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The existence of the enemy is the greatest evidence there can ever be for free will study in this area is beneficial

The Azuza street thing has 'danger' warning signs flashing all over it. it isn't good i'n spiritual warfare you have to pick a side to be on!

The Isaac episode in context of the day was teaching people that God does not want human sacrifices. That was done and quite common in ancient religion including that region and the belief in the power of this sacrifice needed a powerful story to whack them with. In the end God himself...

one way to do it is to not have a pastor or elder role in the church officially that get's round many of the problems, since there's no verse that commands there to be an elder appointed sure, Titus 1:5 says appoint one in every town but if there's already one in your town in another church that...

step back, and one can see what defines God in the old testament is the relationship between God and his people which reaches the highest point in the song of songs. It's all about the relationship. The same idea of relationship is key with Jesus who i think did clarify how to view God in the...

Love is material, because God is love, it's spiritually material What God created is the potentiality for all that came to be to exist In a devolved sense God created sin through creating beings with free will who could do so, but that's different from the way you phrased your original question...

Ode 15 Death has been destroyed before my face, and Sheol has been vanquished by my word. And eternal life has arisen in the Lord's land, and it has been declared to His faithful ones, and has been given without limit to all that trust in Him Jewish poetry is known to exaggerate and this is...

I get a lot of my ideas from an ancient text the Odes of Solomon. It's neither modern, nor trendy but Jewish from about 100AD haha In it Christ enters hell and saves The idea of a great chasm does rely on a literal understanding of the Lazarus story being correct, I get very wary when something...

It's not this simple! The Lazarus episode is a moral story. Should we be extrapolating doctrine from it? I do not think so because if we do the story has other problems that can't be ignored First - why is the beggar with Abraham? We are not told he repented it suggests God had compassion for...

Yes but back in the real world there is a woman i know who chooses to parade up and down the city centre on her own calling people to Jesus and repentance. She means business and if it sounds like i'm describing a formidable person then i am. All the other Christian preachers know her and...

This issue here is, most of those times are found in Matthew and Revelation It's not true to say that each of those 70 times are evenly spread about You won't find hell described in John or any of Paul's writing and only once in Mark. I believe i'm accurately stating the facts here In fact it's...

People expect God to work according to a pattern we can understand Nowhere in scripture is this apparent. In Matthew the prostitutes and tax collectors are advancing into the kingdom, in the old testament unlikely characters suddenly are promoted against all expectations. This is leaving room...

Hmm maybe there is room for me here after all. Lafftur seems to be allowed to say stuff that others object to I do not need to know exactly how it all works. I'm an anti-gnostic. I simply trust and am willing to place all my trust in God and that is enough for me. just like the way in a family...

Yes you're right it is 'as a child', but babies are children, i think the point is that innocence carries some weight with God and even the world recognises it when any time a child suffers for any reason it is seen as worse. God is very wonderful more than could ever be expressed in words i...

before there were pastors there was pasta and women were involved in making it, only when the pasta get's converted in the pastor did the question arise, can women be pastors?

Why would babies go to hell if Jesus said you have to be like one to enter heaven?

The best revelation is one that helps understand who God is more clearly in the relationship that's not the same thing as looking for additional revelations just to know stuff! That's not the real prize. The Spirit is infinitely trustworthy and wholesome and is also not a power or something that...

scripture is sure meant to be inspirational and to guide, not seen as opinions sure but with interpretation over the meaning and when to see a letter of the law or something that appears to take precedence over something else, ie when not following a particular passage of scripture happens. i...

just a hint in case you're wrong, when you get up there and its not quite as expected don't join the bitter ones you'll get a chance to decide remember he said "Amen, I say to you, tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you" i visit a ruined abbey sometimes and...

I think that the enemy works within socially acceptable teachings so i understand the conviction behind the strong opinions expressed even if it looks like two sides of the same coin and splitting hairs superficially this makes me very sympathetic to traditionalists indeed, despite my...