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In the evangelical church of my youth no less than 3 pastors got on trouble for inappropriate sexual behavior! Fundamentalist sexual misconduct is appallingly common, but irrelevant to the merits or lack of same of their theology. You are committing 2 standard fallacies of apologists untrained...

Enoch: "You may imagine that this is so, but you really have no solid grounds for your Catholic priesthood," "Your Catholic priesthood?" LOL, I'm not even Catholic; I'm evangelical--and I have even successfully sued the Catholic church. I'm just pointing out their superior understanding of...

(2) PRIESTLY ABSOLUTION Most evangelicals view forgiveness solely as a direct transaction between the confessing believer and God with no human mediation. So they freeze like Bambi in the headlights when confronted by Jesus' teaching that church leaders must play an active role in mediating...

Much of the fundamentalist screed directed against Catholics here consists of mindless unbiblical generalizations. These fundamentalists lack the integrity to actually study the biblical basis for Catholic doctrinal distinctives and practices. Informed Catholics might justifiably issue this...

In my life miracles rivaling any in the Gospels tend to happen in an unexpected series over a short period of time (e. g. Leonard's late son Jeff retuning from the dead to drive his Dad towards Rochester, NY, to reassure him that he, his wife, and 2 children were together and OK after dying in a...

Since in Mark 16:16 Jesus identifies baptism as a condition for salvation, He righty takes for granted that His hearers would understand "born of water" the same way. I repeat: much to your chagrin you cannot find a single example for the use of "born of water" in any other sense. What is...

Sigh! Both Christ4Me and Pinseeker are victims of the eternal security heresy, which can easily be refuted by a blizzard of texts. I'm reminded of my youth during which a mega-church Baptist preacher's approach to his altar call in which he bellowed, "If you come forward and accept Christ as...

Taken: "Natural birth IS one being born out of a water sac. Jesus simplified it saying; BORN OF WATER." You ducked my challenge to find a single reference to the ancient use of the phrase "born of water" in that sense. Jesus said more than simply: BORN OF WATER, Jesus expressly revealed that a...

At age 16 I was becoming increasingly skeptical about biblical inspiration and the authenticity of the gifts of the Spirit. I asked myself if the conversions were ever genuine in our weekly Sunday evening evangelistic service. So I decided to go all out in my prayerful pursuit of God. After...

Christ4Me: "baptism is not a requirement for salvation. The point about adding a ritual to obtaining salvation also applies to how you are including "holy" communion for." Another example of how you, unlike informed Catholics, duck the plain meaning of Scripture. You fail to recognize the...

Christ4Me imagines that knowledge of Greek is irrelevant to exegetical understanding and thus pontificates without bothering to consult academic book commentaries on the Fourth Gospel. So he doesn't realize that Jesus bread of life discourse (6:25-42) interprets the "sign" of the Feeding of the...

Christ4Me: "So are you saying taking "holy" communion is how one receives eternal life?" Your question betrays your ignorance of salvation as a process in NT theology. Christ4Me: "Since Jesus said we will not hunger nor thirst any more, and if you say He is talking about communion here in...

Christ4Me: "Yet in spite of transubstantiation claims, the bread is still bread and the wine is still wine. LOL. You're projecting Transubstantiation into my post when I'm not even Catholic! Christ4Me: "Did Jesus lie or was Jesus being sarcastic to the Jews whom [!] were not listening to...

"For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them (John 7:55-56)."

And I am bored by your relentless refusal to let Scripture interpret Scripture. You can find no example of the Greek phrase "born of water" meaning amniotic fluid. That's because Peter makes clear that the phrase "born of water and the Spirit" refers to baptism and regeneration. Peter rightly...

A future post will explain why most initiations into speaking in tongues just produce babble that is of the flesh. But my OP will identify 3 proven principles for genuine glossolalia. Admittedly, the Holy Spirit cannot be limited to a specific operation formula. For example, when I was...

THE HEAVENLY MALL IN THE SKY Several years ago, I attended a wedding reception in Buffalo, NY. I sat next to Phyllis, a 40ish female physician who was eager to share her 2 NDEs with me. Her first NDE resulted from a serious car accident during which she ascended in spirit to "a mall that...

3 texts provide the biblical basis for infant baptism: "He (the Philippian jailor) and his entire family were baptized without delay (Acts 16:33)." There is no reason to suppose that the family had no small children and infants. Paul baptized this entire family without delay before the whole...