Jesus Christ said it wasn't going to stop, until everything had been accomplished. What do you think spiritual gifts are for unless to aid the...
I would imagine not. To think that it should would be similar to insisting all translations of the Bible should be identical word for word, if...
What indication is there anywhere in scripture that any gifts of the Spirit to the church are ever going to die out or wane before the parousia?...
Is there actually anything in scripture which indicates that speaking in languages unintelligable to oneself is one of the gifts of the Holy...
Actually, thinking about it, how would you know they are speaking in Russian or Chinese if you 'heard' it in English? Surely you would simply...
Thinking that congregational 'singing or speaking in unknown language', is evidence that a church operates 'gifts of the spirit' or can be...
It is arrogant to assume, simply because one does not comprehend a sentence of words, that that sentence has no meaning or is therefore not a...
An absolution would have the words 'you' in it when refering to the person/s seeking absolution, I think, when declaring a pardon from The Lord,...
ANY language which is incomprehensible to the HEARER of it is unintelligible gibberish to the listener. Even the entirely fictitious language of...
I think most Christians today are so used living the life of the Spirit, in now imposed ecclesiastical structures, which within a few decades of...
We in the Church of England believe that Article 28 does not support the 12th century innovative Roman Catholic notion that when the 'bells...
Most of these , "Jesus chose only MEN" arguments are really only a Complementarianist clutching at straws, to save a drowning man. Just because...
So is Mark 12:25 also illogical, because it suggests that angels in 'heaven' are also either male and female or neither male or female, explaining...
Many of the priests of the Old Testament had sons, so we can assume they were married. However there were many more priests than those mentioned...
You're saying some of the regulations concerning it should determine what women are allowed to do today in the Christian church though, aren't...
No! When God said "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth" God didn't want eyes and teeth taken out and lost. God wanted to limit human...
To the Israelites - yes. To Christians - most of it - no. And you presumably mean the Pentateuch? That's what we Christians call the 5 books of...
Here are some more of those examples of scriptures supposedly proving God instituted them in perpetuity. So Are you now postulating then that Deut...
Whatever you happen to believe about it you are stuck with the fact that ALL this catalogue of 'a phenomenal number of detailed commands to make...
I think it more likely that 'In the day' refers to Ex.19:3-6, and the disobedience reference encompasses the whole 40 years, until that generation...