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What about archeology disproving the Bible? Wouldn't that be worthy of discussion as well? There's the gospel story about the paralytic whose buddies were so desperate to have Jesus heal him that they scrambled up onto the roof where Jesus was staying, made a hole in it and lowered him down on...

Since the Scriptures are speaking for our benefit, obviously they are speaking post-creation of the universe, when time came into existence. So on that basis I agree with you. But my point still stands: Time is a measure of change, so prior to God's creating the universe there was no "time" at...

What I was wrong about was apologizing for the wrong thing. It's not that you can't understand appellate jurisdiction. It's that you don't read carefully. I said that state high courts have the final ultimate word on matters of state law. Only their pronouncements on federal law (if...

No, I'll apologize now. For taking you seriously. I can't explain the law of appellate review to you, so I'll stop trying.

Everyone DOESN'T ignore history. (You don't. I don't. There's two.) They just don't all agree on how to correlate history and Biblical predictions.

Gee, and I would have bet money you were going to tell me Mary was assumed into heaven and therefore unavailable for the post!

Yes, we are getting off topic. But the detour suggests a question to me. If Mary, rather than James, were proposed as the leader of the Church in Jerusalem in mid-First century, would any of the apostles have gone along with it? Or would they have concluded she was disqualified on account of...

That's true. The mind has a biological basis. That's false. A non-physical mind wouldn't have "parts" at all. Even the physical seat of the mind, although it has parts, does not have a physical part in which good resides and another physical part in which evil resides. The human mind is...

Heck, no! I'm not anti-Mary at all. But I don't see her "presenting" the rosary to anyone here. I see her hands together as if in prayer.

Everyone understands that eschatology should align with historical evidence. Not everyone makes the correlation in the same way.

Catholics trained to be attack dogs? That's nonsense.

Interesting that someone has draped a rosary over her hands here, without considering the connotation that Mary's using a rosary entails praying to herself.

States do have "absolute sovereignty" in the interpretation of state statutory law. SCOTUS has recognized this. Johnson v. Fankell, 520 U.S. 911, 916, 117 S.Ct. 1800, 138 L.Ed.2d 108 (1997) (“Neither this court nor any other federal tribunal has any authority to place a construction on a state...

Good post! I see similar thought in Philo, whose Logos is laced with a kind of independence from God, separately personified, what he calls at one point a "second" God with attributes of creativity, Wisdom, revelation, etc. -- largely as a way to maintain the transcendence of God, through what...

Yes, we are wandering a bit on the road to Mecca. But I do believe that "the Father" in my Triune God (I believe in One God, the Father Almighty -- to steal a Nicene phrase) is what Muslims refer to as Allah, what Jews refer to as Yahweh, and what non-Trinitarian Christians refer to as simply...

The Qur’an teaches that Allah is the same God as the God of Jews and Christians. “Our god and your god are one” (29:46)

I disagree with your interpretation of Jesus' reference. Jesus was commissioning outreach to the Gentiles worldwide. Mark 13:10 tells us that before the end arrives “The gospel must first be preached to all the nations,” while Mark 14:9 concludes the story of the anointing at Bethany with...

Or it could be interpreted as male rulers being influenced by their wives/concubines. Or, perhaps, that the male rulers in question were somehow effeminate. But what there is no historical evidence of is actual women rulers in Isaiah's Judah.

Simply stated, I don't see how the earth's magnetic pulses have anything whatsoever to do with what is in the Book of Revelation. Call it speculation if you wish. I would call the converse -- that there IS a relationship between the two -- speculation.

Sure, but the Great Commission can't be reasonably interpreted as anything but a command of outreach to the Gentiles. Given that, what do you make of the Acts 10-11 story? Why was there ever any question in the minds of those who heard the final pre-ascension words of Christ recorded in...