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I've not seen a workable solution here. Yet, I do not see where any 'solution' or healing, etc., is needed. The evangelicals used to IN THE PAST legitimately laugh at and scorn the nutty neo-Pentecostalists, but then pick up their same claim of healing, protection from 'sin' and so forth...

I do not recall ever reading or hearing that statement in the past. Thinking about it, maybe there is truth in it. I just read a long article on CNN about a teenage son who is gay, living in a conservative Christian family. While I do not agree with same-sex marriage and some of the more 'far...

It has always amazed me how those who boast of their sticking to the literal words of scripture, are so very selective in what they choose to see as literal or figurative. As to the book of Revelation, I am forced to take the words that are clearly meant to be literal, just as it reads. "The...

Dino, in my Bible studies, I do use various translations and try to keep in mind the approach or philosophy behind the translating. In my studies, I find that the modern 'evangelical' translations tend to translate according to their theological viewpoint. So, I do stay with the 'standard'...

If a prophecy can have two fulfillments, why not three or four? It has to mean one thing or it is meaningless. Now, let me add to that or clarify, just as Jesus said the time when the last day arrives, it will be like in Noah's time, it is as in a type. I do not deny that the little season...

Dino, you seem mighty sure of your pick of interpretation of the passage, where I find as far back as I can read in Matthew Poole, there have been two understandings of the passage. I will stay with my understanding and explain more why. First, I have high respect for the translators of the...

It has been understood in the church that there is "revelation", that which Holy Spirit inspired men to write, and there is "illumination" where the Holy Spirit guides believers into understanding what He revealed correctly. That is the meaning of 2 Pet. 1:20-21. We cannot interpret God's word...

It's of course good that your pastor who was a Greek and Hebrew scholar, but do you think it wise to listen to or read after only one single scholar? Your pastor may be very good, but do you think he is a better scholar than those translating various versions such as the REB, NRSVue, or even...

Maybe "society of strict homosexuals" should refer to eunuchs rather than gays, since they cannot reproduce either.

Rather than "society of strict homosexuals" to make your point, why not stick to biblical words and concepts: "society of strict enuchs"?

Where does the "society of strict homosexuals" exist?

"Do not be ashamed, then, of the testimony about our Lord or of me his prisoner, but join with me in suffering for the gospel, in the power of God, who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace, and this grace was given to...

I am also curious, the first translation you quoted is the NIV, but what translation is the second one? No single translation is perfect, so my preference is to use several; of which the following are most important to me - KJV, YLT, ASV, RSV, NRSV and NRSVue. I note that the 2021 NRSVue did...

The Scriptures teaching the resurrection and the judgment occurring on "the last day", is the "end of the world" as we know it. But dispensationalists end up with multiple resurrections, not just two of the historic premillennialists or the one by post-mils and a-mils.

Being brought up in dispensationalism and the Scofield Bible, we were taught the Olivet Discourse was supposed to be in our future, a 7-year tribulation prior to Jesus coming for his saints and then the millennium was to begin. That is a corruption of the Bible by dispensationalists. That...

"Several of the traditions today strongly associated with Christmas have a very long history indeed, even pre-dating the Christmas celebration itself. Early Christianity sought to distance itself from pagan practices and so later Roman emperors closed down ancient sacred sites, prohibited...

It would pay you to use the cross-references in your Bible to see where that apocalyptic language is to be found in the OT. I'll hold to the words of Jesus as he expressed it as understood by OT knowledgable Judeans.

I agree, Cameron. The last verse of the book of Judges does seem to describe the world today in like manner to the time of the judges: "In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes." (Judg 21:25, ASV)

I haven't the time or inclination to refute the many errors in that link. I'll offer the following for anyone wishing to know the truth: John Gill would be called an "historic premillenialist". He was a British Baptist (1697-1771) - Gill believed in the "Spiritual Reign of Christ" as in his...

I suppose I experienced the opposite of the so-called "repressed memory" there. Sorry about that! :confused: