Recent content by Brother Lawrence

D'oh!

All of those things are fine and dandy, but none are evidence of life. They may be evidence for conditions that would enable life to exist, but until you have actually found life, you have nothing. And if you believe UFO's are extraterrestrial spacecraft, then I stand by my statement.

For years I have heard the same people, atheists and agnostics, tell me that they don't believe there is a supreme Creator, because they say there is no evidence. Then those same people will turn around and tell me they believe we are not alone in the universe (even though there is no...

As soon as you post a coherent thought. Ever been baptised? For $30 who does the baptist invoke when he pours the water over your head, or dunks you under the surface of the water? Where in Gehenna did you ever get that idea? I want to see proof of that this time, not more double - talk...

This is one of the things I have against "study guides". They steer you to verses that the author thinks are important and leave the rest behind. We have a lectionary that allows you to read one OT verse, one NT verse (or Gospel) and one Psalm per day, two if you do it in the evening, in...

Do you people ever actually READ the Bible? Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Matthew 28:19 You make a lot of assumptions that are not scriptural. Where is the proof that Paul's Gospel was...

This is explained in Romans 2: All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous...

I might be able to do that but I have no intention of doing so. I am not even sure that I believe in predestination, I was just telling Vince what John Calvin actually said. I do know that God is sovereign, and I'm not.

This is not what Calvin says about predestination, and he backs it up with scripture.

You know, every person who has ever asked this question "knows" about Jesus Christ, and about all of them were raised as Christians. You will be held responsible for what you know, not what you don't know. I think we can trust God with those souls, while we work out our own salvation.

And?

Jesus answered them, "Do not grumble among yourselves. No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. John 6:44

I am assuming you two have no health issues. Well, I am not going to say it's easy - my wife and I have had two years of unadulterated hell, between health problems and job issues. It took work, a counselor, and a pile of money to get here.

The point was that the same name used for the son who is to be born that will be called "wonderful counselor, mighty God" etc. was used for YWHW Himself. Here it is from Young's Literal Translation: For a Child hath been born to us, A Son hath been given to us, And the princely power is on his...

Yes, I took this verse apart one day. If I remember correctly the same word used for "God" in this verse refers to YHWH a couple of chapters later. But my memory is not so good.