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  1. Paul Christensen

    Prophecy/End Times ... Teachers/Resources

    If I wanted to find the range and depth of teaching about Daniel and Revelation, I would go to my favourite second hand bookshop and buy up every book I could find on them and compare what each author wrote with the Biblical record. Then I would have a good idea about which authors, in my...
  2. Paul Christensen

    Why do the self taught preach an incomplete gospel?

    I was a high school dropout and left school without any qualifications. But when I became a Christian, I did exactly how you described - read all the men and women of God who were known as great soul-winners, to find out what they believed in comparison to those who appeared to be all talk. I...
  3. Paul Christensen

    Prophecy/End Times ... Teachers/Resources

    The Scripture says that in the multitude of counsellors there is safety. This is good advice when studying the prophetic books of the Bible. Reading and studying a range of authors gives a good idea of the good, bad, and ugly commentaries, and enables to pick the meat from the bones in each...
  4. Paul Christensen

    Why do the self taught preach an incomplete gospel?

    In the area of music teaching, the phrase is: "The person who is self-taught has a fool for a teacher". How true is that for those who maintain that they can teach themselves the Bible without referring to others who through maturity and experience can contribute so much to their Bible...
  5. Paul Christensen

    Evangelicals and the Sabbath

    All church organisations, not matter whether they be large global structures, the small church on the corner, or the group meeting in the community hall, are man designed. Even if you have a home fellowship with friends and family, you have a man-designed religious organisation. The only way...
  6. Paul Christensen

    Question on Jesus' Ministry timing

    It depends on how we read the passage. We have to take into account the statement of Paul in Thessalonians where he says "The dead in Christ will rise first, and we who are alive shall be caught up to meet the Lord in the air". This also speaks of the first resurrection, with the second...
  7. Paul Christensen

    Defending Homosexuality

    The message would be the same as for any person: "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved" (Acts 16:31). If we tell someone, "You have to give up [whatever sinful habit pattern that exists in the person] before you can be saved, that is essentially preaching a different gospel...
  8. Paul Christensen

    Regeneration before or after saving faith

    True. He died for the sins of all those who believed in Him as the Messiah to come, and those who believed in the Messiah who died and rose from the dead. Election is conditional on a person having faith in Christ's finished work on Calvary. The Scripture says that God is not willing that any...
  9. Paul Christensen

    Evangelicals and the Sabbath

    Have you rewritten what Christ said to the people? "Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?'" (Matthew 7:22). Where did you get your version from...the Book of Mormon?
  10. Paul Christensen

    Question on Jesus' Ministry timing

    I think you have missed the part in the reference that there are two periods of a thousand years. I grant that the first 1000 years the martyrs will reign with Christ in heaven for the first 1000 years, and then there will be the first resurrection. Then those who are raised with reign with...
  11. Paul Christensen

    Not by works - but by faith

    Actually they won't. Paul's gospel was made very clear in Romans and Galatians. The only difference between the false apostles who came to the Galatian churches and said that being circumcised and obeying the Mosaic Law was the only way to salvation; and the RCC which says that attendance at...
  12. Paul Christensen

    Denominations will never be saved !!

    I don't support any religious organisation that have their leaders wear fancy hats and robes to give the common "herd" that they are closer to God and have more authority than any ordinary believer. The corruption of paganism discredits them as genuine Christian churches.
  13. Paul Christensen

    The myth of grace-only & easy-believism shattered forever

    As you can see by my posts, I feel totally horrified by the way the RCC has treated good people through history, even throwing newborn babies into the flames as their mothers burned at the stake, and so I am implacably opposed to what I see as an evil, pagan, satanic cult that is fraudulently...
  14. Paul Christensen

    The myth of grace-only & easy-believism shattered forever

    After reading about the Christian martyrs murdered by the Roman Catholic cult, the penny did drop quite definitely about it, causing me to recognise that it is just as much of a cult as Mormanism. JW, or Christian Science. So, the actions of your church in history and in modern times in South...
  15. Paul Christensen

    The myth of grace-only & easy-believism shattered forever

    I could never support a religious cult that murdered thousands of good people all because they translated or owned a Bible in their own language, or refused to pray to Mary, or participate in what they viewed was a pagan Mass that doesn't reflect the Lords true communion table. All this...
  16. Paul Christensen

    The myth of grace-only & easy-believism shattered forever

    Peter would never have supported that evil, demonic Bloody Mary, Roman Catholic queen of England who, with the full support of the Roman Catholic church, brutally murdered 285 Reformers, when their only crime was that they did not believe in transubstantiation. One of those burnings at the...
  17. Paul Christensen

    The myth of grace-only & easy-believism shattered forever

    Neither Jesus, Peter, nor Paul wore a fancy hat, nor were they addressed in high sounding titles, so I follow them instead of an arrogant usurper who calls himself the "vicar of Christ".
  18. Paul Christensen

    Not by works - but by faith

    2 Timothy 3:16-17.
  19. Paul Christensen

    Not by works - but by faith

    What gets in the way of me accepting your comments is the issue of the Roman Catholic Mass in which the priest eats the very body of Christ and drinks His blood and people pray to the box in which the wafers are stored. To me this is idolatry, totally pagan, and an abomination to God
  20. Paul Christensen

    Are Protestants "saved? "

    I was intending for that comment to be a caption underneath the picture of the guy with the funny hat, presumably emulating the Pope! :p