1 Corinthians 12:3

“Wherefore I give to you to understand, no man speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no man can say Jesus is Lord, but by the Spirit”

Here the Apostle Paul begins a discussion of the gifts of God Holy Spirit by making two foundational points.

The first deals with the denial of Christ as the Messiah. The Jews, even to this day, are blinded to Jesus as Messiah in part because the OT statement that “cursed is the man that hangs on a tree” Deuteronomy...

A Poem (if you agree, feel free to copy, free to distribute) -

Many are religiously yoked Worrying over ritualistic superstitional hokum indecent practices praying erroneous redundant supplications Acting righteous except Indisputably dead ontologically lifeless atrophied traditionalist oratory retrograde spiritualists

Years ago I sat in a waiting room, on a stormy night in a southern hospital. I faced a wall of glass, but because the waiting room was well lit, and it was night outside, what I saw was a reflection, rather than what was outside. But occasionally, lightning would strike in the area, and the night was lit up in a flash. Then the reflection would briefly disappear and I could see the trees, rain, wind, blowing leaves, the fury of God's storm. But, just as quickly, the reflection reappeared. A...

Exodus 12:18, fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.

7 days of unleavened bread.

14th, sunset, morning and day.
15th, sunset, morning and day.
16th, sunset, morning and day.
17th, sunset, morning and day.
18th, sunset, morning and day.
19th, sunset, morning and day.
20th, sunset, morning and day.
21st, sunset

Reference the feast of unleavened bread.

15th, sunset, morning and day.
16th, sunset, morning and...

Romans 9:25 NASB
as He also says in Hosea:

“I WILL CALL THOSE WHO WERE NOT MY PEOPLE, ‘MY PEOPLE,’
AND HER WHO WAS NOT BELOVED, ‘BELOVED.’”

One school of thought is that God chose individuals for salvation before the foundation of the world based on their interpretation of Ephesians 1:4. Thus it follows, that all those individuals became beloved and God's people before the foundation of the world.

However Romans 9:25 presents a difficulty with that view, people not previously chosen to...

The idea is to use methods or practices that allow us to translate the intended message into our understanding of that message.

When we first began to study God's word, we were unbound by the inherent constraints of our presumptive "truths" adopted too early in our growth in understanding. Later, like the removal of blinders, we must push past "unstudied truths" that we were comfortable with, and also not let pride hinder recognition of error, our rookie mistakes.

When one of our "beloved...

For those who don't know the background, John R. Rice (1896-1980) was a leading fundamentalist; in my view he was one of the founding fathers of the movement, author of over 200 books and pamphlets. He strongly opposed the KJVO movement.

Jack Hyles (1926-2001) was a megachurch pastor and preached together with JRR for many years in the local and national Sword of the Lord conferences on soul winning and revival. Until 1980, Hyles never took a KJVO position, but after Rice's death, Hyles...

Often I see advocates of one doctrine or another claim God "ordained" the doctrine, leaving the actual meaning of the word "ordain" up to the reader.

Now the KJV translates "Diatasso" (G1299) as "ordain" or "ordained" three times in their translation version, but the Greek word actually appears about 16 times in the New Testament. The three verses are 1 Corinthians 7:17 1 Corinthians 9:14 and Galatians 3:19.

The Greek word is compound and its roots mean "through" "arrangement." The idea...

Numerous threads have been posted which as far as I know never offer a solid answer from scripture.

Did God desire to send the fallen to Hades and Gehenna? Nope,

Eze 18:32
“For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies,” declares the Lord GOD. “Therefore, repent and live!”

Psalms 5:4
For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness;
No evil can dwell with You.
So why did God arrange the fall?

First we must ask why did God choose to create humanity in the first place....

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