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If the verse can be used to say church doctrine can be determined without considering anyone else in the church, but merely based on the claim that the Holy Spirit gave a person that doctrine, nothing is off limits. My example of the Pope is not even an extreme case, since he or they do not make...

Is that the one Jesus was going to build?

That's important, but the context is more when the followers of Christ would be brought before civil and religious leaders, not just in determining church policy or doctrine. Your use would imply that the Pope's supposed ex cathedra statements are all valid, because he could claim the Holy...

But if you are MAD, Hebrews doesn't apply to you, right?

Well, confessing now is better than never, but all the media that helped hype it are equally to blame or more.

I'm not sure what you are arguing against here, as I agree with all of that. My point was that Jesus was clearly talking about a future building project, and Peter was going to be involved. So what future church was Jesus talking about, where Peter would be involved, if the believing Jews were...

From Webster's 1828: REPLEN'ISH, verb transitive [Latin re and plenus, full.] 1. To fill; to stock with numbers or abundance. The magazines are replenished with corn. The springs are replenished with water. Multiply and replenish the earth. Genesis 1:28. 2. To finish; to complete. [Not in...

You probably won't gain much traction namedropping me in this conversation.

Wouldn't that be rather "rebuild my church"?

Matthew 16:18 KJV — And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Surely Peter was involved in a church that was not yet built when Jesus said that. When was the new church built that Peter was a...

The Holy Spirit filled the temple.

So you're saying that if some metaphor is used, then all is metaphor? I don't think that's a plausible way to view any literature, except possibly some poetry.

Except the test of true faith is if you believe Christ came in the flesh (and therefore died in the flesh and rose in the flesh).

Where do they come from? Remember that the earth and the heavens are new, so it seems they would have to be somehow worthy of entering into the resurrection (i.e., the second death doesn't apply to them). Is it a third brand of "believers" (BOC, Jewish believers in Christ, and the folks who live...

Did you listen to the rest of it? That wasn't his primary point.

I think you're correct here. Can you show me the passage you're referring to? This is a subject I've been interested in lately. We appear to come with Jesus from heaven, but the timing is debated. If at His appearing we both rise to meet Him and come back with Him to the earth, then the only...

"Your descendants after you" sounds like when Abraham is dead. That could mean the rules change in the resurrection. Thanks. Good reading!

And by Augustine and Calvin.

If the covenant of circumcision is everlasting, then our bodies won't be completely whole in the resurrection. Or at least their bodies won't be. That suggests that if one plucks out his eye rather than sin, and he enters into life lacking some body part, it won't be made whole. Matthew 18:9...

I don’t see why Heb 2:3 eliminates Paul. The wording is about the salvation “which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord”, which can only mean during Jesus earthly ministry, and such was indeed confirmed “by them that heard” Jesus during his earthly ministry, which would be the 12. That...