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You're pretty sharp so I know you're making a point. I'm just not getting it. :unsure: Can you present it in another way?

Anno Domini? Supposedly when the Lord was first born as a baby.

I didn't want to duck this thread so I showed up...

Indeed. In the U.S. culture, individualism is preferred over all other form of cooperation. That is one reason the people here are weak and sick: they lack cohesiveness. We focus too much on what makes us different when we need to focus on sameness. When this is prompted by the love of Christ...

A functional doctor started me on D3 about 8 years ago. I take it every day. He said something about the D3 molecule activating 20-some areas on our cells with 13 of them dealing with healing and regeneration. Here in gloomy and grey Ohio it's difficult to get sunshine especially in winter.

For a graduate class, I once wrote a paper on pervasive themes in Japanese cartoons (anime) that reflect their cultural values. :LOL:

The three sentences you posted are true. Except maybe "clear meaning of scripture". Understanding the scriptures actually requires the Spirit. If that wasn't so, Greek and English professors would be our high priests. Your understanding of what is written is lacking. I'm helping you. Let me put...

Yeah, I quoted you the first time. That's what it says. Bolding and underlining certain words doesn't change the meaning. Look to my post above for the meaning.

Voltron always gets my vote!

I understand it differently. Certainly there are many warnings about partaking of sin once one is born again. This section talks about how it is impossible to be born again after being born again. It is impossible to renew such a person in the manner in which they were brought into salvation...

This is how what you wrote sounds to me: I've been more convinced that those who choose not to sin renounce any right to complain, criticize, protest or lament the unrighteous decisions and rulings people make. For example, if you choose not to sin, you have no standing to criticize the...

Yes. We are to reckon ourselves dead to sin. And when we are immersed into Christ Jesus, we are likewise immersed into His death. Our change is metamorphic: from death to life.

Yeah, I always got a kick out of a church singing "Let Your Fire Fall". I was like, dudes, I'm not waiting around for it to fall on me! In all seriousness, the Spirit gave the church that song in spite of their ignorance. He was doing a work to cleanse the church (we are seeing it today) and so...

In the scriptures, "church" never meant a building where Christians gather. It always meant "people who are called out". In the famous words of the sage Oscar Gamble "They don't think it be like it is, but it do." So, why do we use "church" to mean "a building" today?

Yessir! The church's focus on sin is partly due to its history of selling salvation as a commodity. It started with the Roman Church (that's why all the jokes have Peter at the gate of heaven) and continued on through the many different iterations of the same message. I could go on and on and...

Yep. ”ekklisia” Greek = Ekklisía French = église Spanish = iglesia Latin = ecclesia English = church (record scratch) The odd one out is English. The fifth century Cappadocian (central Turkey) Christians called their communities Kyriakos oikos (the Lord’s house). They had a major influence on...

Ask the Lord. A friend of mine, a retired senior director at Homeland Security, had a preverbal arsenal at one time. The Lord convicted him about believing thr guns were his protection instead of the Lord. So, he sold everything down to the last bullet. A few years later he missed going to the...

You misspelled “It’s difficult to admit I am wrong but now, given the verses you provided, I will have to rethink my position. Thank you, brother, for the help.”

So when Paul wrote “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8 Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing”...