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What about Dietrich Bonhoeffer? Hitler was the “authority”, should he have resisted or let him get on with killing Jews?

The third fundamental rule of interpreting the Bible is this: the clear interprets the obscure, and never the other way around. It is clear that God said His words would never pass away, yet in the name of an obscure verse, the popes through the centuries have tried to denigrate and diminish...

Put another way, do you agree and uphold or reject the RCC claims regarding Peter’s authority and succession and the Catholic understanding of the Two Keys?

By condemning talking at people, I was holding myself accountable to a certain standard in my interaction with you on this question. First it would appear that the ancient Near East was a melting pot of languages and it would seem likely that many people would have a grasp of a few languages...

I have noticed a tendency to talk at people rather than to them in online discussion groups so I hope you don’t mind what I say here and take my words in the spirit I intend… Without giving a Greek lesson, the two words for “Peter” and “rock” are different. Peter (the person) is a small stone...

I think that things change when you see the word “Catholic” as more of a branding thing than an objective truth. Take a political party that claims to be the “party of law and order”. The inference is that the other parties do not encompass these values (which may or may not be true). In the...

^ As far as the commandments go, Paul goes to great length to explain to believers that once someone is indwelt with the Holy Spirit and born again, the keeping of God’s standards will flow out from the regenerated spirit. The difference between the letter and the spirit of the Law is akin to...

I think the one “true church” is the congregation of born again believers from ALL denominations, whether in agreement with their denominational stance or perhaps even in contrast to it, have come to a saving faith in the finished work of Jesus to atone for their sins, and make them able to...

Maybe a bit technical for this thread, but possibly the best (Biblically based) observations that make sense of the recent observations from the JWST.

Actually I did watch this one a while back. Intriguing!

There is definitely evidence that a pre trib perspective was at least in existence in the early church. Many truths were lost and obfuscated by the pre-reformation Catholic Church, and these took time to rediscover. If Darby can be credited with anything it would be in popularising the idea, but...

I ended up doing my first degree in Biology & Biochemistry and even trained as a high school science teacher before changing career direction. During my teaching course I was asked to write an essay on a topic of relevance to science education, so you might guess what I hit them with…

^ To the point of the thread, it not that Christians “need” the additional corroborations that God has woven into His word to believe. What we see now with be truly through a glass darkly compared to the unsearchable depths of God we will be eternally privileged to search. There are some people...

1 Corinthians 9:19-23 King James Version 19 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. 20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that...

Jesus died for sneering atheists too! Just because I find them hard to like, I am commanded to love them too. One of my old great uncles growing up had met a man who had lost his faith through the evil of WWI and worked a doubt into his heart that remained. Many years later he had lost a wife...

I wonder… Despite the fact that I am certainly a TR advocate, the wider question is the admissibility and authority of the CT to modify the Greek text that most translations take as their source. I certainly hold that God had a hand in the production of the KJV but I understand that others are...

Another “hidden message” in the Bible, this time in the names of the Patriarchs from Adam to Noah… It’s a good example because the “hidden” message matches the overt message, as one would expect from God.

David Daniels was not the first person who brought out material on this issue. I have read a number of books and am in touch with several current researchers on the topic including Steven Avery and Chris Pinto. The controversy has only exploded since Codex Sinaiticus became available for...

Love it! Btw I don’t think it matters for 95% of the verses as the context makes things perfectly clear. On the other hand, when you get close up on certain verses it helps clarify the participants properly.