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Whom did Jesus say was the “father” of Israel’s religious leaders in Jesus‘ day? (John 8:44) Did something happen to Israel‘s leadership after Christ’s death that changed who they served as their god? What did Jesus say about them…? ”You hypocrites, Isaiah aptly prophesied about you when he...

You have covered it well my brother….and highlighted one of the main factors in the rejection that people often give us because of the false information that they have been fed about what we believe and what we teach. My Bible students have always been amazed that they found us to be the...

Jesus did not teach non-Jews….his mission was to find among the “lost sheep of the house of Israel”,“worthy“ ones who would respond to his teachings and see his miracles as proof that he was who he said he was….”the son of God”. This is what Jesus told his disciples to do…. Matt 10:11-15…...

Yes….free willed choices were theirs. God has no need of mindless robots….he could have created an army of them who could do no wrong, but all that would create is servants devoid of motives or genuine feelings. God gave his intelligent creatures both. They could choose to serve and obey him out...

Original sin has been a very misunderstood concept IMO.…butchered it is true by the Catholic church, but Rom 5:12 tells us…. ”….just as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because they had all sinned“….what are we to make of that...

This is what you said and what I read…..I haven’t changed anything in that quote…. So just because neither God nor is Christ condemned or literally condoned Hanukkah that somehow makes any celebration that a Christian may want to observe as “a day unto the Lord” OK, even if it is a renamed...

Who was it that was gathered though? Who was Jesus sent to exclusively? To the religious leaders who had always led Israel astray…?….or was he sent only to “the lost sheep of the house of Israel”? (Matt 15:24) Why is that important? Because in all their history, Israel never obeyed their God for...

You used Hannukah as an example of something that was not commanded, but not rejected….did you not? I simply exposed the falsehood behind such reasoning. I didn’t expect you to be “interested”…..but you are not the only one reading these exchanges… You are excusing what God condemns….as you...

Sorry, I like my Scripture to be in easily understood English…..do you speak like this at home using outdated phrasing and archaic English? From the ESV… “Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry in order somehow to make my...

There is only one observance commanded for Christians…..the memorial of his death. (1 Cor 11:23-26) Since Jews did not celebrate birthdays because of their connection to astrology, no one celebrated their birthday…so Jesus did not celebrate his own birthday, which we know was not recorded in...

If you are going to use Hannukah as an excuse to celebrate Christmas and Easter, then perhaps it has a bearing that, if Jesus did not condemn it, it must be OK with God for Jews to hold an annual occasion to celebrate a victory over a pagan takeover and desecration of the most holy place in...

Are you overlooking the fact that humans made gods out of those heavenly bodies…..? God is a time keeper and the heavenly bodies are timed with extraordinary precision, but when they become gods, that is another matter entirely. Sun worship formed the basis of Roman paganism…it is still very...

Who are Christ’s “brethren”? (Brothers)…….who are those “many” whom he accepts as his brothers? Matt 25:31-34…. “When the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit down on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will...

Yes….but what is it that is predestined? And from what period of time was it predestined? Those who misread that verse to refer to the creation of the planet are not interpreting Scripture correctly. The Greek words in that verse do not refer to the founding of the “world” (planet) because the...

If you see no “transgression”, then Pope Gregory was a true Christian who promoted the worship of the only true God….and if you believe that he had no authority over what was retained in the calendar that bears his name boastfully, then there is not much more I can say to you….. :no reply:

Do we not have the example of Manasseh……He did what was bad in Jehovah’s eyes, rebuilding the high places his father Hezekiah had destroyed, setting up altars to Baal, worshiping “all the army of the heavens,” and building false religious altars in two temple courtyards. He made his sons pass...

Well now, here is something we actually agree on…. Only the death of Christ was to be commemorated, and because the memorial of Christ’s death was a replacement for the Jewish Passover, (as the true sacrificial “lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world”) Christians would come together to...

Sorry for the misunderstanding…. As we know, a calendar is a system of fixing the beginning, length, and divisions of the year and arranging these divisions in order. So humans have always had ways for dividing time. The Jews had their own calendar, based on a lunar system. The Julian calendar...

If you actually studied the Bible instead of man made doctrines, you would clearly see the resurrection as man’s only hope for everlasting life. Death is the end of life…not a continuation of it somewhere else. This is a satanic lie. Nonsense! Being created in God’s image meant that we reflect...

You tried that once before and you got the explanation…..try reading it again as well as the scriptures that went with it…..there is no hell of eternal conscious torment…..that is clearly an injustice…to punish a person forever because of a short lifetime of sin, when the sin was not our fault...