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That is not so. I only used the office of pastor because this thread has a title which concerns churches with women pastors. I didn't say that only the pastor can lead or teach. In Acts we read: “So when they had appointed elders in every church, and prayed with fasting, they commended them...

Yes they were, but they weren't women pastors. Not a woman pastor. Acts 16:14 & 40 don't say that Lydia was the pastor of the church: “Now a certain woman named Lydia heard [us]. She was a seller of purple from the city of Thyatira, who worshiped God. The Lord opened her heart to heed the...

Well, you may have meant Geneva and the modern versions, but: 1) the KJV doesn't say "divorce" and 2) the NKJV, a modern version, does say "divorce." So, incidentally, do the KJV2011, HCSB, GWV, GNBE, ESV, and RSV, all modern versions.

So the KJV was wrong not to use the word "divorce?" Haven't you said in many posts that you believe that the KJV was perfect? To be clear, I don't think the KJV was wrong here. "Putting away" was a way of referring to divorce. As a little boy, I used to think that where the KJV said that...

However, the KJV doesn't use the word "divorce" in Malachi 2:16: For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously. The NKJV does use...

I have just looked through all your posts in this thread, and I see that you have mentioned before that you believe Timothy wrote Hebrews. In post 16 you wrote: "No, Timothy wrote it." Your wrote similarly in some other posts. But you haven't said which manuscripts say that Paul wrote...

Surely we can discuss and differ without calling others on the Forum liars. I often find myself disagreeing with things you write, but I don't stoop to calling you a liar.

Which manuscripts? How to you know that Timothy wrote it? You often seem to state certain things without giving any evidence to back it up. I'm not being rude, just that it seems that way to me. For example, you just say, "Timothy wrote it." No evidence, no source of information.

That's fine. Thank you for your posts so far.

You can coin a new word, Paulauthor, but that does not prove that Paul wrote Hebrews. I am not saying he didn't; I am just saying that we are not told. That is why there are firm, bible-believing Christians who believe that Paul didn't write Hebrews, and other firm, bible-believing Christians...

Well, as we are not told who the human author of Hebrews was, I would say, "I don't know." The vital point is that God is the ultimate Author of all Scripture.

The bible does have some words in it that are not used in the secular world, words like "propitiation." But the Greek word "phantasma" is a word that is used in both secular settings and in the bible. It means "ghost" in the sense of a spectre or a phantom. The Greek word "pneuma" which is...

Yet he openly preached to Jews in synagogues.

Thank you. Your link includes this section: In the mystical sense, "it", or "he, Hu", which is one of the names of God, Psalms 102:27 and here of the Messiah, the eminent seed of the woman, should bruise the head of the old serpent the devil, that is, destroy him and all his principalities and...

Ah! I was looking at the wrong "not". But it seems to me that the ERV's "he considered his own body now as good as dead" means that he rated his body as so old that it was as good as dead. That seems very similar to saying, "he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an...

How can you be so certain? In all epistles that we know are by Paul, he begins by introducing himself by name. Hebrews just starts: “God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has...

I agree that size doesn't (or shouldn't) matter. The crowd of 5000 men, plus women and children, was not a church. A better example in my view would have been from Acts: “Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added [to them].”...

Well, ERV doesn't use the word "not", but the meaning is there. Here is the verse from ERV: And without being weakened in faith he considered his own body now as good as dead (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb: "Without being weakened in faith" means he was...

I simply meant that if you just say, "John Gill had no issue calling God a 'it.'" the rest of us have no idea what it was from John Gill's writings that gave you the idea that he had no issues with calling God "it". If you answered and said, "Here is a passage from Gill's works where he...

The usual meaning of "ghost" in English is a phantom or a spectre.