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Hot Take..... ChatGPT can create a great "starting spot" for studies. You can ask for any parameters you're looking for and it will give you scripture references, concordance references, outlines, time spent on each topic, etc. Note I said "starting spot." When you have what you think is a...

Easter is Pagan. If you want to celebrated Jesus' life, death, resurrection and sacrifice, Passover is the better and Biblical option.

For me as a Christian, the Biblical ones: 7th Day Sabbath (Friday sundown to Saturday Sundown) Passover Feast of Unleavened Bread Feast of First Fruits Shavuot/Pentecost Yom Teruah (Feast of Trumpets) Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) Sukkot (Feast of Trumpets) My family and church also celebrate...

My salvation and righteousness lies in nothing else other than than the life, death, and resurection of Jesus. How then shall I live? As closely as possible to the life my Saviour lived. (While failing continually.) If He lived "as it is written," shouldn't I strive to as well?

We live in a broken world and will all get sick from time to time. Unless there's something above and beyond the normal sickness and "cruddy stuff" that goes around seasonaly, there's nothing to fret about.

Our family's personal application is to bring the 3 different tithes mentioned in the OT. Yes, I know these are not required, but we have seen wisdom and blessing in each of them. 1) We give our weekly and/or monthly 10% based on our increase during that time. 2) We set aside aside money...

All valid points.... ...but the theme song, logo, and rallying cry were some of the best of all 80's cartoons.

No. Nor does it matter if you believe the idea of any rapture is a Biblically sound doctrine or not.

No Easter or resurrection day for me due to the pagan origins as you mentioned. We do Passover as that is more accurate date-wise and Biblical.

Paul was giving an answer and an instruction to the church in Galatia. What we need to figure out is, "What was the question Paul was answering?" We can't properly understand Paul's instruction unless we know the context.

I don't believe in the rapture doctrine. It wasn't a prominent teaching throughout church history, and not until the last couple hundred years. I think it's more of a feel-good message, one that tickles the ears and doesn't prepare God's people to endure. Matthew 24:37-40 "For the coming of...

It's eternal because God said it was eternal. And then Jesus said "until heaven and earth pass away." Whether you think it was near to disappearing doesn't mean that it has disappeared. And to your 2nd point, Jesus' sacrfice and our faith in His gracious salvation is the sign of our covenant...

I'm not too interested in hypotheticals. However, esus also said "until everything has been fulfilled." I don't believe either of those criteria have occured yet.

Unlike many people on this forum, I believe that as Christians we're grafted into spiritual Israel (not Judaism.) And since the Torah and the covenants were given to Israel before it became known as a "Jewish" nation and the people were known as "Jews" as we refer to them today, the Torah and...

I've counseled other couples as such... Unity in corporate worship is vital. Wherever the spiritually "weaker" of the couple feels comfortable and ministered to is the place the spiritually "stronger" of the couple should go to. The "stronger", or more mature one can discern right from wrong...

I posted this in the Family forum, but... I've been more convinced that those who choose not to vote renounce any right to compain, criticize, protest or lament the unrighteous decisions and rulings our government makes. For example, if you choose not to vote, you have no standing to criticize...

I've been more convinced that those who choose not to vote renounce any right to compain, criticize, protest or lament the unrighteous decisions and rulings our government makes. For example, if you choose not to vote, you have no standing to criticize the government for it's decisions regarding...

My church has a specific time during the service where people can go off to the sides to put there money in a box or basket. People can give cash, checks or fill out an envelope if they want their offering to come straight from the bank. They can also give electronically. Since the beginning of...

As an example, my 16-year old daughter recently donated $X to a good cause thinking that it would reduce her taxes by $X. She mistankingly thought she would get an $X refund on her taxes because she gave. We used it as an opportunity to teach her that she wasn't getting any profit from the...