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  1. RandyPNW

    Revelation 4 interpretation

    Rev 4.4 After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” 2 At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven...
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    Comparing Israel and the Church

    This is a nice exchange of ideas with someone who shared some basic truths of the Gospel, in contrast with the failures of Judaism.... Someone said: In these verses we see a man who, although at one time was full of hatred, now displays love for his fellow man. As a one time zealous Pharisee...
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    The Son of Man and the Throne Room

    There is an interesting parallel between Dan 7 and Rev 1-5 in which the Son of Man appears in heaven to obtain authority on behalf of his people. Jesus appears in white, showing his absolute purity, and then we see the fires of judgment come down upon those who persecute God's People. Dan 7.8...
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    Prosperity

    A critique of Osteen's Prosperity Gospel: I submitted my own response as follows: Simple answer has taken me years to learn: Jesus in his earthly ministry preached the Law, which required all 613 or so requirements and included, in Deuteronomy, the promise to prosper the Israeli nation. This...
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    Formalism or not?

    Liturgical worship--sacramentalism or genuine? I don't think anybody would deny that repetitious statements of love and worship for God is a bad thing. If for no other reason, repetition fixes an idea in our minds--something we need to do in our worship of God. But can repetition lead to an...
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    the book of life and who is in it?

    I'm not sure?? I've asked myself this question for a long time, and don't have 100% assurance I'm right. My current thought is that only those in covenant relationship with God have their names written in the book of life. For example, under the Law of Moses, all Israel was in covenant with God...
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    nominal Christianity in religious practice

    Means of Grace. Nearly all Christian denominations would admit that the "means of grace" extend beyond what Christ did for us on the cross and include all of the myriad of ways by which God dispenses his grace for Salvation to men. These would include things such as accepting Christ for...
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    Mel. divine or human?

    Heb 7.1 This Melchizedek was king of Salem and priest of God Most High. He met Abraham returning from the defeat of the kings and blessed him, 2 and Abraham gave him a tenth of everything. First, the name Melchizedek means “king of righteousness”; then also, “king of Salem” means “king of...
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    Eucharist Elements

    On another forum I addressed a perennial problem with interpreting the Eucharistic elements, as either symbolic or literal transformation from bread and wine to body and blood. I come out on the "symbolic" side of this. We were asked if Transubstantiation is meant to infer a typical "miracle" in...
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    the Roman King

    Dan 9.24 “Seventy ‘sevens’ [490 years minus 3.5 years] are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place. [Christ's death...
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    the true temple

    Apart from analyzing the individual passages concerning the temple, there are theological reasons to reject any notion of a future temple. I personally have to analyze the passages together with theological understanding. And that's because OT typology made no effort to explain its NT...
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    Christian nations or Christian nationalism

    Here is what I think was an interesting conversation I had with my brother, discussing the idea of "nations" being promised to Abraham. My brother's comments are italicized. Your email prompted me to look up the promise to Abraham. Genesis 12:2 says that God will make of him a great nation...
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    Dead Tradition?

    Mark 10.42 Jesus called them together and said, “You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. 43 Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, 44 and whoever...
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    Political Correctness

    Politically Correct. I do not believe in "Black Lives Matter." I believe in "All Lives Matter." I do not believe in "Politically Correct Speech." I believe in "Free Speech." Don't get me wrong. Speaking with no sense of your audience is not "loving" in the Christian sense. We must show regard...
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    The Olivet Discourse, Take 2

    Hosea 9. 10 “When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the desert; when I saw your ancestors, it was like seeing the early fruit on the fig tree. But when they came to Baal Peor, they consecrated themselves to that shameful idol and became as vile as the thing they...
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    Born Again?

    Evangelicals teach a momentous change from sinner to saint by a formulation called being "Born Again." And this implies for some an immediate change, and for others, a progressive change. In reality I think it is both. I do think there is an immediate Born Again change when we begin to...
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    question of imputation

    Yes, our position with Christ in heaven is, as I see it, "in grace." We have legal standing with Christ who is in heaven. We are not in heaven with him, obviously, but we are with him positionally, or legally, because he sits there upholding the stand he took for us on the cross in forgiving us...
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    The Rapture Event

    Matt 24.29 Immediately after the distress of those days ‘the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’ Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth will...
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    angels, angels, angels

    On another forum we were discussing the Scripture referring to Christ returning from heaven in the book of Revelation. Rev 19.11 I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war. 12 His eyes are like...
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    2 Christian political parties

    I had a revelation from God, I believe, when I woke up this morning. In my country, the US, we have 2 political parties, both dominated by Christians, and yet seriously divided in terms of Christian philosophy. Since we have Christian friends, even in our church, who despise Trump and embrace...
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