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You... can't discern the meaning of the words in front of your face? I think I'll stop putting more words there.

You didn't click on the link then, or look up the meaning of the word. There were definitely conditions. "Get out of your father's house, go to a land I'll show you," and "walk before me and be perfect" and the need to believe. I literally listed conditions and you're just pretending that...

Yes, according to the meaning of the word used there. Perfect is kind of an odd translation, isn't it? I think the word may have shifted in meaning since King Jimmy's men made the translation. Yes. Gen 12:1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred...

Yes, but through education. Blowing up the Islamic University in the Gaza was actually a great step. Now re-build it, but as an institution that builds quality humans instead of turning out suicide bombers.

I don't know who Candace Owens is. I used to like Ben Shapiro's content before he changed into a "reacts" channel. Modern Israel may not be God-fearing, but it's still a high-quality nation that's been on friendly terms with most of the Western world for the last 70 years. And Palestine...

I see covenants in the Bible. They have conditions... Gen 17 The LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. Deu 11 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your...

Yes, you've got it. I should have read this post before the other one.

It HAS been fulfilled by Christ, but it isn't Abraham's physiological descendants who were returned. Paternity and maternity are very different things in antiquity, and therefore within the Bible. Maternity has to do with the material of the creature - the flesh. Paternity has to do with the...

Disagree. I think a strong case can be made that the unbelieving/non-observant among Israel were "not Israel" from the beginning. Look at Matthew 13. Jesus explains the kingdom as a field of wheat and tares, planted together. We tend to focus on the end of the story... at the harvest, they...

A few were exiled, but most were destroyed. The Assyrians built literal mountains of human skulls after their war in the area. Those who were captured were forced to build ramparts against the walls of cities the Assyrians besieged... so even those mostly died too. The city of Samaria was...

You take this to mean that anger is a sin? Explain.

Maybe not, though. Stop me if you've heard this one before. The church has built their dating of the crucifixion around (1) Jesus birth being in Herod's reign, and (2) Jesus being "about 30 years old" when he began his ministry. That latter point seems pretty vague and perhaps built on the...

Jealousy is a feeling, a negative one to be sure. But is it a sin? I generally think of sins as actions. Anger is a good corollary - another negative emotion. Paul said, "be angry, but don't sin." (Ephesians something or other) I don't think of anger as a sin, either.

We agree on a lot... but not on this bit: Ther northern kingdom is not in diaspora. The northern kingdom was DESTROYED. Ezekiel envisions them as a field of dry bones. Hosea calls them "not a people" in the same breath he numbers them as the sand. The prophecies about this group DO include...

I can see we aren't going to agree on this. That's fine. 1) Israel - a geographic region in the Middle East 2) Israel - a group of people inhabiting (1) today, who are (mostly) not descendants of Abraham after the flesh OR after the spirit 3) Israel - a Bronze Age confederation of nomadic...

Even the Bible uses Israel to mean a few things. There's the northern kingdom - "the house of Israel." There's the united kingdom. And we've already talked about Paul using it to refer to believers. And then we also use it to refer to the nation that still exists today, both geographically...

Still waiting for Heb 6:4-6.

We don't have enough of Origen's writing left to make a judgment on him. Allegorizing doesn't negate the original meaning of a text. Adding a 2nd or 3rd meaning never takes away the first one. And the allegory isn't necessarily correct. You are quoting the verses I would have quoted to you...

I don't think there's meant to be an allegory there. In Genesis, God's covenant with Abraham is to make him a "father of nations." That word - nations - is elsewhere translated as Gentiles. The Jews take this literally. If one converts to Judaism, part of that process is to be adopted as a...

I think you already have my take on it. From my reading, the church at Rome got off the tracks when the emperor legalized Christianity and claimed to have converted to it, in the early 3rd century. From that point on the church at Rome was unduly influenced by the secular rulers of the...