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No such thing as a spiritual mother. In ancient thinking, the material/concrete is always feminine, and the spiritual/abstract is always masculine. Our word material is even derived from the Latin word mater (mother). To say that a man leaves his father and mother could be interpreted as...

Don't you count the ones that died?

Because they are already one flesh.

Israel was conquered by the Romans in 70AD. The Sadducees and Essenes were entirely destroyed. The temple was burned. The communities in the desert were destroyed. The Zealots in the north were mostly destroyed. Galilee was decimated, after the literal meaning of the word. The Jews...

Judges 1:19, Judges 18:1. Probably others.

Haven't you read the Old Testament? The Israelites conquered the hills and the desert, but not the coast. Yes.

Partially. They didn't complete the task. God usually works through people. That's the symbiosis of God and man.

The Bible doesn't say the land is a free gift to Israel. Deuteronomy outlines it as a conditional covenant. If Israel obeys God, then He will give them blessings, and if they don't, instead they get curses. They were expected to subdue the Canaanites... part of the blessings was God's help...

Obviously yes. I don't know what point you're trying to make. Say more.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I literally said it was.

That's a transgression. If we wanted to make sub-categories of sin, that would be one of them. Nah. I'll stick with what I said.

Knowledge of the Hebrew language informs the verse. The Hebrew word for see is yada. That word also means know and understand. 1Timothy is expressing the idea that nobody has comprehended the breadth or depth of the Mind of God. I don't think it's trying to say that nobody has put eyes on a...

This is one of those times where using common words instead of Biblical jargon really clarifies the issue. What's a sin? It's an error. Is it an error to smoke tobacco? Definitely so. That said, does it lead to eternal damnation? Doubtful. The consequences are well-known and they happen...

It's an interesting question you raise. One I hadn't considered. Your example makes sense to me. My brain immediately jumps to Deuteronomy 5: 23 "So it was, when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that you came near to me, all the...

@Mr E So is the covering a good thing, or a bad thing? I was always taught that having my sins covered was good. But you seem to be suggesting that the covering is a barrier between God and man, in a bad way. Have I misunderstood?

The idea that Jesus is talking to a single generation - but not the one in front of Him that he's clearly addressing - is nonsense. Basic grammar excludes it. Your argument is far better than the others that preceded it. This is grammatically plausible.

Why is the church so bad at geography? This map is terrible. Problems: Simeon... didn't receive a grant of land. This was his penalty (alongside Levi) for sinning. Asher... at no point did Asher ever control Tyre or Sidon, or any territory north of the Leontes River for that matter...

I think there's some merit to the idea, but... the fact that it was George W Bush that said it undermines it significantly.

That's a good metaphor. The Bible uses a similar one, but a little different. There, they are sheep and goats. The sheep follow the shepherd, and the goats... well they act like goats... climbing trees, making comical screams, stranding themselves on impossible ledges... goat stuff. :) We...