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Why ask a ridiculous question like this? You know that he, as well as everyone else, would never attempt to make a dumb argument like that. So, why ask that question?

I have to wonder if you're actually reading everything I'm saying. God does NOT choose one nation over another in terms of doing more to save people in that nation than He does for people in other nations. Do you agree? If not, then you still don't know what it means for God to not be a...

I completely disagree. Have you never read the following passage where Paul explains who were once not a people and became "one body" together in a spiritual house of God with Jesus Christ as the cornerstone? Ephesians 2:11 Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and...

How can the 7 heads be 7 literal mountains in light of this: Revelation 13:3 One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast. How can a literal mountain have a fatal wound that...

You stand strongly on the point that you think I believe God doesn't keep His promises? As in, you think I actually would make the statement "God does not keep His promises"? Yes or no? I understand that you think my beliefs don't line up with His promises, but that's different than you...

Of course not. Any other questions you'd like to ask me that I would never give a "yes" answer to?

It's more than just that. This shows that you don't have a full understanding of what it means for God not to be a respecter of persons. So, I will show you what it means. Acts 10:34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: 35 But in...

If you mean that only those who are born again will escape it, then I agree. That seems pretty obvious since God's wrath is always on unbelievers and never on believers. LOL! I don't plan on going through it. Where did you come up with that nonsense? I've said repeatedly that I believe it's...

You're not differentiating here between Jesus declaring the eventual sentencing and judgment that Satan will receive and the actual act of Satan being sentenced and cast into the lake of fire. Jesus has already set it in stone that it will happen, which is what the verses you quoted are about...

They died again later. Paul gave the order of resurrections unto bodily immortality in 1 Corinthians 15:22-23 where he indicated Jesus was first in order and then at His second coming those who belong to Him will be resurrected unto bodily immortality. No one but Jesus has experienced that yet...

Where is it indicated that something can't be symbolic unless the symbolic interpretation is given? I don't see it as necessary to specifically identify each thing listed there. It's all symbolic as a whole representing the witness of the church throughout the world, the persecution of the...

So, why do you see God as having two people groups as His own then? You see Him as having the church as one of His people groups and then the people of the nation of Israel as another. Even though it's only Israelite believers who are His people from Israel, not unbelievers (see Romans 11:1-7)...

My answer is the same as when you've asked similar questions before. We know by asking God for wisdom (James 1:5-7), comparing scripture with scripture, and by receiving spiritual discernment from the Holy Spirit. In terms of what we have been talking about in this thread, which relates to 1...

I couldn't agree more. We are showing them very clearly who Peter was talking to and about in 1 Peter (the church) and they go out of their way to deny it. It's similar with other things that we show them. And I agree that these are things that are part of basic Christianity. The NT repeatedly...

As I pointed out in another post, whether Peter was addressing Jewish or Gentile believers doesn't change the fact that he referred to those who were part of "a spiritual house" which has Jesus Christ as its cornerstone. That is the church. No other entity fits that description. So, that is the...

LOL. No, I wasn't saying that related directly to what we were talking about. I was using that as an example of something that isn't made clear in the OT, but is made clear in the NT. I was showing how things may seem a certain way in the OT but then the NT shows their real meaning. Do you...

No, what he was showing is that God's ways are not our ways. He doesn't decide that terms like "Israel" can only refer to the nation of Israel like you do. He is not obligated to fulfill prophecies only in a hyper-literal fashion as you try to demand. Was it sneaky for God to not spell it out...

So, who do you believe are the children of Abraham exactly then? Do you agree it is all who are faithful regardless of nationality?

Exactly. And, as I have shown, Peter also referred to that "holy nation" as "a spiritual house" with Jesus as its cornerstone (1 Peter 2:5-7). That is an obvious reference to the church. It's very similar to how Paul described the church in Ephesians 2:19-22.

No, it is not. You are trying to get around the weakness in your view by dismissing my valid arguments. Like you, I am using other scripture to help understand the verse in question, which is 1 Peter 2:9. But, unlike you, I am using the surrounding verses to help establish the context of that...