Recent content by A_Man

Something that bothers me is to see what has become of preaching in many evangelical churches. I've seen this in different denominations and non-denominational churches. The preacher preaches on some topic out of the Bible, but not salvation, not the cross, not the person and work of Christ...

But Paul did not write this as an epistle to the Laodiceans as a whole, or the church as a whole, but to Philemon. Saying that was the epistle to church in Laodicea sounds like pure guesswork to me, and rather unlikely. I am talking about an epistle addressed to the church in Laodiciea in...

Philemon sure reads like a personal letter. There is a Latin version of the epistle. I'm not commenting on it's legitimacy. It did not seem to contain anything that was not in Paul's other epistles as I recall.

God has wrath. Paul wrote in your anger do not sin.

The House has the power to impeach, from the US Constitution: ' Is there anything in that last sentence they violated. The house democrats, according to Fox News, at least, totally disregarded past precedent and made it a very partisan matter. I do not see how it is a Constitutional issue, but...

That is a problem. I work in higher education, but it irritates me sometimes to hear politicians and social pundits treating a college education almost like a religious obligation. Some of the trades pay quite well, and if there aren't enough jobs requiring that education to go around, it's...

Does one have to believe all that to be kingdom now?

It may be that the Sabeans in what is now Temen worshipped Yemen worshipped a sun and moon god and goddess they called 'Allat and 'Allah. The Canaanites used the word (or morpheme) 'el to refer to their false gods. The Ugarits had a head of a pantheon who got drunk named 'el in their religion...

Their calling an an eighth grade reading level 'illiterate' sounds rather ridiculous to to me. I'm for education. i've spent just under half of my not-so-short life in school (bachelors, masters, PhD.) An eight grade reading level is not enough to be a great scholar, but it is certainly...

I haven't read that Morey book, but I am suspicious of what I have heard of it's claims. The official Hebrew Semitic argument I could ascertain as a linguistics student studying Hebrew and Arabic (as elective) and talking to prophecies who knew both, based on lectures and a conversation with a...

Constitutionalism? Really? Is there any reason to think God wants written democratic/republic constitutions? He worked through judges, elders and kigs in the past. Some of your quotes mention kings. Some aspects of 'the high status of women' may be good fruits of Christianity. But should we...

I do not think scholars tend to agree.

Eighth grade reading level is not so bad. How many posts on this forum are more complicated than that? That is reasonably literate for novels, books and online participation, not.'illiterate.'

Mabe this is 'moderate Islam' but what I learned in Shi'ite Islam class and/or Arabic class is that idol worshippers would be infidels...kafir. Christians and Jews are considered to be ahl kitab. People of the book. People of the book may exist in their society but they are taxed. They allow a...