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Jesus did NOT teach that the process of regeneration is like the wind. Jesus taught that the man who has already been regenerated is like the wind. PROOF: John 3:8 "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it...

Justin Martyr, First Apology (Defense of Christianity) to the Roman government, circa 150 AD Chapter LXI.-Christian Baptism. I will also relate the manner in which we dedicated ourselves to God when we had been made new through Christ; lest, if we omit this, we seem to be unfair in the...

"If you [Peter] who started as a Jew live like a Gentile rather than a Jew, why do you compell Gentiles to Judaize?" (Galatians 2:14) Good question. Why do so many on this forum want to Judaize??? You know you don't actually keep the Torah--its impossibly to keep the Torah today even in a...

Then Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu, took their censers, and put fire in them, and put incense in them, and offered to the Lord a fire which was different than the fire that the LORD had commanded them to offer. And God burned them alive and killed them--and Aaron their father kept his mouth...

"One of the many titles Pope Benedict XVI assumes as head of the Roman Catholic Church is that of Chief Shepherd of the People of God." ( http://www.bne.catholic.net.au/reflections/benedict.htm ) "As he assumes now the responsibility as chief shepherd of the whole universal church, we pledge...

1 Pet 5:4 "And when the Chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away." Peter here refers to the second coming of Christ, saying "when the Chief Shepherd (JESUS CHRIST) shall appear"--when the Chief Shepherd, JESUS CHRIST, appears, it's over! PETER says...

Cyprian in his Treatise on the Unity of the Church 251 AD (paragraph 6) The Lord says, "I and the Father are one" and again it is written of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, "And these three are one." Bibles: German Luther 1545 AD "Denn drei sind, die da zeugen im...

Every book that Protestants call Apocypha you call deuterocanonical except for the Prayer of Manasse, and 3rd and 4th Esdras. What is the post-Trent rational for treating these 3 books as lower Apocrypha and placing them in an appendix in the back of the Vulgate?

1 Cor 7:5 "Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency." To not live as man and wife if you are man and wife is against God's will, because it is...

"Remember Peter and Paul were Torah observant Jews" You hear this kind of thing all the time, right? Well, the question is "is it true?" What would it mean to be "Torah Observant?" Well, for one thing, it would mean giving tithe to the Levitical priesthood. Did Peter and Paul tithe...

1 Th 4:15-17 "For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God...

Why was only the pope's back shown on screen? I have a friend who thinks that the pope is already dead but Rome can't admit it yet because they haven't decided who the new pope will be and he hasn't laid hands on him, and since he's dead he never can, but they can pretend he's alive for a while...

Obviously the following canon says that some penalty beyond exclusion from the Eucharist and other sacraments is to be applied to those who were baptized as infants in the RCC and yet reject the Roman Catholic faith--what is the penalty that is to be applied? Canons of the Council of Trent on...

In the time of Cyprian and Stephen there was a controversy over repentant heretics. The repentant heretics wanted to join the Catholic Church. The bishops of North Africa met in council and decided that the baptism received outside the church was invalid and these repentant hertics must be...

If the Lord set so much store in the proof of His power as to reveal thoughts, and to impart health by His command, lest He should not be believed to have the power of remitting sins; it is not lawful for me to believe the same power to remit sins resides in any one, whosoever he be, without the...

There are two types of Faith Onlies: TYPE 1. Those who believe that Abraham was once saved always saved when he believed that God told him "go sacrfice your son" and therefore whether or not Abraham did it or not he'd still be saved. TYPE 2. Those who believe that Abraham was once saved...

I want to run a poll to see if the Arminian vs. Calvinist thing has any relationship to Young Earth vs Creationism.

In Genesis we find the order of creation to be: DAY 1: Heaven and Earth created. Light and Darkness separated. DAY 2: The "firmament" (sky) created. DAY 3: Dry Land and Sea separated. Grass, Trees, Plants created. DAY 4: Sun, Moon, Stars established. DAY 5: Everyhting that lives in water or...

I recently watched a documentary on PBS called "The Missing Link." Unlike other shows on the "missing link," however, it was not about the "missing link" between ape-like hominids and men, but about the "missing link" between fish and tetrapods (land dwelling animals). The overall questions...

This is from another thread, in which no messages can any longer be posted because they all become blank. http://mb-soft.com/believe/txo/mass.htm http://www.yale.edu/adhoc/research_resources/liturgy/d_mass.html Now, my simple commentary on this is that I do not believe people very interested...