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Hello again CherubRam, it's too bad that the Scriptures weren't written and translated long before April 30, 2022 AD so that Pope Pius XI couldn't have forced his secret Trinitarian understanding into them ? You know, what we really need is a Schism and a Reformation so that everything the...

Hello CherubRam, a truer statement has rarely been made ? as ALL of our translations and paraphrases disagree with your assessment of v28, including all of our so-called "literal" translations (see below). However, I think that the real kicker is the JW's New World Translation. Like you, JW's...

Hello wondering, the OT often speaks of sinning both unintentionally and deliberately .. e.g. Numbers 15:29-31. The former was forgivable via sacrifice, the latter resulted in the sinner being cut off from his/her people. I believe that a willful sin amounts to knowing that you are about to...

Hi Tony, are there Scripture passages that speak directly to this, to the 'permanent' indwelling of the Holy Spirit in NT believers, that is, as well of His temporary indwelling of ALL who were filled by Him prior to the Day of Pentecost (that Acts 2 describes as happening on Pentecost...

Hello again CherubRam, there's never a problem with that, just be sure to tell the rest of us what you're up to :) Personally, I enjoy considering alternate perspectives/possibilities because, even if they don't end up being true, they usually cause us to look at the passage in question from a...

That's the thing, CherubRam, there aren't "two stories" here, there's just the one, the one that seemingly everyone (every "scholar", that is) from every corner of Christendom (and beyond) believes together about Theophilus (that he is the ~named recipient~ of Luke and Acts). There's no evidence...

Thanks for the link to Wikipedia (though the articles there, by unknown authors, can hardly be considered the work of "scholars"). Also, unless I'm missing something, the article that you linked us to ~disagrees~ with your beliefs/position and instead, agrees with the position that is held by...

Please point us/link us to the scholars who teach that what you believe is true, even if it is only on the basis of speculation alone, as I cannot find any evidence for your belief from anybody else, as I just said recently. Quite frankly, even when "scholars" are forced to make their points by...

I've looked into all of the sources that I have access to personally, and on the Internet (some of them that I would have never looked at otherwise, in fact), and as I stated earlier, NO ONE, on either side of the theological fence, believes what you do, no one. So please, if you have sources...

The Gospels of Matthew, Mark and John are not signed by the men they are named after either.

Hello CherubRam, as I pointed out to you earlier in this thread, your quote about needing to investigate everything from the beginning comes from Luke's Gospel. Luke was NOT an Apostle (or even a disciple) of the Lord Jesus back then, but the Gospel of Luke is all about the Lord Jesus and His...

Hello Josef, actually, I believe that Luke is the most prolific writer in the NT, based upon (Greek) word count anyway. The Gospel of Luke + the Acts of the Apostles has 500+ more words in them than all of the Apostle Paul's Books/Epistles combined, and that's including the Book of Hebrews in...

Hello beepii, my advice is much the same as the advice that you've already been given. 1. Bible/God's word/Scripture - read it every day and pray while you do. This is perhaps the principal way that we 'dialogue' with God. He speaks to us through His word, and we reply back to Him in prayer as...

Unlike the Acts of the Apostles, the Gospel of Luke is about the Lord Jesus Christ. Luke (who was the only Gentile author of a NT Gospel or Epistle) was not an eyewitness/did not know the Lord Jesus personally, so he had to investigate before writing His Gospel. The word "κράτιστος" is...

Hello beepii, welcome to CF, and far more importantly, welcome to the family of God as well!! I'm glad that you found us and joined in the discussions with us ? God bless you!! --David p.s. - there's a 4-part online teaching series for new believers (that was very helpful to me when I became a...

Right, nobody is disagreeing with that. That hardly makes him an "eyewitness" of the Lord Jesus and His 3-year earthly ministry however, so the way that he (Luke) began the Gospel of Luke makes perfect sense....... Luke 1 1 Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile an account...

Hello CherubRam, I agree that Luke was an eyewitness of some of the things that happened in the early church (following the Lord's Ascension), but why do you believe that he (Luke) was also an eyewitness of some or all of the Lord Jesus' life and ministry, and what evidence led you to this...

The Book of Enoch is a pseudepigraphal work, as it claims to be authored by Enoch, a man who lived and was then raptured into Heaven alive some 4,000 years before the book was written. --David