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You still have not produced the verse. Perhaps it is on a journey, or sleeping, or must be awakened. You have certainly had enough time to find it. Instead, you keep performing the same trick. You take a parable, assign meanings Jesus never assigned, connect it to unrelated passages, and then...

You have made an extremely serious accusation, but you have not shown where I blasphemed the Holy Spirit. In Matthew 12:22–32 and Mark 3:22–30, the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost was committed when men knowingly attributed the work of the Spirit through Christ to Satan. Mark states the reason...

Second Thessalonians 1:10 does not prove your doctrine. It actually works against it: “When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe” (2 Thessalonians 1:10). Paul is not identifying two classes of redeemed people. He is describing Christ’s coming...

The passage tells us exactly who they rule over: “the nations.” What it does not say is that these nations are a second class of saved people who are merely “righteous,” while the rulers are an elite class called “holy.” You are trying to smuggle your doctrine into the question. Look at the...

You are confusing eternal life with eternal existence. The Bible does not define “life” as mere consciousness or “death” as nonexistence. A person can be physically alive and still be spiritually dead. Paul spoke of one who “is dead while she liveth” (1 Timothy 5:6), and told believers they had...

Again, you have given us a wedding illustration and expected everyone to bow before a doctrine the text never states. Yes, a bride and wedding guests are distinct figures in a wedding scene. A five-year-old can see that. What you have not shown is that those figures represent two permanent...

There it is again. When the text is missing from your doctrine, you call the absence “miraculous.” Perhaps your exegesis has gone on a journey. Perhaps it is sleeping and must be awakened. But no amount of spiritual-sounding language can make your teaching appear in Revelation 22:11. I did not...

You did not give verses because your list falls apart the moment the verses are actually read. Perhaps the missing passages are busy, or on a journey, or sleeping and must be awakened. But until they arrive, your four-destination doctrine remains nothing more than four phrases thrown into a...

You offer to take me by the hand and teach me to read, yet you cannot take your own eyes through three plain passages without running away from them. By all means, keep mocking. Perhaps if you mock loudly enough, 1 Corinthians 6:11 will rewrite itself and say, “such are some of you,” instead of...

You are not merely mistaken here. You are teaching people to distrust the meaning God actually gave His words and to accept your private “spiritual” interpretation instead. That is false teaching. Your claim that “God gave us context, but then He himself broke it” is not found anywhere in...

You are answering something I did not say. I did not say men decide the context. God gave the context when He inspired the words, sentences, arguments, and surrounding passages. Our responsibility is to read that context honestly rather than ignore it. You seem to think appealing to “God...

Your “honesty test” begins by adding something to the verse that it never says. Revelation 22:11 gives four descriptions. It does not teach four eternal destinies. The unjust and filthy are contrasted with the righteous and holy. You are counting adjectives and pretending that every adjective...

I have never denied that understanding grows over time or that following Christ has a cost. But neither of those points answers what I asked. When Jesus spoke about counting the cost of building a tower, He was warning people to count the cost of being His disciple. The passage says nothing...

You are once again inventing classes of believers that the Bible never creates. Revelation 22:11 does not teach that some true believers are “filthy” and “wicked,” while others reach a higher level called “righteous” or “holy.” It contrasts those who remain in sin with those who belong to God...

Nobody is arguing that every person sees and understands everything Scripture teaches. The religious leaders missed what the Old Testament said about Christ, but Jesus and the apostles were still able to show those truths from the Scriptures. That is the point you keep avoiding. It is not...

You have now exposed the real source of your interpretation. You compare Scripture with your own spiritual experiences and then treat those experiences as proof that your interpretation is correct. That is not what 1 Corinthians 2:13 says. Paul wrote of truths revealed and taught by the Holy...

Luke 8:13 does not prove that saved people lose salvation. Jesus says they “have no root.” Their temporary response is contrasted with those who keep the word and “bring forth fruit with patience” in verse 15. Temporary belief is not the same as saving faith. John 6:66 does not say saved men...

Peter saying that some of Paul’s writings are hard to understand does not support assigning meanings to Scripture that the text never gives. Peter’s warning was that “they that are unlearned and unstable wrest” those writings “unto their own destruction” (2 Peter 3:16). That is a warning against...

The new problem in this post is that you are assigning several more meanings that Scripture never assigns. You say the children of those who died in the wilderness represent the new man or the spirit. Where does Scripture say that? You say the wilderness is a purging process that exposes and...

I am not denying that Scripture contains parables, figures, shadows, similitudes, and allegories. The issue is who has the authority to assign the meaning to them. In every passage you cited, Scripture itself identifies the meaning. Paul says Hagar and Sarah are an allegory of two covenants in...