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The fact that the precise meaning of Azazel is at best dubious ought to bring a little caution to your settling on one specific meaning based on "a few scholars". That the Lord's goat and the scapegoat (Azazel) are evidently antithetical to one another according to the whole context of the...

Some Christians look for Jesus in all the wrong places. If you want to find or understand what the kingdom of God is all about, don't look for it in miracles, or in 'tongues', or being 'slain in the spirit', or any physical sign or mental knowledge or spiritual dream or vision...no, none of...

Some here painting pictures with a very wide brush. I guess it has never occurred to anyone that there may be churches, even denominations, that began with a core group of ordinary people who loved Jesus supremely, studied the scriptures, discovered truth that had been trampled on, ignored, lain...

The Catholic church murdered millions of what they called "heretics". They were called such because they hadn't submitted to church teaching or papal authority. None were persecuted because they didn't agree with the scriptures, and only a few were actually opposed to God Himself. They simply...

You cannot claim to have renounced the world if you respond like a panting puppy every time the world gives you attention. There are many things the new Christian ought never forget, but the most important is, "without Me you can do nothing".

I think it quite appropriate that I copied this from a friend on Facebook, and post it here. The Man Christ Jesus is an indescribably awesome marvel to me. Besides considering the infinite condescension He made just by becoming one of us, exchanging His outward, glorious form as the only...

Bible Study Mary. Acts 20 verses 18 to 35 is Paul speaking of his own departure. KJV 2 Thessalonians 2:3 3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; It says that the falling...

My son is a chef, we take turns to cook for ourselves, his mum, and our 22 year old grandson. We eat very well. But mum and I are getting on now, so we don't have huge appetites. The last time I cooked something different was a sweet n sour chicken. My own sauce, rice, and veggies. The chef son...

Goes to show that education, no matter how many letters one may have after his name, is no guarantee to making good decisions.

The universe is unbelievably vast, millions of light years from one star to another, with unknown numbers of worlds in between. How could anyone get bored exploring all of that with the stories we have to tell different beings of creation aspects of God love for sinners that they could not...

Compassion increases toward those who need it more. The greater the sin, the greater the forgiveness. But Compassion should never, ever, preclude anyone from telling the truth and exposing the sin of institutions and churches and nations that habitually and repetitively commit crimes against...

I am intrigued then how you reconcile that as being applicable to Jesus. Please explain.

KJV Acts 20:29-30 29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. 30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. KJV 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by...

KJV Matthew 18:15-17 15 Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. 16 But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three...

Like a leech or a parasite, the Catholic Church is only strong in direct relation to its connectedness to political powers. In medieval times she was closely connected to the kings and queens of Europe, and through them ruled the lives of millions. The Vatican's goal is a global version of that...

Further to the above... When the Catholic Church lost its civil authority, all political Governments in Europe thought she was finished. Many celebrated that at long last the bondage they were held by papal authority was at an end. These prophecies, among several others, give powerful historic...

Historical and Prophetic claim to global supremacy and authority, and the biblical denunciation of such principles. KJV Revelation 13:2 2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him...

This thread topic is about Papal authority, you are asking me about biblical church authority, an entirely different fish and one which my church does subscribe to. We reject the following as tyrannical, despotic, and satanic. The Pope's "authority" is not merely to the "church" but the...

Indeed, and well noticed. I would suggest that one must remember the purpose of the day of atonement. It was for the cleansing of the sanctuary. It was for the purpose of putting away of sins permanently from the house of Israel. Those sins, which had been previously confessed and transferred to...

The apostles and even Jesus himself warned that there would be a great falling away from truth. That falling away we are told would begin with the demise of the last of the Apostles, and it would result in spiritual divorce, apostasy, a departure from what was originally a right relationship...