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I was a professional musician before God saved me. I played in bars & pubs, & concerts. After I got saved, I dedicated my music to God. I became a mysic teacher, taught band, choir and elementary music, including Orff & Kodaly, recorders, ukelele, recorder as well as singing on pitch and in...

We sang this in church on Sunday. Amazing words!

Someone mentioned this earlier. The Bible speaks of 3 stages of being a Christian. (Catholics get this order mixed up, which contributes to their heresy!) 1. Justification - Roman's 5:1 "Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus...

Wrong! The break between the Roman & Greek churches was because of the filioque clause! "Prominent among these were the procession of the Holy Spirit (Filioque)," "Filioque, Latin for "and (from) the Son", was added in Western Christianity to the Latin text of the Nicene-Constantinopolitan...

Catholic means "universal!" "e word catholic (derived via Late Latincatholicus, from the Greek adjective καθολικόςkatholikos 'universal')[3][4] comes from the Greek phrase καθόλου katholou 'on the whole, according to the whole, in general', and is a combination of the Greek words κατά 'about'...

I forgot to mention that the Orthodox Church dates back to Paul's church plants and even earlier. Antioch had a bishop, along with Rome, Alexandria, Constantinople, Jerusalem! So Rome was only one church with a bishop. They never used the word, pope (papas) till the 4th century, AD. And Rome...

My grandparents were Ukrainian Greek Orthodox. I went to weddings and funerals at the church, which had a big dome, and amazing "decorations" compared to the Baptist churches I went to for Sunday School. (I am still a Baptist!) I agree with what you have posted about differences. But you I...

So did you get this from Hal Lindsay's book. "The Late, Great Planet Earth" or "The Left Behind" series? It would have been more interesting had you posted the verses that claim each these things. Revelation is Apocalyptic Literature, by the way! It is fulfilled symbolically!

Please post the verse that says, we "go up!" It certainly is NOT found in Koine Greek in 1 Thess. 4:17

This is where not knowing Koine Greek messes up your theology. In fact: "ἔπειτα ἡμεῖς οἱ ζῶντες οἱ περιλειπόμενοι ἅμα σὺν αὐτοῖς ἁρπαγησόμεθα ἐν νεφέλαις εἰς ἀπάντησιν τοῦ κυρίου εἰς ἀέρα· καὶ οὕτως πάντοτε σὺν κυρίῳ ἐσόμεθα." 1 Thess 4:17 The key issues, are: 1. that heaven is not mentioned...

I'm reading a book called "Bloodlands: Europe from Stalin to Hitler" by Timothy Snyder. He firmly believes, Stalin taught Hitler everything he knew! My great grandfather died in the massacres in 1937-38. Stalin did it again, and also in 1949, I read somewhere. Thanks for the great info!

We have no idea what Putin has done. We have heard about him poisoning his opposition, killing his generals, And friends alike. Mass murder? Time will tell! What amazes me is how many westerners don't know what Stalin did during the Holomodor. In fact, a great number of people I have talked to...

My DIL is American & we were talking about Biden's dementia. She said he was talking about his son, the one who died in Afghanistan in the news! But his son died of cancer, in the US. That is utter mental incompetence! No I don't consider Biden to be the worst leader in the world. My top...

This is the kind of OP and attitude that degrades Christianity, and makes people turn away from God. I'm NOT saying that we should follow the culture, at all! In fact, we MUST follow the Bible. But the OP quotes a stodgy old Presbyterian from Scotland, instead of the Bible. And then when the...

Please change your title of this thread slightly. "Is Joe Biden the most corrupt and demented President ever?" Humble or dementia? Joe Biden has always been a very self serving individual. Now, he is unable to speak off cue cards, reveals his memory loss and forgetfulness every day! It's hard...

As someone whose grandparents' homeland was Ukraine, I see Putin and his Russian invasion as genocide. Putin admires "Stalin." Stalin murdered 8-10 million Ukrainians, Jews, gypsies, etc in the Holomodor in 1932-33. He stole every bit of food the peasants had, and starved them to death. People...

I figured this out when I got a very bad case of COVID in January, after 3 vaxes. I was very pro-vax in the beginning. But when I caught it, and I had to go to the hospital, I was upset that not only did I get COVID, but also pneumonia and a severe case. Without the monoclonal antibodies they...

I don't know about others, but I was dead in my sins before God saved me! I was wicked, a drunk, and a very self centered person. I was basically abandoned by my parents, when I was 3, and my younger brother was born with a birth defect. I always accepted that they thought he might die of water...

You are dead wrong, because you don't know Greek. 1 Thess 4:17 is the Second Coming, and here's why! (Even the KJV does not use the word "rapture!) Don't argue it is like the word "Trinity" which is a real doctrine, because references to the Trinity are found all over the NT. Which brings us...

In the first place, I think the TR is a faulty, late phenomena. The added words make it highly inaccurate. The TR basically arose the 8-10th AD. It was totally unrelated to any of the other 4 families. So 1000 years or so, after the time of Christ, a new family started out of nothing! It was...