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Thanks! It's the same with the woman who lost a coin. The coin is a coin. It does not represent anything but what money represents, a thing of value. I got other insights too! Maybe I will make a video, perhaps a full-length feature film on applications of Aristotle's Law of Identity, A is A...

The oil is oil. It doesn't represent anything but fuel for a lamp. It's funny you are asking these obtuse questions because a pastor of a church I take my friend to said in a sermon about 6 months ago how there was a time when generations of clergy over-analyzed parables. What is the expression...

No way would I do that. It's an invitation to complicate the simple. "Be prepared" is not vague in the slightest. The point of the parable is not about HOW. Seek such clarity elsewhere if the story it not clear enough; the wise virgins brought extra oil, the foolish virgins did not. What is...

And it's about the virtue of prudence of the human being. Specifically, be prepared, be prepared to endure. The parable is not about God but the folly of human's to not prepare, in contrast to those who do.

He keeps doubling down, rationalizing how he could be right, rather than humbly admit his own vagueness, ambiguity and mistatements. It is a stunning and ongoing display of hubris. The likes of which I have never seen before.

I too lean on no. I was surprised the NSRV Study Notes had nothing to say about this. Then again, the sons of Israel sold their brother into slavery. And they are said to be inscribed on the gates in v12.

I too am enjoying this. The 'teacher' cannot answer a simple question about how he knows what he is "teaching?" (I don't think I've ever encountered an actual false teacher before this thread.) No answer. Cricket ... cricket ... Sad that @Episkopos relies on putting others down to make his...

That's right! Taking words out of context to apply it in a difference sense is precisely what the OP is referring to. When one is talking about he who is without sin, cast the 1st stone, we are talking about stoning. This word "can be" taken in the sense of getting high from drugs. This is the...

False. KJV is the worst translation available in English today. The problem is twofold: the TO and the FROM. the FROM. Modern translations have access to older manuscripts (Dead Sea Scrolls) and better command of the original language than did the KJV translators. the TO. No one speaks Middle...

I was struck by this verse in today's devotional reading and wondered if it included Judas?

Those in "hades" will rise....those in "gehenna" will not. Its that simple....and only God knows who is in which place. Wow! Beautifully concise.

Agreed. @Aunty Jane has the analysis of how this is a myth of Christendom. Brother Kel on youtube has a video that analyzes the text to show it has been interpretted incorrectly. In short, he says Judgment Day will have eternal consequences for all. It does not mean that those elect are...

Again, God puts the burden on children to obey. You are trying to put the burden on parents to not even hurt their children to build their moral character.

Stop trying to make this personal. Stepping aside from your personal opposition to child abuse, you say God is against spanking. God says at Pr 23:14. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell. Case closed, yes?

I think you want to distract from the morally righteous and Biblically commanded tool of corporal punishment, not wanting to differentiate between hurt and harm. Another example of this differentiation is when a parent loving takes a splinter out of a child's finger. It hurts! But not tending...

Possibly learning from someone is now the standard of being a teacher? Good grief, back to the word games.

So, How do you know this about my grandmothers?

No it doesn’t as I just explained the difference between hurt and harm. Stop expecting life to meet infantilized expectations.

How do you know this about my grandmothers? I read Decision Points by George W Bush. In it, he often repeated something his father President Bush 41 was fond of saying. Although I now know it did not originate with him, it remains a brilliant point. Preach the Gospel every day. If you have to...

Not even a little bit. The presumption that you are making is that Episkopos is my teacher or preacher and I have some burden to respond what he says AS THOUGH he were.