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"They compelled a passer by, who was coming in from the country, to it was Simon of Cyrene...(Mark 15:21). This text implies (1) that Simon of Cyrene didn't want to carry Jesus' cross, but was coerced into doing so; and (2) that Jesus stumbled and staggered with no dignity, being to weak to...

"Joseph bought a linen shroud (Greek: "sindon"), and taking him down, wrapped him in the linen shroud and laid him in a tomb that had been cut out of the rock. And he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb (Mark 15:46; also Matthew 27:59; Luke 23:53--ESV). ""He [Peter] saw the cloth...

I am a card-carrying member of the Pentecostal Church of the Latter Day Buddhists. No, actually I'm a walking theological zoo without a current cage who tends to emit middle-of-the road Methodist vibes.

Davy and FHIII overlook the plain meaning of 21:4, that "the Spirit prohibited Paul from going up to Jerusalem: "Through the Spirit, they ["the disciples"] told Paul not to go up to Jerusalem (Acts 21:4)." "Paul purposed in the spirit (Greek: "en to pneumati"), when he had passed through...

Enoch: "The answer is quite simple. Everything which is derived from outside the Bible is New Age teaching, which blends all the so-called spirituality, contemplative prayer, and mysticism of all other religions into a hodge-podge of false beliefs." So you oppose listening to CD sermons the...

Over the years, I have heard some of the most spiritually effective ministers being dismissed by Evangelicals as New Agers (e. g. Rick Warren and Richard Foster). Yet Rick Warren is a self-professed Southern Baptist and Foster is a devout Evangelical Quaker. What makes this slander...

Evangelicals often fail to appreciate the need to cite noncanonical Christians like the Didache and early Church Fathers to reinforce points implied by canonical Scripture. We need to respect the views of believers who live within one or a few generations of the apostles when oral tradition of...

bbyrd: "bol, it seems you go out of your way to be pathetic, and seek others' pity?...As to the general overall slaughtering of Scripture in the original by Catholicism, i doubt we would make any headway in that direction, and i dont want to contend with you on the matter....In my opinion every...

In Acts Paul tells the Ephesians that they will never see him again and that the Spirit has warned him that "imprisonment and persecutions" await him in Jerusalem (20:22-25). When the prophet Agabus warns Paul that imprisonment awaits him in Jerusalem, Paul declares that, if necessary, he is...

As a seminarian, I was shocked by my discovery of neglected but essential methods and approaches to biblical interpretation. For example, the scholarly census on 2 points which are foundational for modern Gospel and Pentateuchal study: (1) The scholarly consensus that Matthew and Luke (but not...

I am appalled by the bigotry and the simple-minded misguided perspectives on Catholic distinctives that are generally evidenced on evangelical chat boards. I have tried to bring some sanity to these sites by developing threads on the biblical basis for Catholic distinctives, but my last thread...

Once it is recognized that Jesus' primarily spoke Greek, it becomes clear that Jesus originally had in mind the elegant but still hyperbolic image of a trying to pull a rope (not a camel) through the eye of a needle. The underlying Aramaic word for "camel" in Matthew 10:24 is "gamla" which...

There are 10 million variant readings in New Testament Greek manuscripts. The KJV is based on the latest and most corrupt of these manuscripts. Text Criticism is the science of retrieving a text as close as possible to the original. It does this first by grouping the manuscripts into families...

With puberty near, I wrote this poem at age 11 to express my unrequited passion for a 6th grade girl. My poem lost when I entered it in a poetry contest at school and that defeat ended my fledgling career as a poet! My heart is broken at the very thought that thou hast spoken of our love as...

On the contrary, the use of both the face cloth (Latin: sudarium) and shroud to wrap the corpse was standard Jewish practice. Indeed, the sudarium of Oviedo (which was brought to Oviedo, Spain from the ancient Jerusalem church) once wrapped the same crucified corpse as the Shroud! The blood...

I just loved this distinction: A Philosopher is a blind man on a dark night in a deep cellar looking for a black cat that isn't there. A Fundamentalist is a blind man who pretends to come up with the absent cat on the basis of a blizzard of biblical prooftexts used to compensate for his lack of...

No, "one ought to conclude" that posters like you who are oblivious of modern academic Gospel Commentaries and the scholarly consensus must resort to insults to compensate for their interpretive deficiencies.

You are ducking the 2 apparent implication of these texts: (1) If you don't actively oppose Jesus, then He considers you to be on His side. In other words, exorcisms in Jesus' name demonstrate that one is on Jesus' team, regardless of what else one believes. (2) Jesus will ultimate reject...

Thanks for playing. Here is another text that poses interpretative problems: "No one who does a deed of power in my name will be able soon afterwards to speak evil of me. Whoever is not against us is for us (Mark (9:39-40)." How do you explain the apparent tension between this text and the...

Excellent question! Acts 2 and 4 provide the closest NT parallel to the modern historic revivals described in this thread's videos: "So those who welcomed his [Peter's] message were baptized, and that day about 3,000 people were added (2:41)." "They praised God and had the goodwill of all the...