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Watch this free online movie on Polycarp's life and weep over your ignorant disrespect! Polycarp (2015)

Duh, no, it is a Bible, not a Commentary entirely devoted to the Epistle of James. Academic commentaries just on James discuss the Greek nuance in detail. "Works"(Greek: "erga") never refers to mental calculation, but always to moral or physical effort. Period. You are the posterboy for how...

You just confirmed my point: the Life Application Bible is NOT an academic commentary on the Epistle of James! What it says about intellectual assent is true, but irrelevant to the point of the rhetorical question in 2:14, which requires the answer No, faith without works cannot save you. That...

ALL the academic commentaries on James agree with my interpretation of 2:14. So your rejection of logic, and more specifically, of the nature of rhetorical questions and the distinction between necessary and sufficient conditions for salvation reduces your response self-refuting screed from the...

You need to find a competent credentialed Christian counselor, who will not try to talk you out of your anxiety, but will rather be a good listener to go with you through the anxiety. Change brings permanence; recreation brings disappearance. What that means is this: when you try to change...

First, you forget that John 14:13-14 applies to the time when Jesus is present physically or in resurrection appearances. But when the Paraclete or Holy Spirit is poured out, Jesus teaches us to to pray directly to the Father, not to Jesus, and to pray to the Father in Jesus' name (John...

Berserk: Philippians 2:12:" The Greek means "work to accomplish" justbyfaith: "No it does not. It means "to work out" as with a math problem." "No, as usual your false pontification is based on your ignorance of Greek. First, , "exergazomai" comes from "erga," the noun for "works" as in good...

Taken: "I have no consideration for philosophies of men...in an attempt to obfuscate..." LOL. You have obviously never taken a course on philosophical Logic because you unwittingly just admitted you "have no consideration" for critical thinking. What is it about the distinction between...

Giuliano: "Can you believe God would send innocent babies to hell? That doesn't seem right to me. "Let the little children (including babies) come to me and do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs (Mark 10:15)." Like little children, aborted babies cannot...

I was into horror movies until a teenager in my church with a secret opioid addiction got demonically oppressed (with terrifying paranormal phenomena) right after watching the horror movie "Paranormal" with is young friends. An evangelical exorcism team was summoned to deal with the issue but...

There are 5 fundamental biblical points that justbyfaith, Behold, Taken, and their ilk continually duck: (1) I repeat: in both Hebrew ("amunah") and Greek (("Pistis") the word translated "faith" also means faithfulness." That in itself means that we are saved not by an act of belief or trust...

(7) Many agnostics and atheists are gloriously saved through their NDEs. The most dramatic online example of such a conversion is atheist professor Howard Storm's NDE in which he was being taken to Hell when Jesus intervened and his life was transformed. His Youtube testimony posted below is one...

Here are just 8 biblical commandments that most Evangelicals treat as optional: (1) Changing dress codes prompted modern Christian women to discontinue the practice of wearing a hat in church. They justify this change on the grounds that the NT commandment on this issue is merely a reflection...

In my childhood church I was exposed to 3 pastors who all got in trouble morally. One had been Billy Graham's interpreter for his massive South American crusades. He divorced his wife. The other was our YWAM advisor. He was defrocked for chronically having sexual affairs. YWAM (Youth wiht...

DNB: "First of all, the quintessential passage on this issue is 1 Thess. 4:13-18. i.e. fundamentally speaking, no one is judged before Judgement Day." Notice how DNB ducks the fully conscious martyrs of Rev. 6:9-10 and these 2 Pauline texts I quoted: "We would rather be away from the body and at...

Giuliano, Notice how quietthinker and his ilk conveniently duck the decisive refutation of his soul sleep position in post #35, a post that merely expresses the scholarly consensus on this issue of which your critics are oblivious.

My thread "NDEs and ADCs: Their Evidential Value for Christian Apologetics" demonstrates with verifications that the dead can and do communicate with the living. Many atheists and agnostics have been born again through reflection on their near-death experiences or their after-death contacts...

(6) When I was a Theology professor at a Catholic university, I used to play Bridge with professors from the School of Education. During one game, I received a "word of knowledge" about an absent Education Professor, Ellie. Ellie was grieving the recent loss of her husband Joe, another...

Jesuit Malachi Martin wrote a famous book documenting major exorcisms entitled "Hostage to the Devil." He famously claimed, "There are no atheists at a genuine exorcism." Here are 2 of my families personal cases of confronting a demoniac: (1) My cousin E is a psychiatrist and the son of a...

(3) Aurilla was in charge of buying and preparing the bread and grape juice for Holy Communion in the first church I pastored. She had to buy these Communion elements in the only grocery store in that little village. But she procrastinated too long and the store was out of grape juice. So...