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I have been on a number of forums over the past few years. I spend a lot of time of the CC forum. I used to spend a lot of time in the TOL forum but I have not been on that forum in a couple of years.

I have heard many arguments regarding the word εἰς and how it is to be translated, particularly in such places as Acts 2:38. Should it be translated as 'into', or 'because of'? Let me here some of your arguments on this.

It is an interesting thing that Abraham came to the conclusion that God was able to raise Isaac from the dead. This is certainly not a logical conclusion. How could he possibly know this? The text never says that this knowledge was ever revealed to Abraham. He has never had a sacrifice get up...

Well, ethic is strictly a social construct that allows a society to function as an orderly system within the confines of a mutually accepted set of laws and principles. This is not to be confused with morality. The ethics of a society can be built on either moral or immoral principles. Since...

How exactly would you define 'ethics' and how would you think this in any way applies to God?

I think scripture is pretty clear that this was a test of faith. In the end, God says, "...now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me."

Do you equate Abraham's willingness to sacrifice Isaac to the pagan sacrifices of children?

I think you and I are done here.

What I am asking you to examine is certainly not in conflict with the OP. If you do not wish to address those matters, just say so. You are having this discussion with me, are you not? I care. It has bearing on whether your position holds weight or not. Nonsense.

Who cares whether Satan knew or not? That makes absolutely no difference. Paul says he received a "messenger from Satan." If you want to know what that messenger was, read to see what Paul describes. He does not discuss his struggles with some supposed demonic tormentor. What he describes in...

Like I said, we are done here. You are swatting at mosquitoes and ignoring the alligator in the boat. This is a trivial matter that is of no interest to me.

This topic is a widely debated favorite among atheists and Christians alike. It conjures up all sorts of ethical supposed dilemmas and challenges human standards of moral and ethical behavior. So, let me just ask the question, where are the ethics in Abraham's willingness to kill his own son? I...

I have been reading a lot of responses to Phoebe as a deaconess an I think there may be some misunderstanding about the use of the word. We seem to have a problem attaching the word deaconess to women because of how this word is widely abused in the denominational world. We also prefer to see...

If women choose to be preachers, they will do so not because of what scripture says, but in spite of it.

I have never understood why it is that people assume that because someone has had the benefit of higher education that this somehow means they have no guidance from the Holy Spirit. It does really annoy me though when people attempt to make arguments from the Greek when they have never studied...

I think I have gone as far with this as I am willing to go. Either get to the point or forget it.

I have not insulted you at all. I was merely making an observation based on the nature of your arguments. This is getting benign. What difference does it make whether Satan knew it or not. Do you think Nebuchadnezzar knew he was a tool of God used to destroy Judah? Do you think Sennacherib knew...

I am really not going to get drawn into your obsession with the word άγγελος. Your argument are not even worthy of a first year Greek student. If you want to believe Satan sent some kind of a lessor demon to torment Paul, be my guest. I really do not care. The bottom line is this, Paul was given...

Have you not read what God did to the Egyptians, to Miriam, to Ussiah, to Gehazi, and to Herod? There are in fact many biblical examples of God using sickness as a humbling agent.

Depending upon which translation you use, ἄγγελοs has been translated in many instances as angel when it should have been translated as messenger. It is always context that determines which. In this particular instance, the vast majority of the body of Greek scholarship translate it here as...