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I've heard this before, but I don't really find it when I look at the Hebrew. קָשַׁר means "bound together" and when I look at the usage of the word throughout the Bible, there are no instances where it refers to love between man and wife, or man and gay lover. I find it used of a father and...

I'd like to avoid the word sin, because it's archaic, and it's loaded. It may not mean the same thing to everyone. The point at which homosexuality becomes a problem-of-the-mind is when the person says, "I know better than God." Repentance is a decision to agree with God. If a person decides...

I think that any attempt to interface between the human brain and computers will never come to fruition. That's because the brain doesn't function as a computer: https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer Of particular interest to me is the idea...

You got a TLDR for this?

The sin is in the imagination - "the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth" If they nurture those thoughts, they will eventually manifest in that person's life... most likely when they become and adult and begin to make choices for themselves with less regard for what others may...

Here: Premise #1: The persons of the church are the body of Christ (1Co 12:27) Premise #2: When the persons of the church eat the bread and wine of the Eucharist, they become part of the bodies of those persons through the operation of the digestive tract. (No verse, this is a scientific...

It becomes part of the believers who ingest them. And those believers are the body of Christ.

It's nice to have a dialogue without vitriol, to be honest. I see the Ten Commandments as more of a national constitution. When viewed within that paradigm, they establish, respectively... a national religion, a priesthood, worker's rights, a retirement system, a right to life, personal...

I don't see it the same way. The New Covenant, as first announced by the prophet Jeremiah (chapter 31), is that God will write the Law on the hearts of the people. Now, at the time Jeremiah wrote that, he probably wasn't referring to all 613 commandments in all 5 books of Moses. The...

What you mean when you say "the Law?" Are you speaking of the 10 Commandments? The 613 ordinances of the Law? The whole of Deuteronomy? All 5 books of Moses? Or maybe just the Levitical priesthood? I don't see where the 10 commandments were ever abrogated. Most of them are re-affirmed in...

Just to follow on this. This isn't even my position, so I'm not really here to defend it. I just thought it should be mentioned, since it's definitely a different thing than the others that were listed.

No worries. There's no social context clues on the Internet, no tone of voice, so we all add them as we read based on our own past experiences. I can totally see how you might read a directly contradictory statement (wikipedia is wrong) as hostile. But, no hostility intended on my part.

I'm not angry at all. What gave you that impression?

It's possible that the word has changed its meaning, I guess. But there's definitely a group of believers out there who do not believe that Jesus is coming in the future at all, and that He will simply continue to reign from heaven forever. And they call themselves amillennial, so...

That's postmillennialism. Wikipedia is wrong. Amillennialism is the belief that Christ's rule from heaven never ends. There is no future return. This is it.

I think the theologian quoted in the opening post was confused himself. Do you mind if I pick apart your post a little? My purpose isn't to be adversarial. I think we mostly agree, but some of your points need a little refinement IMO. Salvation is for the children of Abraham. That does...

It's a reference to something in the book of 1Enoch. I know... 1Enoch isn't part of the Bible. You'll have to take it up with Peter. He made the reference, not me.

I agree - this topic got weird. We have representatives of both extremes shouting at each other, and any attempt at articulating something like a normal/middle view is just getting lost.

What do you mean by observe? If you mean to perform services in a temple or church, then that is not commanded in the New Testament OR the Old Testament. If you mean to take a day of rest once a week, that benefit pre-dates Judaism, but was codified as part of Moses covenant, and it...