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As usual, you don't know what you are talking about. Bruce Metzger was ridiculed by a liberal NT professor for being a devout evangelical with a high view of Scripture.

THE SDA SOUL SLEEP HERESY The SDA soul sleep heresy poses a barrier to the practice of praying to the saints and therefore needs to be refuted. This heresy arises from a failure to recognize progressive revelation from OT to NT times. The OT Sheol is not a realm of fully conscious postmortem...

McArthur would claim that you have nothing to do with your desire and ability to repent. But that Calvinist claim makes God morally monstroius because God would condemn people to eternal damnation when they have no free will that can choose Christ.

quietthinker: "I will say this Berserk, your deviousness knows no end. In your post you have quoted me as appears below (in red) yet you have added your 'Translation' making it appear at first glance that it is from my pen. Nonsense! "Translation" denotes my sarcastic flushout of the...

quietthinker"It is not a surprise that Satan presents himself as an angel of light. The danger of believing the dead are alive is that you will never know definitively who is presenting in apparitions. Opened to that channel you become the play thing of forces greater than human abilities."...

(4) My next NDE is incredibly unique but highly evidential for an afterlife. Rev. Albert Baldeo was one of the most respected ministers in Kelowna, BC in Canada. He was respected enough to be given a weekly column in the city paper. One of his articles described his Dad's shared NDE and I...

(3a) Leonard was a wealthy elderly businessman who was a beloved member of a church I pastored in western New York. On a few occasions I had dinner with him and his wife Helen. He was very anxious that I visit his brother, his wife, and his cousin when they had health issues. But one day it...

As a United Methodist pastor, I heard testimonies of deceased loved ones returning in waking visions to talk to a grieving loved one. One dear lady testified to a vivid vision of her late sister who shone brightly in the darkened bedroom and, for over an hour, tenderly reminisced and spoke...

quietthinker: "The options are life or death....not life in flames for eternity." Just another indefensible pontification from evangelicals who are incapable of following a rigorous exegetical argument. No dissenter has even attempted to engage point by point the case set out in the OP. I...

marksman: "I do not see any reference to...dead saints in Hebrews 12:1" Because you haven't bothered to read my refutation. Marksman: "I do not see any reference to purgatory in Hebrews 12:22" Duh, I don't claim such a reference there. marksman: "There is no mention of deceased saints in...

The book, "Lighted Passage," was brought to the attention of an agnostic friend of mine by a colleague who worked with him at HUD and was a relative of the author, Dr. Howell Vincent. Dr. Vincent, a Presbyterian minister, wrote this book, about his daughter Rea and her death in a car accident on...

Jesus called Peter Satan and Peter denied Jesus thrice, but was rehabilitated by the risen Lord. If Judas had not committed suicide, the risen Jesus might have rehabilitated him too in a resurrection appearance! Judas committed suicide out of remorse, and so, may well have truly repented. His...

(1a) NDE researchers like Dr. Raymond Moody are now writing books about shared NDEs, which are generally far more evidential than most conventional NDEs because the doctors, nurses, and family members witnessing the apparent deaths actually experience key elements of the NDEs, including the OBE...

Because Peter resumes the theme of preaching to the dead in 4:6, where he uses the verb for "preaching the Gospel:" "For this is the reason why the Gospel was preached to those who are now dead, so that they...might live according to God in regard to the spirit."

Let me begin with this disclaimer: I am an evangelical Christian for whom Christ's atoning death and resurrection are the anchor of my faith. But at their best, the verifications inherent in ADCs (=After-Death Contacts) and NDEs (near-death experiences) seem more evidentially probative even than...

Why do you fear this?

True, the word "Purgatory" is not biblical, but "Purgatory" means postmortem "realm of purgation or purification" and such a realm is solidly biblical. Read my post earlier in the thread that demonstates this. Praying to the saints is not idolatry because it's like asking a mature Christian...

Yes, "It is appointed unto humanity once to die, and after that the Judgement." But that raises the question of what can happen after the Judgment. Remember, Jesus preaches the Gospel to the wicked dead (1 Peter 3:19) and that implies that they have a chance to respond to His preaching. Why do...

By now I hope some of you are open-minded enough to watch the BBC Medjugorje documentary. I showed it to my college students in my "Nature of Religious Experience" course and they seemed to love it, especially the part where Father Jozo, who opposed the visionary children, is interviewed and...