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- Q: Well so what if the outside world is laughing at Good Friday just so long as Catholics believe in it? A: Irrational portrayals of crucifixion week contribute not just to the mockery of Catholics, but of all Christians the world over; and worse: the losing of people's souls in hell; here's...

- Seeing as how Lev 23:32 reveals the existence of sabbaths other than the usual seventh-day repose, then I'm convinced in my own mind that there were two sabbaths during crucifixion week. There was the first day of the feast of unleavened bread which commenced at sundown the day that Christ...

- ● Lev 23:32 . . it is a sabbath of complete rest for you. You shall humble yourselves. Beginning on the evening of the ninth of the month, you shall keep your sabbath from evening to evening. That verse is useful for proving that the seventh day of the Jews' week doesn't have a lock on...

- According to Matt 26:17-20, Mark 14:12-17, Luke 22:7-13, and Luke 22:14 16, Jesus ate his Passover dinner the night of his arrest. According to John 13:1-2, John 18:28, John 19:13-14, and John 19:31, the Jews ate their own Passover dinner after Jesus was dead and buried. Failure to discern...

- ● Jonah 1:17 . .The Lord appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish three days and three nights. ● Matt 12:40 . . As Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of...

- ● John 8:10-11 . . Jesus said to her: Woman, where are they? Does no one condemn you? And she said: No one, sir. And Jesus said: Neither do I condemn you Uninformed people often point to that incident to illustrate Jesus' kind hearted nature. But the reality is; Jesus was a stickler for due...

- There's quite a variety of punishments stipulated in the covenant that Yhvh's people agreed upon with God as per Exodus. Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy; but incarceration isn't one of them. Were America to eliminate its penal systems, the savings to tax payers would amount to something...

- Seeing as how God already knew about every person who would ever live even before creating Adam, then He already knew ahead of time the exact number of names that would be heading for Hell. That tells me that there is no danger of overcrowding in Hell seeing as how Hell's population numbers...

- One of the New Testament Greek words for redemption is apolutrosis (ap-ol oo'-tro-sis); which means: to ransom in full. Another is lutrosis (loo'-tro-sis); which means: a ransoming. ● 1Tim 2:5-6 . . Christ Jesus, who gave himself as ransom for all. A ransom can be defined as a consideration...

- Q: Don't Catholics obtain justification when they go to confession? A: The Roman church's reconciliatory process is somewhat limited in its scope. It's primarily designed for absolution; i.e. while it forgives a sinner's debt to God's law, it does nothing to delete the sinner's history. In...

- The Publican's Experience ● Luke 18:14 . . I tell you, this man went down to his house forgiven rather than the other No; Jesus didn't say "forgiven" he said justified. The koiné Greek word is dikaioo (dik-ah-yo'-o) which essentially means to regard as innocent. In order for God to grant...

- Melchizedek was a high priest of the Most High God contemporary with Abraham. (Gen 4:18-20, Heb 5:10) Mel, along with Abraham, existed prior to the covenanted law that Yhvh's people agreed upon with God as per Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. ● Deut 5:2-4 . .Yhvh our God made a...

- Writing to his friends in Colossi; Paul said: "For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God." (Col 3:3) The Greek word for "hidden" is krupto (kroop'-to) which means to conceal (properly, by covering) "you have died" catches my attention more so than krupto because it...

- ● Matt 19:16-17 . . Now someone approached him and said: Teacher, what good must I do to gain eternal life? He answered him: If you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments. That was a valid answer; and were someone to actually keep the commandments, they'd be rewarded as Jesus said...

- Q: How did the apostles Paul and Peter obtain this elpis hope about which you speak? Upon what did they base their confidence? A: Their confidence was based upon trust; and actually, so is mine. Let me explain. I have no truck with the Watchtower Society, but there is one area of their...

- I was loyal to Rome and its doctrines until I was 24. But though I cast a vote of confidence in Rome's doctrines, I was mostly lapsed and didn't practice them. My eldest brother went on to become a priest, and today he's a semi-retired Friar who is no longer confident that a hell exists. I...

- I grew up a Catholic boy and attended catechism to the level of Confirmation. I must not have been paying attention to the nuns who taught the classes because for quite a few years I was under the impression that Christ was a tragic victim of circumstances beyond his control and that his...

- Regarding the lake of brimstone depicted at Rev 20:10-15; yes. Regarding the lake of brimstone depicted at Rev 20:10-15; correct. /

- ● Luke 2:8-12 . .And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. . . . But the angel said to them; "Don't be afraid. I bring you...

- God is not in the habit of sweeping sins under the rug. ● Ex 34:6-7 . . Yhvh, Yhvh God: compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in loving kindness and truth; who keeps loving kindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no means leave...