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Curtis: "The easy refutation of this, is the fact that Jesus says He is good: Mat 20:15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?" Nope! You overlook the fact that this verse is part of a parable in which the landowner represents God, not...

When I was about 19, a young woman in our youth group testified to how much she had grown spiritually in the past year. At the time, I wanted to grow as well, but was uncertain how to measure such growth. So I ask her for an example of how she had grown and she was offended by the question. I...

I accept the traditional doctrine of the Trinity. But the OP's challenge is not so easy to eStablish as one might suppose. For example, how would you respond to these 4 questions and the appended answers? Q: What is the earliest orthodox expression of the Trinity (the first case in which the...

Give strong drink to one who is perishing and wine to those in bitter distress; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more (Proverbs 30:6)."

Certain Bibles have great sentimental value, despite their textual and translation inadequacies. The best example is the Bible Donald Trump's mother gave him, a gift from the teenaged Donald after whom he was named, who often read aloud from that Bible during the last great revival, the...

You just illustrated how reluctant evangelicals can to read carefully before responding. If you'd actually read my post, you'd see that I begin with the categorical statement, "I oppose abortion." And like many evangelicals, you assume that if a poster defends Catholics, he must be Catholic...

I oppose abortion. But the very fact that this post is necessary illustrates the hatred many evangelicals here have for Catholics. They love to stereotype other faiths by the worst exemplars of those faiths, but are outraged when their denomination is subjected to such godless generalizations...

One United Methodist Church I pastored in western New York experienced signs and wonders more spectacular than any in the churches of the Book of Acts or in the Pentecostal/ Charismatic churches in which I was raised. Sadly, posters here like to stereotype on the basis of the worst exemplars...

If you don't know Greek and Hebrew, get 2 Bibles, one that is the best paraphrase (the New Living Translation) and the other that is faithful to the original languages (the NIV, 2011 edition). The New Living Translation is a revised version of the older Living Bible that is more faithful to...

When I spoke in tongues at age 16, I was unknowingly also given the gift of "the word of knowledge." For example, I was Best Man in Dallas's wedding. After the honeymoon, he invited me over for dinner. After dinner, he, his wife, and I retired to his basement to play ping pong. All was well...

In 1870 40% of all Americans were Methodists. American Pentecostalism has never experienced such a widespread effective move of the Spirit. The key tot his revival was the weekly class meeting in which members were asked to share the inner and outer state of their soul. Regular true...

Arguments about God are only as good as their underlying assumptions. These assumptions are based on experience. Therefore, arguments about God are only as good as one's experience. "Experience" is subjective, not objective. So debate should be focused on what is subjectively or...

Translation: I have no answer to your detailed defense of the Scriptural basis of Purgatory. So I have no recourse but to ignore God's Word in the hope that other Fundamentalists here will support my mindless pontifications.

No, the historical background of a term like "Gehenna" is irrelevant to the question of its contemporary metaphorical meaning as determined by Jewish usage in Jesus' time. For the ancient rabbis, "Gehenna" refers to Hell, a place of postmortem purification to which a Jew of mediocre...

In other words, God takes away our free will to make us suitable candidates for Heaven. This undermines the value of our free choices in this life and raises this question: Then why wouldn't a God of love also control the wills of Hitler and Stalin, transforming them to make them suitable...

The biblical case has been laid out for Purgatory and praying to deceased saints and Evangelical critics have had no detailed exegete5ical answe4r to the detailed arguments. But what about these 4 common sense questions? (1) If, as Paul and contemporary Judaism teach, there are several levels...

Google King "James Version documentary" and you will learn the the KJV was a fresh translation, each small section of which the large committee read aloud to each other tp see how their NEW translation would flow in church! The committee notes of the translators have been preserved..

So doubting Thomas was wrong to acclaim Jesus as "my Lord and my God?" Then why doesn't Jesus rebuke Thomas?

Paul Christenson: "It is interesting to note that the earliest Greek manuscript that we have is from the 4th Century - when the active involvement of the Holy Spirit had largely disappeared from the church in general..." On the contrary, St. Augustine celebrates all the healing miracles that...

The NKJV is more readable than the old KJV, but is almost as corrupt because it still uses the error-filled Textus Receptus. The NIV is not really a paraphrase, but a dynamic equivalent translation, very faithful to the original languages. The best and most readable paraphrase translation is...