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One of the first things a student learns at ANY seminary, evangelical or liberal, is how corrupt the Hebrew and Greek texts used by the KJV translators really is. This corruption is the inevitable result of its use of the latest manuscripts which display many centuries of accumulating copy...

No, I would put it this way: because divine foreknowledge precedes predestination (so Romans 8:29), God foreknew that humanity would freely disobey and fit that foreknowledge into his plan. In that sense, then, Genesis 2-3 is best understood as the story of the birth of conscience rather than...

I will begin my exegesis of the relevant Pauline texts by reposting #32 from the other thread which posters have so far ducked. The Kreisel: "You left out that pesky VS 25 - Romans 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own...

My own position on universalism echoes this brilliant succinct remark by famed evangelical apologist C. S. Lewis: "The gates of Hell are locked from the inside." In other words, God is Love and therefore does not stop loving the sinner even in Hell. If souls are trapped in Hell, that is due to...

You shockingly omitted the key verse cited by universalists in Romans 11: "God has imprisoned all in disobedience, so that He might be merciful to all (11:32)." The pro-universalist interpretation then depends on these 4 points. (1) "Imprisoned" implies that none can resist God's purpose for...

The answer to the OP is that the apparent inconsistencies must be explained in terms of progressive revelation. Progressive revelation raises the question of the extent to which OT Jewish culture limited and distorted the revelatory impulse of prophets and what the Israelites were and were not...

Paul implies that Peter took his wife with him on his missionary tours. Peter calls Mark his "son" (1 Peter 5:13); so it is natural to view Mark as his biological son! Clement of Alexandria discusses Peter's children. When Paul refers to Timothy and Titus as his "child," he clarifies that...

My uncle, a pastor, once cringed when he heard a guy complain about a procrastinator, "She's as slow as the 2nd coming of Christ!" The church of my youth held a Watchnight service on New Year's Eve. The idea was that we would enter the New Year on our knees. Guest preachers often harped on the...

My uncle, a pastor, once cringed when he hear a guy complain about a procrastinater, "She's as slow as the 2nd coming of Christ!" The church of my youth held a Watchnight service on New Year's Eve. The idea was that we would enter the New Year on our knees. Guest preachers often harped on the...

At creation God brought order out of chaos, but God does not control or micro-mangage the forces of chaos. "All are victims of time and chance (Eccl. 9:11). Divine foreknowledge of poor human decisions does not mean divine control of those decisions. Divine foreknowledge precedes predestination...

One inference can be drawn: the "new earth" is not a remodeled present earth. The old earth "has passed away." Our earth is 3/4 water, So the fact "there is no sea" on the "new earth" suggests a different planet altogether. Also, Jesus teaches that "the kingdom of God does not come with...

Should you eat pork? No, unless you go to our local town Pour House and order the Phat Burger: a top-grade Angus burger patty over a pulled-pork -patty over 2 thick slabs of bacon, over pepper jack cheese, lettuce, and tomato, all smothered in home-made barbecue sauce (6 inches thick-$15)--...

You obviously pontificate from ignorance because you have not bothered to watch the video of eyewitness testimony to the Hebrides Revival. In real revival the Holy Spirit falls primarily and massively on the unchurched. On the first night hundreds all over the place filled the streets. crying...

The last great revival was in my view the most supernatural, the Hebrides Revival of 1949-1954. Duncan Campbell was the Presbyterian minister at the center of that revival. Watch this video and learn how the whole island of Lewis became aware of the convicting power of the Holy Spirit suddenly...

Stuart If you don't want new evidence for the resurrection that you haven't yet considered, why did you create this thread in the first place? How can we be helpful? I'm unfortunately coming to the conviction that you are just another insincere troll.

Stuart, If I were in your shoes, these responses would not be very helpful because one can't simply conquer doubts by TRYING to believe. So let me ask you 2 questions that might lead to a solution: (1) Would it be helpful to you to lay out in detail the historical evidence for Jesus'...

THE AZUSA STREE REVIVAL OF 1906-1908 William Seymour is the most spiritually effective African American of all time. What happens to him and how he reacts to his fate is a role model for bringing great mass revival. Yet though I grew up in a Pentecostal church, I had never heard of him! This...

What cessationist evangelicals don't realize is this: if God can't or won't do it now, then it is reasonable to infer that He couldn't or wouldn't do it in Bible times either. Our local prayer group of 5 has lasted 7 years and has witnessed many miracles. Last year I had 2 sonograms and 1...

"Revival" is a watered-down term. In the last few centuries there have been 5 revivals: The first and second Great Awakenings (18th and 19th centuries), the Welsh Revival of 1904-1906), the Azusa Street Revival of 1908-11), and the Hebrides Revival of 1949-1954. In these revivals the Holy...

I know you said you were booted off carm.org, but the site is being reconstructed and I think you can safely re-register like I just did. The site has attracted better educated fundamentalists. but more Catholics are needed to address anti-Catholic ignorance and bigotry. Let me know if and...