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Why is "OUR" limited to two? Why not three, or five, or twelve, or more?

I'm with you on this. I was just responding to the notion that "Elohim," being plural, supports the Trinity. It doesn't.

Being a Trinitarian, I believe in "One God, the Father Almighty" -- as the opening of the Nicene Creed that I recite regularly puts it. There are not many gods. There is one God. Elohim is plural, signifying many gods in the Pantheon of national gods that the ancient Israelites believed...

For Israel, I was thinking primarily of Lev. 4:35, Lev. 5:15-16 and Lev. 16:13. (But Is. 43:25 and Micah 7:18-19 are worth a look too.) There was a mechanism in place under Mosaic law for forgiveness of sin. For non-Jews without the written law of Moses as their guide, the "law" by which they...

The ban was lifted for a while, and recently reinstated.

I need to push back just a bit here. Deut. 11:26 portrays the Law as both a blessing to those who keep it and a curse to those who don’t. Galatians swept the “blessing” part under the rug. Gal. 3:10 stresses that the curse follows a single slip-up (quoting Deut. 27:26). Gal. 3:11 tells us that...

Nope. But I read the Bible every day. I don't communicate with God through reading it, although I think He communicates with me that way. (In the other direction, it is through prayer.) The Scripture is largely Spirit-driven, so ultimately the Spirit is still my teacher.

Do you even need to read the Scriptures at all? Seems like you're wired in to the Spirit's voice. What an inefficient transmission of knowledge for the Spirit to use the written word as an aid here!

Indeed.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/contra_proferentem https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/course_of_performance#:~:text=Establishing%20a%20course%20of%20performance,the%20particular%20contract%20at%20issue.

Correct.

A modification of several of these. I think of Christ as our champion in a cosmic battle against the Forces of Evil, our representative (the way David was Israel’s representative when he fought Goliath) -- but unlike with David vs. Goliath, Christ’s victory consisted not in surviving the battle...

This strikes me as portraying Adam as a type for mankind.

Have you been following my OP, Was Jesus a Literal Son of David?

Joseph IS mentioned as being in the lineage. I see nothing here that places Mary in the lineage.

You've peeled back the bark now, my friend! This is indeed the key. All Christians pay attention to the role played by the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in their salvation. Some favor the “ransom” theory (Matthew 20:28/Mark 10:45) that by sinning, mankind became Satan’s captives, and Christ’s...

We probably should drag Philo into the mix here.

How do we know Mary was a descendant of David?

I'd like to think I can manage to get up to 14, thanks to my 20 fingers and toes! sml

Give me an example.