Proof:
Jesus Rose from the Dead!
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Discussion of healing with two other pastors
(58 minutes) (click pic to view, or right-click and select "save to target" to download) Rules
4 MiraclesThis Bible study indicates that reliance upon God, articulated publicly BEFORE God moves, moves God to move. Anyone can believe God will act, AFTER He does.
Was Elisha a bit harsh, to call out 2 bears to maul 42 children just for insulting his bald head?
If you are a Fanatical Predestinationist, please don't be offended by anything I have written in this article. I COULDN'T HELP IT.
I have decided to be honest about my principal heresies (as others perceive them). Now, if you don’t have time to read this, I will understand. In fact, I would rather you not read this. Because if you read this, you may not want anything to do with me, and I would prefer to enjoy your fellowship. So if you will kindly not read this, I will have fulfilled my duty to warn you about me, without your knowledge of me having actually changed, and we can still be friends.The 1 Corinthians 14 Pulpit: Pastoral
Property, or Public Podium?
"God's Cure for Loneliness" <>
"How we can turn 'church' into CHURCH!"
Is Christianity the
Only Reasonable Religion? Is persuasive reasoning
the modus operandi of Christians, and of all others, coercive censorship?
Psychology vs. the Bible
You may trust the Bible, or you may trust Psychiatry, but
you may not trust both. They are opposites on their most fundamental doctrines:
concerning the number of roads to healing, the advisability of wallowing
in the past, the legitimacy of guilt, the value of pride/self-esteem, the
definition of love, the significance of eternity, and the necessity of Grace
(whether we can earn our own healing).
History of Christian
Political Involvement What Christians used to do,
What Churches can legally do, What God says to do
Can Law-Abiding Christians Smuggle
Bibles? Article by Richard Wurmbrand, applied to
America by Uncle Ed.
Don't gloat too much
because you don't kill your children, if you're still conceiving them out
of wedlock Uncle Ed.'s challenge to an emailer
What Day is the Sabbath, and
how should we keep it Holy?
"Preaching: (should
it contain only) Love, (or should it also teach) Judgment?" (Transcript of Uncle Ed. TV Show) |
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Democracy marched in Israel 700
years before it limped in Greece That's right! Moses' government was a representative democracy! A Republic! Even God was elected! Nicolaitans Today
Who were the mysterious "Nicolaitans" of Rev. 2:6, 15 whose doctrines and deeds Jesus hated? 8 of 16 Bible
commentators say they know. The other 8 say no one knows. I think the answer is clear, and it is a wake up call.
This study supplements the presentation called "Prophesying Slides", on our home page, www.Saltshaker.US
"Galley slaves and coolies forced to work seven
days a week became no better than beasts of burden. Higher civilizations
rise when people can rest, think, and draw inspiration from God. Laws in
America that mandated a day of rest from incessant commerce have been nullified
as a violation of the separatio of church and state. In modern America,
shopping centers, malls, and stores of every description carry on their
frantic pace seven days a week. As an outright insult to God and His plan,
only those policies that can be shown to have a clearly SECULAR purpose
are recognized. What idiocy our society has indulged in by refusing to acknowledge
the wisdom of God." p. 236
"Adolf Hitler once commented on the efforts of German
evangelical clergymen to oppose his programs. "Their task is to prepare
men's souls for heaven; they must leave the earth to me,' he said. What
a job he did on earth without their advice.." P. 227, The New World
Order, by Pat Robertson. |
 
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12 Bible Reasons to Doubt Tradition
(from the book cover).
1. When the Bible talks about a purpose for fire, it is correction, Hebrews 12, a synonym of purification, Hebrews 12:29, Malachi 3:2, 1 Peter 4:12, Acts 2:3. Fire consumes dross from gold, and chaff from wheat, Matthew 3:12, which is an aspect of purification. The Greek word for fire is even spelled “pur”. Never does the Bible specify that God uses any kind of fire, anywhere or at any time, without this purpose. Certainly the doctrine, that each and every person who goes to Hell will remain there forever, implies that Hell never rehabilitates or purifies, since it would seem unreasonable for God to keep someone in Hell who has been purified. But the assumption that Hell’s purpose is pure torture, without any potential purification or rehabilitation of any kind, imposes on theology a purpose never given by God and contrary to the only purposes God ever gave.
2. When the purpose of God’s punishment is specified, it is always rehabilitation and restoration, Deuteronomy 28, Proverbs 19:18, 13:24, 22:15 23:13-14, 29:15, 17. God compares His purpose for punishment with that of loving parents, in Hebrews 12, concluding the chapter by calling Himself “consuming fire”.
3. The Greek word (theiou) for “brimstone” in the “lake of fire and brimstone”, Revelation 14:10, 20:10, 21:8, means “divine” as well as “sulfur”. The word means both because Greeks used sulfur for incense to sanctify their temples. If the purpose of “fire” is purification, the lake is a “lake of divine purification”.
4. “Fire” is the experience of saints and sinners together, Mark 9:49 and 1 Peter 4:12. Nowhere is the fire that purifies saints described as a different fire than what “torments” the damned. Mark 9:43-50 treats them as the same kind, except that in Hell it is not “quenched”; yet saints should welcome it perpetually.
5. Jesus said what distinguishes fire in Hell from fire upon saints is that fire in Hell is “not quenched” (KJV) or extinguished, (meaning, before the fuel is consumed), which raises the expectation that the after the fuel is consumed, the fire will go out.
6. God used a word for “torment” which literally means “touchstone”. (A rock upon which both pure and impure gold must be rubbed – saints and sinners – in order to compare the color of the streak – their reaction to the same trial – to measure purity.)
7. The debtor in Matthew 18:34 will stay in Hell “till he should pay all that was due”. Why didn’t Jesus say “forever”? Why the analogy of a debtor’s prison? Debt is finite. (Although really huge.)
8. Jesus implied the possibility of forgiveness, for some, in “the world to come”. (Matthew 12:32) He has the “keys of Hell”, Revelation 1:18 – power not only to shut but to open, Isaiah 22:22. The Bible indeed describes people in Hell forever, but never specifies that not one soul will be restored from Hell to fellowship with God. (See Part 4.)
9. Jesus described “their (plural) worm (singular)” in Hell, alluding to a parallel passage in Isaiah 66, in which God could have mentioned a simple maggot, or any other worm, but instead specified the “crimson worm” whose blood sacrifice for its young on a piece of wood is a perfect metaphor of Jesus’ shed blood for us on the Cross, suggesting that Jesus’ cleansing blood is available even in Hell for the redemption of the damned who will finally turn to Him.
10. God gave no higher proportion, for how much greater Hell’s torments will be than any sinner’s torments of others on earth, than “double”, Rev 18:6-8, Isa 40:2, 61:7, Jer 16:18, 17:18, Zec 9:12, or even less: “according to their works”, Pr 24:12, Mt 16:27, 2Ti 4:14.
11. Greek tenses in Revelation 14:9-12 are inconsistent with the traditional view – producing tense disagreement from one modern translation to another – but consistent with Potential Purification.
12. 1 Timothy 2:4, “Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.” This may not mean God will “sentence sinners to salvation” who would rather flee from God’s love, but it seems a strong assurance that it will never be God shutting the door to salvation in any repentant sinner’s face. " |