Why do you feel the average christian is stupid?
When did I suggest the average Christian was stupid?
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Why do you feel the average christian is stupid?
No......this is what I said,You implied it was because you said the average Christian doesn't have access to that information.
The average Christian doesn't have access to that information and has to make a determination of it's interpretation based on how it is written or worded.
I am not pointing to a single person as Christ. Neither am I saying that individual is here or there in the sense of being only in one specific location.Matthew 24
23 “Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There!’ do not believe it.
24 For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
25 See, I have told you beforehand.
26 “Therefore if they say to you, ‘Look, He is in the desert!’ do not go out; or ‘Look, He is in the inner rooms!’ do not believe it.
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nice! won't be popular, i guess, but well said.
The point of the passage is, Jesus is not here walking the earth. So whether she told me to go look for Him or not, her statement is false. Jesus is not here in the flesh.
Who said it was?
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i would ask you to contemplate this "end to sin" that you envision, wherein there is no choice to sin or not, in this place that you think exists called heaven. Everyone would do only right there all the time, because they would have no choice--just like angels--not to. Free will has been removed, and slavery has been instituted. This misrepresents...oh, pretty much every concept in Scripture, from heaven--which is God's domain and you cannot end up there anyway; earth is our domain--to salvation, which is how the kingdom is manifest (um, by gods btw), which can be reliably traced to our status as Ambassadors, the physical representative of any plenipotentiary body, and thus considered literally that person, which is what was being misunderstood a minute ago, to um, where the heck am i lol...
I wasn't raised with it.
And I've witnessed it's veracity time and time again over the last forty years. I've either got it right or the Lord's playing a terrible joke on me.
2+2=5
No......this is what I said,
I see no implications there of anything being less than the truth.
John 14 (NKJV)
26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.
1 John 2 (NKJV)
27 But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.
You have no idea why I posted those verses. You think you do but you don't.Typical! Take it out of context to make it seem to say something that it didn't.
not sure why you go here, seems like you would just alienate people in what is essentially (to you anyway) a moot point, that you have no evidence for, and cannot really refute the evidence against. Unless you have some evidence that changing the calendar was a false flag, for instance, or something like that.That story book Jesus is a mythical character who merely personifies TRUTH and LIFE.
well, i could be wrong there, but i think that basically amounts to personifying angels, who are better perceived as manifestations.What makes you believe angels have no choice?
tag for later, gotta run right now. I think we are led into anthropomorphizing angels when we read these, and they are saying something else.If angels had no choice to sin or not to sin, how did they manage to sin in heaven in the first place?
Do you believe that Satan is a fallen angel? Do you believe he was cast out of heaven with a third of the angels who also sinned or did they have no choice in the matter?
still its quite different, in meaning, one would probably have to go Greek and maybe Latin also to see what the church's though were at the time. as far as "rest of" as opposed to "other", to settle the issue if it should become one, but I've never heard anyone claim what you have on this. that doesn't mean anything but I have been around the block a few times.The rest of the scriptures are the other scriptures.
They both mean the same thing. "The other scriptures" and "the rest of the scripture" simply indicate the presence of other scriptures besides Paul's and that people are twisting Paul's word's just like they do with the rest of the scriptures or the other scriptures.
I use the New King James.
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not sure why you go here, seems like you would just alienate people in what is essentially (to you anyway) a moot point, that you have no evidence for, and cannot really refute the evidence against. Unless you have some evidence that changing the calendar was a false flag, for instance, or something like that.
That depends on the context in which it used."other people" doesn't mean "the rest of the people" does it?