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@Charlie24, I love you dearly, and we agree on a lot of things, but I believe you are missing the point of the Old Testament. I am preaching on John 1:43-51 a week on Sunday, and I'm struck by verse 45. The O.T. is about Jesus. He is the sum and substance of the O.T. and it cannot be...

Israel is now the Church and the Church is Israel. Believing Jew and believing Gentile together. There is only one people of God. The New Covenant is for us (Heb. 10:15ff).

Indeed he does. So do you think that Paul got it wrong? Or do we need to revise our thinking about what a Jew is? Romans 2:28-29. 'For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; but he is Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of...

I'm afraid I still think you are being disingenuous. I wrote before that most of Gottschalk's books were burned by Archbishop HIncmar, so to say they were "lost" is not strictly accurate. I don't know what language you suppose that Gotsschalk would have written in, but Latin was the language...

Ephesians 2:11-22. '...For He [Christ] Himself is our peace, who has made the two [Jew and Gentile] one. .... His purpose was to create in Himself one new man out of the two , thus making peace, and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which He put to death...

Wrong. Unscriptural. The Lord Jesus did indeed describe Himself as the gate, but it still does not mean that He has bars and hinges. It must be taken spiritually. He is the way by which His sheep come to heaven, and that is the way of grace effected by faith (Eph. 2:8), both of which are the...

It is the former. At the Lord's Supper, we are to feed upon Christ in our hearts. The Lord Jesus described Himself as a gate, but that does not mean that He is made of wood and has five bars and a hinge. We are to read the Bible with spiritual eyes. It was the Pharisees and others who took...

In Martin Luther's time it was usual for only the priests to partake of bread also. Religious life in England centred around the Mass. It seems that in the early Church, all Christians had taken part in communion regularly. From the 6th Century, however, it became the custom for lay people to...

Among the tariffs orininally imposed were 50% tariffs on the countries of Lesotho and Madagascar. I believe these were later reduced to 15%. Lesotho's imports to the USA were primarily cheap denim jeans. Does the USA really want to make impoverished countries like Lesotho utterly destitute so...

I've been browsing this thread for the first time today, and the subject of attire amused me. Some years ago I attended two Christian conferences, one held at the Metropolitan Tabernacle ('Spurgeon's') and the other an FIEC event. At the Met Tab, all the speakers were elderly and wore dark...

Again, you are counting the number that God says no man can count and finding it insufficient. In other words, you are blaming God. Why not leave the numbers to God and simply obey His word? '"Go to the street corners and inviteto the banquet anyone you find." So the servants went out into...

This is entirely incorrect. Firstly, you cannot prove that any more people will be saved under Arminianism than under Calvinism. Secondly, we are told that on the Last Day there will be a 'great multitude, which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples and tongues, standing before...

The word helkuso, translated 'draw' in John 6:44 & 12:32 is quite a strong word. In Acts 16:19, the NKJV, ESV and NIV translate it as 'drag.' Paul and Silas weren't gently lead or drawn to the market-place; they were seized and dragged. In John 18:10, helkuso is used to describe the drawing of...

:Rolleyes You do realise, I suppose that the website I referenced in my post was Ligonier, founded by R.C. Sproul. I don't think it would be recommending Arminian commentaries. Likewise Banner of Truth is a Reformed publishing house,set up in the 1950s specifically to promote Reformed and...

I understand the point he's making. There is no salvation without the death (and resurrection) of Christ. But no one is saved unless and until he trusts in Christ for salvation (Acts 16:31), and I am quite sure that saving faith is not believing that there was such a person as Jesus of Nazareth...

More from Dr. Needham's book: Hincmar's brutal treatment of Gottschalk outraged many Churchmen. Great Roman Catholic scholars leapt to the defense of Gottschalk and his theology - notably Archbishop Remigius of Lyons (d. 875), Florus of Lyons (d.860) and the monk Ratramnus of Corbie. The...

You may be right. To their own Master they stand or fall, though I think that if they are looking to their fasting or any other work to save them, they may be barking up the wrong tree . I took a brief holiday in Egypt mast month, and I was encouraged to see, along with the ubiquitous mosques...

I really don't want to come across as someone with a 'critical spirit,' but what @Craigbythesea has written is simply not correct. Nor do I want to pass myself off as some great authority on medieval Christianity, which I'm certainly not. The details that folow are mostly taken from 2,000...

Er..... no. I have three commentaries on Romans written from a Reformed perspective on my bookshelf. Haldane, Robert, Romans. Banner of Truth 'Geneva' Commentary, 1958. Originally published around 1835. Moule, Handley, The Epistle to the Romans, Hodder and Stoughton, 1904. Hendriksen...

I'm reluctant to make detailed predictions about the end times. No doubt the Lord has it all worked out, and our job is to be ready (Matt. 24:36-44). I think the Isaiah 19 text is in line with verses like Genesis 12:3. We are seeing many Muslims and others becoming Christians these days...