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Well, let me elaborate on my view of the Galatian text so you can see where I am coming from. Deut. 11:26 portrays the Law as both a blessing to those who keep it and a curse to those who don’t. Gal. 3:10 stresses that the curse follows a single slip-up (quoting Deut. 27:26). Gal. 3:11 tells...

I agree that the OT says a perfect score under the law is required in order to be saved by following it, but I disagree that Galatians says a perfect score is unachievable.

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Is that because of the Law’s innate inability to save, or because of mankind’s innate inability to keep the Law sufficiently well to be saved?

I think Locke would say that any nation's moral authority derives from its commitment to uphold its citizens natural rights to life, liberty and property. That's his litmus test. He would apply it to any nation, regardless of the religious beliefs of its citizens.

What do you mean by "moral" authority? Clearly the United States' political and legal authority derive from the consent of the governed, not from God. Is "moral" authority, as you define it, the persuasiveness of the State in regard to regulating individual actions where legal rules do not apply?

But "everything Jesus has said and taught" is not recorded in the New Testament, if John 21:25 is accurate. And what IS recorded is mostly attested by non eye-witnesses. Then there us the problem of reconstructing the gospels from copies of copies of manuscripts that do not full agree with...

I don't see how ascertaining the "Heart of the earth" reference helps us get our arms around the 3+3 duration.

What I'm saying is: He wasn't in the tomb ANY PART OF A THIRD NIGHT. I can see how he was in the tomb for part of three DAYS (a sliver of Friday just before sunset, all day Saturday, and a sliver of Sunday just after sunrise). But THREE NIGHTS? I can't see a way to squeeze three nights into...

Yup. Pretty sure everybody here realizes this.

Yes. Late Friday afternoon. Yes. Late Friday afternoon. Yes. Sunrise on Sunday. No. He was still on the cross on Friday afternoon.

I'm only focused on this particular Semitic idiom -- using "three days and three nights" as a shorthand for two sunsets and two dawns, say, Friday afternoon to Sunday morning.

Agreed. So, where in that stretch of time do we find even a part of a third night?

I'm sure there is an answer to my question in there somewhere, but I can't find it. Are you suggesting that calling the period from, say, 3 PM on Friday to, say, 6 AM on Sunday "three nights" is a metaphor, or a paradox?

I've never heard that before. Any other examples????

Matt. 12:39-40 tells us: "But he answered them, ‘An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For just as Jonah was for three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so for three days and three nights the...

I'm not overly concerned about the US ditching its long tradition of religious liberty. The Supreme Court won't aid such a cause. Trump's administration won't either. It would have to be fueled by a grass-roots cultural shift in the country at large, and I just don't see that happening. Not...

"Yisrael" -- is that supposed to mean Israel? "Yeshayahu" -- does that refer to Isaiah? " "YHVH" -- a bastardized form of the Tetragrammaton, I suppose? "HaSatan" -- is that anything like Satan? Mashiach" -- an alternative to Messiah, perhaps? "Yochanan" -- would that be John...

The message is not flawed at all! NOT A BIT!!! I am going to try to get my point across one more time, and then I will stop: Consider Mark 2:26, which quotes Jesus as saying that David entered the house of God and ate the altar bread “when Abiathar was high priest.” 1 Samuel 21:1-6 is...

Let me suggest to you that "God's word" be understood as God's message to us rather than a verbatim dictation, leaving it to the human authors to wordsmith the message. Then the contradictions (including those mentioned in Post #94) are no longer problematic. Simple. Logical. Far more...