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Imagine a large auditorium. There are only 3 people sitting in the audience, but there are 1,000 teachers on the stage trying to talk over each other. Got that image? Ok, now put down a pin and label it "YOU ARE HERE." I don't mean to be unkind, but you really ought to know where you are...

That's totally unfair. There's also 1Thessalonians 4. That's 2! 100% more than you originally said! Plus it's also based on that old hymn "I'll Fly Away." /s

We can make a good hypothesis by looking at history. It really depends on where Abram came from - the Bible tells us his homeland was "Ur of the Chaldees" but where that was located is up for debate. If we think that Ur is the same city of Ur that was in Sumer... the Sumerians used a lunar...

I don't think so? I'm not right on the border. There was an issue with housing too many detainees a couple years ago after deportation was halted. I am unsure how that problem was solved, but it isn't still an issue. I'm not seeing lots of extra bodies here a couple hundred miles north of...

I'm in Arizona. Illegal immigration has been going on here regularly for at least 40 years. We don't actually have a problem with people coming here to get honest work. We have enough honest work to go around (as long as you don't mind manual labor), and the economy here depends on that labor...

It would be easier to understand if we put it in the context of other Jewish books, especially those that were popular in 1st century Judea. In Jubilees, 1Enoch and the Melchizedek Scroll (DSS 11Q13), Jewish prophecies were organized into days (1 generation), weeks (7 generations), and jubilees...

This doesn't have to be so convoluted and legalistic if we just use regular logic... The Sabbath was created for men to rest - it's a worker's right that prevents employers from working their employees to death, literally. Does that still exist? Yes. Does it fall on Saturday? Usually. But...

Fiber is a basic human necessity, and it is classified as a carbohydrate.

Genesis isn't a single composition. It's a collection of works. It makes more sense to divide them up and interpret each one separately. Several are allegorical. Several are not.

I don't think his reading is allegorical. He's reading-between-the-lines a little, but his observance is still a literal day of rest. An allegorical reading would be like those who read Hebrews and say they rest every day because they are resting in Jesus. They still have jobs; they're not...

Between the options, #5 is closest to my view, though I think commandments #1-3 also apply, though they are not explicitly stated prior to Moses (but are in the NT).

You have to look at motives. If you're lying to commit fraud and take someone's property... that's a sin. That's the meaning and context of the passage in Leviticus you quoted. If you're lying to avoid accountability for other sins you've committed... yes that's a sin, too. That's the...

That's me you're talking about. You read too much into people's motives, and you didn't understand mine. I have nowhere denied that Jesus lied to His brothers about attending the feast, dodged the Pharisee's questions in a way that caused them to come to wrong conclusions, or taught...

I just watched a YouTube video about a hypothesis that Neanderthals were carnivores, and their favorite food was humans (link). I'll be keeping an eye out for any hungry looks from you. :p

It's not a technicality, but it usually annoys people when you argue against the premise of their argument rather than meeting them on their own terms. I get it. Not unless it was in front of a judge.

Honesty is a Christian value, but there is no command against withholding information, or allowing people to misunderstand. You might contend that's within the spirit of the Law... but that's not true either. The idea behind the commandment "thou shalt not bear false witness" was to...

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Dictionaries ARE re-defining words. They have not ceased to do so since dictionaries were invented. This creates a problem for people as they grow older and find that what they mean by their words is not always received as intended. Basically, any label that comes to have a negative...

Or because the Bible explicitly says so... For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge...

In order to answer the questions, you'd have to split Genesis apart, and then answer them for each section. Genesis is a compilation. You can see the headings throughout the book - "these are the Generations of the heavens and earth" is the first one. Then there the "Generations of Adam,"...