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JustTheFacts, if you question Hebrews being the Word of God, what other parts of the Bible do you question? As I recall, people in the early church questioned it too, but it was included because it agrees with the teachings expressed in the other books with known authors.

We discuss the Bible and our beliefs here. That's all I know.

Mariology or beliefs about the virgin Mary that aren't in Scripture are part of the added tradition of the Roman Catholic Church and maybe the Eastern Orthodox traditions (I'm not sure about the latter group). Anyway, they have established as their "truth" what their leaders have established as...

When David and his men ate the showbread in the Tabernacle, which God's law reserved for the priest, he was obeying a higher principle in the law that we are to love our neighbor as ourselves. The priest who gave it to him obeyed that teaching. For example, Rahab, the Jericho prostitute, obeyed...

I'm "camping" with those who believe we are all descended from Adam and Eve through Noah. The problem some people have with the Bible's history is that the history doesn't seem to be long enough for billions of people to descend from Adam through Noah, which the Bible clearly says. That problem...

You are right that we must turn away from the old nature and put on the new nature more and more in our lives, but that is a clear teaching of Paul. In this context. Jesus seems to be teaching that the new covenant must replace the old covenant of outward, national rules and regulations with the...

I believe that the Bible supports the belief that Christians should love their enemies and refuse to judge or condemn people for their sinful behavior, as Jesus says in the Sermon on the Mount. However, we should also take note of and reject sinful lifestyles for ourselves. It's the fine line...

Those fundamental doctrines are not drawn from the creeds, but from the Bible. The best creeds are based on the Bible too, not the other way around. The doctrine of the Trinity is based on the Gospel of John and Deuteronomy, for example. The Bible is the source for all of Protestants' beliefs...

We Calvinists can say that Jesus died for all humans, as John 3:16 says; invite them to believe in him; and then leave it to God to save them or not, since they may or may not be part of the elect.

Where in the Bible do you find that teaching, MoreCoffee? Maybe, Martin Luther and John Calvin had legitimate, biblical reasons to separate Protestants from the RCC. I think that they did. We still have good reasons, that is, the huge number of traditional doctrines that your church has...

I hope that you don't confuse and irritate people when you tie God's election of believers before his creation with his grace in saving them in talking to unbelievers. I think we need to agree to disagree with each other about that use of the doctrine of election, on which we both agree.

So, are you saying in essence that everyone without exception will be saved by Christ's death, even those who refuse to acknowledge him? If so, then, you're denying the many passages that show clearly that many people will have to experience God's justice over their continued rebellion against...

How can you be absolutely certain that those visions and that direction are always from God? They can be from another source to confuse Christians, since your questioning of Scripture are truly confusing. By the Bible's assumptions I mean that the Bible assumes that God created the universe and...

Your "research" makes a giant leap of logic with no foundation to make Nicodemus more prominent than he actually is in the gospels. Please stay within the bounds of the Bible with your "research." John Calvin said rightly, "Go as far as the Bible goes; then stop."

Jesus gave the keys of the kingdom to all the disciples with Peter as their spokesman, not boss, in anticipation of their servant-leadership in the church along with Paul later. They expected that Jesus would be the political king of Judea, kick the Romans out of their land, and make them his...

So, do you only accept Jesus' words and not the words of the rest of the Bible, which declares it is God's Word?

And Revelation 21 says: Rev 21:14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. The city it refers to is the new Jerusalem, a symbolic presentation of the church. How do I know? Well, it comes down from heaven with Jesus...

Specifically, what am I "sadly mistaken" about? I think that you don't understand the "already"'-"not-yet" aspects of the gospel. In Ephesians 1-3, Colossians 1-2, Hebrews 1-11, Romans 1-11, and other letters, the writers describe what God has "already" made happen in principle for us. But in...

I agree with you that grace is foundational, but telling people that God decided on applying that grace to eventual believers before creation may confuse and even alienate them from accepting Christ. We can teach them that truth later in education classes. I'm thinking of it from a pastoral...

Regardless of what you say, Matthew and John were Jesus' direct eyewitnesses; Mark and Luke, ("the beloved physician"--Paul), got their information from the direct eyewitnesses, and Luke also wrote Acts with the information he had collected. I don't know where you got your Nicodemus information...