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    Is water baptism needed today?

    It has been claimed that water baptism is not needed today? What do you think? If yes why? If no why?
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    Can we drink the exact same cup that Jesus drank

    Can we drink the cup which Jesus drank? It has been suggested that we cannot drink the same cup that Jesus drank because that cup was a propitiation, and removed sin, and men cannot remove sin, only God can, in turn inferring that we cannot share in the result of the drinking of the cup. I...
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    How are we picking up our crosses everyday and why?

    Jesus commanded us to pick up the cross everyday and follow him. Meaning we should do what he did. If he picked up the cross everyday, did he die everyday? And was he resurrected everyday? The answer to the question is "yes" in both cases. Jesus picked up the cross by offering himself to be...
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    Were these people treating God like a vending machine?

    Acts 17:22-25 22So Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I observe that you are very religious in all respects. 23“For while I was passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ Therefore...
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    Buying your way past Heaven's doors?

    Luke 16:8“The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light. 9I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be...
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    Why did God create Humans?

    This thread is about covenant, sabbath and law, salvation theologies, so that's why I think it would fit here in the General section. That's one thing. The other thing is, a lot of analogies will be used. Scripture used plenty of analogies, to enable easy understanding, and since it was...
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    Why do we persist in misreading the Bible?

    Why is the Bible misread? Mostly because of the hermeneutic employed, grammatical historical. And it's offshoot, common sense realism. Most of the conclusions reached by major expositor's, and participants on various Christian discussions evokes a reaction of, "In your dreams!" from me. Not...
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    Have you really passed from death into life?

    John 5 24"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. The ministry of the letter of the law brought condemnation and death, but the ministry of the Spirit of grace...