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I thought my comments were borderline sometimes but his comments must have been right out at left field!

To do a PhD one has to read every book and every published article, and unpublished articles if they are available, written by all Catholic and Protestant authors. It can take up to 5 years or more to successfully complete a PhD because the bulk of the time is in locating, reading, and...

What the JWs have done is to copy the KJV, updating to more modern English, but adding bits or changing the text to accommodate their particular doctrines and make it appear that their doctrines are Biblical. The trouble is that the team who compiled the New World version did not have a Hebrew...

The umbilical cord is the connection that provides nutrients from the mother's placenta to the baby. I don't know how this can have anything to do with the virgin birth.

I'm a bit like Columbo: "Just one more thing!" How do you interpret this: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" (John 1:1). The JWs get around this one by adding one small word to the text: "And the Word was a God". My bone wasn't quite buried!! :-)

I have just heard on our news that African Americans are becoming victims in a disproportionate manner than their percentage of the population in some US states. Is this because they are finding prompt access to testing and treatment of symptoms, difficult, especially in the Southern States...

I went back to see what he had been posting, but I think his posts have been deleted, because I got a forum error.

As Don Rickles said, "I'm a nice guy!" There are doctrines that are not absolutely essential for our salvation, and having debates about these are always fun, instructive and non-threatening. But there are doctrines central to our salvation, and I will defend those to the max because it means...

:) Until the next issue that comes up!

Hahaha! I've been "outed"!!! I got banned from CF for having a good go at Catholicism and Islam, especially when I said that if Pope Francis abolished celibacy, most of the male and female Vatican prostitutes would be out of work! You know me. I can't help it. Probably my Kiwi nature...

I think that you are pretty committed to your view about this, so I won't continue flogging a dead horse with a tit for tat pointless exchange. You have the choice to believe what you choose and so I will leave you to it and allow others to continue arguing the point with you.

There are different areas of the forum, and controversial issues are for the Debating Forum. That's what the debating forum is for, and people can argue the point as much as they wish, hopefully with respect and keeping away from personal abuse. The trouble is that some don't know how to...

The Scripture says that the Father is a Spirit and no one has seen Him at any time. Therefore all the appearances of God in the Old Testament could not have been the Father, therefore they must have been the pre-incarnate Son of God. Therefore Jesus Christ is the YHWH of the Old Testament...

You must be either JW, LDS, Christian Science, or Oneness Pentecostal, or Branhamite.

Here's another amusing look at Kiwi culture in the way we do TV advertisements:

The following video is a satire on New Zealand farming culture in the 1970s. It demonstrates our unique sense of humour, and very entertaining to watch and have a good laugh at. We New Zealanders enjoy laughing at ourselves.

Yes, and Ahab knew full well that Micaiah was being sarcastic and was not telling what God was actually showing him. But "go up and prosper" is what the false prosperity and "name it and claim it" preachers are saying? In actual fact, a believer saying to another believer as guided by the Holy...

There is plenty of proof in both the Old and New Testament that God is three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, so trying to disprove it is flogging a dead horse.

The last prophet to the nation was John the Baptizer. When he died, the role of Prophet passed into Jewish history. The role of New Testament prophet is not for the nations, it is for the encouragement, edification, exhortation and comfort for the body of Christ. And a New Testament prophet...

What separates true believers and followers of pseudo-christian cults is that most cults will deny that Jesus Christ is God, thereby ignoring clear Scripture from Isaiah 9:6 that Jesus Christ, according to the Holy Spirit, is definitely God, because God is the everlasting Father, and the mighty...