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If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 1John 1:8. As we know, good exegesis consists of using the inductive method, in taking many scriptures, and deriving a general conclusion from them. ‘The number, clarity and relevance of those many passages is crucial to...

Christ was there from the beginning - the beginning of creation. So outside of time. And through Him came the creation. But God the creator only became a Father at that point.

The things that are mystery, like the incarnation, godliness, spiritual rebirth, the Trinity, cannot be explained in human terms, although we know from the revelation of the Holy Spirit that they are true. It is much better to demonstrate to others that they are missing this revelation by...

I am talking about refuting something that will remain a mystery which cannot be understood by finite minds. There are many things that can be shown clearly from scripture.

Yes though we cannot yet understand how Jesus is at the same time God, yet Son of God.

Yes discussion with love, not the arguing we have seen. And no recognition that it is ultimately a mystery.

I would like to present what Eastern Orthodoxy teaches about the Trinity, and propose that what has happened here, on this thread, only proves that they are right. They do not believe in the same Trinity as we find in the western world of Christians. They believe in Monarchial Trinitarianism...

Edited. It could be. I don't know of a western Trinitarian who holds to the Filioque clause, (the Spirit is proceeding from the Son as well as the Father) and who personally claims Theosis for salvation, at baptism (of the Spirit). But then, I have only just 'gone over' to EO.

The early church did (and the EO still do) teach Monarchistic Trinitarianism which is not the same as the Trinitarianism of the western church. I wonder if this is the source of confusion. 'According to Monarchical Trinitarianism, as expressed by (MT), the Father is the sole ultimate...

I think I meant complicit.

Yes agreed, and later, so does she. She emphasizes that we are compliant if we do not stand up and speak up. After finishing the book, I think everyone in the church should read it. Speaking out against what is accepted as normal.

Redeeming Power: Understanding Authority and Abuse in the Church Diane Langberg

Sisters, I am busy reading an excellent book called: Redeeming Power: Understanding Authority and Abuse in the Church Diane Langberg. She has a ministry to the spiritually abused in the church, and I am finding this book to be excellent but don't come back to bite me if she goes south later on...

Rejoice! @GracePeace, for the Lord is lifting up the veil at the corner for you, for you to see the deeper spiritual meaning in the scripture. The Illumination has arrived! You will not get an answer from those for whom the veil is still in place, and who say 'Peace! Peace! when you know that...

Thankyou @dev553344 for being brave enough to tell your testimony in light of the stupid insensitive remarks and lack of empathy we have seen. Animals in the wild, when escaping their predators, or suchlike trauma, will shake their bodies furiously, which scientists show, releases the energy...

Any drug - nicotine, alcohol, coffee, street drugs, change your biological function and metabolism, so that must be corrected while quitting, and makes the job much less painful. You need the help of biochemists.

I do not think they were infallible, no, but they, being of the same culture and language as the Apostles, and their disciples, and of a closer gap of time period, were much better qualified to interpret scripture according to the intention of the writers. Anyone who has studied the period is...

BE ye holy as He is holy, does not say just believe it as a legal construct, which was brought into the church from the Latin quarter following the ideology of the Roman empire. God deals with reality. How does the world look upon those who say they are without sin, yet sin right in front of...