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(7) Many agnostics and atheists are gloriously saved through their NDEs. The most dramatic online example of such a conversion is atheist professor Howard Storm's NDE in which he was being taken to Hell when Jesus intervened and his life was transformed. His Youtube testimony posted below is one...

Here are just 8 biblical commandments that most Evangelicals treat as optional: (1) Changing dress codes prompted modern Christian women to discontinue the practice of wearing a hat in church. They justify this change on the grounds that the NT commandment on this issue is merely a reflection...

In my childhood church I was exposed to 3 pastors who all got in trouble morally. One had been Billy Graham's interpreter for his massive South American crusades. He divorced his wife. The other was our YWAM advisor. He was defrocked for chronically having sexual affairs. YWAM (Youth wiht...

DNB: "First of all, the quintessential passage on this issue is 1 Thess. 4:13-18. i.e. fundamentally speaking, no one is judged before Judgement Day." Notice how DNB ducks the fully conscious martyrs of Rev. 6:9-10 and these 2 Pauline texts I quoted: "We would rather be away from the body and at...

Giuliano, Notice how quietthinker and his ilk conveniently duck the decisive refutation of his soul sleep position in post #35, a post that merely expresses the scholarly consensus on this issue of which your critics are oblivious.

My thread "NDEs and ADCs: Their Evidential Value for Christian Apologetics" demonstrates with verifications that the dead can and do communicate with the living. Many atheists and agnostics have been born again through reflection on their near-death experiences or their after-death contacts...

(6) When I was a Theology professor at a Catholic university, I used to play Bridge with professors from the School of Education. During one game, I received a "word of knowledge" about an absent Education Professor, Ellie. Ellie was grieving the recent loss of her husband Joe, another...

Jesuit Malachi Martin wrote a famous book documenting major exorcisms entitled "Hostage to the Devil." He famously claimed, "There are no atheists at a genuine exorcism." Here are 2 of my families personal cases of confronting a demoniac: (1) My cousin E is a psychiatrist and the son of a...

(3) Aurilla was in charge of buying and preparing the bread and grape juice for Holy Communion in the first church I pastored. She had to buy these Communion elements in the only grocery store in that little village. But she procrastinated too long and the store was out of grape juice. So...

Mabel, a devout Methodist, was visiting her son's Baptist church at Thanksgiving. The pastor noticed the visitor, welcomed her, and asked her about her religious background. Mabel replied, "I'm a Methodist." "I see," the pastor replied, "and why are you a Methodist?" Mabel answered, "Because...

Notice how anti-Catholic Fundamentalists in this thread keep ducking the posted testimonies to miracles achieved through prayers to the saints. I'll bet none of them have ever seen an indisputable miracle in response to their prayers to God. They ignore Jesus' principle, "By their fruits you...

I commend Christophany for posing the question of why the Gospels never mention Jesus' faith. Deafening silences in Scripture can be significant. Another example is Paul's failure to use any of the standard words for "Hell"--"Gehenna," "Hades," "Tartarus." Instead, he prefers the words...

(2) No, Pastor Barber was a very good preacher, but he had absolutely no sense of humor. About a year later he was preaching on David's relationship with King Saul and made another blooper, again the only thing I recall from the sermon. At one point he said, "And there David stood in the gates...

I'm in a rather impious and squirmy mood, and so, I thought I'd change pace and share some of the funniest things that happened in my churches. I often read critics` movie reviews and one of these critics was reviewing crude old sci-fi movies from the 1950s and early 1960s. Pointing to their...

Praying in the Spirit or Spirit-directed prayer in the key to waging effective spiritual warfare (Ephesians 5:18; cp. 5:10-18). In Galatians Paul commands us to "walk in the Spirit" (5:18), that is, to walk in a Spirit-directed life and hence be "led by the Spirit" (5:35). Unless you walk in...

Jesus implies that the Beloved Disciple is the son of Mary (John 19:26-27). If you accept the traditional view that the Beloved disciple is John the son of Zebedee, then Jesus identifies Mary as John's mother in a spiritual sense. Many take this one step further and infer that Mary is by...

Me! I have never felt so numbed or paralyzed by awe by a miracle experienced by myself or someone I knew very well!

(6) I went to Fuller Seminary in Pasadena for a year before transferring to Princeton. One day, Howard invited me to join about 20 other young seminarians to visit a 91-year-old woman named Mrs. Good. Apparently these athletic young guys loved to visit her and had done so at other times...

(5) THE GEOGRAPHY OF PARADISE At age 5 Margaret Sauro was misdiagnosed with scarlet fever and was on the verge of death as a result of a ruptured appendix. She suddenly found herself walking hand in hand down a path with a beautiful young woman in a Roman toga. The path was lined with massive...

On the contrary, Yahweh would be a ghastly human contrivance unworthy of credibility by the best human instincts of what is fair--and inconsistent with His alleged nature of pure unconditional love.