Baptist Church Ordains Omarosa Manigault, Former Star of TV's Celebrity Apprentice

after serving as an assistant pastor at her home church—the Weller Street Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles, California—for about a year. Manigault was unanimously approved to become a reverend by the ordination committee in a vote held at Weller Street church in mid-February.

The newly-minted reverend said of her ordination: "This is the day that the Lord has made, I truly rejoice and am glad it...

What is that?

Is it just an excuse for not going to church?

Doesnt the Bible require us to assemble and fellowship together?

John

If God created man knowing that the heart of man is evil, and, if man does not have a choice to repent.....then every time a lost person dies and goes to hell, is it God's fault?

Think about this before you answer.

If God creates an evil man, and denies him even the oppurtunity to repent, is it the man's fault he goes to Hell, or is it God's?

John

As being valid and teaching the Gospel?

Romans 7:1 ¶ Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no...

I am not reformed and this is not about reformed doctrine. There have been some, who I do not remember, on this board that have argued that man has a natural ability to come to God on his own. That faith is found within man. While I am not reformed (Calvinist) I reject such a notion. What do we do with the verse below when we hold that man can come to God on his own:

Joh_6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
*Note...

Romans 8:29 States "For whom He did Foreknow..."

Their are some who say this is a mis-understood term. Even saying I don't understand foreknowledge.
Well here is the Greek word used there:
Proginosko:
And here are it's meanings:
to have knowledge before hand
to foreknow
of those whom God elected to salvation
to predestinate

To have knowledge before hand it says, Romans 8:29 states whom He had knowledge of beforehand, so before hand must be the sticking point. Whom did God...

Or to rephrase the question, "Is it moral to preserve one's life (Kill) in self-defense?"

Following Tomas Aquinas' logic:

1. Natural law dictates that it is normal to preserve one’s life.
2. Since it is a principle of natural law, it is therefore moral to preserve one's life.
3. Since it is moral to preserve one’s life, it is therefore lawful to defend one’s life.
4. Therefore, self-defense is a moral act and lawful act.

It seems that there are quite a few peacenik...

What exactly is the human state at birth? Lots of terms are used to describe it:
Sin nature, total depravity, innocence with a tendancy to sin...

My primary question is for those who seem to disagree with some aspect of the idea of sin nature:

"If we are not born with a sin nature inherited from Adam due to his original sin in the garden, Why is it that ALL humans sin?"

What specifically, excites or worries you about the new perspective on Paul?