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Two basics: 1. Whether you were once saved or not in the past is immaterial if you believe now. Reaffirm your faith to God, and look ahead, not behind. 2. That faith is based upon believing God's promises, NOT on your feelings. God's promise is that if you admit to Him that you are a sinner...

I realize experience does not trump Scripture, but in 50 years as a believer, I have never met anyone who demonstrated, or even claimed, to have the gift of healing. Can anybody provide some names of people with this gift, and the local church they belong to? Thanks!

God's special revelation through Scripture is infallible. God's general revelation through the creation is also infallible. Man's interpretation of Scripture is fallible. Man's interpretation of creation is also fallible. Does anybody disagree with any of these four statements?

Perhaps take a moment to review what I believe are the central Christian beliefs we should take from the creation accounts. The age argument is of secondary importance at best. These truths are: 1. God existed before Creation. He created all that exists. He stands above creation and as the...

God and science do not conflict. A Christian definition of science is man's search to understand God's creation. God's creation is God's general revelation to man. It is a gift. Every generation has the pleasure of understand God's creation in even more detail, and and to discover that it's...

I wouldn't try to explain with mathematics. Let's just admit that there are times when Scripture uses "figures of speech" that are not meant to be taken literally. Several times Scripture says that the earth has four corners. Do you really take that literally? Can we just agree that it means...

Yes, Adam was created "old". He walked, fed himself, even knew a language by which he could communicate with God. He lived in an old place. Trees already bearing fruit - and in fact, trees that needed existing topsoil in which to grow (The nutrients in soil come from dead and decayed plants...

Both positions are outlined well in this thread. Examined closely, I find the scriptural support for infant baptism to be based on some leaps in logic, and based on tangential references (passages focusing on truths and not directed at when to be baptized). I suspect that there were some...

The Gentiles did not have to keep the OT law. See Matt 5, which clearly states that their righteousness would have to exceed that of the Pharisees (who tried with every fiber of their being yet failed miserably), so in other words gaining a standing of righteousness was impossible by our own...

While I am not Eastern Orthodox, my understanding matches yours. The church has not replaced the OT priesthood. The text is clear that Christ Himself has replaced the priesthood. We no longer have a priesthood of mere men. Also, Matt 5 makes it clear that Christ did not "abolish" the law...

There is a very fine conservative, evangelical church in Grand Rapids Michigan that is traditionally named "Calvary Undenominational Church". I believe in recent years they shorted their name in most venues to "Calvary Church", but their statement of faith still uses the traditional title.

Thank you "Food" - that was a good response. I have studied the tongues and healing issues in a fair amount of depth, and am quite convinced through scripture that they are not active today. So as long as I don't see them displayed or taught at my CC church, I am content - they seem to be very...

Even the Apostle Paul talked about this continuing battle between our will and God's will in a very personal way. Just know two things: (1) Satan wants you to get frustrated, feel guilty, and give up. It is his favorite tool against Christians; and (2) God loves to forgive. He will never tire...

The SOF on this website seems to have two items disturbing to me. First, the HS does not necessarily indwell a believer at the moment of belief? Second, do they accept that healing and other "sign" gifts are still used today? I have attended this church for one year, and have seen no evidence...

If we take the words of scripture literally, the earth has four corners, the sun rises and sets (rather than the earth rotating), and God separates ourselves from our sin "as far as the East is from the West", which, if a globe, would rejoin us with our sins. It seems ingenious to me that we...