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Well, yeah, I guess if you really consider it a primary doctrine I have indirectly accused you of corrupting the gospel. DEFINITION OF TERMS: (1) I consider Primary Doctrines to include those essential to the Christian faith, such as: the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the bodily resurrection...

I’ll call your bluff. I’m a church member that regularly brings ear plugs to services. Where does God say acceptable music must edify all the church? Rob

Perhaps this will help you in properly understanding Scripture and reduce what you label as heresy. Figure of speech: SYNECDOCHE Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which, most often, a part of something is used to refer to its whole. Synecdoche is a device used in many idioms, colloquial...

"This is a blatant HERESY, and is AGAINST what the Bible VERY CLEARLY Teaches!" You are saying that Jesus Christ didn't have to die, He only had to shed blood (bleed) on the cross to cleanse our sins. (Just playing your game) lol Rob

Well did I say that YOU were corrupting the gospel? There are some here on the BaptistBoard that have jumped the shark. I have the feeling that 3 or 4 hundred years ago @SavedByGrace would have gladly lit the flames and burned many of us at the stake. The charge of heresy flows quickly from his...

I only watched half of the video. ... I'm no fan of MacArthur... ...but gosh, I agree with him. The "blood" is a figure of speech, a simile, for the death of Christ. It is said that Jesus was a carpenter, sins would not magically disappear if he smashed his thumb with a hammer and bled...

I taught myself enough Greek to know that "it's Greek to me". I've never taken a college-level course in Greek...and never will. The little knowledge I've picked up in books provides me with just enough Greek to follow scholarly arguments and not much more, I've enjoyed reading quite a variety...

Pastor Tim Smith of Crossing Community Church (Newtown, Pennsylvania) in an admonition prior to the sermon today. (40:10) I believe it's the job of the church to try and address things that are happening in our community and in our culture in a relevant way ... just not with the sermon...

Trump was shot while at a rally in Pennsylvania Apparently doing well afterwards Shots fired at Trump rally in Pennsylvania

John R. Rice’s book is partially available on the internet. Prayer Asking And Receiving [Google Link] “Prayer is not praise, adoration, meditation, humiliation, nor confession, but asking.” John R. Rice deals with a single topic. He acknowledges that there are various ways to talk with God...

This deals specifically with 2 Timothy 2 I've tried NOT to introduce theology that is not specifically associated with the passage. DEFINITION OF TERMS elect = God’s chosen people 2 Timothy 2:10 (LEB) Because of this, I endure all things for the sake of the chosen, in order that they also may...

Well, truly it went from one groups opinion of what the original Greek text to what your opinion of what the original Greek text said. It’s just one more Greek text among a great many others. Rob

The Fool and the Heretic: How Two Scientists Moved beyond Labels to a Christian Dialogue about Creation and Evolution [Amazon Link] by Todd Charles Wood and Darrel R. Falk. Zondervan, 2019, 191 pages Dr. Todd Charles Wood earned a B.S. in biology from Liberty University and a Ph.D. in...

The phrase utilizes a figure of speech, an idiom, “the blood” representing the crucifixion and death of our Savior. I’m reminded of a hymn we sang in the past. What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Refrain...

As you note, comparing other versions often helps when studying a passage, particularly the difficult passages that the Apostle Paul writes. The English Standard Version is trustworthy and may, or may not, clarify things for you. In some cases, a more contemporary, dynamic version like the New...

Personally I’m somewhere in the middle between the Royal Choral Society and Petra. I can tolerate 5 minutes of Handle’s Messiah and maybe a minute or two of Reynolds’s Petra songs before I’m shutting down, using my ear plugs and opening a quiet book on my phone. :) Rob

Quite a while back a desperate alcoholic called my church and asked, “How do I get saved?” The pastor took the call and the man came to know our Savior. He came to church. I was the adult Sunday school teacher at the time and I was introduced to him. He was a rather unkept man and smoking. He...

Church Music throughout the Ages [LINK] All of us are to a great degree prisoners of our own times and our own tastes, of our church traditions and our character traits when we have to determine what we believe to be "good" church music. The appeal from some people, namely, to go back to "good"...

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Beautiful pictures, very colorful! May your ministry to people we can only pray for, be bountiful. Rob