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theefaith doesn't realize that "Saul" didn't change his name to "Paul;" rather, "Saul" is the Hebrew name and "Paul" is its Greek equivalent. So the audience, Greek or Hebrew, determined which form to use!

Scholars recognize the emperor cult as the driving force behind Revelation. The Romans required their subjects to offer a sacrifice to Caesar as their lord and god and Christians refused to do so. Actually, the Romans didn't actually expect their subjects to believe in the divinity of Caesar...

Soul: "The word "brother" (ἀδελφός [adelphos]) has a range of meanings, e.g., "fellow believer," fellow countryman," "kinsman," e.g., sibling, uncle, nephew, cousin, etc. The brothers [siblings] Eleazar and Kish were the sons of Moholi. Kish had sons of his own, but Eleazar’s daughters married...

Nope! Your false equivalences may be summarily dispatched by 2 points: (1) The NT repeatedly uses "adelphos" to designate Jesus' brothers; so if "cousins" were intended, then the perfectly good NT word for "cousin" ("Greek" "aneprios"--Colossians 4:10) would be expected. (2) "Alphaeus" is a...

Is that why Catholic exorcists so often need to be summoned to evangelical homes to take charge of demons and exorcize them to when evangelical exorcists proved unable to succeed in their attempted exorcisms? I am personally acquainted with such a case.

It is important to recognize that Catholic mariology is legitimated by the biblical grounds for praying to saints. Catholic mariology becomes a biblically legitimate biblical option if these 4 truths can be established: (1) Rev. 6:9-10 implies that the righteous dead remain informed about what...

(1) "Your [Jonathan's] love for me [David] was wonderful, surpassing the love of women (2 Samuel 1:26)." David says Jonathan's love for him surpassed that between a husband and wife. (2) "There are eunuchs who have been so from birth and there are eunuchs who have been made so by others and...

Farouk: "John 6 Bible Commentary - Matthew Henry (concise) John 6 Matthew Poole's Commentary" You unwittingly conceded my point. I challenged you to come up with even one MODERN commentary just on John, and instead you offer 2 ancient commentaries on the whole Bible, not just on John, written...

(1) Can you Name even one modern commentator's book just on the Fourth Gospel who agrees with you? (2) Can you identify any biblical or ancient Christian source that interprets drinking the blood of Jesus in any other way than drinking the Communion cup? (3) God expects you to base your claims...

First, you ignore the problem that on the one hand Jesus tells us we will "munch on (Greek: "trogo") His flesh and drink His blood in John 6 and on the other hand John's report on the Last Support makes no mention of the words of [Communion] Institution at the Last Supper in John 13. So either...

What are Fundy friends don't get is that, 40+ days later Mary is present at Christian prayer vigils with Jesus' "brothers," clearly a reference to family members, however "brothers" is understood: "All these were constantly devoting themselves to prayer, together with certain women, including...

Then John's image of drinking Jesus' blood sounds like vampirism! The massive commentaries on John disagree with you. John relocates his dicussion of Communion from the Last Supper (John 13) to John 6 and uses the Greek word "trogo" which means "munch on" to describe what it means to eat...

(3a) JESUS' AND PAUL'S FOCUS ON THE EXPERIENCE Of "DRINKING IN THE SPIRIT" "For in one Spirit we were all baptized (immersed) into one body and we were all made to drink of one Spirit (1 Cor. 12:13). Many Christians don't realize how central the image of drinking is for both Jesus and Paul's...

In the 2nd century an anti-Christian Platonist Celsus put together the version of Jesus' life circulated by Jews who opposed Him. One of their claims was that Jesus went to Egypt to study magic and even had his arms tattooed with magical spells! Hey, if it was all right for Jesus, it's all...

II. QUESTIONS PREMINARY TO A DISCUSSION OF THE REAL PRESENCE OF CHRIST IN THE ACT OF PARTAKING OF HOLY COMMUNION: Academic commentaries on John rightly note the shift in focus in John 6:35ff. from believing in Jesus as the bread of life to Eucharistic eating and drinking of Jesus flesh and...

This objective BBC video documents the visions of the Virgin Mary at Medjugorje to 6 peasant children beginning in 1980 and continuing for several years: She appears dressed like the Woman in Rev. 12, complete with starry crown. Millions had visited Medjugorje to experience the Catholic...

Ronald Nolette: "This is incorrect. John was not well verses in pagan symbology or with the machinations of pagan deities. He was very familiar with the wwritten history of a dream had by Joseph which shows this same woman who represents the nation of Israel. You pontificate from ignorance...

But she is persecuted for giving birth to Jesus. Reference Herod's slaughter of male babies. So the reference to Jesus as the author of spiritual Israel still includes Jesus' mother portrayed here in goddess-like imagery.

So you are saying that John's vision of Mary in Rev. 12 expressed in goddess imagery is an act of idolatry.

The precursor of later exalted visions of the Virgin Mary is found in Rev. 12, where she is portrayed as the spiritual mother of True Israel, a status created by her Son. Note the 12 stars in her crown: "A great portent appeared in Heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her...