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Yes, at first. At some point, they changed their thinking to consider Him as promoting another religion altogether, rather than just a different interpretation of Judaism. It was probably around the time that he called them vipers and insinuated that they were all bastards.

This question is confusing, because the meaning of heretic has changed. In antiquity, a heretic was someone who followed a different path of your own religion. They were generally welcomed and on friendly terms. I suppose when you have actual enemy religions to fight against, the differences...

That's not clear-cut. While Jude 1 describes several events which are clearly in the past, all the verbs there are in present-tense.

9 Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch, her dust into burning sulfur; her land will become blazing pitch! 10 It will not be quenched night or day; its smoke will rise forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever pass through it again. 11 The desert owl and...

The verses in question specifically refer to the land, and the state of the land as being a ruin. You would know that if you had read them.

A King-James-Only-ist and an NIV reader arguing with each? That's basically Hitler arguing with Stalin. (kidding... mostly)

Are we all-in on a hyper-literal interpretation of the story? In a less-literal interpretation, being naked refers to a nation who isn't a vassal to any state - they lack the covering and protection of a great empire. This is the story of a tribe of people who made the wrong alliance, and were...

Abraham seems relevant. God promised to make him a "father of Goyim." These Goyim are the ones adopted to Abraham, because they already behave like Abraham, and "ye do the deeds of your father."

Killing is sometimes necessary, but if it is... something has gone badly wrong such that society can no longer tolerate that person even existing.

If you respond to the bits in small print it leads to awkward conversations. The Star of David, the Seal of Solomon, and the Star of Remphan/Chiun - these are all the same symbol, which also appears all over the world: Remphan is the planet we know today as Saturn... and all the gods...

Maybe? I was thinking of Acts 7: 41-43 And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel...

The idea I was given is that it was neither programmed nor innate. The little angel sitting on your shoulder was an outside person (uh... entity? deity?) talking to you. When I looked up the word 'conscience' in ye olde trusty lexicon, I found that the NT Greek does NOT refer to any outside...

I was always taught that our conscience is external rather than internal - that the conscience is God prompting us, rather than an inborn part of mankind. Quick Bible search says that probably isn't right...

Interesting. It's not what they taught in Sunday School, but seems to be Biblically-sound. I can think of a couple other places where God "gave over" people to depravity.

Yeah, kinda that. But he'll get older and wiser. Hopefully.

Yes it does. The verse says "this book." It doesn't say "this collection of books." You have erred by extending the statement to all the books in the Bible. Do you always make up things about people? Are you 12 years old?

Abraham made a covenant for (a) protection, (b) wealth, and (c) an heir (Genesis 15:1-3). In exchange, God required of Abraham to (a) move to a land that He would show him (12:1), and to (b) walk before Me, and be thou perfect (17:1). Abraham's belief was reckoned to him for righteousness...

(a) That's talking about Revelation (b) The discussion here is centered on parts of Genesis being not-literal, not completely missing

We do need parts of Genesis. Abraham and his covenant with God are a foundation stone that cannot be done without. But if Adam & Eve aren't literal, or if the story of the Fall of Man was completely missing, Christianity would be just fine. We would still have "all have sinned and fall short...

That's not sound logic. If there were no story of Adam & Eve, we wouldn't have the idea that everything was once perfect or pristine. We would assume that everything had always been messy and error-full. That being the case, there would still be the need for a saviour. Honestly, if you...