Quote (banana @ Dec. 10 2009,09:20)Quote (martian @ Dec. 10 2009,05:13)Quote (Nick Hassan @ Dec. 10 2009,04:49)Hi, Many have opinions but scripture is truth Truth can be proven by scriptural witnessesSome much time is wasted trawling through opinion here.But until the parties agree on a proper method to interpret scripture it will always be…[Read more]

Quote (Nick Hassan @ Dec. 10 2009,04:49)Hi, Many have opinions but scripture is truth Truth can be proven by scriptural witnessesSome much time is wasted trawling through opinion here.But until the parties agree on a proper method to interpret scripture it will always be opinion making the scriptural witness void.Even scriptures that seem to be…[Read more]

Part two —What are we being saved from?And everyone raises their hands as says “sin”.But what exactly is sin? Most say it is failure to obey God or to break the commandments.The Hebrew scholar Jeff Benner defines sin as follows.The concrete meaning to “sin” is “to miss” as when aiming at a target. From the parallels between “believe not” and “si…[Read more]

Gene,I can agree with your post as far as it goes. Perhaps to understand salvation one must understand what we are being saved from and what we are being saved into. In this post I will talk about what we are to be saved into. I would like to add that in addition to Christ being a blood sacrifice for us he also bought back for us the position we…[Read more]

I would like editing tools for my postsmartian

Quote (thethinker @ Dec. 05 2009,06:00)Quote (martian @ Dec. 05 2009,05:16)You know you apologized and I accepted it but this smells of justifying your comments.Even if everything were true of the motives behind what I said, do you return evil for evil? Does one wrong justify another? do you justify your wrong actions by pointing out the wrong of…[Read more]

Quote (thethinker @ Dec. 05 2009,04:37)TO ALL:I recently made a comment about Martian speaking “through the meds” again for which I have been justly criticized. It clearly was an inappropriate statement and I have apologized for it and do apologize once again. However, Martian in the past has used his illness as an excuse to belittle others. This…[Read more]

Quote (thethinker @ Dec. 05 2009,04:37)TO ALL:I recently made a comment about Martian speaking “through the meds” again for which I have been justly criticized. It clearly was an inappropriate statement and I have apologized for it and do apologize once again. However, Martian in the past has used his illness as an excuse to belittle others. This…[Read more]

You know you apologized and I accepted it but this smells of justifying your comments.Even if everything were true of the motives behind what I said, do you return evil for evil? Does one wrong justify another? do you justify your wrong actions by pointing out the wrong of others? You would have been better off dropping it and it would have been…[Read more]

Quote (Ed J @ Dec. 04 2009,05:50)Quote (martian @ Nov. 18 2009,06:00)The issue to can be made clearer in a few simple understandings.The actual meaning of “spirit” in the OT and NT is virtually the same. It means wind or breath. Ruarch in the OT and Pneuma in the NT. In fact the word pneumatic comes from the Greek word. Pneumatic as in moving air…[Read more]

Quote (Jesus name follower of Christ @ Dec. 04 2009,03:45)huhHave you ever done a word study on the words “holy” and “spirit”?In the Hebrew “holy” means set aside for a special purpose and “spirit” means wind or breath.The terms Holy spirit carry with it a personification. It makes it sound like a person. If you substitute the meaning of the…[Read more]

The words “good” and “evil” are poorly translated in our English bibles. “Good” would be better translated “functional” and “evil” as “dysfunctional”. (I will provide the etomology of the words if requested)Adam was created as a functional human. He functioned as God created him to function. Adam had the opportunity to grow and become perfectly…[Read more]

Even the Title of the post sends a bias message.”Holy spirit” is a false interpretation of the word.Holy implies something spiritual. In Hebrew the word means set aside for a special purpose.spirit means breath or wind. Insert the right translations into scripture and you take away half of the personifications forced into scripture

Gene,Can I give a man a test which determines his intellectual capabilities and by the results know the person's character?Having the character of God as seen in christ is the goal of God's plan for us. that character is not determined by our intellectual abilities.There are many that have great intellectual abilities that waste their time on…[Read more]

Quote (Gene @ Nov. 30 2009,13:50)Martian………I disagree with his findings completely.  First he say, can we depend on logic alone to lead us to Faith, Then proceeds to give his rendition of What one would percieve as beautiful and another would not, then tries to weave this into what is Logical to one is not logical to another, but fails to…[Read more]

Hey Gene, thought you would comment on this article.

Quote (dirtyknections @ Nov. 30 2009,06:24)I say absolutely NOT…nowhere does the bible say that…therefore by default..man was not created to “live forever”….if so..show me where god promised this originally….I also say…that because Adam was NOT perfect and had no knowledge of “good or evil”….he did not “sin” in the way that we…[Read more]

Here is an article I think is appropriate to this discussion. I agree that intellect is part of the factor that helps us walk with God but not all inclusive. The breath of God deals with the entire heart and not just the intellectual part. The web site from which it came is –http://www.rbc.org/questionsDetail.aspx?id=45940Can I depend on logic t…[Read more]

Quote (Gene @ Nov. 29 2009,08:23)martin……That paradine that causes the heart to react in a certain way is (intellect) Produced by GOD (if it is his Spirit or Intellect) that is causing the change and the Behavior. And indeed it is the Authority, seeing we all are animated by our thoughts, This force is much like the wind in that it can not be…[Read more]

Quote (Gene @ Nov. 29 2009,08:23)martin……That paradine that causes the heart to react in a certain way is (intellect) Produced by GOD (if it is his Spirit or Intellect) that is causing the change and the Behavior. And indeed it is the Authority, seeing we all are animated by our thoughts, This force is much like the wind in that it can not be…[Read more]