Nick…I have managed to lose the thread!!!! So I weill post this here instead! Sorry about that.Quote (Nick Hassan @ April 05 2006,02:50)Hi tb4u,How was the Word with God in the beginning?Who is the only begotten Son of God?What does”only begotten” mean?When did the Son of God become a son? How is it that the Son proceeded from God and was…[Read more]

Quote (Nick Hassan @ April 04 2006,05:41)Amen. Would it not be great if this truth was grasped again by sincere searchers who want to follow Christ?Nick/Ramblin Rose……Good stuff!!!!! “Christianity” is busily shooting itself in the foot, and very few who sit in the pews today are at all interested in “truth,” whatever it may be. I have seen…[Read more]

Also regarding the “trinity,” let us not forget that Jesus DIED, and it was GOD who resurrected him……I don't think this makes them “equal!!” Never mind all the verses where Christ himself stated very clearly that the Father was GREATER than he.Roman 10:9 That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that…[Read more]

Quote (Sultan @ Dec. 10 2005,23:44)Quote (MichaelTheeArchAngel @ Dec. 09 2005,18:53)How can a person come to know the truth when they dont know the difference between an opinion or fact. Many times I have given the facts about different subjects, and still people say that is your opinion. Unless a person says to themselves, I want to know what the…[Read more]

Quote (Lisa @ Oct. 17 2005,21:18)Is Jesus co-equal with the Father?Christ himself stated very clearly “the Father is greater than I.” This verse alone is sufficient to show they are not “equal,” though there are a great many verses like this that also illustrate the fact the Father is greater than the Son.”You heard that I said to you, 'I go…[Read more]

Woutlaw, and all…….The Book of Acts makes it pretty clear the correct thing is to baptize “in the name of Jesus.” In fact, if one makes the false assumption that Matthew 28:19 is a valid verse, then there is a direct contradiction between that verse and the entire Book of Acts. Matthew 28:19 and 1st John 5:7, among other verses were…[Read more]

There is a reason for my signature…..”There is an immense difference between one who thinks, and one who merely parrots what they have been told by others. Are you thinking…..or parroting?”I once was taken in by all these “doctrines,” myself….and then an ex-Catholic Priest asked me why do you “parrot” the inanities of man? Do some thinking…[Read more]

Quote (Nick Hassan @ April 01 2006,09:22)Hi SS, Scripture says Jesus has a God.Jn 20.17″..I ascend to my Father and your Father, and my God and your God”If Jesus is our God who is His God in an equal trinity?Just another nail in the coffin of the great “trinity” doctrine….when will most Christians realize that to even ATTEMP to defend this…[Read more]

Quote (kenrch @ April 01 2006,11:36)If He will not blot out does that mean He will?Rev 3:5  He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.Rev 22:19  And if any man shall take away from the words of the b…[Read more]

Nick…Have you read this? This was a big influence on me.http://lig1.tripod.com/lee/early/leeearly.htm

Quote (Nick Hassan @ April 01 2006,01:35)Good stuff guys, But we should never appear before the White Throne /sheep and goat judgement seat. That is a mercy Judgement of those who rise in the SECOND resurrection. Those who are saved there are from the world-“all the nations”.They are the final remnants saved.It is the second resurrection that is…[Read more]

David….good stuff! For those who “pay attention” to what Scripture actually says, it would be difficult to come to a belief that you are “instantly saved,” or that “once saved, always saved,” both of which are absolutely ridiculous doctrines and it is a sad state of affairs when the “churches” pass these doctrines off as being real, and…[Read more]

Quote (Nick Hassan @ Mar. 31 2006,08:49)Quote (sandra @ Mar. 31 2006,00:28)This is absolutely facinating, Why was the Book of Revelation almost not considered Canon?Hi Sandra,The personal opinion it would seem by whoever was in charge at the time. It does upset some people as does all scripture at times.You will find a few sites to look through if…[Read more]

Sunnyb…You stated: “Once you are born again it is permanent just like you could not be reborn physically, so if you decided to do nothing with it the rest of your life, and be a “couch potato” for God, then you would still be saved.”Ummmm…..This  is  what most churches teach these days….which helps them in their “feel good” faith.  …[Read more]

Quote (Sammo @ Mar. 28 2006,03:11)Quote (seekingtruth @ Mar. 27 2006,10:04)I agree the day he died is a small thing but I'm concerned for you. Jesus was always very careful with His words and I cannot begin to believe that He would even use a “figure of speech”, that would misrepresent the truth. Especially with it being so specific on 3 nights.…[Read more]

QUOTE FROM ABOVE: “Luke 23:43 (NASB) says, “And he said to him, ‘Truly I say to you, today you shall be with me in Paradise’”, indicating that Jesus will be with the malefactor in Paradise later that same day. But if the comma is moved to the other side of “today,” an entirely different emphasis results: “Truly I say to you today, you shall (in…[Read more]

Quote (Sammo @ Mar. 27 2006,06:33)I go into that in the thread – basically the Jews counted inclusively, so Friday, Saturday, Sunday would have been described as 3 days.I didn't dream that up for myself – you can look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting. It's fairly well established I think.It's likely that the phrase “three days and three…[Read more]

OK, let's follow the BIBLE here…..(YOU look up the verses, I'll just plunk them out there at you!) 1. Christ made his last entry into Jerusalem on Sunday (what we call Palm Sunday).2. “After two days was the Passover.” Add two days to Sunday and you get Wednesday, the day on which Christ was crucified.3. The day after the crucifixion was a…[Read more]

I'll probably get blasted for this, but I'll say it anyway….what I see in quite a number of posts in this forum overall are “personal interpretations” that attempt to make the Bible say whatever the person wants it to say or mean, and they ignore the context, or they ignore the fact that a number of verses are just plain spurious…..they are…[Read more]

According to the Hebrew understanding for thousands of years, throughtout the O.T., the “spirit” was a “thing,” not a person. Why would this suddenly change in the N.T.? The “personification” of the “spirit” is a product of the church, not the Bible….No Hebrew or Jew ever considered (nor do they consider it today) the spirit to be a “person.”