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  1. Paul Christensen

    Something That I Just Don't Understand

    A person cannot be transformed from doing the works of the flesh until they are regenerated by the power of the Holy Spirit. And that can happen only when the person embraces Christ as Saviour. Receiving Christ as Saviour takes away the guilt and punishment of sin and translates the person...
  2. Paul Christensen

    Something That I Just Don't Understand

    The problem with our powerless churches is that the powerful transforming power of the Holy Spirit through the born again experience is severely underrated. For most, Christian conversion is merely joining a church, adopting the religious walk and talk, promoting morality, and becoming a...
  3. Paul Christensen

    Something That I Just Don't Understand

    I like Ray Comfort's way of showing non-Christians how they are breaking the Ten Commandments through simple every-day actions like taking an office pen home (theft), saying "OMG" (blasphemy), looking with lust at a person (adultery in the heart). He doesn't have to mention gay issues. The...
  4. Paul Christensen

    Something That I Just Don't Understand

    Present the gospel of Christ without any reference to their gay lifestyle. I would tell a gay person that God is not worried by their lifestyle. He is more concerned that he or she escapes condemnation in hell by receiving Christ as Saviour. Changes in lifestyle is the domain of the Holy...
  5. Paul Christensen

    Something That I Just Don't Understand

    The trouble is that the "witnessing" is in the form of criticising their gay lifestyle instead of presenting Jesus as Saviour to them. Saying, "You must give up your gay lifestyle before you can become a Christian" is presenting a false gospel of works. "Witness" zealots tend to forget that...
  6. Paul Christensen

    Something That I Just Don't Understand

    There is a major difference between one identifying as LGBTQ and another committing acts of same sex nooky.
  7. Paul Christensen

    Something That I Just Don't Understand

    My Bible says that a person who hates another is guilty of murder in his heart. Therefore hate speech against LGBTQ people is equal to murder according to the Scripture. Therefore I would find it easy to believe that LGBTQ folks who receive Christ may get into heaven before the religious...
  8. Paul Christensen

    Something That I Just Don't Understand

    There is a simple answer to this: "All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men" (Matthew 12:30). Concerning suicide, there are many reasons why people get into a state where they want to end their lives. Therefore, I don't go along with a blanket condemnation of it. God's...
  9. Paul Christensen

    No authority!

    The fellow keeps on strumming the same string no matter what others have said in response. He's not prepared to discuss, and so is on the verse of trolling. I've stopped responding to him because I have said all I am going to say to him.
  10. Paul Christensen

    No authority!

    Are you a Oneness fellow who doesn't believe in the Trinity?
  11. Paul Christensen

    No authority!

    So, are you telling us that the second coming of Christ has happened already?
  12. Paul Christensen

    No authority!

    It's not the true church that is the problem. It is religious people majoring in minors. Genuine believers in each denomination just get on with remaining saved, living holy lives to glorify Christ, and doing what they can to get others saved from an eternity in hell. It is true that the...
  13. Paul Christensen

    No authority!

    I thought that is what I said. Jesus does not live personally in our flesh. He is at the right hand of the Father in heaven. The Holy Spirit is in such unity of mission and purpose as Jesus and the Father, having the indwelling Holy Spirit is as if Jesus and the Father are in us. Jesus has...
  14. Paul Christensen

    No authority!

    Jesus is talking about the true church made up of genuine born-again believers in Christ, not the fraudulent corrupted counterfeit that calls itself the true church. What you call the church militant is the strange woman of Proverbs whose house leads the unwary right down into hell.
  15. Paul Christensen

    No authority!

    The church that claims foundation on Peter is guided by a demonic religious spirit and not the Holy Spirit. It's teaching is corrupted and fraudulent.
  16. Paul Christensen

    No authority!

    The New Testament knows nothing of sacraments, the mass and prayer fasting ceremonies. All these are frauds to deceive people away from the true gospel. All these are part of the synagogue of Satan and the end result is judgment and hell for those who are deceived into thinking they are...
  17. Paul Christensen

    No authority!

    The church of the New Testament was corrupted by papal politics, adultery, fornication and murder. The fraudulent church that claims Apostolic succession is teaching doctrines of devils and leading millions of people to share hell with the devil and his angels. The fraudulent church does not...
  18. Paul Christensen

    No authority!

    Not so. In my 50 years of my Christian walk, I have been associated with Pentecostal, Charismatic, Anglican, Baptist, and Presbyterian churches, and they all teach the important basic gospel of Christ. The differences between them are generally cosmetic and have more to do with church...
  19. Paul Christensen

    No authority!

    Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father. He is not physically in the world. He sent the Holy Spirit to represent Him on earth, to dwell within Christian believers. When Jesus said that He would never leave us nor forsake us, it meant that the Holy Spirit so fully represents Him...
  20. Paul Christensen

    No authority!

    The church that claims Apostolic succession and the Chair of Peter teaches that all Protestants are condemned to hell. Also it teaches that not accepting the teaching of Indulgences (paying the church to get loved ones out of purgatory), Purgatory, and the overall authority of the Pope...