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Monasticism began after Constantine established Christianity as the state religion and politically correct piety replaced "the power and demonstration of the Spirit" that radiated from much of prior Catholicism. Many were hungry for more of God and fled to the desert to escape secular...

TruthOT, You seem to be another sad victim of the insipid Domino theory of biblical truth, the theory that one proven biblical error warrants dismissal of the entire biblical revelation. How is your epistemology unfalsifiable, even in principle. In other words, if your whole fundamentalist...

(8) I had just performed a wedding in Buffalo, NY and was now attending the reception at a country club. I was sitting next to a guest, Phyllis, who was a doctor with a PhD in medical research. She was an attractive but "icy" blond who was obviously very bright. Phyllis shared these 2 NDEs...

You miss the point: Paul is simply saying, "Look around you and notice that not everyone fulfills their spiritual potential: "But strive for the greater gifts (e. g. prophecy and tongues---12:31) because (by implication) they are for every believer. Thus, Paul continues: "Strive for the...

The gifts of prophesy and tongues ARE indeed for every believer. In 1 Cor. Paul teaches, "you can ALL prophesy one by one (14:31)" and reinforces this point with his wish, "I want you ALL to...prophesy (14:5)." His wish echoes Moses' wish in Num. 1:29: "I wish ALL the Lotd's people were...

The evidence for post-mortem survival from NDEs and ADCs (after-death communications) is far, far superior to the evidence for Jesus' resurrection (which, however, is of course far more important). In my experience of witnessing, sharing the most evidential NDEs and ADCs is the most effective...

You miss the point: It is common for the Spirit to fall on "sleeping" church members, but that is far from indicating revival. Posters need to ask themselves, "Why has no one on this thread bothered to watch the best internet videos on the Welsh, Azusa Street, on the Hebrides revivals and...

"Revival" is NOT a biblical term. In our day the word either gets watered down to the point of being meaningless or muddied up by vague jargon (e. g. "baptism by fire") with no clear application to Christian experience of the Spirit. Duncan Campbell was a central figure in the last great...

On April 13 I got my 2nd Pfizer jab. Then I felt a strange compulsion to encourage our local Baptist worship leader to get the vaccine. He scoffed at the idea, claiming he was not in the vulnerable age group. Like most evangelicals, he had drunk the internet anti-vax cool-aid that defies the...

theefaith doesn't realize that "Saul" didn't change his name to "Paul;" rather, "Saul" is the Hebrew name and "Paul" is its Greek equivalent. So the audience, Greek or Hebrew, determined which form to use!

Scholars recognize the emperor cult as the driving force behind Revelation. The Romans required their subjects to offer a sacrifice to Caesar as their lord and god and Christians refused to do so. Actually, the Romans didn't actually expect their subjects to believe in the divinity of Caesar...

Soul: "The word "brother" (ἀδελφός [adelphos]) has a range of meanings, e.g., "fellow believer," fellow countryman," "kinsman," e.g., sibling, uncle, nephew, cousin, etc. The brothers [siblings] Eleazar and Kish were the sons of Moholi. Kish had sons of his own, but Eleazar’s daughters married...

Nope! Your false equivalences may be summarily dispatched by 2 points: (1) The NT repeatedly uses "adelphos" to designate Jesus' brothers; so if "cousins" were intended, then the perfectly good NT word for "cousin" ("Greek" "aneprios"--Colossians 4:10) would be expected. (2) "Alphaeus" is a...

Is that why Catholic exorcists so often need to be summoned to evangelical homes to take charge of demons and exorcize them to when evangelical exorcists proved unable to succeed in their attempted exorcisms? I am personally acquainted with such a case.

It is important to recognize that Catholic mariology is legitimated by the biblical grounds for praying to saints. Catholic mariology becomes a biblically legitimate biblical option if these 4 truths can be established: (1) Rev. 6:9-10 implies that the righteous dead remain informed about what...

(1) "Your [Jonathan's] love for me [David] was wonderful, surpassing the love of women (2 Samuel 1:26)." David says Jonathan's love for him surpassed that between a husband and wife. (2) "There are eunuchs who have been so from birth and there are eunuchs who have been made so by others and...

Farouk: "John 6 Bible Commentary - Matthew Henry (concise) John 6 Matthew Poole's Commentary" You unwittingly conceded my point. I challenged you to come up with even one MODERN commentary just on John, and instead you offer 2 ancient commentaries on the whole Bible, not just on John, written...

(1) Can you Name even one modern commentator's book just on the Fourth Gospel who agrees with you? (2) Can you identify any biblical or ancient Christian source that interprets drinking the blood of Jesus in any other way than drinking the Communion cup? (3) God expects you to base your claims...

First, you ignore the problem that on the one hand Jesus tells us we will "munch on (Greek: "trogo") His flesh and drink His blood in John 6 and on the other hand John's report on the Last Support makes no mention of the words of [Communion] Institution at the Last Supper in John 13. So either...

What are Fundy friends don't get is that, 40+ days later Mary is present at Christian prayer vigils with Jesus' "brothers," clearly a reference to family members, however "brothers" is understood: "All these were constantly devoting themselves to prayer, together with certain women, including...