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"When you obey the Lord, you have peace of mind" is not the same as "the Lord's commandments are meant to bring us happiness in this lifetime". PEACE OF MIND is not equal to HAPPINESS.

That notion stands in stark contrast to the accounts of life experienced by first-century Christians. They endured slander, persecution, frequent hunger, ridicule, confinement, and confronted falsehoods from influential adversaries, much like Jesus did... Jesus explicitly warned them about the...

The book "The Search for the Christian Doctrine of God" by R. P. C. Hanson (1988) says that "Almost all the Eastern theologians believed that the Son was in some sense subordinated to the Father before the Incarnation". I have explored several writings of the Apostolic Fathers, who lived in the...

Are you truly familiar with the concept of SUBORDINATIONISM and the reasons we believe it is supported by the NT? Did you realize that both the New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers endorse subordinationism? It's important to note that the views of the Catholic Church in the 4th century are...

Personal differences will always exist. Now: does Jesus Christ know how to control the congregation of which he is the appointed head by God, or not?

I don't think that that meeting in Jerusalem meant such a thing. Among the brothers there were some who were weak and did not understand some difficult-to-understand issues. Other brothers surely, like today, resisted changing their Jewish views that they had before becoming Christians, to the...

The Christian congregation, as well as the Apostolic Fathers of the late first and early second centuries, were subordinationists. Do you know what subordinationism is?

The New Testament mentions "truth" more than a hundred times, with a significant number of those instances attributed to Jesus. To uncover "truth," immerse yourself in the Scriptures and you will discover it. Your perspective is merely one of countless individual interpretations. The Bible...

I am very glad that you feel peace of mind. I have peace of mind too.

The Bible is not "quotes". It's God's written Word. John 17:17 Sanctify them by means of the truth; your word is truth. As you can see, only "by means of the word" of God, people can be sanctified. Think about it: if you consider the Bible just "some quotes" from God and Jesus, you are...

The inability of some individuals to reach a consensus does not imply that the biblical truths regarding specific matters have not been explicitly communicated. Believing that differing, contradictory doctrinal perspectives stem from the Bible itself is merely a feeble justification for a lack...

You probably think that the Kingdom of God is just a state of mind. What God promises goes beyond our thoughts and involves a change in the real conditions around us: sickness and death will disappear from among mankind (Rev. 21:3,4). I don't believe that no matter how hard one tries, one...

It seems that you consider the Bible to be just another book. It turns out that for Christians, the Bible is more than just a book that tells us about God and Jesus. The Bible for a Christian is the manual from which we learn the truth unequivocally. There is no other book like the Bible, and...

Paul was a devoted follower of Jesus Christ. He was specifically chosen by Jesus to spread the message to far-off regions, including among non-Jews, and even to secular leaders whom other Christians could not engage directly. Paul experienced the profound influence of the holy spirit, as he was...

In my opinion, shared by Jehovah's Witnesses globally, this narrative is a parable. Moreover, beyond the previously mentioned points that support this interpretation, it is important to consider some additional aspects: 1) Jesus addressed his audience not regarding a doctrine about the...

We all know that all the first Christians were Jews.

I’m not entirely sure what you mean, yet it’s widely acknowledged that following Cornelius, the barriers separating Jewish and Gentile Christians ceased to exist. Historically, it’s evident that the count of Jews converting to Christianity was on the decline; at the same time, the message of...

You can't be Christian without the Bible.

Perhaps these words of Jesus can help you better understand this particular case: John 5:39 “You are searching the Scriptures because you think that you will have everlasting life by means of them; and these are the very ones that bear witness about me. 40 And yet you do not want to come to me...

I think one cannot really know what is good if one do not practice it. A person can only offer what he has, talk about what he knows, and do what he think is better to himself. A psychology professor I know used to say that if the patient continued to engage in self-harming acts, it was...