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"A great portent appeared in Heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of 12 stars. she was pregnant and was crying out in birth pangs, in the agony of giving birth (Rev. 12:3)." Interpretation: An image not of Israel, but of an exalted Mary...

Who likes short hair? Not Samson!

As already noted, that interpretation can be summarily dispatched by the observation that Jesus' identity and status is nowhere discussed in this pericope. Also, you fail to consider that the only reason why Jesus' baptism "fulfills all righteousness" (Matt. 3:14-15) its signification that Jesus...

For the sake of discussion, this thread needs to consider Mark 10:17. Some scholars argue that Jesus clearly distinguishes Himself from God to the rich young ruler and even denies that He is 'good:' ''Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone (Mark 10:17)." Indeed, this...

Fundamentalists are generally unwilling to exam the implications of the implications of Jesus' full humanity. The human Jesus is limited in knowledge (e. g. Mark 13:32), power (Mark 6:5--"He could do not deeds of power there..."), and wisdom (Luke 2:52--"Jesus grew in wisdom..."). Paul sums up...

Early OT texts don't distinguish between the active and permissive will of God. Interpretation should accomodatet this cultural linguistic difference.

As already noted, in Greek predicate nouns are generally anarthous, i. e. without the article (see Blass-Debrunner's Greek grammar #273). But there is a more important Johannine reason for translating "the Word was God." This affirmation forms a literary inclusion with 20:28, where Thomas...

Wrangler, relativity theory and string theory imply the possibility of extra dimensions and parallel universes. So as Christians, we bear the burden of proof for God, not the skeptic. So it's best to avoid the word "proof" in favor of which view makes best sense of all the relevant data.

Behold: "The world, the universe, and time.........all of these didnt just start themselves from NOTHING, by themselves." The question of the origin of the Big Bang does not lead to "proof" of God's existence. You wrongly assume that modern cosmology teaches that everything emerges from...

All arguments for God's existence derive from assumptions, and assumptions are shaped by life experience. Ultimately, then, arguments for God's existence are only as reliable as the experiences and the accurate, arbitrary, and false perceptions that inform them. The concept of "proof" is...

The ultimate test case for this question is the most famous ever Canadian evangelist, Chuck Templeton. Chuck's evangelistic crusades won thousands to Christ. He co-founded Youth for Christ, the most effective youth evangelism organization in the the 1950s and 1960s. His prayers once raised a...

Here's what the evangelical fundamentalists here don't get about Jesus' teaching on Holy Communion. In John 6:53-58 the Gospel shifts its focus from the figurative "bread of life" discourse to the more concrete Holy Eucharist. Jesus now stresses that His "flesh" and "blood" are "real food...

No, an "epistle" is the wife of an "apostle.":)

Nope! Practically any translation but the KJV is preferable! The KJV translates "Sheol" in the OT as "Hell," when in fact "Sheol" means nothing of the sort. In fact, "Hell" is totally absent from the OT.

Desire Of All Nations: "This is a gross reading of scripture. Mar. 6:6 shows what the problem was: the people of Nazareth failed to exercise real faith in Jesus' ability to heal, not because His ability to heal was supposedly limited." Nope! 6:6 says Jesus "could do no" or "was unable to do...

Readers should note x points about my exchanges with BH: (1) I was Bruce Metzger's student. Indeed, he got me into the Harvard doctoral program in NT. So I have been directly to his fervent evangelical faith. On the other hand, BH has never even met this godly man. (2) BH has never even read...

You mention Bruce Metzger. Bible Highlighter: "Metzger was a radical ecumenist. He was at the forefront of producing “the Ecumenical Edition” of the RSV in 1973 and personally presented a copy to Pope Paul VI. “In a private audience granted to a small group, comprising the Greek Orthodox...

Bible Highlighter: "Most make themselves the authority or the scholar the authority. All Modern Bibles come from Rome, and Westcott and Hort. Pontification from ignorance! Some of the best text critics are solidly evangelical. e.g. Bruce Metzger (my seminary professor) and Gordon Fee (a...

Great! Now ditch your ungodly KJV and you may keep your salvation!:) Seriously, consider the 400 thousand contradictory readings in the Greek NT manuscripts due to tired eyes of overworked monks and ask yourself, "Is it not obvious that the more recent the manuscript, the more likely that...

Aunty Jane: "In the first century, there were no failures and no one was blamed for their lack of faith if such a failure occurred......they just never did. We cannot say that now." Wrong! First, the disciples tried and failed to heal the epileptic boy (Mark 8:18, 28). Second, even Jesus tried...