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It's interesting that you quote Hebrews 10:25. The verses surrounding it say, Heb 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Heb 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our...

According to Jesus' teachings in the Gospel of John, God is the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit--three Persons in ONE eternal, all-knowing, all-powerful, present-everywhere God--who accepts us only because of Jesus' life, death, and resurrection. That's God's teaching for us; you can take it...

It's similar to praying fervently for the salvation of our loved ones, while at the same time praying for Jesus' Second Coming to take place soon. Both are biblical prayers, and we need to pray them while letting God decide the answers. In my experiences and in the Bible, God gives four...

The Bible's basic teachings and history are easy to understand, if God has given us the Holy Spirit and rescued us through his gift of faith in Jesus as the only way to the Father's acceptance. However, a lot of the deeper truths are very mysterious, for example, the fact that God is three...

Notice the following passage, in which Jesus tells his followers that Satan fell from heaven already: Luk 10:17 The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!” Luk 10:18 And he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven...

Well, he's wrong, unless he doesn't want to get his beliefs from the Bible (John 14:6), which says that Jesus is the only way to the Father.

In talking to everyone, I always say, "I believe that...." or "It's been my experience that...." They can't disagree, because it's what you believe or have experienced. Therefore, it keeps the conversation loving, when I don't try to say that they have to believe or experience what I have. In...

Jesus says that we must always be ready for his coming, because no one knows the time (Matthew 24).

Why do you put such an emphasis on what the saints said? Do you claim that they always were perfect in what they said? The Bible is the only book that has that distinction, I believe, not the saints' writings.

To call an interpretation of the Bible "totally false" needs to have biblical support. Do you have any? By the way, the idea of the soul flitting away from our corrupt bodies, never to return to them is Greek in origin, not biblical. Our bodies will be resurrected and perfected.

Why, then, does Jesus give John the vision of the new Jerusalem coming down out of heaven to the new earth (Revelation 21 and 22)?

Those Psalms are called imprecatory Psalms, in which David seems to be standing before the Judge of the universe pleading his case before his and our Judge, God. However, you must understand that David never took personal revenge against his enemies, though Abigail, who later became his wife...

I know as much as the Bible says about Ananias, and that's enough for me.

If you've ever been in a courtroom for a trial, the judge pronounces the defendant either "guilty" or "not-guilty." To pronounce them "not-guilty" is to give the defendant justification. We're all guilty before our heavenly Judge (Romans 1:1--3:20) until Jesus' death takes our guilty verdict on...

Of course, saved people sin. We are forgiven, that is, with God's acceptance, but we always need to pray for God's power through Jesus' resurrection to make spiritual progress in overcoming sin and becoming more like him. Read Colossians 3, where Paul makes that very point.

I suggest that you look up with a good concordance or Bible dictionary the word "love" in all the passages where it is found in the Bible. Read those verses in the contexts in which you find them. That's called a word study. The word "love" in the New Testament translates the Greek word...

One very good method of interpreting the Bible is to assume what it assumes. For example, the Bible uses male pronouns for God, so I do too. The Bible assumes that God created the universe and humans, so I do too. And the Bible assumes that the devil is a real, evil, fallen angel, so I do too...

Why do you depend on a secular encyclopedia for the meanings of words, when God himself defines his words that he has inspired with their uses in different passages?

First, we speak English, not Hebrew. Second, why do you get so worked-up about such an minor idea? Third, words' meanings are what the writer or speaker mean them to say in the specific context in which they are used. Why use Hebrew words instead of English words?

According to Paul in Ephesians 2:1-3, we are all born either actively or passively in rebellion against God, that is, dead to him, and worthy of eternal punishment. Only through faith and trust in Jesus Christ can we come alive (Ephesians 2:4-9) by grace through faith in order to do good works...