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These seem to be the instructions many pastors follow to lead people in a "sinner's prayer". 1. Preach a message on some topic that isn't particularly evangelistic, such as marriage, end times, etc. 2. Do not explain Who God is. 3. Mention Jesus, but do not really explain who He is or what...

I was at a relative's house last month, an older man. We noticed a water spot on the ceiling. He, myself, and a son in-law were going to go take a look in the ceiling. When he pulled the string on the door thing that has the ladder in it to walk up into the attic. When he opened it, the...

It seems like it is taken as a given by many Americans that owning slaves is a sin. I had a conversation a few years ago with a man with a theology degree... not a pastor... and a law degree. He said something about slavery being a sin. I disagreed with him. Abraham and Isaac owned slaves...

James 5:13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. Now, I suppose 'psalms' might be broad enough to refer to a number of Christian songs. There is a lot of rejoicing in the Psalms, and one way to praise God is to take a psalm and read, repeat, or sing it...

I heard that inventor(s) of the Kellogg's corn flakes, the Kellogg brothers, made them in an SDA 'sanitarium', before they went into business selling the bland breakfast cereal. I suppose it was an innovation for a quick breakfast (and they aren't too bad with honey.) But the theory behind...

I read that the sinner's prayer ritual is about 70 years old. Billy Graham had people who responded to altar calls go back to prayer counselors in a separate room who would walk them through a booklet that explained the gospel, that had a prayer at the end designed to function as a confession...

I notice that ___some___ Charismatics seem to think that any kind of problem has a spirit or demon behind it, and to hear them talk, the solution to problems is to cast out or rebuke a demon named after the problem. There are certain occasions in the Gospel where Jesus cast a demon out of...

Protestants have a tradition of singing songs having one man called the pastor preach the sermon which is a long speech followed by more songs. certain individuals praying and collecting the offering are intermixed in there and there's also Holy Communion which could be weekly or monthly...

One of the arguments for KJV onlyism is supposedly that God can't preserve His word in a body of manuscripts, but there has to be just one... and not only that... a translation into English. One of the problems with that argument is that in the centuries leading up to 1600's, the Bible is in...

I got married before the close of the 1900's. Things were different back then, but fornication was still rampant in the US. A friend of mine recently got engaged. I heard some of his dating stories. One woman he was phone or online dating with that he flew hundreds of miles to go visit, on a...

Jude 3:4 says to earnestly 'contend for the faith once delivered to the saints.' When the apostles passed on the teachings of Jesus and their own teachings as led by the Spirit, and when their teachings were written down in gospels and epistles, they did not write them in Late Modern English...

When I was a child, 'religion' was not a dirty word at church. If someone sked what my religion was, I would say I was a Christian. If you asked someone at church about that, they wouldn't go into a speech about how they aren't religious, they have a relationship. I didn't hear it much, but I...

Is it a sin to lie to your own little gullible children, who trust you, and convince them that a magic fat man in a read suit flies around the world on a sleigh pulled by reindeer, goes down all the chimneys in the world and delivers all the children gifts over night? Is it wrong to teach your...

'Study' comes from an old French word that has to do with applying diligence or being zealous. Paul actually told Timothy to hasten to show himself approved. When people read this in the KJV, they reinterpret 'study' from 1611 English to mean what it means in Late Modern English, to read and...

I don't remember which poster or posters it was who argued for pretrib based on the idea that the only supposed mortal survivors of the Second Coming were supposed to be Jews. For those who hold to that view, how would you explain the references to these nations? Revelation 20 7 And when the...

I have encountered Christians who say that they sin every day. One preacher did not think it was possible to live without sin. Can a Christian live the rest of his life without sinning? Can a Christian go a day without sinning? I Corinthians 10 12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands take...

Elijah challenged the prophets of Baal to a sacrifice, to see which God answered by fire. He wasn't a priest. The Jerusalem temple had been established, and they weren't there. Yet he cut the animal, etc. there on Mt. Carmel. Was that in line with the Torah? He said he had done what he...

I have a friend who was raised in a conservative Fundamentalist household with lots of kids. He was around 40 and not married, and he was looking up Doug Philips daughters online, and following them. Doug Philips is a really right wing conservative who got into some trouble a while back...

If you had a boyfriend or girlfriend who you were willing to marry how long would you wait before breaking it off? Ladies, how long would you date a man for if he doesn't propose before you break it off? Men if you propose and she says sh is not ready would you keep dating her? If so for...

I am also aware of some damaging false teachings going around that make much of the use of the words there. He tried to argue that a woman who was 'put away' was not legally divorced. Does that fit Matthew 19? Clearly not. A while back, a website promoted the teaching that Jesus was merely...