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These religions are far more complicated than that. I studied Classics at University as an unconverted teenager and I did study something of Platonism, both in its earlier form in Greece and its later form in the Roman Empire. It is a fact that many (most?) of the early Church Fathers were...

You have not proved that he did. According to all I have read, he left them behind when he became a Christian.

I'm not sure they are. I read that when the Shah was booted out of Iran, there were only about 250 Christians in the country. Today, apparently, there are in excess of a million. These people have come to Christ in the teeth of the most vicious persecution. The N.T. does not tell us to try...

I don't believe this is correct. Mani taught that the universe could be explained as a conflict between the two equal forces of Light and Darkness. Humans must realise that they are a mixture of these two forces, and devote their lives to purifying themselves from all darkness. To purify...

Oh boy! I actually quoted some of Augustine, and you couldn't be bothered to so much as mention it. I know more about Augustine than you may suppose. I know that before his conversion he was into Manichaeism and then Neoplatonism. That is no secret. But what does it matter? 'Therefore, if...

If he was the guy heading up the link, I didn't warm to him. He was just one long sneer. I think the lady pastor might have done better with Luke 10:25-29 and Gal. 2:10, but let that pass. My view is that instead of preparing what we may think of as Christian political manifestos, we will do...

I tend to agree with you. I dislike rock bands in church. However, I find it more difficult to say that they should be banned in every church. As I have said, there are no musical instruments mentioned in the N.T. I know some folk who take that to mean that there should be none in church...

I do not see anywhere in the Bible that a drum is, in and of itself, ungodly. If you do, be sure and let me know. Many drums are, or used to be, made from animal skins. Many people wear sheepskin coats. I have never heard anyone say that they are ungodly, though perhaps a vegan might. I have...

Not a fact, but a silly, prejudiced error. Here is another snide remark. No quotation, no evidence, no Scriptural evidence, just a rather nasty way of putting forward your unbiblical views. You need to stop it. These things have nothing to do with Augustine's theology. PhD graduates who...

I'm sorry! Here's the link: A movement called the 'New Perspective on Paul' (NPP) first began quietly reshaping how evangelicals understood the gospel back in the 1970s. From British and Canadian universities, it gained influence in seminaries through the 1980s and '90s, then made its way into...

No, Calvinist suits me fine, thanks. They do align with Scripture, and if you knew Scripture properly you would realise that. Now stop with the snide comments. They do you no credit.

Unfortunately this is not quite what Paul wrote. The NSRV has added the word 'as' on two occasions. Here is the NKJV translation: 'there is also an antitype that saves us - baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience towards God), through the...

'We only use the term 'Calvinism' for shortness. That doctrine which is called 'Calvinism' did not spring from Calvin; we believe that it sprang from the great Founder of all truth. ...... We use the term then, not because we impute any extraordinary importance to Calvin's having taught these...

Just so. Our battle with sin is a constant one which will last as long as we live. It is precisely because we have died to sin that we are to put to death our earthly passions. Colossians 3:3ff. 'For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God ..... THEREFORE put to death your...

I thought this was a helpful overview of the issue of the NPP. Some may reject it because it is written by a woman, but I believe it is helpful and true. https://www.evangelical-times.org/new-perspective-on-paul-revisited-a-primer-and-warning/?ref=online-extra-newsletter

I'm not aware that the manufacture of trumpets is laid down in Scripture. No doubt if they were made from human body parts we should not use them, and I think it would probably be illegal to do such a thing anyway. Personally, I do not like the use of brass instruments in the worship of God...

I did not suggest that it did. All it seems to establish is that trumpets are not, in and of themselves, satanic.

I know that most people on this board do not open links, so here is the Pink quote written out. It may appear to some of our readers that the exposition we have given of John 3:16 in the chapter on “Difficulties and Objections” is a forced and unnatural one, inasmuch as our definition of the...

Thank you for posting all that, though I'm not quite sure what you hoped to accomplish by it. What you have proved beyond a doubt is that A.W. Pink was entirely right that the Greek word kosmos can, and usually does, mean a whole lot more that simply 'all the people in the world.'

It certainly is. If Christ has propitiated the Father in respect of the sins of everybody in the whole world, then He is propitiated and evryone is saved. 'Payment God will not twice demand; Once at my bleeding Surety's hand, And the again from me.' Augustus Toplady.