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[Behold: "Objective errors ? You will show us misspelled words and your opinion regarding "original Koine greek", and "Original Extant manuscripts", when in fact the only originals are the Apostle's letters, and they dont exist. So, you want to ERECT your strawman based on quoting your...

But why would Jesus identify bizarre phenomena like poison-drinking and snake-handling as "signs" of the true believer in His only statement in Mark's only resurrection appearance, when He might have mentioned transformational signs like ,say, the fruit of the Spirit, a Spirit-led life or...

Truth OT: "Thanks for chiming in Bob. The fact that there is contention within the Christian faith(s) bolsters my point that the Bible is very ambiguous, at times contradictory, and downright confusing regarding numerous religious subjects that would appear to be of upmost importance." Most of...

Cassandra: "God asked that those images be made.. None of them were to be bowed down tofoe veneration. it says here "You shall not bow down yourself to them or worship them." God did not tell the church to fill itself with icons.No one was allowed inside of the Holy or the Most holy Place in...

Christ4Me: "And only One Holy Spirit in us to teach us and not men. Just saying, I hoped you discerned with the Lord Jesus Christ everything you had been taught and especially when you translate because I have seen Greek scholars contend over the meaning of verses like John 6:63 & 2 Corinthians...

Enoch's typical mindless pontification written by one who has never even read a book written by a universally recognized competent Text Critic. I happened to study under the world's leading expert on Text Criticism at Princeton, Bruce Metzger, who edited the standard modern critical NT Greek...

You need to be educated in the modern discipline of Text Criticism. Let's begin with 3 observations: (1) There are 400,000 variant readings in the NT manuscripts alone. (2) The Greek text used for the KJV is based on Byzantine Greek manuscripts, the oldest and most error-filled manuscripts that...

Let's look at the 9 key points that refute Christ4Me's aNti-tongues stance: (1) She constantly warns that private tongues cannot confidently be distinguished from pagan tongues. Yet she has no answer to my challenge to find a single case in Paul's day (not Isaiah's day) of private tongues...

Those 65 Protestant scholars just spoke for the modern scholarly consensus, secular and Christian, as evident from the majority views of professors who attend the largest and most prestigious Bible conference in the world, the annual meetings of The Society of Biblical Literature. Scott A. on...

Many evangelicals just claim the biblical texts that create the expectation that if they have repented, believed the Gospel, and made a faith commitment, then they automatically have the Holy Spirit. But is this a dangerous assumption challenged by Paul's epistles? PAUL'S EXPERIENTIAL CRITERIA...

SUPERIOR CATHOLIC POWER TO FULFILL THE GREAT COMMISSION: "THEY SHALL CAST OUT DEMONS." For me, the most impressive aspect of the Catholic doctrine of apostolic succession is the awesome contrast between the unique power and success of exorcist priests versus the relative ineptness of deliverance...

C4M: "Paul said so in context of comparing tongues against prophesy for why prophesy is better; not how cool it is by itself LOL, you conveniently ignore Paul's wording: he says, "he who speaks in an uninterpreted tongue EDIFIES himself." Edification from the Spirit is always spiritually...

Funny you must resort to insults to mask your inability to get into the Word with me and discuss the cited texts! This just in--Jesus was sinless, but Paul was not. But I still find the revealed Word of God in Paul's epistles.

marks: "(no Barnabas [in Gal. 1:15-19])...Where is Paul defensive? Seeking approval? (1) In Galatians 1-2 Paul defensively leaves out his need for Barnabas to accompany him on this his first trip to Jerusalem (Acts 9:26-27). Paul needs Barnabas as a character reference to vouch for the...

(2) PAULINE TEXTS IMPLYING THE POSSIBILITY OF POST-MORTEM RECONCILIATION WITH GOD: "God...is the Savior of ALL people, ESPECIALLY (Greek: "malista") of those who believe (1 Timothy 4:10)." Note what the text does not say; it says not that, "God is the Savior of those who believe," but of "ALL...

Do people in your church testify to "demonstrations of the Spirit and of power (1 Cor. 2:6)?" Do they testify to healing miracles and supernatural guidance? "Is yours a cessationist church "holding the outward form of godliness but denying its power?" Avoid them (2 Timothy 3:5)."

Taken: "Have you found any Scriptural testament of Peter in Rome?" Duh, if you studied your Bible, you'd realize that 1 Peter is written from Rome (1 Peter 5:13; cp. Rev. 17:5, 18)." :rolleyes: Peter has the authority in behalf of the Roman church to send a circular letter to several...

In Paul's day pagans (e. g. Greek oracles) speak in tongues (gibberish) in order to have it interpreted. You can cite no example iin Paul's day of any pagan speaking in private tongues. And even if they did, so what? Private tongues raise the purity and passion of our praise to God and Jesus...

Christ4Me: "Not every believer will test the spirits and the tongues they bring because they want to believe that special phenomenon was of God. 1 John 4:1-6." And if you read post #4, you'll see that precisely that problem created a lot of doubt for me as a teen about the reality of these...

Christ4Me: "Where in the scripture does it instruct future believers to study the Greek because the message or meaning of His words can be lost in translation to a foreign tongue for us to have any wisdom in knowing what is truly written?" The Bible can never be accurately translated because...