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When we read that Jesus tells his disciples to buy a sword in Luke 22:36-37, it can seem that he is encouraging violence. Yet when Peter does use a sword in the garden of Gethsemane, Jesus rebukes Peter and heals the man’s ear. So, whatever Jesus was up to in telling his followers to buy...

But showing mercy does not mean letting criminals go unpunished. You have cherry picked the exceptions to the rule of the death penalty. We have more than just mercy to Paul as an example for future Christians to follow. God did not show mercy to Ananias and Saphira. He killed them for lying...

I pray God will heal you of your vertigo. I said the Calvinist doctrine that salvation is all of God cannot be true, because God draws and man must respond by repenting and believing the gospel, and this exercise of faith is not works.

Israel was commanded to engage in enforcing a theocratic state sponsored death penalty. God ordered death for the following sins and people. 1. Murder (Ex 21:12,14)(Lev 24:17,21)(Num 35:16-21,30-31) 2. Kidnapping (Ex 21:16)(Deut 24:7) 3. Child sacrifice (Lev 20:2) 4. Both the man and woman...

And faith is man responding to God, but is not works. Galatians 2:16 For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

Faith is NOT works. Believing in your heart is NOT works. Believing the gospel is NOT works. Galatians 2:16 knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by...

This cannot be true. Salvation is both God’s work and man’s response. Otherwise, John the Baptist, Jesus, Peter would not have preached “Repent and believe the gospel.” If God does everything and man does nothing, there is no need for missionaries, sermons, or evangelism. God just imposes...

Exactly.

The Byzantine Text Bible refers to a Greek New Testament tradition (also known as the Majority or Traditional Text) that represents over 90% of all existing manuscripts, dominant from roughly A.D. 350–1516. It forms the basis of the Textus Receptus used for the King James Version and is...

As I understand it, first century Christians refused to serve in the military or police forces. Desmond Doss sounds like a wonderful person. But some Christian pacifists would disapprove, saying he provided medical aid so wounded soldiers could continue killing.

You can find strange doctrines and odd exegesis in every great theologian. None of them are 100% perfect, but we rejoice in the wonderful insights they provide to us. I love Charles Finney’s writings on repentance, revivals, true conversions, worldly entertainment, etc. But he apparently did not...

Experts are claiming that AI agents will, in a few years at most, replace all humans who hold jobs involving thinking, writing, coding, diagnostics, planning, researching, teaching, organizing, advertising, creativity, and all other cognitive processes. So forbidding students to use AI to...

Then, by that reasoning, Christians should also not join the military or take part in killing enemy combatants in warfare…. and Christians should not serve as security or police, who may have to kill a criminal.

“With the voice of the archangel” does not mean Michael the archangel and Jesus are the same person. Jesus will utter an authoritative command, the archangel will call or cry out, and a blast will come from God’s trumpet. 3 different things in unison. 1 Thessalonians 4:16 RSV “For the Lord...

John Gill cannot affirm the deity of Jesus Christ, while simultaneously claiming the archangel Michael is Jesus Christ. Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that Jesus, as the "Word of God" and "Light of the World" was created on day 1 of Creation by Yahweh as the heavenly archangel Michael before he...

Then you do not believe these verses that say Jesus died for…. John 3:17 the world Hebrews 2:9 every man 1John 2:2 the whole world 1Timothy 2:5-6 for all 1Timothy 4:10 all men Romans 5:6 the ungodly Romans 5:8 sinners 2Corinthians 5:14-15 for all As a Christian, I refrain from making insulting...

John Gill here is sounding like a Jehovah’s Witness. Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that Jesus Christ is the Archangel Michael, the highest of God's created spirit beings, both before his earthly life and after his return to heaven. They teach that Michael is another name for the Son of God, who...

No. Jesus died for all, so whomever will, may come, and repent to receive the gift of eternal life. Jesus died for: John 3:17 the world Hebrews 2:9 every man 1John 2:2 the whole world 1Timothy 2:5-6 for all 1Timothy 4:10 all men Romans 5:6 the ungodly Romans 5:8 sinners 2Corinthians 5:14-15...

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A person could be saved as a teenager and express great zeal and sincerity. But as the years go by, he could drift into sinful self-indulgences, to the point that some might think his conversion was not genuine. Then, eventually hitting rock bottom, he might return to the faith of his youth...