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I lost a friend to suicide last year. I think people get mixed up on this because of their theology of salvation. The idea is (I believe) that if you die with one unconfessed and unrepented sin on your account, that you would be lost. As suicide is self-murder, that would then fall to your...

I read this and found in intelligent, balanced and helpful: “The Bible views suicide as equal to murder, which is what it is—self-murder. God is the only one who is to decide when and how a person should die. We should say with the psalmist, “My times are in your hands” (Psalm 31:15). God is...

I’m pondering on some verses from Jeremiah 16: 15 But, The Lord liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers. 16 Behold, I will send for...

Tomorrow could be a turning point, for good or bad…

You may want to reconsider that view…

IDF spokesperson: The IDF attacked targets of the terrorist organization Hezbollah in Lebanon* IDF warplanes attacked a terrorist infrastructure and an observation post of the terrorist organization Hezbollah, in response to the incidents of shooting at Israel in the border area in the last...

What about Dietrich Bonhoeffer? Hitler was the “authority”, should he have resisted or let him get on with killing Jews?

The third fundamental rule of interpreting the Bible is this: the clear interprets the obscure, and never the other way around. It is clear that God said His words would never pass away, yet in the name of an obscure verse, the popes through the centuries have tried to denigrate and diminish...

Put another way, do you agree and uphold or reject the RCC claims regarding Peter’s authority and succession and the Catholic understanding of the Two Keys?

By condemning talking at people, I was holding myself accountable to a certain standard in my interaction with you on this question. First it would appear that the ancient Near East was a melting pot of languages and it would seem likely that many people would have a grasp of a few languages...

I have noticed a tendency to talk at people rather than to them in online discussion groups so I hope you don’t mind what I say here and take my words in the spirit I intend… Without giving a Greek lesson, the two words for “Peter” and “rock” are different. Peter (the person) is a small stone...

I think that things change when you see the word “Catholic” as more of a branding thing than an objective truth. Take a political party that claims to be the “party of law and order”. The inference is that the other parties do not encompass these values (which may or may not be true). In the...

^ As far as the commandments go, Paul goes to great length to explain to believers that once someone is indwelt with the Holy Spirit and born again, the keeping of God’s standards will flow out from the regenerated spirit. The difference between the letter and the spirit of the Law is akin to...

I think the one “true church” is the congregation of born again believers from ALL denominations, whether in agreement with their denominational stance or perhaps even in contrast to it, have come to a saving faith in the finished work of Jesus to atone for their sins, and make them able to...

Maybe a bit technical for this thread, but possibly the best (Biblically based) observations that make sense of the recent observations from the JWST.

Actually I did watch this one a while back. Intriguing!

There is definitely evidence that a pre trib perspective was at least in existence in the early church. Many truths were lost and obfuscated by the pre-reformation Catholic Church, and these took time to rediscover. If Darby can be credited with anything it would be in popularising the idea, but...

I ended up doing my first degree in Biology & Biochemistry and even trained as a high school science teacher before changing career direction. During my teaching course I was asked to write an essay on a topic of relevance to science education, so you might guess what I hit them with…

^ To the point of the thread, it not that Christians “need” the additional corroborations that God has woven into His word to believe. What we see now with be truly through a glass darkly compared to the unsearchable depths of God we will be eternally privileged to search. There are some people...

1 Corinthians 9:19-23 King James Version 19 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. 20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that...