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Every Christmas season we hear laments over the commercialization of Christmas. There are Christian relatives who refuse to celebrate the season because it is so much commercialized and considered to represent something other than the birth of the Christ child. For many believers there is the...

About your example: You were taught by your failure to follow. I believe the Lord knew you would fail and some other delivered the message. God's will and purpose is never dependent upon our obedience. Part of His purpose in your failure is to teach you not to fail again. Delivering a death...

Suicide is not monolithic. A terrorist or mass killer committing suicide cannot be compared to a depressed child taking his own life. Circumstances and situations always factor in. Personality, personal strengths, character traits, spiritual life, support systems, health, loss, experiences, and...

---------------------------------------------------------- Every Christian could be appeased by what you believe, and it answers everyone’s questions about those who have died and didn’t hear. It is your definition of what is required for there to be a just and loving God which would require...

Your presentation is better than mine if for no other reason than it is what I wish to believe, but it is also, as you point out, a better fit to the theme of the plan of redemption. My interest was to combat literalism when the language requires figurative. Also, too much was being made...

---------------------------------------- Good interpretation of the Bible is always an issue. No one should be offended to discover what they believed the meaning of a passage to be is actually wrong. Every committed Bible student should have this ongoing experience...

Sermons based upon an Idealist view of the Book of Revelation can be magnificent. Let me make a recommendation to listen to Dr. Azurdia Revelation sermons regardless of your perspective on Revelation. Both the idealist and progressive parallelism perspectives hold up as applications of...

----------------------------------------- Who believes and Who Doesn’t There is nothing more burdensome than unbelieving friends and family members. How do we respond? Do we cast pearls before swine or do we proclaim the testimony of those who were the eye witnesses of the resurrection. The...

---------------------------------------- Romans 8:26-27 NASB 26 In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; 27 and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of...

------------------------------------ Your question demonstrate your heart is in a right relationship with the Lord. However, who and when someone hears the gospel is not dependent upon me, you, or any Christians. You are right it is our privilege, but the Lord is not limited by my disobedience...

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---------------------------------------------------- Psalm 69.28 Book of Life Some also use the imprecatory Psalm 69 as indicating that all people begin life with their names in the “Book of Life.” Therefore, before one is old enough to sin all people are saved – or new borns have their names...

--------------------------------------------------------------------- An atheist knows there is not a divine being. An agnostic does not know if there is a divine being. A theists knows there is a divine being. Theology is knowledge about God. It is interesting enough just to point out each of...

------------------------------------------------------------------- Every Christian eventually asks the question “Is it unjust for God to destroy people for their sins who never heard the Good News?” Mark, you make insightful points for any who by reason determine what God is. However, if...

--------------------------------------- How do you be more humble before God? You don’t. If you are before the Righteous and Holy God who sees all you are in behavior, thought, and deed you will indeed be humbled. If you are not humble you are not before God – not in His Presence – not walking...

----------------------------------------------------- Post #62 provides some details as to the exact positions of renowned dispensationalist. Post #63 The article by a dispensationalist, New Testament seminary professor, Dr. Neil D. Nelson Jr., was published in the Journal of Dispensational...

---------------------------------------------- Nelson on Dispensationalists interpreting Matthew 24 The following is by a dispensationalist and according to his education ought to be an expert on dispensationalism. The article was published in the Journal of Dispensational Theology: Volume 11...

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dispensationalists non futurist interpretations of parts of Matthew 24 Dispensationalists have debated whether these signs reported in Matthew 24 refer to the period of the Church or to the period of the Tribulation, also...

In interpreting Matthew 24-25 there are premillennial dispensationalist who interpret Mathew 24:1-31 and 24:1-34 as referring to the Jewish war against Rome (A. D. 67-92) and the A.D. 70 destruction of the temple. Are you also hot against this view?

----------------------------------------------------- I'd like my jalapeño peppers to be tams. Please do not take a post made to guide another, Questore, as an offense to you or your beliefs. Every believer desires to better understand the Bible. What makes us so very "hot" over our religious...