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If I'm "overemphasizing" the word "under", what is it supposed to look like to "properly emphasize" the word--and aren't you actually "underemphasizing" the word "under"?

Yeah, Paul writes stuff hard to understand, but he doesn't write gibberish. It is intelligible and explicable.

This is only a "complication" that exists for your view, bc you're importing a word ("condemned") that isn't there--it is not a problem in my view. Paul is teaching the Jewish believers how to serve God by God's new way, which is grace and faith--I addressed this in my previous post.

You're assuming and asserting Paul means "the Law of Moses", then questioning whether he means "the Law of Moses" lol Idk what to tell you

I meant: the only alternative would be to arbitrarily change the definition of "under" (from "condemned" to "___? ___") mid sentence. Are you actually saying you don't see the problem with that? The word has to mean the same thing both times it's used, as is the grammatical norm with every...

Well, what's the alternative reading? You do realize the definition of the word "under" isn't unknown, right? There is a word for "condemned" in Greek, and that's not the word used there--the Greek word used there means "under the jurisdiction of". What you're doing is kind of like pretending...

Actually, you offered an alternative view, and I addressed that.

Yeah, I'm into health. I'm a bit wary of melons, though, bc I've heard flouride gets concentrated upwards of 120-150x in it--meaning that you would have to know the farmer you're buying it from, what's in their water. Fluoride is said to accumulate in the brain--supposedly calcifies the pineal...

Everything you have said is irrelevant--you either affirm what passages like Galatians 6 teach (and you already unknowingly have in citing Matthew 7), or else you reject it. I am not the wrongdoer here.

1a. If under in "under Law" means "condemned by", then that would render the phrase "condemned by Law"... but that would also force you to read "under Grace" as "condemned by Grace"--and, importantly, it wouldn't go very far in explaining why that arrangement would result in us not being...

What I do when I see Scriptures that seem to be disagree with one another is I look around for what details I might be missing--maybe there are some doctrinal "pieces" I'm missing that might act as a bridge between the two (as I previously explained my position on these two seemingly mutually...

So, you agree that men are repaid eternal life "in due season" for persisting in doing good deeds during this life--but doers of evil (like the false prophets you mentioned from Mt 7) will be repaid with torment (like Mt 7 and Ro 2 teach)? Also, the entire passage teaches "doing good deeds...

:Laughingoutloud: That's kinda what confused me, too.

Interesting: you're willing to discuss a whole range of Biblical subjects, just not the passages that once-and-for-all debunk your religious tradition. Curious: Are you really at peace with yourself knowing you're knowingly and intentionally suppressing God's Truth in order to preserve your...

@Big Boy Johnson I know how they're going to observe 7th Day Sabbath without the light of the Sun--flashlights! :Laughingoutloud: That's it, I'm going home. I've been debunked. The fate worse than death.

Well, it was a little bit my fault that we got into that heated conversation, because I had said "I haven't met a 'Torah Observant' Christian who isn't a complete fool" after having quoted Proverbs 18:13, assuming people would read it (I should've written the verse out, to help people understand...

Jesus Himself sarcastically mocked the Pharisees: 1. "Do everything they say... but do not do as they do!" lol 2. "You're not lost, right, so why would heaven rejoice and party over you like I'm doing with these penitent sinners?" (Lk 15)

I believe it's Hwhite Hwoman?

You mentioned you were age-d, so I thought you might be interested in knowing, in case you haven't heard, cocoa reverses age related memory loss. I actually think it's a lot better to have the organic cocoa nibs--more intense brain boost, and a lot safer, bc, in the processing (creation of cocoa...

I'm just trying to understand the Bible so I know what God wants. I have that responsibility. The Bible is impossible to understand, I've found, and my "secret weapon" is I go to God to ask for help. My own human understanding is limited, myopic, fruitless and vain. Only when I ask for help do I...