Quote Can you imagine the Lord saying something like this:”Do not replace the customs and traditions of the pagans, let them keep their pagan meaning. What the LORD has made as good, they made evil and so don't tear down their evil strongholds, just let them alone and let them continue to make evil what the LORD has made for good.?”True Christians…[Read more]

Quote Judges 6:25-2625Now on the same night the LORD said to him, “Take your father’s bull and a second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal which belongs to your father, and cut down the Asherah that is beside it; 26and build an altar to the LORD your God on the top of this stronghold in an orderly manner, and take a second bul…[Read more]

Quote David,I think the problem is with our different PERSPECTIVES. I see what the Christians do as REPLACING pagan customs and you see what Christians do as IMITATING pagan customs.Do you remember the story of when God told Gideon to tear down the altar of Baal and to replace it with an altar to the LORD? Yes, I do remember that. They tore them…[Read more]

LU, please answer me this;1. Why do you think the early Christians refused to celebrate birthdays (including Jesus birthday)? There is no record of Christians celebrating Jesus' birth for hundreds of years. Why did they refuse to do so? (I can provide a string of quotes saying they didn't, if you like, showing that the early Christians regarded…[Read more]

Quote That is amazing to say that Christmas and Easter/Resurrection Day are precepts of men and not the doctrine of God. Really? The story surrounding the birth of Christ is not found in the Bible? Men just established the whole celebration…there were no angels rejoicing in heaven?–LULIGHTENUP, do you know that thing where people create a false…[Read more]

DAN 9 discusses when “messiah the leader” would appear. And also when he would be “cut off.”“After the sixty-two weeks Messiah will be cut off, with nothing for himself. . . . And he must keep the covenant in force for the many for one week; and at the half of the week he will cause sacrifice and gift offering to cease.” (Daniel 9:26a, 27a)…[Read more]

John said: “I viewed the spirit coming down as a dove out of heaven, and it remained upon him. Even I did not know him, but the very One who sent me to baptize in water said to me, ‘Whoever it is upon whom you see the spirit coming down and remaining, this is the one that baptizes in holy spirit.’ And I have seen it, and I have borne witness that…[Read more]

Quote (mikeboll64 @ Mar. 15 2012,09:43)13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John. 14 But John tried to deter him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?”Why do you suppose John the Baptist, who WAS filled with Holy Spirit, would say these words to a regular old person who wasn't yet filled with Hol…[Read more]

Quote (mikeboll64 @ Mar. 14 2012,09:47)Quote (david @ Mar. 13 2012,01:05)Quote (mikeboll64 @ Mar. 13 2012,10:16)Quote (david @ Mar. 12 2012,00:31)Thoughts?Luke 211 Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord.The angel didn't say, “He WILL BE Christ the Lord”.Luke 225 Now there was a man in Jerusalem called…[Read more]

Hi Terrica, yes, it was fortold that Christ would appear and be cut off. But when did that prophecy point to? Did it point to his birth? Or did it point to when he was “anointed” hence officially becoming the anointed one (Christ)?Dan 9:24-27 pinpoints when “messiah” would appear (and also be cut off, in death)Luke 3:15: The Jews were in…[Read more]

Ed, in the Christmas Easter thread, Annie just said: “NOT 'living in the Spirit of Love'. 'Living in the Spirit of Love would be obeying Him”This is the sense of the word spirit when Pierre says the spirit of Satan. He's not talking about a spirit being, and nor is the spirit of love a spirit being. People speak like this often. Ed, I am…[Read more]

Ed, I know they are his words. I don't think you understand what he was saying. And because of this, you are almost misrepresenting what he is saying.

Quote (mikeboll64 @ Mar. 13 2012,10:16)Quote (david @ Mar. 12 2012,00:31)Thoughts?Luke 211 Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord.The angel didn't say, “He WILL BE Christ the Lord”.Luke 225 Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of…[Read more]

Ed, you really like to do this thing where you present YOUR two options, when there are other options. The fact is, “spirit” is used in a number of ways. When he says ere is the spirit of the world and the spirit of god, he is talking about two opposing attitudes or tendencies. One of god and one of Satan. He's not talking about there being…[Read more]

I'm pretty sure that is exactly what he meant.  The word “spirit” is used in many many many ways.  See 7.an.1.a. The vital principle or animating force within living beings.b. Incorporeal consciousness.2. The soul, considered as departing from the body of a person at death.3. Spirit The Holy Spirit.4. A supernatural being, as:a. An angel or a d…[Read more]

Quote (terraricca @ Mar. 11 2012,06:13)Quote (david @ Mar. 11 2012,12:22)My thoughts are that “Christ” means “annointed one.”  When was he annointed?  I take this to mean annointed with holy spirit?  but what do I know.  I almost always spell annointed wrong.david.Davidevery buddy talks about the anointment of Jesus,but I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHY…[Read more]

Hi Kerwin.Quote David,I look on these issues as judging another's servant. As you stated they are not intrinsically evil so whatever one chooses to do it for the Lord.Kerwin, let's go over what “intrinsically” means, because I don't think you understand what I am saying.A knife can be used for good or evil. It isn't intrinsically bad (bad in…[Read more]

Heb (messiah)  Gk (Christ)  Both mean: “anointed one.”Dan 9:24-27 pinpoints when “messiah” would appear (and also be cut off, in death)Luke 3:15:  The Jews were in “expectation” of the Christ, right around the time Jesus was baptized. (Luke 3:21,22)How did the Jews know that the Christ was to appear around that time?  They read Dan 9.  Why were…[Read more]

Let's stay on topic. Does anyone…ANYONE AT ALL have any scriptural proof that Gods holy spirit is God?

Quote There is a VAST difference between what Christians do and what pagans do but there are also similarities. You want to claim some are evil based on the idea that pagans do certain customs, but then why not include all the things that pagans do that are similar to what Christians do or what God's people in the OT have done. In other words here…[Read more]