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Then, if you wish, we could substitute "the Venezuelan system" for the word I used. Well, as I was saying, the contrast is stark if we really take a look at it and are not misled or distracted by a few characteristics that are associated with the candidates of either party. When the contrast...

Apparently so. The contest this year has been described as being one that pits socialism against patriotism, with the future of the American form of government at stake. When the sides are so sharply opposed to each other, it's hard to appreciate how any moderate or Independent voter looking on...

Her choice of Vice-President probably won't help her much either. But if he's as far left as the media says, the pair of them can easily be painted as extremists. Whether or not Trump is going to concentrate on that is anyone's guess. If he continues to campaign by making sarcastic remarks and...

Reportedly, Biden was outraged at being leveraged out of the race by party leaders, so agreeing to end his candidacy with some fake support for Kamala was about as much as his ego could take. Asking him to also resign from the presidency was more than he'd agree to. In addition, he kept up the...

He did repeatedly say kind things about the other people who got shot and also about the secret service personnel who might have easily been criticized, but in principle I sympathize with your point. On the other hand, it might be noted that Biden announced the "no more attack stuff, we need to...

...except that this isn't what he was saying. I agree that he says things that get him in trouble, but it's often because the opposition successfully baits him. That's what was done in that meeting of the Black Journalists, right from the get-go. Still, he ought to have known to be especially...

This why I wondered at the time if it wasn't a mistake on Trump's part to take JD Vance for VP instead of Tim Scott, Byron Donalds, or Ben Carson for his running mate. Even if he had to make his choice ahead of the Dems, there was no question that Kamala would be Biden's running mate.

Could be. However, it doesn't say much for the administration that it allowed so much time to pass without taking any action on its own initiative.

Hate is damaging to the soul, but the example that was given is based upon a personal judgment. Other readers of the same material may well say that what a person sincerely thinks is wrong and, therefore, is deserving of some discussion on an appropriate forum...doesn't necessarily make that be...

You outlined your belief early in this discussion when you wrote this (the emphasis is my doing) -- Since then, your posts appear to have progressively qualified your statement, weakening it in order to find some sort of common ground between Pentecostalism and conventional Christianity...

Yes, I'm sure that's so, but a lot of people are not aware that were sporadic instances of people being gifted in one way or another during the Middle Ages and more recently. So if they absolutely insist that there never were any instances at all, they are misinformed. At the same time, the...

I've attempted to make that point myself, and this was while being aware that people like myself are called "cessationists" by Pentecostal Christians even though we do not maintain that the gifts literally ceased. In truth, there were scattered instances of such reception during the centuries...

Well, it might be evidence of having received the HS. Or it might be a blessing that spurs the receiver to witness and all the other good things you described to us as the consequence of a reception of the gifts. But the idea that what the Early Church experienced was intended by God for the...

"Obviously?" Certainly not. The historic churches of Christianity certainly do believe and teach what is given to us in that verse--The Holy Ghost will come upon you and you will be witnesses, etc. But there is no mention in this verse of what you've added to it. There is no mention there of...

In short, some church bodies don't emphasize the gifts, while the Pentecostal denominations make them almost obligatory; and many of these, sorry to say, encourage people to pretend to have received one or more of the gifts. Meanwhile, the liturgical churches think that the non-liturgical...

Of course that's true, which is why the revisionist sects of recent times about which I made that quick reference talk confidently about adhering to Scripture while actually advocating for a novel approach to some well-established aspect of Scripture. That's what makes such a movement stand...

There are some Anglicans, and quite a few Roman Catholics, who think that the elements of bread and wine are merely symbols and are not in any sense the real presence of Christ. BUT their churches don't say that. Therefore, I'd rather that the list had named "Catholics, Orthodox, Anglicans...

Because history shows that a candidate who loses badly most often is judged to have been a weak candidate. Then the voters who supported that losing candidate turn towards some new face for the next election. That's not surprising, is it? And it's the general thinking at present that Trump is in...

You quote Scripture, that's so. But that doesn't mean that Scripture is being correctly understood. I tried to point that out in the post immediately preceding this one. I also have seen that you deflect and make excuses in response to something that is the standard perspective on the...

How does that follow? The Apostles and disciples had many other experiences that we do not think must apply to all believers today. There was the feeding of thousands with a miraculous supply of loaves and fishes, for instance, but we do not commemorate this event by having everyone repeat it...