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Thank you for your comments. As you might presume, I see it differently. ;) Jeremiah 31:31 is referring to a new covenenant for the Jews only. The chapter has God telling how He will bring the Israelites back to the Promised Land. In the last verse of chapter 30 God says, "In the latter days...

This is the Angel Of God speaking to Joseph (not Mary), saying that the boy's father is God (the Holy Spirit - verse 20) and that the boy should be called Jesus (that is, 'YHVH is the Saviour'), and that Jesus would save God's people (Israel) from their sins (not save them from the Roman or...

Jesus means "YHVH is salvation" (Online Bible Hebrew Lexicon) or "YHVH saved" (Strong's Hebrew Lexicon). The Hebrew name Yëhowshuwa‘ (or Jehoshua) comes from words YHVH and yasha', which means 'save', 'saviour' or 'deliverer'. So it could also mean 'YHVH saves' or 'YHVH is saviour'. Naming...

Luke 2:30 - what has Simeon (to whom the Holy Spirit revealed that before he died he would see God's Messiah) saying to God while holding the baby Jesus, "for my eyes have seen your salvation", got to do with Mary? No reverence is given to the mothers of any of the Old Testament prophets and...

Your powers of deduction and logic are appalling! Luke 1:35 is referring to a one-off event that resulted in the conception of Jesus. There is absolutely no reason to suppose that if Mary had another child, with Joseph as the father, that the child would be God. Remember - "God is not a man...

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to insult you. I was just trying to emphasise the importance of giving attention to the details, otherwise it can lead to misunderstanding. :)

I didn't write post #831 - 'theefaith' did. Again you seem to be imagining that theefaith and me are the same person - we're not! 'theefaith' is a Roman Catholic, he has declared himself to be so. I am not. #834 is a post by theefaith. #830 is a post by me. If you can get simple things...

I don't know why you would make that comment - it should be obvious that I am not a member of the Roman Catholic church and that I disagree with a lot of their stated beliefs. Some people on this forum have even thought that I was a Jehovah's Witness (but I'm not)! My only claim would be that...

Abraham had righteousness imputed upon him, so he was justified, but his sins were still not forgiven, so he was not saved. The whole merit of Jesus' sacrifice has, so far, only been applied to Christians, so only they currently have their sins forgiven. Nobody has yet been saved. Christians...

As I said previously, nobody could become a Christian before Jesus started his ministry, when he was aged about 30 years old. Mary outlived Jesus and she believed Jesus, so of course she was (or became) a Christian. The same applies to Jesus' brothers and the other apostles - it's not that...

Perhaps we should define what we mean by being 'saved'. Everyone is saved from death, the first death, as a result of Jesus' sacrifice of his life as the substitute for Adam, and as Jesus has paid the redemption price therefore all of mankind will be resurrected back to life again. Christians...

There's a difference between being saved before you die, which means you must become a true Christian before you die, and being saved during the Millennium, after being resurrected. For example, the first person that you mentioned, Simeon, was a Jew, and the implication is that he died shortly...

More to the point, you seem at last to be acknowledging that not all Old Testament prophecies were fulfilled at Jesus' first advent, so you were wrong to declare in post #772 that my statement of "There are many prophecies still yet to be fulfilled" was not true. The Isaiah 2 prophecy says...

I don't think that's how the ancient Israelites believed the kingdom would be. For example, they expected their king come to them riding on a donkey (so he was a physical man) who would then reign from Jerusalem, but there has not been, nor currently is there a human king reigning in Jerusalem...

Daniel's prophecy refers to a literal kingdom on the Earth, that God's kingdom will destroy. Daniel 2:39-44 (WEB): (39) “After you, another kingdom will arise that is inferior to you; and another third kingdom of brass, which will rule over all the earth. (40) The fourth kingdom will be...

Paul is talking about the change from human bodies to spirit being bodies - it is nothing to do with kingdoms. When did this new kingdom of God "break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms" on the Earth, which we still see today? :rolleyes:

What I said was correct. For example, consider just one prophecy of Daniel (the interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar's dream) - Daniel 2 (WEB): Part of the dream: (34) You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in...

Why should I show that? I never said that it wasn't an eternal covenant! I believe it is an eternal covenant, just as you do. I only denied that God could not fulfill the New Covenant, because you said God could not fulfill it. Numbers 23:19 (WEB): God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a...

No, of course not! What theefaith wrote was though. He wrote, "The covenant cannot be fulfilled". If God makes a covenant to establish something forever, then that covenant has to be fulfilled in order for it to be established forever. If He promises to give us eternal life then His promise...

You want me to give Bible references to back up my assertion that God doesn't break His promises?! Do you have faith in God or not?