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Where are you in Maine? If you are close to me, perhaps I can come and help.

Not seeing an answer in verse 8 . . .

I will trust that there is an answer to my concern in here somewhere . . . hope I can find it!

I understand what it means to be Born Again of imperishable seed. That wasn't my question. My question was, Is there such a thing as being Born Again of perishable seed? If you can direct me to the answer in one of your earlier posts I would appreciate it.

1 Peter 1:23 doesn't tell us, but I welcome any insight here: CAN ONE BE BORN AGAIN OF PERISHABLE SEED, OR IS THAT JUST AN OXYMORON?

I can't follow the logic. A dozen writers worked on a particular text and THEREFORE the national literacy rate was stupendous? Sorry, I am not convinced. I don't have a clue how many Jews in Israel could read and write six centuries before Christ. And after reading this science daily...

Then I guess Paul lied when he claimed to be “blameless” under the Law, Phil. 3:6 – and I guess Luke was delusional when he wrote the same about Zechariah and Elizabeth (Luke 1:6).

Payment to whom? If Calvary satisfied mankind's debt, who was the debt owed to? And why couldn't that creditor have just forgiven the debt without Christ being nailed to a cross?

Why are you posting all this?

I'm doing exactly that.

So here is the OP's argument, as I understand it: (1) If Jesus spent 40 post-resurrection days on the planet hobnobbing with his disciples and others, some of them, whether the writers of the (canonical) gospels or other writers, would have documented his post-resurrection affairs in far more...

Not to derail your Catholic-bashing post, but just as an aside: the host inside the monstrance is neither an "image" nor "graven."

Ah. You didn't mean "believability of what is not written" but rather "believability of what is not sufficiently written about."

Can we start with punishing children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren for the sins of a father (Ex. 34:7, Num. 14:18, Deut. 5:9)?

Can you please explain what "believability of what is NOT written" means? What are the unwritten propositions whose truth or falsity is in question?

That would take me hours to explain! But the picture needs to hold together without pieces being forced into poorly fitting holes. Maybe an example would help explain what I mean: In Matt. 28:19, Christ reportedly commissions his apostles to spread the gospel to “all the nations.” The Greek...

No one here is attacking the Bible as uninspired by God, @Jack. We just have a respectful disagreement on whether every sentence is literally true. Some sentences cannot be, because two writers describe the same event differently. Some sentences are metaphors, some are hyperbole. Do you...

Because I see these human errors as theologically irrelevant. Ask an inerrantist whether Jesus sent his apostles out with sandals and staff (Mark 6:8-9) or without them (Matthew 10:10), and the answer will come back “The gospels must have been describing two different missions.” Ask where the...

Matthew 27:9, which mistakenly attributes the story of the purchase of the potters’ field to Jeremiah rather than Zechariah. Matt. 23:25, which confuses two Zechariahs, the prophet Zechariah who was the son of Berechiah (Zech. 1:1) and another who was the son of Jehoiada (2 Chron. 24:20-22)...

How do you resolve the inconsistencies, then?