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“Before Abraham was, I AM” is Jesus’ conclusion to a series of questions: Jesus: if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death. Jews: Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say, ‘If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.’ Are you greater than our [...]

mark, I’d like to believe you’re right about what “the majority of cofC members” feel. But whether it’s a majority or not, I cannot say. But there remain a significant, if not large, number to DO find it damnable. I worship with many of them every Sunday, and can give you a list of congregations [...]

Kona,

It just seems that sometimes when we try to combat law using grace, we end up with a grace that looks a lot like the law we tried to defeat

Yes! That’s so true. I think you are spot-on when you say, “Whatever we think ‘grace’ is, it must be the same thing that the [...]

Christian worship has no temple, no mountain; Christian worship has no cleanliness laws in the manner of the O.T.

Those who would make ’singing-only worship’ a law are seeking to establish precisely the same kind of law that you affirm that Christian worship does not possess.

I see a continuity between the worship that God loves, and [...]

I firmly reject the supposition that the ardent defenders of ‘singing-only worship’ are motivated, even in part, by serving God at the expense of loving their neighbor—I deny this point because it can’t be done.

kona, don’t you see that the priest and the levite felt exactly as you do? They would have passionately denied that they [...]

Laymond, please share with us the context clues that enable you to know that in the following sentence

Before Abraham was, I am

Jesus says “I” but means “God”, but in this sentence

“I and the Father are one”

Jesus says “I” and means himself.

Nick,do you think Matthew was John, and John was Peter, and Peter was [...]

Jay, Are you sure the Shammai/Hillel breakdown goes like that? I was under the impression from RVL, et al, that they agreed that the Shema was the first great command, but that their disagreement was on the second. Shammai said Sabbath (ranking love of neighbor seventh, maybe?) while Hillel said love of neighbor was second, [...]

The first century assemblies did not likely include four-part harmony. Does that mean it’s unscriptural? Four part harmony nearly caused a split in the Paris, KY church, when some college chorus students began singing parts during a worship service in the 1830’s. Many CofC’s increasing project words on screens, but do not provide sheet music [...]

People conveniently forget, when Jesus spoke he spoke for God.

John 10:30 “I and the Father are one.”

So, according to your understanding, what Jesus means here is, “The Father and the Father are one.”

SENSE, LAYMOND, SENSE

only capable being, I suppose God was not capable of talking to men, through Moses, and many others as the bible states. surely Moses could not talk directly to God, and man.

1. I love how you use Paul when he suits your fancy, and discard him when he doesn’t. 2. Paul, by inspiration of God, [...]

see, by this same logic, you can prove that all churches must be painted green, which is silly and shows how very wrong this approach to doctrine is. More simply, you can argue

But as to infants and young children, the analysis is different. A few posts ago, I mentioned that it’s not necessarily true that a child is saved. It is possible that the child simply ceases to exist when she dies. Not only does the child not suffer eternal punishment, the child doesn’t receive eternal reward. It’s [...]