Recent content by Martin Marprelate

Genesis 45:8. "So now it was not you who sent me here, but God." Genesis 50:20. "But as for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive."

I really am not sure that it is. Titus 3:3-7. 'For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.....' So first: were Paul and Titus regenerate at the time they were doing all this...

Very simply, you are denying the very words of Scripture because they contradict your faulty theology. The Holy Spirit says that the natural man does not receive the things of the Sprit of God. Why not? Because they are foolishness to him. But Van says that the natural man does receive the...

Yeah! I accidentally swallowed a dictionary when I was younger.

There is much to agree with what you have written above. The only addition I would make is to add what I wrote before: that we should always look for Christ in the Scriptures (John 5:39; Luke 24:27). There has been some talk recently on this board about the five Levitical sacrifices, but if we...

I quite agree. What the Bible says is that we must be born anew; otherwise we will neither see nor enter the kingdom of God. It is God who must give us new birth to a living hope (1 Peter 1:3). We might think of Lydia, whose heart the Lord opened 'to heed the things spoken by Paul.' So...

The verse says that the natural person cannot understand the things of the Spirit of God. Why not stick with that? Why change it to mean that the natural perason can understand the things of the Spirit of God, or some of them, sometime, somehow - anything rather than taking the words at their...

I find these Cal vs Arm discussions totally unfruitful, often vituperative and usually unnecessary. Therefore I will make one post only on this thread. I agree with this. God's counsel will indeed stand and He will do all His pleasure. The next verse continues, 'Calling a bird of prey from...

Jesus Christ's rule for the interpretation of Scripture: 'These are they which testify of Me.' (John 5:39; c.f. v.46).

Because I am not a Modalist Monarchian. I am a Trinitarian. :) What are you, since you like to throw names around?

I don't think it's a question of "What if...." The text speaks for itself. Bearing in mind that YHWH does not appear in the New Testament, how could the Holy Spirit (who is also YHWH) make is more clear. Jesus is the LORD. When Thomas realised who Jesus really was, he cried out, "My Lord...

It should go without saying that YHWH ( Jehovah, LORD) does not appear anywhere in the New Testament. The word used is theos, 'God,' kurios, 'Lord' or pater, 'Father,' which is of course how Christians are instructed to address God (Matt. 6:9). So when we consider Joel 2:32, '...And it shall...

The best book I have come across on the subject of the Trinity is The Trinity by E.H. Bickersteth (1812-1906). It is still in print and published by Kregel books. He supplies vast numbers of parallel texts showing that the Lord Jesus is indeed Jehovah. For instance:- Psalm 90:2. 'From...

I have always felt that the simplest way to illustrate the two natures of Christ is found in the account of the Stilling of the Storm (Mark 4:35-41 etc.). When the Lord Jesus comes onto the boat, He goes to sleep on a cushion. Why does He do that? Because He is tired. He is a Man; Man as...

I don't disagree with what you say, but you're missing the point I was making. Simon carried the cross - we don't know how far he carried it - instead of the Lord Jesus; obviously he didn't die instead of Him! I'm not sure why you would be suggesting that I was proposing it. Crazy idea!