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Bread of Life, Fundamentalists just need to get into the Word more! I have laid out a detailed biblical case for Purgatory with copious numbered points, knowing that all these points would be ignored by the Fundamentalists in a blaze of pontifications and insults. Their evasive ploys...

19th century missionary, J. Hudson Taylor, is one of the most revered and effective Protestant missionaries of all time. In pioneering the China Inland Mission, he suffered greatly from deprivation, discouragement, persecution, and even the loss of his wife on the mission field. Given the...

And notice how Fundamentalists like Ezra feel the need to resort to ridicule of other's faith to compensate for their exegetical ineptness. Yes, Ezra, many United Methodists are filled with the Holy Spirit and speak in tongues. The Fundamentalist need to ridicule Catholics as Papists...

David Taylor to Bread of Life: "No this [Matthew 5:25-26] has nothing to do with Purgatory. That is reading into the passage. You gave examples that have nothing to do with what you claim they do. Purgatory is a false doctrine from a false church." Ah, the right time for me, a Pentecostal...

Duh, you are sadly confusing the Old Testament patriarch Joseph's coat of many colors with the Shroud purchased by the Sanhredrin member, Joseph of Arimathea. Wow! You actually deny that crucifixion and the floggings suffered by Jesus prior to it would cause Him to bleed? You are a modern...

Nondenom: "Where did i say anything about preferring comfort for the constructive doubt?" Constructive doubt in the quest for truth requires careful attention to "the best instincts" of conscience and what conscience says about the nature of justice and pure unconditional love. By disdaining...

Let me take this thread in a relevant, though tangential path, by drawing attention to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher as the true site of both Jesus' tomb and Golgotha, which were venerated as holy sites in the Jerusalem church of the first century. That church was built on the site of the...

No Nancy, it was later proven that the pieces used for the Carbon-14 dating were rewoven in the 1500's with cotton. That realization forced a reassessment in which even a Jewish skeptic and a secular chemist on the STIRP team became convinced that the Shroud is Jesus' authentic burial cloth...

Nondenom: "You want our feelings over and against what the bible says? Isn't that kinda backwards?" Your comment illustrates the Evangelical penchant for preferring comfort for the constructive doubt created by the need for honest and open inquiry into spiritual truth. Honest skeptical seekers...

Please initially respond to these 13 question on the basis of your best instincts rather than from what you perceive the Bible to teach. Subsequently, I will address all 13 questions from a biblical perspective and then you will be encouraged to respond to the cited biblical texts. The...

My favorite text on God's silence is expressed in the story of a suicidal Elijah's flight from Jezebel's soldiers after the miracle on Mount Carmel. Elijah's depressed flight takes him on a 40-day pilgrimage to Mount Horeb (= Sinai). There he is taught that our need for signs can prevent us...

@Nancy I see that you've just read and appreciated C. S. Lewis's "A Grief Observed." So I suspect you might really enjoy "The Shadowlands," a movie about how C. S. Lewis falls in love with Joy and then is forced to grieve her battle with cancer and her death. Watch it here: I am now a...

On the contrary, I am far better trained in Scripture than you are. I know Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek as well as other relevant ancient languages and am thoroughly immersed in the culturally relevant Jewish and Greco-Roman background literature. I have a Masters degree in Theology from...

This thread is instructive in at least 4 ways: (1) It illustrates how muddle-headed many Fundamentalists are about what is encompassed by the expression "New Age movement." (2) It illustrates how Fundamentalists simplistically use "New Age" as a vague dirty word to slander godly ministers...

Acts 23:11 "And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, 'Be of good cheer, Paul: for as thou hast testified of Me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome.' KJV Davy: "You totally bypassed explaining that." Duh, that's because it's irrelevant to Luke's point. By...

Davy: "And I did... understand the Scripture, and even revealed the proof from Scripture that Paul had a calling from Jesus the others obviously didn't know about." You keep ducking the point at issue: in 21:4 Luke expresses his disagreement with Paul's sense of calling to go to Jerusalem...

Nondenom: "Regarding confession, not a single person 'went' to confession. Not a single apostle 'heard' confession." You ignore the command of Jesus' brother to go to confession in the sense of confessing sins to each other with a view to being forgiven and thus spiritually (as well as...

Davy: "You haven't understood the Scripture. In Acts 21, it was the apostles that told Paul not to go to Jerusalem, not The Holy Spirit nor Christ speaking directly to Paul. Don't confuse that." On the contrary, it is you who continually miss Luke's point by failing to read my posts carefully...

H. Richard: "When the scripture said to "not forsake the assembling ourselves together," why do most assume it is in the formal religious services in a church building?" "Most?" No, most Christians realize that there were no churches as architecturally distinct structures in the first-century...