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Readers should note x points about my exchanges with BH: (1) I was Bruce Metzger's student. Indeed, he got me into the Harvard doctoral program in NT. So I have been directly to his fervent evangelical faith. On the other hand, BH has never even met this godly man. (2) BH has never even read...

You mention Bruce Metzger. Bible Highlighter: "Metzger was a radical ecumenist. He was at the forefront of producing “the Ecumenical Edition” of the RSV in 1973 and personally presented a copy to Pope Paul VI. “In a private audience granted to a small group, comprising the Greek Orthodox...

Bible Highlighter: "Most make themselves the authority or the scholar the authority. All Modern Bibles come from Rome, and Westcott and Hort. Pontification from ignorance! Some of the best text critics are solidly evangelical. e.g. Bruce Metzger (my seminary professor) and Gordon Fee (a...

Great! Now ditch your ungodly KJV and you may keep your salvation!:) Seriously, consider the 400 thousand contradictory readings in the Greek NT manuscripts due to tired eyes of overworked monks and ask yourself, "Is it not obvious that the more recent the manuscript, the more likely that...

Aunty Jane: "In the first century, there were no failures and no one was blamed for their lack of faith if such a failure occurred......they just never did. We cannot say that now." Wrong! First, the disciples tried and failed to heal the epileptic boy (Mark 8:18, 28). Second, even Jesus tried...

(1) My friend Gord is a chaplain. He shared this experience. He visted Anny in a nursing home and noticed a bottle of lilac cologne on the stand by her bed. He asked her if she'd like an aide to apply it to her and she replied, "Oh, that would be lovely!" then she smiled and peacefully...

A reluctant non-Christian was nagged by his wife to bring their handicapped daughter to a Kathryn Kuhlman healing rally at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium. During the service, a creation miracle occurred in which the daughter was given hips, which she lacked due to a birth deformity. The man...

As an ex-theology professor, I know Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic. If asked about the best translations, I always begin by saying, "Any translation but the KJV and NKJV, because of the very late and highly corrupt text used for translation. In the case of the KJV's bogus ending of Mark, we even...

Holy water is blest water and the principle that justifies its use is solidly grounded in Scripture. (1) Naaman is cured of leprosy by immersing himself in the Jordan. For Naaman, then, the Jordan becomes blessed water. (2) Jesus uses spittle mixed with clay to heal. So for Him, this water...

reformed: "No, speaking in tongues is not the only form of praying in the spirit, how absurd!" What is absurd is your unwillingness to read the OP carefully. I never claimed tongues is the only form of praying in the Spirit. What I said was that speaking in tongues is the only form...

Critics of tongues on this site have frozen like Bambi in the headlights when confronted with these 5 unchallenged points: (1) Paul's command to "pray in the Spirit" is fulfilled by striving to speak in tongues. 2 points establish this teaching...

Integrity is a rare virtue; it is the willingness to endure the profound discomfort of severe doubt about one's spiritual beliefs when one's reason and intuition, and life experience clash with a system that binds one to one's spiritual community and gives coherence and peace to one's sense of...

My friend Lloyd shared this testimony from one of his friends, a man totally disinterested in Christianity. The friend was strolling through a crowded mall when he accidentally bumped into a lady he hadn't noticed. She braced herself, touching him on the shoulder, smiled, and moved on. Later...

At age 21 I attended Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, CA for a year before transferring to Princeton Seminary. I twice had the privilege of attending her healing meetings at the LA Shrine Auditorium, the place that used to host the Academy Awards. The 2nd time my friend Sam insisted that we sit...

Watch the testimonies miraculous healing from the only 2 known survivors from the Azusa Street Revival of 1906-09. The blind saw, the deaf heard, and people with terminal diseases were instantly healed! The building had a special place for all the crutches of the cripples who were healed...

I take that as a No, I'm pontificating from ignorance without having read the primary texts of the early Church Fathers!

How would you know? Have you actually read the early church Fathers like Augustine? More mindless pontification by historically illiterate fundamentalist! One of the greatest examples of fundamentalist arrogance is their mindless assumption that the Holy Spirit deserted His church shortly...

GodsGrace: "I don't understand your last sentence at all. How are people baptized on behalf of the dead? (1 cor 15:29)" A family member substitutes for the unavailable deceased unsaved loved one and is rebaptized as a proxy for that family member. By implication, this practice builds on the...

(2) THE FOUNDATION OF PURGATORY IN PAUL: Who would not want to benefit from God's grace and spend a long time in purgative torment? Nothing unclean can enter Paradise, but can enter the lower Heavens. You wrongly assume that there is only one Heaven. Paul is taken up to "the 3rd Heaven,"...

This thread will focus successively on how Jesus, Paul, Peter, and John the Seer lay the foundation for the later Catholic doctrine of Purgatory. [1] THE GEHENNA CONCEPT SHARED BY BOTH JESUS AND CONTEMPORARY RABBIS: The Feast of Hanukkah celebrates Judas Maccabaeus' victories during the...