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  1. Ronald Nolette

    When to Leave Church

    Paul said this: 14 For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. 15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also. Paul here is...
  2. Ronald Nolette

    Secure Eternal Salvation

    Well if scholars and Cleric can use RCC I shall as well. There may bve 23-24 churches called Catholic in their title, but Rome claims supremacy over them all! so roman Catholic Church is well known and recognized.
  3. Ronald Nolette

    Secure Eternal Salvation

    Well there were Popes but they were not head of all fo the church in the western side of the empire! They may have headed the church in Rome but not in Alexandria or Antioch etc. Until Constantine ended the persecutions, the church was pretty much guided by the local bishops with some...
  4. Ronald Nolette

    Genesis 1, a day, and Billions of years

    Do you mean to imply God can't count time? Are you implying god could not possible know a full day on earth would be 24 hours until the fourth day occurred?
  5. Ronald Nolette

    Genesis 1, a day, and Billions of years

    Well look in the Hebrew: I suggest teh Blue letter bible so you can see it is exactly what I said!
  6. Ronald Nolette

    Genesis 1, a day, and Billions of years

    Well as it does not appear in teh Hebrew- it is an irrelavent question. But what about all the rest of "mankind" you hypothesize God created? They had no test and failed Scripture says nothing aboutr these mythic people you say god created. So you are unable to see that if Adam had passed...
  7. Ronald Nolette

    When to Leave Church

    Yes He does- so we must leave it to Him to judge. For contentions in teh church, yes! For trying to read the thoughts and intent of anothers heart- no! It takes humble questioning to discover if they will reveal it. This is for the elders in teh church setting and for us in evangelical...
  8. Ronald Nolette

    Genesis 1, a day, and Billions of years

    Yes simply misunderstanding the phrase: "haya tohu va bohu" While in teh "qal" haya can mean become, it cannot in the perfect. Also tohu wah bohu simply means an empty wasteland or area. When coupled with teh rest of teh Genesis 1 narrative we see God created teh planet empty and then we see...
  9. Ronald Nolette

    Secure Eternal Salvation

    Well if you are talking about catholic (small c) then yes the catholic church was founded at penetceost. But as I am talking about the RCC it was born with Pope Leo.; conceived by Constantine and further western emperors. there is a huge difference between catholic and Roman Catholic.
  10. Ronald Nolette

    Genesis 1, a day, and Billions of years

    I never said they didn't. And this was written long before Israel came to be! It is also a eupemism or idiom to mean a day! YOu must also remember that Jews considered any part of a day as a day!
  11. Ronald Nolette

    Genesis 1, a day, and Billions of years

    Wrong! He would have used the p[lural form as it was more than one person made. Zakar in the singular means one male! nə-qê-ḇāh means a single female. Now the first instance of man in Gen. 1:27 is ha-adam, but that is also in the singular. Ha-adam is the generic term for man which can and...
  12. Ronald Nolette

    Genesis 1, a day, and Billions of years

    And being stubborn is not necessarily a bad thing. I have no idea where you get your claims from that place the first two days as indefinite time frames. I take my stance on the bible as written in both English and Hebrew! If the first two days are indefinite then the other five days are...
  13. Ronald Nolette

    Genesis 1, a day, and Billions of years

    But when God made humans he made a man and woman singular. So then you do not know if any of them have sinned! We know Adam had one choice to obey or not obey and he failed. According to your hypothesis we can have untold people who are still sinless. We have no mention of them or any...
  14. Ronald Nolette

    Genesis 1, a day, and Billions of years

    Well I was simply responding to what you said in post 97. Language, construct and grammar do not justify calling the first 2 days unspecified time frames and the rest normal days. The whole conjecture about light and darkness is just that conjecture! You imply Jesus was created because God...
  15. Ronald Nolette

    Genesis 1, a day, and Billions of years

    Wrong and I don't think you know what a straw man is! But if you go to a Hebrew grammar guide, you will see when God made male and female He made just a single one each! Adam could fill teh earth in time. I am sorry you feel the need Adam had to do it in a little bit of time! And what...
  16. Ronald Nolette

    Secure Eternal Salvation

    By many Christians sure! You don't get a Church overnight. It started with Constantine and was born with Pope . Constantine was centralizing church authority in Rome and it culminated when was crowned Pope and ruler of the whole church-= the First pope to be formally entitled. If you use...
  17. Ronald Nolette

    Genesis 1, a day, and Billions of years

    Because we now know that a day is a 24 hour period! They may not have known and they counted the day less precise as we do, but that difference is the same as saying tomahtoe or tomaytoe
  18. Ronald Nolette

    Genesis 1, a day, and Billions of years

    1. How do you know they are not talking about a day as we call a day? 2. God specified the time like He did with the other 4 creation days: 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God...
  19. Ronald Nolette

    Genesis 1, a day, and Billions of years

    Adam was formed on the sixth day- Just as the bible says. Genesis 2 is a recap of the creative week for the first part. How long it took God to plant and grow teh garden and place Adam and eve init we do not know. But what you are ijmplying is God created a bunch of people, and yet we are all...
  20. Ronald Nolette

    When to Leave Church

    Well as I never implied that tongues of angels is gibberish, that is you simply making assumptions of what I actually did write. It is not a hyperbole, but a linguistic tool to compare and contrast deeds versus love. Basic understanding of Greek shows that. He is simply saying that if someone...