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I call that constant search for pleasure hedonism, which follows Satan's "fun-god." It is rampant in our world. How can we overcome it for ourselves? God's Word commands us in 1 Corinthians 10:31, "So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God." In other words, we...

Here are some relevant Scripture verses for your edification: Luk_24:51 While he blessed them, he parted from them and was carried up into heaven. Act_1:11 and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same...

Enoch and Elijah had to have been translated into their spiritual bodies, that is, their physical bodies filled and fitted by the Holy Spirit, like the ones we will have in our resurrection, when God took them into heaven: 1Co 15:42 So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is...

@Frankj, yes, your reasoning is true to Scripture.

@Lamb, these posts are on-topic as criteria that we can use to determine whether a pastor is a good one who is faithful to the Bible's teachings, in this case, the creation of the universe.

The Bible mentions heaven as our destination when we die and God’s creation of the new earth. Are we going to stay in heaven when Jesus returns, or are we going to live on the new earth forever? What do you think the Bible teaches?

I believe that Genesis 1 & 2 are literal, not metaphorical. Why? Because the rest of Scripture affirms the fact that God has created everything and everyone. However, how he creates humanity and the universe is open to discussion. Scientific FACT, not theories like evolution, can help us gain...

I agree with your main premise that we must reason to arrive at true doctrine, @VeritatisVerba, but I want an example of a doctrine that may have "internal inconsistencies" for more specific discussion. What I find in pastors and churches that have strayed from the truth as well as the cults is...

You're right, @VeritatisVerba, that reason is involved in interpretation. However, it makes a huge difference whether or not you add ideas and assumptions outside of Scripture to the passages that you're trying to interpret. I grew up in a church that didn't preach the gospel and that was...

Your experience reminds me, @Edward 429451, of Joseph's escape that God guided him to make from Potiphar's wife!

Those truths that I mention are the Bible's assumptions about God and his universe, @VeritatisVerba. In my interpretation of Scripture, I use its own assumptions to interpret it, because it is God's inspired Word.

@Holy999, I don't know what you're trying to say. Tell us what point you're making. For example, what are incubus and succubus, apparently Latin terms, for us non-Latin scholars?

I was saddened to hear about Ryne (Ryno) Sandberg’s death. He, of course, was the great second baseman of the Chicago Cubs, my favorite team. My favorite memory happened this way. It was my 50th birthday and Ryne’s 33rd on September 18, 1992. I attended a Cubs-Cardinals game in Wrigley Field...

You say, @VeritatisVerba, "I can't think of any assumptions that anyone needs to hold to." I say that the Bible assumes that God created the whole universe and you and me, that humanity rebelled against our Creator and has ever since Adam and Eve did, that Jesus is fully divine and fully human...

@jswauto, you didn't mention that the Mormons reject the doctrine of the Trinity in the sense that they don't believe that the three Persons of God are one God. They also believe that we can become gods too as good Mormons and that the Father has a human body and lives on a planet in outer...

@Frankj, I believe that all of life is religious in the sense that we rely on ourselves, other people, some false god, or the true God of the Bible for meaning in life. My father was a secular pragmatist who didn't go to church, because he relied on his own ability to experience life and learn...

@VeritatisVerba, most Christian denominations agree on the basic beliefs of the Christian faith, as being biblical. It's on the minor doctrines that we get hung up. I was christened as a Methodist baby; grew up in a nondenominational, liberal/neoorthodox church that didn't preach the gospel...

@VeritatisVerba, my idea is that our reason has to be filled with God's reasoning fully informed by the Bible's teachings and history, if we are going to interpret it well. It's the Bible's assumptions that must inform our reasoning, not our assumptions about what it says. That's all I'm saying...

@jswauto, I assume that David was already saved when he wrote that Psalm, because God calls him a man after his own heart, but he sinned greatly when he committed adultery and murder. Here, he is praying the way I mention, for God's cleansing power, as God has already declared him not guilty...