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But Matthew doesn't say, "Immediately the disciples saw it." He says, "Immediately the fig tree withered away." Then he says, "And when the disciples saw it......"

In bible terms, Christianity isn't a religion. The word translated "religion" in the New Testament refers to the outward aspects of belief. Yes, Christianity should affect our outward lives, but Christianity is not religion.

But if you take the verses you quoted as meaning that God can simply ignore sin, then what was the need for sending Hs Son into the world to die on the cross in order to save sinners?

No, I specifically said: "So not "regret" in the sense of wishing He had never done something, or admitting that He had made a mistake." God did not make an admission of doing wrong.

Matthew's account does not mention the time the disciples noticed it, just that when they saw they asked Jesus a question: “And seeing a fig tree by the road, He came to it and found nothing on it but leaves, and said to it, “Let no fruit grow on you ever again.” Immediately the fig tree...

The word translated in the NIV as "sorry" has this entry in Strong's Concordance: "05162. nacham [naw-kham ;] a primitive root; properly, to sigh, i.e. breathe strongly; by implication, to be sorry, i.e. (in a favorable sense) to pity, console or (reflexively) rue; or (unfavorably) to...

It was withered, and it was in the same place as that the tree Jesus had said should wither the previous day.

That God is holy, ands demands obedience, and punishes sin. It also shows His great power. Fact. What mistake of God's? God does not make mistakes. As Abraham says in his rhetorical question: "Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" What an unbiblical idea! No human could do such...

Mark seems to tell us when the disciples noticed that the fig tree had withered. Matthew tells us when it happened, and then says, "When his disciples saw it......" without saying when that was. Matthew doesn't mention Peter specifically there.

Yes, of course there are all sorts of opinions about the bible. I believe that the bible does have some figurative passages. For example, when Jesus said, "I am the door," He wasn't saying that He consisted of a wooden or pvc oblong, with hinges and a handle. But I don't agree that figurative...

Sorry, what point are you making, or what are you asking? Surely you are not really asking whether the bible is a book of fact or of fiction?

How could Jesus be a Christian? A Christian is a follower of Christ. As you say, it was the disciples who were first called Christians at Antioch. Jesus was not a disciple, or a follower of Himself. As for your question, "Who invented Christianity?" I would say that Christianity is not an...

Where do you get the "most people?" Calvinists are no different to anybody else in the matter of us not knowing who or how many will be saved. As for God wanting people to burn in hell, according to what we find in the Scriptures, all people by nature deserve only wrath and punishment from...

The post just before mine said, "Really? How stupid and blasphemous.." It seems a stretch to go from that to your belief that Calvinists in general claim that God caused Judas Iscariot to betray Jesus.

I have never come across a Calvinist who claims That God caused Judas to betray Jesus. The bible tells us that the crucifixion of Jesus, and all that accompanied it, was foretold in Scripture, but not that God caused Judas to betray Him. ““The Son of Man indeed goes just as it is written of...

You believe that Calvin's teachings were demonic, but that still doesn't explain why my post in which all I said was that we were not going to agree, was meaningless. In fact it is an example of what I said about not agreeing. If you believe Calvinism to be doctrines of demons, and I believe...

I don't think we are told. We are told that He "inhabits eternity" by Isaiah: “For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, With him who has a contrite and humble spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive...

It is notable in that verses that Paul says "again". The context is that they had been converted, born again, but they were now being swayed by the false teachers, who were attempting to lure them back into Judaism. A few verses further on, Paul writes to the same Galatian Christians...

I am sorry my post was not clear enough. I wasn't asking you what the word "meaningless" means. I meant, "What in my post, to which you were replying, was meaningless?"

I don't see the new (eternal) life we have in Christ as something different from being born again. We read of both descriptions of the new life in God's word.