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That's how YOU use prophecy. It isn't how Matthew uses prophecy. This is how Matthew uses prophecy: Matthew 2:14-15 When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt: And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of...

I'll try to Most people see prophecies as predictions that come true. But WHY do they come true? The textbook answer is because God knows everything in advance. I suggest that it's because God speaking MAKES those things happen. The world was created when God spoke. If His words have the...

Then you have it precisely backwards. This doesn't cause us to set meaning for Scripture. It causes Scripture to set meaning in us and by extension the world.

An idea for your consideration: Perhaps a literal fulfillment and a spiritual fulfillment are not mutually exclusive.

I don't see a problem with a literal interpretation, but there are multiple fulfillments, and that always seems to confuse modern Christians. In 167AD, the Seleucid king conquered Jerusalem and sacrificed a pig on the altar there, specifically to desecrate it in the most offensive way possible...

The Jewish temple had 4 parts: * The Outer Court * The Inner Court * The Holy Place, and * The Holy of Holies The "Holy Place" in view in Matthew 24 is the third of these parts; not the whole temple. In the verse, it is referred to as "The Holy Place" because that is its proper name. If the...

Yes, so. In context, Ephesians 2 refers to the regeneration of those in the Ephesian church - the time at which they first believed. It calls them "dead" in a metaphorical sense. That isn't what the original post here is talking about. It's talking about the final resurrection to eternal...

I believe in an active God. Salvation cannot be attained before death, so the idea tha salvation can be "lost" is wrong-headed. You cannot lose what you do not yet have.

Excellent. But you are still missing some things. Nephesh-Soul is not a word used uniformly throughout the Bible. In the OT, it is used as a parallelism for Ruwach-Spirit, while elsewhere it most commonly refers to a person. In Paul's writings, it takes on meaning from Greek Philosophy...

What were Jesus' teachings? I find many believers have a hard time producing a concise list of them. Clearly, His own death and resurrection are only hinted at, so what was the core of His doctrine?

The New covenant actually started in Old Testament times. Here's the prophet Jeremiah talking about it: Jer 31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: 32 Not according to the covenant that I made with...

I have a good idea who you've been talking to lately. :sweatsmile:

I'm happily undecided on these things. Thanatology raises a bunch of awkward questions, such as... Why is it necessary to resurrect the unrighteous dead before the Judgment? and Why are the evil dead being tortured before they've been Judged? The idea that the martyrs have some...

I believe you are referring to this verse? Gen 9:5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. The word here translated as life and lives is...

Can you just make sense, please? You post here boils down to - "you're wrong! (brings forward quotes proving me right)"

Au contraire - "Jesus" is the Latin version of His name. יֵשׁוּעַ is the Hebrew version of His name. Ἰησοῦς is the Greek version. You used either of those recently?

The point here is just that Jesus' story uses Enoch's cosmology as its setting. Now, does that constitute an endorsement of that cosmology? Or, is it more like writing a fanfiction that's set in someone else's already-established world? I lean towards the former, because Hebrews and...

How so?

I find that much of the covenant with Israel was punitive - God was punishing them for unbelief and that whole making-an-idol-right-at-the-base-of-Mt-Sinai incident. The verse you quoted from Ezekiel strongly hints at it, but Acts 7 states it outright. Before that, God had rules for ALL...

When a translation is made, usually names are NOT translated. Instead they're transliterated; the name is just spelled out in the new language as best as possible to sound the same. When the Bible was written, the Lord's proper Hebrew name (יֵשׁוּעַ) was transliterated into Greek as Ἰησοῦς...