The Castle Church Door

For anybody who's interested, there's an ongoing discussion in another thread concerning John 6 and the eucharist.

Since so many unthoughtful unbelievers keep objecting to "talking snakes and plants" in the Bible, I want to repost some of my comments on the subject from another thread. These comments were written in response to Lyosha07:You write:"Even so, there is nothing within the text of the Bible that shows it to be the case, much less within the relevant Genesis story."If an unbeliever asserts that Genesis 3 ...

Scripture repeatedly refers to people as justified as soon as they come to faith rather than having to wait until baptism or some other work is later added to their faith (Mark 2:5, Luke 7:50, Acts 10:44-48, 19:2, etc.). These passages are problematic for Roman Catholic soteriology. The following are some comments made about one of these passages, Luke 18:10-14, by some Roman Catholic posters in recent threads ...

Reppert had posted a couple of blog entries on an "Arminian" exegesis of Romans 9 as referring to corporate over against individual election (as many scholars have pointed out, this is a false dichotomy).When no Calvinist responded, he stated that,It's slightly puzzling to me that as concerned as Calvinists are with exegesis, that when I link to an Arminian exegesis of their leading proof text, they don't respond.Who ...

“These ‘giants’ were the men of old, of renown, Genesis [6:1-4] says, and some have speculated whether the ancient myths that surround certain ‘supermen,’ for example, Hercules, the Titans, or the Gilgamesh epic may not, in fact, have some basis in this evil union. I think this is reasonable. It would explain quite a bit.”This isn't simply a demonstration of Dyer's low view of Scripture, it demonstrates ...