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Right. And it is that "level" which I am exploring here.

I have never claimed to be speaking "God's word." Anyway, you need a dictionary, my friend. A "lie" is an intentional falsehood, something known by the declarant to be untrue when declared. (Like saying your book is an award-winning book.) Expressions of honestly-held opinions cannot be lies...

I think you've hit the nail on the head. In attempting a harmonization of Matthew 8:5-13 and Luke 7:2-10, Vern S. Poythress states “We have the accounts in Mathew and Luke, which are inspired by God. They are what God says and are therefore trustworthy. That is the conviction we have and the...

Whatever "general" way that is, it’s hard for me to view Luke as a careful historian given his Gamaliel gaff in Acts 5:36-37. We know from Josephus’ Antiquities that the Theudas incident occurred in 45 C.E., yet Luke quotes Gamaliel – speaking around ten years earlier – as placing the Theudas...

And a lot less extensive in some way than many of us assume.

And how is it we know this?

The Prologue to Luke's gospel provides: "Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word. With this in mind, since I myself have carefully...

This is from Luke 22: 7 Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed. 8 Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover.” 9 “Where do you want us to prepare for it?” they asked. 10 He replied, “As you enter the...

So, anyone who disagrees with you is a liar. Got it.

Not "proof," but that seems to be the consensus of scholars.

I recall taking part in a debate many years ago over whether the "them" Christ referred to were the Romans or the Jews (or both). If memory serves, the consensus was that he meant the Jews. (I took the opposite position, arguing that because Luke wrote after the Temple fell in C.E. 70, he...

Whatever the particulars of the first-century Corinthian practice that Paul mentions in 1 Cor. 15:29, and whatever its origins, the very existence of the practice -- which Paul does not condemn -- indicates a belief that the living can still benefit the dead, if not procure their salvation. The...

You're not going to support your accusations, are you? So be it.

Correct. Tell me your original meaning (taxation vs. percent of economy) and I can add the figures for state and local..

Well, government's percentage of the economy is government expenditures divided by Gross Domestic Product (currently about 33.5%, now that we are in a post-COVID world again): https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=8fX And government tax receipts as a percentage of the country's total wealth is...

Trying to figure out what you mean here . . . are you saying no government should take more than 10% of a nation's wealth? (The tithing reference and the reference to taxation in the next sentence suggests this meaning.) Or are you saying that no government's operations should comprise more...

Not to stray too far afield here, but "the suffering from the consequences of the parents wrongdoing" goes to the third or fourth generation for a specific reason, and it is not "hard to understand why it can go on that long " at all. Simply put, that is how long someone is apt to live to see...

Perhaps some of the confusion may come from the 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...

I don't teach anything, and what I believe is irrelevant to this conversation. Let's leave the Episcopal Church out of it, and any "lies" it may or may not perpetuate. You accused me of lying on this site a bunch of times, in what I wrote. Either back up that accusation, or apologize.

If you've read my posts, you know I am not Roman Catholic. I'm Episcopalian -- and I am happy to agree that the RCC teaches doctrines not found in "the Christian Bible." So I'll ask again: if you truly "found a whole bunch of lies" in my posts "concerning biblical data," kindly list a few of...