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I don't read Russian, but Google tells me that all your posts here are about music downloads. However, This thread is about the bride of Christ.

Well, if God had intended that, it would have happened: “Remember the former things of old, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and [there is] none like Me, Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things that are not [yet] done, Saying, ‘My counsel shall stand...

By looking at the same event in Matthew's gospel, we see what Jesus meant: “"He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.” (Mt 10:37 NKJV) So "hate" in Luke 14:26 refers to "loving less".

Thanks for being so gracious!

Which apostle did Saul murder? We are told that while Stephen, a deacon, was being stoned to death, Saul looked after the cloaks of those doing the stoning, but not that Saul actual murdered anybody.

Yet Jesus said: “"All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out.” (Joh 6:37 NKJV) To say that one who has been truly saved can then be lost again is saying that God the Father gave that sinner to God the Son, and then took him back, or...

No, surely the point is that what is in the bible is God's inspired word. We know it is true. People over the centuries have come up with all sorts of fanciful notions to plug what they see as gaps. Regarding the early years of Jesus, there is the so-called Infancy Gospel of Thomas, which has...

But Brightframe52 didn't merely say God's grace is unlimited. "Grace that saved a sinner is unconditional towards the sinner it saves. They met no conditions, they were dead in sin and in rebellion towards God." In fact the bible says it's limited to those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.

God has given us in the bible all that is needed. If we needed to know about Mary's birth and childhood, it would have been in the bible, the same with the childhood of Jesus and all the other things you mention.

I don't think it was a plower (or as we call it here in the UK, a ploughman). It just says: “Then He said to another, "Follow Me." But he said, "Lord, let me first go and bury my father." Jesus said to him, "Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and preach the kingdom of God."” (Lu...

Yes, the early Christians often used the fish as a sign of their belief in Christ, because the Ancient Greek word for "fish" uses the initial letters of the Greek words for "Jesus Christ Son of God Saviour."

Do you really rate that as a "prominent Christian doctrine?" Actually, most Christians I know recognise marriages whether they take place with a ceremony, or with just the couple and two witnesses in a registry office (Necessary, at least here in the UK, to satisfy the law of the land, not a...

Yes, I assumed we had already covered the one-off replacement for Judas. Sorry, I should have made that clear.

As far as the bible is concerned, yes. Nowhere in the epistles are we told about apostolic succession.

Sorry, but I don't understand the beginning of your post. (Not a criticism, so please don't take offence, as none is meant.) What does your first sentence mean: "How does anyone know if an infant was baptized in the river and later I think that is an assumption on our parts adult only for some...

Well, so Hippolytus of Rome was a disciple of Irenaeus, a disciple of Polycarp, who was a disciple of Apostle John. But that doesn't mean that Hippolytus, Irenaeus and Polycarp were themselves apostles. Timothy was a disciple of Paul, but that doesn't make him an apostle.

Yes, a replacement for Judas was described in Acts. But that is it. No replacement is mentioned for James when Herod killed him: “Then he killed James the brother of John with the sword.” (Ac 12:2 NKJV) Only Judas was replaced of the apostles.

But 2 Thessalonians 2:15 says: “Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the traditions which you were taught, whether by word or our epistle.” (2Th 2:15 NKJV) Paul is referring to the preaching of the gospel (by word) and what he wrote in his letter (our epistle). He's not talking about...

That just is not so, unless by "converting" you mean something different than changing a sinner into a Christian. In Acts we are told specifically: “So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of...

I would say that it is definitely not the Christian's obligation to convert anybody. Christians can and should spread the gospel, but only God can convert sinners dead in trespasses and sins. The "Great Commission" that Jesus gave to His first disciples was about spreading the gospel ("Go into...