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Thanks Anastasia. I love what your name means. :)

So did Cornelius receive an improper baptism when he received the Holy Spirit? Or did he act in obedience and get baptised with water afterward? There is only one baptism that counts (baptism in the Holy Spirit), the same as it is the Circumcision of the Heart which is the true circumcision...

Let he who is without socks cast the first stone! :)

I think the point was that divorce is explicitly prohibited in numerous places, but polygamy is essentially advised against once (?) in the passage you quoted. Yet Christians seem quite content with the more seriously condemned sin, yet take very seriously the lesser evil. I hadn't actually...

Those 10 people would almost comprise a jury. Sounds like perhaps somebody might not have been so guilty as the officer first thought. Or perhaps it was a conspiracy.

After I lost someone. There is no easy answer except to trust in Jesus, and earnestly pray. For me, I believe it was days or weeks, not months.

But we can't afford to wait for these people to make the first move. If we do, perhaps we'll be the ones bombed in our hang-outs, hide-outs, residencies and neighborhoods. No, we must strike pre-emptively, before they get chance. Before they think about getting chance. Before they even have a...

Lovely description. It reminds me of "a total eclipse of the heart". :)

I think this is your problem. Your work is killing you. It is robbing you of life and joy. Not an easy problem to solve, but identifying the cause is the first step in resolving an issue.

If ever there appears to be a conflict, take God's word over science. Science falsely called (as it is largely the beliefs of popular scientists, rather than science itself that ever disagrees with scripture) contradicts with itself over mere decades, let alone centuries. God's word hasn't...

If you took part in burying a man whom you believed to be righteous, and then, three days later, the rumour spreads that the guy has risen from the dead as he said he would, and the grave is demonstrably empty, what would you do and think? I don't think there's any way Nicodemus could not have...

The people were circumcised when they already were God's chosen people. It was a sign of obedience, making uncircumcision an act of disobedience. If circumcision alone made a man belong to God, many of the Egyptians and other Old Testament nations would have also been God's chosen people. Just...

To get guns banned, obviously. Why does the same phenomena happen the world over, with guns banned within a matter of weeks of the event, and no real or thorough investigation in order to institute the ban? I do find it interesting that Americans have so far resisted this same methodology that...

I loved the link. Though not a Pentecostal, I can agree with much of what Wilkerson said so long ago. I believe he certainly had discernment to see the issue so clearly back then. I wanted to post a few paragraphs of what he said, for those who don't usually follow links, as I believe this one...

Abraham belonged to God's family a long time before he was circumcised. Romans 4:9 - 12 Is this blessedness only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? We have been saying that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness. Under what circumstances was it credited? Was it...

I agree it wouldn't make sense for a true believer to remain unbaptised, the same as in the Old Testament, it wouldn't make sense for a true believer not to circumcise all the males in his or her household. However, to say that (water) baptism is required for salvation is in my view as wrong as...

There are important differences. That it was primarily infants who were circumcised is one that has already been noted. Another one, however obvious, is that circumcision only applied to (or makes sense for) males. If baptism replaced circumcision exactly, as you argue, then only males would...