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Have you ever wondered why the Beloved Disciple wins his footrace with Peter to the Tomb, but then refuses to enter it until Peter goes in and confirms that Jesus' corpse is not present (John 20:1-10)? The answer is one of innumerable reasons why the Beloved Disciple is Jesus' brother James...

First, the Gospels never say that Mary Magdalene was not allowed to touch the disciples! Second, the Gospels never say that the disciples were baptized and Mary was not. Yes, Jesus' disciples baptized others (John 4:2), but Mary was one of a group of female disciples who traveled around with...

Stan will resort to just about any ungodly ploy to avoid the Catholic refutation of his pro-abortion position. Notice how he resorts to the desperate expedient of slander to duck my case for an anti-abortion position in the apostolic church. Stan B: "Today idolatry is rampant in pagan [!]...

Your bigoted answer masks your evasion of my point about Didache 4:2 and early Catholic tradition. I find Catholics far, far more charitable and loving towards Evangelicals than the opposite. Indeed, just the other day, I conversed with an ex-Evangelical who fled his church to find God real in...

st3712; "If I have the Holy Ghost dwelling within me,...would I not always be in direct contact with God by His own Spirit within me at all times day and night?" No, sin and pride can cause the Holy Spirit to be extinguished within you. Hence, Paul's warning: "Do not extinguish (or quench")...

Pro-choice Christians quote this text in support of their pro-abortion position, arguing that killing the fetus only deserves a fine, whereas killing a born human requires life for life. Pro-life Christians try to counter this by citing Psalm 137:13: "You knit me together in my mother's womb."...

This thread eloquently illustrates the wisdom of Text Critic B. F. Wescott's famous wry observation: "The simple Gospel is not so simple as the simple would have you suppose." (1) Ultimately, the Bible can never be translated accurately because, for many important theological and ethical Greek...

Evangelicals have nothing to say in response to the biblical basis for the Catholic doctrine of Communion of the Saints as spelled out in this thread. Ironically, Evangelicals have no biblical basis for their common practice of praying directly to Jesus in direct defiance of His expressed...

As a witnessing Evangelical, I totally sympathize with BoL's demeanor, given the nauseating ad hominems constantly directed his way by your ilk. Your bigotry is eloquently displayed by your patronizing comment, "you need prayer and a savior." Your disrespect of how God's awesome grace is...

Beware the sin of bibliolatry! How ironic that most Fundamentalists are so indifferent to God's true Word that they refuse to even investigate the scholarly consensus that the KJV is based on the latest and most corrupt Hebrew and Greek Bible manuscripts!

The saints in Hebrews 12:11 cheer us on! – Catholic Strength The Apostle's Creed contains this faith affirmation: "I believe in the communion of saints." The doctrine of the Communion of Saints refers to the interconnected community, living and dead, of all saints on Earth, in Heaven, and yes...

Bread of Life, Fundamentalists just need to get into the Word more! I have laid out a detailed biblical case for Purgatory with copious numbered points, knowing that all these points would be ignored by the Fundamentalists in a blaze of pontifications and insults. Their evasive ploys...

19th century missionary, J. Hudson Taylor, is one of the most revered and effective Protestant missionaries of all time. In pioneering the China Inland Mission, he suffered greatly from deprivation, discouragement, persecution, and even the loss of his wife on the mission field. Given the...

And notice how Fundamentalists like Ezra feel the need to resort to ridicule of other's faith to compensate for their exegetical ineptness. Yes, Ezra, many United Methodists are filled with the Holy Spirit and speak in tongues. The Fundamentalist need to ridicule Catholics as Papists...

David Taylor to Bread of Life: "No this [Matthew 5:25-26] has nothing to do with Purgatory. That is reading into the passage. You gave examples that have nothing to do with what you claim they do. Purgatory is a false doctrine from a false church." Ah, the right time for me, a Pentecostal...

Duh, you are sadly confusing the Old Testament patriarch Joseph's coat of many colors with the Shroud purchased by the Sanhredrin member, Joseph of Arimathea. Wow! You actually deny that crucifixion and the floggings suffered by Jesus prior to it would cause Him to bleed? You are a modern...

Nondenom: "Where did i say anything about preferring comfort for the constructive doubt?" Constructive doubt in the quest for truth requires careful attention to "the best instincts" of conscience and what conscience says about the nature of justice and pure unconditional love. By disdaining...

Let me take this thread in a relevant, though tangential path, by drawing attention to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher as the true site of both Jesus' tomb and Golgotha, which were venerated as holy sites in the Jerusalem church of the first century. That church was built on the site of the...

No Nancy, it was later proven that the pieces used for the Carbon-14 dating were rewoven in the 1500's with cotton. That realization forced a reassessment in which even a Jewish skeptic and a secular chemist on the STIRP team became convinced that the Shroud is Jesus' authentic burial cloth...