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That POV does not have Biblical support.

You have two categories, people that Believe in, look for and Expect the Rapture. those people that mock and scoff at the rapture and do not believe in, look for and expect the rapture That is a false dichotomy. The Rapture isn't the center of our faith; Jesus is. When Jesus returns, He will...

A dad joke that actually has a dad: A father tells his son to be good while they're out grocery shopping. The son asks, "If I'm good, will you give me five dollars?" "Five dollars for being good?" the dad says in disbelief, "When I was your age, I was good for nothing!"

(Pointing out the basis for the Hebrew calendar was an aside for @Cooper. It wasn't intended to challenge the OP.)

I kind of figured as much.

(The Jewish calendar is based on "the times of Abraham," not Creation.)

@BarnyFife , you titled this thread, "The Ten Commandments—What happened?" Do you really want to know "what happened," or are you saying that we should all re-adopt the Pharisaic view and be done with it?

(If it is fulfilled in a different fashion, it hasn't been spiritualized away.)

Often when people ask about this, they seem to mean the Sabbath, specifically, since the other nine commandments are no-brainers. Jesus did not view the Sabbath the same way that the Pharisees seemed to, so I suspect that our view should be more like His, rather than theirs. The writer of...

More of a "What were they thinking...!?" than a joke... In Judges 15:15, Samson killed 1,000 Philistines with a donkey's jawbone. My question: once #999 went down, why did #1,000 stick around...?

When I read off-line, I like my parallel Bible, KJV Amplified NASB NIV I like NKJV when on-line.

I am familiar with that word, but I have never seen it used anywhere with any regularity (except, possibly, among speech therapists... :confused:).

To you, I cannot.

That all comes back to one's operating paradigm. We will just have to agree to disagree. (But I answered the OP from my current paradigm, if not yours.)

I don't know. I am guessing that would have been the same process that ejected the Apocrypha.

"We picked the same books" is not the same thing as "I picked your books."

I think that you are missing my answers because they don't align with your paradigms.

Your refusal to recognize those verses in their most straightforward terms is due to their conflict with external doctrines [Perpetual Virginity] that I do not recognize. (I thought that I made that clear.) That tunnel vision compels you to shoehorn in a glaringly improbable rationale for its...

I agree that they are historically worthwhile, but the RCC is not their author. And that does not obligate me to accept further, extra-Scriptural teachings.

Maybe I should be more specific in my answer. Here is my answer based on the sixty-six books of the Bible that I recognize,... It has only an improbable window for objection. (And the burden of proof would be on the improbable.) "Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: After His mother...