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Aye this is true and what I mean when I say there is a point to not worrying too much about it since maybe they just simply deserve it. Perhaps it is meant to happen so that the wheat, being the true faithful, might be separated from the tares, being the false brethren and false faithful...

After watching the video more my thoughts are. For one I enjoyed his testimony coming from darkness into light. The second thought as it pertains to the topic at hand, I don't think its neccessarily the occult or anything, I think its more the case of the things of the world wearing them away...

I haven't finished watching it, but my sense so far is that he's not totally wrong, but I also don't think it's a matter of a grand conspiracy of secret societies. My sense is that it is moreso cliques and partiality, respect of persons, and so on and so forth. I find this issue to come up...

Well that's somewhat close, but then that would be option 2 which is to say we have an inherent propensity to sin, but this is also not the case because God did not make us to be sinful nor does God tempt. What it is is that we don't have such a nature nor an inheritted sin, but the world was...

Well the answer is simply people are not born sinful, they do not inherit their parents sin and we do not inherit Adam's sin. They become sinful when they learn sin and they receive conflicting information from the world. Since sin enterred the world then it is as we age we begin picking up...

Well that be true if sin was inheritted, but if sin is not inheritted then it is not the case, but rather they would be born good and sinless and so likely have a chance at obtaining eternal life in the resurrection.

Sure David believed in the resurrection. So what it is is that David's point here is that he mourned and fasted while the child was yet alive because he thought God might have mercy upon him, but after the child had died he had stopped mourning because now he cannot bring the child back up to...

David's response is moreso that he can go down to the grave but that his kid can't come back up to him, which is why he had ceased mourning after the child had died. Though on this principle an interesting case can be found in the death of Jeroboam's child. We know that Jeroboam was incredibly...

The main issues with Total Depravity/Original Sin type doctrines is that they are premised on the idea that we inheritted Adam's sin or sinful nature. People often misinterpret Paul then to support this when Paul draws comparison between Adam and Jesus, but Paul is really just noting that death...

The Man of Sorrows prophecy is indeed one of the very most clear cut prophecies about Jesus. Isaiah gets cited actually quite a bit in the NT, off the top of my head I think Isaiah might be the most cited prophet in the Gospels.

Move over Fauxcahontas, Joe Biden is the first black woman to be VP to a black President.

My opinion is that while the candidates' character matters somewhat ultimately it comes down to what can they do for the people? We've never really had a clearer choice, at least in my lifetime, where we know for all certainty what we're going to get with both candidates. We know that under...

Again not the place for promoting or deriding Catholicism. For that matter not the place for promoting or deriding the SDA either. You can scour the land for your sole proselyte and make him twice the child of hell than yourselves elsewhere.

Again the topic is not really meant to promote Catholicism nor to deride it, but is about Mary and the seven sorrows. There are other topics about Catholicism if that is what interests you and those would be more appropriate places to talk about Catholicism in, either for or against it. Since...

The first option is the correct option. We are born sinless. It seems the ancient Israelites also began to adopt this strange doctrine and so God sent Ezekiel to correct them. The whole chapter of Ezekiel 18 lays out all scenarios for the nature of man and how he is only guilty of his own...

We finally reach the 7th sword of sorrow which is the burial of Jesus by Joseph of Arimathea. Here we can see how sorrowful this is for Mary in that the finality and reality of death brings. One can only imagine Mary's sorrow in that she is a parent that is burying her child. The sorrow is...

Well my apologies to the serious Christians who engaged in this topic in good faith for digressing with the milk drinkers and the wolves in sheep's clothing. We will now continue and examine the 6th sword of sorrow and then finish with the 7th tonight before bed. The 6th sword of sorrow is...

Again, Mary as Queen of Hearts and the Seven Swords of Sorrow is an artistic theme. The theme of the artwork and the story comes from the Bible. These themes are taken from the Bible. While the Catholics as a mainstream Christian denomination observe it, they did not create it, just like they...

The goal is already stated in the OP. What is your goal in trying to derail the topic? Sola scriptura means that it comes from the Bible that the Bible is the authority. The tale of Mary and the seven sorrows is in the Bible and this is the only place it is derived from. You are just simply...

So again, a heresy is any doctrine that is contrary to the orthodoxy. The orthodoxy in Christianity is the Bible. In order for something to be a heresy in the context of Christianity it has to be clearly against the teachings of the Bible. For example, evolution is probably the most common...