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Everyone knows right & wrong, we all know God's moral laws. Preaching is only needed to counter-act rebellion against God's moral laws. Currently, nobody is rebelling against God's law prohibiting stealing. But many people are rebelling against God's laws on sexual purity. Preachers focus on...

Since the signs in chapter 6 match the Olivet Discourse, and the events described in the Olivet Discourse came about in AD 70, wouldn't that mean that chapter 6 describes the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70?

This might help determine the sequence in which things were revealed to John, but it does not necessarily lead to the sequence in which those things would eventually take place.

I did. When I was in my teens, my parents started attending (and me with them) a Pentecostal church. When I started to speak in tongues (13 or 14 years old), my mind was not mature enough to sort though what was happening. Later (about 17 years old), I realized that I was trying to alternate...

I think this study sited in a Washington Post article helps explain what happened in Alabama yesterday. It may also clarify how Trump got got elected. A recent poll from Monmouth University Poll found that likely Alabama voters were evenly divided on whether it’s more important to have...

Yeah. You're probably right. I was just trying to illustrate the problem of this approach (of elevating category 2 doctrines) by illustrating what it could logically lead to. And I won't deny them that my thinking right now may be skewed by my current feelings of disappointment.

If you consider two local churches, where one holds to eternal security and the other holds to conditional security. Only one of them can be right. Isn't the other adding to scripture? The trouble is that we don't know which one. So, to be safe, we should be careful to qualify non-category 1...

Let me put this another way....Let's say that there are just three category 2 doctrines and each doctrine is simply binary (you either believe it, or you believe the contrary). That means there are 8 possible combinations of these beliefs. Now, lets say that you live in a community with just 7...

If a local church has statements of belief that it admits go beyond the essentials (those core beliefs that unite us all in Christ), have they added to scripture? Are they no longer gathering around the Gospel, and instead gathering around their own specific system of thinking? Let me give an...

Theology. Right now, I'm interested in learning more about the history of various doctrines espoused today in Armenianism (sp?), Calvinism, Molinism. I know those frameworks are more recent, but I'm curious about the individual doctrines comprised by those frameworks and how they've been held /...

The subject line pretty much says it all. Hey, everybody! :-)