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Jesus did not say the bread is His body, and the wine is His blood, only when some priest performs a special ritual to transform them. There is also no biblical support for worshiping the communion bread and wine, for saying that in the Eucharist we have Jesus sacrificing Himself again, or for...

Some Christians sin because they think they have an irrevocable ticket to heaven in their back pocket, so sinning is no big deal. They think going to heaven when they die is guaranteed, so no matter what they do, they will not go to hell. The deceitfulness of sin tricks them into ignoring the...

Have you ever read the Psalms? Loaded with exactly what is wanted and how the psalmist requests God to respond to his enemies, often in gruesome details! Psalm 58 6 Break the teeth in their mouths, O God; Lord, tear out the fangs of those lions! 7 Let them vanish like water that flows...

When I was young, zealous, and gullible, I got involved with a cult that exalted their main teacher to a ridiculous extreme. I loved his teachings and got swept away with the cult’s exclusivity and intolerance of different views. It took me many years to snap out of it. I thought, “why didn’t I...

I generally agree with, and learn from, everything you post. So we can joyfully edify each other in spite of a disagreement. But I see in the gospels Jesus always healing the sick and crippled. As far as dying, He also raised the dead. I do not believe Paul had poor eyesight. He said he wrote...

I attended a local Greek Orthodox Church for a while, mainly due to my love for The Philokalia, and devout books published by St. Vladimir Seminary Press. I loved the unearthly, celestial liturgies and the short sermons. I liked the icons, but not the kissing veneration of them. I could not...

My wife and I enjoyed listening to Jack Hyles sermons from websites that collected them. His style was to quote a little bit of scripture, then go off on a rollicking commentary, interspersed with yelling at unruly pew sitters. Later I discovered some things about Hyles, his son, and successor...

That is a gross distortion of the plain teaching in James on ministering to the sick. You mention an admittedly minority view, then emphatically state what the passage does not support, as though only the minority view was valid. Nowhere in the New Testament does it say the unsaved are sick and...

This link goes to a forum topic “Has eternal punishment begun? Will be?”, started by Oseas3 and contains 18 lengthy posts filled with scripture quotes. Not a single comment posted by anyone else.

@Van - “If we ask God to alter the outcome of our situation, are we not "testing" God. Are prayers where God's intervention in the physical world is sought, actually prayers in accordance with God's will?” Jesus asked God if the cup could pass from Him, but He also said: if not, Thy will be...

You “work with the Word of God” in a way that does not help anyone, for your scripture quotes are often not relevant to the specific discussion. Plus you are prideful and arrogant about it.

We can do both, as documented throughout the scriptures. We can pray that God deliver us from evil and also that God give us the strength to endure afflictions. Both types of prayer are meaningful. Instances of believers asking God to deliver them from trouble are numerous, from Job to Jonah to...

Matthew 24:30 (ESV): "Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory". Acts 1:11 (ESV): "This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will...

Did Jesus save the thief on the cross? If salvation means going to paradise after death?

Compared to the lost, unsaved who perish, those who enter heaven will be a small number. Even though a great multitude will be in heaven, a much larger multitude will, sadly, be somewhere else, according to Jesus. Matthew 7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth...

No, you give us irrelevant scriptures that go off on tangents. The question is “where is heaven?”

Again, you quote a lot of verses, but none of them are relevant to the question “where is heaven?”

You quoted 6 verses. But only one of them directly deal with heaven. The question is “where is heaven?”

God’s impossibility is a concept based on the “unmoved mover” of Greek philosophy. The term comes from the Latin passio (suffering), meaning God is incapable of being "passive" or acted upon by creation in a way that changes his divine nature. Many contemporary theologians reject...