Recent content by Diaconeo

I'm not going to go into a lenghty discourse on this topic, but wanted to input my $.02 for whatever it's worth. Tithing is a legal institution, commanded by God under the Law. The example of Melkizdech is before the Law and Abraham's giving a tithe is also pre-Law. The New Testament 'tithe'...

Paul told Timothy, "Remind them of these things, and solomnly charge them in the presence of God not to wrangle about words, which is useless and leads to teh ruin of the hearers. BeDiligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling...

I happen to currently attend a non-denominational church. It is a 'bible' church, but it is not affiliated with any super denominational group. If you look closely at the early church, none of them were either. Local churches are autonomous from anyone group or hierarchy unless they willingly...

Yes, many of those that believe in UFO's or attempt to use the Bible to lay credible evidence for them often go there to Elijah's travel to Heaven in the fiery chariot. They also believe that Philips travel was some sort of transporter and that Jesus' Ascension was actually some sort of...

I'm not sure if you are referring to salvific faith or sanctifying faith. If you are talking about faith that saves, then I'd have to say that it is niether produced by our unregenerated heart nor after we are regenerated. "For it is by grace that you are saved through faith, and that not of...

If there is life out there, then they are in need of a Saviour even as we are, for it clearly states in Scripture that all creation suffers from the effects of sin. Personally I don't think there are and that the whole alien thing is a ploy of Satan to take our eyes off the Creator because if...

Definition of terms is of essence here. In the protestant thinking the beget a god you must be a god. To be the mother of a god then by definition means that she is a god. Since this is not the case, we take exception to the name 'Mother of God'. Mary was indeed the mother of Christ's...

The problem I see with this post's argument is man's linear thinking. It is argued that Father/Son/Holy Spirit Godhead must be three separate gods acting in agreement with each other or must be one single God with three different roles. This is limiting God to our own simple, human...

Brad and I have don't agree in all things, but I have to agree that in the basics he is correct. God, in order to have a Mother would mean of necessity that she herself is God. Your argument about Mother of Emporer would not necessarily mean that the Emporor's mother was an Emporor, but from...

I'm sorry, I was going on the assumption that all here where Christians and believed in the Deity of Christ. If so, then I don't understand what you disagree with in my premise that Jesus is God. Without that, we have nothing (but that's a different debate). My argument in raising the point...

BradtheImpaler, I think you missed the point of my post. It was not to start another 'is Jesus God' debate, but to show that Jesus is the same God that the Father is. I think that you had a preconceived misconception of what I was posting, proving that people can't read objectively. The...

Women Preachers?? I believe that Paul's teaching on women having authority over men is still valid, and it has nothing to do with women being 'property'. (Gal. 3:28, 1 Cor. 11:11-13) It has to do with the spiritual headship being given to man by God. And this was Paul's own argument. (1 Cor...

I believe the very premise of the 4 mottos are wrong because nothing is truly mine but God's in the first place, therefore MOTTO 5 Nothing is either mine nor thine but God's In Christ, Matthew

One name, Three Persons??? I believe that the closest to an actually referencee to a three person God is going to be found in Matthew 28:19, aka The Great Commission. Note that I say the closest, because it doesn't actually say that the Three are one God, nor does it mention anything about a...

The Trinity Simplified by reason of two parts being equal You know, I have always been perplexed by the idea of the Triune God. That God somehow has Three Persons and yet is only one God. It is something that I constantly am in awe of, and I must take it by faith, knowing that God's mind is...