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Fellowship is a theologically loaded term. We often use it for potluck dinners or hanging out with Christians. It translates koinonia, which is also translation participation, sharing communion, or 'common union'. Paul asked what fellowship light has with darkness. When we participate in...

Paul told a church not to keep fellowship with one who is called a brother... followed by a long list of sins. The case in question was a man who had his father's wife. Paul calls this fornication. In Leviticus 18, uncovering one's father's nakedness, laying with a man as one does with a...

But why do you say the saints will not be caught up to meet theors in the air at the return of Christ like I Thessalonians 4 teaches? That is what the rapture means.

The seed of the woman promise was eventually fulfilled, partly through Eve giving birth.

You need to work on your grammar.

When I was in college, I was walking through the student center. There was a huge room down there, and I think more than one of the black fraternities had gotten together and invited Chris Rock to do a show. It was free for students, so I went in and started listening to his routine. But...

If your husband were a believer, you could reason with him based on 'Children obey your parents in the Lord' and 'Honor thy father and they mother.' You can also gently tell him that you like how your son is obedient to his father. You would like him to back up your authority as an extension...

I've heard of Apostolic Pentecostals doing that. Are you talking about a Sami or Finnish Lutheran group? Don't they sprinkle babies and confirm teenagers?

Never heard of them.

Some people take verse 28 that way, but keep silent in the church and let him speak to himself and to God could mean pray outside of the church, since Paul says earlier in the passage that he speaks in tongues more than them all, yet in the church he would rather speak five words with the...

Re: Romans 8:26, Does it make sense that speaking in tongues is groanings that cannot be spoken? I conclude that speaking in tongues can be spoken, and are therefore not the same thing as these groanings that cannot be spoken.

The Bible does not teach that it is inherently sinful to own a slave. The only verses that might indicate otherwise aee verses about giving up all one's possessions to follow Christ. I have heard Christians call slavery a sin. It bothers me that they get their definition of sin from...

That verse doesn't say that anyone who wasn't baptized by John would go to Hell. Jesus baptized with the Holy Spirit. Jesus told the apostles to baptize the nations in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Baptism with water continued on after the ascension. Many...

Do not worship Sunday. Do not worship the Sabbath.

When I read the OP, I thought we should start with scripture that says or implies that we should pray for people to get saved. That verse came to mind.