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Some teach that there are many baptisms, many teach that there are two - one with water, another with the Holy Spirit - yet the holy scriptures assert that there is one baptism just as there is one faith and one lord. Thus, the holy apostle wrote: Be anxious to preserve the unity of the Spirit...

Is it? Is grace the cause of one's salvation? What exactly is grace, by the way. Jehovah's witnesses never use "grace" in their bible, they have "undeserved kindness" instead. Is "undeserved kindness" the cause of one's salvation? I wonder ...

Of the Father's love begotten ...

I know an elder among Jehovah's witnesses and, naturally enough, for him God's covenant name is of paramount importance. He uses "Jehovah" as the way to spell and pronounce God's name. That spelling is mistaken but it isn't hugely important to me that their chosen spelling isn't quite right...

Sirach 43:31 Who has seen him and can describe him? Or who can extol him as he is?

John 1:18 No one has ever seen God. The only Son, who is the same as God and is at the Father's side, he has made him known. (GNB) John 1:18 No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known. (ESV) John 1:18 No one has seen God at any time. The only...

Crypto currencies can be rather unpredictable. Luna is down 99% Thursday, falling to under $0.02 per coin. The cryptocurrency is linked to stablecoin TerraUSD, which lost its US dollar peg this week. Luna and Terra's slide come as cryptocurrency markets plummet in a broad sell-off. Luna is...

I have a Trinitarian Bible Society KJV - 66 books only, alas - with 200,000 cross references according to the publisher. But I noticed the absence of cross references to the deuterocanonical books which is a shame because any reader of the new testament would benefit from seeing which new...

Peter turned around and saw behind him that other disciple, whom Jesus loved—the one who had leaned close to Jesus at the meal and had asked, "Lord, who is going to betray you?" When Peter saw him, he asked Jesus, "Lord, what about this man?" Jesus answered him, "If I want him to live until I...

It is notoriously difficult to gain converts to Christ in cultures that have a well defined and attractive afterlife teaching in their religions. Examples are Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and some others. If this observation is correct then can Christians seriously propose that the Holy...

I am Jehovah, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise unto graven images. (Isa 42:8 ASV) Albert Barnes writes: This is an interesting passage. If taken by itself without any reference to the new testament it would be fairly consistent with a whole host of...

In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets; but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He reflects the glory of God and bears the very stamp of his nature, upholding the...

A good comprehensive concordance will be useful for this thread. What does the new testament have to say about Justification. And what does the LXX say about it? The LXX will help us to grasp which words in Hebrew were translated by the Greek words that we get Justification from.

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Many Christians are familiar with the religion known as Jehovah's witnesses and a good number of Christians have heard members of Jehovah's witnesses say that God's name is Jehovah and that it is important to know it and use it in prayer and when speaking about "the truth". So, does God have a...

I ask you, my brothers and sisters, to pray to the Lord our God for Lilian Lander who has lost most of the use of her legs at age 88 and needs much nursing care and to pray for David whose brother Steven died on Easter Monday at age 60 and shall be buried on Friday, 13th May 2022.

I have a collection of books that many would call devotional or liturgy of prayer. I use some Protestant books such as Daily Light from the Trinitarian Bible Society and My Utmost For His Highest which has Pentecostal roots and The Book of Common Prayer which is Anglican - the one I use is...

Holy Scripture can be read for several different purposes and in several different ways. One can read for prayer - to listen for God's voice and to speak to God in return. This way of reading holy scripture may be the most life-changing of the different ways of reading that I intend to mention...

The Canon of Scripture It was by the apostolic Tradition that the Church discerned which writings are to be included in the list of the sacred books. This complete list is called the canon of Scripture. It includes 46 books for the Old Testament (45 if we count Jeremiah and Lamentations as...

The Lamb and the 144,000 Revelation 14:1And I beheld, and lo a lamb stood upon mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads. 2And I heard a voice from heaven, as the noise of many waters, and as the voice of...