The Narrow Path Ministries

Hi Steve, Appreciate your taking the time to respond. Please refer to the very last part of my first paragraph which you quoted. The proof that this is a quote from the Corinthians' letter to Paul in verse 34-35 is that Paul refers back to these two verses in verse 39, telling the Corinthians to "FO...

Hi Homer, Oddly enough, I can agree with the way you worded your last statement. It's very true. Referring to I Timothy 5:1-2, as you say, "The above verses have nothing to do with the OFFICE of elder." I'm putting emphasis on the word "office", since these verses actually are about eldership. That'...

Hi Paidion, That's NOT Paul's injunction in I Cor. 14:34-35. Paul is QUOTING from the Corinthian church's earlier letter to him. He responds to that I Cor. 14: 34-35 quote by scolding the Corinthian believers in verse 36-39 for their mistaken ideas on this matter. Paul finishes his correction of the...

Hi Paidion, No argument whatsoever with the scriptural requirement for an elder ("presbuter O " individual who was a male-gendered overseer or deacon) being the husband of one wife. Polygamy for male elders was strictly forbidden in the ministry of the early church. But apparently this was not even ...

No relevance in this subject for us today? I beg leave to differ. If it can be proved that women were among the number of apostles of the early church, (and it definitely can be), and if this role of an apostle was ranked first in importance in I Cor. 12:28 - even before the role of prophets (2nd), ...

Nope, not even touching Romans 16:7. To my mind, the debate about Junia is not even needed in that 3-step process I mentioned that proves women were serving as apostles in the days of the early church. As for the chosen 12 disciples, we all know that they were a special subset of the apostles, selec...

Hi darinhouston, Wow. Just wow. Thank you for digging up this long-buried gem of a discussion. A very invigorating discussion, and well worth reading over several times. I read it through almost in its entirety, and will probably review it again. I love long comments, especially when written in an e...

What about this possibility? Instead of Christ becoming a "life-giving Spirit" at His resurrection , why couldn't it be at His death ? The language that seems to prove this is found in I Peter 3:18-19 and 4:5-6. "For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bri...

Hi darinhouston, Nah, I'm not one of those who believe that Melchizedek was Jesus Christ Himself. It's quite evident they are not the same person from Hebrews 7:15, when it says that Jesus Christ was "ANOTHER priest" that arose after "the similitude of Melchizedek. So I would agree with the #2 point...

Hi again Paidion, Agreed that the term "born again" is usually tossed around by evangelists incorrectly. If I had a dime for every time I heard that term growing up in Christian schools.... The way I understand it though, it's a term that really applied particularly to those of Jewish parentage who ...