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context! context! context!

I guess it depends on context. Nobody expected Jesus to rise from the dead. None of the disciples did, none of the girls did, Nicodemus and Joseph brought a half million dollars worth of spices to embalm him; they certainly didn't....even while Jesus told them again and agin. In other words...

Stand further back and look. Too close distorts the context.

The scripture tells us God does not change. He is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. It is humans who have different perceptions of God the which they insist on projecting onto him. God is the same in the OT as he is in the NT yet men interpret that sameness differently. Objectively, Jesus...

I would say Jesus is human; the second Adam born in a particular geography and to a culture as a result of Abraham hearing. He might have been born into Chinese or Indian culture had their forebears listened to God's attempts to connect as did Abraham from Mesopotamia. Culture matters little...

No Sir, this is absolutely inaccurate! Unless you question this presumption, you will miss the entire objective of the scripture.... just as the Jews have.

Jesus is the Word of God. The first chapter of the Gospel of John tells us this. We are to listen to Jesus....in other words, interpret the rest of the Bible using Jesus as the benchmark. That was the instruction given on the mountain to Peter, James and John (Matthew 17, specifically vs 5)

I'm asking you what 'slain from the foundation of the World actually is reference to, ie what it means. It is an assumption that it's God's foreknowledge and no doubt he knows but it's not talking about God's foreknowledge. It's talking about 'slain from the foundation of the World' Put some...

kiss your man by the factory wall, even in a dirty ole town!

what do you think that's saying?......and just to play the devils advocate, were there Roman crosses floating around the cosmos before the world was created? Ok, you exegete on that one.

bloody oath!!

What you are telling me is God put Nero into power knowing that he will oppress his people ....and then have his people pray for Nero. It doesn't take a lot of insight to see through the inconsistency and hypocrisy of that. Did God crush Jesus? Absolutely not. Jesus prays to God in the garden...

I have no intention of replacing anything with anything. My intention is to understand the nature of God accurately. The place available to us is to SEE Jesus. He is the only eyewitness to God; he is close to the Father's heart. He is to be the lens through which we interpret. It is SEEING Jesus...

Your deductions are primitive. They are nothing more than an attempt to divert from the deficits you support.

In my view your paradigm results in inconsistencies. If God operates like that why should I be rooting for him? On the other hand, Jesus tells us who the author of oppression is and it is not God. John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have...

So the conclusion to your point of view is that God deliberately puts people in power to oppress and slaughter his people?

It's an evasive answer. So I will ask you, what do you do with this text/ information? Luke 4:6 The devil said to him, “I will give you all this authority, and their glory, for it has been delivered to me; and I give it to whomever I want.

I'm asking you

.....and God put him into power?

Would you say that applies to Nero as well?