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Science is constantly testing the creation. Science can neither prove nor disprove the existence of God. I presume that you’re speaking about the New Testament. The New Testament isn’t based on hearsay or third person accounts of events. Careful investigation was made and people who lived the...

Your personal experience is horrific. Trust God to do it without you killing someone.

Thanks. It is personal but it isn’t any more or less personal to me than it is, or should be, to everyone who is a disciple of Jesus. They lived the New Testament, in the first 1st century, before it was completely written. Some of it was written in their lifetime. I use New Testament quotes...

Gamaliel’s counsel. ”But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the Law respected by all the people, stood up in the Council and gave orders to put the men out for a short time. And he said to them, ‘Men of Israel, take care what you propse to do to these men. … So in the present case, I say...

By what authority do you say and do these things? By the authority of the one who opposes the unbelievers.

I acknowledge their perspective and wear it. The unbelieving Jews say that Jesus, himself a Jews (as you know) is wrong. The believing Jews say that Jesus is right. Everyone must choose a side in the Jewish quarrel. The side I’ve chosen is the believers side. Does it bother me that they call...

Which Jews are you talking about? The unbelieving Jews. The New Testament was written by believing Jews, with the exception of Luke’s writings. Jesus himself is a Jew. He is the interpreter of the Hebrew Bible. He is explaining that his kingdom, the kingdom of God, is not part of the world...

Spiritualizing goes beyond what is written; the search for hidden meanings. The New Testament writers, inspired by God, are the final word on the matter. This was all the unfolding of God’s plan and purpose from the beginning. The revelation has been completed within the Bible.

Jesus is the ideal, true, perfect, or faithful Israel; natural Israel is a disaster. Jesus is the Israel story re-run, as it should have been run but wasn’t.

The next thing I check to see how they’re handled, usually, is the prologue in John’s Gospel (Chapter 1:1-5).

Would you fix and manage the world if you could @Riven? Would that be of any interest to you?

btw, @Riven. I don’t think that I’m telling you anything that you haven’t heard before. At least not yet. What I see in your words (and words are spirit) is that you have something to work with. I’m trying to encourage you to do that, in earnest. I don’t know anything about your background but...