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Sorry if this was already covered. If we have no free will to choose, then why is the Bible so jam-packed with exhortations to choose certain ways? According to Joshua 24:15, even Israel had that choice of whether to be bound by the Mosaic Covenant or not.

No, Jesus was not the good Samaritan. He was using the GS as an example in a parable to make a point. From Diaries of Jesus, "The Samaritans were Gentiles who had been moved into territory vacated by the northern tribes of Israel seven centuries earlier. 2 Kings 17:24 is the scripture. The...

Speaking of numerology, seven is widely used as a number of completion. That would fit with the "My time is not yet come." Some have suggested the 'no wine' represents the barrenness that Christians thought permeated Judaism of the day. Or it could fit in with the popular apocalyptic worldview...

Not quite. Genesis 12 was to all the descendants of Abraham, thus the Arabs as well as the Jews. According to the synoptic gospels, Jesus never taught anything contrary to Torah. If one of his disciples (direct students) contradicted that, they would quickly cease to be a disciple. Paul, on the...

Where did you get that definition?

"Christianity is the only "religion" that is NOT based on belief alone, but is founded upon an infrastructure of first-hand witnesses who "know" the facts." -- Christianity was the first religion in the ANE to be about what you believe, not what you do. All the other religions were about the...

By any meaningful, common-usage definition, Christianity is definitely a religion. To say otherwise is dishonest. It's theistic and is based on a concept of a supernatural domain.