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Beckie, this just shows that great minds work alike! :) I probably read that somewhere and it stuck in the back of my mind. Or, as you said, when I read an article about the giant sequoias the parables of the mustard seed and leaven naturally came to mind. Then again, maybe our mature age...

Every translation of the Holy Bible has a bias and is influenced by the culture and times of its writing. It is important to understand this when using the various translations. The Translators to the Readers in the KJV explains a lot about their approach, but most have never read that...

Musical instruments in the New Covenant assembly of Christ is definitely added. We are to go only by what we receive from Christ as commands to observe, not what David did in his additions to the OT worship.

Dino, I'll just reply to your statement about electricity and that is a common misunderstanding of the regulative principle of worship. I'll quote from the Westminster Confession of Faith and underline where such things as lighting, AC, etc. come in. "6. The whole counsel of God concerning all...

Many current translations not only render as those who practive homosexuality in 1 Cor. 6:9, they also have the word in 1 Tim. 1:10. I do not recall spending any time in study on 1 Tim.1:10 and that section, and this mornng I found it surprising. I take these from the...

I'm aware of the Greek, and rapists or sodomites can commit their crime on a bed. But as to Leviticus, I do not go there as a Christian, I look for my directions in the New Testament. I'm going to post something I found this morning that I'd never seen before. But not as an answer to anyone...

I'm not sure what you had in mind, Dino, but I had reference to the 'regulative principle of worship' as described in the Presbyterian and early Baptist confessions. My view is as follows. God told Moses, concerning the Old Covenant: "You must diligently observe everything that I command you...

I will agree with you here, "sexual orientation" does miss the mark. It just seems that a very slim minority of people actually love their own gender and it is a much broader matter than sex. When you read the two verses that many translations translate as homosexual practice in the KJV and...

It is also important to stick with the older Bible translations such as the KJV, RV, ASV and even the YLT. It is also important to distinguish between a sodomite and a homosexual person. Is a homosexual person merely a heterosexual person with temptation for loving their own gender? It may be...

Is a movement is genuinely Christian, would you not find it in the historic creeds, confessions, catechisms and various other documents of the church down through history. What do you mean by a genuine Christian movement that began more recently? "Beloved, while eagerly preparing to write to...

"New York Judge Sol Wachtler said in 1985, 'If a district attorney wanted, a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich.' Grand juries are the prosecutor’s babies. They decide who gets picked, what evidence gets presented, and what gets left out. There’s no judge, no defense attorney, and generally...

R. L. Dabney (1820-1898), American Christian theologian, Southern Presbyterian pastor https://www.grace-ebooks.com/library/Robert%20Dabney/RLD_Systematic%20Theology.pdf Millennium and Second Advent The wisdom and modesty of the Westminster Assembly are displayed in the caution with which they...

A. A. Hodge (1823-1886), Presbyterian, Outlines of Theology: https://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/sdg/aahodge/OutlinesofTheology-AAHodge.pdf What is the Scriptural doctrine concerning the millennium? 1st. The Scriptures, both of the Old and New Testament, clearly reveal that the gospel is...

From James Petigru Boyce (1827–1888) served as a Southern Baptist pastor, theologian, author, seminary professor, and founder and first president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. http://www.reformedreader.org/rbb/boyce/aos/toc.htmhttp://www.reformedreader.org/rbb/boyce/aos/toc.htm...

You seem to defend dispensational doctrine at times, and then switch to historic premillennial beliefs. What is your understanding of prophecy? John Gill to me represents historic premillennialism, and here are his comments on key passages. Do you agree with Gill and if not where do you...

If the Jews had not rejected the Messiah's kingdom and had not crucified the Lord of glory, there would be no death of the Savior. Supposedly the literalist's kingdom prophesied in the OT would then have been set up. So who would have paid for sins and redeemed men? Ezekiel 40-48 in literal...

Dispensationalists depict the millennium like an Old Covenant Israel, including sacrifices, but supposedly accepting Jesus as their Messiah. They seem to think this is the kingdom that would have been set up in the 1st century if the Jews had not rejected Jesus and his kingdom and God had to...

Does the gospel of Jesus Christ have power to change the world? I'll quote a passage from The Heritage Foundation - https://www.heritage.org/civil-society/report/tocqueville-christianity-and-american-democracy "Modern democratic freedom, Tocqueville argues, developed as a result of...

A dispensationalist has no right whatsoever to compare his distortion of historic pre-millennialist belief to that found in history prior to the 1800s! Dispensationalism arrived in the 19th century, NOT previously. Too many weird, man-made teachings have been added to historic pre-mil beliefs...

You can go back through early church history and pick statements out of context and prove anything in the world. I've already learned you cannot trust anything dispensationalist claim. For those interested, Lous berkhof has a great section on the views on the millennium. I'm quoting just a...