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From what I have heard from Dr. Michael Brown he is doing a good service to the body of Christ. And he is a real PhD. With quite an impressive background. So far I love the guy and wish we had many more like him. I am sure that he is not perfect but I would definitely consider him one of the...

I would not have written it if I was not living it. It isn't a theory. It is real Christianity. I think that the reason so many Christians struggle for so long is that they are constantly yielding their members (eyes, thoughts, ears) to entertainment that is full of lusts and ungodliness...

You don't want to hope that OSAS is right about folks getting to keep a lustful sin in their bosom and pet it, and still get to go to heaven but just loose some rewards. That would make God an unholy God and heaven an unholy place. Not the kind of place lovers of righteousness want to go...

9Don’t you know that the unrighteousa will not inherit God’s kingdom?b Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters,c adulterers,d or males who have sex with males,a e 10no thieves,a greedyb people, drunkards, verbally abusive people,c or swindlersd will inherit God’s kingdom. 11And...

When it fails. You can't take wealth with you in the afterlife. And so these eternal dwellings, and that which would welcome you into them are your good works of how you spent your worldly wealth to help those in need or to help save people with the Gospel more specifically. Those good...

Correction. Luke 14-16 should be read all in one sitting.

Jesus is saying that if this man has the natural motivation out of an impure heart to do something to make room for his future, why don't those who say they know the scriptures about the coming kingdom and judgment of works do something to secure theirs? Jesus is not saying that what the agent...

I read about that interpretation, the commission or even the interest which was usury was removed but according to the scholars I have read they don't have confidence that it was what Luke intended or that the original readers would have understood him as saying this. Sounds like just a made up...

This is a good interpretation. Jesus is saying we should be living our lives with that urgent concern to be the kind of true disciples of Jesus he has been teaching in the previous chapters. This attitude to include the poor, blind, lame, cripple at the table, to share our wealth with others...

You should write. :):sneaky:

Good one. I don't think anyone else knows either but one of the guesses is that it was Mark, the author of the Gospel. Like how John wrote about himself as "the one whom Jesus loved." Since only Mark writes about it. Probably him. Why is it important? If it was John Mark he also had the...

I don't understand what you mean. But I am going to bow out. I am not trying to argue about it. I commented because I was concerned that the message of Acts 2 was getting overlapped with another message but I have already posted enough to help anyone find more information if they care to...

Jesus told them to wait in the city of Jerusalem until they were clothed with power from on high and they would be witnesses to all nations. When they were asked what does this mean Peter quotes Joel... (not Jeremiah) 17And it will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my...

More significantly, Jesus reinterprets the Passover to signify the inauguration of a new covenant in his blood (Lk. 22:15-20; cf. Je. 31:31-34), Where do you get the idea that Pentecost is a commemoration of the giving of the Law. It was a feast of weeks celebration commemorating Frist Fruits.

Pentecost (Fiftieth) is the Feast of Weeks, seven weeks between it and Passover. Also called the feast of Weeks. Exodus 34:22“Observe the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering at the turn of the agricultural year. Num 28:26“On the day of...

In time, this theme developed more fully into a festival commemorating the giving of the law,[ 37] surely by the third century C.E.[ 38] God gave the Torah in the third month (Exod 19: 1);[ 39] with a bit of exegetical ingenuity, Pharisees seem to have adjusted the time to correspond with the...

The 120 in the upper room waiting to be clothed with power from on high to receive power to be witnesses were already saved. They had been specifically told that they had eternal life. They had been told that their sins were forgiven. They had been told that they would reign with Christ in His...

I like this thread. It is timely. This Sunday is Pentecost Sunday. I hope we can discuss these things in a friendly, kind, polite, edifying manner as loving Christians who seek to learn without getting offended if we don't readily accept another's opinion. That being said I am leaning toward...

I guess I owe one more explanation. I said...."But I should be patient with people on CC. I don't know them and there could be reasons why they don't appear to have normal reading comprehension skills. So I apologize if I am being too harsh. " What I mean by this is that I don't really know...

Try to be honest with me.... This is what I said: I called the IDEA weird not the Christian. If you don't think there is a difference I am not going to spend time explaining it. It would not do any good. And if you do know the difference but have no qualms about saying I said something I...