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81 | 1st 400 yrs. "all" agreed on John 3:5 | John 3:5 | Dalcent | 134562 | ||
Dear Tim, Since I have been on the forum you have done nothing but give convoluted, twisted renderings of every verse of Scripture which contradicts your evangelical theology. I am frankly appalled that you chose to pervert scripture with silly interpretations worked backward from your theological convictions. This makes you a charlatan in my book. All my bibles reflecting the scholarship of hundreds of qualified Greek scholars disagree with your "translations." Have you any qualifications in Greek to back your rearrangements of scripture. You say I attacked A.T.Robinson when I accused him of working back into scripture his baptist theology. Well that is exactly what he did; and I'll tell you when you mentioned him supporting your Acts 2:38 theory, 'Oh, yeah: nineteeth century baptist, I'll bet' popped into my head. (for your information when I studied Greek at King's College, University of London the standard text was by J.W.Wenham) Tim, I can't 'show' you anything in Scripture because you deny scripture when it doesn't agree with your sect. Just like JW's do, although thankfully you haven't produced an abomination like the New World Translation yet. You are now saying that when Scripture mentions 'baptism' it doesn't mean 'water baptism' unless it specifies 'water baptism'. Tim, I will gladly never mention you or "misrepresent" your positions on this forum again. Thank God that the men he has risen up to translate our Bible translations are capable of translating and not reinterpreting the Word of God! Note how Mommabps never addressed my question why baptism is a work and praying the born-again prayer isn't. Or how she can't understand why I think baptism appropriates the blood of Christ, and is not contrary to the atonement. The depths of ignorance displayed by some makes me want to weep for them. Dalcent |
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82 | Verses where water alone means baptism? | John 3:5 | Dalcent | 134513 | ||
YES, Act 10:47 Then Peter answered: Can any man forbid WATER, that these should not be baptized, who have received the Holy Ghost, as well as we? Forbidding 'Water' is clarified as baptism in this verse. Dalcent |
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83 | 1st 400 yrs. "all" agreed on John 3:5 | John 3:5 | Dalcent | 134512 | ||
Mommabps, You write: Do we believe in what we do (water baptism) or what Jesus has DONE (the blood) to save us? This is an utterly illogical statement. Water baptism APPROPRIATES what Jesus has done on the cross OR in you theory 'The born-again sinner's prayer' APPROPRIATES what Jesus has done on the cross. Why is Baptism DOING something to be approved by God, and Praying the sinner's prayer to recieve Christ is not? Please, please explain to me why praying a prayer is not DOing something!!! You object to those who think they must DO something to be approved by God?? What about: 2Ti 2:15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one APPROVED, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. 1Co 9:27 sounds like Paul thinks he has to DO something too: But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified. Anyway, there is nothing more certainly taught in Scripture than that faith AND baptism saves. There are certainly various sects that appeared from the 17th century onwards who teach otherwise: Act 19:5 On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Mat 3:16 And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; (AN ODD MOMENT FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT TO DESCEND EH?) Gal 3:27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. (TIM MORAN WILL TELL YOU HOW IN THE ORIGINAL GREEK 'BAPTIZED' HERE MEANS THE EXACT OPPOSITE) 1Co 12:13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body--Jews or Greeks, slaves or free--and all were made to drink of one Spirit. Act 2:38 And Peter said to them, "Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Act 2:41 So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls. Act 8:12 But when they believed Philip as he preached good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. Act 8:36 And as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?" Act 10:48 And he COMMANDED (EMPHASIS MINE) them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Act 16:15 And after she was baptized, and her household as well, she urged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay." And she prevailed upon us. Act 16:33 And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds; and he was baptized AT ONCE, he and all his family. Act 18:8 Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with his entire household. And many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized. (OF COURSE YOU'VE EXPLAINED HOW THIS MEANS THE EXACT OPPOSITE) Act 22:16 And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.' Gal 3:27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 1Pe 3:21 Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, Col 2:12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. Eph 4:5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, Tim will no doubt explain in the arfoklopist greek sub-tense this means 'one Lord, one faith, one born-again prayer!!!' Rom 6:4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. Conform to the Bible: don't conform it to your pre-conceptions. Dalcent. |
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84 | Hank, all I need is just one quote. | John 3:5 | Dalcent | 134506 | ||
Kalos, Your 'Acts 2:38 should be translated..' is nonsense. Check every translation on the market, and tell me which one follows your avowedly biased rendering. You would rather change the Word of God, than change your doctrine. Shame. Clearly Acts 2:38 is among those passages of the Scriptures "which the unlearned and unstable twist, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction (2 Pet 3:16)" Changing scripture because you have a doctrine in mind is really pathetic! Dalcent |
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85 | 1st 400 yrs. "all" agreed on John 3:5 | John 3:5 | Dalcent | 134505 | ||
Dear Tim, What are you talking about????? There were no debates about about whether baptism was necessary for salvation. The belief was held by all. For my Master's degree in Catholic theology I read broadly across the patrology (Catholic and heretics) of the first hundreds of years of the Christian era. There was no sect advancing your novel doctrine. Anyway give me quotes and I'll stand corrected! Dalcent |
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86 | Real Effects | John 6:56 | Dalcent | 133688 | ||
My question is about the efficacy of partaking of the Eucharist for those who would say it is no more than a symbol. What then does the Bible mean by stating those who do not 'eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood': ...have no life in yourselves. (v53) Or those who do eat [and drink]: ...one may eat of it and not die (v50) ...I will raise him up on the last day (v54) ...abides in Me, and I in him (v56) ...he will live because of Me (v57) ...will live forever (v58) I appreciate that a couple of the references are about 'eating the bread of life' (foreshadowed by physically eating manna) and some attempt could be made to spiritulaise this as having nothing to do with the Lord's Supper. But as the verses go on (verses 53 following) surely it is clear to all that Jesus is talking about eating the bread and drinking the cup of the Lord' (1 Cor 11:27). Jesus does say that His flesh is true food and true drink (v55). Anyway, my question isn't about "transubstantiation" but about Jesus claiming there is a sacramental effect in consuming His body and blood which is of paramount importance? He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has 'eternal life' and 'I will raise Him up on the last day.' Regards Dalcent |
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87 | Ministering as a priest... (Rom 15:16) | Ex 19:6 | Dalcent | 133675 | ||
In what way does the priesthood of all believers (Christians) differ from the priesthood held by all OT Jews? The Jews had a professional Levitical priesthood alongside this, as do the major historic Christian denominations. I read in an evangelical bookstore today that Ignatius of Antioch writing around 100 AD claimed only overseers / bishops could preside at the Lord's Supper and this was against the 'biblical model.' What direct verses could be offered to suggest that a Christian layman blessing the bread and the wine is a better 'biblical model.'? Regards Dalcent |
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88 | Photo of King James | John | Dalcent | 133372 | ||
Hi there, King James I of England and VI of Scotland (1566-1625), has many of his portraits on display in England's National Portrait Gallery. This link will give you these in jpeg form: http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/a-z/sitJ.asp Hope this helps! Dalcent London, England |
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89 | NT tithing completely unbiblical? | Matt 23:23 | Dalcent | 133365 | ||
Hi there Reighnskye, Matthew 23:23 to some extent supports tithing which Jesus includes among 'things you should have done without neglecting the others.' It is also argued that the practice of tithing predates Moses' giving of the Law, viz. Abram paying tithes to Melchizedek (Gen 14:20). It can be argued that the Old Covenant is generally valid for Christians except where contraindicated by the New. For example, it would be a rare Christian who would say that the Ten Commandments do not apply to us because they are in the Old Covenant. O.T. Judaism is not a different religion to ours, but an incomplete stage of the unfolding revelation of the God of Israel to the human race. |
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90 | What's John 14:6 in original language? | John 14:6 | Dalcent | 133074 | ||
Hi DocTrinsograce, Yes, I've been down to the British Museum a few times; I live right in the centre of London. The Codex is just in a waist-high glass box so you get a good look at it. And you're right it hasn't got any spaces, although I didn't understand why. I don't know the Council of Laodicea but I was lucky enough in 1999 to visit the ruins of Laodicea, Colossae and Hieropolis. I flew into Antalya where Paul visited in Acts 14:25, and worked my way across some of the country; Asia Minor (modern day Turkey) is vast and once I was into the inner regions it was mainly snowy and mountainous - awesome. All of my travel in Turkey was done alone on foot with just a backpack and my army beret, or on their ancient old buses, no Greyhound coaches in Turkey! The interior cities such as Laodicea and Hieropolis (Col 4:13)are basically ghost towns. These parts of Turkey are essientially uninhabited now; they used to be on ancient highways. I bathed in the hot springs of Hieropolis which used to be filtered 6 miles down to the town of Laodicea and became 'lukewarm' a metaphor which John uses address to Laodicea in Rv 3:16. Also I was blessed to visit Malta twice (Acts 28) and stay at St. Paul's Bay where he was shipwrecked. You could see the reef where Paul was shipwrecked 27:42. I even went sailing in Malta in December after the Fast (27:9); this was not one of my better ideas. As my brother told me, the only thing that place is famous for is Paul was shipwrecked there. Your Brother in Christ Dalcent |
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91 | Titus 3:5 and washing of regeneration | Titus 3:5 | Dalcent | 132557 | ||
You raise many good points. Note that there are many prominent non-Catholic Christian who are sometimes in our national/local news getting jailed, invstigated etc. and the list includes Baptists. The Catholic stuff has died down a bit here but is never going away either. It seems to be a tragic human weakness. I know that if a man says he is a born-again Christian it means he usually is. Whereas people will say they are Catholic if it is only in their family background. Clearly , there are not a billion practicing, believing Catholics in the world. Nevertheless today's Catholic Churches are full to overflowing and the biggest Christian bookshop I have ever been is Catholic and they seem to be selling shelf loads of Scripture. I don't really now how much Bible reading is been done. I have discovered the theology of Catholicism, Anglo-Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy is the most biblical. My advice is don't ever accept far-fetched explanations from Study Bibles, Christians etc. for difficult verses. Don't accept housegroup 'Greek scholars' dismissing difficult verses: if you go to the original Greek black is white and down is up. Best Wishes |
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92 | Titus 3:5 and washing of regeneration | Titus 3:5 | Dalcent | 132546 | ||
Thanks for this. I must admit I do most of my study from books as I get eye strain reading from the screen. However this is a very comprehensive collection! Dalcent |
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93 | Titus 3:5 and washing of regeneration | Titus 3:5 | Dalcent | 132545 | ||
New Creature, What is your theory as to why Protestantism is so fragmented? And who is the head of the body of Christ (1 Cor 12)? Look how Calvinists and Arminianists tear into each other doctrines. Why do, say half of, these Christians not possess the correct biblical interpretation, viz. they don't get led into Truth. Perhaps the theory you espouse contains some truth but isn't quite the full picture. When you study scripture how much of your comprehension is coloured by your pastor's fallible preaching. Why do evangelicals always offer convolted explanations as to why Catholics are wrong to interpret the Bible literally. Example: Where the Bible says "So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves." They deny both sides of the sentence: claiming obviously Jesus is being metaphorical about his blood being true/real flesh and then assert he doesn't mean you will have no life in you either. And, we are called unscriptural! Best Regards Why is the Bride of Christ getting the small "c"? It should have a capital like Bible, Scripture, Israel etc? Scriptures does teach the Church is the pillar and bullwark of truth, not the Bible. '...the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.' Dalcent |
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94 | Titus 3:5 and washing of regeneration | Titus 3:5 | Dalcent | 132541 | ||
I don't believe the selling of indulgences proves the Catholic Church needed to be abandoned. Corruption occurs in every Church. It was wrong: it isn't denied; the selling of indulgences is extinct. Luther drowned Anabaptists and that is history too. I'm fairly sure that all would benefit by reading Church history. There is a lot to be learned from 313AD - 1517AD. The pre-Nicene period is a goldmine too. One hefty book by practically any decent historian will broaden minds. I visited an evangelical bookshop this year, I found thousands of lightweight books by Christians, many academic books on Greek, concordances etc. but nothing on Church history. I found the label but there was nothing; this really is ignorance. Dalcent |
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95 | Titus 3:5 and washing of regeneration | Titus 3:5 | Dalcent | 132536 | ||
Guys, These are prayers or short cries for mercy to God, of which I am well aware. They are not presented as what a Christian is to do to enter the Christian convenant which is always baptism, see Mark 16:16 "He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; Compare Acts 22:7-16, Paul speaking of how he was saved: ...and I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?' "And I answered, 'Who are You, Lord?' And He said to me, 'I am Jesus the Nazarene, whom you are persecuting.' "And those who were with me saw the light, to be sure, but did not understand the voice of the One who was speaking to me. "And I said, 'What shall I do, Lord?' And the Lord said to me, 'Get up and go on into Damascus, and there you will be told of all that has been appointed for you to do.' "But since I could not see because of the brightness of that light, I was led by the hand by those who were with me and came into Damascus. "A certain Ananias, a man who was devout by the standard of the Law, and well spoken of by all the Jews who lived there, came to me, and standing near said to me, 'Brother Saul, receive your sight!' And at that very time I looked up at him. "And he said, 'The God of our fathers has appointed you to know His will and to see the Righteous One and to hear an utterance from His mouth. 'For you will be a witness for Him to all men of what you have seen and heard. 'Now why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on His name.' I am at a loss to understand how anyone would think these short prayers are biblical examples of the born-again prayers found in evangelical pamphlets or anything to do with becoming Christian. |
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96 | Titus 3:5 and washing of regeneration | Titus 3:5 | Dalcent | 132534 | ||
If you want to talk martyrs maybe you should read about the 350 who were martyred for the Catholic faith, near to where I write. http://www.tyburnconvent.org.uk/martyrs/martyrs_main.html |
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97 | Titus 3:5 and washing of regeneration | Titus 3:5 | Dalcent | 132533 | ||
'When the church departed from Scriptural truth, such individuals HAD to part from such teachings' is completely false. What about reforming, mending and healing from within. You would do this in a marriage wouldn't you? Never walk away! The bankruptcy of Martin Luther's position can be seen in his German Bible translation adding "alone" to the word faith in Romans 3:28. The phrase "faith alone" appears nowhere in the Bible except James 2:24. Would you TRUST a man who infamously mistranslated his Bible. A man who wrote a book called 'On the Jews and their Lies (1542), and who drowned Anabaptists because they 'wanted to be baptised full immersion as adults.' The Church opposed corrupted Protestant versions of the Bible only, i.e. like the above. If you want to read about history in 'comic-land' then that's your business. If you decide to get 'deep in history' as Newman wrote you just might 'cease to be Protestant.' At least you will be informed. There are loads of history books by non-Catholics on the true history of Christianity. I would recommended reading the ultimate collection on Church history by Jaroslav Pelikan (Lutheran later Orthodox) starting with The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (The Christian Tradition : a History of the Development of Doctrine, Vol 1). There are 5 volumes covering 2,000 years of Christian history. The distinguished academic and historian Jack Chick has a catalogue that you could send off for too(only joking). Calling the Catholic Church the Popish church is kindergarden. Luther's legacy is tragic. The national Churches in Europe hold about 2 percent of their populations. The Catholic nations have huge proportions of their people strong in faith and crowding the Churches every Sunday. The Cathedrals of the historic Protestant denominations in Europe are nearly empty: museum pieces. Catholicism has chronic vigour. Lutherism didn't. Regards Dalcent |
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98 | When does Scripture apply to us? | John 17:12 | Dalcent | 132531 | ||
Hi Mommapbs, What about context? Where does the Bible teach certain words, phrases, etc. will "speak to us" regardless of who they are addressing, Judas, Peter, God, satan etc. This is neither orthodox evangelicalism nor Catholic. This reminds me of a Pentecostal who told my wife, who had toothache at the time, she could get a gold filling, if she would "Open your mouth and he will fill it." Nonsense. Allowing scripture to "speak to you" outside the context it was written sounds like too much like the Mormons "burning in the bosom" to me. 'Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God' refers to unbelievers hearing the gospel. This is quoted out of context which was what my whole question is about. What about taking things too literally? Of course all things are not possible with God. Can you fly through the sky by flapping your arms. Can you become a teapot. The Bible is not meant to speak to us like this. We might as well use a donkeys tail with a pin in it. I agree ALL scripture is profitable. Certainly the Word-Faith false teachers find it very "profitable". Dalcent |
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99 | What's John 14:6 in original language? | John 14:6 | Dalcent | 132527 | ||
Your friend seems to think the Bible gets translated from each preceding translation. Some think that one of these intermediary Bibles was the King James Version. This is entirely false all respectable translations are made from the oldest manuscripts available. John 14:6 is just the same in the Greek as translated above in the NASB. At my local museum in London, viz, the British Museum, there is one of the oldest bibles in the world on display. The Codex Sinaiticus which is from the fourth century. Dalcent |
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100 | Titus 3:5 and washing of regeneration | Titus 3:5 | Dalcent | 132525 | ||
Hi there, Your statement is quite near to what I believe the Bible means when it asserts: 'that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation.' I would prefer to say: ‘That no interpretation is correct that contradicts, [opposes, denies] how the Church reads Scripture, appealing to the patristic consensus of the hundreds of years of writings by the Church Fathers, whose contemporaneous Council’s given us the great confessions of faith, the classical statements of Christology and the biblical canon.’ The biblical canon is a list you possess because of an authoritative decision of the Church. The list of New Testament books cannot be found within inspired Scripture. It is Church tradition. I would claim that you are unwittingly putting some of the Church’s biblical interpretation at the centre of your belief system. That is, whatever you discover in scripture about the Trinity or the dual natures of Christ united in one person, you will never dare oppose the Church’s conclusions formed at Nicea 325 and Chalecdon 451. The Catholic interpretation is cast in stone. We saw the shambles when one group tried reinterpreting the Trinity in their own light, the heresy of Oneness Pentecostalism (the return of Sabellianism). Going back to the Council of Jerusalem, (Acts15:22) it is written 'Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church...' There is nothing about individual interpretation here. Furthermore, as a non-American, I really think this extreme individualistic interpretation popular with American evangelicalism has more to do with the individualistic charter your country is founded on than anything else. We share this to some extent in Europe with the same emphasis on the great 'I' since our so-called Enlightenment. Christianity is not meant to simply be a spiritualised form of the private individual 'I', with an emphasis on ‘my’ bible-reading, ‘my’ holiness, ‘my’ interpretation, etc. It was the Fall that shattered the human unity and brought individualism. Thankfully, the Good Shepherd brings back to the fold the whole of humanity fragmented by the Fall. As one early Christian wrote "Adam himself is therefore now spread out over the whole face of the earth. Originally one , he has fallen, and, breaking up as it were, he has filled the whole earth with the pieces." The Catholic Church joins and binds together its members in a bond of unity. There is nothing authentic about all those individual and opposed interpretations by ‘Bible-Christians’. It is rather 'that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.' (John 17:12). Or as the Holman CSB puts it (v.23): I in them and You are in Me. May they be made completely one…' This nonsense about the Christian as a man alone, his own pope pontificating on his personal interpretations of Scripture, while claiming to possess divine truth comes not from the apostolic faith. Christianity is not meant to be a multitude of individuals, as numerous as sands of the seashore. Regards Dalcent, expect a few typos this was written at speed! |
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