, I think that BAPTISM (CREDOBAPTISM - Immersion of confessing adults) is a pretty big deal, too. However I never forget that it is God (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) that do the saving and the water just gets you wet. However immersion is an Ebenezer...

I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius, lest anyone should say that I had baptized in my own name. Yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanas. Besides, I do not know whether I baptized any other. For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not...

The flaw in your starting assumptions is that even the checkout operator at minimum wage is in the top 1% by world-wide standards. If you own the electronic device you are reading this on ... welcome to the 1% club. Equality means dragging that checkout operator down to the level of a Somali...

"Now therefore, fear the LORD, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the LORD! And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods...

Italy killed the Son of God ... Israel rejected Him. (So the wrath should fall on the Roman Empire ... which took a lot longer than God discarding the superfluous Temple in AD 70.)

:thumbsup: "And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed." - John 3:19-20 [NKJV]

Why do the same problems of identical inequality exist under Communism and Medieval Feudalism and the God-Kings of the Grain Empires? I think chasing the "evil of capitalism" is a dead end and a folly that will not pass the test of cursory historicity.

... or FANTASY is really just "Spiritual Reality" dressed as "Secular Imaginary". :) (They are counterfeiting our Reality, not the other way around.)

I like Michael the Archangel, but just as a technicality can archangels (or regular angels) be "saints"? I like St Jude ... (Thaddeus the Apostle). Almost nothing is known for certain about the details of his life (he was pretty obscure), but in the 20th & 21st centuries, Jude attracts people...

After that we could Crown the Anti-Christ in the Temple and celebrate the New World Order by offering those that worship the OLD God on the altar of the New Religion in the Image of Man that we have created ... (and all the demons cried "AMEN!"). [A bit hyperbolic and overly dramatic, but my...

Are you advocating that God should make Heaven just like Earth by filling it with people that are reasonably good by our standards rather than people who are "glorified" through His Son and Spirit? [shudder]