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reformed: "No, speaking in tongues is not the only form of praying in the spirit, how absurd!" What is absurd is your unwillingness to read the OP carefully. I never claimed tongues is the only form of praying in the Spirit. What I said was that speaking in tongues is the only form...

Critics of tongues on this site have frozen like Bambi in the headlights when confronted with these 5 unchallenged points: (1) Paul's command to "pray in the Spirit" is fulfilled by striving to speak in tongues. 2 points establish this teaching...

Integrity is a rare virtue; it is the willingness to endure the profound discomfort of severe doubt about one's spiritual beliefs when one's reason and intuition, and life experience clash with a system that binds one to one's spiritual community and gives coherence and peace to one's sense of...

My friend Lloyd shared this testimony from one of his friends, a man totally disinterested in Christianity. The friend was strolling through a crowded mall when he accidentally bumped into a lady he hadn't noticed. She braced herself, touching him on the shoulder, smiled, and moved on. Later...

At age 21 I attended Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, CA for a year before transferring to Princeton Seminary. I twice had the privilege of attending her healing meetings at the LA Shrine Auditorium, the place that used to host the Academy Awards. The 2nd time my friend Sam insisted that we sit...

Watch the testimonies miraculous healing from the only 2 known survivors from the Azusa Street Revival of 1906-09. The blind saw, the deaf heard, and people with terminal diseases were instantly healed! The building had a special place for all the crutches of the cripples who were healed...

I take that as a No, I'm pontificating from ignorance without having read the primary texts of the early Church Fathers!

How would you know? Have you actually read the early church Fathers like Augustine? More mindless pontification by historically illiterate fundamentalist! One of the greatest examples of fundamentalist arrogance is their mindless assumption that the Holy Spirit deserted His church shortly...

GodsGrace: "I don't understand your last sentence at all. How are people baptized on behalf of the dead? (1 cor 15:29)" A family member substitutes for the unavailable deceased unsaved loved one and is rebaptized as a proxy for that family member. By implication, this practice builds on the...

(2) THE FOUNDATION OF PURGATORY IN PAUL: Who would not want to benefit from God's grace and spend a long time in purgative torment? Nothing unclean can enter Paradise, but can enter the lower Heavens. You wrongly assume that there is only one Heaven. Paul is taken up to "the 3rd Heaven,"...

This thread will focus successively on how Jesus, Paul, Peter, and John the Seer lay the foundation for the later Catholic doctrine of Purgatory. [1] THE GEHENNA CONCEPT SHARED BY BOTH JESUS AND CONTEMPORARY RABBIS: The Feast of Hanukkah celebrates Judas Maccabaeus' victories during the...

Taken: ↑"LOL....when you find the word Catholic in the Bible, let us know." What Taken doesn't get is that both the labels "Christian" and "Catholic" were coined in the first-century church of Antioch (Acts 11:26; Ignatius, Smyrnaeans 8:2)! The Ignatius citation is just as good as Luke's...

As an ex-theology professor (evangelical in beliefs) at a Catholic university, I'm in a good position to sum up the debate in this thread. (1) The Catholics try in vain to get the fundamentalists to react to God's Word, but the fundamentalists studiously avoid this with insults and...

Fundamentalists have had no answer either for the biblical case for praying to the saints (of which praying to Mary is a variation) or the posted miracles associated with praying to the saints and Marian healing streams, miracles conspicuously absent from their spirituality impotent church...

grace, I was an evangelical professor in a Catholic university's theology department for 12 years. Catholic apologists in this thread have already corrected your misunderstanding of their doctrine of salvation. So I won't repeat their correction. Let me ask you a pointed question: (1) Why do...

Enoch and Bible Highlighter need to have their nose rubbed in more specific texts in which the KJV has obviously been corrupted and in the objective criteria used by modern Text Critics tor determine later reads, criteria of which they are blissfully oblivious.

"JesusFan1 to Enoch 111: "Can you show me the list where ANY scholar on the nas/esv/Nkjv translation teams became heretics, or denied the full inerrancy and inspiration of the originals?" On the other hand. the KJV translators included a womanizing drunk, who was nevertheless competent in...

Enoch: "Since the Bible refutes praying to anyone but God, why waste time on discussing this false practice? Indeed, why should anyone give any credence to this thread, since you have not joined the church you so admire?" Post #449 demonstrates that the Bible does no such thing. On the...

Not true. The Bible does claim that it is inerrant or perfect. See Psalms 12:6-7, Proverbs 30:5-6, and Psalms 119:140. Psalm 12:6-7 refers to the purity of God's promises, not the OT as we know it. Even in Jesus' day the OT canon was not closed. Proverbs 30:5-6 only says, "Every word of God...

Bible Highlighter: "I strongly disagree that a Christian needs to be educated in Modern Textual Criticism because it can in some cases lead to unbelief. If you were to research how many Christians lose their faith at Bible college, you will discover it is approximately 70% of Christians who...