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You are quite correct. When Peter asked Ananias, "Why did you lie to the Holy Spirit" of course he was referring to a Person. And what about when Paul and Barnabas were called to the ministry from Antioch when the Holy Spirit said, "Separate unto Me for the ministry to which I have called...

A fine point...very, very slender.

It's great that we're on the same page about some things! :-)

The sticking point is the description of the city sitting on seven hills which does not describe Jerusalem. So, on the surface, it seems that one contradicts the other. I don't have the answer for that. I guess that it is the nature of Revelation, being apocalyptic, that it lends itself to a...

I never said that. The Holy Spirit is living inside of converted Christians. He is not trying to escape! He is the one working within us to conform us to the image of Christ. I know what Plato says about the evil of our bodies, and that the spiritual is more important. I don't go along with...

Not all preachers from the United States are false teachers. The ones to avoid are the ones who preach that if you give money to their ministry you will become wealthy; or that divine healing is guaranteed and if someone doesn't get healed it is due to lack of faith, or if they teaching that we...

Yes. If we could work God out completely, He wouldn't be God, would He?

We need to be careful that we don't stray into Jehovah's witnesses or Mormon theology concerning Jesus and the Holy Spirit; or the Oneness Pentecostals who recognise Jesus only as God, and subscribe to Modalism in saying that God reveals Himself in three different modes - sometimes in the mode...

There are one or two questions I have about the trinity. How come the Hebrew word for God is a plural? Why did God say when Adam and Eve ate the fruit, "they have become like us, knowing good and evil". Who is the "us", and who was God speaking to? When Jesus was baptised, whose was the voice...

This links with the description of light in heaven when it says that there won't be a need for a sun to light the new city, because the glory of the Lord will provide all the light we need. (Revelations 21:23)

Interesting and informative. Looking forward to how you can support this through Scripture.

Yep! If Paul meant that, he would have said it that way. Remember, he wrote by direct revelation from the Lord, and if the Lord told him that we will rise meet Him in the air at the sound of the angel's trumpet, then I take his word for it. Of course, the laws of gravity and physics will...

Yes, that is correct. But he is deceiving them so they will think he is on their side when he really isn't. It is when the Jews are complacent and trusting, that he will gather all the armies of the earth to attack Israel to destroy it. When we understand that if Satan can destroy Israel...

When Jesus rose from the dead, He rose as a human in a gloried body with flesh and bones. He said that in the same way as He rose from the dead, so will all those who are in Christ. To say that Jesus did not rise as a flesh and bones person but as some spirit "phantom" is Gnostic heretical...

Where do you think the spirit of Jesus went when His body was three days in the tomb? Jesus told the penitent thief that "today you will be with Me in Paradise", this was three days before His resurrection, so Jesus and the thief must have gone together to Paradise. When Jesus was ascended...

So you don't believe that God has given us the righteousness of Christ as a free gift, and that we have to go on trying to continue being righteous by doing what we think God will approve of? Sounds like self-righteousness to me - that righteousness that puffs works-based religious people with...

The baptism of the Ethiopian Eunuch, and that of the Philippian jailor and his household.

I don't think it is Mary. I think it speaks more of Israel. I will explain: This shows that the King of kings will come out of Israel, so it speaks of Jesus being born in Bethlehem, Israel, and conducting His ministry to the Jews. He said that He has come to minister only to the lost...

I've only just caught up with this thread. My first point is that we don't really know what language John used to write his gospel. He was Galilean, so his first language would have been Aramaic. I am not sure whether he knew Greek, but I get a clue from the crowd on the day of Pentecost when...

There is no point in trying to defend yourself to this guy. Don't come down to his level. There is a report function - use it and allow the moderators to deal with him over his violation of the forum rules. He needs to learn respect for other members who don't agree with him.