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I like to think that God is the Author and Greatest Champion of Religious Liberty.

The Bible is full of symbolism, and I've never heard of a rule that precludes God from symbolic-only prophetic expression. Scripture and History? Sweeping generalization, methinks.

I gotta say, that's exactly what I thought. Wow. Barely believable.

Aren't you ruling out the possibility of symbolic language in Scripture, especially in apocalyptic books?

Sure. Everybody knows people from Israel know lotsa Greek. o_O

Church and non-virtual ministry

Granted, except for

In Matthew 5:28, a parallel thought, Christ actually specifies: "in his heart." (not physically)

I missed the "physical" part. That is what you said, wasn't it? I'm pretty sure you specified "physical." Words are important. Next hit-and-run......................

Hi Mary, I would answer: Only if extracted from the context of Although I probably should have said: "despite the degree of our ignorance to it." I read recently that there are now 40,000 different Christian denominations in the world. That might be a stretch. But for the sake of argument...

You said that, not Jesus. Read carefully. Resist the urge to hit-and-run post, if you can.

Hi Mary, What you have so kindly said sounds good and sound (no pun intended). But I'm just a mere mortal, with finite understanding. I have to take my spiritual cues from a higher power. You seem to have, either from birth and/or on your own judgment, decided to follow the Papal system of...

Then how can He know everything? See? It's a rabbit hole. Once you get into it, it just gets dug deeper and deeper. Every word you say has to be more carefully weighed, the deeper you go. Jesus never committed sin and has no culpability for any sin. That much is certain. But if He has infinite...

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So commentators and commentary and laziness are ok as long as...?

Why would He call Himself "Lord of the Sabbath" if it weren't one of His commandments? And how could He and His Father be One if They had different commandments?

Is it better to be openly insulting?

Just spitballing here: SDABC Revelation To skip to chapter 17, just search for "woman arrayed" For verse 9, search "mind which hath wisdom. c" :)

@Christophany, you and @justbyfaith need to go ten rounds of bare-knuckle boxing, I think. Unless, of course, you're actually charitable Christians. Oh, that's right. You are. :)

Do creeds have authority?