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All things come from the source one way or another... though sometimes they get a little twisted before arriving at their destination. But that wasn't the point... יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ = I AM your gods יְהוָה אֶחָד׃ = I AM one Now, how can both of those statements be true? And also, how can...

Something I find interesting about the divine name ("I AM")... no matter what word you put after it, it grabs it and makes it an attribute or an action of God. For example... Jehovah Rapha = I AM healing Jehovah Elohimw =

The wife and I play at farming. A couple years ago I grew cabbages from seeds. I started with around 40. A quarter never sprouted. A bunch were taken by some kind of fungus. Half of what was left didn't survive being transplanted outdoors. It reminded me of the parable of the sower. I...

I need a brighter red than the preset one

I have a hard time getting any seed to sprout, much less one that's thousands-of-years-old!

And those who don't... haven't tried it

The answer hides in plain sight within Scripture, but is hard to understand and an explanation was generally reserved to the mature as a mystery. Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ יְהוָה אֶחָד׃ Tell me, what translation would you give to the...

I voted for Kirsten Sinema and I was pretty happy with the results. Would have voted for her this time again if she ran.

So, to build on that other thread... what we should do is look at the logical steps BEFORE the problem to see where we went wrong. I think the problem starts with most-churches teaching a full-Biblical-harmony. That is, the doctrine that the entire Bible agrees with itself in all points and...

Probably to distinguish it from Christian Rome that came later?

I emphatically did NOT say it was a parable. Rather the opposite - I specifically said that it was about the literal creation. The claim here is that the repetitive phrases and the progression over 7 days are a poetic device meant to show that time elapsed, but not necessarily how much time...

A suggestion that there's figurative language in one chapter is not an attack on the Bible. It's an attempt to understand it. No, but I do evaluate each book or story for itself, rather than applying a single braindead rule to every chapter and verse. If all one ever reads is the Bible, then...

That doesn't seem like a bad thing... Yes. It's pretty easy to match Dan 11 against history and see that the 'king of the north' corresponds to the Seleucids and the 'king of the south' the Ptolemies. The Romans are there too, but they're the "ships from Chittim." The prophets often have...

It wasn't me that did the adding. I'm just observing that it happened. Why do you want to condemn others?

No.

That was a weird direction to take... you don't think any of our doctrines come from extra-Biblical books?

It seems that everyone messes it up by including Rome as the 4th kingdom... it's not... The 4 kingdoms are: Babylon Persia Greece The Diadochi

No. There's a bunch of doctrine... orthodox doctrine even... that comes from extra-Biblical sources. For instance... there's more of our doctrine that comes from the book of Enoch than there is that comes from.. say... the gospel of Luke.

You have to look at the context and compare it to history. "Everything is literal" is a beginner's way of understanding... something we give to children.

Sure... but I didn't make reference to one of those. The story above is about a man who prayed for a son. It's the 'evening and morning' that makes it unclear, tbh. That sort of repetition is used as a poetic device in other literature of the same time period and language. I'm repeating...