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Why Are There So Many Different Churches? Why Are There So Many Different Churches? In Matthew Chapter 16:18, our Lord made a very strange statement when He said, "Upon this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it." Notice in this passage that the ... the first century why there are so many conflicting denominations and by what authority they exist. The purpose of this lesson then is not to be critical of sincerity of good intentions of anyone, but to find a bible answer for these important questions. Down through the centuries, it has always been a tendency of mankind to attempt to improve upon God's divine plan, and in so doing to depart from God's way. In the book of Proverbs Solomon said, "There is a way that seemeth right unto man, but ... These prophecies did not cease to be religious, nor that they would cease to claim that they would be following Christ, but simply that they would depart from God's pattern, and thus make worship vain. Jesus said that such people would in fact ... ... https://www.bible.ca/r-why-1000-churches.htm

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Part1: Pagan Section: Trinity Watchtower BOOKLET: Should You ... ... The very next sentence in the quote is, "When the fact of revelation, understood in its full sense as the speech of God to man, is no longer admitted, the rejection of the doctrine follows as a ... This slight of hand tactic is missed by most first time readers (and all JW's) of their book of deceptions, it is quite obvious to the true students of the Bible. A PROTESTANT publication states: ... It did not find a place formally in the theology of the church till the 4th century . . . Although Scripture does not give us a formulated doctrine of the Trinity, it contains all the elements out of which theology ... And a Catholic authority says that the Trinity "is not . . . directly and immediately [the] word of God."-New Catholic Encyclopedia. The source is talking about the 4th century trinity creed not ... It was prompted chiefly by belief in the divinity of Christ and later in the divinity of the Holy Spirit, but even earlier by the consistent worship of God in a trinitarian pattern and the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-JW-SYBTT-Watchtower-BOOKLET-Should-You-Believe-the-Trinity-EXPOSED-REFUTED-pagan-section.htm

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Samaritan Pentateuch Textual Variants: Joshua's Altar was on ... ... Yes, Jesus told the Samaritan woman at the well that Jerusalem was God's holy mountain, not Gerizim and that salvation was from the Jews, but they most certainly knew their Samaritan temple was on top of the location of Joshua's original altar ... The use of this language ceased after the first three decades of the twentieth century, when the Samaritans began to interact with the Jewish community in Palestine. In their synagogue service the Samaritans use only Hebrew and Aramaic. (The Samaritans: A Profile, R. Pummer, p 220, 2016 AD) 2. 561-533 BC: The Great Samaritan conversion to Monotheism. a. We know that sometime after 561 BC the Samaritans embraced full monotheism and gave up idol worship forever, as seen in the first century and ... were building a temple to the Lord God of Israel, they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers' households, and said to them, "Let us build with you, for we, like you, seek your God; and we have been sacrificing to Him (at Bethel and Mt. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/manuscripts/Samaritan-Pentateuch-SP-Bible-Manuscript-Textual-Variants-Old-Testament-scribal-gloss-error-Deut27-4-Mt-Gerizim-Ebal-Dead-Sea-Scroll-4Q33-Deuteronomy-f.htm

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Which Old Testament text did Jesus prefer and quote from? Septuagint or Hebrew Tanakh A conservative, bible believing perspective! God's providence gave us the 27 book New Testament Canon, not the church. God, not men decided the canon. This providence does not mean that church leaders were inspired in their ... Esther, Daniel, Ezra and Nehemiah (one volume), 1 & 2 Chronicles (one volume) II. Jesus and the Old Testament: Jesus, like all the Jews of the first century, divided the Old Testament into three "collections": the law, the prophets, the psalms. ... Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found Him of whom Moses in the Law and also the Prophets wrote-Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." John 1:45 e. After the reading of the Law and the Prophets the synagogue officials sent to ... This alludes to Prov 16:5 in the Hebrew, where the wise man claims: "Everyone who is arrogant is an abomination [tw'bh] to the LORD"; not to the Septuagint: "Every arrogant person is unclean [akathartos] before God." 5. Finally, In the words of ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/b-canon-jesus-favored-old-testament-textual-manuscript.htm

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Trinity Attackers refuted! (Watchtower's: Should You Believe ... ... The very next sentence in the quote is, "When the fact of revelation, understood in its full sense as the speech of God to man, is no longer admitted, the rejection of the doctrine follows as a ... This slight of hand tactic is missed by most first time readers (and all JW's) of their book of deceptions, it is quite obvious to the true students of the Bible. A PROTESTANT publication states: ... It did not find a place formally in the theology of the church till the 4th century . . . Although Scripture does not give us a formulated doctrine of the Trinity, it contains all the elements out of which theology ... And a Catholic authority says that the Trinity "is not . . . directly and immediately [the] word of God."-New Catholic Encyclopedia. The source is talking about the 4th century trinity creed not ... It was prompted chiefly by belief in the divinity of Christ and later in the divinity of the Holy Spirit, but even earlier by the consistent worship of God in a trinitarian pattern and the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-frames-start-page-SYBTT.htm

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Beliefs of the Quakers (Shaking Quakers, Shakers, Friends) George Fox saw himself as an apostle restoring the true church. Click to View George Fox in 1658 AD. What to Quakers Historically Believe The Quakers started in England the 17th Century by George Fox. George Fox asked his friend and Quaker Theologian Robert Barclay to write an Apology of the Quaker Faith, which he did. Robert Barclay ... Jesus Christ died for our sins but rose again the third day according to Scripture (1 Cor. 15:3,4). Christ is the only Mediator between man and God (1 Tim. 2:5). Of the Holy Scriptures: The Holy Scriptures are inspired by ... Of the Church: Christ is the Head of the Church (Col. 1:13 and 2:19). The Church is the body of Christ, the people of God. Of Worship: True worship is done in Spirit and in Truth (Jn. 4: 23,24). Of Baptism and the ... the Desert (London, 1708), p. 14) This testimony was given in London on January 14, 1706. His mother had first experienced this linguistic ability in 1693 and had been imprisoned because of her spiritual gifts since ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cr-quakers.htm

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A Short History of the Watchtower Organization A Short History of the Watchtower Organization Jehovah's Witnesses trace their origins to the nineteenth century Adventist movement in America. That movement began with William Miller, a Baptist lay ... In 1935 the Seventh Day Adventist Church expelled a Bulgarian immigrant named Victor Houteff, who had begun teaching his own views on certain passages of the Revelation or Apocalypse, the last book ... years long, beginning while the first man, Adam, was still alive," that Adam's son Abel was "the first of an unbroken line of Witnesses," and that "Jesus' disciples were all Jehovah's witnesses [sic] too." (pp. 8-9) An outsider listening to such claims quickly realizes, of course, that the sect has simply appropriated unto itself all the characters named in the Bible as faithful witnesses of God. ... Men, women, and children learned to give sermons at the doors on a variety of subjects. Meanwhile Fred Franz worked behind the scenes to restore faith in the sect's chronological calculations, a ... ... https://www.bible.ca/jw-history.htm

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The significance of the first day of the week (Sunday) for Christians 21 reasons why the first day of the week, Sunday is important to Christians. Click to View Score: 1st day TWENTY ONE Sabbath ZERO! Reasons for the significance of the first day of the week ... Jn 20:19 Jn 20:26 Acts 2:1 (We do not claim that these were worship services, just the early starting point of Sunday gatherings) The only time Christians are recorded to have assembled ... The only day ever mentioned when Christians broke bread was on Sunday: Acts 20:7 Christians are commanded every Sunday to give into a common treasury of the church: 1 Cor 16:1-2 Jesus was declared the Son of God on Sunday: Rom 1:4 Ps 2:7 ... Resurrection Sunday: Mk 16:9 Mary Mt 28:5-9 Other women Lk 24:34 Peter (by way of inference) Lk 24:13-15 Two on Emmaus road Lk 24:33,36 + Jn 20:19 The apostles b. One Sunday later: Jn 20:26 ... The Sabbath (the 7th day) cannot be the Lord's Day. Click to View We Speak truth in LOVE "you are seeking to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth" Jn 8:40 Click to View Click to View ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/7-sunday-significance-for-christians.htm

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Ai, Israel: Khirbet El-Maqatir: Master Index of Free Bible Maps ... and buried in stones. 6. The town was rebuilt sometime before the Babylonian captivity of 586 BC. Malcam was the patron god of both Ai and Rabba. 7. Some men from Ai returned from Babylon and may have lived in the city again. 8. We have uncovered a house that dates from the first century. 9. We have also uncovered a byzantine church from about 400 AD. This is important because these churches were often built on significant locations that marked some event in history. ... And all the people who were in the city were called together to pursue them, and they pursued Joshua and were drawn away from the city. So not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who had not gone out after Israel, and they left the city unguarded and pursued Israel. ... All who fell that day, both men and women, were 12,000-all the people of Ai. For Joshua did not withdraw his hand with which he stretched out the javelin until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. Israel took only the cattle and the spoil of that ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/maps/bible-maps-master-index-ai-israel-khirbet-el-maqatir.htm

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Holy Spirit in the New Testament The Gift of the Holy Spirit ... Paul laid hands on Timothy to impart spiritual gifts with the consent of the elders of the local church: 1 Tim 4:14; 2 Tim 1:14 d. Peter and John laid hands on the Samaritans to impart spiritual ... Miracles certainly confirmed and guarded the gospel. ii. 2 Ti 1:6 gift of God which is in you through laying on of hands. iii. 1 Ti 4:14 spiritual gift within you. iv. HS dwells = gift of God ... Both have the HS given through meronomy, both literally mean supernatural endowment from the HS. iii. This is the language of gifts of the first century and throughout the NT. iv. If someone had spiritual ... Otherwise if you bless in the spirit only, how will the one who fills the place of the ungifted say the Amen" ii. pray & sing WITH Spirit = gifted man/ ungifted man = without Spirit iii. Gifted = ... Joel 2:28; Isa 32:15; 44:3; Zech 12:10; Jn 7:38; Acts 2:17f,33 Acts 10:45 Joel 2:28f (Gentiles) Joel 2:28f (women, daughters); Rom 5:5; Tit 3:6 Received Jn 7:39; 14:17; 20:22 Acts 10:47 Acts ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/holyspirit/Holy-Spirit-in-the-New-Testament.htm

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Holy Spirit Comforter passages of John 14-15-16 ... A. This is where all the promises Jesus made to the apostles concerning the HS were transmitted to common Christians. 1. Only the twelve were filled in Acts 2:1-4 2. They received it directly: What man would lay hands on them? 3. They were ... Whoever believes in Christ: Jn 7:39 e. All mankind [Jew and Gentile3: Joel 2 i. sons and daughters ii. young and old iii. men and women 2. The only difference between the apostles receiving the HS and other Christians, was that they received the ... This notion of limiting the "Baptism of the Holy Spirit" to the apostles ONLY was a false theology developed last century to refute modern day Pentecostals and Charismatics who claim to have miraculous power of the Holy Spirit like the first century church. ... The entire structure is based upon a false reading of italicised words in the KJV of John 3:34 to wrongly imply that the Holy Spirit was given TO JESUS without measure. "God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him" (KJV). The key words UNTO ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/holyspirit/Holy-Spirit-Comforter-helper-advocate-passages-of-John14-15-16.htm

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Is Divorce Really the Answer to my marriage problems? Is Divorce... Really the Answer to my marriage problems? The breakdown of society in the beginning of this last quarter of the twentieth century is nowhere more apparent than in the breakdown of the home and family. In the Communist Manifesto, Carl Marx wrote, ... The seventh Chapter of I Corinthians gives a detailed description of the obligations of a husband towards his wife and of a wife toward her husband, with regard to the most intimate relationships in marriage. It would be well for every married man and woman to read carefully the first five verses of ... These are requisites of a happy marriage; the staunch foe of divorce. Above all, since trials and troubles are the common lot of us all, there is need for absolute dependence upon God and a determination to follow the Lord Jesus Christ. There is a passage in the Galatian letter, which though not expressly written for the purpose of admonishing men and women about marriage, nevertheless is most appropriate. The apostles ... ... https://www.bible.ca/marriage/f-divorce=answer.htm

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Difficult Questions for Mormons to answer The Mormon Church The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints Click to View Difficult Questions for Mormons Click to View Click to View Close-up of the golden Nephi Plates that were allegedly written in "Reformed Egyptian" General questions: Why did the angel take Nephi Plates back to heaven? Do they not belong with man? Would not their existence prove once for all that Mormonism is truth? God allowed the Jews to carry the 10 commandments for several centuries in their original physical form, written by the finger ... No evidence indicates that these items existed during Book of Mormon times. Tom Ferguson: "Metallurgy does not appear in the region until about the 9th century A.D." Why doesn't the art (which is abundant) of the supposed Book of Mormon ... In the Bible, the Old Covenant is taken away to establish the New according to Paul and his followers (Heb. 10:9). The Book of Mormon intermingles the covenants. Paul was the man who first tried to reconcile the Old to the New ... ... https://www.bible.ca/mor-questions.htm

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Sabbatarians better start keeping animal sacrifices and Hannukkah ... The fallacy of this is illustrated by the fact that many Sabbatarians, who do not participate in Halloween, will themselves will refer to it as a time system. They might say, "Our church is having a party for the kids, Halloween night." In the same way, Christians, living in the first century, used the common time systems ... The Day of Pentecost Acts 2:1 The days of unleavened bread: Acts 12:3; 20:6 Days of Purification: Acts 21:26 Animal Sacrifices: Acts 21:26 Circumcision: Acts 16:3 Temple worship: Acts 24:12 B. Sabbatarians better start ... monandaeg, Tuesday = named after the Norse god of war, Tiu, or Tiw Wednesday = named to honour Odin, or Woden, chief god in Norse mythology. Thursday = named after Thor, Norse god of thunder. Friday = Anglo-Saxon frìgedaeg; from Old High German Frìa, a goddess Saturday = Saturn's day: named in honour of the Roman god Saturn. Click to View We Speak truth in LOVE "you are seeking to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth" Jn ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-sab-mention.htm

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The Error of the Catholic Nicene Trinity ... It was prompted chiefly by belief in the divinity of Christ and later in the divinity of the Holy Spirit, but even earlier by the consistent worship of God in a trinitarian pattern and the practice of ... It tells us of His Word, Wisdom. Spirit, of the Messiah He will send, of a Son of Man and a Suffering Servant to come. But it tells us nothing explicitly or by necessary implication of a Triune God who ... To study the gradual transition from an unformulated Biblical witness to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit to a dogmatic formulation of a doctrine of the Triune God, we look first to the Eastern Church where most of this ... evidence of a belief in three pre-existent 'beings,' but they furnished no trinitarian doctrine, no awareness of a trinitarian problem. (The Triune God, Edmund Fortman, p6) "Question of Continuity and Elemental Trinitarianism: From what has been seen thus far, the impression could arise that the Trinitarian dogma is in the last analysis a late 4th-century invention. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-catholic-nicene.htm

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Part 2: Bible Section: Trinity Watchtower BOOKLET: Should You ... ... There is nothing in the Bible that connects Jesus with the "created wisdom" of Prov 8. The simplest way to prove JW's wrong in Prov 8 is to note that in Proverbs chapters 1-9, "Wisdom" is being personified as a WOMAN! If Jesus Christ, the ... But how can a person be a son and at the same time be as old as his father? ... Can a man father a son without begetting him? Jesus fulfilled the prophecy where God proclaimed, "You are my Son, Today I have begotten thee." Ps 2:7. Yet the ... Was Jesus Considered to Be God? WHILE Jesus is often called the Son of God in the Bible, nobody in the first century ever thought of him as being God the Son. More lies! Read our history section and learn what first century Christians believed! John 1:1 Jesus is called God. John ... three possessed of equal honour." 150 AD Justin Martyr said: "We will prove that we worship him reasonably; for we have learned that he is the Son of the true God Himself, that he holds a second place, and the Spirit of prophecy a third." ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-JW-SYBTT-Watchtower-BOOKLET-Should-You-Believe-the-Trinity-EXPOSED-REFUTED-bible-section.htm

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Trinity Attackers refuted! (Watchtower's: Should You Believe ... ... There is nothing in the Bible that connects Jesus with the "created wisdom" of Prov 8. The simplest way to prove JW's wrong in Prov 8 is to note that in Proverbs chapters 1-9, "Wisdom" is being personified as a WOMAN! If Jesus Christ, the ... But how can a person be a son and at the same time be as old as his father? ... Can a man father a son without begetting him? Jesus fulfilled the prophecy where God proclaimed, "You are my Son, Today I have begotten thee." Ps 2:7. Yet the ... Was Jesus Considered to Be God? WHILE Jesus is often called the Son of God in the Bible, nobody in the first century ever thought of him as being God the Son. More lies! Read our history section and learn what first century Christians believed! John 1:1 Jesus is called God. John ... three possessed of equal honour." 150 AD Justin Martyr said: "We will prove that we worship him reasonably; for we have learned that he is the Son of the true God Himself, that he holds a second place, and the Spirit of prophecy a third." ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-frames-start-page-SYBTT-bible-section.htm

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Is Divorce Really the Answer to my marriage problems? Is Divorce... Really the Answer to my marriage problems? The breakdown of society in the beginning of this last quarter of the twentieth century is nowhere more apparent than in the breakdown of the home and family. In the Communist Manifesto, Carl Marx wrote, ... The seventh Chapter of I Corinthians gives a detailed description of the obligations of a husband towards his wife and of a wife toward her husband, with regard to the most intimate relationships in marriage. It would be well for every married man and woman to read carefully the first five verses of ... These are requisites of a happy marriage; the staunch foe of divorce. Above all, since trials and troubles are the common lot of us all, there is need for absolute dependence upon God and a determination to follow the Lord Jesus Christ. There is a passage in the Galatian letter, which though not expressly written for the purpose of admonishing men and women about marriage, nevertheless is most appropriate. The apostles ... ... https://www.bible.ca/f-divorce=answer.htm

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Sola Scriptura and the Apostolic Fathers: 250 AD: Cyprian ... But in vain do they worship me, teaching the doctrines and commandments of men." Also the Lord in the Gospel, similarly rebuking and reproving, utters and says, "Ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition." Mindful of which precept, the blessed Apostle Paul himself also warns and instructs, saying, "If any man teach otherwise, and consent not ... and more fruitfully grow up, and with serpents' locks shoot forth and cast out against the Church of God with greater force the poison of their venom; whilst, by the advocacy of some, both authority and ... We couldn't have said it better ourselves! "How carefully has Stephen fulfilled these salutary commands and warnings of the apostle, keeping in the first place lowliness of mind and meekness! For what is ... Click to View Cyprian believes the current practice is the same as in the first century. What did you expect him to say? But he would also say these traditions are based upon the Bible and if they ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/sola-scriptura-apostolic-fathers-cyprian.htm

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Carpenter, Edward: The Origins of Pagan and Christian Beliefs The Origins of Pagan and Christian Beliefs Edward Carpenter 1920 1996 "And when at the Council of Nicea (325 AD) it [the early church] endeavored to establish an official creed, the strife and bitterness only increased." "-the ... and is definitely called "the Son of Man." The Book of Revelations is full of passages from Enoch; so are the Epistles of Paul; so too the Gospels. The Book of Enoch believes in a Golden Age that is to come; it has Dantesque visions of Heaven and Hell, and of Angels good and evil, and it speaks of a " garden of Righteousness " with the " Tree of ' Wisdom " in its midst. Everywhere, says Prof. Drews, In the first century B.C., there was the longing for a coming Saviour. But the Saviour-god, as we also know, was a familiar figure ... a colour to their teachings with regard to the Saviour, and persuading them to accept and honour the Egyptian worship of Isis in the Christian form of the Virgin Mary." (Edward Carpenter, Pagan And Christian Creeds , p202, quoted ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Carpenter.htm

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Psychiatry: Postpartum Depression Psychiatric disorders, PPD ... ... In fact, I experienced an intense pain on the right side of my rear pelvis muscle: The right gluteus maximus (bum muscle). This just happens to be where I keep my wallet... so you might say my experience in childbirth as a man was in the ... The fact is that clinical studies have been unable to make any direct connection to fluctuations in a woman's body chemistry and PPD. Also PPD almost always strikes women with their first child. When the woman accepts her responsibility, she is cured, when she does not, the ... Brooke Shields is the spokesman for Tupperware and SMART Girls program where she promotes high self esteem among young girls. If Brooke Shields went to church more often, she would know that high self esteem is a sin! The depression Brooke ... At the same time, Freud failed to convince them that men, too, could "have hysteria." Why did nineteenth-century physicians believe that hysteria could affect only women? Because it was called "hysteria," a term that derives from the Greek ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-junk-science-postpartum-depression-PPD-postpartum-psychiatric-disorders-postnatal-depression-myth.htm

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Hysteria: Great blunders in the history of psychiatry Hysteria is pure "classic" Junk science. Psychiatry is Junk science Saying to a woman, "stop being hysterical" is charged with historic misogynistic sexism. You can thank psychiatrists. Click to ... Sensing its relation to the sexual passions, he recommended marriage as the best remedy for it. The notion that hysteria is a condition that affects only women had thus been firmly established and was not seriously challenged until the latter half of the nineteenth century by the famed French neurologist-neuropathologist Jean-Martin Charcot. During the first ten centuries of Christianity, medical ... for several months during the Civil War in Ireland and had to be carried around by his friends even to church. When the soldiers besieged the town his friends fled the church and left him all alone. ... which has become pleasantly welcome and eagerly looked for. ... the man who resolves to send any nervous woman to bed must be quite sure that she will obey him when the time comes for her to get up. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-mental-illness-myths-hysteria.htm

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Noah was saved by water baptism: 1 Peter 3:21 A. Today's scoffers that reject the 2nd coming and the end of the world: "Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, and saying, ... "This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. " (1 Timothy 2:3-4) "For the grace of God has appeared, bringing ... Let no one disregard you. " (Titus 2:11-15) 1. Every man or woman who is born can be saved if they make that choice to become a Christian and live godly lives. Everybody has a chance to go to heaven but few are seeking God. They are all wrapped up in their own selfish lives of materialism and pleasure. They never go to church, partake of the Lord's supper, give money into the ... This was an entirely new argument for the necessity of water baptism that the first century church taught. 4. Some churches teach that water baptism has no part in attaining salvation which directly ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/ark/salvation-water-baptism-noah-8-eight-persons-saved-by-water-1-peter-3-21.htm

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Objections to baptism being essential to salvation REFUTED! OT law and was saved before NT came into effect Col 2:14; Heb 9:16-17 6. He died 40 days before Mark 16:16 was first commanded! How could he obey a command not given? 1. Please take me back. ... by grace only, then man is entirely passive in the salvation process. 4. Repentance and confession are just as much a work as baptism, is one saved without and before repentance and confession? Both are said to be for salvation. Lk 13:3; Rom 10:9-10 5. Actually there are 12 different things that are said to save us in scripture, beware of the "Onlys" Teaching Church Description God only Unitarian ... for the purpose of remission of your sins Syriac Version for the remission of sins Twentieth Century Translation for the forgiveness of your sins Verkuyl (Burkeley Version) for the remission of ... "I do not seek My own will (only) but the will of Him who sent me" Jn 5:30 "I labored, but not I (only) but the grace of God with me" 1 Cor 15:10 "women adorn selves not with gold, braided hair ... ... https://www.bible.ca/baptism-objections-refuted.htm

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500 Flood stories prove Noah's Ark is real history: Epic of Gilgamesh ... means he lived after Abraham was born. 8. Great imaginative effort is written into the story to explain why men must toil so hard to live off the land and why women suffer such pain in childbirth. ... But generally the dates of kings in and around the17th century BC, are not out by more than 200 years. 8. Therefore we can safely date the oldest tablet of the Epic of Atra-Hasis to about 1635 BC, ... Babylonians and they needed some way to explain it. In making man, one of the lower gods was first cleansed with water by full immersion. This an amazing anti-type of both Jewish Mitzvah washings prescribed by Moses and Immersion in the name of Jesus to "wash away your sins" (Acts 22:16) by the apostles. After the immersion, the god was killed and the spirit from the god was used to make man. ... He...them two by two, ...them two by two in her presence. Mami made these rules for people: In the house of a woman who is giving birth The mud brick shall be put down for seven days. Belet-ili, wise ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/ark/noahs-ark-flood-creation-stories-myths-epic-of-atra-hasis-old-babylonian-akkadian-cuneiform-flood-creation-tablet-1635bc.htm

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What Early Christians believed about BAPTISM ... We are thus spiritually regenerated as newborn infants, even as the Lord has declared: 'Except a man be born again through water and the Spirit, he shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.'" Irenaeus, "Fragments From Lost Writings", no. 34, ... For these are the deliberate judgments of Christ, 'loving the Church,' who 'hath delivered Himself up for her, that He may sanctify her (purifying her utterly by the laver of water) in the word, that He may present the Church to Himself ... But you will perhaps say, 'What does the baptism of water contribute towards the worship of God?' In the first place, because that which hath pleased God is fulfilled. In the second place, because, when you are regenerated and born again of water and of God, the ... For by baptism the Holy Spirit is received... As also, in another place, the Lord speaks to the Samaritan woman, saying, 'Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again; but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, shall not ... ... https://www.bible.ca/H-baptism.htm

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Geographic variation caused New Testament canon variation from ... This providence does not mean that church leaders were inspired in their selecting the canon, only that God had his eye on the scriptures the whole time and brought about His will to form the ... III. What scholars have said about the way the canon varied over time and geography: First, it may be argued that the "orthodox" church, from an early time on, collected books it regarded as sacred. Although the boundaries were not clear (and not the same) in different regions, a main body of scripture reached "canonical" status perhaps by the second century. The church did not decide on the content of the canon; ... evidence, and that they were published in codices, points to their widespread usage in the congregations, probably in worship from an early date, though we do not know exactly when. ... Carlton (Orthodox): 1. Carlton and Bernstein, being an Orthodox apologist, has a direct vested interest in promoting the superiority of "man made church tradition" over what the Bible says. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/b-canon-why-varied-geography-30-400AD.htm

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Origin of Jewish/Christian holy days: Old Testament, Christmas ... ... E. Mistakes commonly made in telling the story of birth of Christ: Click here for more details 1. 3 wise men? Bible says three gifts: gold, frankincense & myrrh: 2 or 10 man could give these gifts ... Wise men started 100-400 mile 3ourney when they saw star-Jesus born 4. The star first appeared when Jesus was born but didn't shine over house until wise son arrived a. Mt 2:9 The star went on ... A. Origin of word, "Easter": Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring: "Eostre" 1. In her honor sacrifices were offered at the vernal equinox or spring 2. By 8th century church leaders applied "Eostre" to Christ's ... V. Can Christians participate as individuals? (Keith Sharp) Is the observance of Christmas pleasing to God? Christmas is the most popular American holiday, and, along with several other holidays ... Paul identified this as a liberty, a practice that is allowed but not required (1 Corinthians 8:8-9). But this did not mean they could engage in idolatrous worship (1 Corinthians 10:14). To do so ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/t-holy-days-origin-christmas-easter-halloween.htm

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Pentecostalism: Worshipping God with your mind in neutral! Click to View Sometimes Truth makes Love hurt "You are seeking to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth" Jn 8:40 Click to View Pentecostalism: The religion where you worship God with your mind in neutral! What this means: Pentecostals confuse the inward deception of their own feelings with the supernatural activity of God. ... What is incredible is that this very type of worship is totally foreign to the Bible yet seen in occult world religions EXACTLY the same as in Pentecostal churches. Read carefully the quotes below and take heed! Montanus 150 AD Click to View Montanus opposed formalism in the church and boldly intimidated Christians by claiming his ... Click to View "only when the mind becomes calm and serene does one's bioenergy becomes strong enough to produce spontaneous movements. The first appearance of ... to the Spirit'". (Revival ... or Satanic Counterfeit?, Jimmy Robbins, 1996) Click to View Go to 20th Century tongues refuted section Go To Start: WWW.BIBLE.CA ... https://www.bible.ca/tongues-neutral-mind.htm

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One verse refution of Transubstantiation ... The Bible pattern for the Lord's Supper is that the bread and juice are not combined, but are two separate steps of "Holy communion". We wonder why Roman Catholics and Orthodox doubt God will ... "In the early Church, the only people who denied that the Eucharist was truly the Body and Blood of Christ were those who also denied that the Word had truly become man." (THE WAY: What Every ... Some Gnostics refused to eat the Lord's Supper altogether. Transubstantiation was not an issue that was discussed. By the fourth century, the church drifted away from the original symbolic view of the ... ""Observe" he (Cyprian) says, in presenting the cup, to maintain the custom handed down to us from the Lord, and to do nothing that our Lord has not first done for us: so that the cup which is ... For example, Seventh-day Adventists convert all kinds of Catholics to Saturday worship because Catholics mistakenly call Sunday the Sabbath. The Adventist correctly points out that the 7th day ... ... https://www.bible.ca/ntx-communion-transubstantiation.htm

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Scriptures were more important than tradition to Apostolic Fathers ... B. James Bernstein, Orthodox leader, gives a silly defense of man-made church tradition: James Bernstein, Orthodox preacher, speaking about the time when he believed the Bible was above man-made church tradition says, "And I had rejected ... James Bernstein, Orthodox churchman, 1994, p 18) In the illustration, the "carpentry manual" represents the Bible and the carpenter represents a minister for a church. First, we find offensive the idea that God was unable to write the Bible in such a way, so as to be easily ... And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men." What Christian in his or her right mind would want to be involved with something that received such harsh treatment from our Lord Himself! (Scripture and ... Christians actually agree that we must maintain the oral tradition of the apostles. We are not opposed to apostolic tradition of the first century church. But that is where the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches are in big trouble. The ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/b-canon-scriptures-tradition-apostolic-fathers.htm

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Myths about separation, divorce and the Bible Women gain more financially when the marry and lose more financially when they divorce than man. Myth: The trend of easy divorce means that the average happiness of those who remain married today is higher than in the past when divorce was a taboo. (Married couples today are as happy as they were 100 years ago. However couples today are working far more today, which alone may contribute a decline in happiness in some marriages.) Myth: Men usually file for divorce first over the protest of the wife. (66% of all divorces are initiated by women, not men) Myth: Saying, ... C. You don't have "marital problems." (Term excuses people.) You have people problems. Sin has sabotaged God plan. Spouses fail. Marriages do not. Myth: 1 Corinthians 7:10-11 teaches that permanent separation is ... Opposites attract anyway! You do need one critical thing in common: the desire to be a Christian and attend church every Sunday. Only your relationship with God will keep you together.) Myth: "If can't get along, ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/marriage/marriage-myths-separation-divorce.htm

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20th Century Tongues: Faith or Fake? Hear misquotes of the Bible within a prophecy! Hear Bible reading openly mocked! See and hear Pentecostals and their Pastors worship in chaos and misbehave in church services in ways that other ... Pentecostals view non-Charismatics as dead and lifeless churches! 4 Click to View Detailed theological refutation of 20th century tongues that proves tongues ceased sometime around 100 AD. Detailed ... Moral failures of the highest profile Pentecostal preachers Many Pentecostals are Anti-doctrine, Anti-intellectual "Knowledge is of the devil" Pentecostalism: Worshipping God with you mind in neutral! Pentecostalism: Founded by women who usurp their place! Spiritual Supremacists: Most Pentecostals are spiritual elitists 7 Click to View Would Jesus endorse the Pentecostal church where you attend? ... Click to View Questions many Pentecostal cannot answer! Click to View Sometimes Truth makes Love hurt "You are seeking to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth" Jn 8:40 Click to View Go to Start ... https://www.bible.ca/tongues.htm

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Other False Doctrines that originated from inherited sin ... B. Confirmation is not a Christian doctrine! Notice that the Catholic church actually admits that Confirmation is not taught in the scriptures! Mariolatry: (Mary, mother of Jesus) Note: There are a wide range of false doctrines that have been taught about Mary, the mother of Jesus because of the false doctrine of inherited sin. A. Immaculate Conception: Jesus was God become flesh, born of a woman-a man: Jn 1:14; Gal 4:4. Inherited sin advocates had to explain why Jesus didn't inherit the sin of Adam. ... Peter's Cathedral, "It is proclaimed by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ and the blessed apostles Peter and Paul and in our own authority that the doctrine which holds the blessed virgin Mary to have been, from the first instant of her ... Mary Worship: With all the above taken into consideration, now we understand the reasons why Catholics pray to and worship Mary. Although they deny such with their mouth, by their actions, they worship Mary. She has been given the title, ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cal-T-spawned-false.htm

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Introduction to the history of psychiatry This makes sense since today's chemical psychiatrists don't even believe in God and reject the very existence of the human soul or spirit. This would make today's psychiatrists doctor's of something they do not believe exists! Church ministers were the first experts in helping to change the behaviours of the insane. They correctly ... These court appointed "guardians" were for the rich only. The poor looked to their relatives, their feudal lord or their local church for benevolence. "Medieval English society was based on the preservation and stable transmission of landed wealth. Consequently, as early as the thirteenth century, the king was entitled to take ... Three Bible passages commonly used by the church to support the poor were: "The man who has two tunics is to share with him who has none; and he who has food is to ... Prisons mixed young and old, men and women, debtors and felons, in a single heterogeneous mass." (The most solitary of afflictions: madness and society in Britain ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-history-introduction.htm

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Flavius Josephus Genesis Chronology: 70 AD Creation 5467 BC ... in Antiquities 10:218 and Against Apion 1.1. This is powerful evidence that in 70 AD all Hebrew Torah scrolls in use agreed with the Greek Septuagint used in thousands of synagogues the world over. ... Jews before Christianity and Christians today correctly understand that the 70 weeks of Daniel ended at the resurrection of Jesus Christ. See also the Ephesian Jewish Synagogue of 43 BC I. The ... Now he says that this flood began on the twenty-seventh day of the forementioned month; (82) and this was two thousand six hundred and fifty-six [2656 years] years from Adam, the first man; and the time ... Now he, when he had lived three hundred and sixty-five years [365: LXX & Proto-Masoretic agree], departed, and went to God; whence it is that they have not written down his death. (86) Now ... of the temple" p239) 3 | 4510 years: R = Josephus manuscript "Codex Regius Parisinus", 14th century, housed in Paris 4 | 4510 years: O = Josephus manuscript "Codex Oxoniensis (Bodleianus); ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/manuscripts/Josephus-Flavius-Chronology-Genesis5-Textual-variants-Bible-manuscripts-Old-Testament-Torah-Tanakh-creation-5467BC-age-earth-Daniel9-70-weeks-70AD.htm

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Lohse, Bernard: A Short History of Christian Doctrine ... All such attempts may be regarded today as having floundered. It is another question, of course, whether or not the church, in developing the doctrine of the Trinity, had recourse ... In 3000 AD, it would be just as ridiculous to dig up Watchtower Magazines from this century and conclude JW's (should they survive that long) borrowed their extinction doctrine from Bill Gates, as it is for JW's to say that early Christians borrowed trinity doctrine from the pagans! Speaking first of the person of Jesus Christ ... In other passages of the New Testament the predicate "God" is without a doubt applied to Christ.' With these affirmations, ... of the pure worship of God; and above all else, it was to ask and to obtain God's blessing for the emperor and his realm by discharging responsibly its tasks as a church. ... and became incarnate, becoming man, suffered and rose again on the third day, ascended to the heavens, and will come to judge the living and the dead; And in the Holy Spirit." ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Lohse.htm

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Christianity Wasn't Influenced by Pagan Religions! the charge that the New Testament doctrine of salvation parallels themes commonly found in the mystery religions: a savior-god dies violently for those he will eventually deliver, after which that god is restored to life. Was the New Testament influenced by the pagan religions of the first century A.D.? ... While a tendency toward eclecticism or synthesis developed after A.D. 300, each of the mystery cults was a separate and distinct religion during the century that saw the birth of the Christian church. Moreover, each mystery cult assumed different forms in ... Cybele, also known as the Great Mother, was worshiped through much of the Hellenistic world. She undoubtedly began as a goddess of nature. Her early worship included orgiastic ceremonies in which her frenzied male ... As J. Machen explains, the mystery cults were nonexclusive. "A man could become initiated into the mysteries of Isis or Mithras without at all giving up his former beliefs; but if he were to be received into the ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-pagan-christianity.htm

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Earliest evidence for the New Testament canon that there was direct inspiration in the many men who were part of the process, just that God, in His providence, achieved His goal of a 27 book canon. a. For example the late 4th century councils that drafted lists of 27 books, were merely rubber stamping what had long been ... but must be the work of a single editorial entity." (The first edition of the New Testament, David Trobisch, p 44, 2000) b. "But this question, like most over which Christians disagree, is not the cutting edge of what Christianity is all about...there was division everywhere in the church on the books that might be called the 'fringe,' but there ... the epistles mentioned, could only be explained by assuming a process of conscious collection, the motivation for which Zahn attributed to the liturgical function of public worship. ... Bernstein, being an Orthodox apologist, has a direct vested interest in promoting the superiority of "man made church tradition" over what the Bible says. If he can make you think the ... ... https://www.bible.ca/b-canon-earliest-evidence.htm

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Stele, inscriptions, manuscripts, scrolls, codex, New Testament ... This directly confirms the story of Daniel 3 where Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego where cast into a brick kiln in the spring of 594 BC. This proves Daniel was written in the 6th century BC, ... Full outline on the Origin of the Philistines Origin of Synagogues in 280 BC in Alexandria Egypt Origin of Synagogues "The Septuagint was Synagogue seed" See also: How the Septuagint gave birth to Synagogues in 280 BC ... Hebrew is the world's oldest alphabet from which English is derived. Its official! The world's first authentic inscription that names Moses of the Exodus! Melqart Stele of Ben-Hadad II, king of ... A collection of 6 stela, tablets and statues A stunning collection of six (6) stela, statues and inscriptions fully document how God used Assyrian king Adad-Nirari III, as the one who delivered ... This proves the first century singing style including the church, was responsive. Lamentations scroll Dating to 30 BC, this is the oldest extant copy of the book of Lamentations on earth that ... ... https://www.bible.ca/manuscripts/welcome.htm

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The early use of "nomina sacra" indicates a canon was recognized ... i.e., editions of the New Testament that aimed at a standardized text for Christian worship. This may have happened in the second century, and at latest in the third century. (Lee Martin McDonald, James A. Sanders, Editors: The Canon Debate; Peter Balla, Evidence for an Early Christian Canon: Second and Third Century, p 376, 2002) Barton has observed that when nomina sacra (sacred names that are ... The Canon Debate; Lee Martin McDonald, Identifying Scripture and Canon in the Early Church: The Criteria Question, p 421, 2002) "The use of nomina sacra was not limited to the writings which we recognize as the New Testament. For example, in the Shepherd of Hermas (included in Codex Sinaiticus), first leaf first column, I see three occurrences- qeou (of God) abbreviated as QU in line 30, pneuma (spirit) abbreviated as PNA in line 35, and anqrwpoV (man) abbreviated as ANOS in line 38. (In the earliest manuscripts, S = s = V was written with the appearance of our letter ... ... https://www.bible.ca/b-canon-nomina-sacra.htm

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A New System of the Spleen, Nicholas Robinson, 1729 AD ... So that no Scene of Horror can be more dreadful, than to view an Atheist on his Bed of Sickness, just reviving to a Sense of his being forsaken of God, and all Hopes of his Mercy." Nicholas ... Because mental illness is somatic in origin, only cures applied to the body will have any chance of success. For Robinson, you may as soon attempt to counsel a man out of the most violent ... Like many medical men of the period, Robinson was also interested in the differences between male and female manifestations of mental illness, and the first extract given is an account of 'A most remarkable History of Hysterick Fits' in a young woman, though ironically the case is one in which he is not called upon to prescribe at all." (Patterns of Madness in the Eighteenth Century, A Reader, Allan Ingram, 1998 AD, ... A. Of the Symptoms of VAPOURS and HYSTERICK FITS in Women. [note: this woman probably had epilepsy or a brain tumor] THE following Relation is the Case of a young Lady I visited, attended with ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/a-new-system-of-the-spleen-vapours-and-hypochondriack-melancholy-nicholas-robinson-1729ad.htm

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Sunday: The weekly memorial of the new creation and our deliverance ... A. Tradition of Jews vs. the tradition of Christians: Christians worship on a new day with new meaning! The Sabbath was only for Jews! Only Jews were given the Sabbath, not Gentiles who have ... Those under the Law had been redeemed from Egypt, but they needed a greater redemption. Significance of Sabbath to Jews Significance of First Day to Christians Memorial of Genesis creation: ... Deliverance from bondage of sin: "But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons." ... The resurrection of Christ was on the first day of the week. This is the foundation of the Christian religion. The Church began on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2). Pentecost was always on the ... made true salvation possible. Click to View We Speak truth in LOVE "you are seeking to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth" Jn 8:40 Click to View Click to View Go To Start: WWW.BIBLE.CA ... ...https://www.bible.ca/7-sunday-weekly-memorial-new-creation.htm

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Mad-Doctors: William Battie: 1703-1776 AD The history of Psychiatry: Mad-Doctors of the 1750's Click to View William Battie 1703-1776 AD They were quacks in the 18th century and they are still quacks today! ... His A Treatise on Madness, never mentions the words: soul, spirit, God, Jesus. The only time Christianity is brought into the subject is his rather stupid suggestion that the laziness religious leaders causes madness because their "nerves" were out of shape due to lack of use the same way the lazy man has weak heart. It was a ... the real seats of Madness" It is important to realize that as an agnostic who didn't attend church, Battie rejected the idea that anxiety was a spiritual problem. ... Anthony and the lazy Monks his followers, the ecstasies of sedentary [slow paced life] and chlorotic [iron-deficiency anemia, primarily of young women, characterized ... C. William Battie: Modern Psychiatry's hero! Modern "Hero" Claim by psychiatrists Historical Truth Battie was the first teacher of psychiatry in history. While John ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-history-mad-doctors-william-battie-1703-1776ad.htm

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Eternal torment proved ... annihilation refuted ... First we notice that we as Christians are to seek immortality. Obviously we do not possess it yet if we seek it Rom 2:7 "to those who by perseverance in doing good seek for glory and honor and ... IMMORTAL. But the second death is not the separation of the body and soul, but the separation of man from God for eternity in hell! Remember, the saying, "Death is swallowed up in victory" will ... Our God is a loving, merciful Father who does not want to consign anyone to that fate. (What Happens After Death?, United Church of God, an International Association) "The verse ... Rev 20:10 ... indicates ... Herbert W. Armstrong and many of his splinter groups have taken the unusual position that the Devil and his angels will be tormented forever. Click to View Argument refuted: You already worship and ... "Or what woman, if she has ten silver coins and loses (apollumi) one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it?" APOKTEINO to kill apollumi (a) lose, ... ... https://www.bible.ca/su-annihilation-refuted.htm

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Examples of Mental Illness in the Bible: Hebrew Greek word study ... ... Why do you bring him to me? "Do I lack madmen [shaga, 7696], that you have brought this one to act the madman [shaga, 7696] in my presence? Shall this one come into my house?"" 1 Samuel 21:12-15 6. "For oppression makes a wise man mad [halal, ... We commonly use "crazy" in a metaphoric way: "When I saw that my dad bought me a brand new Ford Mustang for my 16th birthday I went crazy!" Likewise the first century church commonly used the word existemi metaphorically: "Then Jesus got into the boat with ... Mark 3:21-22 7. "For if we are mad [existemi, 1839], it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you. " 2 Corinthians 5:13 8. "Immediately the girl got up and began to walk, for she was twelve years old. And immediately they were ... be worse than the first." (Matthew 27:64) 2. "and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-mental-illness-bible-hebrew-greek-word-study-insanity-madness.htm

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Shem as Melchizedek: A test case for validating or falsifying ... ... And Rebekah raised her eyes and saw Isaac and she let herself down from the camel. And she said to the servant: "Who is that man who is coming in the open field toward us?" And the servant said: ... He blessed [A]bram and said: Blessed be Abram by the Most High God, Lord of heaven and earth and blessed be the Most High God, who has delivered your enemies into your hands. And he (Abram) gave ... 22:14-17 retells the story of Melchizedek without elaboration, in 11QMelchizedek (a fragmentary eschatological midrash from the first century A.D. or .B.C..) Melchizedek ceases to be an earthly figure. ... This again is evidence that we are here dealing with literature, not ad hoc synagogue translations. Through the extant manuscripts and citations we can trace the history of this Targum tradition ... And the blessed apostle writing to the Hebrews makes mention of Melchizedek as "without father or mother" and refers him to Christ and, through Christ, to the church of the Gentiles, for all the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/manuscripts/Septuagint-LXX-Shem-was-Melchizedek-Masoretic-chronology-Messiah-Jesus-Christ-priesthood.htm

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The Canon of Marcion the heretic God's providence gave us the 27 book New Testament Canon, not the church. God, not men decided the canon. This providence does not mean that church leaders were inspired in their selecting ... This, however, obscures two important points. First, Marcion's rejection of the Old Testament was indeed total, in that he regarded it as completely alien to the revelation of salvation ... that they had been falsified in any way or contaminated by human intervention. "The Jewish Scriptures represent a true revelation of the Creator, but they do not speak of or for the God whom alone Christians ought to worship."" ... One man perverts the scriptures with his hand, another their meaning by his exposition. For although Valentinus seems to use the entire volume, he has nonetheless laid violent hands on the ... wrong: 1. Father James Bernstein, an Orthodox church leader wrote: a. "The first person on record who tried to establish a New Testament canon was the second-century heretic, Marcion. ... ... ... https://www.bible.ca/b-canon-canon-of-marcion.htm

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Mosaic Legal system, no jails or prisons vs. slavery comparison ... or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death; he shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness. "The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. ... after Molech." (Leviticus 20:2-5) iii. ""If there is found in your midst, in any of your towns, which the Lord your God is giving you, a man or a woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, by transgressing His covenant, and has gone and served other ... the Lord your God gives it into your hand, you shall strike all the men in it with the edge of the sword. "Only the women and the children and the animals and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as booty for yourself; and ... 19:1) Christians today: ""But beware of men, for they will hand you over to the courts and scourge you in their synagogues; and you will even be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles." ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/sin-no-jails-prisons-in-judaism-old-testament-law-of-moses-slavery-welfare-jewish-comparison.htm

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Pentecostal tries to defend manifestions with Scripture A refutation of the tract called, "What's Going On? An Extraordinary Visitation of God!" By Dr. Shirley A. Elenbaas of White Horse Christian Center. This tract was picked up in February 98 in the "Toronto Blessing" tract rack! But first note these quotations: John Wimber actually said: "There's nothing in Scripture that supports these kinds of phenomena that I can see, and I can't think of anything throughout the church age that would,' Wimber writes. 'So I feel no obligation to ... Only a devil barks. If somebody barks in my meeting, I'll cast the devil out of that man." "You watching TBN here. If you're doing such nonsense, get back to the Bible. ... with the Spirit" Eph 5:18 It says EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE. Here the Lord says, he hates those who worship him while drunk, but wants people to be filled with the Spirit. ... Psalm 35:27; 55:2; Jeremiah 25:30; 4:19; Romans 8:16. None of these verses are in any way relevant or parallel. This woman is obviously not Spirit filled seeing how badly ... ... https://www.bible.ca/tongues-defend-manifestions.htm

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