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  1. Yekcidmij

    Is spontaneous prayer superior to written prayers?

    I don't think one method is superior to the other. Both have their time and place.
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    WHO WROTE MATTHEW?

    In a field like this, "consensus," though useful, doesn't convey much information. This may be surprising, but what matters here are arguments, not "consensus." Where consensus is useful in this field is to figure out why some smart people are coming to a "consensus" and see if those argument...
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    WHO WROTE MATTHEW?

    I think Matthew was probably a converted scribe or Pharisee. He may include an autobiographical note in Matt 13:52 and Matthew in particular includes some of the harshest criticisms of scribes and Pharisees. It may be that "Matthew" converted to Christianity, many/most of his peers disagreed...
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    WHO WROTE MATTHEW?

    Not all modern scholars believe in "Q." Mark Goodacre at Duke, for example, subscribes to the Farrer Hypothesis: http://www.markgoodacre.org/Q/farrer.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrer_hypothesis Point being, "Q" is not a conclusive framework of gospel authorship.
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    Cessationism vs Continuationism

    That's been my experience. In my experience, too many continuationists seem to want a theological license for disorder, chaos, incoherence, and performative ritual. That aside, God can do what he wants. I suppose that would make me some sort of continuationist in the most technical sense...
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    Is it wrong for a Christian man to marry more than one women ?

    Yea, I'd say in many cases the Torah addresses human behavior and the human condition as it is, vs how it would be in an ideal world. In many of those cases, it also lays the groundwork for a correct morality. So for polygamy (and divorce), though it permits and regulates them (and for...
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    Is it wrong for a Christian man to marry more than one women ?

    In fact, the king specifically was not to marry "many wives" according to the laws of the king (Deut 17:14-20); and Solomon specifically seems to have flagrantly violated the laws of the king in Deut 17. Around the time of Jesus, at least some Jews interpreted this passage as a prohibition of...
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    Generational curses or consequences?

    Also Deut 24:16 "Fathers shall not be put to death for their sons, nor shall sons be put to death for their fathers; everyone shall be put to death for his own sin.
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    Is it wrong for a Christian man to marry more than one women ?

    It's not explicitly condemned in the OT. In some cases it was even mandated (Levirate marriage: Deut 25:5-10). What we can say though is that Jesus endorsed monogamy and rooted his reason in the OT (see my post above).
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    Is it wrong for a Christian man to marry more than one women ?

    In Jesus' comments on divorce in Matt 19, he used the same verses from the OT that the Qumran community used to justify monogamy (CD 4.20-21; see also: Jesus' Old Testament Basis for Monogamy). Like the Jews at Qumran, Jesus appealed to the created order in the creation of man and woman and the...
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    We could actually be this close..?

    What does this have to do with anything at all?
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    We could actually be this close..?

    Yea, recall the same hubbub in the 2006 Lebanon War. Every time, someone inevitably comes along to proclaim or suggest the end times. It's basically like clockwork. It's almost liturgy for some.
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    Enoch and Holy Scripture

    Yea, sounds reasonable to me. I've discovered that most people slowly and quietly back away from it once they discover that, according to this sect, the angels are literal stars who led mankind into sin by abandoning a 364 day solar calendar, this sect was the "elect" (with secret knowledge...
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    Enoch and Holy Scripture

    Do you agree that one of the chief sins of the ungodly was the use of the wrong calendar? Do you use a 364 day solar calendar and agree with and observe Qumran/Enoch/Jubilees halakah? I suggest that the seemingly familiar concepts of "sin", "elect", "judgment", etc...are not the same as that...
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    Enoch and Holy Scripture

    I think it's because it contains seemingly familiar concepts and themes that are common to both Christianity and that particular sect, and many people don't' realize the book's sectarian nature. Most people skip over the boring parts of Enoch having to do with calendars and such, not realizing...
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    The first heresy

    I think it's pretty interesting that there were Pharisees at all in Christianity. We usually think of those guys as opposed to Jesus, but there are some there in Acts, counted among the believers. What was their deal? I also note that Luke, author of Acts, presents the Pharisees a little...
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    THE JEWISHNESS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT

    Jesus used hermeneutical methods strikingly similar to those of Hillel's rules. If that's not Jewish, nothing is.
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    When did the apostles clearly see themselves separate from the OT Jewish religion?

    Many scholars seem to think it was after the destruction of the temple in AD 70 that the two groups became identifiably separate. The evidence from John would also suggest that at some point by AD 90-ish, at least some Christians were expelled from the synagogues. There are also probably some...
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    Did Abraham observe the Sabbath day?

    Well, sure, it is commentary of a sort. The Rabbi's have hermetical rules they're employing in order to come up with their opinions like other commentators do. It can be useful for understanding some things in the bible, especially the New Testament, as long as it's done understanding the...
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    Did Abraham observe the Sabbath day?

    It's also worth noting that the Talmud also says Abraham obeyed both written and oral Torah, and they got this from Gen 26:5 (m. Qidd. 4:14, Gen. Rab. 49:2, 64:4, and 95, Lev. Rab. 2:10), presumably because of the presence of the plural "torahs" rather than singular "torah" and/or maybe because...