Recent content by Lanman87

You have to understand that in a Baptist church (and most evangelical churches) having been baptized and participating in the church doesn't automatically make someone a Christian. Most Baptist hold to conversion/decision theology. The belief is that someone must hear the Gospel and respond...

I disagree, the rest of the paragraph is about evidence of faith. The dilemma was people claiming to have faith but the evidence in their actions did not back up their claim. In my evangelical world this would be people who say "the sinners prayer" and then go right back to living the way...

The key verse in the entire James 2:14-26 discourse is James 2: 18 18 But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works James is differentiating between a true saving faith and simple belief in God...

There may have been a temporary scrubbing while the page was transitioning after the new Secretary of Defense came on board, but if you go to the DOD website today you will find plenty of articles about Sept 11th, the Holocaust, cancer awareness, suicide prevention, and sexual assault. Many of...

30,001, you have to include your own unique theology.

Deuteronomy 17:6 and 19:15 are about finding people guilty of breaking the Mosaic law. It has nothing to do with how scripture is determined to be scripture or proving Jesus in the Messiah. Now if Jesus was guilty of breaking the law and was about to be put to death for it, then you may be on...

Biden said he hasn't talked to Putin since the invasion, so I imagine he can say a lot that Biden never said.

I was in an interesting class last night that discussed the Body, Soul, and Spirit. Do humans have three distinct parts, Body, Soul and Spirit? (trichotomy view) Or two distinct parts Body, Soul/Spirit? (dichotomy view) With soul and spirit being different words for the same thing?

He was using hyperbole to emphasis the fact that he is actually going to try and end the war in Ukraine instead of just funding the war in Ukraine. I expect Trump to open up dialog with Putin in the coming weeks in order to try to have a cease fire while long term peace terms are worked out...

There are only two things I've disagreed with so far: 1. I disagree with the pardons of the J6 who committed violence against the police and those who planned to cause trouble. The pardons of those who entered the capital following the crowd, to video what was going on, or were just in the...

Any Jewish idea of Purgatory developed in a similar way that the Christian idea of Purgatory developed. This is not surprising considering the influence and reach of the Greeks and later Roman cultures. But who knows, it could have been some Rabbi who came up with the concept and passed it on...

I didn't say "nothing about purging". I said nothing about "purgatory". Specifically I said, "Nothing about a place that believers go immediately after death to have their venial sins "purged" before they can go to heaven." The purging is of our works that are made of wood, hay, and stubble...

I agree with this. In the previous chapter the writer list the "Hall of fame of faith" if you take out the chapter break it looks like this 39 These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised, 40 since God had planned something better for us so that...

10 By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a wise builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should build with care. 11 For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 If anyone builds on this foundation using gold...

I didn't say nobody knows what it is. I said nobody is perfect. Even Paul said we see dimly right now 2 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 1 Cor 13:12 Paul also told us God's ways in...