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Paul's instruction to Timothy on the qualifications of elders is clear. Now we all know there is no man, except Christ, that could meet those qualifications in perfection which is why we look for direction not perfection. With many years of living in adultery and admission of not desiring to...

God uses all things. This does not make all things good. You might recall the captivity of the Israelites in Egypt and that God put them there. God used Hitler but that doesn't make what Hitler did ok. Consider Job. I would surmise that the greatest blessing in Job's life was having everything...

Neither Paul nor James spoke of works as a means, or even a part of the means, to salvation. The works are first evidence of salvation and secondly the acting out of the work of the Holy Spirit in sanctification of the believer.

Here's a starting point. Romans 8:28 [28]And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. Proverbs 16:9 [9]The mind of man plans his way, But the Lord directs his steps. Proverbs 21:1 [1]The king's heart...

Doesn't matter who is Baptist, Catholic, Adventist, Morman, etc. Where is the biblical support for making a point of exposing someone's religious affiliation? There is none. The truth speaks for itself and exposes error. It's far easier, and kinder, to speak truth than to set out to win a...

God still controls it.

Oh, I agree. Except it will be a melting not a burial. Global warming is coming when the elements of the earth are melted. And some think we can save the planet. One of my favorite phrases comes from Mr. T. "I pity the fool!"

There is no room for interpretation. Jesus made the statement himself that he came to fulfill the law not abolish. He was the fulfillment of the law because He was the the son of God. He walked the earth as a man without sin and was the spotless lamb slain for the sin of man. He fulfilled the...

Doesn't matter. It's become pretty evident that our votes don't count. It seemed for a while that they did, but I don't think we ever have as much authority over anything as we think we do. If you look at scriptures on kings, government, and leadership, there are a couple important observations...

There is only one issue, sin. We are confronted with different scenarios all day every day. If the scenario involves sin, we should deal with it. Now, there is a difference on how we deal with the sin whether it is in the life of a believer or unbeliever, but we must deal with it. We are never...

No. Jesus prayed to the Father that his disciples would be in the world but not of the world. Sin affects all. There are only two groups of people. Sinners and sinners saved by Grace. We are affected by these problems until we are glorified.

It is a trying path and I don't believe there is a one size fits all answer. One thing to consider is what is the motivation for donating. We can go down the beloved boycott road where we boycott anything that isn't biblical. Good luck buying food, clothing or most anything else if you follow it...

Bullet points don't earn points. You need to provide Scripture within context to support your emotional guidance through scripture. You provide a lot of opinion with little scripture to support.

The only thing I can take from this is we are looking to drop the hammer to make ourselves look better. Then there is an offense about God waiting to drop the hammer. The moral of the story is we would do well to understand our God and quit applying His attributes to ourselves.

Take a little time to filter out what is for all believers and what is for Israel.

I can't help but wonder the motivation for this windy rampage. Are we trying to win a war at the expense of Scripture used for a personal win? This statement within my quote is not a statement of one man debating another man. It's a jab at the end of a statement to win the battle. John 13:35...

You seem hung up on man centered theology, which isn't actually theology at all. What you continue to describe is a man centered theology based on some head knowledge of Scripture. I have defined what theology actually is. What man does with it does not redefine it. Man centered theology and...

We will have to agree to disagree. We will likely not come to agreement in any of this discussion as we have diffent methods of studying the Bible which generally produce different understanding. I take one Scripture at at time, within its immediate context, and study to understand that group of...

A simple word study on the word theology will show you the definition is the study of God. There is no room for opinion or philosophy. Scripture is absolutely enough. What you are describing is the methods of sinful man. When sinful man takes something from Scripture and perverts it, we don't...

So you want to handle eschatology with only a few of the related scriptures and not the entirety of Scripture? Matt 24 falls into a much larger immediate context. The entirety of the context is Matt chapter 21 thru chapter 25. The definition of the context is judgement. The context does not deal...