Verse:   “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.” – apostle James (James 1:27, KJV)   Focus: “the fatherless”.   Meaning?   “a child growing up without a father for whatever reason.”...

    Question 1   Is the god of the Old Testament, the same god, as the god of the New Testament?   Reply 1   Yes.   Question 2   Why would a benevolent god tell you it is ok to beat your slave just severely enough that they die after three days?...

    Here are three examples based on “Law”, “Judgment” and “Love” from the Lost Orthodoxy Book.   1) Law (Pages 512 – 516)   To Quote:   The ‘Law of Liberty’ example as Irenaeous explains above in regards to ‘tithes’ as well as other Laws (“Torah”) in the Context of Matthew 5:20 in...

    How?   A lot Christians (Catholics & Protestants alike) don’t realize that most of their “modern teaching & misconceptions in the Gospel” were due to St. Augustine of Hippo’s “personal interpretations”.   The life of saints are often filled with “many past sins” which ‘if a commoner were to do it today’,...

    Verses:   “As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I HATED.” – apostle Paul (Romans 9:13, KJV)   “If any man come to Me, and HATE not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be...

    To Quote:   “In the next place, I fancy that thou art chiefly anxious to hear about their not practising their religion in the same way as the Jews.   The Jews then, so far as they abstain from the mode of worship described above, do well in claiming to reverence one...

    St. Clement of Rome writes in the ‘consecutive lines’ below to ‘obey apostle Paul’s letter to the Corinthian church’ (“Context”) and ‘curses’ the ‘divisions’ caused by those who ‘teach contrary to apostle Paul’ (implied by the ‘command’: ‘Take up the epistle of the blessed Paul the Apostle.’) by quoting Lord Jesus Christ...

    Question 1   Where are those who God swore in his wrath that they will not enter his rest? Or was God mistaken and they actually will enter his rest?   Reply 1   Sir, your arguments are based on common fallacies again.   What’s the meaning of ‘Not enter His (God’s)...

  Question   Can help me to elaborate this: 1 Corinthians 15:12-19.       Reply   Some people at that time thought that there is no resurrection of the dead. They think we go to heaven in our souls after we die and that’s it.   Truth is, we go to paradise or...

                What is the “Worm that does not die”?   It’s not a human soul but a “punishment worm” (be it literal or metaphoric which doesn’t die in that fire), hence it’s called a “fiery worm” too (and not that it’s immortal) as First Christianity taught this:...