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Worship of Christ After it is made clear in Matthew that Jesus regarded God as the only proper object of worship (proskuneo), it is striking that Jesus appears so frequently in the same Gospel to be the object of worship (2:2, 11; 8:2; 9:18; 14:33; 15:25; 20:20; 28:9, 17), even if in the...

Deity of Christ, Part 1 (The Cumulative Argument) I am going to present 5 reasons for the deity of Christ in this and the next several posts. I will try to keep them short since mm in this forum don’t want to read more than a page or two. The first topic we will look at is the HONOR Jesus is...

The dead in Christ and those who are alive... What tha?

The hINA + the Subjunctive has several uses, but mostly to express result or purpose, and it substitutes for the future tense. I presume your are not a serious Greek student. Not sure where you got the idea of "may" indicates discretion. And your rendition "He can have mercy on, but does not..."...

Note this in Rom 11.32 For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.

I don't agree with this statement at all. Especially your use of "non-elect." You use this term as if it were a reference to salvation. Here is an answer with Got Questions: Simply put, the doctrine of election is that God chooses/determines/elects/predestines who will be saved. Just to justify...

What is even stronger is "where did the universe come from in the first place." Skeptics have and will always have an impossible task to explain the creation of the universe. For example, some identify the debate between Evolution and Creation. But Evolution is the slight, mindless...

I see no reason to limit the wrath of God to the second half of the Tribulation. Jesus calls the first half of the tribulation affliction/persecution (thilpsis, Greek word for 'tribulation') in Matt 24.9, which occurs in the first 3 1/2 years. The second half will be an intensive tribulation...

I would definitely disagree with this. The knowledge of God's existence is innate to all people. We start with the knowledge of God, and we end with the knowledge of God. Hence, we are without excuse. The one who denies the existence of God is a fool.

Intuition is simply knowing something without the need for reasoning, it is an innate truth known without conscience effort. It is the highest form of knowledge, since it can't be defeated by argumentation. For example, an atheist wanted to argue with me about whether God was real, or was God...

Paul's argument in Rom 1 is the best argument I have seen for God's existence. Paul tells us that all people have an intuitive knowledge of the existence of God. There is no person that genuinely does not know God exists. They can deny it publicly but all people know that God's existence has...

The dates used in this post are to be understood as approximates. To start with the conclusion, Jesus was crucified on April 3, 33 AD. This prophecy has a start date and an end date. The start date is in the 20th year of Artaxerxes reign, this is found in the OT Book Nehemiah. The prophecy is...

This is the weirdest theology I have ever read. It is so far out in left field that I would be playing along with you if I tried to respond.

The eav (if) is likely a present general condition in which the subject is distributive (if any of us...) The subjunctive is thus used because of the implicit uncertainty as to who is included in the WE. This is a third class condition.

You are far off with your understanding. Your definition above is not in anyway correct. Literal interpretation DOES allow figurative, symbolic and other methods. It is literal because that is the first method (default) it considers before any other method. When Jesus says he is the door...

scholarly response. You have convinced me.

You really need to understand what "literal" means when it comes to interpreting scripture. I take the book of Revelation literally, but I see symbolism in it also.

Just to clarify. I have already told several people on this forum that they are saying "That's just your opinion" because they want to have an opinion that is equal to everyone else. Before one gets to the opinion stage, he has to first pick an interpretive method. For example, if you take my 3...

Well you are a little off here. All the verses that talk about unbelievers' sins being paid for have no qualifier saying that there is a potential payment, or his payment must be met with confessing sins. Unless you understand this, you will not get clarity on what happen at the Cross.

Actually it is true on all accounts. I have been quoting these 3 verses to show that what I say is correct. They are: 2 Cor 5.19, 2 Pt 2.1, and 1st John 2.2. There are plenty of other verses, but these 2 are obvious.