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Well, since pescador has left the conversation, I'll just put this out in the for what it's worth category. God has declared in the Scriptures how He feels about any and all sin...He cannot abide it, and it will have no part in His heaven. The current trend in our society towards approval of...

Admittedly, I've not read every post in this thread, but, I wonder what those of you who do not subscribe to the pre-trib rapture concept think about Jesus' teaching on the subject. It's found in Luke 21. That chapter is Luke's version of Matthew's chapter 24, commonly referred to as the...

Jonah's usage of the word "grave" in that passage is prophetic...looking forward to Jesus' reference back to Jonah in describing His own burial. Matt. 12 40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in...

Quite right...all religions but two are the product of man's imagination, and not worthy of your consideration. The exceptions are Judaism and Christianity. Those two God himself instituted in speaking with select people who conveyed his message. Christianity separates itself from all other...

"never called to change the world"? I don't know about that. We are certainly called be an influence in the world, by Jesus himself. Matt. 5 13 “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and...

The Bible does not condemn the love, it condemns the act. The trouble with love for the homosexual though is that it brings with it the temptation of the act. James 1 14 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. 15 Then, when desire has conceived, it...

I'll re-offer the Hebrews 10 passage that I quoted earlier: 26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries...

Jesus was a big proponent of not judging one another, as was Paul. But Jesus, Paul, and Peter were also big proponents of encouraging one another to holiness. Why? Because there is danger in sin, as the author of Hebrews explains- Heb. 10 24 And let us consider one another in order to stir...

Just curious...you say "Jesus never taught a pre-tribulation rapture would occur so that his followers would escape." You reference the Matthew version of the Olivet discourse, but have you ever checked out Luke's account of the same discourse. It's found in Chapter 21. I assume we both...

Indeed. That line of thinking is in error. There is a line from an old commercial: "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature." Simply put, you can't fool God the Father. Gal. 6 7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. 8 For he who sows to his...

Well, what does the Scripture say? Rom. 9 10 And not only this, but when Rebecca also had conceived by one man, even by our father Isaac 11 (for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of...

I agree with all the above posters that the last living Apostle was John, who went to be with the Lord shortly after penning Revelation. However, your guy would be correct in calling himself a saint. All Christians are saints. The Roman Catholic business of proving that the guy performed a...

I really like the MacArthur Study Bible. John MacArthur's theology is fundamentalist, young-earth creationist, and his teaching closely follows along Baptist lines. I have it in the NKJV, which substitutes contemporary English words for ones that have fallen out of usage (you instead of thee...

Christianity has been subtlely under attack in this country ever since the Supreme Court decision in the early 60's to ban the Bible and God from the public classroom. In the last decade or so, the attacks have become bolder...efforts to ban Christian symbols, such as Ten Commandments plaques...

You are certainly correct that there are places in the Scriptures where "yom" is rendered as something other that a 24 hour period. Sometimes it means the daylight portion of a day and at other times, an indefinite period of time. Illustrating the three different uses: "Back in my...

I haven't read through all twenty-some pages but the last few seem to reflect that the original question is still within the realm of discussion. It's funny how many times that in threads this long, the subject of the OP is long lost by this time. Anyway, in regards to an analogy for the...

Isaiah 40:22 New King James Version (NKJV) 22 It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

Aren't you imposing an "interpretation" there that is unnecessary to understand the text, except in an effort to reconcile with a naturalistic world-view? And it might even work except for the modifier: the evening and the morning, which pretty much restricts it to a 24 hour period. I have no...

I have no choice but to believe in a literal six-day creation. Why? Because the Bible is the inspired Word of God, and God does not lie. 2 Peter 1 20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, 21 for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy...

John 3 5 Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born...