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Before they can begin to teach others, potential teachers themselves need to first undergo adequate instruction.
● Heb 5:12-14 . . In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you...
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Before they can begin to teach others, potential teachers themselves need to first undergo adequate instruction.
● Heb 5:12-14 . . In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you...
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● Eph 4:11 . . It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers
I gather from Eph 4:11 that seminaries may produce...
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Q: Jesus Christ is reputed to be the first-fruits from the dead (1Cor 15:20). How is that true when so many other people were resurrected before him?
A: Christ is the first to return from...
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● Jonah 1:17 . .The Lord appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish three days and three nights.
● Matt 12:40 . . As Jonah was three days and three...
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Q: Don't Catholics obtain justification when they go to confession?
A: The Roman church's reconciliatory process is somewhat limited in its scope. It's primarily designed for absolution; i.e....
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Melchizedek was a high priest of the Most High God contemporary with Abraham. (Gen 4:18-20, Heb 5:10)
Mel, along with Abraham, existed prior to the covenanted law that Yhvh's people agreed...
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Were I a seminary professor, I would make Teresa a mandatory subject for aspiring missionaries; but not as a role model; rather, as an example of going about a right thing in a wrong way:...
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One has to ask, in point of fact there has been more than one rabbi ask: How is it that so many of Yhvh's people were caught up in the Holocaust? Where was God during all that? Why didn't He step...
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Q: Can we really expect people to respect the law-- any law, human or divine --without law enforcement?
A: God fully enforced His law on the cross.
● Isa 53:6 . . All of us like sheep...
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● 2Cor 5:19 . . God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them
The Greek word in that passage for "imputing" is, again, logizomai...
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● Rom 4:8 . . Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
The Greek word for "impute" is logizomai (log-id'-zom-ahee) which means to keep an inventory, In other words: an...
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● John 6:53 . . Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.
When I was growing up a young Catholic boy back in the...
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There's a case history of a man in hell located at Luke 16:19-31. Aside from the obvious discomforts that are indigenous to that environment; the #1 thing on the man's mind were his surviving...
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The Greatest (a.k.a. Cassius Clay) followed a spiritual philosophy called Universal Sufism.
If the Bible has it right, then the three-time heavyweight boxing champion is now coping with...
● Rom 14:21 . . It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
FYI: The word "wine" is nowhere in the...
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Human life is susceptible to death; viz: human life is a kind of life that's very easy to exterminate.
Eternal life is quite a bit different than human life. It's impervious to death; hence...
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†. 1Cor 15:1-4 . . Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word...
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Grace is a lethal religion. It quite literally, in some mysterious way that I don't quite understand; put Christ's believing followers to death.
†. Rom 6:3 . . Or do you not know that as many...
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When I was a young single guy of 24 years old in 1968, and living solo in a tiny rented room in a family home's daylight basement in Portland Oregon; I had lots of time to myself to think about...
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†. Gen 7:11b . . on this day, all the springs of the great deep were split, and the windows of the heavens opened up.
The word for "deep" is from tehowm (teh-home') which indicates an...
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†. Judg 11:30-32 . . And Jephthah made a vow to Yhvh and said: If you will indeed give the sons of Ammon into my hand, then it shall be that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me...
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The Watch Tower Society uses the passage below to substantiate its doctrine that people go out of existence when they die.
†. Ps 146:4 . . His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; In...
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†. Luke 1:43 . . And why is this granted me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
That passage is a common proof text as scriptural evidence that Mary is the mother of God; but its a...
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A common interpretation of inspiration is as follows:
†. 2Pet 1:20-21 . . No prophecy in Scripture ever came from the prophets themselves or because they wanted to prophesy. It was the Holy...
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COMMON ATTITUDE: I'm special; God understands me and He knows I'm only human. Although God probably may not let others off; I'm sure He will make an exception for me because I'm not like other...