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The Jews would say that the entire Old Testament was written by prophets. The books that we call "historical", they refer to as "the former prophets". The books that we call "prophets" being "the latter prophets". A prophet is indeed someone who speaks God's word. So if it's God's word, then it...

Luke's gospel is inspired in exactly the same manner as other NT writings. None of them were "dictated" (and very little of the Old Testament was dictated either - only those passages beginning "thus says the LORD" or something similar). They are suffused with God's Breath (the Holy Spirit)...

This is the flaw in your logic. Sin and imperfection are not equivalent. Sin is rebellion, disobedience. An object or creature is not sin in and of itself.

That's a very big IF

It would be impossible to disprove entirely, but the evidence is against it. 1) No-one has yet found any evidence that homosexuality or transgenderism are genetically based. 2) These phenomena are nothing new (from the Bible alone, we know that homosexual behaviour existed at least 3500 years...

Human history.

You have to remember the situations in which Paul's letters were written. He wrote to churches that were already established, whose members had already been made aware of the historical facts about Jesus (the kind of stuff that's in the Gospels). The facts weren't in dispute; what was at issue...

I can't think of any place where the Bible says that. Do you have a particular passage in mind? "isn't all physical objects evil because they r constantly unequal to each other?" The Bible does say that "everything God created is good" (I Timothy 4:4) So the answer to your question is NO.

John's gospel was written approximately 20-30 years after the other three. Christians were already familiar with the other gospels, and John evidently didn't feel the need to copy what they had already written - unless it helped him to make a theological point. John doesn't actually record...

Generations of human beings have drunk cows milk and come to no harm. How could an "enzyme" in the milk possibly hurt us? (1) It would be inactivated by the pasteurisation process and (2) it would be quickly destroyed as soon as it entered our stomachs.

The Bible "ignores this" because it isn't true. We don't improve over time; we get worse.

How is this relevant to a discussion on the Old Testament?

Most people feel inhibited about having sex if parents or parents-in-law are within earshot. And most couples have differing sex drives that they have to learn to reconcile. The answer to the first question is practical. Pick the moment (when your parents are not in the house). Lock the door to...

Gematria won't work for any translation (except by pure serendipity) - only for the original Hebrew/Greek

"Does anyone believe in God before they 'need' him?" I did. I was 17, and I had grown up in a religiously apathetic/atheistic family. My only Bible knowledge was what I had gleaned from school RE lessons (which wasn't very helpful). I had no personal interest in religion, but I had a modern...