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They don't even preach the gospel. They preach a Jesus who is our friend, benefactor, who makes people feel good, prosperous and guarantees perfect lifelong health. That is why they attract the big crowds that fill stadiums. The road to their version of faith is a very broad one. The is a...

Oh yes...I have come across that old chestnut before many times from people trying to deny that the gifts of the Spirit are for today's church. Of course there are doubts about the genuineness of that passage in Mark 16, and theologians have argued the toss about it for years. In another...

And so you should! There are many churches down the road that will welcome talented and gifted women with open arms. With regard to churches that discourage women's ministry - their loss is another church's gain! I believe that bullying women into silence in churches is nothing less than...

Here is a very informative article on tongues - worth a read. http://www.spiritandtruth.org/questions/125.htm?x=x Only one little bit in the article I don't go along with - it is the description of tongues being "ecstatic". Genuine tongues is nothing of the sort. It is the deliberate speaking...

The Anglican, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches in New Zealand have ordained woman priests and ministers. I know that the AOG has women evangelists, but I haven't heard of any women pastors in that denomination. Unfortunately, the most prominent women ministry is seen in the heretical...

It's worse when one gets older - things tend to shrivel in some areas! :cool:

Sounds like one of those authoritarian ones to me. You'd be better off using your skills and talents in a church that will welcome and use you in spite of you being single. There is no true church, or a true denomination. There is always a church down the road that will be better than the one...

In addition to your correct comment, these relationships are not relationships of authority at all. Authoritarianism, as practiced by some churches, especially those with a pyramid governmental structure, is not supported in Scripture. Jesus gave His Apostles authority over sickness, disease...

Paul wrote to the Corinthian church to deal with issues brought to him in a letter from Chloe. Reading between the lines, the issue was that married women were disrupting services by questioning the content of the prophecies that were given. The context of the chapter involved tongues and...

That's a reasonable interpretation of the verse. What this shows that the tongues spoken on the Day of Pentecost was certainly a sign to the Jews that Jesus was truly risen from the dead, and the Holy Spirit was now present in the world. Peter confirmed this by quoting Joel's prophecy and...

I'll take your word for it. :)

I agree that the miracles performed by Paul and Barnabas established their credibility with the Jerusalem Apostles. But the pagan Gentiles did not have any interest in the OT Scriptures and did not have access to them seeing that they were kept in the Jewish Synagogues where Gentiles could not...

How then, do you explain 1 Corinthians 14:2?

How do you explain that the languages were understood by the crowd that heard the disciples speaking in tongues. Why did Peter in his sermon to the crowd refer to the prophecy of Joel as a sign to them that the Holy Spirit had now arrived? And if tongues was just a sign as it was on the Day of...

1 Corinthians 12:1-13 Notice verse 2: "Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led." This shows that Paul is writing to believers who were once Gentiles, not Jews. Verse 7: "But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal."...

This is what you actually said: "I haven't made any case for the gifts ' ceasing ' . I making the case they are for JEWS". so, I shouldn't take you literally when you said it?

As for the spiritual gifts, Paul was writing to the Corinthian church which consisted mainly of Gentile believers. He wrote that the gifts of the Spirit were for the building up of the body of Christ, in which there are neither Jew nor Gentile, but were all one under Christ. If the gifts...

Granted that the signs and miracles of Jesus were for Israel because He said that He had come for the "lost sheep of Israel". But the signs and miracles continued through the Apostles and on to the Gentiles through the ministry of Paul. Seeing that Paul is writing to the Corinthian church...

If a Jew made it a requirement to continue with the Law as part of his salvation, he wouldn't be justified before God according to Paul, who said, that no one is justified by the Law. And because after the introduction of the New Covenant the distinction between Jew and Gentile disappeared and...

Prior to Paul, converts to Christ were Jews. It was Peter who was the first to realise that Gentiles could be converted and receive the Holy Spirit. He was confronted with that when he shared the gospel with the household of Cornelius. None of those people were circumcised, nor did they...