Quote (CatholicApologist @ Aug. 24 2009,16:31)Quote (bodhitharta @ Aug. 24 2009,14:39)(3) When she was delivered, she said: “O my Lord! Behold! I am delivered of a female child!”- and Allah knew best what she brought forth- “And no wise is the male Like the female. I have named her Mary, and I commend her and her offspring to Thy protection from…[Read more]

Quote (bodhitharta @ Aug. 25 2009,12:36)The point is violence is not always evil and it is condoned “to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil” according to the scriptures any denial of this is to deny the scriptures completely.But, I ask once again would anyone here standby and watch a village of women and children be raped, sodomized and…[Read more]

Quote (bodhitharta @ Aug. 24 2009,04:10)Quote (seekingtruth @ Aug. 24 2009,00:02)Actually the commandment is to not murderSometimes “violence” is required to end “violence”. Doctors take the drastic measure of removing limbs or organs to preserve the whole, not that the limb or organ wasn't wanted but failure to do this extreme measure would…[Read more]

Quote (CatholicApologist @ Aug. 23 2009,12:49)Quote God has spoken to me through dreams, and visions, and also in an audible voice, but all must line up with His Word or else it isn't God speaking.  If not, how do you know that it is God speaking to you?I'm glad you asked.  First, you mention “His Word”.  Who told you that this is exclusive to th…[Read more]

Hi WJ:You say:Quote There is no indication at all that the Holy Spirit is the Father or Jesus throughout the book of Acts!Maybe not in the Acts of the Apostles, but what about the following scriptures?Quote Mat 10:18 And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles. Mat 10:19 But…[Read more]

Quote (WorshippingJesus @ Aug. 21 2009,17:29)Quote (942767 @ Aug. 20 2009,19:11)Hi WJ:Once again, Romans 8:26 may not refer to the Holy Spirit making intercession.  In the following verse, relative to speaking in tongues, the Apostle Paul states “my spirit prayeth…”Quote 1Cr 14:14   For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my u…[Read more]

Hi CatholicApologist:You say:Quote But the Sacred Scriptures are NOT the only authoritative rule for belief and practiceHas God spoken to us in some other way other than through His Word?This what the scriptures state:Quote Hbr 1:1 ¶ God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hbr 1:2…[Read more]

Quote (thethinker @ Aug. 21 2009,09:05)Quote (942767 @ Aug. 19 2009,11:01)Hi thethinker:Jews that don't believe that jesus is the Messiah don't know that the Levitical priesthood has been done away with.And there are Jews in Israel who are planning to rebuild the temple even as I speak.  The have already made some of the temple fixtures.  The t…[Read more]

Hi WJ:Once again, Romans 8:26 may not refer to the Holy Spirit making intercession. In the following verse, relative to speaking in tongues, the Apostle Paul states “my spirit prayeth…”Quote 1Cr 14:14 For if I pray in an tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. And he who searches the heart, and knows the mind of the…[Read more]

Hi WJ:I love you too brother and I respect you. Looking at Romans 8:26, it may be that the spirit here is not the Holy Spirit but our spirit as children of God doing the groaning, and he who searches the hearts, may refer to Jesus, who knows the mind of the spirit, and makes incercession according to the will of God. Quote Hbr 7:22 By so much…[Read more]

Hi WJ:You ask:Quote Is the Holy Spirit the Father, and if he is, then who is it praying here and who is he praying to?In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the “Spirit himself intercedes for us” with groans that words cannot express. Rom 8:26Who is the Spirit interceding to?This is not…[Read more]

Hi Maranantha:You say:Quote I'm still asking forgiveness myself, but part of me is thinking…..”Jesus DID forgive my future sins, as well as my past sins….” so I'm still confused.You are confused because what your pastor is teaching regarding this is false.  I did not want to be blunt about it, but the scripture that I quoted for you in 1st…[Read more]

Hi WJ:You say:Quote Huh? This scripture also says that “he shall *receive” of mine, (Jesus)”,. I already showed you that he explained what he meant by this.  All things are his because God has given everything to him.  He is God's heir.Quote Hbr 1:2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom…[Read more]

Quote (Not3in1 @ Aug. 19 2009,13:31)Marty, your posts are helpful and reaching…..  Thank you for the Spirit that is so evident in you.Love,MandyHi Mandy:Happy that I can help.  My prayer is that we all will come into unity.  WJ and I may disagree on this issue, but I know that he and others who may believe the doctrine of trinity, like br…[Read more]

Hi WJ:You say:Quote But you are leaving out some sriptures in you belief!Jn 14: 16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you *another Comforter*, that he may abide with you for ever; 17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: “BUT YE KNOW HIM; FOR HE DWELLETH WITH YOU”, AND…[Read more]

Hi thethinker:Jews that don't believe that jesus is the Messiah don't know that the Levitical priesthood has been done away with.And there are Jews in Israel who are planning to rebuild the temple even as I speak. The have already made some of the temple fixtures. The temple was rebuilt when the Jews came back from the Babylonian captivity, but…[Read more]

Hi All:Jesus was going to ascend into heaven and so he says that he will send another comforter, but he was not speaking of a third person. The same Holy Spirit of God that indwelt him would now indwell born again believers.Quote Jhn 14:17 the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye…[Read more]

Hi WJ:The Holy Spirit is God's personal presence dwelling within us and not a “a third” person.Quote Jhn 14:10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. Quote Psa 139:7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or…[Read more]

Hi WJ:Quote Jhn 4:24 God a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and in truth Quote 2Jo 1:9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son The spirit of the Lord is the Word of God or the spirit of the Son, but…[Read more]

Quote (thethinker @ Aug. 18 2009,10:44)Marty said:Quote God was speaking of the visions pertaining to the Babylonian captivity in Ezekiel 12, but there are other visions in Ezekiel which have not been fulfilled.Marty,If you are correct that the prophecies in Ezekiel 37 are yet to be fulfilled then you must accept the conclusion that the old…[Read more]