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This thread will focus on the biblical grounds for the later Catholic doctrine of Purgatory. Famed evangelical apologist C. S. Lewis embraced this doctrine and famously said, "The gates of Hell are locked from the inside." The doctrine of Purgatory is tied with the Catholic obligation to pray...

What's next? What is logically next is for Fundamentalists to stop freezing like Bambi in the headlights in face of posts that defend Catholic distinctives from Scripture. To start, read my posts that do this and have gone unchallenged. btw, I keep needing to remind posters that I'm not...

Behold: "Listen deceiver. "READ a GREEK TEXT." Unlike you, I know Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic, thank you very much! Behold: "TRY the TEXTUS RECEPTUS," How ironic that a Fundamentalist like you cites the most corrupt text of the New Testament. You really need to read a book on Text Criticism...

More unkind insults from angry peevish Fundamentalists! Bol understands Paul better than you do! "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling (Philippians 2:13)." Even Paul is not confident of where he stands with God: "I do not even judge myself. I am not aware of anything against...

Behold: "The cult of Mary teaches that the Church is "catholic" and started with Jesus. Duh. You need to be educated about the origin of the term "Catholic." The same first-century church (Antioch) that first embraced the Christian label (Acts 11:26) also identified the church as "Catholic!"...

apak, consider the scholarly consensus represented by Raymond Brown in his magisterial “An Introduction to the New Testament” (878 pages): “Most scholars agree that the title “To the Hebrews” was not supplied by the author...Almost certainly it represents a conjecture attached to the work...

farouk: "Protestants have long held that the Bible is self-authenticating." Not theologically educated Protestants! The notion of self-authentication is meaningless gibberish intended to evade the hard work of making the case for limiting our canon. For example, consider these issues: Prior...

Bread of Life, I grew up in an evangelical church in which "the Protestant League" met regularly on Sunday afternoons. I recall as a young boy asking their leader what they talked about in their meetings and he shocked me with his reply. He said, "Oh, we talk about how nuns get pregnant in...

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I appreciate honest sharing of the pitfalls and disillusionment of one's spiritual journey. I grew up in the first and one of the largest Pentecostal churches in Canada. In my 21 years in that church I had no close friends; all my friends were school mates. My Dad was a church soloist who...

Why did you quote me if you weren't going to address the points in my post?

One aspect of the gift of prophecy is prophetic or spiritual discernment. Throughout my life I have received many prophetic premonitions of imminent death and those premonitions have always come true. When I tried to warn the victims, my warning was not heeded and the death occurred a day or...

Yes, you nicely make my point, but more succinctly.

3 reasons favor the interpretation that "born of water and the Spirit" in John 3:5 means "water baptism" and an accompanying experience of the regenerating Spirit: (1) You can come up with no example from the NT era of water as a reference to amniotic fluid. (2) Being born of water and the...

Cessationists have an impoverished spirituality that is basically a head trip divorced from profound spiritual experience and therefore an anemic spirituality that is forced to unbiblically relegate apostolic experiences of power to the apostolic age--a covert way of denying the inspiration of...

This thread reminds me of the most important neglected biblical text on Christian spirituality: "But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will find out, not the [God-] talk of these arrogant people, but their [supernatural] power. For the kingdom of God depends not on [God-] talk...

Smith Wigglesworth was invited to join a pastor in ministering to the bereaved after their father's death. Smith listened to the pastor praying for strength and a healthy grief for these mourners, when suddenly he interrupted the prayer, crying, "Lord, shut this guy up, shut him up!" When the...

Do you know how to "pray without ceasing," "pray in the Spirit" (as opposed to ego-driven prayer), "walk in the Spirit," and "be led by the Spirit" (all Pauline expressions)? The best way to master all these advanced forms of prayerful living is through the mastery of contemplative prayer. For...

At Harvard Divinity School a doctoral student (now a UNC professor) told me about a minister he knew who ministered the gift of healing with "the word of knowledge." One night, he was abruptly awakened by a vision of a beautiful serpent hovering over him. The serpent asked if he could come...

r1xlx: "I quote 1 Corinthians 12:10 To others he gives the ability to speak in different kinds of languages they had not known before. And to still others he gives the ability to explain what was said in those languages. ' I say this means that tongues is a gift that may be given to some who GOD...