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Maybe it's like "soda" or "pop"--regional.

"Funny" was the old way of saying "queer" or "homosexual" as far as I remember.

Yeah, he said "sexually".

There is no amount of evidence you can furnish to convince a "Torah Observant" Christian he is wrong. You are either wasting your time in false hope, or else you know there's nothing you can say to him, and you're just sharpening your arguments against the stone heart.

Just in case it needs clarification, when he says "funny", he means "homosexual".

Regarding "predestination": Since John's Gospel says, "In the beginning was the Word..." and "... you have been with Me from the beginning", did John intend to allude to the idea that we were "with Him", in some sense, "before the world was founded"?

God is love--and all who humbly admit their condition (enslavement to sin that results in them embarrassing themselves), and accept God's solution (Christ), can be set free from their embarrassing enslavement, and the torment, and become children of God. Look at how God loves us!

UPDATE: I learned that Annas appears to have been the former high priest, so, while I still think the John 18 passage on Annas and Caiaphas alludes to doctrine pertinent to the topic at hand, what I said will have to be fixed a little then shared again later (God willing).

That's why I do not merely cite the Scripture, I try to share it, especially on issues like this, because I want to make it as easy as possible for the people to get the message.

Well, if you believe it's helpful and on topic, hopefully it will be and is.

I was laughing bc it's funny that you realized after the fact that you believe you actually posted on topic without even having known it.

I didn't mean to henpeck, I am just concerned about making sure readers get solid unambiguous answers.

Lol OK Thanks bc some people actually need the info.

The OP is about what Jesus says about the Law. Are you helping move that conversation ahead? Am I missing something?

Please merely explicate what point you are making.

He literally says, "You have heard it said... but I say"--explicitly countermanding Torah.

No, bc "Salvation" is defined as having been foreshadowed by the Jews' "Salvation" from Egypt (when Jesus defines sin as "slavery", it's not mere coincidence)--still, after having been saved, they sinned and fell under God's wrath and failed to inherit what was promised them (1 Co 10).

Yep, James identifies Christ as a "Law giver"--ie, in terms of Law giving, on par with (or better than) Moses, as it says, "a prophet like Moses".

It's untrue that God's Law is eternal and unchanging--eg, the Law forbids incest, but incest was a Holy Command in Gen 1 ("be fruitful and multiply" would result in incest). Christ overruled Torah in a number of instances (eg, forbidding vows), so we know He didn't mean "You must follow the...

Thanks for confirming my suspicion was true. Wasn't sure if it was bc I had had to take antibiotics (almost died--dialysis catheter got an infection), or bc reformulation. It's ineffective now. No mercury thankfully. I use Innate Response C-400. They said the FDA forced them to change their...