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Yeah, but Christ had already told them to go to the nations, so there really is a question as to how much of that was really God's will versus Peter's potential lack of insight into the ramifications of Christ's death and resurrection. Sure, Peter understood you could get forgiveness of sins if...

Idk why I can't see the attachments, but, anyhow, I stand by what I said--the Hebrew does not support the the notion that Wisdom/Christ was "created", and a fool cannot create wisdom. Also, your story didn't answer either of those and was a waste of my time. You probably had that "left over"...

Not only so, but, as I said, think of the conclusion you'd have to reach: you'd be saying that God was a fool at some point, then, at some other point, God--Whom you claim lacked wisdom, and, so, was a fool--somehow managed to "invent" or "create" wisdom. Foolishness! Don't say that about God!

Oops, you answered before having read. Proverbs 18 13He who answers a matter before he hears it— this is folly and disgrace to him.

OK "What God was, the Word was", to my mind, makes Christ's being, in a sense, contingent upon God's being--but God is not contingent upon Christ. I'm not saying they're equals in that sense. But even Philippians 2 will tell you Christ had equality with God--"What God was, the Word was". Are...

It's the unavoidable conclusion of your abuse of the text--if that fact is unpalatable to you, then change your mind. But if you hate the truth that much (as you've demonstrated a number of times already), do I really need to spend my time discussing with you? No, not really.

OK thanks for informing me of your "findings". Like your "findings" from Scripture, they're incoherent nonsense.

What is "interesting" is that, on your reading, the fact that Paul teaches the exact same thing is merely "coincidental". Your hermeneutic is a hermeneutic that tolerates such "coincidences", I've noticed. Ridiculous lol

It's not at all "interesting", it's plainly true. Lol

Nope, the issue is "it's better to not be married" as the conclusion reached from having heard Christ's ruling.

When Jesus says "not all men are given the gift of accepting this saying", He's referring to something that is OPTIONAL. Following Christ's overruling of the Torah is not OPTIONAL. To go against it would constitute sin, whereas to be unable to live as a eunuch is not sin. And again He goes on to...

Nope. The saying that only some men are given the gift of accepting is "its better not to be married"--same as Paul says in 1 Co 7 ("but each man has his own gift"). That's why Jesus goes on to talk about eunuchs.

The point is that "not all men can accept it" bc if they tried to live it they would be miserable, not content ("godliness with contentment"). What I'm getting after is what a godly life is meant to be characterized by.

The saying "it's better to not get married" was what CHRIST referred to when He said "not all men are able to accept it"--you tried to say He referred to His overruling of Torah's concession of "any cause" divorce, but it wasn't about that (it's not an "optional" teaching that only some men can...

The saying is "it's better not to be married", bc He goes on to discuss eunuchs--same as Paul in 1 Co 7.

Based on what? I really don't see your objection.

It's interesting that men are said to receive "gifts" from heaven related to their service to God after salvation--"not all men are able to accept this, only those to whom it is given", "but each one has his gift". How are they not able to "accept" it? They're not able to "accept" it bc they...

@Hazelelponi In other words, God "wears" us, like clothing. I had angrily asked God how Paul could say "ridiculous nonsense" that he worked, but it wasn't him (1 Co 15). "He's just trying to preserve his NONSENSE of 'saved by faith' while actually practicing salvation by works, but he doesn't...

@Hazelelponi NASB Romans 6 22But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life. 23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. So, bc we're in Christ...

So you don't think Sin paid us death, but it was God? But also satan has to ask God to do anything, so, in a roundabout way, as with Job ("you moved Me to destroy him without cause"), it always comes back to God. I would think of Sin as the one "paying" us, not God (though it ultimately goes...