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Jesus had a physical resurrection in that He told Thomas to poke his fingers into His wounds. Jesus in His resurrected body ate fish and honeycomb. Luke 24 36 While they were describing these events, Jesus Himself stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.” 37 But they were startled and...

So if Jesus died, then was in hades for 3 days and nights, He was not in paradise? Thus, Jesus said, “Verily I say to thee today, thou shalt be with me in paradise.”??? Meaning, at some point, after Jesus ascended into heaven in His resurrected body? “I say to thee today…” is a way to...

@Martin Marprelate states: “First, someone must be born again; then he will repent and trust in Christ.” Again, this is backwards. The total depravity of Calvinism, which negates all the biblical commands to sinners to repent. John the Baptist, Jesus, and Peter never proclaimed, “Get born...

People can become self-righteous, scornful Pharisees regarding music. Labeling certain musical instruments as evil and worldly, when the instruments allowed to be used in their church have been, and still are, used by pagans to make worldly, ungodly music. I once participated in a new members...

Those are some strange doctrines that I have never heard anyone teach, certainly not Baptist pastors. Jesus no longer has a human body? During the Millennium, He will reign as a spirit, not physical? Jesus returned in the 1st century? You mean when He resurrected? QUOTE … there is a second...

You think piano and organ do not represent the world? Again, there is much worldly rock music that uses piano and organ. Did the musical instruments mentioned in Psalms represent the world? Pagans used the same instruments in worship of idols. John Michael Talbot is a good example of using...

Piano and organ are the original rock instruments. A rock beat can be produced without guitars and drums. Remember Jerry Lee Lewis? Little Richard? Fats Domino? Organs and Mellotrons were used extensively by psychedelic rock and prog rock bands in the 1960s and 1970s. Keith Emerson is the most...

When are you going to define “evil instrumental music” — or give us examples of it? Which musical instruments are evil? Is there also evil vocal music?

Other things that are “not biblical” (not commanded in the New Testament): 1. Men wearing clothes in church. 2. Bible colleges and seminaries. 3. Owning a car. 4. Annual physical checkups with a physician. 5. Buying food at a grocery store. 6. Vacation Bible school. 7. Joining the military. 8...

Nobody is saying that “dead in trespasses and sins” = “alive unto God”. But an unsaved person has the potential to become alive unto God by responding positively to a proper presentation of God’s Word. Martin claims that salvation occurs when God sends His son to die and the Holy Spirit gives...

Does your personal physical or mental suffering harm you spiritually? Can it increase or decrease your faith in God? What trials of sickness, injury, anxiety, or other misery are you going through now, or have you endured in your past? Right before Christmas Eve, I slipped on black ice in my...

I founded an experimental electronic music band as a teenager. We performed all over NYC during the 1980s. I owned tons of worldly music CDs, tapes, and vinyl. I had a 3rd spiritual awakening 2 years ago. I got rid of my TV and all movies. I sold my synthesizers. I was burned out on music. I...

I always wear a sport coat and tie to church. It is a habit ingrained in me over the years. In some churches, only one or two other men do the same. In other churches, many men and ladies are dressed up. It is just my way of showing respect and honor to the house of God. When I see an older...

The health of a church seems to measured by a good mix of ages. Youth has the freshness of faith plus invincible exuberance, middle age people have deeper scriptural application and the stability of maturity, elders have settled serenity and hard won wisdom. I too feel sorry for churches that...

Then why did John the Baptist, Jesus, and Peter go around telling people to repent and believe the gospel? If nobody can do this, the command is an impossibility to obey. Why did Jesus act perturbed and accuse His disciples as having so little faith? Why did He tell individuals their faith has...

There is no punctuation in the ancient texts. So commas are editorial additions. Ancient Hebrew and Greek Bible manuscripts were written without punctuation, spaces between words, or lowercase letters, appearing as continuous, all-caps text (scriptio continua). This format, standard in...

But perhaps Jesus did not say that He and the thief would be in paradise that day, He instead may have said “Verily, I say to you today, you will be with me in paradise.” Meaning in the future, not that very day. If paradise means the New Jerusalem, the New Heaven and New Earth, that does not...

Native Americans were genocided, re-educated / brainwashed, deceived by broken treaties, poisoned with alcohol, relocated to distant reservations, and forced to severely limit self-sufficient hunting and fishing.

I received salvation when I responded enthusiastically to the gospel, as it was fully explained to me by a pastor at a Mennonite church camp, when I was 15 years old. I repented of my sins, though I did not have a mature understanding of sin or repentance, and begged Jesus to come into my heart...

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