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You just need to to read some academic Bible commentaries. All NT scholars agree that Romans 6:1-6 expresses Paul's theology of physical baptism. Titus: "Those who claim this HS baptism is for all believers are too careless in their meditation on the scriptures. Really, they probably dont...

Chapter and verse in Acts? You forgot the Ephesian speaking in tongues (19:1-6) and thus miss the 4-fold pattern discussed abov

In 3 of the 4 descriptions in Acts of receiving the Spirit, the initial evidence includes speaking in tongues. In the 4th case (Samaria) speaking tongues is not mentioned, but ecstatic speech seems implied by the fact that Simon the Magician is so impressed by this manifestation of the Spirit...

Most faith healers of dubious character start off mightily used of God. but then they succumb to the need to put on a good show. He deliberately distorted what the note my Dad wrote about my condition said to create the illusion that a blind little boy had just been given his sight, and the...

If God can't or won't do it now, the most reasonable inference is that God couldn't or wouldn't do it back then. The major reason for the rejection of Christianity by modern informed skeptics is not that there is inadequate evidence for God's existence but that the Bible's promises just don't...

(16) One night 2 years ago, I felt an impulse to do something I would never otherwise do--walk a couple of blocks down 2nd Street and back. When I arrived at the intersection of 2nd and Main St., I ran into Clint, a new Christian I knew. Clint was extremely distraught. He had just found his...

JLG: "First, when we read mark 2:5, Jesus speaks about their faith! - And above all, Jesus cures the paralytic! - Definitely, not offensive!" Thus, you endorse the old Marxist principle that the end justifies the means. Notice how JLG ducks the obvious reply, "Why doesn't Jesus just politely...

Thank God that all the listed verses are omitted in modern translations. I am appalled by the fact that fundamentalists who have the "highest' view of biblical inspiration are the least invested in the complex task of sorting through the 400,000 Greek variant readings to establish the original...

Well, Matthew evidently finds this incident offensive, and so, he omits it from his account of the healing of the paralytic.

Still a lot of hassle and expense to repair it! Just sayin.'

Stymied by the crowd at Jesus' feet, friends create a huge whole in the roof to lower toe paralytic to Jesus' feet. Jesus' praiuses their faith. But what about the homeowner's complaint, "Hey, whose gonna pay for the damage to my roof?" I'm looking for Jesus' response, but it's not recorded...

Clapping is not the only biblically sanctioned use of the hands in worship. Do you lift up your hands when you pray just as Paul wants you to do? "I desire that in every place the men SHOULD PRAY, LIFTING UP HOLY HANDS without argument (1 Timothy 2:8)." Do you recognize the biblical principle...

Mark 16:17 is part of 16:9-21, which is a bogus later addition to Mark written by Aristo of Pella and therefore should not be invoked in this discussion. But let me play devil's advocate. This is how believers in baptismal regeneration would make their case. First, they would quote Peter's 2...

If you had read a single academic scholarly New Testament Introduction, you would have discovered the scholarly consensus, both evangelical and progressive, that NONE of the Gospels were written by eyewitnesses. Read one, amy one, and respond to their many stgumemts and your responses might...

From the Council of Jamnia on (96 AD), Jewish rabbis established the OT canon written in Hebrew that Protestants embrace. But the Greek OT outside Palestine included the apocrypha and their Bible was basically accpeted as the Catholic OT. The Apocrypha were even acknowledged as Scripture by...

But Reread your question, to which I responded: "How can individuals write a gospel hundreds of years apart without being divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit?" Your phrase "write a gospel" wrongly implies that Ezekiel is a Gospel! Scholers categorize written Gospels as examples of the...

They confuse "John the Seer" (author of Revelation) with John the son of Zebedee. But modern Bible scholars recognize that the literary style of Revelation is so dramatically different from that of the Fourth Gospel that it is certain that different authors are at play. You are obviously...

I'm not arguing for more or less than our 4 Gospels. But the intellectual issue is complicated by these 2 questions: (1) None of the 4 Gospels even claim to be divinely inspired. That decision was made by Catholic church councils centuries later. How do you know that none of the other first...

OSASers pervert Scripture and turn a blind eye to great soul winners who displayed the fruit of the Spirit, who later encountered intellectual problems with biblical inspiration and felt the need to renounce their faith as a matter of personal integrity. A tragic mistake that evidences the...

Nick, a chemist was the finest Christian I ever encountered in my first 21 years. After every Sunday evening service, Nick was weeping for the lost in our prayer room. I once stumbled onto his travailing prayer before our high school Sunday school class which he taught. He was confessing his...