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Should you eat pork? No, unless you go to our local town Pour House and order the Phat Burger: a top-grade Angus burger patty over a pulled-pork -patty over 2 thick slabs of bacon, over pepper jack cheese, lettuce, and tomato, all smothered in home-made barbecue sauce (6 inches thick-$15)--...

You obviously pontificate from ignorance because you have not bothered to watch the video of eyewitness testimony to the Hebrides Revival. In real revival the Holy Spirit falls primarily and massively on the unchurched. On the first night hundreds all over the place filled the streets. crying...

The last great revival was in my view the most supernatural, the Hebrides Revival of 1949-1954. Duncan Campbell was the Presbyterian minister at the center of that revival. Watch this video and learn how the whole island of Lewis became aware of the convicting power of the Holy Spirit suddenly...

Stuart If you don't want new evidence for the resurrection that you haven't yet considered, why did you create this thread in the first place? How can we be helpful? I'm unfortunately coming to the conviction that you are just another insincere troll.

Stuart, If I were in your shoes, these responses would not be very helpful because one can't simply conquer doubts by TRYING to believe. So let me ask you 2 questions that might lead to a solution: (1) Would it be helpful to you to lay out in detail the historical evidence for Jesus'...

THE AZUSA STREE REVIVAL OF 1906-1908 William Seymour is the most spiritually effective African American of all time. What happens to him and how he reacts to his fate is a role model for bringing great mass revival. Yet though I grew up in a Pentecostal church, I had never heard of him! This...

What cessationist evangelicals don't realize is this: if God can't or won't do it now, then it is reasonable to infer that He couldn't or wouldn't do it in Bible times either. Our local prayer group of 5 has lasted 7 years and has witnessed many miracles. Last year I had 2 sonograms and 1...

"Revival" is a watered-down term. In the last few centuries there have been 5 revivals: The first and second Great Awakenings (18th and 19th centuries), the Welsh Revival of 1904-1906), the Azusa Street Revival of 1908-11), and the Hebrides Revival of 1949-1954. In these revivals the Holy...

I know you said you were booted off carm.org, but the site is being reconstructed and I think you can safely re-register like I just did. The site has attracted better educated fundamentalists. but more Catholics are needed to address anti-Catholic ignorance and bigotry. Let me know if and...

Most Christians have a distorted understanding of Jesus' parables (1) because they don't know the cultural background and (3) because they don't recognize the difference between parable and allegory, and (3) because they don't recognize Jesus' characteristic use of shock tactics to grab...

Barney or another poster will surely explain how 2 contradictions between Luke and the other Gospels can be removed or at least reduced to paradoxes: (1) "When they [the women] did not see His body there [at the tomb], they came back to us and told us that they had seen a vision of angels who...

Thanks for your replies. Yes marks, the Catholic belief in healing through relics, the bones of saints, is traceable to 2 Kings 13:20-21 (Elisha's bones). Please read this short article that documents how God has used relics (the bones of saints and martyrs, especially of Stephen. the first...

Most evangelicals are blissfully ignorant of how informed Catholics find biblical support for Catholic distinctives in Scripture: e. g. praying to saints. Purgatory, baptism, the presence of Christ in the Eucharistic elements, the use of holy water, the biblical authority of priests to forgive...

ANOTHER GUARDIAN ANGEL EXPERIENCE: (14) Roger B. is a retired top federal executive at HUD (Housing and Urban Development). We became friendly through our interactions on a New Age website and I eventually visited him from Buffalo, NY at his summer cottage along Lake Ontario. Roger shared...

A parent who disciplines a child does so to correct and reform the child's behavior so that the child can develop a commendable character and succeed in life. It is ludicrous for you to liken that to a a loving heavenly Father who consigns his child to eternal conscious torment with no...

(13) Today I had lunch with my friend Mike, a retired Boeing engineer. He shared this testimony experienced by a leader in his church. This man was driving in the country with 2 other people when he lost control of his large car and it overturned on its side. Thankfully, none of the 3 was...

Well, at least you are the first OSAS advocate to actually challenge my point by point exegesis of Revelation and Hebrews. Unfortunately, all the academic commentaries disagree with you! The 7 letters address the entire church of each city. The church of Smyrna in general is addressed as a...

Here is a better and more provocative question: If God is pure unconditional love, how does He continue to love the damned in Hell, unless they can theoretically still repent, be transformed, and join the elect in Heaven? As evangelical writer C. S. Lewis famously put this issue: "The gates of...

Before this thread was birthed, I was contemplating starting my own thread on the biblical principles of effective prayer. I hesitated because (1) even prayer principles diligently followed often don't work if they are mechanically applied and (2) because hard experience has taught me that some...

Christophany, Taken, Eternally Grateful, justbyfaith, and Enoch are all denizens of an uneducated Fundamentalist Ghetto that outlaws academic commentaries on specific NT books (e. g. on Revelation and Hebrews), all of which support my anti-OSAS stance. Notice carefully that they all duck my...