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Keep setting up the straw men; maybe someone will bother to knock a few down. It's really an awful bore. .

I can't keep track of whether folks reject it, replace it with Sunday, or with a spiritualized everyday Sabbath. But it was never a shadow, like the feast sabbaths, as specified in Leviticus 23:38. :)

I don't discuss administrative affairs in open forum areas. It's a good way to get into trouble. .

You do understand the old saying "Give 'em enough rope...," right? It finishes up with "and they'll hang themselves." .

Death threats? Right. I don't have to do a thing. You do nothing but antagonize. All anyone has to do is wait for you to disappear. .

Let's see how much rope this idiot needs to make a good martyr for his one-man cause (figuratively, of course). .

My brother (and I mean that with every bit of love and regard I can muster), the idea that a law (in this case, the "law of love") can be "sorted," as you call it, yet cannot be written, as a commandment, and that the law is strictly a single thing unless it is called the "law of love," is...

@marks I often find myself frustrated by others' discussion styles. I apologize for any ill will I might be unduly fostering. :)

I don't find this kind of equivocation helpful at all. In fact, at times, I find it very hard to distinguish it from passive-agressive behavior. Christ is clear that He didn't come to change the law. He didn't even change the sacrifice—He fulfilled it, thus making the shadows of the True...

I'm not sure why I didn't catch this the first time I read it, but why are you portraying me—someone who is widely on record as advocating the observance of the Ten Commandments—as saying that practicing murder, theft, and adultery is preferable to the teachings of Christ? Was this a typo? .

...not any .more than you think sideburn preservation is like respecting property rights. I don't think you're missing anything here. Not sure why you wanna dance around it, though. :)

But didn't He step in to right a wrong that was based on the teaching that it's contrary to (the correct, but too often misrepresented or maligned teaching of) His Father's character to steal? He was rightfully angry because they had turned His Father's house of prayer and worship (1st...

Hey, I'm a technical kind of guy—a retired machinist who still remembers that a millimeter is 0.03937 inches. Which makes an inch 2.54 centimeters, blah, blah. I'm mind-numbingly analytical, and I don't really like things that don't make perfect sense. Misquoting is simply quoting something...

Well, isn't there a way of improperly quoting Scripture that is distinct from misquoting it? The truth is, there's a way of discussing extremely difficult issues surrounding Scripture that most people simply aren't emotionally equipped to do. I can say honestly that I'm not always ready to...

You're confusing me... And I think I like it! .

I thought you and I weren't going to talk about what the law is. Don't make me come over there. I know where you live (within a hundred miles or two). :P :P :P .

Could "the other guy" or, at least, some guy maybe either try to be a stabilizing influence (rather than a saviour) or just stay out of it? I vote the "NONE OF THE ABOVE" candidate, like in the movie. Or maybe even RFKJr. I'm getting desperate here! .

Baloney. Rabbinical tradition can't even agree on the number, and many of them are duplicates. And no one on the street knew they even existed 30 years ago. All they knew was the ten commandments. It's a red herring. Likening adultery to shaving off sideburns is the height of absurdity, and...

I'm no Trumpophyte but the other guy doesn't seem to be trying very hard to stabilize things over there. .

I'm not leading anything anywhere. I like simple stuff. The Bible doesn't say anywhere that we can't keep God's commandments. But it does say that keeping the law has no power to redeem. We've been over this ground before. Lumping the ten commandments in with the 613-item, human-curated...