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Theophilus of Antioch (189 AD) is the earliest Christian to invoke the concept of "the Trinity:" and his version is not the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, but rather "God, God"s Word (Christ), and God's Wisdom (not "the Holy Spirit1')." Matthew's tripartite baptismal f ormula does not use the...

This poster is so defensive about his lack of spiritual gifts that he feels compelled to ridicule those who possess and manifest what he lacks.

(1) INTRODUCTION: I was born and raised in the first Pentecostal church in Canada. I was born with congenital glaucoma in my right eye. My distraught parents were impressed by a famous faith healer named William Branham, who held healing crusades around North America. What set him apart was his...

the word "trinity" does not occur in the Bible. The earaliest reference to "trinity" is found in Theophilus of Antioch (c. 179 AD) and His undersstanding of the trinity is "God, God's Word, and God's Wisdom!" Note the abssence of "the Holy Spirit."

Classic Pentecostal pneumatology identifies tongues as the unique initial evidence of Spirit baptism. They rightly base this inference from this fact: in 4 of the 5 instances of an initial reception of the Spirit, possession the Spirit is evidenced by speaking in tongues. This pattern is...

Billy Graham: "Theological understanding is the booby prize because it gives one just enough spirituality to inoculate one against the real thing."

I love the word choice of an uneducated preacher I once heard: "I like my religion the way I like my tea--hot 'cause :I'd rather be a fool on fire than a scholar on ice-- 'cause it's easier to cool a hot coal than to warm up a corpse. Honestly, when I drive by dem liberal churches, I take my hat...

Billy Graham: "Theological understanding is the booby prize because it offers just enough spirituality to inoculate you against the real thing transforming spiritual experience)."

Please share NDEs or ADCs that you, a friend, or a family member has experienced.

You just admitted that you never looked up Hosea 11:9 in the Hebrew Bible. Biblia Hebraica is the Latin title of an all Hebrew Old Testament. Except for the title, no other language is present. Obviously, you didn't look up or didn't understand the Hebrew-English interlinear I posted for you.

The standard Hebrew Bible is "Biblia Hebraica," edited by Rudolph Kittel. Jews call it Tanakh. I knew you didn't own a standard Hebrew Bible. btw, Young's Concordance also reads "ish" just like Biblia Hebraica for Hosea 11:9. Readers can expose Mr.E's ignorance on this matter by consulting...

You're relying on wrong sources. I actually read Hebrew and have a Hebrew Old Testament that reads "ish" in Hosea 11;9. You don't know what your're talking about.

So whar's your point? Neither "enosh" or "adam" is used in God's denial in Hosea 11:9. The noun for "male, "Ish," is.

Duh, irrelevant because 'enosh" (another word for "man" or "mortal" is not the word used in Hos. 11:9; "ish" ('a male') is. )

Nope, don't pontificate when you don't know Hebrew. The word is "ish" which means "a male," not "human." If Hosea wanted to say "human," he would be expecrted to use "adam."

"Logos, " used philosophically, just means "the rational self-expression of God as opposed to God in God's unknowability. So it doesn't mean Jesus was a preexistent "male" guy. Remember, God denies literally being "a male" (Hosea 11:9). So "psychology" is the rational study of the -psyche, etc.

"I am God and not a male (Hebrew ish" means "a male"), the Holy One in your midst (Hosea 11:9)."

(15) What about cross-cultural cases? In their book ''At the Hour of Death" Drs. Osis and Haraldsson compare 500 American NDEs with 500 NDEs from India. The 2 biggest takeways were (1) that the basic NDE elements were shared in both cultures and (2) that these elements clashed with the...

When life's circumstances suddenly and involuntarily make you temporarily lose confidence in God's promises:

(14) Dr. Bruce Greyson, a psychiatry professor at the University of Virginia, documents verification evidence from many cases of NDEs in which the experiencer encounters acquaintances not known to be deceased. Here is his summation of the evidence: "There are three varieties of “Peak in...