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A spirit is not born, but a body is. What was conceived inside Mary was a human baby, fathered by God. Jesus is both fully God (because He was God, see John 1:1 and Hebrews 1:3 in particular) and fully man (His humanity is real humanity, not some half-divine, half-human hybrid). He is the...

If any part of the Bible is false, then it is not the inspired and inerrant written revelation of God. This notion of allegorical interpretation of scripture came from the theological school at Alexandria, which was heavily influenced by Gnosticism. There are different kinds of language in the...

I made no such claim. The Bible is clear that with man salvation is impossible (Matthew 19 and Mark 10) and that salvation is God's doing - by grace through faith (Ephesians 2). Even faith is the gift of God. You can't have Jesus saying about salvation that "with man this is impossible" and...

You are being challenged to be obedient to God. That's a separate issue. Well, now I'm going to give you another reason why you need to be the spiritual leader in your home: God has put you in that role. The definition is subject to debate (there are some threads on the subject in the...

You will find many of your answers here: http://www.answersingenesis.org/. You are assuming that science's version of things is fact and you are appealing to science as an authority (a logical fallacy). There was a time when science said that humans evolved from apes and that the universe got...

And have you ever noticed that most of the so-called "singles ministries" are led by married couples and are seemingly all about trying to get people married off?

What specific statement of mine are you referring to? Why should he stop us? What's it going to take to get it through to you that we agree on this point? You keep harping on this over and over and over again. We agree that humans have the capacity/ability to choose sin; but this capacity to...

Re: Can it be proved, without a doubt, ther,e's no free will spoken of in the Bible Talk about being argumentative and antagonistic! Then tell me what I misinterpreted and how I misinterpreted and then help me to interpret it correctly. What game? I wasn't aware there was a game. So, pointing...

Actually, that particular command in the Old Testament was written for us, it was written for Israel. If you're going to appropriate that particular command from the Law of Moses then you are obligated to obey the entire Law of Moses. You don't get to pick and choose. And, yes, God did...

It is inconsiderate of you to be so condescending as to suggest that "common sense" should answer the question. As for the child in your example you and I both know that we're not giving the child the right to choose not to clean his room, since the child will be punished for making the choice...

So, why are you reading the Bible anyway? What are you hoping to accomplish? Are you just reading through it because that's what those Bible reading plans say to do? My suggestion is to stop reading and start studying. Here's an excellent little resource that I often give to people when I...

And just who do you think you are to refuse to obey God's word? GOD is the sovereign, not you! You don't get to dictate to God what parts of His word you will or will not obey. The scripture says that the man is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the Church. If you have a...

Re: Can it be proved, without a doubt, ther,e's no free will spoken of in the Bible So, then, your own statement that you're "not condoning nor advocating that God gives humanity Carte Blanche to commit whatever heinous evil they so desire" was wrong? God giving humanity "Carte Blanche to...

It isn't about being fit (and Paul wasn't saying he wasn't fit to be a leader when he said to follow him as He follows Christ), it's about obedience. Just because we're not yet perfect (and won't be until we go home to be with the Lord) doesn't mean we get to pick and choose which New Testament...

But that would be an inaccurate definition because freedom is equated with rights. What you've defined is merely will. By the way, we agree that there is the ability to make choices and that God doesn't (well, not usually, there was that time when God used a donkey to stop a prophet from...

Thus, God doesn't give man the right to choose and, thus, doesn't give man "free" will. As I said earlier, we agree on this point. What exactly is it that you're disputing? This part is not relevant to the discussion, but we partly disagree. While we cannot come to God without first hearing...

I have to admit that when I first came across the title of this book, I was a bit turned off by it. After all, Jesus was taken down from the cross, laid in a borrowed tomb, and raised from the dead. We, as Christians, not only died with Christ, but were also buried and raised with Him. So...

No, I'm not going to call it "free will" because in order for the will to be free, we must have the right to choose. We do, however, have a will (the capacity to choose). God created Adam and Eve and we inherited our characteristics (including a will) from them. We agree that there is a...

God doesn't merely desire that we don't sin, He commands us not to sin. Where does the Bible say that we have the right to choose sin? It doesn't. Again, having the capacity to choose sin (which we do have, thanks to Adam) is not the right to choose sin. You're confusing capacity with rights.

The ability to choose is not the right to choose. We have the ability to commit murder, but we don't have the right to commit murder. Rights, in this context, means a just claim or title, whether legal, prescriptive, or moral. Are you saying we have a just claim or title to sin? If so, then...