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Skitnik, Of course I know of the Council of Nicaea. I didn't come down in the last theological shower. I have a PhD in NT. However, you have provided not one link to a piece of evidence to support your view. These are nothing more than your assertions without documentation. Here is one piece...

Even Jesus in his humanity while on earth did not know the time of his second coming: Oz

Hora, This is why:' God has a plan and all of God's people have not come into the kingdom yet. Until they are all in, the Gospel will be proclaimed among the evil of all nations. Remember who caused all this evil to happen. Read Genesis 2. Oz

Could it be that you are wanting to make Matt 5:13 state more than it does. This is what Matt 5:13 (NLT) states, 'You are the salt of the earth. But what good is salt if it has lost its flavor? Can you make it salty again? It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless'. The issue is...

Richard, Why don't you summarise your issue into 3 quick points - be brief - and pose the issues you want to raise. What you have written here is too complex and detailed for me. If you want to engage me, I ask you to be brief in proposing a couple of points of content you want to pursue. Oz

Please provide your documented evidence to support your statement that pagan Emperor Constantine put together the Bible.

Logabe, That's not what the text states. We need to see Rom 1:18b (ESV), 'who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth', in light of Rom 1:17(ESV), 'the righteousness of God is revealed' and Rom 1:18a (ESV), 'the wrath of God is revealed from heaven'. We would expect v. 18 in the Greek to...

justaname, Romans 1:19-20 (ESV) tells us what they are guilty of. God has shown all people, even in the deepest, darkest jungle, his invisible attributes through creation. What have they done with this evidence? They have suppressed this truth (Rom 1:18) and so are 'without excuse' when it...

I'm not talking about people that knew God and turned away from Him (Rom. 1:21), but I'm talking about people that lived in the jungles of the rain forest and have never heard the name Jesus. What will God do with them? You are talking about people that knew God and turned away from the Holy...

Tom, It is theoretically possible that an apostolic/prophetic book could be found that could belong in the canon. However, it seems to me that in the providence of God, it is improbable that God would have a God-breathed book that he did not make available to the people for approx. 2,000...

Stan, Make sure you have a good, restful one - and not too much of that fatty stuff. Two of our major supermarkets have stuffed up badly with supplies of ham and turkey ordered online. See HERE. I hope we can get into some more fruitful biblical and theological discussion later in the week or...

Stan, I'm just finishing a delightful afternoon tea that my wife, Desley, has brought to me in the office. After this is done, I have to begin peeling 3kg of king prawns for lunch tomorrow - the peeling will be finished after dinner. I ordered them a couple of weeks' ago and picked them up from...

Kerry, Two of our children, spouses and 4 grandchildren are with us for Christmas lunch (and gifts that are now under the tree). Our other son, wife and 2 daughters live in Canberra and they have a new baby (one month old) so they are unable to fly to be with us. On alternate years, the...

Alan, Here's the Oxford dictionaries definition of mantra (Oxford dictionaries 2015. S v mantra). Perhaps it's a meaningful ritual in the culture of your church. I've heard it used in some Pentecostal churches I've visited, but when I asked for an explanation, no coherent theological reason...

Tom, Oxford dictionaries gives the meaning of 'forum' as, 'A meeting or medium where ideas and views on a particular issue can be exchanged' (Oxford dictionaries 2015. S v forum). Therefore, this Christian forum is a place where ideas and views on OSAS should be able to be exchanged. I urge...

Tom, We have all the canonical writings that God is going to give us. They are in OT and NT. There will be no more. Haven't you heard of the pseudonymous documents: The Gospel of Thomas; The Gospel of Peter; The Gospel of Judas. The Gospel of Philip. Besides, there are books in the NT that are...

Alan, I'm an evangelical Christian who accepts all that you said about the blood of Jesus in redemption, salvation and deliverance. However, to this point in my Christian journey I have found nothing in the NT that encourages me to use an action as, 'I plead the blood'. It sounds awfully like...

So which words of God outside the Bible are you pursuing? Are they authoritative? If so, how do you know they are words of God? How do you determine their reliability as 'words' from God?

I live in a very secular, pluralistic country of Australia. Unless I preach on a apologetics topic in my preaching as an occasional preacher, apologetics' topics go unnoticed in the church I attend. My observation of churches in Australia and especially in my region of northern Brisbane...

Logabe, Do you read your Bible? God has told us what will happen to them: Not one person will stand before God with an excuse. What have they done with the evidence God has provided, even within the countries that have 1,800 languages in which not even one verse of the Bible has been...