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201: 4 Competing Views of Church Organization
Find a local congregation of the New Testament church that is organized exactly as the Bible says Click to View John Paul II Catholic, Bishop of Rome, Pope Click to View Introduction Click to View Graphical Mouse Rollover of gradual change of organization over time Click to View Outline: 33-150 AD Click to View Outline: 150-250 AD Click to View Outline: 250-451 AD Click to View Outline: 451-588 AD Click to View Outline: 588-606 AD Click to View Outline: 606 AD-Today Click to View Catholic organization today Click to View Orthodox organization today Click to View True Bible organization today Click to View Find a local congregation of the New Testament church in your own home town. ... Pulpit preachers have no more authority than common members, unless they are also one of the elders. Let us get back to the simple organization that God ordained in scripture! The Catholic position: Peter was designated by Christ be the "universal bishop" and God intended for the Bishops of Rome to be the ... ...
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202: Sola Scriptura and the Apostolic Fathers: 180 AD: Irenaeus
Sola Scriptura: The Bible alone is enough! Apostolic Fathers used scripture as the primary defense against false doctrine. Click to View Sola Scriptura home page Click to View Apostolic Fathers: Dates they lived and other information. Click to View Apostolic Fathers: Five kinds of Tradition. Click to View Mandatory: Apostolic Fathers Catechism Class for Catholics and Orthodox. 180 AD: Irenaeus: "We have learned from none others the plan of our salvation, than from those through whom the Gospel ... This should send shivers up the spine of every Roman Catholic and Orthodox because it is a clear interpretation of 1 Tim 3:15 where the same expression is used of the church. Obviously then, Irenaeus viewed that the church came second in authority ... For [they allege] that the truth was not delivered by means of written documents, but vivâ voce: wherefore also Paul declared, "But we speak wisdom among those that are perfect, but not the wisdom of this world." And this wisdom each one of them ... ...
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203: Sola Scriptura and the Apostolic Fathers: 400 AD: Jerome
Sola Scriptura: The Bible alone is enough! Apostolic Fathers used scripture as the primary defense against false doctrine. Click to View Sola Scriptura home page Click to View Apostolic Fathers: Dates they lived and other information. Click to View Apostolic Fathers: Five kinds of Tradition. Click to View Mandatory: Apostolic Fathers Catechism Class for Catholics and Orthodox. 400 AD: Jerome: "Don't you know that the laying on of hands after baptism and then the invocation of the Holy Spirit is a custom of the Churches? Do you demand Scripture proof? You may find it in the Acts of the Apostles. And even if it did ... So you see we follow the practice of the Church, although it may be clear that a person was baptized before the Spirit was invoked." (Jerome, Dialogue Against the Luciferians, 8) Click to View Jerome clearly believes that if the church in the entire world agrees on some doctrine or practice, it is as good as having a Bible verse in scripture and a binding command. We ... ...
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204: Sola Scriptura and the Apostolic Fathers: 425 AD: Augustine
Sola Scriptura: The Bible alone is enough! Apostolic Fathers used scripture as the primary defense against false doctrine. Click to View Sola Scriptura home page Click to View Apostolic Fathers: Dates they lived and other information. Click to View Apostolic Fathers: Five kinds of Tradition. Click to View Mandatory: Apostolic Fathers Catechism Class for Catholics and Orthodox. 425 AD: Augustine: "Whereas, therefore, in every question, which relates to life and conduct, not only teaching, but exhortation also is necessary; in order that by teaching we may know what is to be done, and by exhortation may be incited not to think it irksome to do what we already know is to be done; what more can I ... For have ye now merely heard that God is Almighty? But ye begin to have him for your father, when ye have been born by the church as your Mother. (Augustine, On the Nicene Creed: a Sermon to the Catechumens, 1) Click to View Augustine, like all the fathers, believed that every phrase in ... ...
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205: Sola Scriptura and the Apostolic Fathers: 370 AD: Basil
Sola Scriptura: The Bible alone is enough! Apostolic Fathers used scripture as the primary defense against false doctrine. Click to View Sola Scriptura home page Click to View Apostolic Fathers: Dates they lived and other information. Click to View Apostolic Fathers: Five kinds of Tradition. Click to View Mandatory: Apostolic Fathers Catechism Class for Catholics and Orthodox. 370 AD: Basil: Tradition Wars: Let Scripture Decide! "What then? After all these efforts were they tired? Did they ... For the Roman Catholics who refuse to believe that such words could fall from the lips of a Catholic bishop, the Pope describes Basil as, "one of the most distinguished Doctors of the Church". One side of the debate cried, "my tradition is right". ... Sure some powerless but ambitious pew-dwelling Catholic might want to debate, but what's the point, when they don't even believe they can even understand the scriptures themselves! But Protestants know just how easy it is to defeat such "defenders ... ...
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206: Apostate church organization: 250-451AD: The rise of the diocesan ...
This was a departure from the simple bible blueprint of a group of equal elders (presbyters) governing only within their own local church. Click to View Learn from the Bible Blueprint, how the church was organized by the apostles! Click to View Find a local congregation of the New Testament church that is organized exactly as the Bible says 250-451AD: "The oligarchic diocesan episcopate" The organization of the Eastern Greek Orthodox patriarchal systems is fully formed. The Roman Catholic papal system is developing, but will not flower until 606 AD. Click to View John Paul II Catholic, Bishop of Rome, Pope Click to View Introduction Click to View Graphical Mouse Rollover of gradual change of ... But that they who are at Rome do not observe those things in all cases which are handed down from the beginning, and vainly pretend the authority of the apostles; any one may know also from the fact, that concerning the celebration of Easter, and concerning many other sacraments of divine ... ...
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207: Sola Scriptura Creedalists: The Apostolic Fathers expected all ...
Sola Scriptura Creedalists: The Apostolic Fathers expected all to correctly interpret scripture, unassisted by the Holy Spirit and apart from the church! Click to View To the horror of Roman Catholic and Orthodox defenders, the apostolic fathers expected the heretics to correctly interpret scripture even though they were outside the church ... Click to View Apostolic Fathers used scripture as the primary defense against false doctrine. Click to View Apostolic Fathers believed scripture alone was understandable. Sola Scriptura home page Introduction: Apostolic ... Instead, they would say, "The reason the heretics are wrong, is the fact that it is impossible for them to understand the scriptures because only the church can correct interpret the Bible"! If Hilary were Roman ... His solution to the Arian controversy was in the scripture, not the Nicene creed. "Yet it is well for us to know all that has been revealed upon the subject, for though we are not responsible for the words of ... ...
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208: Stunning quotations from: The New Catholic Catechism
Roman Catholic Faith Examined! Click to View Introduction by John Paul II Stunning quotations from... The New Catholic Catechism 1992 French version (English translation completed in 1994) Click to View We Speak truth in LOVE tell us if ... The Catechism of the Catholic Church, lastly, is offered to every individual ... who wants to know what the Catholic Church believes. Tradition equal with scripture 80 Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture, then, are bound closely together and communicate one with the other. 82 As a result the Church, to whom the transmission and interpretation of Revelation is entrusted, "does not derive her certainty about all revealed truths from the holy Scriptures alone. Both Scripture and Tradition must be accepted and honoured with equal sentiments of devotion and reverence. bible interpretation the sole right of pope and bishops 100 The task of interpreting the Word of God authentically has been entrusted solely to the Magisterium of the Church, that is, to ... ...
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209: Interactive Bible Home Page www.bible.ca
Do you really believe the Bible is Inspired? 3. Interactive Bible study series lessons where you learn Bible truths while on line for yourself. Anyone can understand what the Bible says. It is fun!!! 4. Fundamental Bible Doctrines What the Bible teaches on doctrinal subjects 5. Do you know what your church teaches: Official teachings of almost every church. 6. Sin and Morality How God expects you to live to get to heaven. 7. Searching for New Testament Christianity Seek and you will ... Using the Bible only rather than human traditions: 1. Start here: Introduction and Overview to Sola Scriptura 2. Sola Scriptura debates between Christians vs. Orthodox/Catholics 3. The failure of extra-biblical oral church traditions 4. Irrefutable ... the golden Nephi plates from God or man? 7. Calvinism refuted The famous 5 point T-U-L-I-P doctrinal system refuted by scripture! 8. 20th Century Tongues exposed Are modern day tongue speakers guided by divinity or self-delusion? 9. ... ...
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210: Sola Scriptura: The saying of Jesus in Acts 20:35 does not prove ...
Even if these words were spoken by Jesus during his ministry, there is nothing here that supports oral tradition any more than all the rest of the sayings of Jesus that are recorded in the four gospels. The fact is that we would not know about this oral tradition unless it was recorded by Luke in Acts. Although Jesus words were inspired and Paul got the saying directly from the Holy Spirit. Inspiration means that the prophecy did not come by an act of human will. 2 Pet 1:20-21. We are offended that anyone would suggest the authors of the Bible rely upon human records and not the Holy Spirit. We challenge the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches to give us a list of "oral saying" of Jesus that are not found in scripture. We want the average Orthodox and Catholic church member to note that their churches never supply such lists of statements because none exist except for what scripture records. However, this may have been spoken to Paul directly by Jesus after he was converted in ... ...
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211: Official creeds of the Catholic church
Roman Catholic click here to go to Catholic Faith Examined website The New Catholic Catechism 1992 Latin version (English translation completed in 1994) Three Key quotations: 1. Introduction by John Paul II The Catechism of the Catholic Church is the result of very extensive collaboration; it was ... The Catechism of the Catholic Church, lastly, is offered to every individual ... who wants to know what the Catholic Church believes. 2. Tradition equal with scripture 80 Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture, then, are bound closely together and communicate one with the other. 82 As a result the Church, to whom the transmission and interpretation of Revelation is entrusted, "does not derive her certainty about all revealed truths from the holy Scriptures alone. Both Scripture and Tradition must be accepted and honoured with equal sentiments of devotion and reverence. bible interpretation the sole right of pope and bishops 100 The task of interpreting the Word of God authentically has ... ...
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212: Does God Approve Instrumental Music in church?
Does God Approve Instrumental Music in church? Click to View Click to View Mechanical instruments of prayer: Buddhist Prayer Wheel: Pictured left are two Buddhist prayer wheels. You put prayers inside and spin them. The prayer wheel is used by spinning the "wheel" around in a clockwise direction while saying your specific mantra or religious sayings. When the wheel is spun around ... The Bible, indeed, never condemns the use of instruments of music in worship, but neither does it command their use. Many things we know to be wrong are not condemned by name in the Bible. Thus, we can never assume that we have God's approval to do an act when no scripture teaches against that act. In the New Testament, which is our guide today, the apostle, Paul, says that faith comes by hearing the word of God and that whatsoever is not of faith is sin. This is another way of saying that if you cannot find command or example for an act of worship in the will of Christ (the New Testament), you should not ... ...
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213: Sola Scriptura: The prophecy in Matthew 2:23, that Jesus would ...
Inspiration means that the prophecy did not come by an act of human will. We are offended that anyone would suggest the authors of the Bible rely upon human records and not the Holy Spirit. "no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God. (2 Pet 1:20-21) Catholic and Orthodox defenders must contradict the traditional interpretation of the Fathers (Jerome) of Mt 2:23 and their own theologians. They are therefore violating the very principle of oral tradition and the "authority of the church" to interpret scripture, that they are trying to prove. Such an argument is as dishonest as it is self-defeating. Jerome says that Isa 11:1 is the Old Testament prophecy: "Once more it is written in the pages of ... It would cause people to look down on you... just as Isa 53 says. Jesus wears the name with pride: Acts 22:8 "I am Jesus the Nazarene." I response to Paul, who may have been using the name as a slur before he was converted. Even if our ... ...
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214: The Apostolic Fathers believed man-made creeds were tradition ...
By 180 AD, oral and written creeds began to come into general use. It is important to note, that these creeds were based 100% on scripture, and 0% on oral tradition. For Roman Catholic and Orthodox defenders to refer to these creeds as proof of an oral tradition in the early church, is as unscholarly as it is deluded. Between 180 - 325 AD, there were many different versions of creeds and none universally accepted. In 325 AD, the Nicene Creed became the first creed that was considered universal law and equal to the Bible. Indeed, the ... None of the thoughts and phrases came from "extra-biblical oral tradition". A. "creed like" statements of Faith in the Bible: Below are three inspired "creed like" statements like Paul. They are not creeds, and never have been ... regard to this rule of faith-that we may from this point acknowledge what it is which we defend-it is, you must know, that which prescribes the belief that there is one only God, and that He is none other than the Creator of the ... ...
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215: The Apostolic Fathers viewed oral tradition as a duplicate of ...
Therefore, Christians who advocate Sola Scriptura take the identical view of oral tradition of the apostles, as the Church Fathers did. This is most troubling to Roman Catholic and Orthodox defenders of an oral tradition that is distinct from scripture. The Apostolic ... tradition #1 is scripture itself that came from the apostles pen and inspired tradition #2 is the words the spoken orally from the apostles mouths.) A. The Bible texts that support oral revelation as tradition: Then the Lord stretched out His hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me, "Behold, I have put My words in your mouth. Jeremiah 1:9. This is a classic Bible verse on oral inspiration, even though Jeremiah also wrote a book. Like the Apostles, even though Jeremiah had an oral tradition, all we know of his work, is what scripture records. Now I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold firmly to the traditions, just as I delivered them to you. 1 Corinthians 11:2. Paul delivered ... ...
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216: Rejected books, widely used in the first two centuries, but not ...
Rejected books, widely used in the first two centuries, but not considered inspired or part of the New Testament Canon. 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 selecting the canon, only that God had his eye on ... Book of Jubilees was written in about 150 BC. The oldest and most complete manuscript was among the Dead Sea Scrolls. Since the book claims an angel revealed the message to Moses on Mt. Sinai, it is obvious why every church in the world, except for the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, rejects it as ... Gospel According to the Hebrews: The date of the book is difficult to know but may be as early as the first century. The book has been forever lost: "The Gospel according to the Hebrews" was a work of early Christian literature to which reference is frequently made by the church Fathers in the first ... ...
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217: Is Church Membership Essential to my salvation?
Since you have visited this website, you want to know the Bible answer to this question; you want to know which of the forgoing alternatives is correct, or if God presents another alternative through His word, the Bible. The Bible ... Faith in Christ and obedience to His will is the only route into the church. Study Bible Research Library message, "The New Testament Church - It's Terms of Entrance". As discussed earlier, membership in the church results as the believer obeys God's will: Thus we must ask, "But does this membership in the Lord's church commit the believer to meet with an earthly body, to carry out responsibilities to others, and to perform Christian duties which cannot be done alone?". To answer this question, we observe that Acts ... cannot be done alone, or which must be done in a group. The search first reveals a command given by the Apostle Paul, as recorded in Hebrews 10: 24,25, "And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not ... ...
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218: Why Be A Christian?
know. It concerns your happiness during your life on earth, and for life after death. Why be a Christian, is a Bible question, and therefore, you can have a Bible answer. We find the name of "Christian" three times in the New Testament. Please write these scriptures down and then read them in your own Bible. First, open your New Testament to the book of "Acts of Apostles" Chapter 11, verse 26. The last part of this verse says: "The disciples were called Christians, first at Antioch." The second time we find the name Christian is in the same New Testament book, "Acts of Apostles" Chapter 26, verse 28. The Apostle Paul was ... Write down this Scripture: "Acts of Apostles" Chapter 4, verse 12. Please listen while I quote it. "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved." Christians are members of the "Body of Christ" Ephesians 5: 30. In this same chapter Paul speaks of the Church and Christ, husband and ... ...
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219: The Pattern of Congregational Benevolence in the New Testament
The Pattern of Congregational Benevolence in the New Testament Introduction A. We will do two things in this study: 1. Identify each scripture in the NT that deals with benevolence 2. Look for a pattern in actions of benevolence I. Bible Texts On Benevolence: A. Texts that deal with formal benevolence within a local congregation: 1. Acts 2:44-45 2. Acts 4:34-37 3. Acts 6:1-8 4. 1 Ti 5:9-16 B. Texts where one church helps another needy church(s) 1. Acts 11:27-30 Antioch to churches of Judea 2. Rom 15:25-28; 1 Cor 16:1,2; 2 Cor 8,9 ... parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God. 5 Now she who is a widow indeed, and who has been left alone has fixed her hope on God, and continues in entreaties and prayers night and day. 6 But she who gives herself ... money for "saints only" and forbidden to be given to non-Christians. 2. Yet we know for certain that James 1:27 CANNOT include collective church benevolence to non-Christians because of 1 Tim 5! 3. This point is irrefutable! ... ...
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220: Pentecostal tries to defend manifestions with Scripture
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 try to explain it. It's just phenomena. It's just people responding to God.'" "There is no place in the Bible where people were lined up and Jesus or Paul or anyone else went along and tapped them on the head and ... Those effected find it necessary to lay down and yet remain conscious and aware of what is going on around them. It is best to leave them alone until they are able to get up on their own. We find an example of falling in ... Many Pentecostals walk out of these healing revival meetings WITH BRUISES and are sore for weeks after!!! Appealing to Jonathon Edwards How Do We Know This Is God? Jonathon Edwards wrote a treatise in 1741 called The ... ...
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221: Official creed of Latter-day Saiimts (LDS) Mormons
We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul--We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to endure all things. If ... Basic Beliefs of the RLDS Church What do you use for scriptures? The RLDS Church recognizes three books of scripture: The Holy Bible, the Book of Mormon, and the Doctrine and Covenants. We believe in continuing revelation and an open canon of scripture. OUR FAITH AND BELIEFS: GOD: God is the eternal Creator, the source of love, life, and truth. All things exist and have their being in God. God alone is worthy of our worship. God actively loves and cares for each person. ... dispute; and that when God directs, man should obey. 12. We believe that the religion of Jesus Christ as taught in the New Testament Scriptures will (if its precepts are accepted and obeyed) make men and women better in the domestic circle, and better ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/cr-Mormons.htm
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222: Tongues Ceased in AD 100: Introduction: Cessation of Spiritual ...
Click to View What does the inspired Bible say? Cessation of spiritual gifts Exposition of: 1 Cor 13:8-13 (Part 2 of 3) Part 1: Intro and foundational arguments Part 3: Pentecostal arguments ... due to limited revelation removed. The full-orbed revelation of God having been given, the church is able to see clearly and distinctly the whole counsel of God intended for this age. The same may be said of the contrast in the last half of the verse between to "know in part" and to "know fully." With the completed New Testament canon, believers are able to know the revealed will of God fully and distinctly. ... Tongues in the Bible was a spoken human language, but tongues today is gibberish. 3. In 1 Cor 13 Paul discussed spiritual gifts from two angles. a. V1-7 He singled out tongues, prophecy, ... Paul then concludes by declaring the superiority of love to the other virtues. Love is superior, the implication is, because it alone continues beyond the present period into eternity." (Detroit ... ...
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223: Essay on the Demoniacs of the New Testament, Hugh Farmer, 1775 ...
See also the cases of "Demon" and also the case of "Bewitched". Insanity is not Demon possession! more In 1775 AD, Hugh Farmer, church minister, correctly taught that demon possession never caused insanity. Farmer would not "ascribe madness and epileptic fits to possession, rather than other disorders". The Bible does teach demon ... Farmer said, "the New Testament doth not countenance the doctrine of real possessions." Demon possession is real in the New Testament and is always accompanied by supernatural powers and knowledge. It was impossible for demon possessed men to be bound with even chains. They also knew things normal humans did not know. People in ... Notice Farmer rejects demon possession and instead calls it a "disorder". Farmer almost stands alone as a church preacher for first equating demon possession with the ... What is important to point out, is that he correctly rejected the idea that insanity was caused by supernatural demon possession. In this regard, he was orthodox ... ...
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224: Earliest evidence for the New Testament canon
... So consistent are the sets of collections, that there are standard symbols used in the study of Bible manuscripts to designate each collection. 4. Uniform Arrangement within each category: a. ... canon of scripture. c. "In view of the unanimity on this point of the tradition of the Church which can be traced back to the beginning of the second century, we are justified in assuming that the Epistle [Ephesians] had this title [in Ephesus 1:1] when it was incorporated into the collection of Pauline letters which afterwards came into general circulation in the Church." (Introduction To The New Testament, Theodor ... There is no need to speculate about whether the Letter to the Hebrews was part of a collection of the Letters of Paul in the second century, because a second-century exemplar of the Pauline ... III. Roman Catholic and Orthodox confuse the issue: 1. False claims by Catholic and Orthodox church leaders like James Bernstein: "The second big surprise came when I realized that the first ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/b-canon-earliest-evidence.htm
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225: Sola Scriptura: "Paul quoted an early hymn from tradition in ...
Church tradition arguments refuted! Click to View "Paul quoted an early hymn from tradition in Ephesians 5:14." For this reason it says, "Awake, sleeper, And arise from the dead, And Christ will shine on you." Ephesians 5:14 Click to View Refutation of the false Catholic & Orthodox tradition argument: "Paul quoted an early hymn from tradition in Ephesians 5:14, 'Awake O sleeper'" Introduction: Paul got the phrase directly from the Holy Spirit. Inspiration means that the prophecy did not come by an act of human will. We are offended that anyone would suggest the authors of the Bible rely upon human records and not the Holy Spirit. "no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God. (2 Pet 1:20-21) There are several Old Testament passages that ... create a huge problem for themselves since they possess no record of inspired hymns from the first century and currently make no claim to even know of any inspired hymns the early church used. ... ...
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226: Objections to baptism being essential to salvation REFUTED!
... Paul was saved on the road to Damascus before being baptized. 1. If so then... The Lord didn't know it, Acts 9:6 "Arise and go into the city and you will be told what to do." Paul didn't know it & rejoice, Acts 9:9 "He was three days blind and neither ate nor drink." Ananias didn't know it but commanded, Ax22:16 "why delay, be baptized & wash away your ... 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 Universal salvation for every creature, no hell Grace & faith only Calvinist God ... We are not saved by our works...baptism is a work: Eph 2:9 1. It is ridiculous to suggest we earn our salvation through baptism. Different types of works in the Bible: Compare "Not of works lest any man should boast" Eph 2:9 and "By works is a man justified not by faith alone" Jas 2:24 Works of God Jn 9:3 Works of the devil 1 Jn 3:8 Meritorious works Eph ... ...
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227: sola-scriptura-oral-written-final
Sola Scriptura: The Bible alone is enough! Tradition is only valid, when it mirrors scripture, not adds to it or changes it! Anti-Sola Scriptura: Those who believe the Bible is not enough! Click to View Sola Scriptura home page The Apostolic Fathers saw scripture the final mode ... These false teachers just carelessly grab anything they can find to support their doctrines without doing a proper and though study. Again this sounds real "Catholic" or "Orthodox" because they are lazy and want the priest to simply tell them what the Bible says, rather ... The Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches have changed the original meaning of "viva voce" from the words spoken by inspired apostles, to whatever the current practice and dogma of the church is today. Here is proof: "But the appeal to antiquity is both a treason and a heresy. It is a treason because it rejects the Divine voice of the Church at this hour, and a heresy because it denies that voice to be Divine. How can we know what ... ...
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228: Sola Scriptura: Jews being sawn in two in Hebrews 11:37 came ...
Extra-Biblical Oral Tradition Arguments Refuted: Click to View "Jews being sawn in two in Hebrews 11:37 came from tradition not scripture." False arguments that Catholics and Orthodox use to prove oral extra-scriptural church tradition are refuted. Click to View Sola Scriptura home page Click to View More Pro-Oral ... Hebrews 11:37 "the author of Hebrews relies on the oral tradition of the martyrs being sawed in two. This is not recorded in the Old Testament. It was recorded in "The Ascension of Isaiah". "And many in Jerusalem and in Judea ... Inspiration means that the prophecy did not come by an act of human will. We are offended that anyone would suggest the authors of the Bible rely upon human records and not the Holy Spirit. "no prophecy was ever made by an act ... Even if there was an actual oral tradition about Isaiah being sawn in two, only through the Holy Spirit stating such in the scriptures, could modern traditionalists know which parts of the tradition are valid and which parts ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/sola-scriptura-pro-tradition-sawn-in-two-hebrews-11-37.htm
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229: Was Peter the first Pope?
of Scripture or evident reason (for I do not believe either Pope or councils alone, since it is certain that they have both erred frequently and contradicted themselves)...I neither can nor wish to revoke anything." (This was said by Martin Luther at Worms in 1521 while still a Catholic priest). "No enlightened Catholic holds the pope's infallibility to be an article of faith. I do not; and none of my brethren, that I know of do." ... Peter. (2) That the apostles never recognized in St. Peter the vicar of Jesus Christ and the infallible doctor of the church. (3) That St. Peter never thought of being pope, and never ... There is not a single instance in the Scriptures where any of the above titles are applied to a man. The term, "Holy Father" is used only once in the entire Bible, and it is used by ... The apostle Paul said, "For other foundation no one can lay, but that which has been laid, which is Christ Jesus" (1 Cor. 3:11). There is no other foundation but Christ! Therefore, any ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/cath-peter=pope.htm
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230: Synagogue Organization and Government: Elders, officials, attendants ...
Like the dynasty of Judean Kings and scribes, the High priest had to trace his parentage back to Levi though specific genealogical records. There are many examples in the Bible of the general population rejecting the successor in prophetic ... The Holy Spirit gave two detailed lists in the New testament of the qualifications of church overseers: i. "It is a trustworthy statement: if any man aspires to the office of overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do. An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the ... He must be one who manages his own household well, keeping his children under control with all dignity (but if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?), and not a new convert, so that ... Outline: 250-451 AD f. Outline: 451-588 AD g. Outline: 588-606 AD h. Outline: 606 AD-Today i. Catholic organization today j. Orthodox organization today k. True Bible organization today 3. Find a local congregation of the New Testament ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/synagogues/Government-organization-Elders-officials-attendants-Synagogue-Independent-overseer-shepherd-first-century-early-Christian-Church-New-Testament-prototype-ancient.htm
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231: Long vs. Short Egyptian sojourn: Israel spent 430 not 215 years ...
Short Egyptian sojourn: 430 years (Israel spent 430 years not 215 years in Egypt) Chronological Interpretation Variants in the Bible "Scripture cannot be broken" (Jesus, John 10:35) "My word will accomplish what I desire and succeed in the purpose ... In doing so, they created a domino effect of confusion that was resolved once and for all in the New Testament by Stephen in Acts 7:6 and Paul in Acts 13:19, certifying the long sojourn of 430 years as the correct reading. The Masoretic text preserved the correct reading ... Egypt was 430 years." (Ex 12:40, Samaritan Pentateuch "SP") 3. Other relevant Bible verses: a. "God said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and ... The LXX has "in Egypt and in the land of Canaan" but the Samaritan Pentateuch has "in Canaan and in the land of Egypt". c. The Hebrew Samaritan Pentateuch is alone in adding "and their fathers". d. Codex Vaticanus LXX reads "435 years" e. ... ...
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232: Holy Spirit in the New Testament The Gift of the Holy Spirit
Holy Spirit in the New Testament Miraculous Holy Spirit in the New Testament Introduction: 1. In the bible there are only 9 categories of supernatural power which are listed in 1 ... Brethren continue to use this chart not even understanding the entire theological framework rests upon a single bible verse (John 3:34) that says EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE to what the ... The apostles laid hands on the 7 in Acts 6 to impart spiritual gifts: Acts 6:8; 8:6 c. 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 ... a. Acts 2:17 pour fourth OF my Spirit i. 1 Jn 3:24 & 4:23 "we know we abide in Him by the Spirit He has given us" & "we know we abide in Him... he has given us OF Spirit" ii. ... Personal indwelling advocates use the word alone for their belief and have no evidence or feelings! i. The non-miraculous personal indwelling that is undetectable to our senses ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/holyspirit/Holy-Spirit-in-the-New-Testament.htm
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233: Gifts ceased: Encyclopedia of Pentecostal objections and their ...
We now consider and refute all Pentecostal Objections to the fact that the Bible teaches spiritual gifts ceased at the end of the apostolic age around 100AD Actual Pentecostal ... If only Pentecostals spent more time studying truth than emotionalism, they would have known this! Now that they know it, on what basis can they separate themselves from the ... The church in Corinth had more in the way of spiritual gifts than any other as far as we have record. Yet it was a church plagued by factions, law-suits, fornication, skepticism and abuse of the Lord's table! Paul said they were not spiritual but carnal (1 Cor 3:1) and ... unity" (wholeness) of "the faith" (the New Testament content) and the wholeness of the (full) "knowledge" (epignosis) of the Son of God "unto a full-grown [teleios] man" (v. 13). ... THEN: revelation complete and the mirror will be as clear as seeing Christ face to face. This is a powerful statement about the all-sufficiency of scripture. The problem with this ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/tongues-ceased-pentecostal-arguments-refuted.htm
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234: Inspiration claims of the Watchtower Bible Tract Society
... after he has read them for 10 years-if he then lays them aside and ignores them and goes to the Bible alone...out experience shows that within 2 years he goes into darkness. ... The Watchtower, 1917, p 22 1917 "Following the election Brother Rutherford, addressing the meeting, said in part:...'The Watchtower Bible And Tract Society is the greatest ... to see and understand the precious promises that specifically apply to the church at this time. (Watchtower, March 15, 1927 p. 87) 1928 "The writer does not give his opinion. No human interpretation of scripture is advanced." (Reconciliation, 1928, p. 6) 1930 "The Watchtower is the channel ... power and grace." (Light, J. F. Rutherford, 1930, p. 12) 1931 Jehovah God has made Know to his anointed ones in advance what these scriptures mean. (Watchtower, June 1, ... full command and fulfills completely the places or offices occupied by the apostle Paul and others; and that the instructions given by Paul to Timothy and Titus are also ... ...
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235: Part 2: Bible Section: Trinity Watchtower BOOKLET: Should You ...
... the Old to the New Testaments. In the same way that final resurrection and judgement were not present in the Old Testament but expanded in the New, so too with the doctrine of God. ... Yet we know that they share these identical characteristics. learn more That is why nowhere in the Bible is anyone but Jehovah called Almighty. Otherwise, it voids the meaning of the word "almighty." Neither Jesus nor the holy spirit is ever called that, for Jehovah alone is supreme. Hippolytus certainly applies Rev 1:8 to Christ and calls Jesus "The Almighty" several times. But even if the Father is alone called the Almighty, this still ... The fact that JW's cannot understand this merely confirms what 1 Tim 3 says: "Great is the mystery of godliness: God who was revealed in the flesh". There are many things in scripture ... Father, to my God and your God." (RS, Catholic edition) At 2 Corinthians 1:3 the apostle Paul confirms this relationship: "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-JW-SYBTT-Watchtower-BOOKLET-Should-You-Believe-the-Trinity-EXPOSED-REFUTED-bible-section.htm
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236: Trinity Attackers refuted! (Watchtower's: Should You Believe ...
... the Old to the New Testaments. In the same way that final resurrection and judgement were not present in the Old Testament but expanded in the New, so too with the doctrine of God. ... Yet we know that they share these identical characteristics. learn more That is why nowhere in the Bible is anyone but Jehovah called Almighty. Otherwise, it voids the meaning of the word "almighty." Neither Jesus nor the holy spirit is ever called that, for Jehovah alone is supreme. Hippolytus certainly applies Rev 1:8 to Christ and calls Jesus "The Almighty" several times. But even if the Father is alone called the Almighty, this still ... The fact that JW's cannot understand this merely confirms what 1 Tim 3 says: "Great is the mystery of godliness: God who was revealed in the flesh". There are many things in scripture ... Father, to my God and your God." (RS, Catholic edition) At 2 Corinthians 1:3 the apostle Paul confirms this relationship: "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-frames-start-page-SYBTT-bible-section.htm
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237: Ancient Synagogues: [SOD] Synagogue Occupation date" computation ...
"Every time you stick a shovel in the ground in Israel, you dig up a Bible story" (Steven Rudd, 2017) "Archeology without a Bible foundation is just a pile of worthless sand." (Steven Rudd, ... because "absence of archeological evidence is not evidence of absence". 2. Archeologists know first hand the limitations of professional three dimensional excavations. 3. Archeologists ... The New Testament records that on Paul's first missionary Journey in 45 AD, "Paul arrived at Pisidian Antioch, and on the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down. After the reading of the Law and the Prophets the synagogue officials sent to them, saying, "Brethren, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, say it." (Acts 13:14-17). On the basis of this "literary source" alone (Bible), the ... Master introduction: Summary overview is the place to start to tie it all together. Providence: God's eternal plan: The providential transition from Temple to Synagogue to Church Origin: ... ...
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238: Which Old Testament text did Jesus prefer and quote from?
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 the canon, only that God had ... By quoting one book from the collection, it verifies the entire collection. None of the apocryphal books were ever quoted in the New Testament. Not even once! This proves the Catholic and Orthodox apologists wrong when they try to defend the apocrypha in the Bible. I. What books were in each of the three collections: The Law (Torah) - ... Lee Martin McDonald, James A. Sanders, Editors: The Canon Debate; Craig A. Evans, The Scriptures of Jesus and His Earliest Followers, p 191-194, 2002 Did Jesus Recognize a Specific Text of Scripture? Did Jesus ... Of course, agreements with the Septuagint no longer require us to think that Jesus read or quoted the Septuagint. Thanks to the Bible scrolls of the Dead Sea region, we now know that there were Hebrew Vorlagen ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/b-canon-jesus-favored-old-testament-textual-manuscript.htm
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239: Indwelling of the Holy Spirit
Brethren continue to use this chart not even understanding the entire theological framework rests upon a single bible verse (John 3:34) that says EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE to what the chart suggests. 4. ... Paul reminded his readers when giving them personal marriage advice, "I also have the Spirit of God" inside him, when in fact he was using this indwelling metaphor of possession of the Holy Spirit ... 2:1) 2. Metaphoric Fellowship Indwelling to indicate God's fellowship in Solomon's Temple and the New Testament "church temple" a. The metaphoric fellowship indwelling is unconditional for every Christian. ... Eph 3:16 to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man g. 1 Pet 1:11 OT prophets seeking to know what time the was indicating h. 1 Jn 2:27 the anointing which you received from ... inventing a fictional non-biblical idea through a false distinction that does not exist in scripture. b. The temple metaphor has three metaphoric components: i. Literal bricks/stones ii. ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/holyspirit/Holy-Spirit-Indwelling.htm
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240: Commentary on what the early Christians believed about the Trinity
... No amount of misrepresentation can hide the truth of the Christian belief summarized so well by Paul, "For in Him dwells all the fullness of Deity in bodily form" (Colossians 2:9). (Historical Dishonesty and the ... In spite of these points, the Christology of the apologies, like that of the New Testament, is essentially subordinationist. The Son is always subordinate to the Father, who is the one God of the Old Testament. (Gods ... a place formally in the theology of the Church till the 4th century. (New Bible Dictionary, J. D. Douglas & F. F. Bruce, Trinity, p 1298) Origen But Origen, in his attempt to combine strict monotheism with a hierarchical order in the Trinity, ended up by making the Son and the Holy Spirit not precisely creatures but 'diminished gods,' inferior to the Father who alone was God in the strict sense. The stage was set for Arius. He saw in Scripture, the Apologists, and especially Origen two interwoven ideas, one that the Son was God, the other that the ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-history-apostolic-fathers.htm
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241: The Roman Catholic view of Marriage is flawed, incomplete and ...
Offspring: "be fruitful and multiply" (Gen 1:28) Companionship: "It is not good for the man to be alone" (Gen 2: 18) Sexual satisfaction independent of the desire for children: "because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife", "it is better to marry than to burn with passion" 1 Corinthians 7:1-5,9 I. "Sex on demand": The Bible teaches sex on ... that fertile 4 day window. IV. Prohibition against church leaders marrying is a satanic doctrine: By ignoring what scripture says about one of the purposes of marriage being to alleviate sexual lust, the Pope has done damage to the institution of marriage. ... from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth. " 1 Timothy 4:1-3 In fact the Bible specifically commands that Bishops/Elders be ... Most of the sexual abuse problems within the Catholic church could have been prevented if they had not adopted the false doctrine that church leaders cannot be married. Orthodox leaders have ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/catholic-marriage-birth-control-celibacy.htm
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242: Why Be Baptized?
verses 3 through 5. "Know you not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection." Here the Bible clearly describes the baptism which was taught and practiced in the early church and which puts one "into Jesus Christ" as a burial. Paul said, "We are buried ... From these verses of scripture we find that baptism requires "much water" and a "going down into water". We see that it is a "burial" in water and a "resurrection". Also we see it requires a "coming up out of the water". Only immersion fits the New Testament description of Christian baptism. If you believe in Jesus and want to receive the remission of your sins; as a penitent person, be buried ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/g-why-be-baptized.htm
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243: Pre-tribulation Rapture Refuted: 1948 Israeli nationhood did ...
Of course true Christians know that there will be no warning or signs leading up to the second coming. It might happen today or 1000 years from today. 2. For the 100 years after John Darby ... 5. For example, Harold Camping teaches that exactly 40 years after May 14, 1948, that the "church age" came to an end and ordered everyone to leave their churches in 1988. He then went on to ... Nothing could be further from the truth. 7. The truth is that Israeli statehood in 1948 was and is irrelevant to Bible prophecy. 8. Paul said the hope of Israel was not physical restoration, but only in Christ: a. ... are condemned, because they teach that God wants the Jews to again practice full Mosaic Old Testament Temple worship, complete with animal sacrifices. a. "It was for freedom that Christ set us ... Cut it down! Why does it even use up the ground?' "And he answered and said to him, 'Let it alone, sir, for this year too, until I dig around it and put in fertilizer; and if it bears fruit next ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/premillennialism-rapture-replacement-theology-supersessionism-israeli-statehood-became-nation-1948.htm
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244: Why Pentecostals say, "knoweldge is of the Devil" (anti-intellectualis ...
Pentecostals are Anti-intellectual! Anti-Bible study and Pro-emotionalism "Knowledge is of the devil" Click to View Pentecostalism looks and feels good, but is rotten to the core! Click to ... Pentecostals often quote the religious Jewish leaders statement in reference to the apostles in Jerusalem, "these are ignorant and unlearned men" (Acts 4:13) Yet God chose apostle Paul to write 2/3's of the New Testament. He ... of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the Law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which is in the Law, found blameless." ... There's nothing wrong with Greek and Hebrew. There's nothing wrong with study. But why should we study? To know more about Jesus. A lot of people get so involved in study that they take God ... good stuff soon" (stopping to speak of the "anointing" every so often while teaching from Scripture.) (Revival ... or Satanic Counterfeit?, Jimmy Robbins, 1996) Click to View Steve Hill said ... ...
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245: Catholic doctrinal Flip-Flops: Baptism: Changed from immersion ...
B. Bible baptism is immersion: The word baptism in the original Greek means immersion! Our English word "baptism" is from the Greek word "baptisma" and means "immersion, submersion and emergence" (Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words, p. 96), "to dip, immerse, submerge" (Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon, p. 94). And he ordered the chariot to stop; ... Colossians 2:12 "Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life." Romans 6:3-4 The Orthodox church never changed and immerses to this day! More on baptism as immersion. The Apostolic Fathers ... Sprinkling is Un-biblical Click to View This is a valid baptism by full immersion. (Left) Not even John Paul II can make right, an infant baptism by sprinkling, that is wrong according to the ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/catholic-flip-flops-baptism-immersion-sprinkling.htm
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246: When & Where Did The New Testament Church Begin?
... In verse 47, we read, "they were praising God and having favor with all the people, and the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved". This was the first time in all the Bible that the church is spoken of as being in existence. Christ purchased the church with his own blood. Acts 20:28, and He is the head of the church, Col. 1:18. Thus the great Apostle Paul wrote in Romans 16:16, "The churches of Christ salute you". The church set forth in the New Testament rests upon seven cardinal principles: the death of Christ the resurrection of Christ the ascension of Christ the ... (John 5:29). Any church not started in Jerusalem on the first Pentecost day following Christ's resurrection is not His. Systems not found in the New Testament constitute no part of the Church therein set forth. All that we know about the church of our Lord, or the principles by which it is governed, we learn from the New Testament, and it alone. Click Your Choice Go To Start: WWW.BIBLE.CA ...
https://www.bible.ca/ntx-origin-church.htm
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247: The Septuagint, LXX, origin, textual transmission, synagogues ...
The Septuagint (LXX) 282 BC "Scripture cannot be broken" (Jesus, John 10:35) "My word will accomplish what I desire and succeed in the purpose for which I sent it." (Isa 55:11) Steve Rudd November 2017 See also: Author's Preface ... Rabbi Yose ben Halafta Zippori Tanakh Aramaic-Hebrew See also: 1. Author's Preface and Master Introduction 2. 6 Old Testament Manuscripts 3. Origin of the 4 Hebrew scripts used by Jews and in the bible 4. Book of Law in Hieroglyphic Hebrew alphabet script I. Chronological Birth and function of the ... We know for certain that Shem was not firstborn as per Gen 11:10 and that Ham was the youngest as per Gen 9:24 which obviously makes Japheth the oldest. In Gen 10:21 English translators are split on which of Shem and Japheth were ... Had the Samaritans just left the text alone, they never would have been caught red handed with irrefutable proof (Abraham was not 15 years old when Terah died), that they deliberately corrupted the Samaritan Pentateuch chronology ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/manuscripts/Septuagint-LXX-Greek-Old-Testment-Tanakh-ancient-Synagogues-first-century-church-PtolemyII-282-246BC.htm
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248: Romans 8 Study The Gift of the Holy Spirit
... In the demonstration of power: 1 Cor 2:3,4 Demonstration of words only: 1 Cor 2:3,4 Paul to test their power: 1 Cor 4:19,20 Paul not to test their words: 1 Cor 4:19,20 Anyone who doesn't have the ... C. Assurance of resurrection without miraculous indwelling of the Holy Spirit: 1. How do we today know the Bible is a confirmed book since gifts have ceased? a. We know Jesus and Bible writers had ... Because the gospel would have been preached to them by gifted men and by the Spirit given to us (the church) we would know. 4. How could the "ungifted" man in the church in Rome have assurance he would be ... Are you a slave of sin or of the Holy Spirit 3. Are you led by sin or LED BY THE SPIRIT! B. Old Testament passages that refer to the battle of obeying sin vs. God: 1. Jer 24:7 I will give them a ... V36 Witness of works or miracles through HS c. V37,38 Direct witness of Father's voice, "You are My Son" d. V39-47 Witness of OT scripture C. What is Witness of HS? 1. Certainly not non-miraculous ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/holyspirit/Holy-Spirit-Romans-8-Study.htm
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249: Non-Catholic churchgoers before 1965 AD will be cast into hell ...
... "Where the necessity of salvation is concerned all the faithful of Christ must be subject to the Roman Pontiff, as we are taught by Holy Scripture, the testimony of the holy fathers, and by ... Me; he that despiseth you, despiseth me." (Luke 10:16) Therefore, it is from the Church alone that the law of Christ must be asked: and, consequently, if for man Christ is the way, the ... a vain effort." (Pope Leo XIII, Encyclical, Tametsi, November 1, 1900; Papal Teachings: The Church, Benedictine Monks of Solesmes, St. Paul Editions, Boston, 1962, par. 647.) "This is our last lesson to you: receive it, engrave it ... of this rock: on it, as you know, Our Redeemer founded the Church throughout the world, so that sincere hearts, guiding their steps by her, would not stray on to the wrong road." (Pope St. ... Thomas R. Ryan, C.S.S.P., Orestes A. Brownson: A Definitive Biography, Our Sunday Visitor, Huntington, IN, 1978, p. 798, n. 31.) By David J. Riggs Click to View Go To Start: WWW.BIBLE.CA ...
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250: Angels commanded to worship Jesus Christ in Deut 32:43: Textual ...
Heb 1:8 was primarily quoting Deut 32:43 not Ps 97:7. Deut 32:43; Ps 97:7 and Heb 1:6 Single Textual Variants in the Bible "Scripture cannot be broken" (Jesus, John 10:35) "My word will accomplish what I ... Angels are commanded to worship Jesus Christ in Heb 1:6 and Christians mistakenly think the quote came from Ps 97:7 alone, unaware that Deut 32:43 is the primary source quote. The key phrase in ... would irk the non-Christian Jews. "For I know that after my death you will act corruptly and turn from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you [70 AD] in the latter days [cf. ... He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have ... New Testament directly quotes Deut 32:43 but only echoes Ps 97:7: "And again, when He brings the firstborn into the world, He says, "And let all the angels of God worship Him."" (Hebrews 1:6) c. ... ...
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