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And here lies the problem. Scripture was never originally "chopped up" into verses. Verses should never be read or quoted in isolation. As has been pointed out already, this is not true. It's there in the preceding verse, as large as life! It's not necessary to repeat it in verse 3, and...

To modern thinking, "myth" = "made up". But it wasn't like that in the ancient world. A myth then was a story that had been told in a certain way - a way that brought out its essence - in order to teach us how the world works. It might be entirely fictional, but it could also be based on a real...

No, it doesn't. As Blessed Peace said, you have to read it in context. Look on to the next sentence (verses should never be read or quoted in isolation). Those who won't be allowed in are those who leave it too late - those who "put off" committing themselves to Jesus. The door of opportunity...

The early chapters of Genesis deal with the beginnings of the human race and explain, in a series of powerful and unforgettable stories, why we are as we are. God created a good world, but it was spoiled by our sin, and the whole of human society is hopelessly corrupt as a result. As a...

Why should God react so harshly to such a ‘minor’ breach of protocol – especially when Uzzah had only acted with the best of intentions? Like David, modern readers feel angry and bewildered; how can we reconcile this kind of thing with what we know of God’s love? In fact, Uzzah is not the only...

That's as may be, but we were discussing Acts 2:38,39, and there's no justification for infant (as opposed to child) baptism there.

In Jewish thought, "children" meant descendants (including grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and so on ad infinitum). Of course children (in age) can become Christians, be forgiven, and receive the Holy Spirit. But I don't think this verse is referring to infant baptism, because Peter says...

It means that the gift of the Holy Spirit wasn't just for that generation, or just for the Jews, but for all Christians.

1) The "firmament" is translated by other versions as "expanse" or "vault". It's referring to the sky (which, let's face it, looks like a dome). In ancient cosmology, rainwater came "through" the firmament from above. But with modern scientific knowledge, all this becomes poetic 'picture...

Back in the first century, scrolls were very expensive and few people owned their own copy of any book of the Bible. But the synagogues had copies, and people learned the Scriptures by heart through hearing them read. So when Matthew (and the other NT writers) wrote down the gospels and letters...

And who says it's a lie?

It's not "safe" if you then use Paul's definition of love to deny other aspects of God's nature. Paul himself says that "we must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due to us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad." (II...

Will they? Given that God has thousands if not millions of children, all sharing similar knowledge and experiences? And surely there is a distinction between sonship by birth and sonship by adoption? The son by birth will no doubt know many more things about their father than the adopted son...

Yes. "Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God." (I Peter 3:18) "By one sacrifice He has made perfect for ever those who are being made holy" (Hebrews 10:14) In this passage, Paul is talking to the Corinthians about the kind of love that they...

Unfortunately, Christians are often guilty of using these fallacies themselves. They are evident in many threads on this site (and on other Christian forums). Often the reason behind it is desperation to prove a point (because the debater is so sure that they are right and the other person is...

Well, obviously opinions differ, don't they!

I remember (several decades ago) hearing a talk from someone who had served as a missionary in a remote part of Thailand or Burma (I can't now remember which) . In that area, neither bread nor wine were available, so for communion they used rice (dipping hands into the same bowl instead of...

I've got two interlinears, one is just the New Testament and the other is the whole Bible (Hebrew and Greek). Strangely, they haven't caused me to want to burn my NIV. Quite the reverse - they demonstrate what a good translation it is.

God's word is preserved in all the texts. The only issue is degrees of accuracy. Minor errors started creeping in as soon as the first copies were made from the original manuscripts. But minor errors don't nullify the word of God. The obsession with absolute accuracy is a relatively modern...

Mary was not a "host-womb" for a supernatural body. I agree. But Jesus had to be a genuine human being in order to be our Redeemer (a genetic relationship was a necessary qualification under the Law). Conclusion: Jesus' human body was derived (miraculously) from Mary's flesh. In modern...