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According to 1 Corinthians 2:14, he is not able to understand the topics Scripture discusses. "The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned" (1 Corinthians 2:14). He...

snr5557 -- You and I are using the terms poetry and poetic in different senses (sorry about that). I'm using it as a genre of literature. Some of the Bible is poetry, but most of it is not (and Ehrman would agree with me on that). You're using poetic as a contrast to literal. That is...

You're on the right track in recognizing that poetry (Psalms, etc.) is interpreted differently from history (Kings, Chronicles, etc.), which is interpreted differently from prophecy (Daniel, Ezekiel, etc.), which is interpreted differently from the gospels (Matthew, Mark, etc.), which needs to...

I don't own a handgun, and have no intent to get one. I do have a shotgun, which I use to protect the chickens from varmints (not very effectively, I might add), but I know that's not what you're talking about. In the church I pastored prior to where I am now, I was aware of a few people who...

Here are four -- an extra in case you don't buy the "I Am" claim: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." --John 1:1 John 1:14ff makes it clear that the Word in verse 1 is Jesus. "Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I...

Can you provide two more verses from the Bible where it says that?

You believe that every single individual Jew was cut off?! It's a stretch to interpret Romans 11 that way, and it's clearly at odds with a lot of other scripture.

If you reject the claim the first two times you see it, why would you accept it the third time?

All Jews aren't elect. Only those who belong to Christ. Romans 11:7 is pretty clear. "What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened" (Romans 11:7 ESV). Those in Israel who are elect obtained what they sought (salvation). The rest...

We are co-heirs with Christ (Romans 8:17). Adam was not. We will reign with Christ (2 Timothy 2:12). Adam had dominion over the earth but did not reign with Christ. We will share in Christ's glory (Romans 8:17). Adam did not. We are blessed in Christ with every spiritual blessing (Ephesians...

Forgive my ignorance, blankshot, but what is a catholic non-denominational? If you are using catholic to mean universal, then I understand. But it doesn't sound like that's what you mean. If you're using catholic to mean the Roman Catholic Church, then isn't that mutually exclusive of...

Given the two options, "God died on the cross" and "God did not die on the cross," I'll take the former, because the latter to me seems clearly incorrect (if you understand that Jesus is God and that Jesus died on the cross). However, "God died on the cross" can easily be taken to mean several...

I didn't read your post, but the answer to question you ask in the title ("Who was the incarnated Jesus, relative to the nation of Israel?") is that he was and is the promised messiah, to whom all of the Old Testament points.

Yes. And the word that is translated baptized here (actually, transliterated here), literally means immersed or submerged. I don't bring that up to start a debate about the proper means of water baptism, but to point out that a more accurate translation of this verse is "Don't you know that all...

Exactly. Some seem to think that the New Covenant was plan B, and after the Old Covenant didn't work out so well. Not so (as you correctly point out). The law was never going to justify anyone. God has always had intended to redeem man through the sacrificial death of the Son.

Thanks for the thoughtful reply, Scott. The answer is, no, this doctrine does not imply a wait and see attitude. My new nature compels me to strive toward perfection in Christ. But that perfection does not come from my effort. It comes from the Spirit's work based on Christ's sacrifice. I take...

Yes, repentance is one of the conditions of salvation. It is a condition (or a state) that every true believer lives in. However, that repentance does not depend on my effort. It is now my nature as a born-again, regenerated Christian to walk in the light where I used to walk in darkness. That...

That is correct. I do not believe those experiences are real. I do not know whether she believes they were real or not. She might be deceived or she might be a charlatan. But I do not believe that she died and went to heaven.

Consider what Paul says in 2 Corinthians 12: The man Paul is talking about is himself. He was caught up into heaven, but he was not allowed to share what he saw there. He says that the things he heard there "cannon be told, which man may not utter." I realize some may argue that Paul might...

Perhaps the Reformers just took Jerome's word for for it that they (the books of the Apocrypha) were dubious in nature.