Recent content by Jay Ross

From another thread: - “As reading declines, the result, evident all around us, is the intellectual hollowing out of our society. Without reading, the world is going to become less rational and more disordered.” - James Marriott

From another thread: - “In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand-fold in the future.” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I have not tried to suggest to anyone on this forum that I am a prophet or have super spiritual giftings as such. In both parables, they tell us clearly who the "person" was who went away to get a kingdom before they returned. I believe that it was Satan, who as the "Wicked Servant" told his...

But you have the time to attack the poster by trying to the poster down which is a false argument technique.

Your numbers are correct when you take into account the NZD to USD exchange rates depending on the exchange rate when the comparison was calculated. B your cost comparison is correct if we only consider NZD without taking into account the exchange rate between the two countries being comparied.

The Scripture is full of occasions where God revealed His truth to one person who was often referred to as prophets and as Jesus noted, the prophets were killed because the people did not like what God was telling them to say to them. After the prophets were killed from Abel to ????, the nation...

That is a very different story that you are telling now. Previously you had said that I was presenting a different perspective that needed to be considered. In this post you are attacking the person rather than the material presented. A false argument technique, put the person down rather...

People still reading the parables about the Talents and the Minas but having no understanding of what was being told to the respective audiences after they have read these two parables. People are still not using their eyes to see or their ears to hear. It is so sad.

yes, I know @Scott Downey

I absolutely agree with you. It seems that many people's understanding is based upon the understanding of the translators, whereas my understanding is based on looking at whether or not the translators have accurately translated the context of the available original text that are available to...

It seems that the pertinent question with respect to the parables of the Talents and Minas is when does the Ancient of Days give the Son of Man dominion over the whole earth. The following scriptures gives us a timeline as to when this will happen. I would humbly suggest that Satan goes into...

Since you only want to protect your own understanding, I will not continue with this conversation that both the Parables of the Talents and the Minas point to the man who goes away as being Satan. In coming to my understanding, I have let the whole breadth of scripture provide the understanding...

Both the Parable of the Talents and the Minas is telling us what Satan's plans are for when he is imprisoned in the Bottomless Pit for 1,000 years along with the Beast and the Little Horn who were also judged at the same time. PS: - Satan is very crafty in hiding himself from being the main...

Oh! How sad it is that people are still not understanding the Parables of the Talents and the Minas. In the Parable of the Minas, Jesus, at the beginning, hints at the time when the Nation of Israel we repent of their turning away from God and as such Jesus speaks of the Israelite servants of...

But that is not the point Jesus was making in the Parables of the Minas or Talents.