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In the same sense that the eruption of tongues on the Day of Pentecost (Acts 2) signified "the founding of a cult." :rolleyes:

If prayer makes a decisive difference and if there is a right and a wrong way to pray, then needy people have paid the price for our failure to pray for them or even for failing to pray for them correctly, following biblical principles. This thread is intended to raise awareness about...

illini: "I've never heard anyone refer to Jesus' methods of healing as 'gimmicks', hmm." You need to read the various Gospel texts where Jesus employs the gimmicks (spittle, clay, oil) mentioned and then ask yourself, "Why does Jesus use these gimmicks in these cases instead of just praying...

Jesus uses "gimmicks" like the application of spittle, clay, and oil, gimmicks used in contemporary Greco-Roman magic or occult arts. I prefer to call these Values to release faith and bypass futile efforts to try and believe. When Paul lays hands on aprons or handherchiefs that are returned...

Vince: "So god does not decide what is right or wrong?" Of course not! God does not exist as a Supreme Being among countless other beings. Rather, God is the ground of all Being--the only answer to the question, "Why is there something rather than nothing at all?" But God is also Love. So...

Note carefully that Vince's meaningless view of the grounds for morality is decisively refuted by post 46 and understandably has had noting to say in response. So I will now address the absurdities of his other threads, specifically his failure to come to terms with the principle that the...

MORMONS CAN BE SAVED. When I was a pastor, the local Mormon church created a service for Christian outsiders to explain why Momonism is compatible with the evangelical Gospel. A huge crowd came and the service featured several testimonies and presentations about the Mormon faith that resembled...

The sacramental act of drinking the cup symbolizes Christ's atoning blood, but in Mark 14:24 Jesus "took the cup;" He did not "pour the cup" as part of the sacramental act. So the wine symbolizes the blood literally poured out on the cross. This symbolism of course envisages His wounds and...

Vince: "Does God have the ability to decide what is right and wrong? If so, then his judgments are subjective, if not, then he is not god." The concept of "decide" implies deliberation about possible choices in time. That is a crude anthropomorphism because it assumes a need to ponder the...

Vince: "Yes this is objective, but the standard is subjective because god decides what is right and wrong." You don't even understanding the subjective-objective distinction. God is the ground of all Being and therefore God's love and consequent moral requirements are grounded in the nature of...

Vince: "Anyone cane make their own subjective standard for morality. That does not mean that an objective morality exists, which it does not even if a god exists." On the contrary, if God exists as a God of Love and Justice, then conduct consistent with this divine essence is objective because...

Vince: "The last thing is the concept of situational ethics meaning that the same action can be morally good or morally bad depending on the context. For example, lying is generally a morally bad act but in a situation where someone can get hurt if you tell the truth then lying can be a morally...

Richard Dawkins, author of "The God Delusion," speaks for many atheist scientists, when he admits: "The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference." Dr. Kenneth...

Vince, I have been a Teaching Fellow in Logic. I must conclude that you duck my points because you don't understand them. So please respond point by point, beginning with how you imagine you can derive an ought from what is.

Vince, You duck these 4 relevant philosophical or metaethical issues. (1) You can't get an ought out of what is. In other words, if you are not a theist, you have no meaningful answer to the questipn, What makes right actions right? (2) An atheist must explain our sense of right and wrong in...

CoreIssue: "I never said that." But you clearly implied it; and I challenge you to demonstrate otherwise. CoreIssue: "But what you are practicing is not biblical. But it is solidly found in occult." So were Jesus' healing arts, as I have demonstrated--and you, sadly, have no response! I have...

By your logic, Jesus' healings were based on occult practices and the Jews who attributed his so-called miracles to the demonic were justified! Of course, Jesus attributes their charge to blasphemy agsainst the Holy Spirit, the true source of His power and you are gullty of t he same sin...

First, I know of no Pentecostals who practice Yoga. Second, to use your logic, Jesus and Paul were both occultists immersied in cultic practices. Paul laid hands on handkerchiefs owned by the sick who couldn't travel to hear him. When these handkerchiefs were treturned, the sick were healed...