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* Nudge the bird, Ruth. If you hit the bird, the bird will fight back. *

* My guess? That someone is the cat. *

* Reasons vary but everyone loves Raymond. *

How quickly do people change their minds about such things? It’s not something that should be rushed. It took me a couple of decades to change mine. The constraints of history. It was Church history that played a major role in my formation. Most people know little about it, have little if any...

I would tell newbies that the only gospel to preach - to anyone and everyone - is the one and only gospel of God. Newbies, God and the Messiah will not be pleased with those who are destroying the continuity of the gospel.

If Jesus wants to shock unbelieving Jewish monotheists - and there is nothing in the conversation that suggests they’ve gotten his goat - ego eimi doesn’t do it. (He uses the common phrase frequently and no one is shocked, or even mildly surprised, when he does.) If Jesus truly wants to shock...

* And to note how quickly. *

* I just salute and call them all, Yes Sir. *

* I won’t do the math but uh oh. She needs a book, and I would highly recommend the Bible. *

“Now here is something very obvious that they never told me in church (or at a theological college). This expression from Jesus’ lips ‘I am’ (Greek ego eimi) occurs throughout the Gospel of John and in no other text can it mean I AM the God of the Old Testament.“ (Greg Deuble, They never told...

* True, but an elephant can still hide in here for a long time. *

A word to newbies who might be reading this. Listen to Jesus and the apostles. Without exception, they all preached the gospel of God. In the spirit of James I say in this thread to newbies: Remember that and you will be doing well.

I often ask trinitarians (and binitarians and unitarians) this question: Is it reasonable for a Jewish monotheist to read the writings of Jewish monotheists through the prism of Jewish monotheism? I very seldom receive a direct answer to the question. A followup question along the same line of...

“When the Jew said something was ‘predestined,’ he thought of it as already ‘existing’ in a higher sphere of life. The world’s history is thus predestined because it is already, in a sense, preexisting and consequently fixed. This typically Jewish conception of predestination may be...