Recent content by Stumpmaster

Tangential arguments don't carry any weight no matter how much they are used, and by whom. Any course of Bible study that doesn't include the use by God of literary devices is sadly lacking. 2Pe 2:17 These are wells without water, clouds driven with a tempest, for whom the blackness of...

No argument. I pick up any instances where members go beyond the scope of the metaphor and point their error out to them Exclaiming that someone is toast for messing up the jigsaw you were working on is an idiom that relies on actual toast being a cooked slice of bread. The metaphor carries the...

No metaphor works if its related material or conceptual counterpart doesn't in fact have an analogue, in Scripture or otherwise.

Aaah, No. There was zero death in any animated thing before the first human act of disobedience to God's Will took place. Rom 8:20-22 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; (21) because the creation itself also will be...

The metaphor works because the material exists.

Yeth it ith: Eph 2:19-22 Now therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, (20) and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, (21) in whom every...

A atheist university professor in NZ set out to prove that Christian charities and churches in NZ shouldn't be given tax exemptions by the government. What she actually proved was that without Christian charities and churches providing their services to the community, the negative effect on...

The term "out of fellowship" also haunts me. :quitit

I'm very low in the pecking order. Right down the bottom, which is fine. I been in House Churches. What a mess.

Hebrews 10:25 haunts me. :eek:

Heb 10:24-25 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: (25) Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. Having a building is beneficial for those...

Clouds already do that where I live.

Not my New Testament. It's absolutely spot on with everything.

Textual Criticism is for Heretics

Like in the movie "Back to the Future", do you mean?