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Throughout the Bible, trees are used to symbolize kings and kingdoms. For instance... In Romans 11 Paul symbolizes Israel as branches attached to a root (Jesus). Jeremiah and Zechariah predict the coming of a messiah by calling him THE BRANCH. Jesus calls Himself the True Vine. Israel is...

You railing against using Greek is strange to me, as you were the one who brought Greek into this. This can be easily verified by reading your post #67, above. Frankly, I think it's just like that. The Biblical analogy is wineskins. There aren't rooms in a wineskin, and it isn't filled with...

Non-answer. Evaded the question for a second time. Non-answer. What IS the point if you can't even hold a conversation with the people who are reading? You can't even answer basic questions honestly.

Yeah I've said nothing about that. Couldn't care less. Why do you keep bringing it up? Well, that wasn't an answer. I'll try again... who are you affiliated with, if you don't mind saying? The casting out of demons is a matter of authority, so this is rather important. I'll read the rest...

That was the thrust of what WE were talking about. You got caught denying that you said... what you said. Don't try and move the goalposts to justify yourself. That was someone else you were accusing of that. Lol. You're good at Biblical insults. That's not a good thing, but it is amusing...

:confused Uh... yes, we were. You 2 posts earlier: You're putting words in my mouth. I've said nothing about that dichotomy. Actually, I presented a different dichotomy - devils vs the demonized. It's not necessary to presume anything. It's just grammar. Here's a list of verses that...

The primary fulfillment of this prophecy happens in the books of Zechariah, Ezra and Nehemiah when the Jews returned from diaspora. There can be be multiple fulfillments, but that's what Jeremiah was referring to. The Levites were re-established when the Jews returned from captivity. Already...

Yes - this bit of Jeremiah certainly contradicts the bit of Hebrews that talks about a change of the priesthood. A rather obvious problem is that the offerings aren't happening and haven't for a long time. Hebrews appears to be correct. Jeremiah appears to be misunderstood or misapplied here...

Nations operate in cycles. Sounds like yours in on the downturn. Mine is too. But when one ends, another emerges. You have to look at a longer time-frame.

Mmmm hmmm... 1Ti 1:4 Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.

So then... no agent?

Aunty, I live in America, so of course I'm going to speak from what I know. Feel free to substitute Australia (or wherever you know) and I think my original statement remains true. Any comparison of today to a couple hundred years ago is going to show that we've got it good. The world is...

Death isn't such a bad thing. Living eternally with all the problems of aging seems drastically worse.

Is it? I read the other day that the average middle-class American's standard of living is about the same as that of King George III - the most powerful monarch the world had ever seen just a couple centuries ago.

So in practical terms, when "the Word of the LORD came to Jeremiah" in the Old Testament, who do you see as the agent? Is there really an agent?

A sect, yes. 1st century Judaism had multiple sects that disagreed about more things than they agreed on. Judaism CELEBRATES that ability to disagree and debate the finer points of the Law and Prophets. The WAY had significant disagreement with Jewish Orthodoxy, which evolved out of the...

Archaeology has pretty much answered the question of what "sons of God" means, at least within the context of Bronze-Age in the Levant.

Well then Jesus and His apostles weren't Jewish monotheists, because that's how they saw it

Ok, so it wasn't meant to be a rebuttal? All good. I'm pretty ok at Biblical Greek. I don't speak it or anything, but I can read it at like a 2nd-grade level lol. And when I read the King James bible, I can usually tell what Greek words are hiding behind the English. Ousia isn't an...

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