Yes and no.
They are in that, they are God's living word to his people, and a reality for the believer through out the ages, and a beautiful model of prayer.
I dont place any more or less significance on any one scripture passage.
Being a Lutheran, we are very specific about the difference between the Kingdom of God and the Kingdoms of the earth. Luther called them the left and right hand Kingdoms. Because while they both belong to God. The left hand kingdom is given to man and will one day be destroyed when Christ...
They may be trying to start a movement.
Its easy to see how certain NAR preaxhers tie themselves to certain politicians. From what I have seen; they are fasle prophets, and not Christian at all.
There has always been a kind of sentiment that the US has been or was a Christian nation. I learned...
Tithing is probably the the first one and the another is about how Jesus gave us the ability to forgive sins. When he breath the Holy Spirit onto his disciple he said receive the Holy Spirit and then followed that up with the forgiving of sin statement.
Because you have to reconcile all scripture together in context. You cant just decided what is written is wrong or isn't there or doesnt mean what it says. So when Peter says get up and be baptized, wash away your sins. Then baptism washes away sin. How? I dont know but scripture says so...
What I do is, first read the whole passage again to gain context. Then i read other passages on the same subject to see what they say. Then I look for othe subjects spoken of in the passage and see what is written about that. Then I look for what the theologians of old wrote on the matter, Then...
If we are honest we do have a serious problem in America. We have an elite class that get away with what ever they do.
We also have a problem of the police protecting their own even when its an egregious offense. And to say it's just a few is not an excuse. We entrust the folks with far too much...
Why would it have any meaning?
No one has shown any evidence of such a movement? It seems a fails allegation against the Christian community.
All I ask for is evidence of such an organization.
I think you asked the same question a bit differently in another thread.
There are no Christian nations and never was. As for those who turn away, well they turn away. The Bible warms us of such.
Baptism isnt about you commiting to be a good boy or girl.
I dont know why y'all wanna turn it into a work of man. Which robs it of its meaning and purpose.
What about the 24th and 1/2 when he starts on his way back realizes He left his key and has to turn around and go back and get them before he can come on.