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We don't know what Timothy had or how a glass of wine would help. Maybe because the water was bad like what happens in Mexico tourists places. Better to drink a little wine in that situation than to go through the stomach and intestine issues that such water will cause. Now today we have...

Do a Google search on Acetaldehyde. Even one glass of wine will result in this toxic byproduct upon the metabolism of the alcohol. It is a very nasty toxin that damages cells in all sorts of organs not just the liver. It is instrumental in causing the pancreas to start digesting itself when...

distilling liquor was not yet invented.

The reason they called Jesus a winebibber and a glutton is because he ate with those who were known to be such. In that culture and religious teachings it was considered condoning the sins of the people you had food fellowship with. They just assumed that if Jesus was eating with sinners who...

One thing we know for certain. It was common to dilute wine with two to three parts water. It is documented in many sources from the time. All historians agree that it was the culture. I don't find many interested in diluting their wine today which suggest that their motives are not good. So...

All believers are entitled to and should ardently expect and earnestly seek the promise of the Father, the baptism in the Holy Spirit and fire, according to the command of our Lord Jesus Christ. This was the normal experience of all in the early Christian church. With it come the enduement of...

This definition is rather odd. Jesus told his disciples that they were forgiven, that they had eternal life, that their names were written down in heaven, and He even breathed upon them to receive the Holy Spirit all before the day of Pentecost which He said was specifically for power to be a...

I grew up in a large city. I have never seen so many sound bible teaching, Spirit Filled churches in my life. It is like they can't plant them fast enough. It used to be taboo to plant one too close to an existing one, but those days are over. The harvest is ripe. There are people who will...

Faith is always God's way.

Be it according to your Faith. These signs shall follow them that believe.

I was making a point that they had a lot of issues that needed perfecting and yet there were gifts of the Spirit operating. You had a list of examples of bad things in a church in your post. Corinth was as bad as it gets. They had people justifying fornication with prostitutes among other...

He might have been one breath from death, Paul prayed for him and he recovered, but was still too weak to travel. There are so many possible scenarios none of which we can know. Maybe it was seasonal allergies and Paul didn't even think it was something to pray about, just get over it. We...

Are you familiar with the example charismatic church used in the scriptures? The church at Corinth? Yeah.. that's right. :)

Luke wrote more words in the NT actually. :) Paul could not heal anyone. It was always faith in the name of Jesus. Maybe Trophimus doubted? I don't know. One has no more right to say that Paul tried and couldn't than to say that Trophimus doubted. We don't know if there even was a prayer.

Why was only one man healed at the pool of Bethsaida by Jesus when there were many sick? Praying for the sick in faith is something we do whether we always see instant results or not. We don't ask why, we just believe and keep doing it.

There is no reason to think that Paul was not able to pray for the sick until the day he died. Praying for the sick was never applied to everyone. Only one man was healed at the pool of Bethsaida by Jesus when there were so many there the man could not get in the water fast enough before...

Trophimus could pray for himself in Jesus Name. Maybe he did. Maybe he was healed.

All that from... I left Trophimus sick at Miletus? All we can know is that he left Trophimus sick at Miletus. That's it. It would be wrong to say anything about Paul's prayers for Trophimus since nothing like that is mentioned.

I am always surprised to hear educated people say that these signs disappeared in church history. According to which historian? There are some great church history books that document continuous threads of accounts of various groups of believers who reported speaking in tongues and other...

It is even more dangerous and subtle than that. The insidious deception of sin can keep a backslider on the road to hell while they comfort themselves with the idea that they have not yet gone too far as to lose their salvation and they will be repenting and returning soon. Very soon now...