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Critics of tongues on this site have no answer 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...

Paul would dismiss your pontification as "foolish" on the grounds that signs and wonders are a normative aspect of life in the Spirit: "Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh? Did you experience so much for nothing?...Well then, did God supply you...

I know by direct experience that nothing "builds up the body" as effectively as sign gifts! You just need to get out more.

Now I understand why you don't watch in depth videos. Your reading comprehension is appalling. As academic commentaries on John point out, Jesus is implying that He is really present in the Eucharist; and for that for very reason He comes to abide in the believer through Holy Communion. That...

Enoch: "I do not watch videos." So you despise the in depth learning that videos facilitate? Enoch: "Jesus said that unless one eats His flesh and drinks His blood, one cannot have eternal life. And the Jews took this literally to mean cannibalism. Hence they were offended, and said "This is...

"Christophany: "I have gifts from the Holy Spirit, just not the tongues and babbling type. the ones that edify the body, not self." In defiance of Paul's earnest desire for every believer! "I want you all to speak in tongues...I thank God that I speak in tongues more than you all (1 Corinthians...

(2) OSAS advocates have frozen like Bambi in the headlights at the case against OSAS in the Letters to the 7 Churches. So let's move on to Hebrews. A few introductory comments are helpful to the discussion: (a) No academic commentary on Hebrews supports Paul's authorship of this epistle. (b)...

THE NATURE OF LIFE ON "THE NEW EARTH" I'm not ordinarily interested in millenarian speculation (pre-, post-, or amillennialism), but atheist Howard Storm's revelation about life in the millennium really got my attention for various reasons: (1) Apparently unknown to him, his NDE vision of the...

This thread is needed because eternal security advocates tend to ignore relevant biblical contexts and verse clusters. The thread will initially focus on the 2nd half of the first century (Revelation and then Hebrews) and then shift to Paul and finally to Jesus. In the process, it will be...

Watch this free online movie on Polycarp's life and weep over your ignorant disrespect! Polycarp (2015)

Duh, no, it is a Bible, not a Commentary entirely devoted to the Epistle of James. Academic commentaries just on James discuss the Greek nuance in detail. "Works"(Greek: "erga") never refers to mental calculation, but always to moral or physical effort. Period. You are the posterboy for how...

You just confirmed my point: the Life Application Bible is NOT an academic commentary on the Epistle of James! What it says about intellectual assent is true, but irrelevant to the point of the rhetorical question in 2:14, which requires the answer No, faith without works cannot save you. That...

ALL the academic commentaries on James agree with my interpretation of 2:14. So your rejection of logic, and more specifically, of the nature of rhetorical questions and the distinction between necessary and sufficient conditions for salvation reduces your response self-refuting screed from the...

You need to find a competent credentialed Christian counselor, who will not try to talk you out of your anxiety, but will rather be a good listener to go with you through the anxiety. Change brings permanence; recreation brings disappearance. What that means is this: when you try to change...

First, you forget that John 14:13-14 applies to the time when Jesus is present physically or in resurrection appearances. But when the Paraclete or Holy Spirit is poured out, Jesus teaches us to to pray directly to the Father, not to Jesus, and to pray to the Father in Jesus' name (John...

Berserk: Philippians 2:12:" The Greek means "work to accomplish" justbyfaith: "No it does not. It means "to work out" as with a math problem." "No, as usual your false pontification is based on your ignorance of Greek. First, , "exergazomai" comes from "erga," the noun for "works" as in good...

Taken: "I have no consideration for philosophies of men...in an attempt to obfuscate..." LOL. You have obviously never taken a course on philosophical Logic because you unwittingly just admitted you "have no consideration" for critical thinking. What is it about the distinction between...

Giuliano: "Can you believe God would send innocent babies to hell? That doesn't seem right to me. "Let the little children (including babies) come to me and do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs (Mark 10:15)." Like little children, aborted babies cannot...

I was into horror movies until a teenager in my church with a secret opioid addiction got demonically oppressed (with terrifying paranormal phenomena) right after watching the horror movie "Paranormal" with is young friends. An evangelical exorcism team was summoned to deal with the issue but...

There are 5 fundamental biblical points that justbyfaith, Behold, Taken, and their ilk continually duck: (1) I repeat: in both Hebrew ("amunah") and Greek (("Pistis") the word translated "faith" also means faithfulness." That in itself means that we are saved not by an act of belief or trust...