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Believe that if you like...but that was nothing near what I said.

Because...if the Bible is a collection of flat and difficult to understand stories...your faith is based on good feelings and whatever the preacher decides to tell you. If the stories contained in the bible are rich...full of life...the characters in the stories alive...the bible tells some of...

Just as when in Adam all sinned and died because Adam ate the forbidden fruit and internalized it... When we internalize Jesus' sacrifice of his works and his life spent in the most humiliating form imaginable we will gain eternal life. and if you need scripture...you have my sympathies.

In the normal practice of Judaism a Levite priest and/or family head was needed to go to God for you (along with a sin offering) to bring your sins to God. Also the common man was not allowed to handle scripture by quoting it to his neighbor or other Israelite except as officiated by a priest...

Jesus never practiced the trade skill of carpentry. That is a mistranslated word of the scriptures. The word used in Greek meant common construction laborer. Jesus grew up in Nazareth...which was a Jewish suburb of a town known as Sapphoris (a greek city complete with theater and public...

If a person takes the time to read the book "Knowledge of the Holy" by A.W. Tozer (it isn't long or thick) this question becomes a huge one. God's self sufficiency becomes really apparent when we fully understand his attributes in light of scripture and Tozer does a marvelous job in explaining...

All the same excuses and for all the same reasons. Things haven't changed for three thousand years. Only the names of people and the methods they use to wage wars.

The world has seen theocracy before. This Christian theocracy was responsible for the need for the Reformation and such atrocities as the first & second crusades. I have no problem with God as my king. I have a problem with sinful men claiming to be God's herald and appointed spiritual leader...

Since attacking the substance of Wescott and Hort's work isn't going to get anybody very far at all they resort to Ad-hominems...attacking those that have done the work. Especially when it shows your ignorance on who these men really were. Wescott was a scholar on ANE writings. His major scope...

Actually Wayne, You are mostly correct. I can explain with a story though. In Israel during the time of Jesus' ministry the school system wasn't mandatory...but just about every self-respecting Jew sent their children there anyway. There were three levels of education. The first was...

OK...since yawl seemed to have covered the subjects of Moses' second wife from Cush And the Eunuch from Ethiopia from where we get what the preacher says at every Baptism service... I really don't see anything else to add to the discussion. Those two are the most famous blacks in the Bible. I...

It was about not being so hasty to get into a fight. You seen and heard of a guy slapping another guy on the cheek with his gloves. (no hand inside) and then the two were off for a duel of some sort. Well this is where that come from. It was about a fight and one slapping the other guy on the...

The Devil one day says to God," Wanna make a bet?" God says, "Sure, I'll take your money" Devil says, "I bet I can make your best guy curse you and then you will have to kill him" God says, "No Way! I got an ace in the hole on this one...I got Job" Devil says, "Your On!" So all kinds of bad...

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Hermeneutics is as much art as it is science. And this poster on youtube doesn't even know his science very well at all. (Most Christians only know what their pastor tells them and if he isn't up on his science...well...you see the answers above) The difference between what Luke writes about...

Ummmm God has a perfect will. Not something that we are going to improve upon with our less than perfect ideas. Why not instead lean on the fact that God has your best interests at his heart and have faith in that fact instead of what you want and think you need. Just a thought.

Well, So long as the disciples held to their zeal and desperate worship of Jesus they were absolutely fine to the end....and beyond. God has always shown favoritism to those that are passionate for him. Caleb from the 12 Spies, David ran in hot anger towards Goliath Elijah and Elisha both...

The "salt" that Jesus was speaking about referred to the Covenant of Salt. It was a metaphoric way of speaking to Zeal or the passion of people for God. The passage is more emphatic than what is being spoken here. Jesus said it to his disciples. They were uneducated & felt unequal to the...

Since I love explaining this story... A gate was a stronghold of a city. It was built nothing like the gates to castles and castle complexes like we see in the movies. It often was a labyrinth with many turns where there were parapets along the whole labyrinth before you got to the door as well...

Maybe Paul wrote that because of his personality. People often forget that these were real men with real personalities... Lets face it...Paul was a guy who could go into any city and get them so riled up over a religious debate that the city would end up in chaos complete with a riot. and it...