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Behold, I've heard these verses preached - but I'm an old man. The main reason - I think - why we are not hearing much preaching on these verses is because (in my region) expositors are no longer found in the evangelical and Pentecostal churches. To be a good expositor, one generally needs to...

GodsGrace, I've written a brief article to answer the question you have posed here: What is heresy? Oz

Enoch, I have compiled a comparison between the OT 10 commandments and NT teaching: “Compare the Ten Commandments with New Testament teaching.” The NT departs from the OT on the issue of Sabbath keeping. Oz

Grace, I live in an aged care facility and we've been in lockdown for a week. I've tested negative on all the Covid tests. I'll be uploading a new article on heresy to my homepage today or tomorrow. My further study has revealed the following: Schlier considers heresy must be understood...

GodsGrace, You've started an excellent topic. For the Christian who takes the Bible seriously, heresy is based on the Greek noun, hairesis. The Bauer, Arndt and Gingrich Lexicon gives the foundational meaning as “sect, party, school” (BAG, 1957, p. 23). It was used to describe the “party of...

Surely you need the Aussie tourist visitors to bolster NZ's 4.5 million population. I've been to NZ once and have 2 friends living in the country. I hear by phone from one of them regularly. She lives in the North Island. Oz

Panda, In which part of Australia do you live? I'm in a northern Brisbane suburb. Oz

HiH, Since I live in aged care, I asked your question of the 2 women sitting at the breakfast table with me. One doesn't read much while the other reads quite a few books - mainly mysteries or love stories. The latter woman would be sorry to see books disappear. While she is competent with a...

HiH, Even though my new book is published by Wipf and Stock and is available in print and Kindle, I'm of the view that the days of print publishing are almost over. Amazon formerly had a publishing arm for small runs of numbers of books (called CreateSpace) but it is now Kindle Direct...

Do many of you publish your writing? Currently many of my publications are published by Online Opinion. Which publishers have you found to be most helpful in pursuing publication for you? Oz

Eternal punishment IS the case. Contra OP.

sbg, For how long will these people be "away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might"? Eternally! What is the nature of this eternal destruction? Oz

sbg, I backed over my child's car. It has been destroyed from its proper use, but not annihilated. Oz

MatthewG, The fact that it is everlasting destruction demonstrates everlasting is NOT annihilation. This is refuted by the language, "away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might." It is not zapped out of existence (cf. 1 Thess 5:3; 1 Cor 5:5; 1 Tim 6:9). Everlasting life...

LS, This is from the Bible and it refutes OSAS: 4 For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, 5 and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, 6 and then...

MatthewG, You've missed this verse: "They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might..." (2 Thess 1:9 ESV) Oz

stunnedbygrace, The Bible disagrees with you: "They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might" (2 Thess 1:9 ESV). Oz

hs, Rom 1:18-20 (NLT) gives this reason: 18 But God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people who suppress the truth by their wickedness.a]">[a] 19 They know the truth about God because he has made it obvious to them. 20 For ever since the world was created, people have...

TV, Are you speaking of being "drunk in the Spirit" as equal to crawling around the floor like an ape or barking as a dog? Oz

Mark, Every Christmas and Easter I think over how Christianity has moved from the real thing to the artificial thing. Recently I wrote a brief article to deal with this as it applied to my home country of Australia: Christmas bells mixed with the real thing Oz