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Even to the original readers, the Bible didn't read like a novel. For me, the most important thing is to find out exactly what the Bible says, and then its message can be properly conveyed. For most reading I use the translation from the Institute for Scripture Research. In most cases it's...

How in any stretch of the imagination can this be construed to be monotheism?

No wait... ism(anti^i)

I think we need notation for this. I suggest anti^i - ism.

Actually, that passage has absolutely everything to do with salvation. That is the subject of that passage, to choose God, or to not choose Him. Period. If you can't read what is plainly written, I'm not sure that there will be any fruit from discussing Scripture with you.

Deu 30 11 “For this command which I am commanding you today, it is not too hard for you, nor is it far off. 12 “It is not in the heavens, to say, ‘Who shall ascend into the heavens for us, and bring it to us, and cause us to hear it, so that we do it?’ 13...

Most of the Christendom with which I have been personally familiar holds strongly to the world view that Adam, among some other things, was placed by God over the “Animal Kingdom.” This “dominion” of Gen 1:26 has been applied to a broad range of applications with respect to nature, from...

Does trinity doctrine, in its purity, not necessitate the separation of Jesus and the Father? Separate wills, separate personalities (verily, separate "persons"), but both still God, and somehow only one. Is it not characteristically trinitarian to make the statement, God = Jesus != Father = God?

Maybe this guy can go into the children's hospital where my nephew passed away and command neuroblastoma to come out. Lots of people there who believe in the power of God...

The gate was built by Europeans in the 6th century, on top of ruins. It's a medieval tourist attraction, just like everything else in that so-called "holy city." Furthermore, the Temple was completely and totally destroyed. Nothing remained of it. There were two structures left in Jerusalem...

One little clarification here--capitalization is obviously anachronistic to the Hebrew. It's also anachronistic to the Greek text of the Septuagint (and the NT, btw, but I usually point that out to preterists, not other folks). Sometimes it's easy to forget that because modern Greek texts do...

Sorry, but Jesus said that those people standing there with Him would see those signs. You're reaching for a license to ignore the Scripture, lots of it ;) That doesn't mean we can't have fun elsewhere though.

Not intentionally an exaggeration of the profession, but a disgruntledness with the quacks that happen to be imbedded therein, along with the people who make hard working, capable physicians engage in quackery by function of wack protocol, parental laziness, and political necessity. Truth be...

First of all, not every "Preterist" claims that Christ is the coming prince, though most that I know do. The separation of "Messiah the Prince" and "the coming prince" made by dispensationalists for the most part is based solely on the change of capitalization in the current version of the KJV...

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Oh...and psychiatry...that's another ball of wax. "He has problems...so uh...let's give him drugs until he can't keep the drool in his mouth anymore. That'll fix him."

I don't think we should confuse psychology with psychotherapy. Psychology follows the scientific method, although it studies a very complex black box that many of us as Christians believe involves a "spiritual" component. Psychology is typically called a "soft science" if I'm not mistaken, for...

Have you read Josephus' account?

Some time ago I decided to take Jesus seriously when he said that everything prophesied in Matt 24 would come to be in the generation in which He spoke it, that those listening to Him on that day would see much of it. When I stopped making excuses for what Jesus said, reading the NT then became...

Out of curiosity, what exactly are you calling a "scholar" in this context?