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Coffee in...pontification out
Begging the question…or are u?
People use the phrase "that begs the question," when they mean "that raises the question." To beg the question means to assume one of the premises of your argument without proving it.
He didn’t mean that!
If Christ didn't really prescribe wine literally to be used in the Lord's Supper, how many other things that He said can we not take literally? Homosexuality? Lying? His return? Heaven?
If we sing the Psalms exclusively, we would never sing the name of Jesus!
One of the most pathetic, yet widely popular, arguments against Exclusive Psalmody is that "singers can't sing the name of Jesus." In essence, it is pure mysticism: "First, nowhere in the Bible are we commanded to sing the name 'Jesus'. If God preferred the name Jesus...
Stumbling a brother in the Lord’s Supper?
It has been posed to me to consider 1 Cor 8:7-12 and Rom's 14:20; the doctrine of 'stumbling' one's brother....The distinction between a thing of indifference, i.e. meat, cigars, coffee, etc and things that are *commanded* by God are not one and the same. One would...
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