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Nondenom: "You want our feelings over and against what the bible says? Isn't that kinda backwards?" Your comment illustrates the Evangelical penchant for preferring comfort for the constructive doubt created by the need for honest and open inquiry into spiritual truth. Honest skeptical seekers...

Please initially respond to these 13 question on the basis of your best instincts rather than from what you perceive the Bible to teach. Subsequently, I will address all 13 questions from a biblical perspective and then you will be encouraged to respond to the cited biblical texts. The...

My favorite text on God's silence is expressed in the story of a suicidal Elijah's flight from Jezebel's soldiers after the miracle on Mount Carmel. Elijah's depressed flight takes him on a 40-day pilgrimage to Mount Horeb (= Sinai). There he is taught that our need for signs can prevent us...

@Nancy I see that you've just read and appreciated C. S. Lewis's "A Grief Observed." So I suspect you might really enjoy "The Shadowlands," a movie about how C. S. Lewis falls in love with Joy and then is forced to grieve her battle with cancer and her death. Watch it here: I am now a...

On the contrary, I am far better trained in Scripture than you are. I know Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek as well as other relevant ancient languages and am thoroughly immersed in the culturally relevant Jewish and Greco-Roman background literature. I have a Masters degree in Theology from...

This thread is instructive in at least 4 ways: (1) It illustrates how muddle-headed many Fundamentalists are about what is encompassed by the expression "New Age movement." (2) It illustrates how Fundamentalists simplistically use "New Age" as a vague dirty word to slander godly ministers...

Acts 23:11 "And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, 'Be of good cheer, Paul: for as thou hast testified of Me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome.' KJV Davy: "You totally bypassed explaining that." Duh, that's because it's irrelevant to Luke's point. By...

Davy: "And I did... understand the Scripture, and even revealed the proof from Scripture that Paul had a calling from Jesus the others obviously didn't know about." You keep ducking the point at issue: in 21:4 Luke expresses his disagreement with Paul's sense of calling to go to Jerusalem...

Nondenom: "Regarding confession, not a single person 'went' to confession. Not a single apostle 'heard' confession." You ignore the command of Jesus' brother to go to confession in the sense of confessing sins to each other with a view to being forgiven and thus spiritually (as well as...

Davy: "You haven't understood the Scripture. In Acts 21, it was the apostles that told Paul not to go to Jerusalem, not The Holy Spirit nor Christ speaking directly to Paul. Don't confuse that." On the contrary, it is you who continually miss Luke's point by failing to read my posts carefully...

H. Richard: "When the scripture said to "not forsake the assembling ourselves together," why do most assume it is in the formal religious services in a church building?" "Most?" No, most Christians realize that there were no churches as architecturally distinct structures in the first-century...

"They compelled a passer by, who was coming in from the country, to it was Simon of Cyrene...(Mark 15:21). This text implies (1) that Simon of Cyrene didn't want to carry Jesus' cross, but was coerced into doing so; and (2) that Jesus stumbled and staggered with no dignity, being to weak to...

"Joseph bought a linen shroud (Greek: "sindon"), and taking him down, wrapped him in the linen shroud and laid him in a tomb that had been cut out of the rock. And he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb (Mark 15:46; also Matthew 27:59; Luke 23:53--ESV). ""He [Peter] saw the cloth...

I am a card-carrying member of the Pentecostal Church of the Latter Day Buddhists. No, actually I'm a walking theological zoo without a current cage who tends to emit middle-of-the road Methodist vibes.

Davy and FHIII overlook the plain meaning of 21:4, that "the Spirit prohibited Paul from going up to Jerusalem: "Through the Spirit, they ["the disciples"] told Paul not to go up to Jerusalem (Acts 21:4)." "Paul purposed in the spirit (Greek: "en to pneumati"), when he had passed through...

Enoch: "The answer is quite simple. Everything which is derived from outside the Bible is New Age teaching, which blends all the so-called spirituality, contemplative prayer, and mysticism of all other religions into a hodge-podge of false beliefs." So you oppose listening to CD sermons the...

Over the years, I have heard some of the most spiritually effective ministers being dismissed by Evangelicals as New Agers (e. g. Rick Warren and Richard Foster). Yet Rick Warren is a self-professed Southern Baptist and Foster is a devout Evangelical Quaker. What makes this slander...

Evangelicals often fail to appreciate the need to cite noncanonical Christians like the Didache and early Church Fathers to reinforce points implied by canonical Scripture. We need to respect the views of believers who live within one or a few generations of the apostles when oral tradition of...

bbyrd: "bol, it seems you go out of your way to be pathetic, and seek others' pity?...As to the general overall slaughtering of Scripture in the original by Catholicism, i doubt we would make any headway in that direction, and i dont want to contend with you on the matter....In my opinion every...

In Acts Paul tells the Ephesians that they will never see him again and that the Spirit has warned him that "imprisonment and persecutions" await him in Jerusalem (20:22-25). When the prophet Agabus warns Paul that imprisonment awaits him in Jerusalem, Paul declares that, if necessary, he is...