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I’m not even insisting it must be an angel. My only point is that the text itself is vague; it doesn’t give us the information to make a “positive identification” on the restrainer. So trying to insist it has to be “this” or “that” is forcing something into the text that simply isn’t there. The...

Is it “my” problem that I point out that Dispensationalists are hanging a major doctrinal point on a passage that doesn’t state outright that it’s the HS, and don’t produce ANY other passages to support the idea? I think it’s actually your problem. And it’s a BIG problem.

No, scripture doesn’t always need to state outright something. But in those cases we take great care in building the idea or doctrine from multiple scriptures, pulling together the biblical authority to support the idea. Dispensationalists have not done this. They have proclaimed that this...

It could very well be God. But it doesn’t say it. It could be an angel. Revelation has angelic being restraining other demonic beings and even Satan, apparently, in Rev 20. So the assumption that 2 Thess 2 MUST be speaking of the HS when it does not say that, is making an exegetical leap you...

When you do a search through Revelation, you find that the phrase “those who dwell on the earth” or “dwellers on earth”, is talking specifically about the wicked and perishing, not the saved or saints. So...we could suppose that the above verse is just a confirmation that Satan is, in fact...

And 2 Thess 2 specifies the Holy Spirit where exactly?

Well, thanks for your take. I do disagree with you. I also can’t help noticing that once again, although happily pointing out the flaws in other people’s arguments, you have not given any scriptures to support yours. Again, I must either conclude you are deliberately dodging this fact, or you...

Your rational conclusion still only holds your own opinion and guesswork. Although I would much prefer to take my time and present my view in my own words after doing my own research, I’m afraid at present I cannot. I am away from home being my cousins support person as she’s had to under-go...

Or perhaps, conversely, always. let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he...

My “whims of proof”? Seriously? If you don’t think you need to, should or can “prove” what you believe about your faith, why don’t you toss your bible away and just start making it up as you go? And it is eminently possible to “back up” your posts on a forum. No one is asking you to write a...

Well, yes, I think we do read it differently, but I must also be perfectly honest and say I have not done much study on it! I think my reaction comes down to the fact that we KNOW that Isaiah is talking about Israel. But pushing it forward and trying to make it also talk about America when there...

It was not an assumption, but an explantation and invitation. You, in point of fact, made an assumption about what "normally comes from my pen", so I explained to you why I ask for a solid grounding in a person's "opinion". Which, was not an "assumption" that you cannot give said solid...

I hope you don't see this as me being a "naysayer", because I'm not...or, at least, I don't see myself as a naysayer. I believe in Christ's return, and look forward to it eagerly! I see scripture as speaking about these very 'cosmic' signs in a way that can only describe Christ's actual return...

I am not a naysayer or scoffer. I very much believe in the return of Christ and look forward to it daily with a passion that you could never really understand. I'll tell you why I "respond" as I do, why I question when it is "not explicitly written in the word of God that this and this will...

So....let me try and get this straight. You're critical of me for trying to urge you to go "straight to the source" in terms of your information for biblical knowledge, rather than looking to our culture for it, but then try and tell me that the bible is well aware of our rotten culture? It...

From what I understand of the video, the "fictious seals" were still based on bible verses in Isaiah. And my point with the 'hurricane' was that a ''breached wall" is so vague, that it could be talking about anything; indeed, when hurrican Katrina broke the levee wall and pretty much destroyed...

I understand that the book is fiction, and that it was based on what he thought was a strong "link" between what happened between Israel and America. I would even go as far to say that part I agree with, but not for the same reason. A nation that turns from God is going to go from blessing...

The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings from the east. And I saw, coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like...

I don't doubt that Hollywood makes repeated attempts to play off historical and societal realities and ideals. The problem here is that it's Hollywood. I don't much care if Hollywood, or the Government, or the writers of comic books attempt to display geopolitical realities, or how well they do...

I've got no problem with history. I'm also not saying that the above is not historical. However, one cannot deny that you then attempted to link this historical fact to a comic book rather than the biblical account, and that also, the bible, however historical the above might be, does not insist...