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Wiser men than either of us have disagreed on this issue. I don’t know how I could convince you, when we cannot agree on which parts of the Bible are dependable for doctrine. And I never asserted that Jesus specifically taught the Trinity Doctrine, any more than I have ever asserted that Jesus specifically taught [...]

Thanks, Royce – your encouragement always strengthens me. I’m sick of being powerless – I want to sock Glenn Beck and Terry Jones right in the KISSER! Didn’t Paul tell Timothy that we were not given a spirit of fear, but of love, and power, and self-con… Oh wait. Yeah. Heh. That love-power-selfcontrol synergy is [...]

Abandonment.
Embarrassment.
Pain.
Death.

Laymond, I’ve been looking over some of our old discussions over at Tentpegs (we’ve been at this off and on for at least two years), where you once wrote that you believe that the Trinity doctrine is a matter of one’s salvation. I’ve already affirmed that I believe we are brothers in Christ, despite our [...]

Gabriel doesn’t accept worship. He pronounces good news.

The Angel of the Lord does accept worship. Did Jacob wrestle with Gabriel?

Nick, if Jesus played such an important role in the original creation, how come he is overlooked until the new testament.? And the word “word” in never spoken until 15 chapters into the book of creation?

1. Progressive revelation explains a great deal of the scarcity (I would not call it overlooking by a long shot, [...]

Yet this view demeans the greatness of the victory which Jesus won against sin and human nature. He had human nature; he shared every one of our sinful tendencies

Philippians 2 says that he gave up all the prerogatives of Deity – I’ve already mentioned that earlier in this discussion – which includes being impervious to [...]

Thank you, Tom – and welcome to our family here at Fumbling Towards Eternity. Thank you so much for sharing your story with us – you don’t know how encouraging it is to know that someone else is wrestling with the same questions. Seeing Abba’s faithfulness to you lends me strength to endure.

“And the Word was made flesh” In other words, the powers of God was given to a flesh and blood man. As we see this happened at Jesus baptism.

No, sir. No. That is precisely not what John says. As far as I can tell, John never uses the device of recapitulation in his Gospel. Unless this is [...]

Now my point about instruments was that adding instrumental music… just seems to agree with and fortify that assumption rather than challenge it.)

I can see where you might get that impression, but I hardly think that is the case in this forum. Rather, Jay doesn’t seem to be interested at all in adding instrumental music, [...]

The portions of Revelation in question seem to be depicting, not what will happen in the future, but what is occurring right now on the other side of the veil. Further, Paul seemed to take “no one will marry nor be given in marriage” as a solid corollary to “your kingdom come, your will be [...]

That’s why I said: If you want an answer concerning the harps, answer for yourserf why we don’t burn incense. I am very surprized, that seemingly no one did get that …

And I am equally surprised that you didn’t grasp that we (many of us, anyway) did get it, but we believe that freedom in Christ [...]

The reason I’m skeptical of the veracity of this apocryphal tale is because it is self-defeating. While Lysol is indeed transparent, incense smoke is thick and choking – and on top of the smoky light sources they’d already be using, the incense would blind everyone.

Laymond, I’m not sure why you spent so much time proving that “many Scriptures identify God’s spirit with His power.” I wouldn’t begin to deny that. I would affirm far more than you would about the nature of that power, but certainly not less.

If Jesus became the word, at the age of 30, when he [...]

His comments also assume – and this is a big deal for me – that the church was born perfect and whole like Athena from the head of Zeus. It was not. The church had to work out Jew-Gentile relations. The church had to work out what writings were authoritative. The church had to work [...]

Abasnar’s comments assume that anyone here is asserting the form of Sola Scriptura that he is assuming in order to make his counter-argument. I would assert that no one is, in fact, suggesting that we only listen to Scripture. Rather, we are saying that Scripture gets the first deciding vote, and if Scripture is unclear, the [...]

Help me out here. It seems it was okay for David to worship God with a harp. And in Rev 15:2, God give harps to men for worship, but for some reason, these harps have become an abomination to God. Why is this?

Because some assert that we must have a specific (enough for them) command, [...]

If Jesus was conscious of having existed in heaven as the glorious Creator, how could he in any sense be tempted the same way as are his brethren?

Laymond, you’ll have to explain this question a bit more. In what way do you believe knowledge of pre-existence hinders temptation? Philippians 2 teaches us that the Son [...]

I have no interest in the “Ancient Order of Things” – the ancient order that included slavery, polygamy, female subservience, and Jew-Gentile division and hatred. It seems an arbitrary standard to aim for the late 1st-century / early 2nd century church as the definition of the “Ancient Order of Things.” Why would we not aim [...]