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I do appreciate your contribution to the discussion and your honest effort to identify the truth in the controversy. I am very impressed to find someone who has read those two books by MacArthur and Brown. I plan to hear Dr. Brown in person later this month. I always tell people that they...

It's simple. But only the spiritual understand it. Jesus came to save whoever will believe. Not all will believe, but that they could have makes their judgment just. The second death simply means that they are cast into the Lake of fire after they are raised bodily from the dead to be judged.

I say this in a friendly tone. This is a PUBLIC format, where people are used to responding to any post, and it is not considered rude to reply to any post even if they are responding to a post you addressed to someone else. It is considered an open dialogue that anyone can join or "butt into"...

I am sorry that you feel that way. I will pray for you to be able to discuss differences in interpretation of scriptures with civility and kindness and a desire to edify one another. This site can help people learn how to do that, or it can cause them to sin with a spirit of striving. I am...

In other words, you now concede that there is a silent/quiet discussion in print and in academia on this verse and has been for a long time?

I did not leave it out. I explained it as it would have been understood to the original readers. Being quiet and speaking to your self and to God meant quietly as though it were obvious that you were speaking to God and yourself not giving a public utterance to be interpreted. How does one...

Always making the mistake of contending for the English word rather than the original Greek word. :) You are contending for an English word translated from a Greek word. It doesn't mean no sound. It means quiet. Ask a Greek Scholar. Silent (no sound, or no speaking) prayer was not known...

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

No one translated when the people in the house of Cornelius spoke in tongues. When the disciples in Ephesus spoke in tongues or the 120 spoke in tongue there was no one with the gift of interpretation needed. To understand what Paul was talking about in the church meetings in Corinth you...

I don't think you understood. Ekklesia is the word that Stephen used, not church. Ekklesia can be translated as congregation, assembly or church depending on context. All the English translations use congregation or assembly in Acts 7:38. Not even the NKJV uses church. Technically it is...

We must not to build a doctrine on a translated English word. The English word church in Acts 7:38 is ekklēsia ἐκκλησίᾳ congregation (assembly) and I don't think that Stephen was trying to explain to the Sanhedrin that the Church of Jesus Christ had started under Moses. I think if we were...

By researching the question..."How we got our Bible" and by reading excellent award winning books like "The Canon of Scripture" by F.F. Bruce, one may learn the facts behind this history and how it proves that the copies we have can be trusted and the variants don't change anything...

1 Cor 7 makes it clear that if one has the gift of celibacy that it is beneficial to ministry to stay single. However if one chooses to marry they have not sinned. Therefore I would say this is biblical support that it is a choice. At least the kind of romantic love related to a motivation to...

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I give up.

You'll want to look up Peter Wagner on how he uses scriptures to justify these teachings. His writings on it are what has been used in theological academia to discuss and refute it. I am not saying that I agree with him but he is no joke. He is an excellent theologian and is well respected...

Could it mean anything which is a constant daily burden? When Jesus said it, would it have been possible for people to have thought that? If there was evidence in either scripture or 1st century period writings that anyone had ever used this phrase "cross" to apply to daily burdens then one...

I am not sure how "limiting the Lord" can be applied to this interpretation. It would be "limiting the interpretation to the most likely intended meaning of the original speak in it's original context" It might be true that there is a priniciple that can be applied in another context. In...

When he said take up your cross and follow me, he was telling them to be ready to die for the cause of Christ and His mission. It meant the same as saying take up your electric chair, or take up the gallows, or take up the firing squad and follow me. Get ready to be killed for preaching the...

In the context of Romans 1 I think it makes it clear that it is the example of a progression of rebellion down to it's shocking results. Homosexual sin and a reprobate mind. So when kids come home from school and say that they heard all these noble things about being homosexual and ask what do...

By studying the scripture one will come to the conclusion that it is a descriptive name and means who God is, rather than just a sound created by sounding out letters. Putting an emphasis that God wants the sound of a particular string of letters to be sounded out when we call upon him does...