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. It's ironic that the majority of America's adults have a constitutional right to bear arms. And gun sales have skyrocketed in the past decade. But when demented males show up at malls, and churches, and schools, and movie theaters, and fast food restaurants; and start executing people at...

. David's seed was in Christ (Rom 1:3) and based upon all the history written about David and his progeny in the Old Testament; I think we can be reasonably sure that Christ would have both failed and sinned had he been born only of man rather than of both God and man. The Watchtower Society is...

†. 1Cor 15:35 . . Someone will say: How are the dead to be raised up? Yes, with what sort of body are they coming? †. 1Cor 15:44 . . It is sown a physical body, it is raised up a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual one. The precise composition of the...

†. John 5:17-18 . . My Father has kept working until now, and I keep working. On this account, indeed, the Jews began seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath but he was also calling God his own Father, making himself equal to God. The Lord's opponents knew...

†. John 2:19 . . Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days. †. Mtt 10:28 . . Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the one who can destroy both soul and body in geena. Two different ancient Greek words are translated...

My first discussion with a Watchtower Society representative occurred in1969. At the time I was young and naive, and thus assumed that the hewer of wood, and hauler of water, who came down my driveway was a fellow born-again Christian. But when I talked this over with a Protestant church elder...

†. Gen 19:3 . . He prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. Lot's is the very first mention of unleavened bread in the Bible and it won't show up again until Exodus 12:8 in the Passover meal. The Hebrew word for "unleavened" is matstsah (mats-tsaw') which means...

The Catholic system in which I grew up; the congregation was never permitted to consume the wine element. So all those years I apparently observed the Lord's supper incorrectly; and if incorrectly, then I was robbed because according to the Lord's testimony as an expert witness in matters...

. If Christ-like is defined as Christ living through you; then wouldn't Adam-like be defined as Adam living through you? †. Gen 5:3 . . Adam produced a son in his own likeness Cliff /

. There's a couple of ways to tell whether somebody is infected with God's spirit: but since I'm ex-Catholic; I prefer to just focus on just one. †. Rom 8:14-17 . . For you did not receive a spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we call out: Abba...

†. 1Cor 6:15-16 . . Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? God forbid! Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For the two; says He, shall become one flesh. According to that passage, and Gen 2:24 too, the one-flesh unity...

. First some back story. †. Jdg 7:1-8 . . Early in the morning, Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) and all his men camped at the spring of Harod. The camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh. . . .The Lord said to Gideon: You have too many men for me to deliver Midian...

. I lived in San Diego County forty years before moving to northwest Oregon. During those years I experienced something like seventeen close encounters of a third kind with rattlers-- a few instances potentially fatal --but managed to survive unscathed because I didn't try picking them up with...

. †. John 3:3 . . I assure you: no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above. †. John 3:4 . . Nicodemus said to him: How can a person once grown old be born again? Surely he cannot re-enter his mother's womb and be born again, can he? †. John 3:5 . . I assure you: no one can...

. †. 1Cor 11:25 . . Do this in memory of me The Lord's Supper (as Protestants prefer to label a communion service) is Christianity's equivalent of a Memorial Day. †. 1 Cor 11:26 . .Whenever you eat of this bread and drink from this cup, you are proclaiming the death of the Lord until he comes...

. †. John 6:53 . . Jesus said to them: I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. The kind of life about which the Bible's Jesus spoke in the 6th chapter of John isn't vegetable life, nor beast life, nor angel life, nor insect...

. Since Houston was raised a Baptist; then she had a pretty good chance of making it to safety when she passed. What's so special about Baptists? Answer: Christ's administration. He's a Melchizedekian high priest rather than an Aaronic high priest (Ps 110:4, Heb 5:4-6, Heb 6:18-20, Heb 7:11) so...

. †. 1Cor 16:22 . . If anyone love not the Lord, let him be accursed. Love for the Bible's Christ is measured in accordance with one's compliance with his teachings. †. John 14:23-24 . . If anyone loves me, he will keep my word . . . he who does not love me does not keep my words Steve Jobs'...

. Getting into heaven is only half the battle; and actually the easy part. The real challenge is staying. Naturally people would be on their best behavior at first; but what's to keep them that way? and what's to prevent them from being evicted? because if the wages of sin on earth is death (Rom...

. So-called "death bed" conversions are a popular topic of discussion; but what's not so popular are circumstances where there is no death bed to speak of. †. Luke 13:4-5 . . And what about the eighteen men who died when a tower of Siloam fell on them? Were they the worst sinners in Jerusalem...