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But they can't just overpower any person they want and take over, can they? Some people are vulnerable and some aren't.

Martyrdom has clearly been happening since NT times and even before, but... From his perspective the millennium hasn't started yet, and your task is to somehow prove that when-it-begins at indeterminate-future-date... that saints will still be martyred during THAT time period. From your...

Shows what? There seems to be a gap in communication in this topic - people are defining words differently and talking past each other. That was all I was saying before, as well.

I don't believe in a rapture, but... I don't think you've made a compelling argument here. It's pretty clear to me that Enoch DIDN'T die. Certainly the Jews thought he hadn't died.

Amils define the millennium differently than other groups. I'm not sure your question here would mean the same thing to them, that it does to you.

Have you ever done the deep-dive on the word devils and demons in the Bible? It's interesting. What we usually think of as demons (external malevolent entities exerting influence on people) is comparatively rare in Scripture. Where Scripture does talk about them, it's usually applied to...

If you have a full tarocchi deck, then yes. But most "tarot" decks only include the major arcana, and are used for "fortunetelling" rather than to play a card game.

Yes. But you seem to be making the problem... overcomplicated... splitting hairs between law and Law in a way that doesn't need to happen, IMO. This IS a problem. But there's an easier solution to the problem: Jesus wasn't talking to everybody in Matthew 5! The people He was talking to...

Why does that matter? I'm sure James put it there for a reason, but... aren't we ALL guilty of sinning, law or no law? I don't NEED a law telling me something is wrong for it to BE wrong, do I? The stovetop will still burn my fingers, even it mommy didn't specifically forbid me from touching it.

Not sure what translation you're looking at... mine talks about not eating blood, or meat where the animal was strangled, which is again because there would still be blood in the meat. The Bible is quite adamant that we should not ingest blood, explaining that this is because "the life/soul is...

Pretty much this. I will say I don't see several of these points in Genesis 9.

I mean... they're definitely special among that group. They were given directly by the hand of God, and they were the terms of the covenant that Moses mediated at Mount Sinai. That doesn't necessarily mean that they continue when the others don't, but this might... After the flood, God gave...

I think I explained previously, but I was probably obtuse, delving into concordances and Greek and whatnot. It's about binding and loosing. You abolish a law by loosing the people from their obligation to perform it. You can also loose the people from the commands of the prophets, because the...

Yes, and that man's intent was to violate the law. The same was not true for Jesus and the disciples - they didn't go out looking to put in a day's work harvesting grain. I think it means that God created the Sabbath as a worker's right. It prohibits working your employees or slaves (to...

Putting a difference between the BOOKS and their CONTENTS seems like an unnecessary distinction to me. Why insert extra complexity? The simplest reading is usually the best. If we look at the Greek, it's pretty clear to me. Can I get you to take a look at that word "destroy" in Greek? As...

Jesus kept the Sabbath... just not in the way the Pharisees prescribed. They had fully legalized it... giving the Jews a quota on the number of steps they were allowed to take on Sabbath, for example. Did you know there was a group of Essenes who forbid pooping on Sabbath? asxx To this Jesus...

The Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5) is often viewed as Jesus' commentary on Moses' Law. Two of the commandments are specifically mentioned... 17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 21 Ye have heard that it was said by them of...

Yes, but perhaps "family" is a better word than group. Salvation is for Abraham and his descendants. Agreeing with God isn't very hard. It's actually DOING what's right that's tough.

I'm not sure there's a meaningful difference between the two. When one believes like Abraham ("faith"), they are adopted as Abraham's child, which makes them part of THE Faith. Salvation is for Abraham's children. If the Church is functioning correctly, then It is acting as the agent of God...

If NorCal was a human being...