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I attend a weekly prayer group of 5 members. Late last Fall, we prayed for 2 people with brain tumors and both tumors went into remission. A young unbeliever had one tumor and his healing converted him to Christianity. I heard his testimony last Thanksgiving.

Most Christians realize that it is spiritually dangerous to play with Ouija boards. That does not mean that people don't just occasionally contact benign deceased spirits. Rather, the danger is that you are opening yourself up to any kind of spirit, many of which might be evil. The same...

Good point. Unlike the Fundamentalist interpretation of 1 Cor 3:12-15 the Catholic interpretation recognizes 4 key points: (1) that the meaning of jargon phrases like "save, yet so as by fire" derives its meaning from its use in the ancient Jewish cultural context; (2) that the rabbinic concept...

Blood Bought, You engage in simple-minded pontifications based on false caricatures without a willingness to actually get into Word and address each Bible-based argument for Purgatory on a case by case basis. That's because you have no answer but irrational bluster. Surely you don't expect...

Duncan Campbell was the minister at the heart of the Hebrides Revival in 1949-54. I'm posting a video in which he explains how the revival unfolded step by step, including the central role of the octogenarian Smith sisters, aunts of Donald Trump's mother: youtube hebrides revival - Bing video...

When I was a boy in the late 60s, I just loved Gospel quartet music. I still prefer it to most contemporary praise music. For my taste, the best ever southern Gospel quartet was the early version of the Statesmen in the 1950s and 1960s. Their 2nd tenor Jake Hess was Elvis's idol. Elvis...

marksman: "I was hoping to read your post but as it was not set out in paragraphs I did not bother." In other words, the long posts is way over your head. quietthinker: "Another attempt of morphing pagan points of view in an attempt to make it fit into the biblical narrative." You don't know...

(12) SUPERNATURAL GUIDANCE At age 11 I went out Trick or Treating for the last time. I arrived at one house where the living room was full of lit candles. The woman came to the door and told me she was Bill's Mom. I knew Bill only as a fellow 6th grader, but when I left that door, I...

Christophany: "The very idea of Purgatory and the doctrines that are often attached to it...fail to recognize that Jesus’ death was sufficient to pay the penalty for ALL of our sins." You forget that this all-sufficiency depends on our responding as required and you speak as if postbaptismal...

I will refute your claim in detail in due time. Why do Evangelicals feel the need to change the subject when they have no answer to God's Word? The present topic is Purgatory.

Blood Bought: "I love Catholics......it’s their Doctrine That I hate.....it came from Hell.....I am proud to hate it ." One of the worst mottos ever concocted my misguided Evangelicals is "Love the sinner, hate the sin." What they don't realize is that, practically speaking, the emotion of...

This thread will focus on the biblical grounds for the later Catholic doctrine of Purgatory. Famed evangelical apologist C. S. Lewis embraced this doctrine and famously said, "The gates of Hell are locked from the inside." The doctrine of Purgatory is tied with the Catholic obligation to pray...

What's next? What is logically next is for Fundamentalists to stop freezing like Bambi in the headlights in face of posts that defend Catholic distinctives from Scripture. To start, read my posts that do this and have gone unchallenged. btw, I keep needing to remind posters that I'm not...

Behold: "Listen deceiver. "READ a GREEK TEXT." Unlike you, I know Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic, thank you very much! Behold: "TRY the TEXTUS RECEPTUS," How ironic that a Fundamentalist like you cites the most corrupt text of the New Testament. You really need to read a book on Text Criticism...

More unkind insults from angry peevish Fundamentalists! Bol understands Paul better than you do! "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling (Philippians 2:13)." Even Paul is not confident of where he stands with God: "I do not even judge myself. I am not aware of anything against...

Behold: "The cult of Mary teaches that the Church is "catholic" and started with Jesus. Duh. You need to be educated about the origin of the term "Catholic." The same first-century church (Antioch) that first embraced the Christian label (Acts 11:26) also identified the church as "Catholic!"...

apak, consider the scholarly consensus represented by Raymond Brown in his magisterial “An Introduction to the New Testament” (878 pages): “Most scholars agree that the title “To the Hebrews” was not supplied by the author...Almost certainly it represents a conjecture attached to the work...

farouk: "Protestants have long held that the Bible is self-authenticating." Not theologically educated Protestants! The notion of self-authentication is meaningless gibberish intended to evade the hard work of making the case for limiting our canon. For example, consider these issues: Prior...

Bread of Life, I grew up in an evangelical church in which "the Protestant League" met regularly on Sunday afternoons. I recall as a young boy asking their leader what they talked about in their meetings and he shocked me with his reply. He said, "Oh, we talk about how nuns get pregnant in...

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