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[Act 25:21 NIV] 21 But when Paul made his appeal to be held over for the Emperor's decision, I ordered him held until I could send him to Caesar." Was Paul no longer "held over" as soon as he was loaded on the boat and "sent"? ... UNTIL does not mean the condition must end after, only that it...

Matthew 1:25 does not actually SAY that Joseph KNEW Mary ... Matthew emphasizes the VIRGIN BIRTH by SAYING that Joseph DID NOT KNOW MARY before Jesus was born. Go and exegete Matthew 12:20 with your same rules and tell me if the REED MUST BE BROKEN after victory?

While I agree that Mary and Joseph likely consummated their marriage AFTER Jesus was born, the word "til" cannot be used to definitively proclaim that the situation changed after Jesus was born (in either the Greek or in English). I offer another verse from the same Gospel for your...

Let’s get personal for a moment. NO, I am not asking you to share things that I have no right to know, but am offering to share things that you have no business asking me (but I choose to share in case it might benefit you). I made it to almost 40 years old with almost no dating experience. I...

It is intellectually and rhetorically dishonest to equate black people forced to use separate drinking fountains to a baker forced to bake cakes he finds offensive or be driven out of business. The similarity is that both the blacks and the baker had THEIR rights abrogated by the WHITES in the...

Then how will the law now take away the rights of these "NONE" children to "NOT RECEIVE" the gender reassignment that they are currently "NOT RECEIVING" without SB 254 prohibiting it? This is the flip side of the couple YOU cited that placed a child in a cage. There are already LAWS that...

Thank you. I stand corrected. Yes, that appears to be the function of SB 1580 ... to prevent targeted litigation for denial of elective services. It specifically includes protections for essential services and anti-discrimination. A clinic can either provide hormone therapy for gender...

I found the LGBQT accusations online with references to actual Legislation: Today, Gov. DeSantis signed HB 1069, which silences educators by prohibiting any instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity from Pre-K through 8th grade, SB 254, an extreme gender affirming care ban, and HB...

I doubt anyone can give you a specific Biblical reference to Gryphons in Heaven, but with that caveat ... your chances are much better in heaven than here on earth (look at the creatures that surround the throne [Ezekiel 1:4-14; Revelation 4:5-8] and a Gryphon is less "strange" than them) and...

I read Matthew 9 several times and have no idea why you posted an image of it with your question? :contemplate:

Jeremiah 29:11 [NLT] 11 For I know the plans I have for you," says the LORD. "They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. Technically, the verse is speaking of the NATION rather than the INDIVIDUAL, but considering how things turned out … I think God was...

It would seem Pelagianism … Even if Adam had not sinned, he would have died. Adam's sin harmed only himself, not the human race. Children just born are in the same state as Adam before his fall. The whole human race neither dies through Adam's sin or death, nor rises again through the...

Anyone quoting a single verse has, by definition, taken it out of context. The simplest check for “context” is to actually read the “context” … you know, the other sentences in the same paragraph and the surrounding paragraphs in the same chapter. One can often find an overarching SUBJECT or...

... does the phrase "if we cooperate" not call into question the Omnipotence of the Holy Spirit (part of the Godhead)? I 100% agree ... fortunately, we are not counting on a man or some water to empower the change "not performed by human hands" [Colossians 2:11], for we are "God's handiwork"...

Matthew chose the word "κόλασιν" [Thayer's Greek Lexicon] κόλασις, κολάσεως, ἡ (κολάζω), correction, punishment, penalty: Matthew 25:46; κόλασιν ἔχει,brings with it or has connected with it the thought of punishment, 1 John 4:18. Mat 25:46 [NASB] "These will go away into eternal...

Eternal punishment [Matthew 25:46] … contrasted with Eternal Life.

Ummm ... people still die. My mother died just this year, so I can tell you first hand that DEATH is still with us. What do you make of Lazarus and the Rich Man ... who had use for a "heaven or hell" even before Jesus was raised?

I did, but you ignored it. That wasn't FOR you, it was ABOUT what you were doing.

It was about this time that the pigs suddenly moved into the farmhouse and took up their residence there. Again the animals seemed to remember that a resolution against this had been passed in the early days, and again Squealer was able to convince them that this was not the case. It was...

You must have a different definition of ATONEMENT ... apparently your "atonement" only involves raising corpses to receive judgement (and damnation) rather than obtaining eternal life for the people Christ Atoned for. I don't deny Christus Victor, I just think that ATONEMENT is about more than...