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Well, Ezra, as you may know, there are numerous comments, theories and opinions about the so-called Restrainer. When we read these two verses in the Greek we find the same word katechō translated as both withholds and lets in the KJV while in the Berean Study Bible both words are translated...

The fulfillment of the Passover in Christ is what impresses me most: 1Co 5:7-8 (7) Purge out therefore the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: (8) Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with...

Hi fellow. Please in the name of Christ accept some gentle correction to your errant post and its assertion, I urge you here on this forum. Just as Judas was called the son of perdition, John 17:12, along with that Wicked, the man of sin also, 2 Thessalonians 2:3, and just as neither of their...

No mosques were bombed. One person with an automatic firearm killed 51 people.

Currently in a temporal zone with a mortal body awaiting a glorified body... Rom 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwells in you. :D

Hi Episkopos. So eternity! ‛ôlâm ‛ôlâm in Hebrew as used in Ecclesiastes where it has a sense of the vanishing point beyond human comprehension. NKJV Ecc 3:9-15 (9) What profit has the worker from that in which he labors? (10) I have seen the God-given task with which the sons of men...

I have enjoyed this post of yours, Taken. Your last phrase puts me in mind of this verse. Gal 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. The yoke of Jesus is easy, but the yoke of bondage is not. It is hard...

The way I look at it, Taken, is that the Holy Spirit will never influence anyone to sin, and so if a Christian, be they a Jew of the good olive tree root or a Gentile grafted into the good olive tree root, does sin in some way it is certainly not their regenerate self that is responsible for the...

Hi Taken. Thankyou for your question. It's a doozy as we say here, meaning impressive. Q. What sins could a person claiming to be converted, sanctified, saved, born again, Spirit-filled and free from sin commit? A. Any sin the world, the flesh, and the Devil causes them to commit. There is...

Hi marks. I read Renniks' questions to be of the rhetorical variety, with him making the point that if sinless perfection is obtained when people accept Christ as their Saviour Paul and the other NT writers where unaware of it since they sought to address faults, failings, and falsehoods among...

Hi Renniks, You have spoken well and posed questions that are of great relevance, especially with regard to novice believers who have not experienced the trials, tribulations, difficulties, hardships, adversities, and temptations etc., that test us as followers of Christ pressing on toward the...

In that case, Holy999, you cannot call yourself a Bible-believing Christian. I don't mean this as an insult or rebuke, just as a fact. It is an oxymoron for a Christian to not know the Spirit of God. 1Co 2:14 But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are...

Yes, excellent exhortation, Episkopos. Striving in the flesh to force adherence to a particular set of protocols is a recipe for disaster. Receptivity to God's Will is a blessing He wants all of us to have, and every Christian is capable of exercising godly intuition and wisdom when they set...

I like your example of Moses and the spirit on him being shared, DNB, and I expect you are familiar with the incident that follows the appointment of the seventy elders, whereby it is reported that two of them chosen (written), Eldad and Medad were not present in the tabernacle but out in the...

Yes, thanks for your comments, marks. All good. As you rightly state a biblical prophet speaks as moved by the Holy Spirit, which means what is said ALWAYS agrees with God's Word...my summation. Hallelujah. A hot button. The biblical definition of an overseer as translated from the Greek word...

It is difficult for some who come to our gatherings to grasp the concept and practice of "simple fellowship" but those who do lose all desire to return to passive pewsitting and institutional programs. The idea of like-minded Christians collectively regulating themselves to glorify God and...

Hi again DNB. I agree with your points that address the topic, but not those that address me personally. Rather than emote with the words grievance or aversion, it would be better to recognise that I am contending earnestly for the faith as per this verse from Jude. Jude 1:3 Beloved, when I...

No doubt Diotrephes ran a tight, well organised assembly. Today many cults boast of their great worldwide organisation and promote their structural efficiency as hallmarks their being the true body of Christ, but they are as deceived as they are deceiving. 3 John 1:9-12 Diotrephes and...

Your typo was emphasised to good effect, but you have created a straw man with the rest of your erroneous assumptions, DNB. I don't advocate the abolition of structure and leadership among God's people. I am functional in leadership myself, but too much emphasis on the office over the function...