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EPHRAEM'S SERMON, WITH DISPUTED DATE IN THE RANGE IV-VIII AD, & some claim it is a pseudo-Ephraem But it is not really important who gave the sermon, but the earliness of the document tosses out the dogmatic dismissal of pre-trib rapture as invented by some Jesuit or crazy Scottish girl late...

As I recall there are 9 Raptures in the Bible. Can you name them? By rapture I mean a catching up as in 1 Thes 4:17 (harpagēsometha = rapiemur = we shall be raptured (caught up). You might say that Jacob was in rapture when he first saw Rachel, a figurative rapture, which is the common way of...

You can apply that question to your own country. Me, I am a citizen of the USA. How should we pray for our country? Now suppose that everyone repented of the current moral decline, slouching towards Sodom, & our baby-murder holocaust. So then the majority became church members going to church...

Of the Father's Love Begotten: I came across this quaint, very old, Christmas Carol today. It is on YouTube. As it is a translation / adaptation of an old Latin hymn, there is quite a variation in the lines for singing in English. I think this is a hymn for theologians in particular. As to...

What about Keren-happuch? Not to mention (Aunt) Jemima? Do you like her syrup? Last chapter of Job.

The Father Who spared not His own, can freely give us all things (Rom 8). The Lord Jesus is the Savior, Who can give eternal life. (I give them eternal life, & they shall never perish). The Holy Spirit can fill and lead you with love, joy, & peace -- etc. ( just scratch the surface.) Let's...

Would we be in the ungodly mess we are in now in the USA had we Christians prayed faithfully for our leaders? A great deal of mischief has been wrought in our land by ungodly decisions of the SCOTUS, striking down good laws, substituting their own legislation-from-the-bench for voter &...

The whole idea of canon involves a fallacy which is obvious upon consideration of John 10 "My sheep hear my voice," and the prophetic dynamic in the Bible. Also "sacred tradition" is a bogus concept. That is an example of a rather famous RCC apologetic: The claim seems to be that the Bible...

A typical RCC apologetic appears to be the argument that the only reason to accept the Bible as God's Word is that the RCC says the Bible is God's Word; for the RCC determined the canon. Thus there is this fallacy of circular reasoning if the papist then tries to prove that the RCC is true...

This is a question for those who claim that water immersion saves. Suppose a woman gets immersed, but wears a shower cap so that her hair doesn't get wet. What then?

Eternal Security is a doctrine which goes with Salvation/Justification by Faith alone, for if one required works for salvation, how could anyone ever be secure, knowing that he may yet do bad works & be damned? Thus as a preliminary, let us post the Acts Verses on Salvation by Faith alone. It...

John 3 even so must the Son of man be lifted up; that whosoever believes may in him have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whosoever believes on him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God sent not the Son into the world to judge the...

Beholding God's Glory is transforming; thus recommendable. Romans 12:1-2 tells us to be transformed. 2 Cor 3:18 indicates that it is beholding God's glory as in a mirror which transforms. James uses mirror for the Word of God, thus I take it that such is its meaning in 2 Cor 3:18. I take it that...

There seem to be a couple of guys here who have a hobby of claiming that Christians don't ever go to Heaven, so much of a hobby that they may insert the topic into unrelated threads. This denial of Heaven goes along with the soul-sleep theory (which has no basis in scripture). Of course this...

Let us consider passages that Deny or Limit the Alleged Free Will of Man. We might consider whether the question is yes vs no -- could it be that man has some menu of choices (say scale of 0-10? 0= complete robot; 10 = able to fly, live forever do whatever the heck man wants to do; undo the...

Given the following assumptions, I ask & put forth for consideration: What does it mean to chew on the Lord Jesus? Given 1: It does not mean to chew on the literal body of Christ or to drink the literal blood of the Lord Jesus. Given 2: It has nothing to do with the Lord's Supper (communion...

IMHO: We are seeing how that sodomists will not stop with their gains. Getting the sodomy laws struck down was only the first step. They are not content with toleration of their abominations. They would force the Boy Scouts & Churches to give them favored treatment. They demand that their...

How often do we read the straw man arguments when we affirm scripture that "all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags," and thus we must be saved by grace through faith (a fact reiterated time after time in scripture). Then the straw man arguments come, well what if this sin is done or that...

It is noted how persons go on talking about water-baptism. Why avoid translating the word? Are we not confusing the issue by saying baptism, which means quite different things to different persons? If it means immersion, why don't you say immersion? So what happens to all the Presbyterians...

So what happens to all the Presbyterians, Lutherans, Methodists, and Episcopalians [& other denominationals] who happen to trust Christ as Savior, but were sprinkled as babies and die without being actually being water-baptized (as defined by dipping, dunking, immersing)? Are they roasted in...