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Christ4Me; "That reference is Paul giving an exaggerated sense to show how important love is or rather not having love in spite of tongues of angels. 1 Corinthians 13:1Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling...

Christ4Me: "1 Corinthians 12:29 "Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles? 30 Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret? That should give you pause about seeking tongues as a sign that you have the Holy Spirit to know that...

Paul distinguishes private prayer tongues from messages in tongues that need to be interpreted. The tongues themselves can be actual languages. For example, in a Pentecostal church in Saskatchewan (I'm Canadian), there was a message in Swahili, assuring a mother that her missionary daughter...

You are oblivious to the fact that the Bible teaches spiritual methodology, including several principles of an effective prayer life and several principles for exercising effective faith that makes the decisive difference. You also overlook Paul's command to "strive for spiritual gifts" (1 Cor...

4 facts commend greater evangelical respect for the vital role of Catholicism in shaping the biblical canon: (1) For the first centuries, there is no ecclesial consensus on the limits of the NT canon. On the one hand, the NT books themselves don't claim their composition is divinely inspired...

Phoneman: "The infamous "Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification" (JDDJ) is deceptively worded to teach "salvation is by grace alone through the merits of Christ's work alone" which is bulldookey." In the absence of reasoned dialogue, you must resort to such ad hominens because you...

4 reasons why John 3:5 specifies baptism as a condition for entering the kingdom of heaven: (1) 2nd century Christians take "born of water" as a reference to baptism (Thanks, Marymog). (2) No one in the first 2 centuries takes "born of water" as a reference to birth fluid and there is no...

Taken: "Hebrews built their Temple and Synagogs upon their Rock called, LORD." LOL, no OT text claims that the Jews built their Temple and synaogug on the divine Rock. Taken: Duet 3: [3] Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God. [4] He is the Rock, his...

So as a youth, why was I so skeptical about speaking in tongues and other gifts of the Spirit? Our church had Holy Communion after the sermon and a message in tongues or prophetic word was often the norm for this service. As a skeptical boy. I yearned for a word from Christ that addressed my...

In Rev. 1:10 the technical term for "the Lord's Day," the day of Christian worship. is "kyriake," which the Gospel of Peter is identified as Easter Sunday. This usage decisively refutes the Adventist Sabbath, because, though the Gospel of Peter is noncanonical, it attests the standard word...

The scholarly consensus among OT scholars is that the first creation story (the Priestly creation story in 1:1-2:4a is a poetic liturgical piece composed for worship in the Jerusalem temple to justify Sabbath rest. These scholars point to the poetic liturgical repetition: "And God said...And it...

Enoch111: "I don't need to duck anything since I have shown -- by quoting directly from the Catechism of the Catholic Church -- that almost all their teachings are false." LOL, you don't even realize that the CC is not intended as a full biblical justification for its doctrines and, worse, you...

LOL, thus, you concede the Catholic point at issue in Matthew 16:16. 19)! So when Jesus then proceeds to establish Peter as "the Rock" (foundation), not Himself, on which He will build His church, He is invoking divine authority (not "flesh and blood") for Peter the Rock's control over "the...

Curtis: "The Protestants haven’t paid out over a billion dollars to victims, as the RCC has." LOL, that's because the Catholics are more morally and legally responsible than sexually promiscuous evangelical leaders and their churches. In any case, thanks for conceding my case that Protestants...

Curtis: "The Protestants haven’t paid out over a billion dollars to victims, as the RCC has." LOL, that's because the Catholics are more morally and legally responsible than sexually promiscuous evangelical leaders and their churches. In any case, thanks for conceding my case that Protestants...

That is precisely why this thread focuses on the biblical basis for Catholic distinctives, which your replies continually duck. Do we need to rub your nose in John 20:23. Matthew 16:19. and James 5:16 to get you to actually focus on God's Word?

Then why did Jesus try to get out of His mission fate? John says, "perfect love casts out fear;" he doesn't say perfect love prevents fear. Jesus ultimately obeyed God. But His obedience didn't come without resistance: "He had to learn obedience through the things He suffered (Hebrews 5:8)."

More than that, before He ultimately surrenders to His mission fate, He pleads for God to spare Him from suffering: "Abba Father, for you all things are possible.; remove this cup from me...(Mark 14:36)!" Being fully human, Jesus experiences the same range of emotions that we do (Hebrews 4:15)...