Recent content by Martin Marprelate

You mean that was a genuine video??? :eek: I assumed it was some sort of mock-up. Well, yes; if you vote for a guy who beats people up at a sports venue, then I do think you're all nuts!

I agree with your conclusion; I'm not quite clear how you got there. Some thoughts from my blog Circumcision and Baptism . It would be hard to imagine two operations more different than circumcision and baptism. They don’t sound alike, they don’t look alike and they certainly don’t feel alike...

Perhaps the difference is that he never called himself the 'black Messiah' SFAIK or published himself as such in a meme on his own website Edit: Sorry, @Scarlett O. You beat me to the punch.

I can't speak for E.T. but the article quoted Psalm 146:3. 'Put not your trust in princes....' Nebuchadnezzar found out the hard way that 'The Most High rules in the kingdom of men,' and I guess we have to realise that. I certainly believe that God has not been blessing Britain for some time...

Dave, You will get no argument from me that the current British government is disastrous. I didn't vote for it and I can't wait for the next General Election to get it out. But Keir Starmer is not (thank God!) the de facto leader of the free world. Nor is he crazy SFAIK; merely incompetent.

The problem here is that this poster's views are unique to him in most cases. Therefore an attack on his views is inevitably an attack on him. Also, the fact that he refuses to listen to anyone else but continues to trot out the same old stuff is very frustrating. Also, if he could find it in...

I'm sorry! I goofed! Don Carson says that philia and agape are synonymous. Sorry!

The English language has more words in it than any other, and around twice as many as koine Greek. Therefore, when one attempts to translate from Greek into English, one usually has a choice of which English word to use, each with a different shade of meaning. The context is what will determine...

Why does this poster continue to trot out his nonsense, even after he has been corrected. Of course, John 3:19; Romans 3:11; 1 Cor. 2:14 all support @JesusFan. Luke 24:13 reads: 'Now behold, two of them were travelling that same day to a village called Emmaeus, which was seven miles from...

I think he means 1 Peter 1:3. But he's quite wrong about that verse also.

Do you take the view that the new covenant has not arrived yet? Certainly it was in the future when Jeremiah spoke of it, but it appears to be already present in Heb.10:11ff.

Is that what is called a "Messianic Complex"?

@Van, We have been through all this multiple times. To my mind you are utterly confused, but I'm sure you think the same about me. Anyone who is undecided has had many opportunities to make their own minds up about the matter without an endless to and fro from us. So I'm going to leave it there.

:rolleyes: You are very free with accusing others of making totally false claims while you are making totally false claims. The word translated 'draw' in John 6:44 is helko or helkuo. The same word is used in John 21:6, 11, where a net full of big fish is 'drawn' or 'dragged' ashore; in Acts...

This is true, but it is true of many countries, including the USA https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/us/fertility-rates-decline.html The worst country in this respect is South Korea, but the only continent where the birthrate is increasing is Africa...