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Zen Buddhist style meditation?? :Cautious That's what the photo is. (The hand position is the giveaway.) Pretty sure you're not doing that, though. :Sneaky Years ago in Yokohama, my wife taught English a flock of Japanese ladies. One day they came to the lesson laughing. Seems a young American...

The little book is interesting, but it dumbs down the meaning of "Baptist" to just someone who believes the Bible and is immersed for baptism.

The rest of 1 John: 4:3--"And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world." Here is the Greek: καὶ τοῦτό ἐστιν τὸ τοῦ ἀντιχρίστου...

Tell you what, look at 1 John and the italics there and see if they are necessary. In 1:2, we have "For the life was manifested, and we have seen it and bear witness." The NKJV leaves it out and it reads fine without it: "and we have seen and bear witness." In 1:9, "If we confess our sins, he...

The italics were not in the early translations (Vulgate, Ulphilas, etc.), because it was impossible to use italics in a translation until the printing press was invented. Many languages do not use italics like English does. Japanese, Chinese, etc. So are those languages somehow defective...

Actually, the two words are not "virtually" the same. The word in John 12:31 is ekballo (ἐκβάλλω), meaning "to throw out." The parsing is: verb, future passive indicative, 3rd plural. But then there is an adverb, exo (ἔξω), meaning "out." So the "casting out" of John 12:31 is very definite...

Not in the slightest. And you haven't said so directly, but I agree with your implications that if the Christology isn't right, the religion isn't right. This is where every cult can be identified as a cult: what they say about Jesus Christ our Lord. The soteriology depends on Christ, the...

Interesting reading, but wow, a real piece of work!

Very informative. Thank you.

@iThinkStuff So, please enlighten us about the Mormon Apostles. The Biblical apostles were soul-winning, church planting missionaries. Usually they worked cross-culturally, especially after the book of Acts. All except James, who was martyred early, they all went out into the field as...

Then I have completely misunderstood your posts. I apologize, but I'm not going to try to figure them out.:Coffee

I've had numerous encounters with Mormon missionaries. I once was approached by two "Elders" (a ridiculous title for young men) at an independent Baptist missionary conference. I'm not sure what they were doing there. Sometimes a young Mormon missionary will have the notion that they want to...

I third Brother Fall about Maranatha. My son got his BA there, and he and I graduated from there the same year with the MA in Biblical Studies. It's a great school. He went on to get an MDiv at a now defunct seminary in PA, then on to Southeastern BTS for his PhD in NT under noted scholar David...

Praise the Lord that He brought you out! Keep up the good work of enlightening folks about the heresy. Just one question for now: Where did you do your mission? I recently read a couple of really great books about a Mormon family who left the cult. The son's book is Passport to Heaven, by...

I've never had someone misconstrue my posts this badly in all of my many years on the BB. My questions were not at all about the inspiration of the Scriptures. I believe in the verbal plenary inspiration of the 66 books, breathed out, θεόπνευστος, by God. I give up. It matters not at all to me...

@37818 So you are quoting yourself as proof of your own assertion? Sorry, I don't get your point.

Where do you get this? Do you have Scripture? Textual critical evidence? I know of no evidence, for example, that the five books of Moses started out as oral tradition.

Wow, that takes me back to the teen years! :Coffee

I disagree that the 66 books of the Bible all started as oral tradition. There is no proof for such an assertion. Indeed, there is proof for the opposite. For example, remember the scroll of Jeremiah that was written, destroyed by the king, then rewritten.

I agree with the idea that the final line means that Timothy was the scribe, the amanuensis. That was a common practice back then. And as kyredneck points out, Paul had a practice of signing "with my own hand," suggesting a scribe. However, UBS 4 rev. leaves it out, and Metzger's Textual...