The Narrow Path Ministries

Can a statement about something that is predicted will occur next week have "false value" today? When someone utters the sentence "The Montreal Canadians will win the hockey game next week", they are not uttering a statement (statements are either true or false). But the sentence has the form of a ...

Greetings Dean, I just want you to know that I was not as dogmatic as I appeared concerning John 16:13 proving that the Spirit is personal. It was my hope my "dogmatism" would spark enough interest that someone would provide me with some kind of counterexample. The article at the link you provided t...

Thank you Homer and Suzana for your recent questions. I haven't even been going to the forum for the past day and a half. For I have been studying a link which Dean gave me in response to my thread "Proof that the Holy Spirit is Personal". I found the link he provided quite fascinating, and so I hav...

From what I see here, the time period doesn't define or restrict Christ's reign. And that would make sense because we know that His reign is eternal. Mike where do you get the idea that Christ's reign is eternal? Paul clearly states in I Corinthians 15, that Christ will reign only until all His ene...

No problem, Todd. I realize that knowing another person's stance on a matter, a stance with which one disagrees, makes it tempting to address his position.

It's not grammatical agreement at all! I'ts just the opposite --- grammatical disagreement. That's what proves the case. The pronoun is masculine and its referent is neuter. If the Holy Spirit were impersonal, a masculine pronoun would not be used to refer to it/him. Would you please post Daniel Wal...

Perhaps the clearest quote (and this was long after the Roman invasion of 70 A.D.) comes from Irenaeus (A.D. 120-202) in Against Heresies Book 5, Ch 26, part 1: In a still clearer light has John, in the Apocalypse, indicated to the Lord’s disciples what shall happen in the last times, and concernin...

Todd, my argument doesn't address the point you are trying to make. It addresses the fact that both the correction of the "goats" and the life of the "sheep" are αἰωνιος (lasting).

Many claim the Holy Spirit to be the impersonal force of God to accomplish what God decides to do. But the words of John 16:13 clearly show the Holy Spirit to be personal: ὁταν δε ἐλθη ἐκεινος το πνευμα της ἀληθειας ὁδηγησει ὑμας εἰς την ἀληθειαν πασαν Now when that one comes, the spirit of reality,...

I think your statement is neither true nor false but yet I know you said it. If I made a statement, then it is either true or false, for all statements are either true or false. Sentences about the future are neither true nor false; thus they are not statements. I call them "metastatements" since t...