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What made a person a prophet in Old Testament times was not "predicting future events," but rather relaying the words of God to the people... "Thus saith the LORD..." This was the function that Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Amos, Haggai, and Malachi, to name a few, served. God used them to speak...

Great question; I'll come back to this... Right; that's not what I'm asserting. That would be a silly understanding, no? I'll buy that... :)... but there's a lot more to it than that. Two parallel concepts: 1. All we who are in Christ are one, as the Scriptures testify. Together, we are...

You'd have to explain your question, as in explain what you think I'm "finally starting to see." But don't worry about that. Like I said previously, take your "thoughts" and... :) Grace and peace to you.

Well, Jesus does say that He and the Father are one (John 10:30). So God is at least a duality. But we see clearly in Genesis 1 and John 1 that Jehovah is triune. Grace and peace to you, Rich!

So, I realize you are asking David for this scriptural evidence, but... God the Father wills it: "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, compassion on whom I will have compassion" ~ God the Father, through Moses, Exodus 33:19 "He says to Moses, 'I will have mercy on whom I will have...

Nobody said they "acted like idiots," except you, in your demagoguery. Even smart people can do and say silly things from time to time. Like... well, like you keep doing here, over and over again... :) Well, you can read back to the gospels and easily see that prior to His crucifixion, He...

Sorry; I meant "Like R1689 said..." :) My apologies. Correction made. Grace and peace to you.

Like R1689 said, you have no idea what you're talking about. Again, they had just spent three years with Him and still expected him to conquer all their enemies right away, prompting them to ask a question that, in view of all he had told them, was "silly." Kind of like most of the stuff...

But that's the implication of the Catholic beliefs concerning Mary. That's the implication of what I was saying, and is absolutely not the case. There are a myriad of types and shadows of Jesus in the Old Testament, but no type or shadow of Mary. As the writer of Hebrews says, "Long ago, at...

Yes, I've meditated on that quite a lot, as well as the rest of Scripture. :) Yes, everyone is a servant, whether they realize it or not. And as for this servant being spoken of here, the Master will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers, not because he believed and then became an...

LOL! Ah... let's get the timeline right: Matthew 1:18 ~ the verse immediately preceding the one you quote here ~ says, "When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together..." ~ before they were married ~ "...she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit." So...

Yes, she had known no man to that point, so, knowing how women become pregnant... :)... she asked Gabriel, "How will I be pregnant, since I have known no man?" To be precise, upon Gabriel's statement that Mary would "conceive in (her) womb and bear a son," Mary, very firmly in the present...

LOL! Well I surely agree with your "Yes," here, Titus, but... The angel did not command (directly or otherwise) Joseph to "have sexual intercourse with Mary"... LOL! The exhortation from the angel was to not be afraid to take Mary as his wife. Well, unless you want to say that Joseph heeded...

Yes, they are, theefaith. They are. Yes, and while she was a virgin, she did conceive and bear this one son, even Jesus. Isaiah never implies that she will only have one son. Right. Agree. But after Jesus was born, Mary quite obviously conceived several times by earthly means (not of the...

Kind of depends on what you understand Calvin to be saying by "foolish." Basically, they're asking a question that He had just, many times over in the course of the previous three years, shown to be borne of little understanding. In that sense it was foolish. And that's what Calvin was...

Jesus's brothers were all of Joseph and born of Mary. Jacob had four wives, not twelve. None of them were virgins. Jacob was quite busy. :) And so was Joseph, after Jesus was born... :D Grace and peace to you.

"The basis in receiving mercy is obedience, that idea is found throughout the Bible... If man obeys, then God's predetermined course of action is to show mercy. If man disobeys, then God's predetermined course of action is to not show mercy." No, the basis of God's mercy is His grace ~ which is...

Just these (among many others): "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own...

LOL! Well, I don't care that you were asking somebody else. I do care about your ignorance. :) But yeah, neither one of those is why I'm a Calvinist... :D Grace and peace to you.

The only correction I would make, R1689 ~ and I think you'll agree with this ~ is that Christ died not just to save all those that would believe in Him, but also all those that had believed in Him in the past, too. Right? :) Grace and peace to you.