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There is no such thing in scripture as an "OFFICE" of leadership in the church. It's a ministry and a servanthood role. And you have yet to address the "elect lady" in 2 John and her "elect sister" who had "children" of the assemblies they led in the way of truth. John was giving directives...

Paul in 2 Thess. 2 (written around AD 54) was giving the believers the particular sign of the Man of Lawlessness to look for (Menahem the Zealot leader making his Messiah claim as "King of the Jews" in the temple in mid AD 66.) This happened just after the Zealot rebellion (the "apostasia" of 2...

The ideal which Christ designed for His church was not for anyone to be "lords over God's heritage" - neither women nor men. The members of an assembly are not to be "sitting under the authority" of ANYONE except the "head of all things to the church" - namely, Christ Jesus and the scriptures...

This was fulfilled by the Zealot leader Menahem in Jerusalem in AD 66. He "exalted himself" over every other Zealot contender for Daniel's prophesied Messiah role. Every one of these competing Zealot leaders was essentially calling themselves "God" by trying to claim the title "King of the...

There was no need to tell women elders (Presbyteras) to only have one husband. Which is why it was never brought up by Paul. But in those days among male elders (Presbyteros) polygamy was a real problem, and needed to be addressed. You are inventing a restriction on women elders which Paul...

That's not what I wrote. Satan was loosed from his millennial chain for a "short time" and a "little season" at the time of Christ's ascension in AD 33. He and his devils were cast out of heaven down to earth in great wrath after that AD 33 war in heaven. It was Christ's blood sacrifice...

No, John did not say that. He said he saw those who were beheaded, and then he proceeded to mention what they did during their natural lifetime before they were beheaded for the word of God. Their deaths by martyrdom took place at varying points during the millennium years. When John wrote in...

All of this above is wrong, according to Jesus in John 5:25-29. Jesus said, "The hour is coming, and NOW IS when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live." This was an hour future to when Jesus was talking when the dead would rise to life again. But also...

No, the "living and reigning" was done during their natural lifetime, and was BEFORE their martyrdom. Not all of these in Rev. 20:4 were martyred. Some living during the millennium years, like Daniel, died a natural death, but still did not worship that ancient Sea Beast which began with...

There was more than just one person ("Christ the First-fruits") who was raised that same day. There were 144,000 more "First-fruits unto God and the Lamb" who were raised to immortal life that same day. These 144,000 "First-fruits" were the many Matthew 27:52-53 saints from those listed Jewish...

The reign of the Lord in His kingdom was not established in AD 70. In a very real sense, that reign of the Lord has always existed. The Psalms are full of this, with the phrase, "The Lord reigneth...". For example, Ps. 103:19, "The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his...

You are deliberately misquoting me. I never said all evil is done away with in this world today. I wrote that any evil present in today's world is being performed by mankind alone without the presence of Satan anymore to instigate that evil. Christ once gave a list of all manner of evil...

I'm not avoiding anything. NT Scripture concentrates most of the attention on those two resurrection events (as in 1 Cor. 15:23-24) because a bodily resurrection event was on the near horizon for that first-century generation to experience. But there are other places which speak of regular...

Humanity over time tends to boomerang from one extreme to another, and never can quite seem to arrive at the balance God intended. This is the effect of the Fall. God did not intend any kind of "authentein" leadership to operate in His church body - whether that was men or women acting in that...

See my comment #6. I am 100% certain on both P1 and P2. Scripture leaves no room for an alternative. Satan is dead, and the evil presently manifested in the world is being performed without Satan's presence to instigate it. The guilt for the evil being performed in today's world now lies...

Both sins of ignorance and willful disobedience required a sacrifice under the OT Mosaic laws. Neither was commended. And it is certainly not preferable for a congregation to be solely under the direction of a male leader who tends to knowingly disobey God rather than to ignorantly err in...

It does indeed, from first to last. And the role of minister of an assembly has gotten so out of touch with that intended purpose of humility that the role has become virtually unrecognizable from when Christ originated it. Even the furnishings of the typical church artificially elevate the...

Why would I need to wager on the fact that Christ once said "out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immorality, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things that defile a man..." The heart of mankind all by itself is perfectly capable of manifesting...

P1 - 10 P2 - 0 Zero, Nada, nix, zilch...

He is dead as a doornail, since he was burned to ashes on the earth by the close of the AD 70 battle in Jerusalem. As Ezekiel and Isaiah 27:1 both prophesied, Satan no longer exists since God slew him.