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I agree. This actually follows from John 1:12. One of my disagreements with the OSAS crowd is over their interpretation of John 1:12. Instead of understanding that receiving Him and believing in His name yields the "power" (ἐξουσίαν) to become sons of God, they treat the verse as though...

Not nonsense. https://19thnews.org/2022/08/abortion-bans-no-fetal-anomaly-exceptions/ https://www.acog.org/advocacy/facts-are-important/understanding-and-navigating-viability

"Better off" by whose standards? Yours? A stock market investor's? A Texas pregnant woman's whose fetus cannot survive to term?

Show me a lie about Trump that I have spread.

Grab a dictionary, please. The left isn't "totalitarian," and cannot be without both houses of Congress firmly in tow. When a bi-partisan border bill was killed by Trumpian fiat just so that Biden wouldn't be able to claim a victory on the issue, the only would-be totalitarian in the room...

We are more socialist than we were three years ago. We are not more totalitarian. That cannot happen unless majorities in both houses of Congress and the President are of the same party, and the Congress abandons all notion of checks and balances.

And if Trump is elected along with a Congress whose mission is to kiss his ring, I know one democracy that will degenerate into totalitarianism very quickly.

How do you know what language He wants us to read in?

You mean not right or true in the original, correct?

Well, you cannot read. I asked you to show me where I said that Paul used the word “graphé” in 2 Thess. 2:15. And instead, you show me where I said Paul mentioned the word in 2 Tim. 3:16. What's wrong with your eyesight?

I'm not interested in taking the course. l learned enough about these subjects in college.

How can you tell whether there are no mistakes -- or even what constitutes a "mistake?" Is a mistake any deviation from the original -- even a corrective one? Bruce Metzger tells us that "occasionally a scribe deliberately introduced into the copy a change that seems to clarify the sense or...

Sounds like just another mantra of far right conspiracy theorists to me. The theory is that Communists couldn't beat capitalism via worker revolution, so they have organized a tear down of Western values by fostering multiculturalism, gay rights, unbridled immigration and the like. I'm not...

Without agreeing that God must inspire a translator before his translation can be deemed accurate, how do we gauge whether such inspiration has occurred?

With one important different in focus. Press stories are generally efforts to report the facts. Gospels are generally efforts to persuade of the truth of an underlying message.

Sure. Disagreement among the gospels on whether the Last Supper was a Passover meal as the Synoptics say (Mark 14:12, Mark 14:16-17, Matthew 26:17, Matthew 26:19-20, Luke 22:7–9, Luke 22:13-14), or was eaten the day before Passover as John says (John 13:1, John 18:28, John 19:14).

No doubt copyist errors -- which is to say deviations from the original (intentional or not) -- are responsible for some NT inconsistencies. But not all. Textual criticism -- reconstructing the original -- gets us as faithful a version of each gospel or letter as possible, but is of limited...

That you suppose I haven't confirms my suspicion that agreement with your interpretation of the Bible is your litmus test for determining who is and isn't "much of a Christian."

Call upon that name in what sense? Matthew tells us that "Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven." And achieving that union without believing the truth of His word is possible? If so, your...

The fundamental question he poses is a good one. What necessary beliefs, reduced to their irreducible minimum, must one hold in order to be deemed "Christian?" What factual propositions must be believed true in order to make the cut?