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I did answer your question. What I refused to do was label fellow believers as heretics without first proving from Scripture that they are teaching a damnable error. That is not a refusal to take a stand. It is a refusal to bear false witness. You ask whether my caution means I will be...

Because Scripture identifies heresy as the denial or corruption of foundational truths of the faith, not merely disagreement over prophetic details; therefore, if a person affirms Christ's deity, death, resurrection, future return, future resurrection, and salvation by grace through faith, the...

Here is proof you are not reading anything, I have already provided the list you asked for in the post you are responding to,🫩 "I can give you what Scripture explicitly identifies: denying Christ, preaching another gospel, denying the resurrection, denying Christ's incarnation, and introducing...

Yes, Scripture identifies genuine heresy. Yes, Jesus hates false doctrine (Rev. 2:6). Yes, Paul pronounces a curse on another gospel (Gal. 1:8-9). Yes, Peter warns about destructive heresies (2 Pet. 2:1). But notice something important: every example you cited involves a clearly identifiable...

I would say the clearer passages should help us understand the uncertain one. Otherwise, there is a danger of forcing the text to conform to a conclusion we have already reached.

The miracle at Cana certainly points beyond itself. John calls it a "sign" (John 2:11), not merely a miracle. The better wine appearing later fits a pattern seen throughout Scripture where God reserves a greater fulfillment for a later time. The New Covenant is called better (Heb. 8:6)...

Dragon, my post count, your post count, and anyone else's post count is completely irrelevant to whether a doctrine is true. Job's friends talked a lot too, but God said they had not spoken rightly of Him (Job 42:7).

When I look at the Sabbath command in the Old Testament, I see several purposes attached to it. Exodus 20 grounds it in God's rest after creation. Deuteronomy 5 grounds it in Israel's redemption from Egypt. It was also a covenant sign between God and Israel (Ex. 31:13-17). The question then...

I think you've identified an important weakness in the way Acts 15 is sometimes used. The council was not attempting to provide a complete list of Christian moral obligations. If it were, as you point out, we would have to conclude that lying, stealing, murder, coveting, dishonoring parents...

Another dragon speaker! Take heed of the words of the Lord you claim to follow. "Speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ." (Eph. 4:15) "Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying."...

Sister, Good morning by the way😊, I have nothing against gathering. We are command as such. And we need to anyway as believers to strengthen our walk. My only issue is the idea that we as NT believers are commanded to observe the OT sabbath as instructed to Israel. We are not commanded...

I can see evidence that the church gathered on Sunday. I do not necessarily see evidence that Sunday was imposed as a Sabbath in the same sense that the seventh day was under the Mosaic covenant. In fact, your conclusion seems closer to what the New Testament actually presents. The apostles do...

I would agree that Revelation 21 is extremely difficult to place anywhere except in the future.

Dragon speech.

if someone is truly teaching heresy, expose it from Scripture. If someone is denying Christ, expose it from Scripture. If someone is corrupting the gospel, expose it from Scripture. But simply asserting, "I glorify Christ's doctrine, therefore my opponents are heretics," is not the standard...

Dragon speech.

If Sabbath observance remained a binding New Covenant requirement, I would expect the apostles to plainly instruct the churches concerning it, especially during controversies over circumcision and other aspects of the Mosaic Law. Instead, the Jerusalem Council in Acts 15 does not impose...

yes, I have considered that. If Jerusalem's destruction was as significant as Jesus described in Matthew 24, then it is reasonable to ask whether John refers to it somewhere in Revelation. The question, however, is not whether there is any connection, but whether Revelation is exhausted by...

I don't disagree that hermeneutics, exegesis, historical context, grammar, semantics, and the analogy of faith are important. In fact, I use those very tools every time I study Scripture. The question is not whether doctrines may be derived through careful study rather than from a single proof...